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leporellian · 4 years

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warrior cats rewrite: a dangerous path

- in the prologue, which takes place back in early fire and ice or so, smudge decides to join the forest cats with fireheart, but instead happens upon thistleclaw making the deals with the rogues

- they attack him, and he flees, horrified that fireheart might have become one of these monsters

- he joins the blood brothers, but ascends through the ranks quickly, and soon becomes the leader of the group

- his first change: renaming the blood brothers to something that matches his parallel hatred of the clan cats: bloodclan.

- back in the forest smudge finishes his story by saying his name is now scourge, and that he has elected to assist with tigerstar’s goals. tigerstar, accompanied by darkstripe, states that he wanted all the clans to be focused on themselves and not each other, because when the clan cares it shows its vulnerability. so he will keep them all as separate branches under one uniting allegiance named tigerclan, which exists to keep the clans “in line”. he will lead riverclan, he will pick a shadowclan ruler eventually (darkstripe seems to want the position especially) but for now will lead them as well, tallstar may still lead windclan, and thunderclan will be led by... someone other than fireheart and bluestar, although he doesn't specifically say this. scourge will keep the cats in line using bloodclan.

- ‘how will they use force?’ asks gorseleap of windclan, and without a hint of empathy scourge brings in a massive fighting dog and commands it to attack. it shreds gorseleap apart, windclan (especially mudclaw) is horrified. fireheart is shook too- after all, gorse was the apprentice he had helped back in fire and ice.

- the clans leave after that. fireheart spots graystripe in the crowd and wonders what will happen to his former friend- especially given tigerstar generally doesn’t like half-clan cats unless they’re his own kin

- thunderclan is in a corner. with little supply after the fire and enemies on both sides (given shadow is being temporarily led by tiger- fire correctly assumes he killed cinderfur off-camera) they are on thin ice and need help.

- bluestar thinks windclan is attacking thunderclan, but fireheart and the other warriors make peace with them instead. bluestar calls them all traitors. again she is asked to give up her leadership bc she’s mentally unwell, again she refuses.

- fireheart leads ravenwing to his first medicine cat meeting alone. we learn from mudfur that tigerstar didn’t get his nine lives, and that leopardfur relinquished leadership to him because she believed in his sentiment.

- because cloudpaw is doubtful that starclan exists in the same way cats believe it to, bluestar makes him a warrior named cloudtail. the other apprentices all are not made warriors.

- this angers swiftpaw and brightpaw because both their brothers (brackenfur and thornclaw) AND a cat younger than them (cloudtail) are warriors but they Are Not

- at the next gathering, tigerstar asks for his kits back. thunderclan don't give them up, but he says cryptically that bluestar has given up kits before. she asks what they mean, and mistyfoot and stonefur tell everyone that she gave them up- which is why they chose to follow tigerclaw, because tigerstar’s emphasis on each clan being separate and not helping each other would lead to less half-clan cats being given up. thunderclan leaves the gathering with their tails between their legs

- there’s a skirmish at the sunningrocks, and fireheart catches sight of graystripe and silverstream, who tell him that riverclan has been suffering under tigerstar’s leadership and don’t know what to do- especially about their kits, featherpaw and stormpaw

- like in canon, swift and bright go to attack the dogs, swift is killed and bright is heavily scarred and renamed lostface. however everyone nicknames her brightheart because nobody but fireheart and lionheart respects bluestar at all now

- lostface can barely see and bonds with cloudtail. eventually, they fall in love- cloudtail is her eyes, and lostface is his ears.

- fireheart gets bramblepaw as an apprentice like in canon, idk who tawnypaw gets

- the rabbit trail around thunderclan’s borders leading to brindleface happens like in canon

- fireheart makes a plan to lead tigerstar and scourge’s dogs to the gorge to stop tigerstar’s plan, which goes like it does in canon. however tigerstar and scourge, along with misty and stone, show up and throw fireheart to the dogs. however misty and stone realize They Made A Mistake when tigerstar calls fireheart a freak of nature for not being born with pure clan blood and turn against him, helping fireheart- and bluestar, when she jumps in against the dogs. blue and tiger fight one on one and both are severely weakened.

- but like in the original, the dogs hurl over the cliff one by one, scourge is horrified but tigerstar says that they don’t need the dogs.

- ‘those dogs were MINE you BITCH’ says scourge, and he throws tigerstar down the gorge. tigerstar falls and cries to fireheart to save him as fireheart, mistyfoot, and stonefur pull bluestar out, and fireheart ignores him, painfully watching the dark tabby tom slip into the river and be snagged under by the drowning dogs.

- tigerstar is dead, killed by his own machinations.

- bluestar however is dying too. misty and stone can’t forgive her for everything, but they are there for her in her final moments. she turns to fireheart and tells him that now it all makes sense- fireheart is the fire that will save the clans and front the eventual End of the Stars.

- you never understood, did you? from the moment you came into the clan... but i see it now. lion and tiger will meet in battle, and you alone will herald it. you will be a great leader, one of the greatest the forest has ever known. you have the warmth of fire to care for your clan, but the ferocity of fire to defend it... you will bring about a new dawn, and the four oaks will live beyond the memories of your memories. nothing is as it was, fireheart, yet this is how it always has been, and this is how it always will be… you will be firestar, the light of thunderclan.

- she dies. light surrounds fireheart as it did when he was nothing more than a kit newly brought to thunderclan, and fireheart looks up to see a falling star- the sign of rebirth that once heralded him.

- nothing is as it was, but fireheart feels an odd peace. this is how it always has been and this is how it always will be.

#warrior cats #warrior cats rewrite

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tallstars-rewrite · 6 years

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Deconstruction: All of ShadowClan

Right, I forgot I wanted to get this off my chest real quick and it didn’t fit into any of the character posts. SO here is essentially my call out post for the whole of ShadowClan throughout this book because, and pardon my lack of attempts at sounding professional, what the ever-loving fuck were these guys even doing??

I know ShadowClan is an easy fall back for whenever the authors want some quick battle drama to fill time, but this was a bit excessive. I’m not just annoyed because I have a bias towards ShadowClan, but I did just read Pinestar’s Choice where they did this same thing. ShadowClan just invades one day for no real reason and without much consequence because…??? I don’t know, maybe they were just bored? No really, what was ShadowClan’s motive here? They brutally attacked WindClan, not once, but twice in the same book (and get their asses kicked incredibly quickly both times.)

To try and make sense of this, let’s step back and look at the lead up to the first vicious battle between WindClan and ShadowClan….Or we would do that, if there was any lead up. The attack was completely unprovoked and came right out of left field. The ONLY thing we had seen of ShadowClan was the brief encounter Tallpaw had with all of the clans at the gathering. We saw his awkward 5 second conversation with a couple apprentices, and that was about it. RiverClan and ThunderClan had both been mentioned more often than ShadowClan prior to this fight, and neither of those clans even do anything in this story! At that gathering there was no abnormal amount of tension between ShadowClan and WindClan. In fact, they were unusually friendly if anything-at least the ShadowClan elders were. Those aforementioned apprentices were a little annoying I guess, but that was literally it. There was no hints at WindClan and ShadowClan having issues with each other.

And then one day out of the blue, ShadowClan launches a full on raid on WindClan. And this wasn’t just a little border squabble, they went hard. The deputy ran into their camp yowling “spare no one!” these fuckers were out for blood, and they succeeded (R.I.P Brackenwing, we barely knew you.) I can’t tell you how confused I was reading through this the first time, I thought I had missed something! There isn’t even an attempt at explaining why ShadowClan would do this. It was the middle of green-leaf, no clan is going hungry so it couldn’t have been out of desperation for more territory. There were no border issues, no lost territory, I'm just so completely baffled.

There was a quote somewhere from Talltail along the lines of “why would ShadowClan do this? Does their hatred for WindClan run deeper then we imagined?” I assume this is an attempt at foreshadowing how ShadowClan will drive WindClan out of the moor completely in the future, but…that makes no sense. Cedarstar is the current leader of ShadowClan, and nothing we’ve seen of him in any book suggests he is particularly cruel or power hungry. Granted we don’t see a lot of him, Yellowfang’s Secret is all we have to go on, but he seems like an alright guy and a pretty normal leader. In fact, I think this is the only significant fight we ever see him get ShadowClan involved in? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I was under the impression ShadowClan’s future hatred of WindClan was meant to be caused mostly by Brokenstar? This was nowhere near Brokenstar’s time, he hasn’t even been born yet! and neither have most of the cats who help drive WindClan away! I thought the point of Brokenstar was that he took ShadowClan down a dark path of unnecessary bloodshed that no clan had seen in a very long time, not that ShadowClan is just like that all the time?

It is not normal or accepted for a clan to just casually try to drive another clan out of their home, that’s part of what made Brokenstar so messed up and horrible. Does everyone remember that part of Bluestar’s Prophecy where ThunderClan launched a full scale unprovoked attack on WindClan? Timeline wise, it was close to the same time as this. Remember how that was portrayed as a really horrible and messed up thing for any clan to do? RiverClan and ShadowClan were ticked off about it; they acted cold and wouldn’t even cheer for ThunderClan’s new warriors and apprentices at the following gathering. And ThunderClan wasn’t even trying to kill anyone directly, just mess up their medicine. Which is bad, but “spare no one” when attacking a camp seems to clearly imply “including queens and elders.” Not to mention the “we could hunt on these moors as well as you” line implies they were literally trying to drive them out. I feel like that is all a lot worse then messing up herb stores.

This sort of thing does not fly in the warrior code. ShadowClan is still a clan, and they live by that same code as everyone else. If they didn’t, the other clans would rise up against them. They haven’t been corrupted by Brokenstar or Tigerstar or any of that garbage yet, so there is no logical excuse for them to have done this. And on top of that, there is no impact from it? Yes Brackenwing dies and Talltail has some undeserved sad guilt about that for a while, but after a bit it stops mattering. WindClan doesn’t even retaliate from what I recall.

Talltail’s main conflict was just his dad dying and dealing with the loners, the entire mess with ShadowClan could have been cut completely and very little would be missed. Or at the very least they could have provided an explanation for it. It’s not like it would have been hard! maybe WindClan took some territory from them recently and they wanted it back, there’s a million things the clans could be fighting about. Or heck, they could have had Brokenstar be around! We could have seen him either as an apprentice or a young warrior goading his clan into fighting WindClan like we see him do in Yellowfang’s Secret. That could have been happening at the same time.

But I’ve gotten off track; point is, ShadowClan’s role in this book was dumb and made zero sense from every perspective. It’s not that they can’t be more aggressive than other clans, but they still need a reason and proper motivation to be so. The way it’s written here, it was just a waste of time that added little to nothing and distracted from the main plot of the book. I have a feeling they just needed to fill time to reach a page quota. It felt like a lot of things happened in this book just to fill time.

#deconstruction #shadowclan #long post #yee haw last one why did that take 3 months jfc #last edited 6/4/19

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