Salmon Run Tip!
THIS IS A SLAMMIN’ LID! IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE IT DOESN’T DO ANYTHING BUT IT’S A BOSS SALMONID! KILL IT!!!!! BLOW IT UP!!!!!!! MAKE SURE THIS FUCKER NEVER SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY AGAIN!!!!
Slammin’ Lids will follow you all the way to the GODDAMN BASKET and you might be inclined to ignore it forever because it doesn’t attack. DON’T DO THAT!!!! THIS FUCKER WILL KEEP SPAWNING LESSER SALMONID RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU MAKING IT ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS BOSSES SO DIP UNDER IT, HOP ON, AND DESTROY HIM ASAP
Slammin’ Lids are also a very good strategic tool! If you see another Boss Salmonid under it, DIP UNDER to make it slam down and it WILL OHKO ALMOST ANY OTHER BOSS SALMONID; most often this will be a Steelhead, Scrapper, or even another Slammin’ Lid, but THIS EVEN WORKS ON FLYFISH.
here’s the most important part. if you see a teammate hitching a ride on a slammin’ lid DO NOT FUCKING KILL IT!!! MY GOD!!!! THERE’S OTHER BOSSES TO FOCUS ON! CHANCES ARE A) your teammate has got this under control and is already in the process of killing it themself, or B) YOUR TEAMMATE GOT UP THERE FOR A REASON AND BY UNEXPECTEDLY KILLING THE SLAMMIN’ LID YOU ARE SENDING THEM HURTLING INTO A MOB OF SALMONIDS, A BOSS THEY WERE TRYING TO ESCAPE, OR THE FREAKING WATER
weapons such as the Tri-Stringer and E-Liter 4K can one-shot the Slammin’ Lid. Kill Him. But please use a brain cell to determine whether the best thing right then is to kill it or if you should wait 5 seconds. The worst thing that can happen is someone trying to bait a slammin’ lid to slam down to kill a boss and midway through its slam animation some genius kills it.
thank you for coming to the salmon run tip.
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Does mapleshade still follow Crookedstar in this? What if her purpose doing that is to make sure riverclan never rejects a half-clan kit again (that’s why he doesn’t question Misty and stone and another reason for wanting his grandkits in riverclan)
I'm passionate about the idea that people are heavily influenced by their circumstances. It's much easier to be a good person when you have loving guidance and the environment to be your best self. Likewise, pain and suffering can bring out the worst even in the kindest, most selfless people.
And in both of the AUs I have for Mapleshade, she is not a particularly nice person to begin with. But being StarClan's best prosecutor allows the positive aspects of her personality to shine. So to answer your question:
"Does Mapleshade still follow Crookedstar?"
#Bonefall Rewrite
In the current version of my rewrite, Mapleshade is condemned to the Dark Forest for 3 counts of murder. She takes the ruling with pride and confidence, playing to the sympathetic crowd by chasing the other damned souls into the Dark Forest.
In truth she's just as spiteful as she was in life, and now she's alone with no friends or family, bored, in Hell, and uses all that spare time to haunt Appledusk's lineage, and basically everyone associated with her death (Perchpaw/shine as well).
So, it's really not for a constructive reason that she follows Stormkit. She pushed him off the stone to kill him and only broke his jaw. She notices that Rainflower has a spiteful, awful view of her son, and decides that it would cause even more suffering to keep Stormkit alive. She kills some more kits so he'll have a foster to suckle him, just to watch them make each other miserable.
(rewrite recap: Rainflower is now the Appledusk descendant. Stormkit is not getting a cruel renaming, Crookedjaw is an honor title.)
Crookedstar follows Darkstar's commandment, the Queen's Rights, because he is a good, proud leader who abides by the traditions of his predecessors. That's all. Mapleshade doesn't need to bully him into 'clan loyalty' or anything, her haunting is much more actively malevolent than canon.
#Better Call Mapleshade AU
In StarClan, Mapleshade is with her kits. Her wonderful, sweet children-- they are an excellent influence. She's still ruthless and vengeful, of course, but she lives for the contrary position she can hold up to StarClan
A LOT of her motivation stems from that. From knowing that StarClan would otherwise let people in who shouldn't be there (hypocritical? Yes) and she takes this duty very seriously.
The BCM AU shares some aspects of the Bonefall Rewrite, but here, I think it's very similar to canon. Mapleshade watches Rainflower emotionally abuse an innocent kitten, and she KNOWS that Rainflower would just get into StarClan without any intervention (the way she did in canon). Mapleshade needs more evidence to condemn her-- and she will create scenarios to get what she needs.
On one paw this IS born out of righteous fury. She IS thinking of her own kits, you might agree that Rainflower deserved the Dark Forest, and Mapleshade won't FORCE Rainflower to do anything she wouldn't already do. She will test her, that's all.
But to test her? She is going to use Crookedkit. This WILL cause a lot more pain to him than if she just left it all alone and let Rainflower get into StarClan. She encourages him into positions of power to prove himself, she lets this young cat think that his value is tied to what his abusive mother thinks of him.
Because the more pain he displays, the further the lengths he goes to in service of appeasing Rainflower, the more Mapleshade can use as ammo to get her damned.
Mapleshade always serves her own interests first and foremost, not those of the greater good.
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