Actually on Cloudtail, how are you writing his atheism? Is he still very disbelieving of Starclan, and how does that change with the Great Battle? It’d be kind of interesting if Cloudtail went from having little to no belief in their ancestors to literally battling a spirit in the afterlife

Atheism in this rewrite is more like a lack of connection. I think canon warrior cats is weird about atheists. Mothwing and Cloudtail are less "GOD NOT REAL" and more like, "I don't know if they exist but I don't think they do because this so-called benevolent god sure lets a lot of bad things happen in their name"

Back in TPB "GOD NOT REAL" made more sense since StarClan was an abstract thing, even admitting in Darkest Hour that they don't control anything (side note: fuck that), but as they started interacting with the living world more and more it became ridiculous to be ignorant of objective reality.

My StarClan is both more powerful AND more mysterious in a way that can preserve Cloudtail's actual doubt, but I'm not interested in the trope that's like, "Nonbeliever gets a Ding Dong You Were Wrong moment." I have a more complicated connection to religion than that I'd prefer to put in the characters instead.

And god the way canon sets Cloudtail up as like, an antagonistic atheist punk insulting his Clan's religion openly :/ come on.