āBut no one could believe that he had once been a docile kittypet.
āWhat they saw standing before them was neither Tiny nor Scourge,Ā
ābut some kind of unknown creature that froze their blood.ā
This is a redraw of some concept doodles from 2021. The old art is at the bottom here under all my lazy rambling here
In the movie/book the movie is based on Uo serves as a father figure for Chirin; Tigerstar does not fill this role for Scourge literally (and in chirin i donāt think itās meant to be taken completely literally either, although it is also literal ofc). Rather the memory of tigerpaw is the role of a sort of āolder brotherā/mentor in the sense that Tiny was taught a very important lesson from his point of view, that being we live in a dog-eat-dog world rigidly bound by the laws of nature where predators eat prey and prey canāt do a damn thing about it (ironically, the obstinate submission to this belief leads to him doing something about it). This is reductive and incredibly pessimistic but that is the point. Anyways, i mostly find this plausible bc as a kid i thought (like, an accidental headcanon sort of) that scourge chose to put dog teeth over his claws bc tigerCLAW is described as having claws so long that he canāt put them away and theyāre always visibleā¦ so, tiny/scourge putting the dog teeth on his claws obviously they canāt be sheathed and he looks sort of like a little kid doing anything he can to copy his older brother without even thinking about it
I find the fact that Uo killed Chirinās mother specifically and that Chirin forgave him for it to be much more compelling than if, for example, Uo beat Chirin up who then conceded to Uoās view of the world and participated in the cyclical violence production machine; Chirin isnāt the only one hurt here, where he would decide to take his hurt and turn it into something. His mother was killed. She didnāt want to dieāeven if she didnāt have a son, she would not want to die. Her life is worth living for herself, too. Chirin really has no place to be forgiving Uo for that (although again itās not that simple bc Uo also has to eat and it wasnāt personal. But if we forget that for a moment and pretend it was thoughtless violence, like when tigerpaw beat up tiny).Ā
So as an extension of that, I would really like if Quince left the house to look for Tiny (do you remember blazethefiredragonās third episode of their adaptation of the rise of scourge? yeah). She would find Tiny in the middle of getting beat up and then go to protect him and in turn Tigerpaw would kill her. There IS something here that bugs me if this was actually done in warriors bc of the misogyny in the series and the tendency to throw away female characters like disposables but Iām doing this myself as someone cognizant of these issues and in my perfect world where all that idiocy would be patched up in the other areas (i mean. As much as is possible without knocking the entire series over like the fragile house of cards it is, which isnāt saying a lot), to allow for space to have things like this happen with actual purpose
The timing of Scourge killing Tigerstar would be changed as well. Since their rapport is actually built here as opposed to being false to begin with the battle would begin without any issues. To create a parallel to the farm raid in Chirin I imagine instead that Scourge would be about to attack some younger apprentice who would then be protected by their mother (which should be entirely possible, though I canāt think of any cats who would fit the bill). His hesitance would be challenged by Tigerstar like Chirinās hesitance was challenged by Uo
Finally. āIām a sheep!ā would be replace with āIām Tiny!ā or āIām a kittypet!ā. āIām Tiny!ā fits The Rise of Scourge as a standalone story better, but āIām a kittypet!ā being said within The Darkest Hour with Firestar himself standing there (perhaps right before pity-killing him) would be just insane. The way that that would challenge the mostly unchallenged xenophobia in the series, unwaveringly and in front of the parallel milquetoast protag to boot, would be just nuts. To me
I also like chirin juxtaposed to breezepelt and brokenstar, but it doesnāt fit nearly as well and is moreso an extension of me dragging around the dead horse i beat as someone with a horrible ārelationshipā with that parent. But breeze using brokenstar as a stand-in for his father, who has plot armor made of fully enchanted netherite, and then killing him. Is just so funny. Hey youāre my dad now. Wait a minute, I fucking hate my dad. DIE!
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