Intro Post
Welcome all!
I snatched the URL for myself from someone previously hoarding it a while ago, so I feel a little bit obligated to use it. So I guess this blog is gonna host all the WindClan-centric ideas from my own rewrite AU thingy, Haneossia. You may have seen them before on my main Warriors sideblog @troutfur.
I'm currently in the process of entangling the family tree. The way I imagine my version of the WindClan civil war, it is a conflict that is above all about familial loyalties. Nobody in WindClan had any strong opinions on Tallstar's successor, really. It was not a battle of ideology or policy but rather a petty feud that dragged everyone on two sides of a web of alliances. As such I need to figure out how everyone connects.
WindClan operates in accordance to the pfurr system of kinship from the Haneossia AU. In brief: cats sleep segregated by litters and to take a mate means inviting them to sleep with your littermates. Cats who sleep together and don't share a maternal grandmother are assumed to be in a relationship. Siring is anonymous and all members of a nest unit who are not the birthing parent (wipfurr in their language) share the role of pipfurr, roughly equivalent to father except not at all gendered. This makes the society of the Clans polyamorous, bisexual, and matrilineal.
Asks are open and I in fact am looking for help with entangling the family tree and developing the alliance webs!
So far for a start I have:
The two alliance webs are centered around Mudclaw and Ashfoot's relatives
Onewhisker is in fact not her brother but rather an ul-arramew, singleton kitten, a cat with no littermates who is stereotyped as clingy and immature and thus an undesirable partner
Whitetail took Onewhisker as a mate for purely political reasons, as she is related (in some way I haven't yet figured out) to Ashfoot and thus allowed him access to her familial alliance network
Crowfeather and Nightcloud stand on opposite sides of the alliance network and were arranged to marry each other as a symbolic end of the war
If you have any ideas to suggest feel free to come to my inbox! The help is much appreciated!
Also, here is @bonefall's canon family tree for WindClan, for further reference: