#steadystone

Hazelfur’s trait of giving cats bland names is just a byproduct of my own pre-teen self hastily creating characters.

For example, Meadowleap's original name was Freshheart and Clayfur was Dirtpath. A couple of names I regretted as soon as wrote it down but didn't change until we started writing animation episode scripts. Lol

Steadystone was originally Stoneheart. (because his heart cannot be broken) This change was more to service the lore and Spottedshadow's naming tendencies than it was about saving Stone from a bad name.

Dawnfrost also used to be named Dawnmist, and was Snap's original rp character. When Snap changed it, around the same time we were doing a bunch of changes and writing the original animation scripts, it was just such a perfect change. I'm sure I don't need to belabor the point, but the harsh, frosty exterior to Dawn's inner termoil was much better served by the name 'frost' rather than 'mist'. It's hard to imagine her name ever being anything else.

Wolfthorn's father, Brightscale, was also originally Brightspirit. This change was made even several years before we started rewriting stuff, to make his name a little less on the nose and (at the time) make it more warriors sounding. (It was also before there was a warrior cat of the same name put into the books as a tribute to a fan. Just another good reason to switch the name up)

Pool's sister Osprey, and her whole storyline, is all book original stuff! There's just been tons and tons of fine tuning over the years.