#Well okay every trainee but Ivypool

[sunset-embers-warriors-designs]

I have several ideas about how I would have written Starclan’s function in warriors and I MUST write them down I must express them. I have two different ideas, one in which I maintain the canon fact that Starclan cats can fade/be killed, and another in which I do away with the fading thing.

First, a few things I would want for Starclan regardless of whether or not the spirits can fade: 

- All cats, regardless of the age they die at, are given a full warrior name. Kits or apprentices who die early are either named by their leaders at their vigil and carry that name to Starclan, or they’re named by Starclan spirits. 

- After a leader dies, the -star suffix is removed and they return to using their warrior suffix as a Starclan spirit. Perhaps the -star suffix is given up right at the moment of death, or the -star suffix is given up after the leader ceremony of the succeeding leader to indicate an official transfer of leadership.

- The point behind everyone having a warrior name in Starclan as opposed to any of the “determined by status” suffixes (kit/apprentice/leader) is to further express that all cats are equal in Starclan. There aren’t any clan borders in Starclan’s hunting grounds, and neither should there be different ranks.

No Fading Starclan:

- Cats in No Fading Starclan are given otherworldly wisdom upon entering Starclan, regardless of the age of the cat. All of Starclan shares the same knowledge of the past/present/future.

- However, this knowledge takes a form such that Starclan aren’t able to express it to the living in clear and understandable ways, which is why they speak in riddles when delivering prophecies. Like Starclan is trying to translate some kind of language of the universe into meows and at most it does like a google translate quality.

- Individual Starclan cats each have a limited amount of spiritual/magical energy which they can use to interact with the living world. The longer the clans all exist, the more manpower Starclan has, which explains why their abilities from arc 1 to arc 4 grow from “clouding over the moon during gatherings” to “entering the living realm to fight a ghost battle.” 

- Similarly, the Dark Forest spirits have their own kind of energy that grows the more cats they have in their realm. However, as a punishment for their sins, they don’t get their godly wisdom, and their ability to reach out to the living is a little foggy. They ARE, however, able to latch on to cats who have negative energy surrounding them, and will try to bring troubled souls into their ranks prior to their deaths so they can gain more energy when those cats DO die.

- In this AU, spirits can’t be killed, so the Starclan/Dark Forest battle ghost casualties (Tigerstar, Hawkfrost, Spottedleaf) will not have died. Instead, the buildup to the battle is the Dark Forest attempting to take power from Starclan by reaching out en masse to the troubled living cats with the end goal of “replacing” or at least being on par with Starclan in terms of power, in order to maybe fight their way into the good afterlife or continue reeking havoc as revenge on Starclan/the living. The battle itself is then the Dark Forest’s attempt to overthrow Starclan and gain control over the living clans to ensure they stay in power. Ivypool’s role of convincing her fellow Dark Forest trainees to fight for their clans/Starclan instead then takes away the power the Dark Forest had built up for itself, and having this rejection of the Dark Forest’s influence become a part of the clan’s history/culture keeps the Dark Forest from rising back up. Not to mention, the Dark Forest having used to much energy to manifest and do battle will have left them drained, especially after their defeat, and even if Dark Forest cats have the ability to replenish their individual powers somehow, it would take a long time to do it.

- Spottedleaf continues to exist, as previously mentioned, but as a general rule in every single one of my AUs she and Firestar aren’t romantically interested in one another at all. The only interest Spottedleaf would ever have had in Firestar was because the “Fire Alone Will Save Our Clan” prophecy was Her prophecy, she was the one to interpret it, and she felt responsible to see it through even after her death. When Firestar dies in the battle, Spottedleaf feels that her role in that prophecy is finally through and she just does regular Starclan cat things like climbing starry trees and eating ghost mice.

- In the case of the great battle, spirits who have manifested on the physical plane I think should still have the ability to kill the living, so the deaths in the great battle still happen just for the sake of being consistent with who’s alive in what arc.

- Also regarding the great battle, perhaps Tigerstar’s spirit can kill Firestar’s mortal form, gloat about it, but then Firestar’s spirit rises up and with his Starclan Spirit Powers he takes Tigerstar down. I just think that would have been cool.

Fading Starclan:

- In Fading Starclan, there are actually two levels of Starclan, but the living clans only KNOW about one. The living clans know Lower Starclan, the Starclan made up of recently dead/not-faded spirits who impart the prophecies onto the living. Lower Starclan are Also recipients of the prophecies they then translate to the clans, but they don’t fully understand them and believe these premonitions to be coming from some essence of the universe. 

- In fact, the prophecies are first foretold by Upper Starclan, which is made up of the energies of the faded spirits. Upper Starclan spirits, since they’re faded, lack the identities they had in life and are more accurately interpreted as a hivemind. Like a God with a million faces. Upper Starclan are the ones who block the moon with clouds, control the weather, and do stuff like set fires in the living world to impart prophecy.

- Lower Starclan functions more like a transitional spiritual plane. It’s a place for the spirits to rest from their mortal lives, and then eventually shed their previous personalities and ascend. Lower Starclan being given the prophecies first to then give to the living gives the living cats more reason to listen, because these messages are coming from spirits who are still personable and likely cats who the living interpreters knew and respected in life.

- The Dark Forest is a place to hide away the spirits of cats who would impede on the goals of Upper Starclan. They eventually fade away too and are permitted into Upper Starclan because they’re no longer a threat without their mortal memories/personalities getting in the way of their roles as God(s). 

- The Tribe of Endless Hunting’s spirits also fade away into Upper Starclan because the two groups have the same origin. Like Endless Hunting and Lower Starclan manifested because of the split in the groups and Upper Starclan just said “Okay We can work with this”

- True Reincarnations only occur when an Upper Starclan spirit returns to a mortal form. Jay’s Wing, Lion’s Roar, and Dove’s Wing’s spirits had all faded into Upper Starclan but were reborn as new mortals in order to fulfill the Power of Three Prophecy. This also explains why they have “the power of the stars”, they were part of the Cat God Collective prior. Cinderpelt/Cinderheart was a “reincarnation” that was NOT sanctioned by Upper Starclan, which is why Cinderpelt and Cinderheart have separate souls. 

- The reason the Power of Three thing happened was because Upper Starclan saw their Dark Forest Timeout corner spirits being naughty and worried that those spirits weren’t as out of the way and not hurting their goals as previously presumed. The battle was orchestrated to reinstate faith in Starclan and have some of the more troublesome Dark Forest Spirits fade so they would stop causing trouble. Technically, Tigerstar, Brokenstar, and Hawkfrost are all part of Upper Starclan after the great battle, but none of them have those identities anymore, or at the very least, those identities are not “in use.”

- The only spirits that can walk in Both Upper and Lower Starclan are legendary/historical figures like the clan founders and probably other significant cats who have legends made of their life experiences. 

- Goosefeather, by some mistake or intention(?) was granted a mental connection to Upper Starclan instead of just Lower Starclan like other medicine cats, which is why his visions were so intense and so far into the future, and just the sheer number of them. He could see Lower Starclan spirits as well like Beetail because I guess if you can connect to Upper Starclan than Lower Starclan is just a side effect. 

- Spiresight and Shadowsight might also have this connection to Upper Starclan? Idk I can’t decide. Shadowsight did as a kit at least, but perhaps Upper Starclan decided to chill after seeing how poorly Goosefeather’s connection turned out for him.

- Upper Starclan’s concept otherwise is very vague. Their goals seem to be to ensure the continuation of the clans, which ensures their growth and power, but power for what reason? idk what to do with that

Since the Broken Code arc isn’t complete at this time I’m not sure what direction I wanna take for either Fading or Not Fading Starclan to explain Starclan’s disappearance or Ashfur’s ability to mess with other spirits... perhaps in the Fading version, Ashfur is the one Lower Starclan cat to discover Upper Starclan and figures out how to tap into his full spiritual ability before shedding his mortal personality and uses this to cause chaos. idk what to say for Not Fading rn tho

#warriorcats #warrior cats #warrior cats headcanon #warrior cats au #starclan #power of three #omen of the stars #the broken code

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

Fernsong

Physical Appearance and Personality: Fernsong is a fairly small, non-binary (and uses he/him) cat, his body is very lithe and lean and he has dark yellow eyes with hints of amber and short golden-yellow fur.

He’s perky and extremely friendly and extremely bisexual and can get along with basically everyone, even the grumpiest of cats. He’s lovable and always shows his soft side, but not his vulnerable side. He’s extremely warm and loves kits more than anything else. He’s also extremely clumsy and not very good at fighting or hunting and is easily distracted. However when angered he’s known be able to give a good claw slashing to an enemy, but he’s still a little bit better at hunting, though not by much.

History and Relationships: No one talks about it a lot, but Fernsong was in fact not actually born in ThunderClan and isn’t CInderheart or Lionblaze’s biological kit. He was found as a not-quite 2 moon old kit two days after the great battle, mewing into his dead mother’s pelt. The she-cat was tragically found in the cross-hairs of the battle between heaven and hell and was accidentally killed in the process while she was out hunting for herself and her kit. Of course ThunderClan takes the kit in, asking him for his name where they find out that he doesn’t have one, and if he does he doesn’t remember it.

Sadly, Brightheart being an older she-cat and no longer having milk leftover from her older kits, can’t also bring in a sixth kit, but cinderheart gave birth only the day before and immediately offered to feed the new kit for the last bit of his nursing. She offers before Lionblaze can even say anything, but of course it’s Lionblaze and having been adopted himself, he eagerly agrees. Daisy mentions that that’s something Ferncloud would’ve done, immediately offer to feed a poor kitten and Lionblaze and Cinderheart decide to name the young kit Fernkit after her. All of the queens in the nursery and lionblaze shower Fernkit in love and he immediately fits into the clan perfectly.

However, when the surge of greencough happens, Fernkit gets it very badly and is effected by it so much that he’s still sick when he becomes 6 moons old and should’ve had his apprentice ceremony. It’s also so bad that it ends up damaging his throat and makes it so that his voice is quieter, lsofter, and higher pitched than it was before, as well as being a little bit crackly sometimes. Luckily, he recovers and is healthy and is given the go ahead to become an apprentice along side Lionblaze’s and Cinderheart’s daughters, Hollypaw and Sorrelpaw, and because of his smaller stature, he’s actually a little smaller than them, so it looks like he’s the same age as them.

Fernpaw becomes a warrior alongside Hollytuft and Sorrelstripe, becoming Fernsong after his battle with the greencough that affected his voice and how he continues to have such a positive view on life even through all he’s gone though.

Soon after Fernsong becomes a warrior and being on a few patrols with the warrior, Ivypool, he falls head over tails for her. They had never really interacted before because Ivypool was always busy with either her own apprentice, trying to repair her relationship with her sister, and her burying herself in responsibilities to serve her clan and prove her and the other former dark forest trainee’s loyalty.

But now that they were able to be around each other, Fernsong fell in love with the beautiful, aggressive, and snappy she-cat and he did everything in his power to get to know her and talk to her as much as he could. Of course he wasn’t good at hiding his feelings and Ivypool picked up on them after only a bit and at first only thought it was just a cute short-term crush. How could anyone be in love with her? A scarred up she-cat who trained in hell and had killed another cat. That seemed like the very opposite kind of cat Fernsong would’ve been interested in, and yet for several moons he didn’t let up.

He finally told her out right that it was okay if she didn’t want to be his mate, that he knew that she also was in love with Blossomfall, that he saw how Ivypool tried to get through Blossomfall’s rough exterior, but failed time and time again. But he at least wanted to be friends. He knew from the stories what happened during the great battle, and what Ivypool did and how the dark forest had hurt her, and it had hurt him too, his mother was killed because of the dark forest. They were both hurt and trying in their own ways to heal.

It was in that moment after moons of getting to know each other more and more, little by little, that Ivypool recognized the slowly growing feelings she had for this cat, a cat that was opposite to her in many ways, yet they clicked and meshed so well together. Fernsong never talked about his mother, and he never talked about how he wasn’t born in ThunderClan, he always wanted to forget those blurry memories from when he was a kit, and now here he was opening up fully to one of the roughest cats in ThunderClan, showering her his vulnerable side instead of his soft and warm side.

In one conversation Fernsong was able to break down every single one of the walls Ivypool had put up to protect herself from getting hurt and in that moment she knew that this was him, this was her precious, tiny, sensitive, non-binary mate that she loved so much more than she had let herself.

And then of course, moons later, Fernsong does the unthinkable again and offers to be a live-in parent for his and Ivypool’s kits, the first cat that couldn’t actually give birth to kits themselves to live in the nursery. Many cats, even outside of ThunderClan, were impressed and admired Fernsong’s decision. Many of them, of course, lovingly compare him to his namesake, Ferncloud.

#warrior cats #fernsong #ivypool #fernivy #thunderclan #oots #avos #lionblaze #cinderheart #also i couldn't fit it in anywhere but he's also best friends and mates with stormcloud #and ivypool and blossomfall also become mates when they're raising kits together in the nursery #because blossomfall finally let's herself breakdown in front of ivypool #and blossomfall is also in a relationship with rosepetal #everyone is happy #hollytuft #sorrelstripe

[larksinging]

are there any canonmates you'd love to see on denny?

HMMMM

for ivypool, i’d love a dovewing because i always wanted to see more of their dynamic. or maybe one of the the other dark forest trainees like blossomfall or........ one of the other dark forest trainees. OR for conflict, a hawkfrost!!! i love hawkfrost

for violetpaw id love a needletail or hell even a darktail. theres just... SOOO much to violetpaw and needletail’s dynamic thatd be heartbreaking to expand on, and then darktail and violetpaw are such good hero/villain foils. oooor twigbranch(paw)!

laurel ive always wanted an e-1 laurel because GOD. itd be SO interesting. theres just... SO much potentialin doppelganger dynamics thats NEVER explored. or, hear me out, an oliver. i feel like hes a character that could be saved by rp and theres... obvious a lot to their dynamic

margot im hesitant to ask since shes pretty low muse now and i wouldnt want people apping FOR me, but yknow. alana, will, or hannibal would all be super cool

for lord shen.... well i already got boss wolf which is a canonmate i could never DREAM of, so im happy there. but also a po, because, obviously. though id also love to throw shen at the other kfp villains? tai especially

for penny... aw, geeze, i think every canonmate she has a close dynamic with is on denny? ruby, pyrrha.... yeah

for emerald, honestly id kill for a mercury, because i do really love their dynamic.... that ooor a hazel? maybe? or a SALEM. salem on denny would be cool. 

okay then down to my rvb claims: for locus, hmmmn, a tucker or hell even a doyle or kimball might be cool? oh how could i forget GRIF. honestly any of the reds and blues. and then for carolina, a tex. cmon let me give them the closure they deserve. but also epsilon or any other church, and of COURSE any of the reds or blues because god i love them. OR UMMM any of the other freelancers, york would be interesting but also like south or north? or CONNIE? god!!!

#thanks giz!!! #denny is a cursed place #tailsthesales