#y2-gl

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cinderpaw’s name

"Is she ready?" Sagewhisker asked.

Yellowfang tossed her head. "She's my apprentice. Of course she's ready."

The living seers were gathered around the Moonstone. This was Cinderpaw's first trip by herself, and Yellowfang was certain that Mudfur and the others would have expressed confusion, followed by condolences.

As an apprentice with no mentor, the seers would confer. Cinderpaw was certain to be deemed worthy — a moon or two more and Yellowfang would have given Cinderpaw her full name.

"Barkface is performing the ceremony," Sagewhisker murmured. "Shame. I hoped we'd get to do it."

Yellowfang flicked her tail. "It's probably for the best. We'd just bicker over names. Someone would try to name her Cinderfeather. Or Cindershine."

"Those are good names."

Yellowfang flicked her ear irritated. "Good names, but not good names for her. Barkface will pick well."

Cinderpelt, newly named, touched her nose to the Moonstone, and Yellowfang prepared to greet her apprentice.

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just us

Soaked, the three newest apprentices of RiverClan sat in the dimming remains of sun, a trout sitting in front of the three of them.

"I'm pretty sure Mistyfoot is going extra hard on me," Featherpaw said, her ears twitching. She was joking, mostly — even if Mistyfoot had said she would. Mosspelt and Mistyfoot had helped raise all three of them.

"How's it feel to have the deputy for a mentor?" Primrosepaw asked.

Stormpaw flicked his tail, rolling onto his side and licking his flank. "We were together all day, Primrosepaw. It was fine."

She batted at his ear. "Today was a good day."

"Yeah," Featherpaw agreed. "It was."

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thunderclan — year two — greenleaf

first up, yellowfang dies in the fire, along with smallear and halftail.

cinderpaw doesn't have her full name when yellowfang dies, so she gets it during the next half moon, and becomes cinderpelt.

redtail finally starts to recover, and bluestar is convinced to make him deputy again. he's able to manage thunderclan much more effectively than fireheart, making ashpaw and fernpaw into warriors: ashfur and ferncloud.

cloudpaw and juniperpaw are apprenticed to fireheart and sandstorm respectively. birchflower decides to stay in the nursery full time (although goldenflower, frostfur, and brindleface all make sure her hunting and fighting are up to par).

the dog pack incident is moved up a bit in terms of start time, to the end of greenleaf (vs. leaffall).

swiftwhisker, angry that his leader (bluestar) doesn't really recognize them as warriors, still leads an attack on the dogs. he survives, but with serious injuries, and moves into the elders' den.

brightheart's survival is much less certain in the beginning, and bluestar still renames her to lostface "so that starclan can see what they have done to thunderclan."

willowpelt has sorrelkit, rainkit, and sootkit.

and that's greenleaf.

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shadowclan — year two — greenleaf

while nightstar survives the carrion sickness, he's exctemely weak. tigerclaw is able to become deputy and effectively run the clan, much to the anger of many shadowclan cats. with him, come snag and mowgli.

mowgli isn't formally an apprentice, but tigerclaw effectively mentors him. i have no idea how old they're supposed to be, but some fic got the idea of mowgli being an apprentice in my head and i don't think it effects anything.

tangleburr has a kit, dandelionkit, a mostly white she-cat with pale ginger patches.

brackenfoot passes from the carrion sickness.

later in the season, nightstar passes, and tigerstar succeeds him. (was this manipulation by tigerclaw? most definitely.)

he appoints blackfoot deputy.

mowgli becomes a warrior, nightwhisper. shadowclan has no elders, but they would hypothetically be pissed about this name. the lack of elders is, actually, the only reason tigerstar can name him nightwhisper.

rowanpaw is apprenticed to jaggedtooth, but cedarkit dies. dandelionkit also dies.

applefur has a litter of five kits: berrykit (spotted tom), cypresskit (tabby tom), cresskit (white and red tom with dark flecks), sandkit (tabby she-cat), and watchkit (white tom with grey points and black flecks)

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riverclan — year two — greenleaf

greypool moves into the elders den, due to her declining mental health (early onset dementia).

larchpaw becomes larchfern.

dawnpaw, orangepaw, and sprucepaw are apprenticed to heavystep, leopardfur, and greenflower, respectively.

pikekit passes away. when greypool moves into the elders den, mistyfoot becomes featherkit and stormkit's primary caretaker. two of her other kits, reedkit and perchkit, die close to their apprentice ceremonies, in a flood.

the three remaining kits become apprentices together. crookedstar makes mistyfoot and stonefur featherpaw and stormpaw's apprentices (respectively), and gives primrosepaw to mosspelt.

this is his last act as leader before his declining health forces leopardfur to become acting leader, and eventually, when he loses his final life, leader. she makes stonefur her deputy.

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corrections: shadowclan y2-gl

on closer inspection, it appears shadowclan also had a second greenleaf. i'll list the changes here, as well as add them into the original posts. this was a critical season, so the fact that i missed it is embarrassing. you would have noticed by the time allegiances posted, because of multiple unannounced leadership changes.

anyway, riverclan and shadowclan born before y2-lf are now a season older than their canon counterparts.

nightstar passes, replaced by tigerstar.

blackfoot is appointed deputy.

nightwhisper (mowgli) becomes a warrior. shadowclan elders are pissed not to be consulted about this name.

rowanpaw is apprenticed to jaggedtooth

cedarkit (cedarheart) dies

dandelionkit dies

applefur has five kits: berrykit, cypresskit, sandkit, cresskit, and watchkit

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Actually, one more question. When did Primrosepaw become an apprentice?

oh wow this is actually a really weird mistake.

every now and then when i'm making the new season, i have a copy paste related mistake. sometimes, this is caused by me failing to actually copy paste the next season, so i lose a season of data. (luckily, this is almost always after i've written the posts.)

in this case, riverclan had two green-leaf seasons in the document during y2. when i was writing up the posts, i must have seen greenleaf, and written the next season, not realizing a whole slew of changes had occurred. i'll list them here for clarity, before editing them in:

primrosepaw is apprenticed to mosspelt, featherpaw to mistyfoot, and stormpaw to stonefur.

reedkit and perchkit both die.

and most importantly, crookedstar dies?

that was a really important season that got skipped in a weird way so thank you for calling this to my attention.

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windclan — year two — greenleaf

overall, a calm and quiet season for windclan.

nettlekit passes.

whitetail has a litter of kits: echokit (cream tom), noddingkit (light brown calico she-cat with long fur), indigokit (she-cat with white spots), and thriftkit (smokey she-cat)

and that's pretty much kit.