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You are completely right. Nowadays you can't even have a baby offline without people pestering you to tell them every detail about the birth and name-picking and exact weight, while in the same breath scolding parents for putting their kids in the spotlight and making money off of them.

There's this weird sense of entitlement "fans" of things have where they think they get to know every single detail of someone's life, just because they follow them on whatever social media site. They develop a parasocial relationship with someone who, frankly, does not know they exist and has no reason to, and when that person tries to set boundaries, the "fan" has the audacity to get pissed. Nevermind that they're not actually friends, or that they've never spoken directly to each other beyond maybe one donation on a stream, or that the person they're a fan of is a human being who isn't just there to play games and clap their hands like a fucking seal. They dared to tell a fan no, and they should be crucified for it.

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Squirrelflight and Leafpool got fucked over so hard in that regard. I still remember Brambleclaw suddenly not interacting with the kits he raised anymore now that they weren't his by blood, at least in the third and beginning of the fourth arc.

Adoption is a point of annoyance for me in general, but especially in fiction. It bothers me to no end that people act like adopting a child rather than giving birth to them is an impossible idea that would never work out. Granted, I am not interested in having kids at all, but I fail to see how bringing a child home from an orphanage is worse than gestating one with all the troubles and risks pregnancy brings. In fiction, it's even worse, with people being heartbroken that they were adopted or not wanting anything to do with the parents that raised them (or vice versa). I don't understand it.

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I'd probably let Darkstripe say "Tigerclaw wouldn't fucking do any of that!" when his crimes are outed

These are all excellent ideas. I would like to submit a deleted joke line I had in BH:

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Honestly, I didn't mind answering that ask. It provided some interesting thinking for me that I didn't have otherwise. I appreciate you replying with this, even so!

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Yeah, that's quite possibly true. I've only seen clips of Bojack where they drop "fuck" and it hits like a truck even removed from context. If we're saving it for the dramatic moments, I could think of a scene or two that could benefit from it (Goldenflower and Bluestar's showdown in the last part of AK, mainly, and one that we'll see in CH).

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Cagedcats-

Blast foiled in my rambles! Who revealed my secrets 🫵

Yeah unless someone gaming and coding savvy were to get their hands on it there wouldn’t be much hope for it to be made tbh.

But quick questions- can a Seer receive -dusk/-dawn. And I know you said you didn’t have much input, but… gotta ask- any idea on special rank or thing for ShadowClan to do? Since River got swimming and Wind got tunneling. Just for hypothetical game mechanic in head and all.

Also another thing I’d add to hypothetical game is to add both Soot and Dandelion as small cameos and wink and nod towards y’all. Not as full blown characters- but these two…. They’re always at the Gathering? And they’re not in any allegiance? They don’t even give news or info about in game events and no one mentions them at all.

And by the end of the news from the Leaders, they’re always gone. Vanished. Poof. Maybe they’re spirits and are just visiting during that time in lore, but just a fun Easter egg potential. Soot’s lines are probably a lot of yoinked plant facts.

Aight last of game rambles done. Won’t explode your ask box with game ramble nonsense

We have a spy in our midst, what can I say?

As for each topic:

Seers can receive -dawn and -dusk, but they've got more of a warrior connotation, so they rarely do.

ShadowClan could have scavenging or something to do with the Aulmir, since they go in there so often. Maybe scavenging IN the Aulmir?

I personally vote for Dandelion to offer gameplay hints and advice, while Soot gives out achievement rewards. Both of them are either cryptic about what to do or give such obscure information that it takes a second playthrough to realize exactly what they're saying and how to utilize it. And the plant facts absolutely would be referenced in these things. How, I don't know, but they are.

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These are good ideas! I'm gunna mull over them before I make any fast decisions. I want to be able to keep up with Patreon without wearing myself out and sill leave time for other projects. Thank you two for your input!

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Vanquishing evil is Horoa's task, but the other two have stepped into mortal affairs before, and they'll do it again if the situation requires it. It's just super rare. Back in the day, they were more involved with the living, but as time has gone on, they let their followers communicate in their stead, with only Horoa being on the earth regularly.