#carnyyap

proposal for fixing "40 year old kitten" starclan problem:

make them fae

unserious idea, I lost the plot with this one. my original idea was "we should let the kits grow up in starclan but in a less literal sense"

more yapping below

Ik the authors probably didn't think the series would last this long and never intended to expand on it like they did in Power of Three, but I wish they just kept it kind of ambiguous and loose.

The early series gives it this feel that its vast and unknown. the graphic novels especially give it this feeling that instead of multiple cat ancestors, its almost a cluster?

Yellowfang's line to Fireheart, "I only regret that I will miss watching you become what StarClan has destined you to be" feels empty when we know she WILL be watching. From Starclan. In the dead cat eternal timeout corner

There's no consequence to death:

Cats kind of exist as ghosts and live their afterlife. They are away from their loved ones, but eventually over time they will all come back to them.

They still get to communicate very frequently with them too, especially in later books where it feels like any pov role gets a sign from starclan, something that used to be rare and reserved for leaders and medicine cats. We even have cases where the dead cats influence the living world.

There's no DISTANCE from starclan either. The starclan cats can travel territories. Even ancestors from the tribes come to starclan and visit living cats.

As the lore currently has it, leaders get 9 lives guaranteed from their ancestors. Each life has some kind of loose meaning attached to it, and these ancestors can give a life seemingly at no cost to them. They can give multiple lives away to multiple cats, and I think that should change!

Ghosts only die fr when they are actively killed or fade into obscurity (by the clans perspective, or the writers? yet to be determined lmao)