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[jesse-pinko]

Not a dig at anyone bc different people find different story routes interesting but any Mapleshade au where she isn’t at least a little bit evil still is automatically boring to me, esp since I feel like there’s a pretty obvious and interesting path to take with the secret-never-revealed au specifically. Like Frecklewish and Oakstar were canonically planning to raise those kittens to get revenge on Appledusk, and he still would have been cheating on Mapleshade and gotten Reedshine pregnant… once Mapleshade found out, I can see her getting fully onboard with the plan to weaponize her kits against him with no further intention of revealing him as their father.

So.

Patchkit, Petalkit and Larchkit are raised on somewhat embellished tales of their father Birchface’s heroism, and how he and his brave apprentice were sadistically drowned by a dishonorable Riverclan warrior. Their mother puts great emphasis on the pain this Riverclan warrior caused her, leaving her all alone with three fatherless kits to raise by herself, though their aunt Frecklewish always corrects her on this front, which seems to annoy Mapleshade greatly. The three kits are very close to their mother and feel very protective of her because of all she’s been through, especially Patchkit, who is the most susceptible to her manipulations.

Patchpaw is apprenticed to Oakstar himself, Petalpaw to Frecklewish, and Larchpaw to Bloomheart like his mother before him. During a confrontation with a Riverclan patrol, Patchpaw notices Appledusk staring at him and wonders if he knows Patchpaw is the kit of the cat he murdered. He also exchanges verbal barbs with Wavepaw (Applefrost in canon) Appledusk’s son by Reedshine. Oakstar compliments him on his ferocity afterward and compares him to Birchface . Later, Patchpaw goes patrolling with his mother, and they catch Wavepaw hunting alone at Snakerocks. Mapleshade encourages him to attack Wavepaw and instructs him on which battle moves to use. Wavepaw drowns while trying to cross the river due to his injuries and Patchpaw is horrified, but Mapleshade assures him it wasn’t his fault and that Wavepaw shouldn’t have crossed into Thunderclan territory. Meanwhile, Petalpaw and Mapleshade start growing apart due to her mother treating her differently because she is the kit that looks most like Appledusk, and she grows closer to her aunt and mentor Frecklewish. She also becomes friends with Perchpaw at the gathering, and the two start meeting up in secret after Petalpaw mentions offhandedly that she’d always wanted to learn how to swim. Perchpaw remarks that she’s surprisingly good at it. Frecklewish catches them one day and publicly humiliates Petalpaw by having her confess to meeting with a Riverclan apprentice in front of the entire clan, and she is ostracized by everyone but her brother Larchpaw, who, having not been mentored by any of their overbearing relatives, has slowly begun to recognize just how much the adults around them are using him and his siblings. Larchpaw becomes friends with a rambunctious crew of teenaged kittypets, and reflects to himself that they seem more free than he feels living in the wild. He starts to question clan life and Starclan altogether, and starts up a flirtation with a kittypet tom named Mister Mistoffelees.

The three kits become warriors and are given the names Patchface, Petalwish and Larchshade respectively, which Petalwish and Larchshade both resent. Petalwish begins meeting with Perchpaw again, now Perchleap, and soon finds herself expecting kits. Around this time, Thunderclan launches a massive attack on Riverclan, and the three find and corner Appledusk, who reveals he is their father to save his own life. Patchface cannot reconcile the thought that he had been responsible for the death of his own half brother and that his mother had lied to him. He yowls that Appledusk is a liar and slashes his throat, much to the stunned horror of his siblings. Perchleap attacks him in a rage but ultimately can’t bring himself to do anything to his mate’s brother; Frecklewish witnesses this and confronts Petalwish about the father of her kits, and Petalwish tells her the truth. Frecklewish is disgusted, and threatens to reveal her secret to the clan. Petalwish flees to Riverclan to be with Perchleap, and Patchface and Mapleshade both denounce her as a traitor, though Frecklewish seems to blame herself for Petalwish’s leaving. Larchshade, furious with his family’s hypocrisy, threatens Patchface and Mapleshade with the truth about his own parentage. Only when his mother insinuates to him that Larchshade needs to be “dealt with” does Patchface realize the true extent of her cruelty and selfishness. Mapleshade leads another attack on Riverclan, where she attempts to kill her expectant daughter, mistakenly calling her by Appledusk’s name as she raises her paw for the killing blow. Patchface jumps in front of his sister and dies in her place, with Frecklewish subduing Mapleshade and scratching her eyes. Mapleshade stumbles away towards the river and drowns. Petalwish reconciles with her aunt but ultimately decides to stay in Riverclan, though Frecklewish does insist to her that she name one of the kits Birchkit as they say their goodbyes. She becomes close with her two remaining siblings by Appledusk, and names her three kits after exactly no one. Larchshade says fuck this shit and goes to twolegplace to live with his kittypet boyfriend.

[faeriekougraz]

ya gotta tell me more about this mapleshade/star au cause i am intrigued ‼️‼️

YIPPEEe!!! OKAY so im not gonna spoil everything (i lied i did) but im hoping to basically branch this out into an au that changes everything i dislike in the series.

so mapleshade still gets pregnant by appledusk and lies to thunderclan. however over the time of her pregnancy, she develops feelings for frecklewish. and near the end of her pregnancy she feels guilt over lying. the two of them grow extremely close and so before she gives birth, her and frecklewish go on a walk together and she tells her the truth. frecklewish is shocked and obviously hurt, and she turns to leave however maple grasps at her tail trying to beg her to stay. Freckle, startled and upset, unintentionally slashes maples face (giving her the first scar). freckle apologizes, obviously upset that she injured maple. she states that she will keep the secret but she needs time away from mapleshade. after that, the last bit of her pregnancy, mapleshade is more or less alone. she gives birth to her 3 kits and adores them. things go on as normal for the most part.

when ravenwing approaches maple, he confronts her about the lie and tells her he cant lie to their clan like she has. when he turns to sprint away, again she goes after them and in anger ravenwing slashes her side. he yells at her and rushes back to camp. maple and her kits are obviously startled so she takes her time heading back to camp.

when there, the clan is already gathered around the high rock. oakstar is at the top and ravenwing is standing below him with frecklewish by his side. maple tells her kits to rest near the camp entrance while she heads into the center to be addressed by oakstar. the whole spiel about her lying is brought up and right before oakstar banishes her and her kits frecklewish runs out and claims that the kits are also hers. oakstar obv calls her out saying "they cant be yours" kinda thing however she argues back. despite his anger, oakstar leaves the topic alone and dismisses the clan since he can't imagine hurting his daughter after everything.

after all this, freckle and maple get back together and raise the kits. ravenwing hates maple and hates that she got away with everything however they make amends when frecklewish gets bitten by a snake on a patrol and maple and raven work together to save her life.

at a gathering riverclan is confronted about their clanmate lying to them. and he basically gets shunned (but is allowed to stay in riverclan). after this he becomes really controlling over reedshine and perchpaw and is a major asshole. he also develops an obsession with the idea of getting revenge on mapleshade in a future battle for what "she did". eventually deciding to attack her outside of a battle. he tries to kill her however frecklewish and oakstar manage to save her and appledusk gives her the scar on her chest before he's killed.

okay now for some bullet point info

perchpaw (appledusks apprentice) ends up in a relationship later down the line with maples son larchkit

patchpaw ends up in a relationship with nettlepaw

oakstar gives mapleshade the position of deputy rather than doestar. her scar on her chest is her leader marking

petalpaw either leaves the clan to be a kitty pet or falls in love with a kitty pet (havent decided) and has firestar and his sister! so firestar is a descendent of mapleshade

each scar on maple is given to her by someone she would have killed in canon. frecklewish's on the face (where freckles are), ravenwing's on the side (where a wing would be), and then appledusk just on her chest to try and kill her

appledusk basically takes maples place in this au

[silverdawn1498]

Mapleshade’s Vengeance Rewrite

-Maplekit is born to Dawnfeather and Redstar alongside Seedkit. Redstar and Dawnfeather had lost several litters before and became a bit protective

-Maplekit becomes spoiled and entitled from being the leader’s kit while Seedkit becomes disappointed by his sister’s behavior

-The day before Maplekit and Seedkit become apprentices, Redstar dies from a tainted piece of fresh-kill and the ceremony is pushed back by a day

-Seedpaw slowly starts to drift apart from Maplepaw during their apprenticeship

-A couple of moons pass when Dawnfeather tells Maplepaw that she is expecting kits, and Maplepaw assumes that she is replacing her with the new kits

-Dawnfeather dies from greencough when Nettlekit is four moons old, and Maplepaw has another breakdown

-The newly named Birchface decides to bring Maplepaw to the forest in order to talk privately about her reaction and reveals about his mother's death

-Maplepaw gains a small crush on him

-But she never gets the chance to tell him since a few moons later, he falls from Sunningrocks and drowns alongside his apprentice

-Mapleshade completely shuts down for a while until she formally meets the tom that caused the accident: Appledusk

-The two keep meeting at Gatherings and border patrols before they confess to each other and start meeting in secret

-A few moons passed and Mapleshade reveals her pregnancy to Appledusk

-Appledusk is reasonably worried about ThunderClan finding out, but Mapleshade pushes aside his worries

-Frecklewish approaches Mapleshade the next day and wonders if, against all odds, the kits are Birchface's, and takes Mapleshade's shocked silence as a 'yes'

-Petalkit, Larchkit, and Patchkit are born

-Two moons later, the secret is revealed after Ravenwing misunderstands a sign

-At the river, Mapleshade is trying to get her kits to swim across when a patrol of Bloomheart, Seedpelt, and Frecklewish appear and says that Oakstar changed his mind after an elder, Amberclaw, reveals that Oakstar is half-Clan since his father Gorseclaw was born in a now forgotten Clan and brought to ThunderClan as a kit with his sister and mother

-But Mapleshade is too blinded by hostility to even listen and instead yells them that it's too late before yelling at her kits to cross the river

-Unfortunately, the kits instead run to the patrol

-Mapleshade, feeling betrayed by the only ones that could never leave her, tries to attack them but Bloomheart fends her off and accidentally pushes her into the river

-The RiverClan patrol still manages to save her, and she is freaking out over ThunderClan 'stealing' her kits

-She is brought to Darkstar where Appledusk reveals their secret meetings

-When asked about what she meant about ThunderClan stealing her kits, Mapleshade reveals what happened and begs for RiverClan's help

-Darkstar notices an unsettling look in Mapleshade's eyes and decides that she will not risk her warriors' lives just to get three kits

-Mapleshade yells at her before turning to Appledusk for help, which he says that she is not the cat he once thought she was and wants nothing to do with her

-"You told me you loved me! I went through the agony of bearing your kits! And now, you treat me worse than prey. You will regret this Appledusk. That is my last promise to you."

-She then runs out of RiverClan's camp and ends up at the barn where she plots how to make both RiverClan and ThunderClan pay

-The next few moons, she secretly torments the Clans by stealing prey from both territories and putting them on the other's territories, she kills Ravenwing at the Moonstone, she blinds a pregnant Frecklewish when she's out on a stroll, and paralyzes Perchpaw before killing Appledusk while trying to attack Reedshine

-Reedshine's yowl alerts a nearby patrol that attack Mapleshade and chase her off the territory where she returns to the barn and dies, descending to the Dark Forest

-In the epilogue, Frecklewish died giving birth to stillborn kits, Petalkit is now Petaldawn and is Flashpaw's and Daisypaw's mother, Larchkit is now Larchtail and is Mistpaw's mentor, and Patchkit is now Patchface, the new ThunderClan medicine cat after Cloudberry was asked to train him when Ravenwing died

[theanoninyourinbox]

Here we go again! @quaelgeist333 asked for a BirchApple FreckleReed situation (what is this a love quadrangle?) and @greekstar asked for vanilla JayBriar, I added some warrior!Jay and background MC!Holly as a treat~

In the first AU, Birchface and Appledusk are a secret power couple, alongside Reedshine and Frecklewish. Reed and Apple do the fake dating, going off on “romantic walks” to meet their datefriends. Apple and Birch want kits, and Reed volunteers, so long as Apple takes over in the nursery when the kits are weaned - she loves being a warrior, and doesn’t want to be held down by motherhood too much, me and Freckle will be Aunts. Mapleshade, obsessed with Apple, sees one of these secret meetings, and plots revenge. She shows up in Thunderclan with three kits, claiming they’re Birch’s, but telling Birch they’re Apple’s. This Fails, because the “secret” relationships are more of a public secret in Thunderclan - Oakstar wasn’t too keen on his kits dating fishy trash, but they grew on him. Perchpaw and Flowerpaw gossip at the border, and Ravenwing has seen no warnings - all involved are careful to not fight each other, but defend their clan admirably otherwise. So everyone guesses that Maple got pregnant by some loner or maybe that barn cat. And then at Gathering Windclan reports missing kits, stolen from a queen who had just joined the clan. And everything clicks. Oakstar orders his warriors to hold down Maple, and Birch and Freckle lead some Windclan cats to the kits to return them. Maple is banished, but not before spilling the metaphorical beans about the Relationship Quadrangle. All look to the sky…and it’s clear and bright, stars gleaming. The clans vow to change the rules of cross-clan relationships, and how to handle kits from another clan, but it’s not over yet. A few days later, a storm rolls in, and Ravenwing checks on the river, only for Maple to drag him into the shadows. She holds him hostage, and when Freckle comes looking, Maple pounces, shredding her eyes. However, Reed, Birch, and Apple (Birch with his sister, and Apple and Reed summoned by a ghostly Riverstar) fight her off, sending her careening into the river, vanishing forever. Freckle is mostly blinded, and Ravenwing mauled, but both live.

In the second AU, when Firestar tries to reassign Jaypaw, Brightheart loudly disagrees. That’s MY apprentice, will you deny him like Bluestar denied Cinderpelt? Like she denied ME!? Or will you be a better leader? Firestar backs down, and an ever grateful Jaypaw throws himself into training, eventually earning his Warrior Name. He and Briarpaw are friendly, but when her back is broken, Jayflight stands for her like Brightheart stood for him. And Briarpaw digs it. When Briarlight becomes a full fledged camp guard, with therapy from Hollyberry, Briar immediately starts flirting with a baffled and flattered Jay. Both want a family, but Briar can’t have kits. But a chance encounter with a twoleg dumping some unwanted kittens leaves them with the family they always wanted. Coldkit and Brightkit grow up knowing only love and acceptance from their clan and parents.

Alrighty, next post will switch it up, someone requested MLP hypo…colts? Hypofoals? Whatever you want to call it. Until then, enjoy your new characters Quael and Greek!

[goatpaste]

AU set to "SIX" from the Six musical where Appledusk had mates in all the clans because that is just how shitty he is- Extra song link sksksksks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTvRNwslYxA

He had Reedshine in Riverclan, Mapleshade in Thunderclan, three in Windclan because Windclan's territory is so large that it was easy to avoid being seen by anyone, and one in Shadowclan.

Mapleshade was pregnant this time when she is exiled from Thunderclan. She panics trying to think of where to go, and she can feel that Frecklewish and a patrol are following her to make sure she leaves. Desperate and thinking Appledusk is faithful, she starts to cross the river. There was no wave when she first crossed, but the storm was so bad that even trees were being tipped in the wind. One with loose roots fell a little ways from her and caused a wave that almost drowns her before she is saved by two Riverclan toms. Appledusk is not on the patrol. Mapleshade has a permanent scar from the rocks, on the side of her head. Luckily, she got away without any physical brain damage.

Reedshine was horrified to find out about his cheating and asked if Thunderclan is where he's constantly sneaking off to. This is where he pathetically admits and apologizes, that he has multiple mates. He claims that when Reedshine was found to be pregnant, he began meeting with Mapleshade. He got annoyed with her because she was quite emotional, Thunderclan had just lost Birchface, Flowerpaw, and their old medicine cat, all of which Mapleshade was very close to considering she had no living biological family. -- He never told her that he was the one to kill Birchface, and Thunderclan thought it was best for her at that point to not find out when they returned from the battle without them, so she never knew until now.

Darkstar is disgusted and demands that he tell Maple and Reed the names of these other cats. So he does.

Darkstar and Reedshine were always close friends, Reedshine having always wanted kits and helped take care of Perchkit when Darkstar had him. The leader offers Mapleshade a place in Riverclan, even if she only wants it until she's healed, and then decides to leave to live a calmer life, and offers to exile Appledusk if Reedshine wishes it.

Reedshine says no as Mapleshade shyly turns down the kind offer, and steps closer to the Thunderclan queen, resting a paw gently on her freezing shoulder.

"I love my clan, and I love my Clanmates and you, Darkstar.. but Appledusk can stay if you would want him to." She glances down at Mapleshade and gives an encouraging smile. "We're leaving. Both of us, together. Where we can raise our kits together and give them a life free of battles and fear."

Mapleshade agrees, suddenly feeling a little less freezing at Reedshine's presence.

They stay there until morning, Mapleshade feels warmer and Reedshine and her say goodbye to everyone before they leave. Reedshine is told by her Clanmates that they'll miss her, and they wish both of them good luck. Darkstar escorts them to the border. "I suppose I won't see you again, so I'll congratulate you on your kits now. I know both of you will make fine mothers."

They're crossing through Fourtrees when Reedshine, ever optimistic, gets an idea. They'll visit all the clans, find out who these other cats are, and ask if they'd like to join them! She tells a rather cautious Mapleshade that if these other cats get found out, then their leaders may exile them anyway, and they couldn't let that happen when it's all Appledusk's fault!

They visit Shadowclan first, as Windclan is where they can leave clan territory to find their own far away.

At first, Shadowclan is hostile, but they calm down when both of them swear they mean no harm and see that they're both expecting kits. They explain when the leader calls the clan together, and Appledusk's shadowclan mate is shocked. Shadowclan's leader reprimands her for having a halfclan relationship, and when other cats also begin calling her a traitor, she agrees to leave with them.

The trio heads to Windclan, where they do the same thing, saying they mean no harm and explain what happened with Appledusk. The three she-cats he had been seeing are shocked that he would do such a thing, saying that he had told them he'd loved them and that he would do anything for them. The two she-cats talk it over for a while and decide that they will leave with the other three.

The group travels, bonding into one little family on their journey and looking out for each other, each using their clan ability to find them all food and help each other out until they find a place to call home, an open windclan-like field with flowers and a river and a small wooded shady area, the smell of rabbits and prey is strong in the air and hostile cats are nowhere to be found. The group decides it's perfect.

One of the Windclan trio has knowledge as a medicine cat, as they find out on the journey when she tells them a story of when she spent moons in the medicine den helping out because of an accident where she almost died from a wound in battle.

Soon enough, Reedshine and Mapleshade have their kits, and the litters grow up seeing each other as siblings, with all of the others being just as motherly toward them as queens helping each other in the clans.

After settling in, they talk about Appledusk, and now they tell the story for laughs, finding it hilarious that the tom screwed up so badly and knew it the entire time, but ended up making all of them so happy in their little group together when he pushed too far with his secret.

dont got a lot to add on, this does seem neat

i was also thinking near the end in an AU like this it be a little fun having maple and reed becoming the start of The Sisters