The Seaborne AU

"I'll tend to the flame; you can worship the ashes."

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A seaborne warrior...

"Sick of his life on the streets, a young cat called Rusty boards a fishing boat bound for faraway lands and gets a heck of a lot more than he bargained for." Kia ora! My name is Koda (they/them), and welcome to the Seaborne AU blog. Seaborne is an alternative universe (AU) based on the stories told in the Warriors series by Erin Hunter.

My ask box is open, but keep in mind that this story is a WIP and i will only work on it when i feel inspired to do so.

The dividers in this post are created by @uzmacchiato :)

The header art is official Warriors art made by Wayne McLoughlin and my profile picture is an official Warriors illustration made by Joanna Mosińska.

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wasn't expecting so many people to be interested in the wiki, here's a screencap of the main page so far!

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What if I combine Cloudstar's Journey and StormClan's Folly AND make it doomed yuri?

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Ignore the names as this is just a draft, but this my initial plan for Thunder Clowder's "royal" lineage.

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Omg this is so freaking cute.

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I find this hilarious.

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I almost wonder if there was a different plan for how a medicine cat was decided originally because of this dialogue.

This is from Into the Wild and I can see this going two ways:

Victoria Holmes either originally didn't think that Yellowfang had trained Runningnose or she had a different system in mind for how medicine cats were decided.

Or (and this is my favorite option honestly), Yellowfang knows Firepaw still doesn't know the ins and outs of how medicine cats work and is messing with him by acting like she had no idea Runningnose would be the medicine cat after her. Love this option because I love sassy and sarcastic Yellowfang lmao.

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You know, I would normally say that the website family tree is a bunch of bullshit, but I actually agree with it this time.

Edit: Just found out where it says Toadskip is their Dad. Of course it would be Blackfoot's Reckoning, which was published around a decade after Yellowfang's Secret.

It's really funny that it's not shown on the website family tree though lmao.

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This is why we don't listen to Su Susann. If we considered every relation she made to be canon, everyone in RiverClan except for Mothwing, Shimmerpelt, Lizardtail, and Gorseclaw are somehow related. Note that Gorseclaw is Lizardtail's son, but they aren't connected to anyone else on the Su Susann RiverClan family tree.

Here's a link to the family tree I made to confirm all this btw. Let me know if I got anything wrong, although I'm pretty sure this should all be correct :)

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I hate this stupid fucking family tree.

Why did they have to randomly make Flashnose and Daisytoe sisters as well as Fallowsong and Sweetbriar? Everything would be so much better if it wasn't for those stupid ass retconned relations.

I also am outright refusing to acknowledge that Windflight and Rainfur apparently had Thrushpelt, Dappletail and Tawnyspots because of the CLEAR age differences between those three in Bluestar's Prophecy. I could MAYBE believe that Dappletail and Thrushpelt were siblings if Thrushpelt was like some prodigy who was made a warrior early or Dappletail got held back for some reason, but Tawnyspots is literally described as old. It's already weird to me that Poppydawn and Windflight are meant to be mates when Windflight is older than Pinestar and Poppydawn is only like a moon older than Goosefeather and Moonflower. Don't even get me started on Leopardfoot and Pinestar.

Also not going to acknowledge that apparently Darkstripe and Graystripe are Willowpelt's kits because it literally says in TPB that Willowpelt's first litter is Sootfur, Rainwhisker and Sorreltail.

I was also kind of horrified to realize that the tree becomes a circle when you make Whitestorm and Willowpelt mates. I mean, they could be doing a lot worse than second cousins once removed, but it still is not a good look lmao.

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Omg why are there so many mollies in the most recent generations in RiverClan. Stonefur and Whiteclaw are literally the only boys plus Fireheart since he's in RiverClan now. All the others are mollies:

- Emberdawn - Mosspelt - Grasswhisker - Vixenleap - Silverstream - Mallowtail - Dawnbright - Mistyfoot

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I thought I was gonna have to split up this bloodline but then I realized that it goes extinct in the series anyway lmao.

The AppleReed line ends with Reedwhisker if you only look at the cats in the Clans and not Stormfur's descendants in the Tribe. The FallowReed line is the same.

The LakeCedar and EchoHail lines are much the same in that none of Sunfish and Beetlenose's kits ever had kits of their own that weren't invented by Su Susann. I am refusing to acknowledge that Frogleap and Mosspelt are a pairing in canon, and even if I did, the line would still end with Dawnflower's kits.

I'll probably still shift some things around just to future proof stuff anyway and for the sake of upholding the canon shown in TPB (so long as it's not something weird asf, like DustFern), but the changes should be minimal. Thank fuck that RiverClan is so much less complicated than ThunderClan. I am procrastinating working on untangling their family tree so much.

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For anyone who has set their Warriors story in a different setting to canon, I highly recommend you check out iNaturalist and look at the different observations in your chosen location (if it is a real location ofc). It's such a good resource if you want to know what kinds of species you find in a given area.

I'm currently using it to help me create a list of plausible prefixes for my characters, but you can also use to figure out what kind of resources your characters would have access to and what their environment would look like.

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Rest in peace, Millie (19/03/13 - 14/05/26).

I hope you know that you are so loved.

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Very funny Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

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I've selected a new area for Seaborne to take place in ;D

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hello!!! to anyone who still had any interest in this au, i am pleased to say that my interest in wc has returned once more and i will be working on it again.

with that said, it is getting a MASSIVE revamp and, as a result, i probably won't be posting about it for a while until i have a solid plan for it down.