#bigbyshaaaaaaand

[redux-iterum]

How common are mates in the clans? In your first book there were only two mated pairs so I was wondering if finding a mate just isn't a priority for most warriors?

About as common as queens being single. We haven't had a good time to properly focus on romance, so mates haven't been relevant. That may change in the future!

[clangenrising]

Is Frost a Mammoth!?

Oh my gosh it would be so funny to see a StarClan cat see a ghost mammoth I'm just imagining the spirits of little animals climbing all over him.

Bingo, a Columbian Mammoth in specific!

And that is a lovely image but Frost only collects the souls of plants and most animal spirits are frightened of him when they first see him. As it is, Poppyblaze is the only one who really talks to him these days.

[fallenclan]

My sister had a dream that Cherrystar lost all her lives delivering her kits. Ripplefade was a grieving mess and Ravenshade became leader.

(I've never said anything on here before but I felt this was worth breaking my silence)

actually that would have been cool as hell, I almost wish i did that lmao

how often is your sister reading this blog though that they have dreams about the cats??? i've only had one or two dreams myself and i spend 2 or 3 hours a day on these little freaks

[clangenrising]

I had a dream about RisingClan last night! The gathering came up, and Coyotechaser realized that none of the RisingClan cats who had gone to meet with Rudy told anyone else in the Clan what Scorch did. Coyotechaser did a Hollyleaf and told everyone what happened, and Russetfrond demanded Goldenstar to exile Scorch for threatening his kits. It was crazy.

Yo, the drama! I love that lol

[clangenrising]

That battle was amazing! How did you decide what everyone did during the battle? Is this all based on timeskip and patrol events that happened during Moon 15, did you use some kind of generator, or did you create all of this in your awesome writer brain? I'd love to know any behind the scenes facts you got on this incredible battle! And congrats on having your story being included in Clangen, I'm so happy for you, you really deserve it. Thank you so much for this story!

Yeah, so there is absolutely nothing in my ClanGen playthrough about rogues this month or a battle or anything. Darkmoon died of Frostbite in game but I thought it would serve the story better if I tied it in to the bigger conflict.

So yeah, I wrote it all from scratch. It had been bubbling in my head for a little while. I knew I wanted Goldenstar to lose a life or two (even though that wasn't in the save either) partially because everyone was so desperate for it haha and she ends up losing all her remaining lives at once when she eventually goes so I thought we might as well use them here instead.

Once I knew that, I had the idea for Scorch to get involved somehow and her showing up be what distracted Razor long enough for Goldie to get up and keep fighting. The rest of it mostly came from just sitting down, thinking about how the battle would go, and then writing a bullet point outline which i turned into each part of the battle over the course of i think 3 days?? there were a few things i shuffled around in order to make the chronology fit better and some things I pulled into bigger pieces.

Like I originally intended for Yarrowshade to notice Goldie was missing and go after her but then I realized through writing that his arc was about learning to take it easy so he couldn't do that. Then I added the piece with Russetfrond and made sure to get Tiger killed in it since that's important going forward too.

I'm sure there's more I could say but it's escaping me for now haha. Hope that was satisfying!