WOO SELF INDULGENCE! what do i tag this as bc that’s thk not ghost,,, hm. wait hold on looking back on this divine was specifically referring to ghost fighting grimm i used the quote wrong A
you know what? no i put effort into this have some of them. the general tag for grimm and ghost or thk (it’s not cheating they’re all cool w it) will now be shadeheart
this contains implied grimmghost / grimm x thk, so yeah. this blog will contain a lot of it but it’s going to be under the shadeheart tag bc i can’t think of a better name.
Grass tends to grow,
Skies tend to shine
Tears tend to fall,
And light deserves a shrine.
But grass tends to wilt,
Skies then turn black
And when tears fall on a kingdom,
There is no turning back.
Touch tends to hurt,
Love tends to rot
Lights shine to blind,
And love me they do not
So within the void I tried to stay,
For those lights wouldn't love me anyway
Burning, shining, Radiant, Pale
Even scarlet tended to think me stale.
Their fingers trembled as they wrote those words, but they froze. Their goal was to make this positive, right? That's an easy goal. Quite achievable. Hard to put it on paper, though, but if you did that was hard work. And writing with only one hand was even harder - yes, the others would be proud of them…
Hornet liked poetry, right? They'd show her first. Once they were done, anyhow. And Quirrel - he was a scholar anyway! But Hornet had queenly duties and Quirrel had to help Monomon rebuild the archives…
They shook those thoughts from their mind. They, too, technically had princely duties - but that would come later. There was barely any stress on them, right? After all, they'd been locked up for so long, forced to resist against that ancient light.
And yet, as evil as she was, she'd given them her voice for a time. The words she'd taught them... wasn't that the job of a teacher? A mentor? A… role model?
Couldn't that have been the job of a father?
They slammed their hand down on the desk, trembling to their very core. The void within them fumed with anger towards their father, however it also shrunk in fear at their own strength, their own malice, how that had hurt people before…
Long ago, they'd relied on the scarlet light. Less long ago, the radiant. Yet in the very beginning of time, it seemed, they looked up to the white beacon. The shimmering, pale light. Their father, their King.
-But no. He was a king before a father, and a traitor, abuser before that. Radiance had taught them that word. And before they had come to terms with all of this, they had justified that she was already dead, so they didn't end up helping her kill their family too. They helped to kill her, in the end.
...Write the poem. Get lost in the words, not the reminiscion.
(Get lost in… words.) They muttered, for while they were masterful on paper, they were far less adept in tone. Not that they had a tone - more of an echo. But it, no matter the verbal medium, was difficult. Poetry was much easier.
meet miss shadeheart! she’s a senior warrior of beetleclan and has lived under two different leaders in her lifetime. despite her and her mate, slateeyes,’s older age the pair have recently become first time parents to the orphaned jaykit. slateeyes temporarily gave up her warrior duties to become a queen in the nursery just to watch over jaykit while shadeheart kept her duties. she frequently visits her mate and new son in the nursery to help care for the kit. shadeheart is a skilled hunter and has trained many apprentices under her wing over her seasons as warrior. the clan was shocked when otterstar named the young warrior roseflight as deputy instead of shadeheart or her brother oaktail whom robinstar had been actively considering for the role because of their experience. shadeheart doesn’t mind this though as she’ll gladly serve her clan no matter what. shadeheart and oaktail look rather similar, especially when they were apprentices and young warriors, but nowadays shadeheart has a lot more grey hairs compared to him. the scar along her belly came from a border spat between cloudclan and beetleclan when she was young. the wound had almost been her end but remarkably tawnyface was able to heal her and she made a full recovery. her days as a warrior are far less exciting now but her time as a warrior will definitely make for good stories when she’s ready to retire to the elders den. she’s not quite ready to give up her duties yet but she’ll know rest one of these days!
Shadepelt was a skilled warrior boundlessly loyal to all her clanmates, but after a particularly terrible and bloody war with thunderclan killed several cats from both sides, including her mate, sister, and even her kits in an accident of a collapsing rocks during the attack, she grew horribly depressed. Her opinins became very controversial among her clan because she thinks the borders between clans are pointless and the clans should be able to visit and help each other and still live in separate clans. Tired of the battles and bloodshed, she began to think she couldn't bear to go into battle again, as she was constantly haunted by the possibility of taking other cats families from them. After the death of her best friend, the medicine cat, Toadleaf, Shadepelt gave up her warrior duties to become Shadowclan's new medicine cat, which her leader was happy to accept as he was beginning to doubt her ability to serve her clan as a warrior with her sudden aversion to battling and the stress it caused her. Medicine cats from other clans took turns coming to help train her. When she completed her medicine cat training she requested a name change in honor of her new skills and because she felt she shouldn't have the warrior name she earned as she had given that life up and left it behind. Although it was a very unusual request, Blackstar agreed to allow it and she was given the name Shadeheart (a name that suited her much better since her dramatic personality shift) She is very calm and patient with her clanmates and is great emotional support for traumatized cats as well, as she had been through it all herself. She is not afraid to speak her mind or make her opposition to her clanmates frequent hostility known. She takes her duties very seriously and, like her predecessor Toadleaf, is fiercely determined in her duties. She is a very harsh mentor as she believes only the absolute best suited cat can handle being medicine cat. She chased off two apprentices due to her harsh training and constant driving in what they would be giving up to be a medicine cat, before (much to everyone surprise, including her own) she finally accepted Yellowpaw to train under her permanently.
