Nutmeg: Your help today was invaluable, Scourge. Thank you.
Scourge: Uh- yeah...sure...whatever
The leader of Hope Colony and her emo, emotionally-constipated second taking a stroll after a mission.
More info under the cut:
It dawned on me that there would be a fairly large time gap between Scourge and Nutmeg's experiences with the clans. Now, I could make Scourge younger, but I think I can make it work
So, Tiny makes it out of his house, barely alive with some fresh wounds and his collar broken off, and runs into the city after a forest cat raid. While he never does the whole dog and Bloodclan thing, he does grow skilled in ways to survive in the city and builds his own reputation.
Four years afterwards, a new name is sweeping the city, Nutmeg. A kittypet who not only managed to save two of her kittens in a raid but killed a forest cat while she was at it...and lived. She rapidly gains followers and builds up a group she names the Hope Colony.
Their mission: Keep the forest cats out of their homes and away from their kits by any means necessary.
Scourge is down for getting some forest cat blood on his claws and breaks his four years of routine to join. Having lived most of his life by himself, he's difficult to work with initially, but they help each other and eventually get along. Eventually, he becomes her second.
Nutmeg has a very warm, friendly personality. She's very charismatic and people-oriented. She generally prefers to try diplomacy, even with forest cats. If that fails, she turns to the power of incredible violence.
Scourge is always down for the power of incredible violence. He's well known for doing the "dirty work" of the Hope Colony, mostly because that's what he's good at. On the inside, however, he's struggling to live in a group after spending most of his life watching out for only himself.
Bro barely remembers to eat most days yet now he's supposed to keep up with the dynamics of the different city groups as well as forest cat issues. ugh. Politics.
As seen in the photo, Nutmeg freely gives compliments and expresses gratitude. Scourge is unsure how to react to the feelings this brings up.
Designs:
Nutmeg is now buff because Nutmeg deserves to be buff. And Squilf gets her tail from her grandma. She has scars on her side and on the eye hidden by her bangs from Thunderclan's raid on her home. The other scars are from the many fights she's been in since then. She still lives with her humans, though she's gone much of the day to run the Colony.
Scourge now has his iconic red bangs because I can't give him his edgy personality and not have them there. The fur naturally grows like that because I said so. The scars on his leg is from the forest cat raid he escaped from. The ones on his face are from random fights. He's also underweight cause he forgets to eat when in a work mindset.
How old were fire/flame/fawn when they were taken? Do they have any memories of their old family, aside from what others have told them?
Very young. Not old enough to be fully weaned and still blue-eyed so about 3-4 weeks or so.
They have about as much memory as Fireheart did in canon when he saw Princess. Enough to itch at their brain and unlock fuzzy memories. But it fades as they get older. So where Princess sees her birth family some moons older than Fireheart was when he first saw Princess, thus at least hinting of something in her mind, Fire doesn't meet Hope officially until he's a star and has no memory left of her.
Also they are not told anything aside from the fact that they were taken from a kittypet.
If I go with Thrushpelt, it's because he's another cat Bluestar cares about who trusts in her, and who is killed for yet another one of Starclan's wills in her life.
If I go Thistleclaw it's because he's a very admired and respected warrior who gets killed during a raid that most cats already didn't agree with. Also because the irony is delicious and I think it's funny as hell that Thistleclaw and Tigerclaw both get bodied by Firestar's mom.
Who are the other two firefam kits? What are they up to now?
They're in the neighborhood, both are a part of Hope Colony. Nutmeg left her home for a while after the abduction. She was super paranoid that the clan cats would come back for revenge, seeing as she killed one of their own, and the rest of her kits.
Word spread fast of the kittypet that killed a clan cat, Brokenstar starts throwing his weight around, and thus begins the building of what is eventually Hope Colony.
Note: Nutmeg is not the first cat to kill a kit thief, but she is the first one who lives and stays in the area afterward.
Tommy and Luna both move into different houses.
Tommy's owner is an old former vet which is super helpful. He's also the one who found Ravenpaw half dead near the houses.
Luna is more of a neighborhood cat and tends to disappear for days at a time.
