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yuridovewing · 10 months

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General Emeryverse Mapleshade’s Curse notes

(Cw for ableism and emotional abuse from a parent)

- Rainflower is Appledusk’s granddaughter- and RiverClan’s leader. She wanted her family to be high ranked and a golden standard for the clan, naming her mate deputy and assigning their son Oakpaw to him. Her kittens being born in a prophetic storm only strengthened her vision that they would be renowned warriors for generations. Which is why she’s as nasty as she is when Stormkit breaks his jaw.

- She uses the “leader’s word is law” rule to rename Crookedkit, and she doubles down on this hard. Shellheart, Oakkit, and Brambleberry all try to call him Stormkit when she’s not looking, but she picks a fight when she sees, so overtime Crookedkit just says it’s okay because he’s resigned to it and just doesn’t want to hear the fighting anymore.

- She’s passive aggressive to Crookedjaw throughout her life. Never outright lashing out at or picking a fight. Just… makes a point out of ignoring him. She puts him down at moments where he can’t afford to snap back, like at the few gatherings he’s allowed to attend and ceremonies. She puts off both his apprentice and warrior ceremonies, and it takes a lot of convincing to get her to not just throw him in the elder’s den where he can’t be seen. She uses her position to wear him down. He has allies, like his father and brother and Brambleberry, but they can only do so much when Rainstar has all the power. Essentially, this is to be an example of how “leader’s word is law” can be used in interpersonal relationships as well, creating a power imbalance.

- Mapleshade, while resentful that Appledusk’s kin are destined to be full of leaders, uses that to her advantage by making it so every lost life is dragged out and painful. Rainstar and Crookedstar were both meant to live very, very long lives with so much loss and agony, that would break their sense of self and drive RiverClan into madness. While she actually did achieve this with Mistystar later down the line, Rainstar and Crookedstar both died earlier than intended. (Still workshopping this)

- Rainstar likely dies how she does in canon- abruptly, out of Maple’s control, by splitting her head open on a rock and losing all her lives. Crookedjaw was still a young warrior, only officially having been one for a few moons even, just barely started training his apprentice- it was perfect for Mapleshade. She manipulated Shellheart’s path so that he fell into the same river Rainstar died in, and created a false sign- a squirrel with a broken jaw. And so, Crookedstar was born.

#ableism #child abuse #ask to tag #emeryverse #gotta workshop this for sure but ye

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yuridovewing · 10 months

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Okay a general Emeryverse change is that I want to save some of the kittens that get killed off really young because, and I know this sounds weird, I have noticed that they REALLY love to have a litter where its one boy and one or two girls, and the girls will die. It happens with five different characters at the top of my head. (Tigerstar, Brokenstar, Thunderstar, Jagged Peak, and Birchfall) and I know theres a bunch more for like background characters. And god damn it I want more girlies in there.

I'm gonna leave Birchfall's siblings as is because Birchfall being a sole survivor of his litter is something I want to play with.

Brokenstar and Thunderstar are probably gonna be single kitten litters because I don't really see a need for them to have dead siblings. I guess if you want to go with the idea that StarClan cursed Yellowfang's litter as punishment, but I don't really like that. And idk, I like Brokenstar at least being an only child and nothing really changes without his sisters.

Buuuut I might make them Brokenstar's daughters instead. Because Hopekit and Wishkit are REALLY cute names and I want to keep them. No idea what their fate would be, my vision is that Brokenstar sired a litter cause All Of Our Child Soldiers Are Dying For Some Reason, resulting in kids. They're born soon after he's exiled, and their mother named them Hopekit and Wishkit in an effort to give them good fortune despite their heritage. (I also imagine that she never told anyone who the dad was. But some can probably tell, they have the flat faces.)

In that case, I'd name them Hopeshine and Wishsong ^^ Hopeshine becomes a permanent nursery queen and Wishsong is a warrior, they both stick around til oots.

Fluttering Bird lives but she decides to stay with their mom. I... don't really know what she's doing tbh. I kinda want to axe the entire time travel "full circle" plot and I'm also considering axing the tribe altogether or having a totally different group take their place. I have no clue what to do with dotc and I kinda don't care. Whatever though she's alive.

Tigerstar's sisters live! They're all close as apprentices before Thistleclaw gets into Tigerpaw's head. Mistpaw becomes a medic apprentice and becomes Mistnose (she and Spotty train at the same time) and is in a trio with Featherwhisker and Spottedleaf... until she decides she wants to follow in her father's pawsteps and leaves to become a kittypet after seeing a dark vision of her brother terrorizing the forest. Her kittypet name is Angela. She is gone shortly before the events of Into the Wild and Tigerstar refuses to acknowledge that she ever existed.

Nightpaw becomes a warrior named Nightdapple and works as a scribe for the clan (note: this is a position dedicating to recording clan history. She's also in charge of educating the apprentices and kits on said history). She's on good terms with Spottedleaf even after her sister leaves and actually had a bit of a crush on her, but never said anything so as to not put any pressure on her. (Note: Spottedleaf is Rosetail's child here, not Swiftbreeze's. They are not related here.) She's on better-ish terms with Tigerclaw, but is horrified with his actions and refuses to leave with him in his exile.

#yes mistnose's ditching is still a sore point when rusty joins. yes tigerclaw gives him extra vitriol for it #since he wasnt close to her its less ''my sister left me :('' and more ''two of my important kin ditched the clan for a lesser life''#and he finds that shameful #emeryverse

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