2001 A Space Odyssey — Warrior Cats AU (Warriors Odyssey?)
I have actual ideas about how the first film would go in the AU, not sure what the second film would even be about in this au, and vague concept for the third book in this au.
They're propably on a quest from Starclan because Starclan conveniently sucks. Maybe they're pet cats or clan cats, that's propably not essential. I'm not sure how HAL's mental brekadown should go in this AU, i wouldn't want it to be any more his fault than it was in canon but Starclan can't physically control you...
Dave Bowman — Cosmos (pet) / Nightwatcher (clan)
A solid black tom with blue eyes. If he's a pet he'll have a red collar with a saturn charm on it.
Had a thing with Daisyheart before he cracked.
After killing Daisyheart, Nightwatcher reaches where they were supposed to go (Moonpool equivalent or something?) which he enters and where he's separated from his body in a frightening spiritual experience, becoming a ghost. He doesn't enter Starclan or the Dark Forest and instead just wanders.
He's eventually reunited with Daisyheart's spirit. They talk it through, and watch over Darkpool.
HAL-9000 — Daisy (pet) / Daisyheart (clan)
A black silver classic tabby with one red-orange eye. His left eye is just not there, nor is there even an eyesocket. He was just born without it.
Medicine cat apperentice who has visions of/connection to Starclan even when awake.
Starclan torments him day and night about what he's "supposed" to do and what they want him to do and how everything is "supposed" to go, contributing to his mental detoriation. He doesn't tell Nightwatcher or Darkpool about this, and instead keeps pretending to be cool and perfect until he cracks.
After Darkpool's death, Nightwatcher gets away from where Daisyheart trapped him by doing a dangerous dive, and climbs up to fight him. Nightwatcher wins by inflicting massive head trauma and Daisyheart dies a slow and confused death.
Daisyheart becomes a ghost after dying, somehow not ending up in Starclan or the Dark Forest, and is eventually reunited with Nightwatcher's ghost.
Frank Poole — Frankie (pet) / Darkpool (clan)
A black mackerel tabby with brown eyes and white spotting on his snout, chest, and feet. If he's a pet, he'll have a plain yellow collar.
Looks down on Daisyheart because his parents are both ex-pets (or if he's a pet cat, he'll look down on Daisy because his parents were strays).
Daisyheart kills him by shoving him off a cliff, and when Nightwatcher climbs down to get his body, Daisyheart kicks down the log Nightwatcher used to climb to trap him down.
Gets reincarnated a few months or years after his death, since rebirth is canon in Warrior Cats, so...
Whitehead — ? (pet) / Wavefoam (clan)
Solid white with yellow eyes.
Kaminsky — ? (pet) / ? (clan)
Cinnamon mackerel tabby with brown eyes.
Kimball/Hunter — Hunter (pet) / ?catcher (clan)
Ginger classic tabby with green eyes.
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Dr. Chandra — ? (pet) / ? (clan)
A brown mackerel tabby with red-orange eyes.
Bluebell's and Daisyheart's father.
Mr. Langley — ? (pet) / Long? (clan)
A black silver classic tabby with blue eyes.
Bluebell's and Daisyheart's mother because there needs to be two bio parents.
SAL-9000 — Bell (pet) / Bluebell? Brightbell? (clan)
A black silver classic tabby with one blue eye. She lost her right eye in an accident when she was young.
+ Heywood Floyd & unimportants that would maybe need to be namedropped
