#tachy-sweetfall

basically: pre-incident Tachycardiaclan started off like the canon-clans, as a group of rogues. Only difference: canon cats were from the Tribe, and Tachy cats are from Twolegplace.

..basically the Clan started from a group of loners and kittypets, like if Warriorclan was taken seriously.

And the Clan thrived, it was literally a dream come true. No fights outside of verbal arguments, the loners taught the kittypets how to hunt and fight, absolutely no roadblocks stopped them from thriving as a Clan unlike the canon cats.

..the only problem? The makeshift Clan took ahold of some distasteful traditions and never moved on.

One of the biggest traditions, was that a monarchy was in place. The firstborn of the leader was promised the deputy role, getting it the second they graduated.

This partially lead to the Clans downfall. It lead to a lot of confusion regarding morals and ethics within the Clan. You could have a kind and careful leader, Sweetstar, who wanted to keep the Clan large and healthy, just for a leader like Milkweedstar to tear that all down and insulate a rule that cats who retire get executed.

Regarding the incident, the Clan was under the rule of Milkweed. Milkweed is like Darktail in a way, he didn't want a speckle of weakness in the Clan unlike his mother.

Surprise! Killing off half of your Clan isn't the best choice! The Clan was in absolute shambles near the end of his reign. This left his daughter and deputy, Nightingalepelt, to take things into her own paws.

With the help of Whiskermallow, the two brought a group of badgers into camp. This killed off half of the Clan again, but it did the job.

This "half of the Clan" included Nightingale's mother, Milkweedstar, her sole littermate, Whisker's mate, and a handful of other cats that don't matter right now.

Nightingale took the role of leader, almost tweaked out because now almost her whole family was dead, and took Wispspike as deputy.

"but wait.. arent firstborns the deputy?? isnt Wisp unrelated??" correct! very correct! She chose Wisp because he looked promising and his father was a good friend of Milkweed. I'll make a yap about the monarchy system later to explain that.

anyways um. she hooked up with a kittypet, had Flickkit, aaand then Starclan noticed what happened to the Clan (because they thought Sweet was still in charge and that nothing serious happened. oops.) and killed all of the adults to give the kits a fresh slate to not repeat the mistakes their ancestors did.

The badger incident happened a little over a year and a half before moon 0, hence why Whisker wasn't executed.

..aaand to satiate the hidden question of "wait a minute liz, nightingale was 111 moons old on moon 0."... Milkweed was a hypocrite. He would've been around 150 moons on moon 0 if he lived.

and the other Tachyclan cats (ex: the actual founding rogues & kittypets) rebelled against Starclan, making it that they can't talk with the kits. i love setting up my ocs for failure the second they're out of the womb.