What kind of namer would you want Squirrelstar to be? I think you had her suggest Finchlight’s name which suggests she’s a GOOD namer, but what KIND of good namer would you want her to be ideally? Obviously it’s up to the Erins to some extent, but there’s always some flexibility in terms of framing!
If I was in charge of her names from here on out, she would make a serious effort to be very reverent of legacies being passed down through families while also acknowledging personal achievements. ThunderClan is currently in an era where it's REALLY missing Firestar, and trying to "reconnect" to that.
So Firekin is seeing a lot of heat and flame related names by default, Fernkin are looking at plant or cloud related ones. Most of these would be basic but meaningful, since apprentices don't tend to get into as much as they used to.
So for example, if Fernkit (canon: graykit) was just earning a pretty basic warrior name, he might just become Fernpuff (Fern-Fatcloud as opposed to Fern-Fastcloud like his namesake). But if he becomes a notable hunter, she would rather give him a name like Fernhawk, still sky-related but more focused on his hunting prowess.
Meanwhile, she's REALLY generous with the Honor Titles since Bramblestar was equally stingy. Stormcloud's finally getting Monsterscar like he's always wanted, if he can just find a big thing to do to justify it. If desired, she'd offer a title to Poppyfrost for creating the garden, to finally acknowledge her contribution. We'd see a return of names that reference scars and achievements.
SO I'm going to be trying to frame them in that way.
