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starclan kit problem

proposal for fixing "40 year old kitten" starclan problem:

make them fae

unserious idea, I lost the plot with this one. my original idea was "we should let the kits grow up in starclan but in a less literal sense"

more yapping below

I like the fanon explanation for Starclan cats being so weird and out of character is that they are based off the memories of people who are alive. (Yellowfang= Grouchy, Tigerstar= cartoonishly evil)

If starclan cats fade as long as they are forgotten, who is still alive to remember Mosskit? Her siblings wouldn't remember her. Bluestar is dead, Spottedleaf is dead, and I'm almost positive that every cat that ever saw Mosskit when she was alive has passed on by now but she shows up as recent as Squirrelflight's hope.

In The Last Hope, Jayfeather sees her, but these cats would still be dead. Do they start fading as soon as the last person who remembers them dies? Does Jayfeather seeing a bunch of starclan cats and being alive to tell the tale prolong their afterlife? If you learn of a cat through a story, how does that influence their life span?

I like the idea that their features are based on how they are remembered. In my design for Mosskit, her design muddies to being reflective of Bluestar, Thrustpelt, Oakheart and Snowfur(as most cats are confused on her parentage). Though she grows, she is still smaller than most cats. Her design also gets incredibly unrealistic based on a first impression of her name. I made her face fox-like to reflect on how she was rumored (by Bluestar) to have been killed by a fox or a badger. Since she died to hypothermia, I tried to make her design feel winter-y with a misty tail/chest-fur and frosty eye lashes. Finally, she has juniper berries and dandelions in her fur because she plays with Dandelion and Juniper kit :]

Mosskit is just a favorite example and I don't mind her being a tiny baby too much tbh, my beef is with the kits that die as like... newborns. and speak with full wisdom and clarity. I think that's creepy, and this would be my solution is to let them become fucked up ghost creatures capable of speech

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Yknow adventure time didn’t really care that their audience potentially didn’t understand lady rainicorn when she spoke Korean. they should stop being cowards and let mcron use sign language

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comes to no ones surprise, but warriors system for death and afterlife is... very uninspired.

Ik the authors probably didn't think the series would last this long and never intended to expand on it like they did in Power of Three, but I wish they just kept it kind of ambiguous and loose.

The early series gives it this feel that its vast and unknown. the graphic novels especially give it this feeling that instead of multiple cat ancestors, its almost a cluster?

Yellowfang's line to Fireheart, "I only regret that I will miss watching you become what StarClan has destined you to be" feels empty when we know she WILL be watching. From Starclan. In the dead cat eternal timeout corner

There's no consequence to death:

Cats kind of exist as ghosts and live their afterlife. They are away from their loved ones, but eventually over time they will all come back to them.

They still get to communicate very frequently with them too, especially in later books where it feels like any pov role gets a sign from starclan, something that used to be rare and reserved for leaders and medicine cats. We even have cases where the dead cats influence the living world.

There's no DISTANCE from starclan either. The starclan cats can travel territories. Even ancestors from the tribes come to starclan and visit living cats.

Injuries are healed in starclan and every cat gets to be young again. This is especially uncomfortable with kittens and newborns. We're meant to believe they live their afterlife like this, becoming more mature and wise but staying the same. I guess it's meant to be tragic, but it's just kind of weird. Especially if someone is taking care of them. I've seen some people say they should allow the kits to grow up, but how can they in a place that's meant to harbor the dead?

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AU where Clear sky gets taken by a hawk instead of Bright Stream so warrior cats never happens

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we got rid of the fujoshis in 2010 now an invasive species has entered the fandom spaces..... power scaler incels

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been getting into warrior cats again and I'm of the opinion that to give a life as a ghost cat, it should COST something.

As the lore currently has it, leaders get 9 lives guaranteed from their ancestors. Each life has some kind of loose meaning attached to it, and these ancestors can give a life seemingly at no cost to them. They can give multiple lives away to multiple cats, and I think that should change!

Ghosts only die fr when they are actively killed or fade into obscurity (by the clans perspective, or the writers? yet to be determined lmao)

I want them to actually give their life, and sacrifice the time they have in the afterlife. Maybe not full on character death, but maybe becoming a faded ghost much quicker that puts a limit on how many lives they can give.

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controversial opinion.. fionna and cake should've just been one season long

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too young to be a warrior cat animator, too old to be an animation meme creator