Back after over a year to furiously tell people about my Hawkfrost AU.
Think about it. AU where Hawkfrost fails to kill Firestar and Brambleclaw, but Brambleclaw ends up sparing his life as he can’t bring himself to kill him. I will go into this a lot more, but as a brief look at how the plot could be:
Hawkfrost is kicked from RiverClan after the truth comes out about his plan. However Brambleclaw doesn’t want him to become an outcast from the clans and, knowing that Tigerstar’s manipulation is at least partly to blame, believes that Hawkfrost can change. Hawkfrost doesn’t understand, therefore, when he is allowed to be a member of thunderclan.
Thunderclan is naturally hostile to him, but Firestar trusts Brambleclaw’s judgement. Brambleclaw informs him of the Dark Forest, and so Firestar warns thunderclan of the danger that could be in their dreams. Meanwhile, Hawkfrost hates being in thunderclan and being watched constantly, and so plans to leave.
However this doesn’t happen once he realises that Brambleclaw still cares for him a lot, volunteering to teach him how to hunt in thunderclan territory. His enthusiasm and daring attitude reminds him of tadpole. He eventually makes friends with some other clan mates through plot that I will write someday (this is a very rushed explanation, please understand my sped up pace here). This falls into him becoming a second judgement that challenges Brambleclaw/star’s choices.
Now, lots of the plot stays the same, only I fully believe Hawkfrost would help Leafpool and Squirrelflight in their plan after knowing what it feels like to be an outcast in his own clan due to him being the son of a loner. He has a habit of observing (*cough* spying *cough*) the cats in thunderclan and overhears about Leafpool being pregnant. Rather than tell anyone, he confronts her slyly and says he will aid them for a price - a price which he never follows up, but rather just a front of him wanting to help without saying so. He only asks who the father is, and keeps their secret as they leave.
the plot of the third series remains mostly the same, only Hawkfrost finds himself cornered by Ashfur, who says his plan outright. Hawkfrost never ratted on Ashfur as he didn’t care at the time it was relevant, then believed he would be able to spot if he was going to do something. Hawkfrost pretends to be in with the plan, but says privately to bramblestar to keep an eye on Ashfur. Though the secret of the kits still gets out, bramblestar is there to hear it as he takes hawkfrost’s advice. So he doesn’t get the news thrown at him at a gathering, which is a little nicer I suppose.
Hawkfrost manages to talk Hollyleaf out of trying to freaking murder Leafpool, talking about his own life and experiences. So hollyleaf never runs into the tunnel and gets crushed.
haven’t made up my mind too much from here, still in ramble mode, whoops. But Hawkfrost will 100% see through Sol’s shit, outright laughing at him for his stupid attempt because come on Hawkfrost has class, unlike this guy.
When the dark forest cats come to the living world, Hawkfrost ultimately kills tigerstar after he tries to persuade him to join their side, stating some big speech about how he was wrong whilst also insulting him I guess.
You can bet when Bramblestar tries to turn down helping the sisters Hawkfrost glared at him until he changes his mind, because his mother was in the same position as the sisters and he’d be damned if he turns them away.
I kinda want a role for Hawkfrost where he becomes an unofficial spy for the clans due to his skills in persuasion and manipulation, doing things like joining the kin - a way that makes him seem like he’s unchanged to many cats, but actually intends to silently protect the kits and apprentices from making the same choices he had, and feeling the way he had.
So yeah, sorry for this very underwhelming ramble, though it would be nice to see any expansion on the basic ideas I put out there. I always like to see what would happen if a single character in a story lived.
