#bonefall rewrite

[everlywindex]

absolutely LOVE the wc better bones au and since the creator @bonefall has said that he encourages redesigns/reimagining of characters i thought i'd toss in my take on tawnypelt!!! inspired by the official design!!!!!

tawny's my favorite wc character so seeing an au that actually lets her have her deserved character growth has been SO awesome. we love to see a girlboss winning!!!!!!

[the-owl-tree]

the way leopardstar and blackstar are allowed to be leaders RULING OVER A CLAN after the shit w tigerstar is so crazy. blackstar even moreso bc they had to actively let him become leader even AFTER the whole being tigerstars executioner thing. shadowclan should have staged a coup

i wish soooo so badly that rc's involvement in the execution was better reflected instead of "oh well ACKSHUALLY it was all tigerstar 1's fault teehee" (stares at asc). would it really be so bad if leoparstar and blackstar were willing followers and not "i thought what we were doing was right :("

[blimbo-buddy]

What if DarkStripe showed a major interest in medical practices as a child and she wanted be a medicine cat, but was forced into becoming a Warrior.

ThistleClaw would have probably told the poor kid on the side that he needed to put his skills to "Good" use on the battlefield, not cooped up in some damp den full of random leafs and flowers. Then right when TigerClaw became a Warrior, ThistleClaw DEMANDED that TigerClaw takes DarkKit as an apprentice early, to which SunStar obliged.

DarkStripe was never much of a fighter, he was a sweet kid but easily angered due to ridicule he'd get from the others around him during his childhood. He loved being in the Medicine den with his aunt SpottedLeaf, he was great at scouting out for herbs and identifying them with ease. But the poor kid was forced into a position he never wanted to be in.

Would have been cool to have an aspiring Medicine Cat be forced to be a Warrior instead of the other way around.

[glazeliights]

better bones au is too good. every time I look at a post its like I fall down a hole and next thing I know Ive got 50 tabs open because they all link to each other and theres so much-

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

y'know as shitty and horrible as warrior cats is, 'my blood is on fire!' goes hard as fuck

[booksofstars]

fanart for bonefall’s rewrite! text from this post

[bonefall]

Not an ask, but I am a big fan of how your description of Better Bones reads like a Minecraft bug fix update

You're actually the first person to notice that lmaoo.

It wasn't a completely intentional choice, I just came up with the name Better Bones (to replace the term Bonefall Rewrite) and then realized shortly afterwards that it was absolutely inspired by a popular style of minecraft mod naming. I really like modded minecraft.

I'm the kind of nerd who daydreams about Clangen But In Minecraft. With Farmer's Delight, also.

[your-fave-is-being-blended]

Can you blend Bramblestar from @bonefall's rewrite specifically (https://www.tumblr.com/bonefall/728623469710934016/what-does-bramblestar-think-of-his-reputation-of?source=share)

Better Bones!Bramblestar from @bonefall is being blended!!

You cannot save him.

[lockede-x-it]

Sorry to send an ask about it but I do genuinely find it fascinating how the books treat disability ( fascinating in a bad way )

Like, it /is/ cannon that Deadfoot is proud of his name, and in AUs or rewrites ( like Bonefalls wc universe where Deadfoot is named after their fighting style and disabilities and scars are not the end of a cats life but rather a sign of pride or just something about you ) that's fine, but in the canon material where Snowkit dies to a Hawk ( something that never happens again ) or Briarlight dies to illness randomly, or Brightheart is seen as a " second med cat/med cat assistant ", or Longtail has to retire bc he was blinded, or Jayfeather is shown to be worse at everything his able bodied siblings can do and just /has/ to be a med cat bc of it, or- ok you get it.

Like you pointed out, Cinderpaw is told she can NEVER be a warrior with her injury, yet here's this proud older DEPUTY right across the border doing all that warrior stuff she was told she could never do. And maybe it's bc Deadfoot was born with his disability vs Cinderpelt gaining hers but??? Idk the writing team is wack in so many ways but their portrayal of disabilities has always been odd ( again, in a bad way )

no yeah it's incredibly bizarre to me as well because in Fire and Ice (the book where Deadfoot and Cinderpaw are introduced properly), Fireheart has a positive relationship with Deadfoot and i think it's a disappointingly missed opportunity for Fireheart to mention Deadfoot to Cinderpaw while she was in recovery (especially since he spent most of the book feeling like shit and blaming himself for her accident + Cinderpaw herself was convinced she was useless to her Clan now).

the Erins had such a cool chance of uplifting their disabled audience by having Fireheart and Cinderpaw fight for her right to continue training as a warrior by using Deadfoot as an example instead of just believing Yellowfang at her word especially given the background Yellowfang is from where ShadowClan (at least under Brokenstar's rule) was obsessed with their ideals of strength and (maybe this is my bias towards Yellowfang pre-death) perhaps she internalized her desire to protect those who could be considered worthless by making them become a healer instead to avoid a possibly crueler treatment from her experience (i.e. overworking/overtraining a cat past their capabilities to the point of death)

[llamasandcat]

tried out printmaking recently and made a scene from @bonefall better bones rewrite

[wc-confessions]

I've recently REALLY attached myself to Clear Sky and Thunder from DotC because I've been rewriting the arc, and all the while, I have been experiencing a lot of really stressful things with my own father. I also feel connected with a semi-oc character I've written as a fusion of Bright Stream and Storm: Bright Storm, which was originally inspired by Bonefall, along with a lot of the foundations of my changes.

In my Rewrite Clear Sky's dad went missing and was never found. This was originally a Bonefall-inspired change, but now I feel deeply connected to it as my own thing because it's happening with my dad right now. He's been missing for over two months, and so far we've found nothing. Ive written Clear Sky to be sort of crushed by a feeling that nobody else cares, like his dad was brushed under the rug and forgotten, and i can share that feeling with him for somewhat more justifiable reasons from people around me.

Also in my Rewrite, Thunder feels a lot of disdain for Clear Sky for what he did to him and his mother, but can't help but grapple to the fantasy of a Good Dad and Happy Family, especially after him and himself nearly dying in that fire. I feel this really hard, and I added those feelings as a way of projecting, but I especially connect to it now that I know my dad could be gone for good after so long of never seeing him. Second, I wrote Thunder being disabled, just as Bonefall did, and I find the change really really important on that surface-level message against ableism, but I also write it as an analogy for being queer, and how i feel about my identity as such. This is because I wanted to be able to keep that message of yk don't be fucking ableist, but also include symbolic messages of homophobia and transphobia, because I refuse to just summon the actual issue out of thin air and make it a thing in my Rewrite.

Anyways, when it comes to Bright Storm herself, she's a bit of an outlier, because i dont relate her to me, i relate her to my mom, who fought with her relationship with my dad for years, getting in and out of it for her, my, and my siblings' sakes'. She seemingly also grappled with the idea of the Happy Family American Dream. I've written Bright Storm near the beginning of the books as being in that stage of confliction that my mom was when I was young (hopeful yet broken, and somewhat desperate), and over the arc she'll move on and recover just as my mom has, growing into herself and her confidence, and accepting she doesnt need Clear Sky, and doesnt have to forgive him for any reason, no matter how much he changes, because he still hurt her and her kit regardless. I see my own mother in her, so I'm really attached, there, too.

Basically what I'm saying is that while I feel really cringey about it, this series, especially DotC, has grown to be something I find a lot of connection to on a deeper level, and hold really close to me, especially in regards to how I Rewrite it. That's my confession.

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[mothfeather-of-riverclan]

Better Bones Cats

Some designs from @bonefall ‘s amazing an extensive rewrite of warrior cats. From left to right, top to bottom: Speckletail, Bluestar, Lionblaze, Squirrelflight

[wowie-zowie-art]

(Please do not repost or claim as your own. Reference art belongs to the lovely @bonefall)

(Reblogs over likes please!)

Miss Ma'am Bluestar.

A quick little doodle I did of Bluestar/Bluemoon from @bonefall's incredible Better Bones au! A series dedicated to taking the canon of warrior cats and gives it more love, care, depth, world-building and character than I have ever seen in a rewrite before! Genuinely go and check it out, it's awesome!

Anyways, Bones's version of Bluestar is definitely one of my favorites, both in character, story, and design, and I just had to draw her! I only made a little doodle, but I would love to draw a scene from the au with in it sometime in the future.

Again, please go check them out, they make some amazing stuff. :)

[mousetoe-wc]

The Medics of the Clans

I’m planning a rewrite of warrior cats so I’m messing around with how they work, nothing too out there but I like what I got going on.

Ok so somethings I’ve changed is the hole thing of you are an apprentice until your mentor dies, that’s silly and I’ll get to that in a minute.

The second thing I changed is the name, medicine cat as it’s an appropriation of North American indigenous cultures.

A lot of people have changed the name to Healer but personally I don’t like it, nothing against I just don’t care for it. So I’ve changed it to Medic because so much of warrior cats is fighting and battles, it makes sense to me it wound keep with that theme.

Different titles

I’ve gone and made little “titles” for different types of medics. These are the most common titles.

First is Medic Apprentice could also be known as the Medic’s apprentice or Medic in training, it’s exactly what it sounds like, a cat that is learning how to be a Medic.

The Second Medic is a fully trained medic who, most of the time is the youngest fully trained medic, it’s custom for there to be at least two Medics in the clan, the second is to listen and help the head medic

The Head Medic is the one who is in charge of the medicine den and everything that is going on, in and around it. The Head Medic takes on the role when the previous Head Medic retires or dies.

Senior Medic the oldest, most senior medic in the clan. Is normally retired but not always.

A chart of Leafpool’s history as a Medic, going from bottom to top, just to give you an idea of how this kinda works.

A Disgraced medic is a cat that broken the code severely and has been stripped of the medic title (even when that code is severely unfair).

Field Medic are warriors that have basic training in medicine and healing, they are normally sent on battle patrols or patrols that have the possibility to turn violent.

Hollyleaf and Brightheart are examples of Field Medics!

Also important to remember that Senior medic does not always mean their the head medic!

Example of this is while Goosefeather was the senior medic of Thunderclan, he was retired and Featherwhisker was the Head Medic who was in full control of the Thunderclan medic den.

History of Medics

Ok this is very much a work in progress/ has ver little done and I’ll definitely be revisiting this later with a more in detail post, BUT, until then this is what I got so far-

I dont like a lot of stuff in moth flight’s vision, so much of it dose not make sense like, why would you split up your young kids when you didn’t have to? Why did any of the other medicine cats agree to such a dumb rule proposed by a very young, new to this job cat?? Wtf is going on here??

I really like the direction bonefall’s going with their rewrite of moth flight, it makes sooo much more sense to have the kits be older and have training in medicine and that’s why they were split up. I still don’t know how I’m going to tackle moth flight’s vision tho, but moth flight will definitely have a lot of Importance in the clan’s history.

Such as below! After a cat finishes their Medic training they receive a Luna moth wing.

I will be doing a post on Starclan so hopefully she’ll show up there.

The Medic role will be invented in dotc.

The no mate no children role may not be invented until later in the timeline?? Maybe??

At the end of oots/avos the clans are going to get a bit of a soft reboot and the no mate no children rule is going to fuck off, much to the dismay of a handful cats who think the code is a vital part of clan life

Which brings us to the broken code where shit is hitting the fan but that’s for another post

Like I said it’s really a work in progress but I’ll put a link down here when I post more stuff about it!

[booksofstars]

normal abt my bristlefrost lives au…she gets pretty fucked up by the dark water since it becomes corrosive if you stay in too long. she loses a leg and is pretty heavily scarred, along with having some breathing issues. snowtuft was presumed dead, but df cats cannot kill each other (bonefall rewrite rules). and since ashfur was technically not a starclanner, well…snowtuft came back. he drags her out of the water. everyone else is gone now, believing she died. he drags her to juniperclaw who is extremely startled and relieved to see the two, and they immediately get ushered through to starclan. they manage to get bristlefrost back to her body just in time, and snowtuft finally ends up in starclan. her injuries were severe, and her leg had to be amputated. the burns caused by the dark water were extensive. she wasnt moved from the moonpool for a while, with medics instead taking shifts staying to treat her. rootspring, shadowsight, ivypool, and spotfur refused to leave her side for long.

jayfeather and mothwing most likely were the ones to amputate her leg since theyre the most experienced. she suffers from chronic pain and struggles to get around easily, so she takes up the role of a camp guard as well as being jayfeathers new assistant in working on physical therapy techniques. after a while, she is able to hunt a bit again and go on short border patrols. she carves out a nice niche for herself.

she spends a lot of time w great gma brightheart, her parents and siblings, shadowsight and rootspring when they visit, and spotfur. and now jayfeather and alderheart too!

shes a little more physically stable in asc, so she takes well to the clan changes! rootspring moves in with her. she gets along great w sunbeam and trades kithood stories abt nightheart and shadowsight w her. nightheart relies on her wisdom lmao. she loves frostdawn and would die for her, thinking of her as family and basically a second shadowsight. she makes good on her promise to help spotfur raise her kits, doting on them and telling them stories about her life and the cats around them.

she struggles to work through the trauma of tbcs events and receiving her injuries. she most likely has some form of ptsd, and is highly averse to bodies of water like the lake for the rest of her life. she has flashbacks frequently in the beginning, which lessen as she heals emotionally and physically. its still difficult to cope, but she has a strong support system there for her.

[bonefall]

I know you don’t rewrite arcs until they’re done, but I love hearing about your early ideas while I brood over how badly this arc has let me down. Do you have any like super vague ideas about Splashtail’s motivations yet? He’s like a way worse Hawkfrost in my mind, because they’re both very young cats who Are Just Evil. But Hawkfrost had a genuinely interesting backstory that the Erin’s simply fumbled, meanwhile Splashtail is a cartoonishly evil atheist. I feel nothing towards him, he’s not intimidating or interesting or even funny. Save me Bonefall save me (if I got something wrong please ignore it, these books are so disappointing my brain is making me forget them to protect itself.)

If it helps at all, I'm staying sane with the observation that Hawkfrost is a high charisma character making critical failure rolls, while Splashtail is a cringefail loser with no stats rolling nat20s. He becomes 50% more sufferable when you imagine a long, pungent pause after anything he says, broken only by the sound of an offscreen player tossing some dice. When the silence is broken, it's whatever NPC has been charmed speaking in the beleaguered voice of the dungeon master.

SO my early thoughts are shaping up to be that I'd like to do a slightly more serious version of that.

BB!Splashtail is the Clan equivalent of a 19-year-old, desperate for more power and respect in his society. In terms of his stats, he's promising but not outstanding. A decent fighter, a competent leader. Even in terms of lineage; his father is Sneezecloud, a respected trader and negotiator, but his mother is Havenpelt. An ex-rogue who has sworn to live by the ways of RiverClan.

Curlfeather is the one with the plans. She's the one with vision. Daughter of Reedwhisker, grandchild of Mistystar, with grand leaders like Bluestar, Oakheart, and Crookedstar in her past, greatness runs in her blood. Scandal, too-- but for some reason it's acceptable that her great-grandparents were codebreaking traitors.

Splashtail hates Curlfeather, but he can't get anywhere unless he tries to be her. He steals HER plans. He acts like SHE does. Manages to snatch power from her paws, and then has no idea what to do with it.

I'm thinking that I want his reign to be going smoothly at first, actually, going from a bit of a bossy jerk, to trying to enact Curlfeather's ambitions by launching fights and doing it badly, to active tyranny as he tries to keep control over RiverClan. Depending on how Star goes, I might have Berryheart make some kind of move to seize power over him.

At the core of how I see him though, is that Splashtail has no plan. His ideology leans Thistle Law... in a sort of dumbass 4Channer kind of way. He talks a big game about the glory of battle, but folds fast when his enemy can punch back. The only person he could successfully manipulate was a traumatized child. He will bring back pureblooded glory to the Clan, except his personal family of course

As for the Evil Atheism stuff... lol. Lmao, even. Not needed. If I need to make him a more powerful and serious danger, it's not going to come from the fact he's godless. If being an atheist gave you super murder powers, Bill Nye would have used them to obliterate half of the US government by now.

Depending on how the last book of ASC goes,

The Harelight kill is probably going to get changed to Hallowflight. Harelight watches his dad die, and Splashstar is drenched in the blood of one of RiverClan's most famous heroes. No turning back after that.

On that note I'd also make the fight longer and bloodier. A butchery of an execution showcasing Splashtail fighting like a beast and Hallowflight like a trained warrior.

I REAALLY want to make Splashtail's death a drowning. Curlfeather, demon she is now, finishes him off by dragging him under. To protect her daughter. They will have to do something VERY satisfying for me to not do this.