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does Tallstar’s SE (or Tallstar in general) have any changes? Hes always been my favourite character

For Tallstar's Revenge, there's a ton of building blocks I want to keep.

(WIP Title: Tallstar's Collapse)

The story is that Heatherstar, a few years ago, started a campaign against ShadowClan for control of the Mothermouth Moorland (ShadowClan probably calls it the Mothermouth Marshland). It's a floodplain just above the carrionplace and to the east of the Moor. This war is in its early stages, but quickly escalating.

To win this, she's focusing on training more Runners. Tunneling is a defensive activity. It helps you catch more food, it makes shelters from storms, it produces the best clay that any Clan has access to. And it's not useful for conquest.

So she's killing it, slowly. Into this world, Tallkit is born.

Sandgorse and the Tunnelers, like canon, realize that Heatherstar is trying to end their ancient tradition. The more they fight her, the more justification she has for denying them apprentices. I have some sympathy for Sandgorse I intend to portray here. He's still wrong for how he treats his son, but without a young tunneller, generations of knowledge will be lost.

But Tallkit CAN'T be their savior. He's a Runner, he hates tunnels, he has no mind for types of soil or a sense of depth. Heatherstar is right behind him to encourage

So between all this, Palebird's postpartem depression, Sandgorse's disappointment, Heatherstar's pressure, and the escalating war, Tall feels suffocated. I'm planning for Jake to be one of those traveling cats, from the original book.

(Also Jake is not Firestar's father, not in a way that matters. They do not look very similar either. Chelford cats don't have a concept of fatherhood and I don't appreciate canon's implication that Jake had special Main Character Genes and Tallstar immediately liked him because he saw his ex in him :/)

Jake offers him an adventure and freedom. I don't care much for the revenge-setup of the original book honestly. If I can find something else for them to look for together, I'd prefer that-- but the point of this journey is for Talltail to experience freedom for the first time in his life.

He meets old BloodClan, he rests a week as a kittypet, he explores the farms beyond the Clans and sees how the cats live. Talltail considers what the world has to offer and where Jake can bring him, as both a lover and as a symbol of freedom.

But in the end, he misses his family, and he misses WindClan.

Talltail decides that he wants to return to the Clans. He chooses this over the life he could have had with Jake, believing that his family needs him and that this is truly where he belongs. He believes he can make it better., and in some ways he can.

But, long after this SE ends, we see that power acts through leaders just as much as they can act through power.

Anyway, that's the WIP.

#Definitely one of my reduxes that hasn't 'clicked' yet #It's a good moment for my rewrite timeline wise #But at the same time it's not grabbing me yet.#Tallstar's SE is like... good. It has a lot of issues with the relationship payoffs #Mainly with Shrewclaw and Sandgorse #Though Palebird could also use some touching up #But like #As it is it's pretty solid #And unlike Bluestar's SE which I love BUT had a great idea for with the forget-me-nots #I haven't found anything like that which is sucking me into Tallstar's Collapse #Tallstar's Collapse #Honestly Jake and Tallstar is like... fine to me #Bonefall Rewrite #Not my favorite ship but I understand Why people like it #But for my own taste they're just not fucked up enough #I like it when two deeply unhinged little gremlins happen next to each other

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