Hi, I love your TF2 warrior cats AU! I was just curious though, do the clans have deputies? Or someone who informally fills the deputy role since Redmond/Redstar and Blutarch/Bluestar are uh like that. Just curious because I saw the deputy position mentioned on Soldier's page, but I don't know if anybody fills it!
Helloo!! Thank you so much heehee I'm glad to hear it! As for your question (thank you again btw, love to ramble about this!), short answer would be no, none of the mercs are officially deputy, and authority in situations basically drifts between who is naturally suited to handle it in the moment. It's spontaneous, unprofessional, and (obviously if you read or have read Warriors and know the sensitivity of the code rules regarding deputies) completely unorthodox. But that's kind of the point, I'd like to translate into this AU how sloppy and chaotic the canon TF2 universe is with this team of misfit men just doing what they're told without any real vision or clarity in what they're doing other than killing each other over and over.
To add onto that, Bluestar and Redstar are barely present in the clan's lives. Their orders are trickled through the kittypet Puddles (Miss Pauling) and The Voice (The Administrator), and that pretty much makes up the entire structure of their command chain. So I guess you could say those two unofficially take up the role (mainly The Voice, with Puddles as the mouthpiece.) The closest to any official clan roles between the mercs themselves would be Doveschweif (BLU Medic) and Federheart (RED Medic) as medicine cats. But truth be told, they both were cut from the weight of those roles when they were exiled from their previous clans, and the title is basically just a glorified husk for a healer without much more.
Think Darktail and The Kin in a way: a band of rogues just playing pretend with the honorifics of clan roles and customs but without the culture and familial connections behind it. There is no longevity to Blueclan or Redclan, no heirs or young to carry it on. It starts and ends with Bluestar + Redstar and their gaggle of Rogues.