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All I’m thinking about is the Bi flag Holt added on his desk for Rosa

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Ask me about my Crookedheart AU!

(AU where Hailstar renames Rainflower Crookedheart instead of changing Stormkit´s name)

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I recently got a phone a few months ago. Here are some of the conversations I have had with my grandmother

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What's the reason why Tallstar refused the lives from his parents? (I haven't read Tallstar's Revenge so I don't know the characters that well)

Alright so (and heavy spoilers ahead)

Windclan was split between tunnellers and moorrunners. Sandgorse, Tallstar's father, was a tunneller and wanted his son to be one too. But at his apprentice ceremony, Tallpaw became a moorrunner. Sandgorse didn't even call out his name because he was so pissy about it.

Further on, Tallpaw almost dies in the tunnels and is reasonably angry and frightened. Heatherstar deams the tunnel that it happened in--a tunnel Sandgorse was working really hard on-- too dangerous and to have all work on it abandoned. Sandgorse blamed Tallpaw, thinking he had told Heatherstar, and told him never to talk to him again.

I'm not very good at explaining, but Sandgorse pretty much only ever treated Tallpaw like a son when he thought that he would be a tunneller like him. He had this idea in his mind that they would be tunnellers together, and when that idea was destroyed, he became incredibly bitter.

Palebird was more reasonable.. at first. Tallstar's littermate, Finchkit, died at birth, and she had postpartum depression, which made her grieving worse. She paid attention to Tallkit and would clean and cuddle him, but it was clear her mind was always elsewhere, and she would sometimes slip into a dissociative state.

But she got BETTER. She got a new litter, new kits. But she continued to neglect Tallstar. When he announced that he was leaving the Clan, she dismissed him and focused right back to her new kits. When he eventually returned, she snaps at him, thinking that he let her kits run around the moor (he was bringing them back). Tallstar even wonders if she even noticed that he was gone.

I don't think she called out his name, either.

Tallstar even asks himself if Finchkit should've been the one to live, because maybe she would make Palebird happy. And another time he wonders why her new mate and kits could make her happy, but Tallstar and Sandgorse couldn't.

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Other than Shrewpaw (his bully), Tallstar's life was miserable because of his parents, especially because of Sandgorse.

So Tallstar refuses their lives. His life was dreary enough because of them, why on earth would he want more from them? He would rather be a leader with no lives at all.

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I also have a evil Tallstar working with Brokenstar AU (yes very original), because. idk I just really like the thought of the horror and regret his bully, Shrewclaw, and his parents would feel knowing they lead him into that road. It's my favourite trope.

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Crookedheart asks Stormstar to change her name. Stormstar looks at her, the cat who tried to brand him broken as a kit, the cat who birthed him and tore her love from him while he cried for it, and he hesitates. Surely now she has suffered enough. Surely now she has learned to regret her choice. Surely now she's changed. He looks his mother in the eyes and finds no regret. No love. Only disgust as her eyes settle on his twisted jaw. He asks her if she still would've asked Hailstar to change his name. She says it still fits him. He tells her, then, that her name does too.

I´m gonna just start letting everyone else write this AU because this is straight fire

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You know what I find interesting (and a little infuriating)? the fact that Rainflower, the abusive and neglectful parent, had a painless death, but Shellheart, the parent that was always loving and supportive, died slowly from a painful illness.

But you know what's nice? The fact that when Rainflower died, Crookedjaw didn't even go to her body. He was sad, but he told himself that he didn't care. When he found out that Shellheart was not going to get better, the first thing he did was push through warriors to sit with his father and tell him how his night was.

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