Candy Carrier Chaos Catified! CanyonClan’s leader Sweetstar + The Devourer + A certain band of rogues
In DreamClan’s story, CanyonClan (the other main clan over the river) is settled in the cliff like ridges surrounding an arid valley. Despite these harsh conditions, CanyonClan thrives with the reliance of a dense, magical tree sap littering the canyons.
However, shortly after the Rat Queen was destroyed, a new problem emerged. A group of rogues stole an abundance of the tree sap for their own safety, putting CanyonClan at risk of illness and starvation. Sweetstar (the leader of CanyonClan) sent a messenger to DreamClan requesting help. Skullstar receives this message and sends DreamClan out to assist the other clan with their misfortune. What Sweetstar neglected to mention was that there was an added danger lurking around the territory; a giant monster with a voracious appetite.
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Crocfang’s mother may or may not be revealed later, as I am undecided on how important she will be to the story. As mentioned in Crocfang’s notes, he was born in the dream world, and that is because his mother was expecting kits when she became trapped. His litter isn’t the first or only cats to be born in the dream world, but his family is the most notable in the story as of now. Croc has no memory of the outside world, and the dream world is all he has ever known. As a kit, he was told stories of his mother’s upbringing and the world beyond the dream, but he never seemed to care about escaping.
Another thing— in The Amazing DreamClan (shortened to TADrCl) Crocfang, Tallleg, and Tumblefoot are brothers/littermates. It’s rarely mentioned since a lot of cats don’t see their siblings as siblings, but rather littermates in WC canon. It’s the same for these three. They don’t think of the biological relation, and are rather just really good friends. This explains them having similar fade patterns and white underbellies!
Hey. Reminder. You can headcanon your own fear entity in the TMA universe because the groupings are canonically abstract and imperfect. You can fit another one in there if you find a niche
(I did find a niche. Ramble below the cut)
Like, for example, I keep coming back to this concept of being hunted or slaughtered for meat by an entity who doesn't understand what they're doing is wrong. It's just what they know. It never seems to fit neatly into the hunt, the flesh, or the slaughter. It could very well be any of them.
Edit: Also, it can present internally as a lack of control over one's violent instincts while still maintaining control over their actions, or as a blurring/ignorance of moral lines
I usually consider it The Slaughter, because that fear of "senseless" violence is there, but it's only senseless if you don't consider the perspective of the killer.
If you do consider it, it could be interpreted as The Hunt until you remember that the killer takes no perverse joy in the pursuit, just doing what it needs to in order to survive.
But then you get to thinking that the real heart of it all is the fear that maybe we're all just meat to be fed to the mouths of whatever stakes its claim on us. Then it would be The Flesh.
Thus, I propose a new fear. The Consumption/The Devourer, The One Who Devours, It Knows Nothing But to Feed.
But then again, you only reach that conclusion once you stop and think about it. In the moment, if you were being chased, you'd be more afraid of what's pursuing you than the existential dread of being meat. Which brings it back to Hunt or Slaughter. It's all a matter of perspective.
Edit: Can present metaphorically as the indirect consequences of one's innocuous actions happening immediately and within the victim's vicinity. (Ex. You use genai and the water you were just about to drink abruptly evaporates. You buy something online from an unethical company and someone drops dead in front of you.)
Every action that the modern world has placed unavoidable consequences on now makes those consequences unignorable.
Additionally, if someone else is causing the harm, it directly hurts you but the perpetrator is coincidentally unable to perceive each consequence due to an outside force. (They toss a knife at a wall, it ricochets, hits you. They were too busy looking at their phone. They look up; "Why did you stab yourself?")
@bunny-withacrossbow is definitely an avatar/construct of The Consumption and I'll be adding that to their details and hopefully expanding on it in rp.
If you make a Consumption oc or statement, please tag me! I'd love to see this expanded on!
