#and if anyone has guesses about the StarClan ghost then feel free ask!

[m1smatched-starsigns]

Can you share details of the Fireheart aus?

The thing is, I feel like it requires quite a bit of explanation to make sense and I don't want to completely spoil it, but let me try anyway.

In Fire and Ice there is a plotline with ShadowClan scents consistently appearing on ThunderClan's territory. Fireheart finds more evidence of this (rabbit bones with scent) and he brings them back to camp to show Bluestar, but she's on patrol, so he brings them to Tigerclaw instead, and Tigerclaw leaves for ShadowClan with a patrol.

Fireheart is the only warrior left in camp at this point and then Brokenstar and his rogues ambush the camp. Looking back, this is clearly something that Tigerclaw and Brokenstar planned. So what if their plan works and Fireheart is killed?

BUT. If you've read Conscience, Thy Name is Stonefur then you know I love a good haunting. So Fireheart only kinda sorta dies and when he comes to again, he begins seeing a ghost. A ghost that he's never met before but we, as readers, know exactly who it is (feel free to guess who it is but I actually doubt anyone will, lol).

And so the premise of the AU is that it's a retelling of the first arc but "what if Fireheart died but came back and has a new StarClan companion 'haunting' him".

There are other switches that take place before the first chapter, such as: Fireheart and Graystripe are Not made warriors after the kit rescue; Fireheart, Graystripe, Sandstorm and Dustpelt are all made warriors together just a little bit after Frostfur's kits are apprenticed; Cinderpaw does not go onto the thunderpath so she does become a warrior (but who takes her place?? hmm...); Silverstream becomes pregnant earlier than in canon;

And perhaps one of the biggest things: Tigerclaw's weird behavior at the Moonstone is explained (rather than just "he got scared"). There are actually quite a few things about Tigerclaw that are expounded upon. Tigerclaw makes some very different moves in this AU. Like. Moves that I have literally never seen explored in another AU before. Like what I have planned for Tigerclaw could be it's own AU itself.

Fireheart is different too. He's still the same Fireheart that we all know and love but death will really change a cat, and he doesn't quite feel like his normal self, and so this is a hardened, colder version of Fireheart. So far he's been very cool to write (for all of my 300 words lol).

Anyway I'm sorry this is not a very clear explanation, but it's the best I can do without spoiling everything (which I really want to do because I do want to talk about it, lol). If this is something that ultimately won't become fic then I'll come back and give a play-by-play of what takes place so you aren't left hanging!

Until then, feel free to ask about it, and I'll answer questions to the best of my ability!