mystka

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

It's almost 2AM but uuhh you know how Scourge and Firestar's lives are so similar until the point where the path breaks off into goodness and badness?

What if Firestar's life was actually what Scourge imagined could have been his life, and he thinks about it as he lay dying (either as an adult or as Tiny)

--being accepted into the Clan and becoming a well-loved, respected, and admired leader

--having a loving relationship with his littermate (Princess)

--defeating that Tiger guy (Scourge did kill him, but imagine all the battles in life, the fact that they were sworn enemies, killing his spirit, defeating TIGERclan)

--being apprenticed to the she-cat that (tried to) save him

--living long enough to have a family, and having many members of that family leave their own great legacy and importance

--Actually having close friends that he could turn to

--and like...imagine his collar breaking as he dies, and it correlates to 'Rusty's collar breaking as he joins the Clan and begins living the life Tiny craves.

(Btw how he would die if he were older is tougher to say, as 'Firestar' was the one to kill him, which is hard to explain in this case. Is it metaphorical? The good part of him finally taking out the bad? Is he so bled out at this point that his imagination fully engulfs him, and he truly believes in his final moments that Firestar's life WAS his?)

[kudossi]

i've met the myth hanging heavy over you chapter 4

Chapter four is now posted!

Fireheart apprentices Hollypaw to himself. While her brother has Tigerstar’s piercing amber eyes, Hollypaw has his pelt and his blinding ambition, and that, he thinks, is far more dangerous.

Or,

Hollypaw, Jaypaw, and Lionpaw are the kits of Tigerstar and Goldenflower. This changes things.

[harriertail]

FOR THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE

IS THE HAND THAT RULES THE WORLD

[cryptidclaw]

I wanted to do one of those TPB design challenges bec I finished most of my designs for the first arc!

I used my Rise of Change au designs ofc so not all of them are canon accurate (Tigerstar lol)

I love how I drew Ravenpaw , baby boy <3

Original template here!

[loonarmuunar]

Bio son Firepaw,,,,

[burntpaws]

feel free to elaborate in replies or rbs! i love hearing thoughts!

[one-in-a-million-fishsticks-blog]

Kidnapped Firepaw AU

Following up the "Banished Fireheart AU" with this absolute gem.

Premise:

As Spottedleaf recounts the prophecy of fire to Bluestar, Tigerclaw lurks and listens, wholeheartedly believing in the words of Starclan like the UWU good pureblooded clan cat that he is.

Obviously he now needs to find himself a highlighter orange cat, he can't have the clan destroying itself before he ever even gets the chance to lead it after all, but where on earth is he supposed to find one when highlighter orange genetics aren't exactly common in the forest?.......

Enter Rusty, wondering the border of two-leg place all helpless and alone, itty bitty wittle barely apprentice aged kitty.

He's perfect, he simply HAS to join Thunderclan, the prophecised cat has gotta be him.

Besides, "rescuing" a kit from potential danger is the right thing for a noble warrior like Tigerclaw to do in this situation.

(Scourge? Never met her.)

Recruitment speeches and independent thought processes? What in Starclan's name are those?...

Tigerclaw could just carry this kit home right now if he wanted to.

So he does, he just stalks Rusty for a while, pops out of the bushes when the timing is right and straight up catnaps him.

Rusty is still the Rusty whom we all know and love, so he isn't THAT deeply upset about getting to live in the wild, but his little paws are rated E for everyone and he vows to make this entire experience as difficult for his kidnapper as possible.

Measures taken by Rusty to ruin Tigerclaw's life now include:

Acting more cynical and prickly than even Longtail on the daily

Ensuring that the cat assigned to escort him back home one final time as he says his last goodbyes to Smudge is Tigerclaw, the one cat who hates two-leg place more than Darkstripe

Cozying up to Bluestar (and later Yellowfang) when he knows damn well that Tigerclaw wants to be the adult in his life for some stupid reason

Making Ravenpaw his best friend as soon as organically possible because he also knows perfectly well that Tigerclaw will be forced to tolerate Ravenpaw if Firepaw takes a fancy to him

Ravenpaw: "Tigerclaw wants to kill me...."

Firepaw: "So that he can convince Bluestar to make me his apprentice instead?.... No thank you!"

Firepaw is a paw-length from convincing Bluestar to be his mentor, he will not be letting Tigerclaw ruin that for him.

The petty grudge continues into Fireheart's career as a warrior, prompting a neverending series of events seen as unfortunate only by Tigerclaw.

What do you mean his orange cat likes all of the remaining cats that he was planning on murdering?.... That was supposed to be HIS orange cat! Now how is he supposed to continue on his bloodthirsty quest for power?

Fireheart is best friends with Goldenflower now, she is his big sister, all of the adoration, attention and respect that Tigerclaw wishes he could get from Fireheart goes to Goldenflower

Bramblekit and Tawnykit are on the same level as Cloudkit, they are also his niece and nephew and he goes out of his way to hog nursery visitation

Longtail and Dustpelt are going to be Fireheart's friends now whether they like it or not, he is going to slowly squeeze their Tigerclaw love out of them like two-leg tooth paste and make them part of the 💥 Fireheart Squad 💥

Graystripe, Ravenflight(paw), and Sandstorm are already part of the 💥 Fireheart Squad 💥 and they help him bully Darkstripe

[koras-human-warriors]

Masks of Thunderclan Warriors (prophecy begins)

[south-northless]

Starclan's silence has been concerning for all the clans. The seers are left to grapple with Silverpelts's last omen: A star falling from the sky.

A continuation of the Lionfire au.

[hivecicle]

Doing a little thing where I turn cats the opposite of canon, you can suggest any if u want !!

Additional stuff I thought of afterwards -

I feel he'd die in the bloodclan battle like in canon but would die protecting Thunderclan instead

Or, if he doesn't die during that, I think he'd take the spot of Whitestorm as deputy, partially because I don't think Graystripe was a good choice of deputy and in this AU Darkstripe would be loyal enough to be a good decision

[skyscratch-wc]

Skyfall AU Thunderclan Allegiances: Into the Wild

Leadership

Leader: Bluestar, a lithe blue-gray molly with blue eyes and a graying muzzle. Originally a warrior in the hunter sub-rank.

Deputy: Redtail, a stocky tortoiseshell tom with a distinctive bushy ginger tail and amber eyes. Originally a warrior in the protector sub-rank.

Cleric: Spottedleaf, a slender dark calico molly with amber eyes and a leaf-shaped tail

Senior Warriors

Head Protector: Lionheart, a large, broad-shouldered golden tabby tom with green eyes and a darker, thick mane of fur around his neck

Head Hunter: Patchpelt, a small, stout black and white tom with amber eyes

Head Crafter: Smallear, a thickset dark gray tom with very small ears, amber eyes, and nick in one ear

Head Collector: Nightmist, a wiry, very dark gray tabby molly with bright amber eyes.

Head Mentor: Goldenflower, a stocky, fluffy pale golden tabby molly with a small nick in one ear and yellow eyes. Currently in the nursery caring for her and Tigerclaw's litter.

Head Queen: Specklecloud, a lean, spotted pale golden tabby molly with amber eyes

Warriors

Protectors:

Tigerclaw, a large, muscular dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes and unusually long front claws

Whitestorm, a slender snowy white tom with amber eyes

Dapplewing, a stocky, dappled tortoiseshell molly with amber eyes

Willowpelt, a compact, very pale silver-gray molly with blue eyes

Wildfang, a lithe pale brown and white tabby cat with darker stripes and pale green eyes. Also serves as a Trail-Builder.

Hunters:

Rosebloom, a stout dark gray tabby molly with a bushy ginger tail and green eyes. Also serves as a Trail-Builder.

Owlsong, a thickset white molly with a single bright yellow eye. She is partially blind and deaf.

Longtail, a lean pale yellow tom with dark stripes on his back and face and green eyes. He has a v-shaped nick in his left ear and a long tail.

Mousefur - a small, slender dusky brown cat with blue eyes

Crafters:

Frostfur - a wiry snow white molly with dark blue eyes. Currently in the nursery caring for her's and Lionheart's litter.

Darkstripe - a thickset dark gray tabby tom with black stripes and yellow eyes.

Collectors:

Brindleface, a dainty pale gray tabby molly with darker flecks and green eyes

Runningwind, a lean light brown tabby cat with green eyes and a narrow face

Current Mentors:

Bluestar, leader and hunter, mentoring Firepaw

Redtail, deputy and protector, mentoring Dustpaw

Lionheart, head protector, mentoring Graypaw

Tigerclaw, protector, mentoring Ravenpaw

Whitestorm, protector, mentoring Sandpaw

Apprentices

Firepaw, a slender flame-colored tabby tom with bright green eyes. Former housecat.

Graypaw, a thickset dark gray tom with a darker striped on his back and amber eyes. Son of Willowpelt and Whitestorm.

Sandpaw, a lean pale golden tabby molly with barely visible stripes and leaf-green eyes. Daughter of Redtail and Runningwind.

Ravenpaw, a small, dainty black and white tom with large ears and green eyes. Son of Robinwing and Fuzzypelt.

Dustpaw, a stout dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes. Son of Robinwing and Fuzzypelt.

Nursery

Queens:

Specklecloud, Frostfur, and Goldenflower

Kittens:

Frostfur and Lionheart's litter:

Brackenkit, a golden-brown tabby tom with amber eyes

Cinderkit, a dilute tortoiseshell molly with blue eyes

Thornkit, a golden tabby tom with blue eyes

Brightkit, a golden and white molly with blue eyes

Goldenflower and Tigerclaw's litter:

Swiftkit, a black and white tom with amber eyes

Elders

Robinwing - a small, compact dusky brown molly with a ginger patch on her chest and amber eyes

Fuzzypelt - a broad-shouldered, spiky-furred black and white tom with yellow eyes and a thick tail

Sparrowpelt - a large, frail dark brown tabby tom with yellow eyes and a short tail

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Notes:

Characters that have been renamed:

Speckletail -> Specklecloud

Dappletail -> Dapplewing

Rosetail -> Rosebloom

Halftail -> Sparrowpelt [kept canonical warrior name]

One-eye -> Owlsong

Characters that have been "revived" from canonically deceased kits:

Nightkit/Mistkit -> Nightmist [sister of Tigerclaw]

Lynxkit -> Wildfang [sibling of Longtail]

Characters who are a different gender than they are canonically:

Mousefur, molly -> non-binary (demi-girl)

Runningwind, tom -> non-binary

(^^non-binary chaos siblings yesssssss)

Wildfang, tom -> agender

Redtail is a trans tom in this rewrite, unlike canon where he is a cisgender tom.

[cryptidclaw]

Fire and Ice: Rise of Change edition (aka. my redraw of the Fire and Ice cover) is complete! 

This took me FOR EVER, the complete opposite of the Into the Wild cover, that one I completed in 1 night, this one has been a WIP for possibly a month??? Could be more and I wouldn't be surprised. 

This is probably one of the most complicated covers in the first arc, there are so many characters and such a big background! I am not used to illustrating backgrounds like this so at least it was a good push to get me out of my comfort zone! 

Now info about my changes to the cover! The cats in the frame are Bracken(paw) and Cinder(paw), they are both important characters in this book and they are Fire and Gray’s first apprentices (Bracken is more Fire’s apprentice too honestly) so I thought they should get a spot light! Also I want to change a lot of the frames in future covers bec I like the idea of other important characters getting the cover spot light! 

The other characters in the scene behind the frame are Sedgecreek (upper right), Graystripe (upper left), Troutclaw aka. Whiteclaw (below Graystripe), Voleclaw (farthest bottom left), Leopardfur (Next to Voleclaw), Fireheart (bottom middle), and Sand(paw) (bottom right). All of these cats were in the border skirmish between River and Thunder when Fire and Gray were traveling back from bringing back Wind Order! 

Image IDs v

[Image ID: A digital illustration, which is a redraw of the original Warriors: Fire and Ice cover.  At the top of the cover is the Warriors title written in dark purple, and below it is written Fire and Ice which is yellow and lined in the same dark purple. Below the title is a portrait style frame centered in the middle of the cover, this frame depicts Bracken(paw) and Cinder(paw) centered in the frame, sitting next to each other with mirrored blank, wide eyed expressions. They are in a dark night scene and are mostly in shadow with their eyes glowing a bright white. In front of them are black silhouettes of grass, and in the background in a dark blue night sky and a huge bright blue moon lined with white. Behind this frame, filling up the rest of the cover, is a illustration of a battle taking place in a sunset scene of a river surrounded by grass that is mostly lit in yellows and oranges. In the foreground at the bottom of the illustration are 4 cats, there are two on the left of the page, we can only see their angry seemingly yelling faces peaking over a log, the cat farther from the left has her arm raised with her claws unsheathed, the other two cats are faced away from the camera and are looking towards the first two. from left to right the first cat is grey with blue eyes, the second in gold with brown spots and amber eyes, the third is round, chubby and orange, and the forth is a cream and back tortie. In the mid ground are two cats by the river bank, one is standing with their left side showing and they are crouched low to the ground and screeching at something off screen, the other is behind this cat, and is getting ready to pounce on the first cat while screeching. the First cat is a brown and white cat with orange eyes and the second is a big gray tabby with glowing yellow eyes. On the other side of the river is a single cat looking over to the other side, this cat is a brown tabby with green eyes. At the bottom of the cover where the author is usually listed, is written “Rise of Change” in yellow text./End ID]

[libby1080]

bubbles

trailer park colts

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

Am I the only one who finds it strange that, other than a missing eye and perhaps some damaged hearing(?), Brightheart has no lasting affects from her injuries?

She still has the SCARS, yes, but they don’t affect her in any permanent way, even if they are rather big.

I think Brightheart should have had brain damage

Her face and head were already heavily scarred. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to say that it also harmed her brain.

As for how she manages to SURVIVE that type of damage, I imagine that Cloudtail would help take her to Twolegs, which would tie in his history with them and could have extra angst potential as Cinderpelt feels guilty for not being able to heal her herself.

Though I took 1 class of neuro, it didn’t include a whole lot of injury facts, so this all comes from google searches. But some ideas:

—personality changes

—memory problems

—weakened ability to reason, judge, and make decisions

—weakened ability to consider consequences

—involuntary muscle movements

—lowered social understanding

—trouble with expressions and emotion

she most likely wouldn’t have ALL, these are just choose your pick ideas.

What should also be shown is her struggles with this aspect as well as her injuries and trauma and would realistically show how she learns to deal with it.

….but I’d we’re honest, the Erins would botch that massively

[kajenus]

I haven't drawn any Warriors fanart in months, so here's a human version of Fireheart! 🧡

[one-in-a-million-fishsticks-blog]

Banished Fireheart AU

I am being perfectly normal about the fictional cat series right now and need to get this off of my chest.

What if when Bluestar banished Tigerclaw, she banished Fireheart too?

This AU would rely entirely on Bluestar losing her mind completely during her mental breakdown, but imagine that instead of trusting Fireheart more because he saved her from Tigerclaw and previously tried to warn her about the tabby tom, she takes the entire incident as proof that Fireheart's loyalty should also be doubted and decides to kill two birds with one stone?

This obviously makes zero sense, but Bluestar is beyond logic when she makes the decision, so to her Fireheart has already proved his own disloyalty by sneaking around and looking for answers behind her back.

AU timeline:

Blue banishes Tiger AND Fire

Fireheart is forced to become a rogue, obviously he can never live with being a kittypet again, so rogue life is his only option

Fire tries to contact other cats in Thunderclan, but he either can't reach them or they chase him away on Bluestar's orders, so he can't help them like he wants to

Tigerclaw becomes Tigerstar the 1st and the Riverclan/Shadowclan alliance happens

Fireheart decides to try his luck with Windclan, and Tallstar actually hears him out, but doesn't want to risk any potential alliances with Thunderclan by offering Fireheart shelter

Fireheart leaves Windclan feeling utterly defeated

Windclan refuses to align themselves with the River/Shadow alliance and Tigerclaw retaliates by executing several Windclan cats, including Gorsepaw

Onewhisker says "to hell with this!" and goes to find Fireheart, because at this point Bluestar has made her disinterest in alliances clear and Windclan needs more warriors to defend it, so why NOT take Fireheart in?

Fireheart is destroyed by the loss of Gorsepaw and his spirit very nearly breaks, but a heart-to-heart with Onewhisker motivates him to keep it together and he decides to return to Windclan with his friend

Tallstar officially names Fireheart as an ally and guest of Windclan

Graystripe comes looking for Fireheart because he needs help to rescue his kits and Sandstorm is the only other volunteer so far

Ravenpaw finds out what is going on through the gossip mill because it's Windclan territory and he is right there, how could he not overhear something?

Ravenpaw joins the raiding party against River/Shadow and reveals his identity to Windclan, who take the knowledge that he is a former Thunderclan cat pretty well

Onewhisker and Morningflower also join the rescue patrol

Tigerstar, who has been looking everywhere for Fireheart except in Windclan territory, expects sneaky and low-key resistance to come from Fireheart at some point: what he does not expect is for Fireheart to launch a full-scale raid on Shadow/River camp while he, Leopardstar, and a shitton of their cats are at the gathering

Fireheart is fucking feral at this point and decides that the warrior code doesn't apply to people that shove little baby apprentices in prison, he injures Blackfoot so badly that the wounds are almost fatal and outright kills two other cats himself. Morningflower also gets a kill in, Sandstorm blinds a Riverclan cat, and Onewhisker rips somebody's ear off in the ensuing fight while Graystripe and Ravenpaw help Stonefur and Mistyfoot evacuate Featherpaw and Stormpaw (this all happens before Tigerstar has the chance to publicly execute Stonefur)

Fireheart books it back to Windclan with his raiding party and their rescued kin

Tigerclaw realizes exactly what happened way too late and is furious, but he doesn't immediately march on Windclan because he has bigger fish to fry and still wants Thunderclan dead

The newly named Tigerclan moves to attack Thunderclan, but Windclan comes to their defense and the two sets of allied clans are temporarily forced into a stalemate

Tigerstar disappears to work on his strategy, this is when he makes the decision to try recruiting Bloodclan

Thunderclan is very confused but not ungrateful to Windclan for their help, and Bluestar rescends her previous decision to alienate Tallstar in a brief moment of clarity (Whitestorm is her deputy and has become her caretaker, doing his best to keep her comforted and alive)

Fireheart leaves immediately after the battle, not wanting his former mentor to see him there and snap again because he firmly believes that this alliance is more important than anything else right now. It kills him to leave without even seeing Cinderpelt, but he doesn't believe that it is possible for him to stay

Sandstorm tries following him at first but Morningflower stops her and goes instead while Graystripe explains the raiding party to Bluestar, who is almost too preoccupied by the presence of her kits to register the fact one of her warriors just admitted to Fireheart being involved in some capacity

Morningflower catches up to Fireheart and we get another emotional conversation, Fireheart let's her see just how much this entire experience has affected him and tries to apologize for not being there to protect Gorsepaw. Morningflower shuts his apologies down, firmly explaining in excruciating detail why he is the last cat that should be blamed for Gorsepaw's death. This is where a friendship really starts to form between the two, and Fireheart gets a much needed hug.

Bluestar reluctantly requests that Fireheart be brought to her after learning that he helped to rescue her kits, and Whitestorm comes to retrieve him, interrupting his talk with Morningflower

Bluestar grants Fireheart refuge and Thunderclan forms a joint camp with Windclan for safety reasons.

Bluestar and Tallstar decide to call their temporary alliance Lionclan

Lionclan makes plans to continue defending themselves

END OF PART 1

I really like this AU because I am a big fluff/angst person and the idea is ripe with those elements, I also really wanted a reason to retcon a lot of the Fireheart related decisions that the Erins made in later books, so this AU is now that reason. I haven't planned out how the rest of the first ARC will go down in this AU, but I do have some ideas for how this AU would carry into the Firestar's Quest timeline.

Some other random things about this AU:

Stonefur lives to become Stonestar, he is the leader of Riverclan during the great journey

Leopardstar is not allowed to remain leader after Tigerstar dies in this AU, and Blackfoot is removed from the deputy position permanently

Russetfur becomes Russetstar by popular clan vote, she is the new leader of Shadowclan

Bluestar still dies

Whitestorm becomes Thunderclan's new leader, I thought that Whitestar would make a good parallel to Blackstar

Mistyfoot is named as Stonestar's deputy

Fireheart comes very close to rejoining Thunderclan after Bluestar's death, but in the end it feels wrong to him that his banishment be broken over Bluestar's still cooling body, so he continues living as a guest of Windclan until the final battle is won and peace has returned to the forest

This is where we hit post first ARC/super addition territory:

After the first great battle, Fireheart feels as though he has finally fulfilled the prophecy by aiding Windclan and sees no reason to return to Thunderclan despite the way that his heart aches with the absence of Graystripe, Sandstorm, and Cinderheart.

Fireheart is selected by Tallstar to attend the first gathering after everything has settled down in the forest, and is happy to learn that while Stormpaw has rejoined Riverclan with Mistyfoot and Stonestar, Featherpaw has decided to remain in Thunderclan with Graystripe

Mistyfoot's three remaining kits have also all survived, and are doing well as apprentices in Riverclan

Tallstar announces to everyone that Fireheart has officially pledged himself to the black and white leader as a warrior of Windclan, this makes those of his Thunderclan friends who are present horribly sad, but there is also an undercurrent of melancholy understanding between them that prevents any ill feelings from taking root

Later that night in the warriors's burrow, Fireheart is restless as he dreams of Bluestar, tossing and turning in his nest beside Morningflower and Onewhisker as Bluestar tells the still-young warrior that Starclan isn't done with him yet and that he still has a destiny to fullfil

Ultimately Fireheart winds up receiving several more dreams and a few signs from Starclan IRL before finally taking the hint and seeking out the descendants of Skyclan. In this AU, he leaves Windclan solo but Sandstorm decides to sneak away from Thunderclan and follow him, she has been receiving some signs of her own and is frankly sick of her idiot friend trying to recover from all of his trauma with only his Windclan friends for support. The two bond after she saves his ass, and begin to develop a crush on each other (this is Fireheart's first real adult crush, his crush on Spottedleaf was a puppy crush and was never that serious).

Skyclan is eventually reformed, and Fireheart is chosen by Starclan to be it's new leader so that he can bring everyone back to the forest and train Leafdapple to one day succeed him.

They make it home and Fireheart visits the moonstone to become Firestar and receive his nine lives.

Fireheart and Sandstorm eventually become mates and Sandstorm officially joins Skyclan, they have three kits together, two she-kits and a tom.

The kits are named Leafkit, Squirrelkit, and Gorsekit.

The End (or is it?.....)

Author's Note: OC alert, he is a very minor character and barely shows up, but I thought that Fireheart and Sandstorm having an extra kit and naming it after Gorsepaw was the cutest thing in the world.

Ladies and gentlemen, Gorsetail has entered the chat (he looks like Sandstorm, but a bit darker and fluffier).

His main roll in the second ARC is to be the sibling that stayed home, because in this AU Leafpaw pulls a Stormfur and goes on the Journey with Squirrelpaw.

Gorsepaw the 2nd exists to be obsessively mother-henned by Firestar and Sandstorm, who refuse to let him starve and are constantly giving their own food to him as prey becomes scarcer and scarcer in the old forest.