#floodstrike

Personally, the fetishization Luna expresses about Flood makes me very uncomfortable, especially seeing as he does not enjoy it/like that she sees him in such a flattened way. So the idea she very strongly feels is “correct” of him abandoning his life, family, friends, to assimilate into a society that would never suit him and absolutely hate him is just not possible. There is no way that would ever work and even in a world in which he agreed it would not end up well (because the city cats do not like clan cats, at all.)

But then to her, this is something they both did, together. And leaving Luna with kits is not fair to her or the kits themselves (also not something I would ever see Flood doing). Theres no way he could provide for them from a distance like brought up in another ask since she’s provided everything by her folk. And I’m not sure how a split custody sorta deal would work since the city cats hate wild cats and everything associated with them.

Most likely, I see this ending with Flood taking them to Risingclan. How it happens though I’m so interested in. I see two ways, the most likely being Luna giving them to him to raise as warriors either to “live by their wild instincts” (how I think she’d see it, yuck vibes) or she sees that them staying in the city is unsafe and give them up for protection-

Or. Evil ending. Things go wrong and Flood has to take them because of the city threatening or even attacking Luna for their origins. Making her a symbol of what happens when city cats mix with warriors, maybe even spin as the warriors coming in and taking the kits for themselves. Again evil terrible option that will set back the little amount of neutrality the clans have with the city cats by a lot. But also drama.

Very intrigued by wherever it will go! Loving the discussion and how mature it is if that makes sense? These are two young cats in a very difficult situation who made an impulse decision and now have to deal with it in whatever way they will. Even in a better world, where the city cats and clans were less hostile, it’s still a hard situation to find a solution for which makes it all the more interesting

hehe I can't make much comment but you're spot on with one of these.

Her hopes that he might leave his home in wild behind to live with her beg the question of whether she would want him to fully assimilate into house cat life and become her culture’s idea of “civilised” or if she’d like him to keep acting like a clan cat without his clan and retain the “wild” traits she finds appealing. Can’t wait to see how you continue developing the story!

I do think that Luna is well within her rights to demand involvement from Floodstrike in raising these kits that he helped create, even if he's not feeling ready. Like it sucks to have to be a parent before you're ready, but actions have consequences and this is unfortunately a lifelong one. He doesn't have to be her mate, but the kits deserve to have a father-- thankfully I think that he's going to get there mentally, since he was thinking that he didn't want them to see him as a deadbeat like Ghost, and simply because they way Clangen works I imagine this storyline was prompted by Floodstrike showing up with kits.

Anyways, the degree to which he is involved needs to be agreed on with mediation from a third party-- I imagine another Clan's mediator could help with this, though they will still have Clan cultural bias. I think this will be difficult regardless of who mediates though, since the two cultures having very different ideas of what appropriate involvement looks like. I think its going to be difficult to convince the city cats that Floodstrike can still take responsibility without becoming Luna's mate. Can't wait to read more!

The bit about Floodstrike “making her a real woman” was super ick, bravo on writing something so uncomfortable

Thank you, thank you //bows