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Rambly post incoming! About ThunderClan

i think itd be interesting if like, firestar's beliefs and actions actually had concrete changes on ThunderClan's culture, which is what causes so much friction between them and the other clans. Firestar having rightfully seen so many of the flaws in clan life, and deciding to do away with them within his own clan; for example, naming cats after their injuries or disabilities was kind of common before his arrival, but he saw it as being pointlessly cruel, and it slowly fell out of favor as a practice. Another example could be Firestar knowing that vets can heal life-threatening injuries with a much higher success rate than medicine cats, since he himself was a kittypet; Thunderclan cats who are severely injured are taken by the medicine cat and a warrior escort to a vet. The medicine cat has to return to camp, but the warrior escort remains behind to bring the injured cat home. (I imagine this is how Briarlight would have survived her spine injury, and maybe how Finleap was able to have his tail amputated). This is also why ThunderClan often has more medicine cats than other clans, and maybe could explain why their population is so much larger, they're more willing to take in outsiders and rely on outsiders' help to keep their cats safe. Conversely, modern RiverClan is the most isolationist clan due to Mistystar's leading style, which is why their population is also the smallest.

a large chunk of the TC cats older than Firestar probably found his changes to be too "soft-hearted", as can happen with older, more traditional-minded people, but most TC cats who grew up with firestar as their peer or leader adopted his beliefs. I jsut really like the idea of Firestar going against the individualism and social darwinist nature of the clans .... he knows when to ask for help and when to work together. Sometimes, safety is more important than honor. His view is that doing whatever he can to help his warriors is the most honorable decision, even if it goes against typical clan beliefs. He's an outsider who didn't grow up conditioned to accept their arbitrary rules, so he's always been much more likely to question them. As a result Thunderclan has become pretty much the most outsider-friendly clans around the lake, maaaybe second to skyclan, since most of them are only first, second, or third generation warriors.

In general Thunderclan cats tend to behave more altruistically towards the other clans, because they had a long-time leader whose style was "no cat left behind", and then that leader was succeeded by his apprentice, and then by his daughter, two cats who were very close to him and thus adopted many of his beliefs. However, many other clans see Thunderclan as nosy

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