Use your mind

I've been thinking how Cowgirl is not so happy about Mercy and not like Ajax who just see this girl started following them and got angry because she was not part of them, but after when Swan ran off with her.

"Split off and left us" (When Swan leaves them)

"I guess" (After Mercy was named a Warrior)

Which got me remembering the game where Swan and Cowboy are a duo and joined the warriors together, so maybe Cowgirl is the jealous type friend who gets annoyed when her friends get with someone, especially if she's single too.

(This is mostly referencing the og script of the movie)

So, as we know, two of the main warriors from the movie are not in the album, Snow and Vermin.

So this is my Headcanon/Theory of why we don't see them.

(I know why Lin and Eisa cut them out, this is just a funny theory to make sense in the "in" album story universe)

So, first, if we know that in the Warriors game from Rockstar, Vermin was the second in command when Cleon created the Warrios, since they were only them, It was only Cleon and Vermin.

Now, with Snow, he's the second most strong in the group after Ajax, both are the "muscle" of the gang.

So maybe, in the album universe, Cleon decided to leave Vermin in charge of their turf and gang while they went to the conclave, and Snow stayed too to be the muscle and strength since Ajax was also not gonna be there.

That's one part.

The second part is

That most of the Warriors that Cleon took with her are young (Fox being the youngest of that young group). In the movie, Cyrus was important because he was like the one and only and all that, he gets killed and the warriors are trying to survive but in the album is more explicitly stated how Cyrus was an idea and why she's so important, why everyone is angry, and impotent that she was killed, why everyone wants to get revenge against the ones that killed not only Cyrus but the idea, the life she could have given everyone with her plan.

Can't express this enough, but the idea of making the Warriors women is amazing and makes 100% more sense of Mercy's decisions of following them, plus the relationship with Swan is more interesting since we can see more of this vulnerable side of Swan that he has but was never fully shown.

The album allows you to see a different side of their relationship, like Mercy doesn't just like Swan. She admires her (and the other Warriors too), but fell for Swan on the way.

The phrase of Mercy in the movie "Maybe I'm looking for a little action" has another meaning in the album even tho was not explicit mentioned, (And is not sexual) but in "Call me Mercy" she says how she's tierd of living in just the same "corner" she was born and raised, she wants to see more, she wants to hold her head high, then when she's with them she says she "mix it up on the corner", then with Swan again, she tell her she "followed the night just to be in her corner" followed by Swan trying to discourage her of join them and follow to Coney, saying it would be the same, and in "Same train home," when Swan finally kisses her and tells her, "Hold your head high" is also more sweet than the movie, one, because is Swan who kisses Mercy, and two because it makes more sense for this adaptation to put the kiss here, instead of the subway tunnel, especially because Swan had rejected her and denied the kiss back there.

At the end, Mercy says, "She wants to be free," and Swan finally tells her she's a warrior and, "You're in our corner," for the first time, is Swan talking about the corner, finally not trying to discourage her but instead accepting her but now Mercy says "I want more than the corner" and I totally love this!! For the first time, we see Mercy looking for more, thinking there's more for her than just a corner, life is not just moving from corner to corner, similar to Cyrus, Masai and Cleon's "Is all our turf"

Anyways, Mercy is one of the most interesting characters, but we just never had time to explore that in other adaptations until the album, and I'm just such a fan of this version, like I love Deborah's iconic version of course, after all is the one who introduced us to Mercy but exploring more of the character in the album completely made me a fan of the character, besides the beautiful voice of Julia Harriman.

As a teenager, The Warriors was my special interests and I LOVE the movie and I used to play the Rockstar game when i was younger and now I LOVE the Lin & Eisa album so, here are some facts from the movie (+the comics) and game (Not canon to each other) to give you guys ideas for fanfics, fanarts, etc.

I'll refer to them as their masculine counterpart since I'm talking about the movie/comic/game, where all (except Mercy) are men.

Warrior facts.

The most known fact, 2 warriors weren't included in the album, Vermin and Snow

The Warriors get their money by mugging, and selling Stereos they steal from cars

Cleon has a Girlfriend named Lincoln, she was supposed to appear at the start of the movie but they deleted the scene

Mercy hated that his then boyfriend Sully (Yes, the guy from the Orphans) care more for his car

The warriors and the riffs brake Ajax out of prison

Cochise lived in Harlem until he and his mother moved to Brooklyn

Rembrandt is gay

Ajax has like a few girlfriends

The warriors started as part of another gang "The Destroyers" they had problems with the leader so Cleon and Vermin left and formed the Warriors

(Not sure if this is true) Fox was supposed to be Mercy's love interest at first

The warriors make some Coney businesses pay them for protection, 25$ weekly I think

Their hangout is an old abandoned building that, to me, looked like a storage for the amusement park

Cochise lived in Harlem, yes but didn't join the boppers 'cuse he thought they weren't tough and he didn't like their colors.

In a deleted scene, Cleon said there's like 120 warrior members

Mercy dated a rich guy. He gets her an apartment and other stuff. This, of course, causes trouble between her and Swan

Ajax sucks at pinball

Rembrandt can use both hands, he's ambidextrous (dunno if I wrote it right)

Cowboy is really protective of his hat, and calls it buddy

Rembrandt also goes to an art class

Swan was a destroyer too, but him and Cowboy left the gang before Cleon created the warriors

Then Cleon ask Swan to join the warriors, and he accepts only under the condition of them accepting cowboy too

Only Cleon, Vermin, Swan, and Cowboy were Destroyers first. The rest arrived directly to the Warriors

Mercy dated the rich guy to get her apartment because she thought the Warriors life was no way to live

Technically, Mercy and Swan are not really together, tho Swan insist for her to go back to Coney with him

They (Mercy and Swan) end up reconciliating, and she goes back to living with him in Coney

Rembrandt sprays paint on his enemies faces as a fighting attack

Before Fox, they also lost a member named Ash, the leader of the Destroyers killed him

He (Ash) was also really close to Vermin, and his death affects him pretty deeply

Rembrandt's art teacher tries to convince him that the gang is only using him and to leave it so he drops his class

Mercy was not only Sully's girlfriend but also the Orphans' prostitute

Rembrandt gives Swan a drawing of Mercy that he made for him

After Cyrus' death, everything went back to the "normal". The truce was off, and the gangs went against each other again

This is not an IN movie/game fact, just a movie/game fact, but still interesting

You may know the movie symbol, a skull with feathers. Well, this symbol looked too similar to an actual gang that sued them, so it changed to a snake in flames

It's been a while since I read the books so correct me if I'm wrong.

In the books Annabeth, Luke and Thalia are attacked by a series of monsters sent by hades bc he wanted revenge for what happened with Maria right?, now I'm sure some of the monsters weren't directly sent by him, some should have been just there to hunt demigods just because but if I'm not mistaken, the one that "killed" Thalia was a cyclops, that making Annabeth scared of those specific monsters but in the show they change it for a Fury wich makes sense if they were sent by Hades but still, Annabeth doesn't look as much "traumatized?" By Alecto as she is by the cyclops I'm the books, so now I'm so confused about how her reaction to Tyson and her fight to Polyphemus will be in SoM since shows how she overcomes her fear and her judgment twords this creatures.

So, any ideas of how the show would proceed with this change?

At first we don't see her interact with Javi too much but that makes sense, she is hooking up with his brother wich makes it weird specially because Travis "acts" as if Javi was just annoying him. But then as things with Travis get more serious and Nat realizes how much Javi means to Travis, she at first thought he was dead and was unhealthy for Travis to just keep holding to "fake hope" but when Javi is back she tries to redeem herself but not for Travis anymore but because she actually wants to do something for Javi, maybe as an apology?.

Now, we didn't see as many interactions of Javi with Nat as we did with Shauna but she still impacted him in some way because he knew how important Nat was for his brother and impacted enough for him to wanted to save her.

And of course, Natalie as many of the other suffers Javi's dead because they were part of it, Nat literally tries to justify herself with Travis, but let's put that aside, everyone that eat from him is "guilty". But Nat tried to save him, she literally was about to do it if it wasn't because of Misty, but Natalie could easily push her and get him but then she would have die, she chose herself instead of him and I don't blame her due to their situation, they were hungry and scared. But again, this doesn't mean she doesn't blame herself after since she CHOSE not to save him.

Now I don't see Natalie as the one of "I want to have kids" type, specially after how her parents were and I don't mean she is like "families are the worst is just the same" no, I mean as "I'll become one of my parents" situation, specially after Javi, chosen herself instead of the kid is something a father like hers would have done, she believes she is such a pretty shitty person that she would be a shitty mother as well. So In short I just mean that for her is more of "I don't want to hurt a kid" than "I don't want that life again".

But now we go to the "present"

Natalie has been in and out of rehab for 5 times now, of course If she consider herself a shitty person before the crash then just imagine now? So she continues this toxic path of drugs and alcohol, probably same as Travis, now idk if they ever were a couple after they were back but I'm pretty sure "settle down" wasn't really an option they consider or at least not her for what we have seen so far.

Then we get Kevyn, he was her best friend back then and I guess they like each other at some point and now he is an attractive divorced man that still likes her but he has 2 children, and when she tell this to Shauna and Tai they both are like "that sound complicated" but Natalie affirms that she doesn't care. Now, I don't think she was talking about Kevyn's ex since she has never cared about that as we see with Travis and Jackie, so I guess she talks about how she doesn't care about Kevyn having kids.

And in this scene of Mason's game she actually was enjoying before the Ptsd kicks in.

Now, where am I going with all this? Motherhood and maternity are a whole spectrum in the life of a girl, not matter how you view it, as positive or negative, it still forms a part of girlhood, and I think for Nat is more than we realize, she claims she is poison, she is selfish and that everything she touches dies but she was also the hunter, the provider, care for the younger, gived advices, protector, etc.

But what do you guys think? As I say this is a topic that has an impact in every girl's life no matter what, for me I see Natalie like this, maybe in another life, she would've had kids or just like the idea of it. (Specially since I've known a lot of people that you wouldn't think of them on wanting a family or settle down but then they have kids and are like the best kind of parents) is so sad we never got to see Nat thinking about it, she probably didn't even had the opportunity to do it, specially since she died when she was just healing.

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