i love being friends with bitches who won’t shut up. i never know what to talk about. please tell me your whole life story and then infodump to me about warrior cats or greek history
You could play with the dirty part of the canon description by having Slash and his people roll in mud to hide their scent.
Parts of the Code labelling using weapons/traps as dishonorable could have started as agreements made that Slash's people wouldn't keep using their old tactics, maybe forced on Thunder's Clan to keep them from becoming too powerful, if they DID fuse.
I'm more liable to just remove the "dirty" thing entirely honestly; I just think it's so shitty I'd like to nuke it from orbit, you get me? Every single time they want you to hate someone, they make them fat and/or stinky. I'd rather just put that kind of rhetoric in the mouths of cats like Clear Sky and The Wind Runner, a lie to demonize their enemies, not really based on truth.
I think I might take the trap stuff though; that actually fits in nicely with how ThunderClan's the only one that uses spears. I won't have it be code yet, though, that's going to come a lot later. First two commandments of the code are Borders + Mercy, followed by Law 3 when Riverstar dies in some decades.
Also gonna need a name for Slash's new group. Hey, maybe THESE guys can be called Warriors, actually. Warriors of the Forest, like what the first arc used to be called before it was renamed TPB.
crack where shang qinghua is The God Of This World but it's just really inconvenient.
He tries to write a gripping tale of betrayal and adoration and it turns out to be a one-to-one account of drama from a few centuries ago. Speculative fiction gets confirmed to be real when three days after publishing old documents are unearthed that support each and every concept he introduced.
Shang Qinghua becomes known as the no. 1 historian and he hates every single moment of it.
One time he brings his works to the publishers, and nobody comes and says that it's real. It goes on the markets as romantic fiction, everything's nice and well and Shang Qinghua has almost relaxed when --
It happens word for word practically before his eyes and he is louded as a seer of unheard proportions.
(In the background, you can hear faint wheezing. Don't worry, it's just Shen Qingqiu. He hasn't stopped laughing in hours.)
imagine what it means to El to fall asleep snuggled up warm with someone for a bedtime story though. nobody has done that for her ever. she's not scared of the storm 😭
tbh i like to think all the season 1 empires characters are gods/saints of something or other now. pearl is just the only one we see because the plot wont stop knocking on her goddamn door.
wait, why can’t a decent amount of the members in proto-thunderclan not hunt?
A lot of them have serious physical disabilities! It's enough that it poses a logistical problem, which they are committed to overcoming together.
Thunder Storm's three legs makes him slower than his companions. He's ferociously powerful, but like a male lion, he has to rely on his "lionesses" to slow a large animal.
Bright Storm has asthma from her heroics trying to save SkyClan cats from a fire. She's taking that from Gray Wing, who is famously the first major death now. Like her son, she has a difficult time with chasing prey.
Bumble is dyspraxic. She's a terrible hunter and fighter and struggles with self-worth because OTHERS used it to dehumanize her, and continues to, even after an entire society forms out of love of her.
Sunlit Frost has permanent nerve damage in his arm from the fire, and ends up working so hard that it makes his disability worse. A bite on the good paw from Snake becomes infected after he refuses to sit out from digging graves after the First Battle; I am planning a chunky B-plot about Sunlit coming to terms with the fact he has to retire early.
That's FOUR major members of a small group with physical disabilities that make hunting hard or impossible. They have a lot of logistical problems that I will actually be exploring solutions to.