among us warrior cats are born

check the post i made a few days ago in my tags for more twolegplace lore, but tldr it’s a big city type deal on the cusp of having an industrial revolution, clans strongly oppose relations with twolegplace because they view it as a faux-utopia of complete leisure where everyone is lazy and gets things for free. in reality it’s not that idealistic and there’s a lot of poor districts buckling under the weight of extreme expansion. this is important base knowledge for sasha and a lot of other rogues/kittypets going forward!

sasha facts:

she’s a vaudeville burlesque sort of performer who’s main thing is singing and generally looking pretty. sasha wilde is a stage name! but it’s what most people know her as, even as she visits the clans

her background is southeast asian! she’s a second gen immigrant to twolegplace and went into the profession in her 20s after struggling to keep herself afloat. her family was not remarkably rich and she didn’t want to strain them

though she enjoyed her job and it provided her with some amount of financial safety, harassment was common and she was often overworking herself

when tigerstar is exiled from thunderclan, he spends two-ish years in twolegplace, where he meets sasha after a performance. falling on hard times and feeling overdue for romance sasha accompanies him for a while and they have an affair

he sort of just leaves her one day without any words exchanged. she’s fine with this for a while but then tigerstar’s complete absence kind of worries her even if she’s realised by now that He is not a good man. she tracks him down along the clans but gets told off by a shadowclan patrol. at this point she’s already had hawkfrost and is currently pregnant with mothwing. russetfur follows her back to the city outskirts (She is barely scraping by and it is noticeable) and she informs sasha that tigerstar is dead, but that the clans would probably not be happy about supporting his kids because of his reputation as a tyrant. she recommends riverclan as a potential sanctuary due to their past ties with tigerstar…. kind of taking advantage of leopardstar’s weakness

fwiw russetfur is right as leopardstar takes full sympathy for sasha and welcomes her with the caveat that her children be trained as riverclan warriors

she stays in riverclan and recovers for a couple of years, watching her kids grow up. around their late teens she becomes restless and decides to return back to the city

she seeks out bloodclan (i don’t think scourge will die in this au and the whole showdown will happen very differently — it’s already stupid in the books but it becomes even weirder to wipe out a group of poor starving people when the clans end up leaving that territory in like a year anyway) and basically lives in their midst, and she bonds with scourge about tigerstar trauma

kind of implied but tadpole doesn’t exist in this au. because What’s the point.

now for mothwing:

trained as a warrior early on just like in the books, then became a cleric after her older brother hawkfrost fakes a sign for her

very skilled as a surgeon — has a strong foundation in proper medicine and therapy of course but she’s got the best hands for amputations and stitches out of all the clerics

her story is fairly 1 on 1 with the books honestly. thank you girl for being mostly irrelevant

her name and title is ‘melati the mothwing’ which leads me to a tangent: you may have noticed for my silverstream design i’ve named her ‘nerissa of silverstream’ and i think, at least among nobility, most riverclanners actually have a ‘of (name)’ title instead of a ‘the’ due to nobility being much stronger and more consistent. so actually like crookedstar’s human name would be ‘king christopher of silverstream’ or something, with the implication that silverstream is the family name. because it’s the most monarchistic sounding out of that family line haha. so basically riverclan is one of the only kingdoms to have a familial title inheritance system like this… and so, mothwing having a more basic title yet being a cleric signifies that she is not only not nobility, but also an outsider, as it’s very very rare for riverclan clerics to not have SOME relation to the upper crust of society. anyway that’s an early ‘tigerstar dad’ clue

notice that she has very plain clothing (as all good clerics do) but it Does have some blue embellishments and minor armor. the first comes from riverclan being immodest and obsessed with embellishment, and the second comes from her wanting to signify her past as a warrior. most riverclanners receive custom armor upon graduating apprenticeship so it’d be a shame to throw out those nice pauldrons, right

riverclan clerics also typically have masks which actually started as a sort of status thing, and they were always stylised after nature as a sort of commedia dellarte sensibility since riverclan is the most ‘invested’ in arts and theater especially. but i think as arcs go on these become commonplace among all clerics because it turns out they’re good for preventing disease spread. Lol

did you know most doctors didn’t wear gloves until about 100 years ago? that’s why she’s handling a scalpel bare-handed. maybe the clans learn about germ theory by tbc