i love when clangen accidentally makes an interesting story my deputy just murdered the medicine cat. whose sibling was murdered by the deputy’s husband the moon before. the deputy was found out by the med cat’s mom with ghost sight. she gets exiled since the deputy was the vengeful leader’s apprentice and they have a close relationship. the deputy and his fellow murderer husband break up. it’s like poetry
leader - rosystar/sky (female/adult ex dark forest and starclan rejecter, she is a weird mix between calm and violent was a leader is very competent offen avoiding conflict and trying to find what is best for her clan, but that calm and responsable attitude will be forgotten the moment she steps foot on the battlefild.)
medicine cat - warmdapple (female/adult was going to be leader of their original clan but became a medicine cat when they fled,she was originaly named cloudkit/paw but changed to warm when became a medicine ca.t)
deputy - prancebush (male/adult lost his tail and got scars during a fox attack and is close friends with rosystar, left the clan with them.)
How do you think Runningnose felt, looking down from starclan, watching his clan fall apart again. Rowanclaw dead, Tigerheart dead, the leader and deputy dead, the clan in shambles, ready to fall apart and join skyclan or be picked up by the next wannabe dictator that came by.
How do you think he felt watching Puddleshine suggest the most WILD idea, watching a patrol of cats carry his body to the moonpool. Was he proud of this medicine cat who was thrust into the position? Was he angry at himself for not thinking of the idea when Nightstar died. Did he wish he had the strength, faith, or foresight to carry his dying leader to the moonstone like this?
I can only imagine the bittersweet relief Runningnose felt at watching Tigerstar come back, at watching shadowclan’s resurrection, knowing it avoided breaking down again by just a whisker.
I MADE MY FIRST OC'S, SELF INSERTS, AND PERSONAS FOR THAT SERIES
WE WARRIOR'S FANS STAND TOGETHER IN OUR SEA OF BLOOD AND PILE OF BONE
oh BIG MOOD. i was obSESSED with warrior cats for AGES. like. lowkey baby's first true hyperfixation. i deVOURED those books. they were typically too expensive for my family to buy (esp coz there were SOO many of them) so every time a new one would come out i'd beg my mom to bring me to the bookstore and then i'd straight up just sit in the aisle and read the entire thing then and there.
warrior cats is definitely, like, a huge part of what truly got me into drawing/writing/storytelling. i used to dedicate hours to illustrating scenes from those books. i had four HUGE handmade posters up on my wall as a tween with each and every cat from each and every clan that i'd update as the allegiances changed in the books. i used to design 'warriorsonas' for each and every one of my classmates because i was a super normal child. warriors is how i got into roleplaying, which was definitely a huge influence on my writing-- i read in an interview when i was, like, 11 that the erins sometimes got inspiration for warrior names from roleplay sites, and i was like!!!!! omg i have to start roleplaying on roleplay sites so that one of my warrior names get into the books!!!!
(they never did lol)
but i still obSESSIVELY roleplayed online for YEARS, i'd draw all my characters and draw my friends' characters, too, and scenes from the rps. we'd all write PARAGRAPHS upon paragraphs with, like, proper grammar and everything (because at that age and in those circles, roleplaying *with actions in asteriks* and stuff was CRINGE and everyone KNEW that the LONGER you wrote the BETTER your writing was, obvs, and that was the only factor--) i spent, like, every waking moment on this massive chatroom-based site called kugyay that had, like, hundreds and thousands of users in its heyday. granted, like, most people had more than one account (so you could have a custom profile for each character, obvi) but i remember everyone freaked out when we hit more than 10,000 accounts.
i could talk about my experience with warrior cats and all my various ocs for... like.... ages. also like. this is random and won't mean anything to most people, esp coz i only posted, like, a few pages about it, but i also want y'all to know that this graphic novel that i desperately want to bring to life and do justice someday and that i've dedicated SOOO much time thinking about is... like....... 1000% inspired by/based on warrior cats lowkey. like. i am infected. forever and ever.
as you can see, I find the lineup for Ivypool's Heart's adventure extremely funny
(if you can't read my weird writing it's "Icewing: senior warrior, RiverClan rebel, dark forest trainee, likely next RiverClan deputy. Rootspring: Light in the Mist: deafeater of Ashfur. Dovewing: one of The Three, helped defeat the dark forest. Ivypool: ThunderClan deputy, dark forest trainee, helped defeat the dark forest and Whistlepaw: an apprentice with a dream")