#rat leader

[bonefall]

BB!MALICIOUS ENTITY: Ancestor Rats

A cruel fate that can befall a shattered pantheon, and the enemies of Firestar's Quietus

With SkyClan homeless and exiled at the end of the Skyfall Era, StarClan itself was in chaos. 1/5th of their ranks broke from the sky to walk with their descendants into exile, with only some of the most powerful ancestors staying behind.

Skystar himself, Patron of War, was one of them. He scoffed that a Clan that couldn't hold even a sliver of land had failed his teachings, and deserved nothing.

Scores of cats died in exile, starved, exposed, killed by predators. Cloudstar desperately tried to keep his cats together as SkyClan dwindled. Soon, there were barely enough cats to maintain a Clan, let alone such a large pantheon.

When Cloudstar died, his successor Spiderstar found herself facing a new threat. One she couldn't defeat.

Over and over, there were rats who would attack the camp. Horrible, twisted creatures of many colors, with sharp claws like a cat and jaws full of needle teeth. They swirled like a storm around a central point, wound so tightly that it was impossible to see what lay at the eye.

While watching baby spiders fly away from their mother on little silk balloons, Spiderstar devised a Great Plan. SkyClan would live apart but connected, loosely, like a web. The Rats could not kill what they could not find.

As she watched her Clan disperse, some to humans homes, some to live as rogues, the blood roared in her ears. It pounded, throbbed into a rythmn, until the words of a prophecy became overwhelming,

"EEK SHARRARRAM SSARSHAIWO!"

[Rat ancestors disastrous-they-will-kill]

Could this be true? Would their ancestors save them from the rats, someday?

(Below the cut; a guide to Ancestor Rats and how they are dealt with in Firestar's Quietus. CONTENT WARNING: BODY HORROR, GORE.)

Firestar's Quietus; The Secret of the Rats

Exactly as before, when Firestar and the spirit of Brokenstar gathered the SkyClan web together, the rats had one point of attack. They washed over the soon-to-be warriors in a wave, but they were able to fight them off.

Skywatcher laid on his side in the clearing, trembling and wide eyed, covered in horrible bites. At first they could barely get a word out of him, too shaken to speak. When he was finally able to force a word out, he could only mumble;

"I saw Lowbranch. That was my mother..."

And then, someone else came forward, sharing that one rat had the same stripes as their brother. Another recognized their son's tufts on another's ears. The camp buzzed with tension as the stories bubbled forth.

Everyone recognized something in the rats.

Something had happened to their ancestors. Something terrible. It became clear why they had never answered their prayers or sent a hero to save them. Brokenstar tried to reach them, but he could only hear a command echoing in the darkness.

"Neek urrspeekorreen urrsnyarhak, karrl urrsnakochya." "THAT WHICH CANNOT BE FIXED, MUST BE BROKEN"

It was only later, when they went to confront the rats once and for all, that they realized what those words meant. Stumbling out into the dim light out of the barn, they saw them.

Those weren't just rats!

And the most horrible thing of all was the atrocity behind it all, the creature at the center of the swirling, agonized mass, the eye of the storm...

The Rat Leader; Cloudstar

He promised to keep his Clan together. So he did.

As each life wasted away and his Clan dwindled, smaller and smaller, as their heaven crumbled above them and became too tiny to hold their ancestors, Cloudstar kept them in one piece.

When he died, that mission continued. Trapped as this cursed creature, Cloudstar was mindlessly commanding his cats like a storm around him, dragging in both the dead and the living in a desperate attempt to save the Clan he'd vowed to protect.

SkyClan could not mend until this curse was broken. These fallen angels needed to be released, by force, to rejoin a new heaven of modern making. Slipping into the body of Firestar, Brokenstar was able to lend all of his talents for one final fight. It was just like being back at Carrionplace.

With his purpose as the fallen 5th tree, a guardian spirit, fulfilled and the rats freed from their prisons, Brokenstar's soul grew sleepy with peace. Firestar buried the acorn necklace that he had used to channel him overlooking the gorge, where it quickly sprouted into a new oak.

Rat Ancestors; Tome of Beasts

When an afterlife is destroyed, through mass death or supernatural attack, and the spirits within it cannot peacefully fade away or join a new pantheon, all of its souls can become earth-bound.

There are many types of entities and curses in this world, each one completely unique. Ancestor Rats are the form that this pantheon took.

From a distance, an Ancestor Rat could be mistaken for an odd, escaped domestic rodent. Their faces were an unsettling mix of rat and cat, with teeth laid out like a cat's but endlessly growing like a rat. They had the blade-like claws of a Clan cat, tearing through the skin and laying at various angles.

They had no physical needs, but were unable to handle being separated from their leader. Cloudstar himself, however, did need to rest in some way, returning to the barn where he died every day.

When one was killed, it would flash blue as if briefly turning into a shard of the sky, before leaving a completely standard rat corpse in its place. As long as Cloudstar was alive, the pulsar of each spirit would simply be dragged back into another rat after some time.

There was no escape until he was killed.

After the defeat of the Ancestor Rats, the spirits moved on to SkyClan's special heaven; Skypelt. Even after moving to the lake, Skypelt maintains its independence from Silverpelt, judging its own souls and staying separate (but connected) to StarClan-Prime.

With an abundance of rat bodies on their paws, SkyClan started a morbid tradition for a very special celebration. "The New Day" is celebrated every year with a grand feast, where a traditional rat meat dish called "Roasted Grandpaw" is served.

#BB!Malicious Entity #Better Bones AU #cw body horror #Firestar's Quietus #Ancestor Rats #Rat Leader #The Rat Leader wc #Spirituality Overhauls #Tome of Beasts #BB!Cloudstar #cw gore #SkyClan Rats

[buzzprincess1]

Rat Leader!

#warriors designs #warriors fanart #warrior cats #warrior rats #rat leader #firestar's quest #regirat

[critterbitter]

Revisiting relatives at chargestone cave! Here’s tynamo’s cousin, here’s tynamo’s cousin, here’s tynamo’s cousin, here’s-

Anyways I like to imagine chargestone cave’s magnetic fields are so strong it causes rock islands to float and gravity to get a tad funky. Or maybe it’s due to the thinning barrier between the material world and the distortion world…

Master list for more pokemon shenanigans!

#(rubbing my little rat hands together) would ya look at that unova has certain points where the distortion world bleeds through #this will have no lasting impacts in the future yep yep #anyways YES. emmet’s tynamo IS in fact much larger then its wild cousins #pokemon #art #sketchbook #submas #nimbasa trio #myart #fanart #pokemon ingo #subway boss ingo #submas comic #pokemon emmet #subway boss emmet #pokemon elesa #gym leader elesa #pokemon art #pkmn art #tynamo #litwick #blitzle #dwebble #joltik #galvantula #ferroseed #nosepass #go rat children go #chargestone cave #pkmn bw

[brightgoat]

Follower Awaits Indoctrination

#cult of the lamb #ratau #cotl #cult of the lamb fanart #fanart #cotl ratau #cotl fanart #shrumy #flinky #klunko #klunko and bop #cult of the rat #au #cotl au #art #arrt #leader ratau

[bb-ants]

HE JUST LIKE ME FR

#pokemon #pokemon sv #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #larry #larry pokemon #gym leader larry #elite four larry #maushold #my art #poor larr-rat #larry's engaged to me and i would never leave him Idk what he's talking about

[artbyblastweave]

i dont know anything about fallout except its a wild west postnuclear survivor game and there’s a jaunty lil dude who’s always giving you a thumbsup? Anyway i would love to know your thoughts on water collection/distribution and/or the economy of mended stuff.

sorry your brain is on the brink

In the context of fallout? The post-nuclear Water economy is the backbone of three different games; the plot of the first involves you getting kicked out of your fancy underground Bunker City in order to find replacement parts for the water filtration system, and the rudimentary post-apocalyptic society you explore uses a currency backed on the water standard (in lieu of the Gold Standard- one bottlecap for one bottle of water.). Water Merchants (those with access to water towers, etc) are power players in the nascent political ecosystem. The (not-very-well-considered) plot of the third game involves trying to get a widespread water purification program working for the DC area. And the central conflict of New Vegas (sometimes referred to as "the really good one,") consists of the local powers brawling over control of the still-functional Hoover Dam due to the control it would provide over the regions freshwater and electricity supply.

I liked New Vegas's take on the scavenged-equipment economy the best. The setting shift to Nevada (previous games by the same writing team being in California) is in part meant to reflect that people back west have simply run out of old-world materials to scavenge, and are now back to living in actual cities that they build out of novel materials, eating food they grow and cook- which makes for a boring place to set a game, hence the shift to the "frontier" of Vegas, where you'll encounter neo-western "prospectors" (scavengers) looking for new claims to tap for pre-war resources to supplement what re-industrialized society can produce. Many of the weapons and armor-sets you use and fight against are encountered in a mad-max style environment, but many of them aren't implausibly-still-in-use antiques- they're being manufactured by a largely off-screen 21st-century-styled liberal-democratic society that's rebuilt enough to redevelop mass consumption and arms conglomerates, the negative externalities of which are spilling out to affect those on the frontier.

#thoughts #meta #fallout for people who don't play fallout #also frank sinatra's rat pack has militarized #and their leader shoots your player character in the head at the start of the game #so it goes #asks #ask #fallout #fallout new vegas #feel free to correct me if I've misremembered any of the particulars here- it's late

[raisans-art]

Aggie drawings :3

Revolutionary Girl Elesa drawings, Agee, @evtraininguniversity ‘s Borrower Ingo interacting with Agee, Borrower Emmet on the quest to find his brother, Elesa missing her funny lil mouse guys, @thatdragonzeek ‘s eeveelution submas babies, and a bit of silly ponies :3

Enjoy

#submas #submas au #ingo #subway boss ingo #emmet #subway boss emmet #elesa #gym leader elesa #revolutionary girl Elesa au #chimera emmet au #subway rats au #tw body horror #for the chimera

[yuridovewing]

*head snaps up with the speed of arrows*

CLOUDTAIL AND BRIGHTHEART GO TO REBUILD SKYCLAN

#oh boy oh boy oh boy #cloudtail with the beginning of the daylight warrior rank. cloudtail again being conflicted by his heritage #brightheart feeling paranoid and still coping with her trauma from the dog pack and needing to run off for a while #dog pack and rat leader parallels maybe….. #razorverse #needs developing but ohhhh i was wracking my brain over why fire would leave when ive changed the stuff with his kits #when like. he doesnt! his nephew does! #maybe firestar gets all the visions but cloudtail (while thinking its silly) sees how his uncle and mate are both distraught #and he and brightheart decide to go on the quest themselves #and just maybe. they have whitekit along the way bc it adds to the drama i think #this would also replace a thief in thunderclan btw. idk if its worth reduxing that story at all #i think this would be a dual super edition. bc they both have pov worthy stuff #cloudtail and brightheart’s quest….

[lab-trash]

Kaz: What would Chase or Skylar do?

Oliver: Well I know one of them... would be beautiful.

Kaz: Okay, what about Skylar?

#this is what happened #follow the leader #lab rats elite force #lab rats #mighty med #chase davenport #incorrect quotes #kaz mm #kase #kaz lref #chaz #oliver lref

[bonefall]

WAIT THE RATS ARENT CANONICAL SKYCLANS ANCESTORS?? ive literally read that book so many times and yet a few months of following you and i forget its not canon hdkbdkbs

NOPE! THAT'S ALL BB BABEY

It feels right though, doesn't it?! But no! Canon actually never explains what the hell was going on there! Rat Leader is literally just a talking rat who hates SkyClan so much he has a rat army.

(and btw if you shit talk about rat leader im stealing something out of your hosue. i love him. WC should do weird shit more often. i desperately miss how TNP-era WC just had weird shit happen. Cougar in England? ok lmao what the hell)

Rat Leader fills me with questions

Is this the SAME rat that killed SkyClan in the first place?

If so, how has he lived for like 20 years?

If not, then how do the rat leaders pass on leadership? Rat inheritance?? Rat elections??? Do they have trial-by-combrat???

How do they practice? Are they a Clan?

It seems that they use little tiny movements to work together, how coordinated ARE these rats? How intelligent are rats, generally? Because they have a level of training waaaaay beyond Clan cats

Why is Rat Leader so hateful? Is it because they hunt him and his people? Or are rats just like... born evil gsgsdfgf

Canon!Rat Leader has no explanation. He simply is. The Rat Ancestors are from BB.

I went hunting out of curiosity for where the idea first came from btw, if you'd like to compare the first draft to the new draft, check out this ask I got back in February and watch the gears of my mind turning in real time lmao

#bone babble #Skyclan rats #the rat leader wc

[buzzprincess1]

Sparrowpelt tells Stick why SkyClan is so afraid of the rats

#warrior cats #warriors fanart #skyclan #stick #sparrowpelt #skyclan's destiny #rats #rat leader #this meme is like 2 years old and it randomly came on my youtube recommended and I couldn't get this idea out of my head ahgsdu

[critterbitter]

Spring has come! And with it, the deerling and sawsbuck in their full floral regalia.

Masterlist for more shenanigans!

#elesas not wrong #the twins are VERY electric rat coded #pokemon #art #sketchbook #submas #myart #fanart #pokemon ingo #subway boss ingo #submas comic #pokemon emmet #subway boss emmet #gym leader elesa #nimbasa trio #sawsbuck #plusle #minun #deerling #blitzle #tynamo #litwick #emmet #ingo #elesa #dwebble

[brightgoat]

An unfinished comic that will remain unfinished... blame Fate I guess-

#cult of the lamb #cotl #ratau #cotl ratau #clauneck #cotl clauneck #comic #fanmade #fanart #leader ratau #the rat king #cotl comic #prequel #art #arrt

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

if scars don't make man look good then being alive sure does

#mafia 2 #henry tomasino #frank vinci #there's going to be a lot of text in hashtags here so first of all: #i gave up at things like “they wouldn't do/say that” at this point #ooc and “what if” are more interestning and entertaining for me sorry mafia fandom #i like to spin the plot and characters like a rubik's cube #so stopping w rat!henry and continue with survived!henry who's true purpose was to became the head of falcone family #so the drug thing was just a way to frame falcone and get vinci to the point where he decided to do away with falcone #because of the increased drug traffic #henry always struck me as the most conservative of the (relatively) young mobsters #so i guess he wouldn't have gone on about the drugs and gotten vinci's sympathy because of it #yet henry didn't expect an attack from the triads and the fact that he survived only reinforced his religiosity #now he wears a rosary and prays more often than he used to #<- i'm actually too lazy to think about the details of how it might work so whatever #and I know the mafia chief's photo wasn't on the wall #but it's more symbolism about the change of power and prioritizing religiosity over personality #i just think he could be a good leader + there's a lot about his pride here #and tbh i just wanted to see him with the scars but my brain can't do anything without a plot #and sunglasses instead of an eye patch #and yeah my brain refuses to believe that he was just overconfident and really believed that there would be no repercussions -> #for selling drugs under the nose of falcone who clearly wanted to become a monopoly in this field #also i don't really care that much about henry surviving tbh #i mean his death fits the story well because it's after all a mob story (no matter was he a rat or not) #(i'm being a bit of a hypocrite here bc i refuse to believe that joe is dead) #“survive and take power” version is just interestning for me #but if i put aside all of this ooc #naah he was too pathetic to do this fr #k im too lazy to write anything further #thank you for coming to my ted talk

[riverkingmarley]

People who haven’t read worm have no idea what they are missing out on. They think they get it because they read up to leviathan and know the broad strokes. Fools!

Things I didn’t know/ didn’t understand the gravity of despite being far more spoiled than the average worm fanfic reader:

Rachel’s interlude (I can tell who got this far in the book based on how Rachel is written in fanfic. If you aren’t obsessed with Rachel you simply didn’t read it).

Mannequin and crawlers statues

Bonesaw swearing in blastos interlude.

Arc 16 from the moment taylor gets teleported onward. (I almost got in trouble at work because I couldn’t put it down).

Arc 17

Trickster betraying everyone for Noelle.

The triumvirate clones

Noelles death

Cody in the behmoth fight.

Taylor’s attack on bohemoth.

Alec’s statue

“My life, always in the hands of greater powers.”

All the great Sophia stuff post s9000

Brian, the character (dlc only) :(

Alec, the character (seriously there is so much great Alec stuff even after behemoth. I’ve never seen it brought up outside the premier Alec enjoyer of wormblr)

Aisha, the character

When lab rat calls taylor an angel

Scion getting more violent

The simurgh stuff

The Las Vegas group

Lung being funny

The very sudden khepri decision

Contessa vs eden

Marquis vs Taylor

Taylor vs dragon (this part went crazy)

Taylor vs everyone post scion’s death

A thousand more, I read some of these parts over 6 months ago and they are unforgettable. How are you not reading worm right now.

#parahumans #wormblr #worm spoilers #god that part with lab rat is so good #he sets up how inhumane the guy is with all the kidnappings and things he did. plus he’s a cell block leader #then the only thing we really see him do is earnestly thank someone for helping him #also the way everyone always gets in lungs way when he fights. do they all remind him of how daiichi and ren ignored his advice?

[labyrynth]

ok so your first problem was assuming mdzs is a story where Good People are Rewarded and Bad People are Punished.

your second problem was assuming that MXTX—who goes out of her way to showcase unresolved, tragic, undeserved endings in all of her works—would ever write a story with such a shallow notion of “deserving.”

the only reason wangxian makes it out unscathed is because they’re literally the protagonists. authorial intent and plot armor ensure their happy ending. that’s it.

#mdzs talk #moi #i mean it also helps that neither wwx nor lwj give a rats ass about the rest of the cultivation world #wwx had already fucked off and lwj was basically doing that too #that man has never given a single shit about politics and maintaining good relationships #like what does it say about you if even jiang cheng is a better politician than you. #mister ‘don’t talk to me before i’ve had my coffee. or after. just don’t fucking talk to me.’ #but yeah wangxian is like oh we helped to create a massive power vacuum and destabilized the entire cultivation world? #ahaha no way!🤪 hey actually can this wait? my husband and i wanna go fuck in the bushes 🥰 #like. lwj that’s YOUR brother that just lost his most significant emotional support of the last decade. #wwx that’s YOUR pseudo nephew whose parental figure you just got killed. #that’s YOUR pseudo nephew who now has to become sect leader at like 15. #but nah they wanna go bang on the side of the road #god forbid they try to clean up some of the gigantic mess they helped to make #and nobody try to argue ‘well but jgy!!’ buh buh buh nothing. jgy cleaned up after himself. #neither wwx nor lwj had ANY personal stake in seeing jgy dead. lwj SHOULD have had a personal stake in keeping him alive actually. #i still think it’s super shitty and hypocritical of lwj to defend wwx so strongly and yet try so hard to condemn jgy in PRIVATE #both wwx and lwj really showed their asses at guanyin ngl. obviously huaisang did too. #like yeah it’s noble and righteous or whatever but like. righteousness was not why lwj defended wwx before. #wangxian stans being self-righteous and hypocritical? with classist double standards? with black and white mentality? #wow! who would have ever guessed?