#marshshadow

I took some stuff from Yellowfang’s secret.

Tw: abuse, child neglect, cheating

So background info:

For the Royal system, the heir will always be the firstborn unless other circumstances come into play such as the cat being a basturd or being proven to not have the skills of a leader. This varies between guilds.

In this au, Featherstorm is Raggedmoon and Scorchwind’s older sister (thank @the-erins-forgot for this one). Though, she’s their half sister. Their father is Cedarmoon with their other father being Hal. Russetfur is still Ragged and Scorch’s half sister too.

Ragged, named Ratpaw then Ratpelt still kills Hal. They were mocked due to Hal’s reputation for causing trouble in the guild and for Cedarmoon to have had kits with him was quite the scandal and especially since Rat took after him.

(Note: Cedarmoon only slept with Hal due to grief after losing his late mate, Treestorm)

Cedarmoon made Ratpelt his heir which caused an uproar in the guild due to Featherstorm being healthy and able and Rat’s muddied bloodline. Featherstorm did start a coup and the guild was splint but over time, Featherstorm let it go die to many of her guild mate dying. Doesn’t mean she isn’t still sore about it but she made up for it by being the Monarch.

Anyway:

Ratpelt’s relationship with Murkstorm can be summed up in one word: toxic. Didn’t help when Rat was on their case when they became a warlock.

They had their kits, Marsh, Blaze, and Adder. Raggedpelt quickly favored Adder and seemed to forget about her daughters. They just got used to it and said it was normal for Raggedpelt to not even remember their names. Murkstorm and Newtspeck made up for it though.

So when you do what Cedarmoon did, it sets a president.

Raggedmoon made Brokentail her heir, when he was the runt of his litter. Again, it caused an uproar and since Murkstorm and Featherstorm backed Marshpaw, it was even more hostile.

Raggedmoon ignored it all and didn’t seem to care. She made Foxheart her second and even had kits with her so soon after Murkstorm gave birth. She made one of those kits, Strikeheart, her second after the death of Cloudpelt on Brokentail’s words and completely ignoring her warlocks.

However, Raggedmoon did sometimes think of her daughters with Murkstorm. So she pushed for Marshpaw to be a warlock to make up for everything. Marshpaw nor Murkstorm were impressed but Murkstorm could mange training both Marshpaw and Palepaw so they went with it.

Raggedmoon also pushed for Blazepaw to start training as a teacher when she graduated and once again, Blazepaw wasn’t impressed but went with it.