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VASCHETE WARRIOR NAMES??? I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED

So it depends on the era, because there are trends; Bluestar mostly named cats after physical attributes, like Mousefur, Firestar named cats after 'their spirit', like Squirrelflight i guess, and Bramblestar just went 'unique name go brrr' i think, like Bristlefrost.

I'm going to pick that Warriors!Vaschete live in the time period of the rule of Firestar, but not in thunderclan, because i'll be fucking DAMNED if you tell me these babies wouldn't live in Windclan (Tallstar would ship Vascete so hard)

Now, in Windclan there were more jobs than just 'warrior' and 'medicine cat'; there were 'tunnelers' and 'moor runners' too. (I don't think they were still there in Tallstar's era but who cares it's cool)

Medicine cats are religious leaders who are also doctors, so i think that would be PERFECT for Machete. (And i don't really see him running across the moor to hunt or fight honestly XD)

Vasco is DEFINITELY a moor runner, hands down. Running across the moor, catching food and gathering flowers for his partner? That's so him. Also floppy ears in the wind are cute.

Medicine cats have a rule of castity, so that does add Ye Olde Drama to Warriors!Vaschete. You're welcome. /j

Now, their names!

I think Machete would have been dropped off by loner (not clan cat) parents on Windclan territory, and been adopted into Windclan as a consequence.

I wanted to name him after a white moor flower, but none of them quite suited him, so i decided to very generically settle on Snow as his prefix.

For his suffix, i imagined he'd be a quiet type, often simply 'appearing' behind people and startling them because he's so quiet. Thus; Snowstep!

For Vasco, i thought of his fur colour and immediately settled on Honey as a prefix. As a suffix, though, i thought of something to do with the fact that i imagine Vasco to (at least in this AU) be a little guy that's always running, but after some deliberation i decided on Honeyfall, because it gives me the very soft gooey autumnal vibes that Vasco himself gives me.

Sooo yes! Snowstep and Honeyfall! Here are your boys! (Made in a picrew (by ErrorEmma and Felidaze) because i'm lazy)

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