#finally my hobby of explaining warrior cats to thin air comes in handy for something!!!

[alfamangle]

OK SO BASICALLY: there's 4/5 clans in the forest. or the lake. honestly depends what arc you're on. and they just live out there and fight over territory and pray to the dead cat council. things happen sometimes and the erins have abandoned realism after book 1.

clans are as follows:

Thunderclan: you basic bread clan. all arcs have had a thunderclan protagonist. they are the 'perfect' ones. there are like 40 of them in modern thunderclan. most are related. the family tree is hell and we are suffering.

Riverclan: their only personality traits are can swim and eat fish. the erins really dont care abt them

Shadowclan: evil clan of villans and bad. if there's a villan good shot they're from sc

Windclan: religious track runners. they eat rabbits and run around real fast.

Skyclan: thunderclan.... 2!! but they climb and have weird names we love you Billystorm <3

and bonus of starclan: basically where all dead cats go unless the erins dont like them and they are dead and vote on shit and send prophecies but also can die there was an entire ghost war dw about it.

there's like over 80 books at this point we are suffering there's like 200-500 pages a book this is what i like to call hell_world.pdf (why the fuck are there so many books + a table top roleplaying game + 2 entire ass plays + whatever the fuck else the erins have done)

But for the sake of short and snappy, here's a list of some weird fandom/book things:

There was a cat who had a stick used to communicate with 1 bald ghost (not starclan he was just a random ass ghost that lives in the tunnels below the lake) and can also be used to time travel. he time traveled once and fell in love with one of the cats there and now old cat mcgee and cat from the future pine for eachother even in later books. its weird to watch. (book)

jayfeather (aormentioned future cat, or well present cat) was shipped with said stick. alot. did i mention it was just a. its just a stick. a STICK. look up jayfeather x stick i dare you (fandom)

the aformentioned ghost war. i am not elaborating. (book)

the first protagonist's (firestar)'s dad is bi in the spanish dub only in some of the erin's hearts. according to harper collins (publisher) he is straight. we know he's not. 'tallstar's heart belongs to his jake' my ass (book)

A cat once tried to burn 3 kids because his ex girlfriend broke up with him after essentially a couple weeks. he stopped after finding out they were adopted (book)

scourge. just scourge. no other words needed (book and fandom. 2009 was a year)

aformentioned gutted cat was Tigerstar the first! was gutted by the above cat (scourge) because he bullied him in elementary essentially. (book)

there is a cannonically neurodivergent cat but when confirming it via answering a question they got the character's name wrong [see: 'does moth flight have adhd?' 'uhh yea mothwing has add' i will grab a sc later bc this is just hillarious to me]

Goosefeather. (goosefeather) [cannonical medicine cat who had Every Prophecy shoved in his face always and he did not have a good time at ALL]

the dovewing eye debate and scourge collar color debate (fandom)

we once got an erin fired for being a terf thats a win on our part (fandom)

there's more but thats all i have off the top of my head

and also yeah the books are so poorly written there are so many inconsistancies and plot holes but like everybody's complaining and we're just here for the kitty cats yk. but yeah. a quick run down. that was not quick at all i think this is more than a paragraph maybe.

I find it hilarious to talk abt warriors on here because the people who haven’t read it are always like

while the warrior cats kids don’t even bat an eye