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bonefall · 1 year

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I’d be REALLY wary of that idea. I know it’s not your intention but no matter how you slice it that creates a scenario where some cats are genetically superior and more civilised than others based on where they’re from, which I feel is bad even if they happen to be nice to kittypets. Really love your work but maybe consider how you’d handle that one !!

Yeah, that's exactly the reason why I tacked the big old "THIS IS NOT IN THE REWRITE" warning onto the front of it lmao.

It also creates a situation where the Clans have an actual, unfortunate REAL justification for cat eugenics, which would mix very, very badly even in situations where there is no Clan/Housecat conflict. Unless it was completely dominant and always passed on but... you see how it's already an uncomfortable idea I'd have to tack on a bunch of bandaids to.

Sometimes a thought remains just a thought exactly because you end up thinking through its implications, y'know?

#What I like about the idea that I haven't figured out how to do any other way is that it explains why cat culture is so rare #Like why weren't there cats living at that big beautiful lake as soon as the previous descendants cleared out? With a twolegplace so close?#Obviously for one of my rewrite stories the answer is that the lake was ecologically decimated for a time... but #It's been recovering for decades and cats could live in an early oak forest #Or the various twolegplaces. Why do they not have their own organized groups if cats have languages to speak?#So far I've just kinda ignored it or used the gods. Like Midnight is preventing people from living at the Lake #Or. Cats #I should say #If it's a quirk of Special Cats that also opens up talking about how Real Humans shouldn't let their cats outside #But like. This is ultimately just waffling because the cats in canon are not written as real cats. Warrior Cats isn't really a series about #cats at all.#It's about small four-legged humans #With a very bad xenophobia problem #And you all see how many fires I put out with my rewrite in the pursuit of snuffing out as much xenophobia as possible #So... it's like I have to sacrifice the real-world impact of the most invasive species on Earth to avoid it. Yknow?#Because I can't say BOTH 'some cats are ok to live in clans while others are not' AND 'Xenophobia Bad'#They're incompatible statements #And so I can't use the Clan Cat Subspecies in my rewrite.#Hope that's making sense

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