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Okay hear me out but I sometimes think about that scene from Into The Wild and I kind of like the idea of Spottedleaf and Tigerclaw being childhood friends....
Suprisingly I haven't seen this concept anywhere but I like to imagine Tigerclaw never fully recovered from being sickly as a kit. It fits really well with his canon biggest fear being physical weakness. Even as he got older, he was prone to catching any cold or sickness that spread around camp.
Becuase he was so frail, I think Sunstar thought a really active and powerful mentor would be helpful for his growth, but it ultimately had the opposite effect. Thisteclaw puts him through intense training and insists that physical power is the only things that matter to being a warrior and Tigerpaw wants nothing more than that. He takes up Thisteclaw's ideals but inevitably he can't fully live up to the physical standards and is in the medicine den constantly. Everyone frets over him if he so much as sneezes and it takes him longer than the other apprentices to recover from colds. It frustrates him to be seen as so weak to the point that he'll refuse treatment just to keep training.
[Vague Spottedleaf's Heart mention]
Spottedpaw is around his age, just a bit younger, but after she starts her medicine cat apprenticeship I think the first thing on her mind is being extremely wary of Thistleclaw. She knows he is a bad person and how he hurts the people around him, even if Tigerpaw initially sees her as weaker than himself and just isn't a fan of her, she feels a need to connect with him somehow. Maybe she could save him from Thistleclaw the way she wished someone had been there for her.
[Mention over]
Tigerpaw is in the medicine den often, whether from sickness or wounds of unnecessary battles, Spottedpaw sees him alot. He's generally grumpy and uncooperative. Refusing to take his herbs, be treated, or to hear her out, but she tries. I don't think anything she ever says truly reaches him. But I think what does click is when she tells him he's slowing himself down, that if he really wants to be a warrior, deputy, or leader, he needs to keep himself healthy first and to do that, he needs her. She only wants to help him.
So as times goes on, he's less argumentative with her, he acknowledges her job with respect. Tigerclaw accepts her help and tolerates when she gives him orders, which is... alot coming from him. He hates to be ordered around and I've always seen Tigerclaw as a very.... work-oreiented person. He has his followers and the cats he grew up with, but never particularly valued emotional bonds. He's well respected and admired as a warrior, and that's all he cares for. It's all he needs to lead.
But Spottedleaf is not affected by this reputation he built for himself at all. To her, he's still the grumpy kitten who'd stubbornly turn his nose away from poppy seeds and complain about how bored he was sitting in her den. While Tigerclaw himself may not consider anyone his "friend", she has a certain relationship with him that is mutually nostalgic and teasing. She will not hesitate to humble him and he knows better than to argue with her.
Makes things a bit more tragic when Tigerclaw murders her brother. Spottedleaf had always noticed they didn't get along but she never could have known what he would do. She hoped somewhere deep down that she might have been able to change him.
An implusive kit whoās always getting into trouble with some cat or other. He manages to get away with anything and is loved by the whole clan (well most of them at least)
He was found abandoned and wounded as a kit and taken in by the clan
Full backstory under the cut!!
Moon 0:
Fringedusk was wandering along deep in thought, as per usual, wasnāt looking where he was going and fell flat on his muzzle. Looking back scowling he saw a tiny, soggy bundle of bloodstreaked white and brown fur.
Oh shit
Nudging it with his nose he heard a faint sqeak and rushed the kit to the medicine den
A meeting was yowled and the calm looked towards Weedstar for guidance, the young leaderās mind was whirling and a long painful moment passed before he blurted out the first full sentence to come to mind;
āFringedusk what did you see?ā
The pink cat explained the bloodstains and trail of adult cat scent and prints leading away from the body. Murmurs spread through the crowd and all eyes turned in unison when they heard the healer stonefurās familiar tail swish (his tail is very long and sweeps along the ground, a calling card for his presence to all cats familiar with him).
Stone looked worried and tired but despite this he announced that through the kit was psycial going to recover he couldnāt say anything for the mental side. The abandonment and violence was sure to leave a scar.
The next morrow found stonefur, not having slept, talking to an awake but very shaken kitten. Stone tried to ask him where he was from or what his name was, but the kit only repeated the word thistle.
He was young they didnāt expect him to have a full grasp of the languge yet and so all the clan could do was spend time and help in anyway they could
Weedstar brought the comfort of shared silence. Shellfreckle the deputy brought music (yes these cats can play drums ). Stonefur the healer did all he could, coming up with games and remedies, never tiring. Fringedusk tried to seek the maker of those prints in the floor but to no avail. Sunbillow did not help, if the kit was going to survive he would have to do it himself. Afterall thatās how sunbillow learnt. And finally slightnut the elder provided feats of strength and the warmth of her fur
And so after a few moons the kitten could speak and the clan had all grown very close to him, almost all, sunbillow wanted the kitten to prove himself
The kitten was called forward to the rock and the First Ceremony was performed
The starclan guide and Weedstarās mentor, goldstar, whispered in their ear and those words flew out of weedās mouth, like the wind
āI, Weedstar, leader of ghoulclan ask my ancestors to turn their eyes upon this kit. Will you let him become a part of the ancient living, rippling being of the clans?ā
Stepping forwards Weedstar suddenly leg out a yelp of pain, looking down he saw the head of a thistle embedded in his paws. Nodding to the spectral outline of goldstar she understood.
āThe stars have spoken, Thistlekit I welcome you into Ghoulclan. May you be with us unendingly.ā
The clan broke into chears, āTHISTLEKIT THISTLEKITā and thistlekit placed his paw on Weedstarās, feeling a surge of fulfilment and excitement, the likes of which had be alien to him for so long.
A very chill individual sheās seen it all and come out on top. With a knack for problem solving and very sharp observation she seemed the obvious choice for deputy after slightnut retired
A formers ships cat she found herself washed up in Weedstarās cave when in a storm destroyed her ship and deceived well she might as well stay
Full backstory under the cuttt thereās some angst here too and cat romance??
Shellfreckle was a former ships cat. Living her whole life at sea and very content with the thrills, twolegs and unpredictability
She takes everything in her stride but is kinda an idiot lmao. The most unohased cat you ever did see
Moon 0:
Her ship was torn to pieces and that was one of the few moments in life that this mogs face broke- terror stricken. She was tossed and turned, eventully waking up covered in sand and soaked through in a suprisingly well lit marine cave. She lay there for a long time trying to summon the strength to stand.
While she was recovering she turned and saw a familiar grey shape slumped in the sand
āStone!!ā She cried and crawled over to him-it cost all her strength but she had to help him. Licking him with all the force she could summon she tried in vain to wake him up-she was there a while before he finally stirred at which point she pressed her face against his purred and passed out
She woke up again, dry and clean in a soft nest-panic rose in her again at the thought of stone but a paw was placed on her own
A young grey face was looking down at her
āHi Iām Weedstar and this is my caveā the stranger greeted her
āWhereās the grey spotted cat!?!ā She almost shrieked
āIām over here shell donāt worryā came a weak voice from a tail length away
Shell purred at that and relaxed a little
āAre you hurt?ā
āJust shaken, nothing a few moments rest wonāt fix. And youā
āYeah I think Iām chillā
Stone turned to their rescuer
āAnd how could we calm you youngāunā
āUm.. my names Weedstarā
āA stranger name I never did here Iām sureā
Weed laughed at that and settled down to tell the two newcomers of the clans and the stars and in return shelll and stone gave Weedstar knowledge of their past and how it had come to be that they were laying in the floor of his cave
āWe washed in from far out in the ocean, through that underwater entrance over there and then you found usā said sheāll by means of explaintion. Leaving Weedstar with more questions
And so it was that Shell and Stone become shellfreckle and stonefur, deputy and medicine cat of ghoulclan. Named for the spirits that Weedstar spoke too in her concious and unconscious states
More cats would join them but that dear reader will be explained in other parts
A nervous individual and solitary by nature Weedstar can usually be found in his highly decorated nest in a smaller cave in the wall. They collect two leg object and like to try and build things with them, will she achieve something great with this and start the cat medival age who knows? Stay tuned to find out
A former hermit joins a religion and forms his own cult
Full backstory under the cut ;) got some BIG lore in there
Moon 0:
A teenager living by himself in the very cave the clan calls home now.
They developed the ability to dream walk bc of the isolation and weed lmao.
The trickster star guide Goldstar came to her and trained her in the ways of the clans and as a leader for goldstar was a leader herself. When weed had learnt enough goldstar gave her 9 lives. Weedstar asked, āWhy are you doing this?ā To which goldstar winked and laughed āI hope youāre up for the challenge, donāt mess upā
Some random cats started filtering in (check their backstories for how ;) ) and weed said aight sure time to start a society now
He is not doing good tho bc living in a cave have him 0 soical skill š„šš„
