smth i wont finish. hii girls

CALLIOPE is a 203 year old BISEXUAL, FEMALE, SHE/HER, here in Firebrand City. People say they look a lot like ELLE FANNING. They are WARM but can be NAIVE. They are a (LIGHT) FAE SUPERIOR in Firebrand and they work as FAE COUNCIL DEPUTY/FAE QUEEN.

When Calliope was born, there was a celebration in the Auburn Forest. Not just because of a new sprite being born in their hive, but because she was their new princess— the first (and only) child born to Queen Calluna after the queen’s husband passed away just months earlier. The child was beautiful and all the fae in the hive immediately adored the little girl. From a young age she was taught to hone her magic as well as her kindness (even if, to this day, she has a proclivity for playfulness, loving playing simple little jokes on those closest to her.) after all, she would be next in line to be Queen.

As Callie grew up, the hive still continued to dote on their princess, and in turn she helped her mother ensure their well-being, ruling with kindness and fairness—if not with some naivety as well. The first time she traveled outside of their domain almost ended her life as a rabid vampire tracked her down, smelling her blood. Her mother’s guard, Torryn, was the one who found her and saved her life. And it’s been a role that the dark fae had been fulfilling ever since. Torryn was like a second mother to her, protecting her and guiding her (even teaching her a couple defensive moves once Callie pouted enough), and it was those moves that would help save her own life decades later.

Firebrand was something the Auburn Fae didn’t really pay much mind too. Their domain was just beyond the barrier, part of the forest enclosed on the city’s side while the fae for the rest for themselves—and for the last decade, it worked, the hive living in silence and peace just beyond the veil. All good things come to an end though.

The hive was woken up to chaos, the dark fae who protected their domain rushing around to wake everyone up. Rebels were attacking the Firebrand barrier, trying to break in. They used machinery as well as magic and thoughtlessly tore through the forest all the while. Her mother demanded the guards protect the hive, but as the barrier broke and war waged on, casualties were inevitable.

Calliope was brought to a safe spot and ordered to hide out with the Sprites in the hive, trying to keep the children safe and quiet, but her mother, who absolutely wasn’t a warrior, wasn’t about to do the same—no matter how hard everyone tried to fight her on it. Torryn herself tried to stop the queen, but Calluna ordered the dark fae to protect the princess and the other sprites of the hive, a decision that protected the princess, but ultimately cost the queen her life.

The Auburn Forest almost entirely burnt down by the end of the fighting, the fae homeless and now mourning the death of their queen. As Calluna’s only child, Calliope is now queen of the hive, but with the sudden loss of her home and her mother, the girl admittedly knows she needs help in ruling and in protecting her people. Callie went to the Council of Firebrand, offered them a deal: the fae would add their magic to the barrier, doubling its defensive strength and would use their magic in assisting to repair the city as a whole. In return, she wanted her people to be able to join the city, to call it their new home. Fae don’t believe in being traitors to their kind, and the idea of slavery is admittedly a bit barbaric, but it was the best option for them. The safest.

Again, she’s young though, and was thrown into this all headfirst. She hasn’t even had time to mourn. So Calliope made the decision to become the deputy on the council, not the leader-- a decision the hive all thought was a noble one, appreciating the princess’ (the queen’s) transparency with them. Instead, the Council Leader is a fae she’s hand-chosen herself to speak for the fae, someone she and the hive trusts--and someone who is willing to help when it all gets overwhelming for the young fae. And one day Callie hopes to be even half the queen her beloved mother was.

@firebrandbios

a bunch of personal warriors headcanons because why tf not

kinda a long post so check them out below the cut!

- “brat cat” is a derogatory term for a kittypet. the kittypet stereotype falls into two categories: the “fat and lazy” types that are most frequently brought up in canon and the “spoiled, holier-than-thou” types that openly denounce clan cats and other ferals because they don’t have the “alliance” with twolegs that allows them to be fed and protected by them. these “brat cat” kittypets are the smug assholes that look down their noses at the clans because their beloved owners chase them off with brooms for being “lowly, unbecoming strays” that have to actually HUNT for their food and FIGHT for their turf while THEY just have the luxury of having it all handed to them. undoubtedly more likely to taunt the clan cats into a fight but they definitely get cold paws and the last minute and fuckin bounce because they’re humongous cowards that just like to talk big

- cinderpelt has the doofiest, purest smile than could brighten anyone’s day. she gets it from her dad lionheart

- whitepaw got teased a lot at her first gathering because the other apprentices found out she was brightheart’s daughter and would LOUDLY and OBNOXIOUSLY shout awful shit like “mutant spawn incoming!!” and “UGH i wouldn’t DARE show MY face at a gathering or even on a PATROL if MY mother looked like THAT” and birchpaw just strolled up and was like “haha yeah and if you keep saying that shit you won’t have to worry about showing your face anywhere because i’LL CLAW IT OFF” 

- darkstripe admired tigerstar so much because he was the only kit in the nursery during his youth and tawnyspots was too sick to spend much time with him. like, he admired tigerclaw a great deal because he was constantly trying to show off how strong and cool he was and while the warriors mostly got annoyed with him and the apprentices always made fun of him, tigerclaw mostly just...tolerated him more than the others (perhaps out of a bit of pity because his father was never around for him either and he was the only kit in the nursery once, though he’d never admit this out loud). once darkpaw became tigerclaw’s apprentice the pitying definitely came to a halt because darkpaw turned out to be a poor fighter and sub par hunter, but was very cocky and just tried waaaay too hard to gain attention and praise in general, and as he gradually got better at things, the arrogance got to his head a lot more. needless to say, tigerclaw was IMMENSELY relieved once darkstripe became a warrior, only to be dismayed that darkstripe would always stick to him like a burr on his haunches regardless.

- runts aren’t necessarily considered helpless by default or lost causes by the clans. in windclan, they’re believed to be able to run much faster than their clanmates on the moor or become the best tunnelers. in thunderclan, they’re lighter on their paws and can sneak up on prey much quieter than their heavier counterparts. in riverclan, they’re very efficient swimmers and fishers that are especially good at diving. in shadowclan, they can chase frogs and rats and can be concealed better in shadowy areas of the marsh. all smaller-than-average cats are also praised in battle for their agility and speed, as their size makes them difficult targets. the only main concerns for them are illnesses being too hard for their bodies to fight off.

- firestar didn’t enjoy the kittypet life at all, but he did secretly miss his twolegs for a time and worried about them until he found out about them adopting hattie. their happiness was the most important thing to him even after he joined thunderclan.

- willowpelt didn’t conceive graystripe with patchpelt, but instead with a kittypet she had a classic summertime romance with. they ended their relationship on good terms after the father decided the kits would fare better as clan cats, and willowpelt raised graystripe alone without naming a father to the clan. everyone silently assumes that whitestorm sired graystripe (i just hate that the patch x willow thing...they’re siblings)

- the grief he felt after silverstream’s death (added on by the additional stress of his whole life catching up to him in his old age) very likely contributed to crookedstar’s death from greencough.

- swiftpaw had a really fantastic and close relationship with bramblekit and tawnykit as their half-brother, he always visited them and their mother in the nursery and played with them or brought them treats whenever he could. the pair were utterly destroyed when they learn that he was killed by the dogs.

- appledusk looked remarkably similar to crookedstar, hence why mapleshade targeted him specifically (tho it WOULD be interesting to wonder if she haunted reedshine’s kits and / or shellheart or at least attempted to...hmm)

- cloudtail’s kittypet name was “cotton” during the time he was sneaking to twolegplace for food as an apprentice (after his super fluffy white fur), pinestar’s was “dusty” after he left thunderclan (i know he refers to himself as “pine” at the end of his novella but i honestly doubt his owners called him that lmao; they named him that because he was dirty all the time), and graystripe’s was “pouncer” when he was captured (because of his numerous escape attempts and stuff)

- reena undoubtedly had a crush on talltail and wanted to be his mate, but she was perfectly fine after she put two and two together and realized that he loved jake and didn’t want to interfere with their happiness

- snowfur was completely and utterly disgusted by thistleclaw’s actions toward spottedpaw, and the first thing she does when spottedleaf dies and comes to starclan is apologize profusely for her former mate’s despicable behavior. spottedleaf tells her not to apologize for his atrocity and the two become quite good friends

- sunfall / sunstar had romantic feelings for moonflower and the two of them had always been close friends, but he ultimately respected her decision to be with stormtail. however, he did quietly disapprove of how emotionally distant he was towards his mate and daughters, as he never seemed to interact with them much or even seem to care that he had a family. after moonflower’s death and stonepelt’s early retirement, sunfall directly asked pinestar if he could have bluepaw, feeling that he owed it to the late moonflower to ensure that her kit had the best education. pinestar likely knew about his loyalty to the fallen warrior and his interest in her, so he agreed.

- brambleberry and echomist [nudge nudge lesbians in my stormstar au nudge nudge] DEFINITELY took on the roles of being crookedstar’s adoptive mothers after rainflower disowned him

- breezepelt is a very good daddy to smokehaze, brindlewing, woodkit/paw, and applekit/paw as he always had the desire to be a better parent than crowfeather ever was to him [yes...i read crowfeather’s trial and know all that went on, but still]. his relationship with heathertail is ridiculously dorky in private, since he’s always had a soft spot for her

- sometimes cats with some kind of plant in their name [stuff like “leaf”, “flower”, “stem”, “branch”, “petal”, and so on you get the drill] try to have a piece of whatever plant from their namesake in their fur somewhere [ex: hollyleaf had a holly berry and leaf tucked in by her ear, goldenflower had the stem and flower of something woven around her tail, so on and so forth]. cats with feather or bird prefixes or suffixes try to do the same with feathers

- there’s an old myth that says kits born on the night of a full moon are suspected to grow up and become leaders someday. some cats believe this to be true, while others don’t

- as it is stated that cats must fast during their journeys to the moonstone and moonpool, it is considered a sin to kill prey at both sites. for example, if a cat were to kill a mouse or something in the caves of mothermouth or around the moonpool, their kill is considered to be pollution of the sacred ground and is to be promptly discarded somewhere else, as it would be considered insulting to starclan if they eat it. punishments for breaking this rule depend on the medicine cat or the leader.

- killing a medicine cat is like, one of the WORST atrocities any clan cat could do. it’s as horrific and treasonous as killing a leader, as the medicine cat not only keeps the clan healthy, they also communicate with starclan. imagine someone walking up and killing some sort of religious leader right in front of their congregation. pretty heinous, right? exactly the clans’ point. the only reasons a medicine cat would be killed was if they were intentionally committing treason against their clan [intentionally causing harm through malpractice or intentionally sending false signs from starclan] or if they were gravely ill or injured themselves to the point where they would be better off put out of their misery

- female leaders and deputies can indeed have kits of their own. mothers who happen to be leader usually keep her litters inside the leader’s den instead of moving to the nursery; it’s private, warm, clean, and well-protected. leader mothers can still partake in regular duties such as arranging patrols and hunting parties, addressing the clan, and holding ceremonies, and either has another queen look after her kits should she be absent for some occasion [like a gathering] or leave them with their father if he is involved. deputy mothers, while they most often end up going to the nursery since they usually sleep in the warriors’ den, can also carry out their own duties while another queen looks after her kits in her absence. all that matters is that the kits are loved and properly cared for.

-  as for the unnamed diseases that have killed characters, here’s my takes: tawnyspots died of feline leukemia, pebblefur and shellheart died of stomach cancer, sweetpaw died from complications caused by intestinal parasites (very likely worms that resulted in a blockage), leopardstar died of diabetes (confirmed), ravenpaw died of liver cancer (confirmed), goosefeather died of encephalitis (inflammation of the brain usually caused by infection, confirmed), petalfall died from epilepsy (confirmed), and dandelionkit, mistkit, and nightkit died of fading kitten syndrome (essentially the cat version of failure to thrive). i also think the whitecough is a chest cold, greencough is pneumonia, and that yellowcough could’ve very possibly been feline distemper, but idk

- adoption is considered very noble. i personally really fucking hate the attitude of characters who were adopted finding out and being like “i have been BETRAYED...i can’t believe these ABSOLUTE SCUM loved me, raised me, fed me, protected me, when they were NEVER even related to me by BLOOD? absolutely despicable, i must find my REAL parents and be loved by THEM instead...even if they are total assholes or want nothing to do with me...i can’t believe i was stupid enough to believe these IMPOSTORS were ever really my parents...” it’s just a really stupid mindset?? taking in another’s kits for whatever reason (the mother dies, the parents didn’t want kits, etc.) is considered a great service on the same level as raising their own biological kits. now whether or not said kits grow up and want to confront their birth parents about giving them to someone else or want to know them better is entirely up to them. the clans see adopted kits are better than abandoned ones that could very easily die from exposure or predators, or going through the possibility of them living in an abusive situation because they weren’t wanted or were unable to be cared for correctly.

- speaking of kits, the reason we have the standard “one to four” litter sizes is that overpopulation would be a problem. the average queen in real life can give birth to three to five kittens in a litter, which isn’t too far off from the quantity in the warriorsverse, but also bear in mind real queens can have as many as TEN kittens in a single litter and occasional more. think about it: the mother would need to eat a lot to produce enough milk for numerous mouths; the kits will grow older and want to explore, and there’s a very high risk of one of them slipping out of camp unnoticed and getting into trouble or danger if they’re from a large litter; plus they’ll wean from their mothers and move on to fresh-kill, and a stampede of ten or so hungry kits is going to leave hardly anything for anyone else in the clan, even if they share their food (not to mention, large litters would undoubtedly suffer the greatest during famine, outbreaks of disease, or prey shortages...that’s a lot of bellies to fill and illnesses spread quickly). so tbh i can see where the erins are coming from with the smaller litter sizes in the series, as we all know feral cats are notorious breeding machines

- i do have a few names picked out for kits and apprentices that didn’t live to be warriors, so here’s a few: mosskit would’ve been named mossheart (after her father, oakheart); swiftpaw would’ve been either swiftclaw, swiftstream, swiftwing, or swiftwind; ravenpaw would’ve been ravenflight or ravenswoop (i know he didn’t die but yknow, fun to speculate); sweetpaw would’ve been sweetberry or sweetsong; shrewpaw would’ve been shrewstep; wishkit and hopekit would’ve been wishlight and hopeshine; mistkit and nightkit would’ve been mistfur and nightstone; seedpaw would’ve been seedfern; molepaw would’ve been molenose; gorsepaw would’ve been gorsefire (named after firestar); willowkit and minnowkit (silverstream’s sisters) would’ve been named willoweyes and minnowclaw; snowkit would’ve been snowcloud; finchkit (tallstar’s sister) would’ve been finchfeather; marigoldkit and mintkit would’ve been marigoldleaf and mintfoot; lynxkit would’ve been lynxfang; adderkit would’ve been adderthroat; blossomkit would’ve been blossomsnow; and juniperkit and dandelionkit would’ve been junipertail and dandeliondust.

- darktail was a HUMONGOUS mama’s boy. he loved smoke with all his heart, would’ve done anything for her, and all he wanted in life was to make her proud of him. smoke was also a pretty good mother to him, feeling like she had to make up for her mistake of mating with a clan cat and fawning over darktail because he was the only survivor of the litter. i like to believe that smoke struggled with mental and emotional issues after being rejected by onewhisker/star, and would go off on furious tangents about how horrible clan cats were. darktail grew up watching smoke have these episodes, so he learned to hunt and fight and practiced really hard to she would be happy. needless to say, he was completely crushed when smoke died and mourned her heavily for a long time, and said grief undoubtedly contributed to him pushing so hard to abolish the clans.

- thornclaw and blossomfall were never actually in love, they only had kits together because blossomfall wanted some and thornclaw was getting older and wanted to contribute before he retired to the elders’ den

- brokenstar’s regime was a lot, and i mean a LOT crueler than what the readers were delivered:

she-cats were forced to get pregnant as often as possible, even if they weren’t interested. as soon as their bodies were able to bear more kits after the birth of one litter, brokenstar ensured that they would mate and be impregnated again asap. queens were often overwhelmed by having numerous kits to care for at a time, both older and younger, which led to much neglect the majority of the time. not that brokenstar cared, because to him, more kits meant more warriors. the stolen kits also added to the hoarding. infertile she-cats were often exiled for “not contributing to shadowclan’s destiny of greatness”.

speaking of stolen kits, i like to think that he ordered shadowclan to steal some windclan kits before driving them out of the forest. these kits didn’t fare very well, as they were smaller and skinnier and not as hardy as shadowclan kits, and many of them died save a few. it’s unknown if the stolen kits that did survive brokenstar’s reign ever returned to windclan or spent the rest of their lives in shadowclan since they spent so long there and would struggle to relearn living on the moor.

cats were forbidden from hunting for fresh-kill, as brokenstar believed that all physical and mental energy should be focused on fighting and fighting alone. in the place of prey, they often ate garbage and the carcasses of already-dead animals they found. needless to say, this left everyone prone to illness and nearly all of shadowclan was severely malnourished.

runningnose was forced to present false prophecies and omens to the clan because brokenstar and his main goons forced him to. they were all talk of how shadowclan would rule the forest, all the other clans would fear and serve them and see them as superior in every way. while only brokenstar and his team of muscleheads believed him (and some kits / younger apprentices who were too little to know any better), nearly everyone knew these signs were bullshit. 

fighting among clanmates was nearly constant. most of it was brutal battle practice, while other times it was over pitiful scraps of rotten food or disagreements over how the clan was running. usually cats that tried to leave or go for help were killed or “disappeared”.

- quince went searching for tiny / scourge after she saw that he had run away. she encountered the same two kittypets who warned him not to go into the woods, and explained that he hadn’t listened to them. quince then went into the forest and finally caught scent of her son’s blood and found his bell, and assumed that the clan cats she also smelled in the area had killed him.

- smudge honestly considered following rusty into the forest to join the clans with him despite being terrified of them, as he feared for his best friend’s safety and was heartbroken that he decided to leave. the only reason he didn’t is because he also was worried that his twolegs would miss him and that the clans wouldn’t accept him.

- heathertail and kestrelflight are sister and brother, being born to onestar and whitetail.

- before the whole fire fiasco, ashfur was very, VERY pissed to see that squirrelflight had supposedly gotten pregnant by brambleclaw. when jaykit, hollykit, and lionkit were born and suckled by ferncloud, he ending up straining his relationship with his sister by being very against it, using the whole “brambleclaw’s father killed our mother” thing as a reason why she shouldn’t be caring for them. ferncloud knew that her brother had taken squirrelflight’s rejection very poorly, but she never expected him to take it out on a litter of kits, so she cut ties with him. “those kits should’ve been mine anyway” and “they’ll turn out just like tigerstar” were things often muttered under ashfur’s breath. needless to say, he was less than thrilled to find out he would be mentoring lionpaw, and we all know how their relationship turned out after awhile.

- as stated in canon, daisy and spiderleg’s relationship was never based on the fact that they loved each other; they both felt pressured to supply kits for the clan (daisy because she was tired of some cats thinking she was just there to take up space and made assumptions about her loner roots, and spiderleg because he simply felt that it was his duty). they had a one-night stand, which resulted in toadstep and rosepetal.

- sleekwhisker was like, no doubt trying to force her way to darktail’s side as his main lackey (which she kinda was in canon) and possibly his mate. it was a “love for power” sort of situation rather than her genuinely wanting a life with him, while i don’t think darktail looked at her even as the “boss’s favorite floozy” kind of girl. sleek was more focused on that sweet sense of superiority and control, and darktail likely knew that, so always shot down her advances. they both were pretty much after the same thing, sleekwhisker only kept up a facade of a blushing she-cat wanting a big, strong leader for a mate while darktail was basically more concerned with what he already had going for him, not love or hooking up. 

- bone is barley, violet. hoot / snake, and jumper / ice’s father. though he never actually spoke up about having kits, his sons’ striking resemblance to him and violet’s resemblance to a she-cat bone had been talking to kinda wrapped the question of their parentage among the bloodclan population pretty quickly. their mother fell ill and died unexpectedly, and bone was certainly never active in their lives, so he never stepped up to finish raising them. he didn’t really even care he had children or that his mate died, it was just something that happened. 

- i like to think that berrynose and poppyfrost accidentally ended up falling in love in the midst of helping each other get through the grief of losing honeyfern

- lizardstripe actually ENCOURAGED her kits to bully brokenkit when she wasn’t abusing him herself. she wanted to make it clear to him that he would NEVER be accepted into their family fold, and excused her litter’s behavior as them “toughening him up” since he had to learn to stand up for himself “as he’s got no family outside raggedpelt, it seems”. she was just a shit mother in general, not caring much for her own kits already but she sure as HELL wasn’t going to look after one that wasn’t hers at all. brokenkit was a little burden and pest to lizardstripe, and she wanted to drive that message home as hard as she could, not once stopping to think about the consequences...

Antclan

(Didn't add sexualities, mostly because Antclan has a very 'binary' way of looking at it.) 

LEADER

SPIDERSTAR—a short haired, black she-cat, with green eyes.

 DEPUTY

GOLDENWHISKER—a short haired, cream spotted tabby she-cat, with amber eyes.

MEDICINE CAT

EGRETTAIL—a short haired, white she-cat, with a chocolate and red spotted calico tail and ears, and green eyes.

WARRIORS

BLACKBRIAR—a black she-cat, with short fur, and yellow eyes.

GORSETAIL—a cream ticked tabby she-cat, with short fur, and yellow eyes.

STARLINGPELT—a short haired, black mackerel tabby tom, with copper eyes.

TANSYCLOUD—a short haired, white she-cat, with a black and red spotted calico tail and ears, and yellow eyes.

CYPRESSBRIAR—a red mackerel tabby she-cat, with long fur, and copper eyes.

SLUGSTONE—a short haired, black tom, with gold eyes.

STARLINGNOSE—a short haired, black she-cat, with green eyes.

APPRENTICES

RAINPAW—a blue and cream, spotted calico she-cat, with short fur, and yellow eyes.

FOXPAW—a long haired, chocolate and red, mackerel calico she-cat, with amber eyes.

MARIGOLDPAW—a cream spotted tabby tom, with long fur, and yellow eyes.

SOOTPAW—a short haired, black tom, with hazel eyes.

MALLOWPAW—a black and red, ticked calico she-cat, with short fur, and gold eyes.

QUEENS

SPIDERTHROAT—a short haired, black ticked tabby she-cat, with copper eyes.

ROWANSTREAM—a long haired, red mackerel tabby she-cat, with yellow eyes.

ELDERS

SPIDERPELT—a short haired, black spotted tabby tom, with amber eyes.

WILLOWPELT—a blue mackerel tabby she-cat, with short fur, and green eyes.

LIGHTSTREAM—a white tom, with short fur, and gold eyes.

^Cats mentioned above are those with significance to plot/mythology in Antclan. 

This is because Antclan is the largest clan, with members equalling to over 30- most of them female, although Beeclan is the true matriarchy.  

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CAMP

 The largest, and most central of all the clans. They live on a plains, with the only forest being that near the borders- but the oddest thing about their camp is that it constantly looks deserted. The true dens are hidden under the ground, in a pre-existing network of caves.

 The elders den is the smallest section, a cave hollow under the above-ground leaders den. The entrance is many days away, situated near the Mothclan border, hidden within the reeds native to the singers. Even then, the entrance has a trap in the form of a native ant colony - it is ridiculously hard to get through without the honey that Hornetclan provides them to sate the ants.  

 Meanwhile, the nursery is the largest and most expansive; a large area with thick moss growing on every inch of the flooring. Warriors bring and weave reeds from the Mothclan border into the moss to create kitting mats, which are given as a sign of loyalty to the clan. It's not uncommon to find live prey lost inside the den, which is why all cats are given a nursery day (which in they take care of the kits and rid the nursery of pests). 

 The warrior/deputy's den is the closest to the full entrance, with the prey pile situated only a few pawsteps under them. This den has tunnels to and from the other entrances, however only shecats (cis and trans) are able to use these, are they were 'blessed' by Bolton, a kittypet shecat from their folklore - who became Egrettail's grandmother. 

 The apprentices and the med cat share a den, the one the deepest down. All apprentices must learn basic med cat abilities, so this is where they nest. This is also so any apprentice that is hurt (as they often are hurt more) is able to be healed. 

 The leader's den is in the centre of all these caves, but is small and sometimes cramped if more than the leader is there. All dens are connected somehow to this one, so the leader can hear what they say. 

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RELATIONS WITH OTHER CLANS

 Antclan often has an excess of herbs, of which they trade with Hornetclan for the honey they need. Because of this, it's common for cats to freely travel between the two clans, as well as take mates from each others clan. This creates an overall friendly neighbourhood with Hornetclan, something that Antclan would be willing to exploit in a war, if one ever breaks out.

 Antclan heavily avoids Beeclan, seeing their roles as alien and clearly 'evil'. They do not try to interact with the clan, leaving them to become isolated in their ways. However, a group of extremist apprentices has been pushing for friendship with Beeclan's matrons (leaders). 

Beeclan finds Antclan's treatment of disabled cats repulsive.

 Antclan and Mothclan have a strange interaction, as the other clan's haunting melodies often reverb inside the caves of Antclan, meaning that they can often hear the rumours that pass from clan to clan. In essence, Mothclan is Antclan's radio. 

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VIEWS ABOUT DISABLED CATS

Although Hornetclan is their neighbour, Antclan does not share their views on disabled cats, nor their help towards disabled cats. 

Blind cats may be locked inside the caves, forced to become kit-watchers (permanent Queens), stay apprentices, or be killed; Deaf cats suffer the same fate- being unable to hear their prey, a mother may choose to kill a kit if it is to be born disabled.

Non-Neurotypical cats are often thrown out from the territory, forced to fend for themselves. These cats always make it to Mothclan, somehow (fortunately, Mothclan does not harbour the same ableist views as Antclan, despite being the first clan in the area). 

Extremist Apprentices (known as 'Gamergates') do not support these views, and some have been injured in an attempt to keep the views secret. 

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NAME SUFFIXES 

-star : leader 

-paw : apprentice 

-kit : kit 

**-cloud** represents a cat that is gentle in nature, but may suddenly have a period of 'ups' and 'downs'. 

-whisker or -ear represents a cat with unusually 'good' hunting skills.

-sky represents a cat with an unpredictable and dynamic nature. 

-pelt represents a cat who is good at everything, but not the ‘best’; they are a jack of all trades. 

-tail or -wing represents an agile cat with a notable sense of balance.

^^-throat^^ represents a cat who is able to keep secrets well, or are able to talk their way out of situations.

 **-stone** represents a cat who is stubborn in their ways, replaces to the -heart suffix in the books.

//-briar// represents a cat who is exceptional at guarding, or protecting. 

//-stream// represents a cat who goes 'with the flow', similar to a stream. These cats often know how to blend into crowds.

^^ = originated in Antclan 

** = common in Antclan 

// = Antclan only

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OTHER CULTURAL NOTES ON ANTCLAN

-Antclan, being the second oldest clan, has a poor representation of the history on other clans... which is why they are the only clan with Gamergates (named after ants who leave the nest to start new colonies). 

-Antclan cats will name a group of litters with the same prefix, even if it doesn't fit their appearance (see: Spider-), if just due to the amount of deaths. You're less likely to become attached. 

           -Because of this, apprentices will give themselves their new name, or can stay their birth name. If they stay their birth name, they will be given two prefixes. (EG: Foxpaw, if she kept her birth name, would be Fox-Sootpaw.) 

-Antclan cats find big events for mourning a waste of time, as well as celebrations. Most cats will just wear a flower in their fur until the event is over. 

             -Medicine cats understand flower language, and Antclan has their own form of it, by colour. They will use purple flowers for mourning, and yellow for celebration. 

(I'm working on Mothclan!)

Heronpaw

Name meaning: Heron- (Ardea cinerea) fur color. Paw- rank

Possible future suffixes- -throat or - stripe

Gender: Female cis

Mentor: Cherryflower

Family:

Blood parents- Dewspots and Ashclaw

Raising parents- Dewspots and Olivefang

Siblings- Lampreytail, Goosepaw, Cranepaw and Ibispaw

Half-siblings- Lythrumnose, mousepaw (deceased) and Mustardpaw

Personality: flattering, shallow, dependable, squeamish and positive cat. Heronpaw loves her sister Ibispaw, all she ever wants to do is be with her. In her eyes, Ibispaw is the coolest cat ever. Even if her sister doesn’t feel the same way for her. She gets out of her way to help her with everything and compliment her in everything she does; she just wants her sister to acknowledge her. In an attempt of being like Ibispaw, she has adapted a lot of her traits such as being pretty shallow, squeamish or vain. Her mentor, Cherryflower, tries to convince that there is more to her than whatever Ibispaw has to say and so tries to make Heronpaw develop her own personality. One of the only traits that seems to actually be hers is how positive she is; she is the one that tries to cheer the rest of her sisters when something goes wrong and she is quite good at it too. Heronpaw also has quite the melodious voice and good memory making her a great storyteller.

Story:

Kit- She was born alongside Ibispaw, Goosepaw and Cranepaw to Dewspots and Ashclaw tough she was raised up by Dewspots and Olivefang. Dewspots does not have a favorite daughter, however, Heronpaw is really special to her; for generations, at least one of her blood has had silver fur. This is an uncommon characteristic in Seaclan often associated to mystical creatures such as Hisiruss (river spirits). Heronpaw takes pride in her fur color and loves listening to every story related to these creatures. It was around this time that she started to fell deep reverence for Ibispaw, she was braver than her being able of pestering seer, elders, warriors and leader as she pleased and she was even capable of catching her first prey even before being named apprentice. Since that day, Heronpaw has been Ibispaw personal side-kick. She used to spend a lot of time with the seers and elders too, she has always loved hearing stories and telling them to her sisters.

Apprentice- Became apprentice to Cherryflower. Cherryflower has proven to be a really mature and independable cat and, with her motherly and gentle nature, Rainpath, the clan’s deputy, awaits that Heronpaw will learn to stop being so dependable and impressionable. Heronpaw and her mentor don’t have the best relationship ever since Heronpaw considers that she is just trying to get her away from her sister since Cherryflower and her own sister (Copperstorm) don’t talk to each other all that much. She has a good relationship with her other sisters too, tough she tends to be really mean with them when Ibispaw’s around, when alone, she is really sweet and loves telling stories to them. She loves her brother Lampreytail too even tough, thanks to Ibispaw, she is not allowed to be nice to him. She would love receiving the suffix –throat as storytelling is one of her favorite things to do. Heronpaw considers Olivefang her mother and loves when she tells her legends and myths. When being with Dewspots, she loves hearing about her mother’s younger days.

"The democratic national committee rsquo s unity tour is over and the reviews are in most journalists panned it ldquo at a lsquo unity rsquo stop in nebraska democrats find anything but rdquo wrote the new york times ldquo is dem unity tour tearing the party apart asked msnbc rsquo s amjoy vice didn rsquo t even bother with the question mark proclaiming quot the democrats are falling apart on their quot come together tour quot 1 journalists treated the ldquo unity tour rdquo as a spectacle meant to spotlight party unity it was anything but mdash yet it was necessary dnc chair tom perez and senator bernie sanders don rsquo t see eye to eye on many policy disputes sanders had of course backed rep keith ellison for the job that went to perez and depicted the former labor secretary as a stalking horse for the barack obama hillary clinton wing of the party more than once on the tour perez was booed by sanders backers the sanders and dnc folks don rsquo t seem to have collaborated enough on screening the candidates the tour traveled to support there was a huge dustup around the issue of choice for example as well as a skirmish over a promising democrat seemingly rebuffed by sanders as not sufficiently progressive 2 but these are real intra party conflicts and the debate they rsquo ve inspired as well as the compromises and clarifications of each faction rsquo s positions have been necessary this unity tour launched deliberately and self consciously in search of greater concord within a party still rent by the fierce primary battle between sanders and clinton 3 the embers smolder on social media and controversies can reignite them into firestorms almost a year after he was mathematically eliminated by clinton sanders voters still feel like their man could have beaten trump if the dnc hadn rsquo t had a thumb on the scales clinton voters believe her victory was hobbled not merely by james comey and russian hacking but by ldquo bernie or bust rdquo voters who sanders helped create by treating the former secretary of state as a creature of wall street and the 1 percent 4 there are genuine gulfs in ideology as well as political strategy on one side sanders and many supporters want to see democrats fight to win back working class white voters who rsquo ve abandoned the party ldquo i come from the white working class and i am deeply humiliated that the democratic party cannot talk to the people where i came from rdquo he sternly intoned a week after the election a few days later he added in a speech ldquo one of the struggles that you rsquo re going to be seeing in the democratic party is whether we go beyond identity politics rdquo naturally the party rsquo s existing base overwhelmingly female and multiracial don rsquo t like seeing their issues derided as ldquo identity politics rdquo and shunned as distractions lifestyle questions or political correctness run amok while the troubles of white downscale men are centered 5 a unity tour was bound to roll into that pothole and it did almost immediately when it headed to omaha nebraska to support a former state senator running for mayor heath mello mello rsquo s feisty economic populism caught the eye of sanders rsquo supporters what they didn rsquo t necessarily see right away by the accounts of some people close to the process is that he had a history of anti abortion votes back in the state legislature including support for a 20 week abortion bill and one that mandated telling women they had the right to see an ultrasound of the fetus before an abortion mello supporter and nebraska democratic chair jane kleeb says the bill was a compromise to prevent a worse bill mdash one that required women to watch the ultrasound mdash from becoming law when reproductive rights groups rightly howled sanders dug in his heels and reiterated his own pro choice stand but added ldquo i think you can rsquo t exclude people who disagree with us on this one issue rdquo 6 that sounded funny to a lot of people though because sanders was at the same time doing something comparable to the most promising politician to rise from the ashes of last november rsquo s defeat jon ossoff making a real challenge to pick up hhs secretary tom price rsquo s vacant seat in suburban atlanta full disclosure my daughter works as ossoff s deputy field director sanders hadn rsquo t endorsed ossoff or even commented on him but on election day the vermont socialist told a wall street journal reporter ldquo i don rsquo t know rdquo when asked if the young democrat was a progressive ldquo some democrats are progressive and some democrats are not rdquo he stated that night ossoff finished first in a 16 candidate primary to face the woman who helped inspire the revitalization of the pro choice movement karen handel who decided that breast cancer behemoth susan b komen foundation should stop supporting planned parenthood rsquo s provision of breast cancer services she rsquo s been running for office unsuccessfully ever since it seemed an odd time for sanders to throw shade at ossoff rsquo s progressive bona fides 7 to be fair ossoff isn rsquo t as progressive as sanders would like he made a good government anti gridlock pitch to his suburban district for the left his worst move to that point was to criticize wasteful government spending in one of his ads but a berniecrat is unlikely to win the moderate suburban seat held by tom price in omaha sanders seemed to tell women and pro choice advocates to just suck it up in the georgia sixth district race he didn rsquo t seem fired up to defeat karen handel ldquo it tells your most active political base that we rsquo re just negotiable political property rdquo naral pro choice america rsquo s leader ilyse hogue told the new york times 8 so everyone hit their battle stations a bad look for a so called unity tour and then people tried to come together again perez issued a statement clarifying his and the dnc rsquo s fervent support for choice and sanders endorsed ossoff though he refused to call him a progressive 9 all rsquo s well that ends well not necessarily these issues are likely to come up repeatedly because there are real policy divides among these factions and some things will be hard to compromise on sanders is entitled to continue to say that ossoff isn rsquo t sufficiently progressive although it begs a question can a mainstream liberal democrat be powered by a genuinely progressive movement and should the left see that as worth cheering in slate michelle goldberg wrote about the surge of women into the ossoff campaign denied their chance at the first female president they threw themselves into campaigning for this unlikely tossup seat goldberg writes inspiringly about these women warriors of suburban atlanta 10 women lead the local indivisible chapter in march two women formed a women rsquo s group called pave it blue devoted to running progressive candidates in local races mdash contests where in the past republicans often ran unopposed a private invite only facebook group called liberal moms of roswell and cobb or lmrc has swelled to 1 700 members 11 those new activists deserve respect in their own right and any unity tour that ignores them won rsquo t bring unity 12 on the other hand sanders supporters wonder why ossoff has gotten national democratic support while more progressive democrats in kansas and montana have not gotten the same it rsquo s not fair to paint ossoff as the creature of the dnc 7 75 million of the 10 million he rsquo s raised came in small dollar act blue donations and daily kos chipped in another 1 million still ossoff is attracting some of the same national leaders and celebrities who traveled the country working for clinton who he supported berniecrats say they haven rsquo t seen the same generosity 13 but then so far our revolution and other groups have been slow to get off the ground to provide meaningful support to the lefty democrats the group gave james thompson a berniecrat running to represent wichita kan only 900 though members offered more as in kind contributions after thompson rsquo s relatively narrow defeat earlier this month it makes sense that tom perez would want to travel with bernie to support a heartland progressive in omaha mdash though no one had apparently done a deep dive on his entire political history 14 still i think it rsquo s progress that these issues are being faced in donald trump rsquo s first 100 days when the resistance still seems sizeable and urgent and people can come together around the necessity of defeating trump mdash even as they disagree on tactics as well as policy none of the unity tour stumbles were fatal a few ended productively and the party factions will have to keep working to define what ldquo unity rdquo means in the wake of the transformative sanders clinton battle 1 Keep on reading: The Unity Tour Was Kind of a Mess—and That’s Okay