#asir

Odin.

Your latest update had me swooning...

Roy:

Meanwhile, Rebecca in the background:

hey nonnie!

fun fact: reedpaw is a point of intense emotion for me. in my canon, which is far more canon than anything the erins say, mistyfoot has two litters: primrosepaw, pikepaw, and perchkit, who all die before tigerclan; and reedwhisker, greymist, and rippletail, who, well, you know about them already.

so the first big thing if they stayed is that her second litter wouldn't have been born, because she wouldn't have tried to get back together with blackclaw.

i've always thought mistyfoot's decision to return to riverclan makes sense, so this is kind of a hard question for me to answer. i think leopardstar would've made...idk, has mosspelt had an apprentice? she would be a good choice for deputy. depending on who you accept as Alive in that time period in riverclan, you could make various arguments.

functionally i don't think it would've actually changed riverclan all that much. all of riverclan suffered under tigerclan: not all as obviously as the riverclan four, but certainly tigerstar didn't treat them as equals. it's brought up several times in tdh that riverclan seems to have no power and be unequal. i write post-tpb riverclan as considering themselves a victim of tigerstar, and that wouldn't change.

(i say "considering themselves" because it doesn't feel quite right to say that, and yet at the same time, they are? riverclan unquestionably suffers worse than any other clan because of him. windclan is punished by brokenstar, not tigerstar, gorsepaw withstanding, but riverclan is the clan that is directly harmed most by tigerstar. idk. a fun question for everyone to ponder: can you be both victim and perpetrator of a single crime?)

hawk and moth would have somewhat different lives. notably, i think hawk's relationship with leopardstar would've been closer. it's not really expanded on in canon, but they are mentor and apprentice, and their relationship feels like it's almost skewed? i don't know how to explain it, but there are moments where i get that impression (e.g., the fact that she makes him deputy), but there are moments where they seem like strangers. i say that maybe leaving the abandoned kits of tigerstar unsupervised with the cat with burning rage and so little trust in her clan she didn't feel safe sleeping with them was. maybe not the best idea.

(translation: i adore the relationship feathertail has to hawkfrost and mothwing that asir introduces and i expand on. i also think it's worth noting that feathertail hates leopardstar so much she almost let leopardstar die, and leopardstar was hawkpaw's mentor. so imagine the closest thing you have to a mother thinking that the other closest thing you have to a mentor is the worst cat to ever be alive. that's a hell of a conflict to place in hawkpaw and i think it yields interesting flavors to his character.)

god what is this tone i'm taking. this is what happened you called me mr mallow and suddenly here i am writing in long paragraphs with a distinct note of wow, someone really read the dictionary.

thunderclan wise, i think...eh, hard to say?

they probably wouldn't have gone on the quest. so feathertail would be alive. it would be nice to see feathertail and greystripe have to balance out some major issues in their relationship (e.g., the favoritism he shows to stormpaw, the fact that he abandoned them, etc.), which might lead to greystripe being more mature, but honestly i don't think it would've changed all that much materially.

maybe greystripe and mistyfoot would get together. she does, after all, have terrible taste in men.

AND SO I RISE

a wip by cindy

GENRE: ya fantasy

STATUS: first draft, in progress

CONTENT WARNINGS: fantasy typical violence, minor character death, blood, flood, (mentions of) drowning, (mentions of) family death, (mentions of) slavery (will add as i draft)