#sharing tongues

[thestarsalign-wc]

I need to know about my boy fire. He my special little boy and I want to k is your plans

Hmgh. Well I want him to be a semi-pacisfist so there's that. Oh!! Fox themes as well. He is going to have trauma from the tigerkin line

[thestarsalign-wc]

Do you have any plans w showing Tigerclawstar’s relatiobships w ThunderClan? Aside from the obvious ones, it bothers me SO BADLY how we never see WHY he was such a beloved cat, and why his betrayal shattered everyone. Like he had friends at one point!! I think its rlly interesting to think abt when you take into consideration the fact Frostfur and Brindleface followed him and Whitestorm around the nursery (as mentioned by Bluestar in her super edition..), or him growing up w Spottedleaf, Redtail, and Willowpelt (which makes his interaction w Spotty in ITW so much funnier). Idk, it just bugs me that everyone placed their trust in a very violent cat and then we never see WHY (outside of KINDA in the super editions and novellas) because he’s a massive jerk constantly 😭

(For the moment until I get to his leadership, I will refer to him by his previous names)

Tigerclaw was a respectable soldier in the orders, while he was still alive, and before his seemingly sudden bloodlust. He had friends, an apprentice, he was even starting to raise litters with Goldenflower. But make me very clear his change was not sudden, He just got better at hiding his nature than his old mentor.

We'll start by recapping his beginnings

Tigerkit was born as an honor siring between Leopardfoot and Pinestar, and his siblings were Nightkit and Mistkit. Leopard would have named them all after The big three but there was already a Lionkit in the nursery. Tigerkit's sibling Mistkit lives long enough to not be considered a fading kit, but they're not living to adulthood. Spotty was originally Thistleclaw's apprentice, but after enough abuse (I'm not sure if I should keep the grooming, maybe make it less sexual more political idk) she becomes a cleric apprentice. So after Pinestar's cowardice and Sunstar being annointed, Thistleclaw needs a replacement apprentice and Tigerkit (now paw) needs to learn loyalty.

Thus comes Tigerpaws lesson of Thistles. Thistleclaw's first, among many brutal lessons, was for Tigerpaw to try and destroy a Giant hogweed. After this, safe to say, injurious catastrophe, Tigerpaw is stuck in the Cleric's den for days. Spotty wordlessly comforts him during this time, knowing his pain too well. Tigerpaw's training is brutal after this. He comes home everyday covered in cuts, bruises and gashes. Thistleclaw curates everything he hears from the gathering, exactly the way he wants the little tiger to learn.

And then, he's Tigerclaw. It takes him a while to adjust, but he's no longer an apprentice. He's numb to the world, Spotty softly getting him to open up to his other fellow trainees. He latches on tight with Redtail (i am hitting you with the trans beam), Lionheart, and Whitestorm. He gets... tense around Whitestorm, with him being related to Thistleclaw. He goes through the motions, and I'm gonna have him train one of the young warriors in tnp as his first apprenticeship. Eventually he gets to Ravenpaw. A scrawny runt, scared of his own shadow. He's better than Thistleclaw, in the sense that the abuse is quieter, less dramatic. He's just repeating the same motions and words that Thistle did.

And then Rusty shows up. Barely six months old, just able to scrape by as an apprentice. The ginger thing reeks if upwalkers and the stale air of the city. He can't help but see his father in the kit, and for the first month he refuses to acknowledge him. He starts to soften after a bit, even after having killed one of his best friends in a battle, that he's pretty sure his apprentice saw. Tigerclaw starts saying things to Firepaw, how Raven has always been a storyteller, and that he had scared him bad his first few days of apprenticeship. He knew deep down the kittypet didn't believe him, but his words were as clingy as Thistle tufts.

Lionheart was his next target, and as much as it pained to kill his wife's brother, he needed the role of second more than anything. It was all he was trained for. Lionheart and Spotty were not intentional deaths, to say the least. Especially not Spotty. He was numb to the world after his friend, his savior was murdered for a few kits.

Most of the banishment is the same as before, although Bluestar is too out of her mind at the moment to give him a dishonor name. So he goes to the Shadow Order. And Runningnose welcomes him with open arms.

The Tiger Order starts much, much sooner. More deaths, more dishonor names, and all the while... something nags at him. Like a bird he forget to check was dead before he moved. After bluestar's death, he really starts his reign of terror. A bubbling, frothing hatred in him wells out as he orders half bloods and formers to kill each other or die themselves.

He knows the other two clans won't take it sitting down, so he goes to the town, for a cat that recently gained power in a rogue group. He meets The Scourge, who looks at him with a wide, unreadable stare. He looked so familiar, especially with those scars on his face and body. And then he learns why at the battle. Ravenpaw was no more, replaced by a cold, icy blue stare and claw extenders. He doesn't feel the tear, at first. And then he's dying nine times over.

I won't go into details about his post life, but he has had contact with three outta four kids. A part of him wants to feel sorrow for not being able to raise either litter, but... maybe it's for the best.

Tldr; Tigerstar is a product of fascist ideologies being rooted in through physical, psychological and emotional abuse, taught to hide his thorns.

[thestarsalign-wc]

I will happily answer asks about a specific character/issue in the books/random question. This is also a request to help me get ideas about specific characters

[thestarsalign-wc]

A TheStarsAlign!Mapleshade and PerchPaw for you

I am gonna rewrite how she kills the three, being:

- Smashing RavenWing's head on the moonstone

- Yeeting an adder at FreckleWish

- Drowning AppleDusk

[thestarsalign-wc]

I made this blog yesterday why am I popular

[thestarsalign-wc]

I am working on the canon Thunderclan family tree (Most of it is from bonefall, Everybody say thank you bonefall), but uh. It's rough. Should probably set rules for myself when reworking the family tree

[buildaclan]

' we have received a prophecy... '

buildaclan is a warrior cats themed build-a-headmate blog. we are neutral on essentially everything, so simply respect your own DNI. everyone is allowed to use our packs. we don't do transIDs due to a lack of knowledge but will add programs and role explanations if requested. we will not do paras but will do dark themes. we have no sourcelist, and will simply decline a request if we cannot do it. contradictory labels are fine.

we will take subclan requests of up to 10 cats, any tier and any addons as long as it is specified.

you may call us moth! we use they/star prns and are a traumagenic system

tags

#a new cat has joined our ranks : completed request

#a group of cats joined our clan : completed subclan request

#a cat has been exiled : denied request

#sharing tongues : extra chatter, not a request

tiers

kit : name, prns, age, role, faceclaim

apprentice : above + gender, sexuality, source (if applicable), species

warrior : above + personality traits, likes, dislikes, int status

medicine cat : above + speech, interests, hobbies, appearance description

deputy : above + unconscious habits, body language, opinions

leader : above + fears, phobias, trinket inventory, coping ability

cat of riverclan : aesthetic, moodboard, fav things

cat of shadowclan : negative self-beliefs, bad habits, flaws

cat of thunderclan : room in headspace, ideal home / safespace, insys job

cat of windclan : memories (source-related or not), quotes

cat of skyclan : nicknames, relationships with other alters (esp in a group pack)

cat of starclan : religious beliefs, spiritual practices, superstitions, spiritual experiences

cat of the dark forest : programs, program triggers, programming-related roles

cat of the tribes : front triggers, front indicators, fun facts

[azaleaspot]

Background kitties [Fire and Ice]

oh thank goodness this one's shorter than the first one. looking at the wiki, the last one for arc 1 should be forest of secrets or rising storm. after that is just "a windclan patrol" and bloodclan and i'm just focused on padding the clans we follow across arcs.

like last time, family tree/lost kits cats aren't included.

windclan

tortoiseshell [shrikestrike. knows all of windclan's secrets. best used in chaotic battles where they can attack multiple enemies and avoid getting caught. critical of the other clans until the great journey. ends up in a cross-clan relationship. dies in the eclipse battle.]

ashfoot's kits* [eaglestep and hobbytail. both disabled after the joint front to kick windclan out again! eaglekit was bit by an overzealous enemy trying to drag them by the paw. instead they almost lost it. seeing that brutality left poor hobbykit mute. both end up on opposite sides of the windclan leadership crisis.]

three elders [bellpelt, lingstripe, and ericaspot. three unrelated kitties all named after heather. very argumentative and competitive among each other. ericaspot dies trying to protect eaglekit during the joint front to drive windclan out again. lingstripe dies during the great journey and bellpelt dies sometime during po3. pick one to be the cat fireheart drags across the thunderpath. i choose ericaspot.]

tabby warrior [linnetstorm. hates the other clans, but respects fireheart/star. wears their heart on their sleeve. either dies on the great journey or during mudclaw's coup.]

rogue tom #1 [laurelclaw. one of brokenstar's best fighters. anti-tigerclaw and tigerclan, only followed tigerclaw to get back into shadowclan. ends up working with tigerclan rebels simply bc he wants tigerstar gone. dies falling into thunderclan's lake camp.]

mottled tabby rogue tom [dodderfang, renamed to whinfang. an older apprentice dragged into rogue life by his parents, who both followed brokenstar into exile. some time while brokentail and tigerclaw plot to attack thunderclan, dodderfang flees the rogues and seeks shelter in windclan, the last place they'll look for him at. dies during tbc.]

rogue tom #2 [mosquitofang. dodderfang's father. loyal to brokenstar and tigerstar until his end. dies at the paws of his son when tigerclan attacks windclan.]

*- note: according to one of the field guides, ashfoot only has eaglekit at the time and according to the family tree she has two other dead kits. however, in the prologue she says her kits [plural] won't be safe. as i'm making these posts with only the main series books and their wiki pages as reference, it only makes sense to do ashfoot's kits. i kept eagle as a compromise with existing canon though!