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Week of Jan 4, 2025

except when im missing you ──✩°。⋆⸜ meeting & naming

juniper

canonically; december 8th

the pain doesn't ebb... there is not enough time to grieve. not when the task had be laid in her hands like a ceremonial sword. you must change them... mold them into what they need to be. ThunderClan. strike the hammer down to fix the fracture in the blade... sharpen it against the whetstone coated in his blood. try not to sweep over it, lest the cold of your tears crack the searing hot steel. but all she wants to do is cry... even as she stands amongst the sympathetic and familiar faces of cats she has known for moons... she fears their power in numbers. the power of discontent and what it had created in the darkest reaches of their forest. Sable's faction of furious followers..

i beg for your patience... i beg for your loyalty...

could they smell weakness? would they strike like eager dogs too?

"ThunderClan...?" it is a hesitant call for their attention, knowing they must also be reeling under this revelation... and would soon grow more confused by what change would be demanded of them. her voice hardly holds the confidence it needs in moments like these, nothing quite so high spirited as Hawthorne- Thornstar. it should be him standing here.

"StarClan has laid instructions before us.. how to find our way back to what being a clan really is. How to embody ThunderClan as we should be... It requires change." her stomach twists, another reminder of what more will be new, what other change will be force fed down her throat. "Like me... like Juniperstar... you'll take on new names... Ones that define you within these forests... You will not be stars... but warriors with your own names, your own identities..."

her eyes water just to speak of something so hopeful... to know this was the world that they'd waited so long to foster. one of community and unity. that she would be responsible for helping them find their places within it. "I.. I can't do it all at once," she professes, sniffling against the persistent ache to just sob. "We'll start slow... okay? Please just... bare with me..." her brows pinch together, a pained smile forced upon her face in a bid for compassion. she shouldn't have to ask.. she probably didn't need to but felt compelled all the same.

"Some of this will be... easier... those under six months will have 'kit' added to their names. We we'll care for them as we always have.. together. Just until they're old enough to take their first steps into the world with us... Then we call them apprentices, the novices that learn from us, that shadow us to understand how to survive; they'll be -paws. But those of you who've lived long enough, learned enough... you're warriors... the bravest in the forest, like Coffeestar said. That hasn't changed... but you'll need to take on more... a fitting suffix to define you."

would that make enough sense? should she have asked more questions? did Thornstar even understand what he had relayed to her well enough to offer her advice? When will I see you again? When is soon? who would this medicine cat be? why hadn't he just told her then?

"Pandora... you are the image of new-leaf mornings.. and radiate kindness... You'll be known as Dewshine." she practically winces away from the uncertain glances that go exchanged, as if they are barely withheld beasts that hunger for a chance to usurp her. to strike her down just as her mate had done to her best friend- without remorse... without relent. "Owl... you're harsh and impassioned... you'll be known as Owlbark." the crowd hardly lessens and the task grows more daunting with each face she recognizes in need of a name... a purpose... a fate carved out by her own tongue. "Yarrow... find joy in our successes, keep your spirit high... you'll be Yarrowhop. Tulip... your patience and caution are in careful balance... you will be Tuliptail."

she pauses, waiting for the uproar of disdain for such names, some sort of pushback that this isn't who they are. that they cannot be forced by her will nor StarClan's. but no such riot begins... and hesitantly she presses on just a little more. "Water Snake..." it'd be too easy to just stop it at that... to not give him a chance to shed the past... her heart aches to stare Serpent's brother in the face and know she has let him down too in some way. that his sister will never be the same... that she could not prevent the absence his nieces and nephew would feel. "You are watchful, cautious... and prepared... you'll be known as Snakeblink."

"Plume... you fought well to defend your clan-mates and for that I name you Plumestrike. Plover... you have the strength to weather any storm you are willing to face... I name you Ploversnap, for your eager heart. Crying Dove... you are an image of gentleness and beauty... I see no reason to change you... Cryingdove fits you perfectly."

"Dusk... you bring a needed softness to those who need it... you'll be Duskcloud. Thunder..." her voice cracks, reminded of the last joke Thornstar had tried to make to her. she'd pushed it off so easily, too quickly... if given the chance would she go back and laugh at it, so he knew she cherished all his silly antics? would he be a better leader for ThunderClan for his name alone... it was a stupid question. she missed it terribly.

"Thunder we're fortunate you survived.. you fought valiantly.. may your paws always strike true under the name Thunderflash." she lifts a paw to her head, nursing a headache that had been barraging her after a sleepless night fraught with emotional turmoil and physical exhaustion.

"I'm sorry.. I'm... I need more time for the rest of you... I promise you'll all have names soon... For now just... take care of each other. I'm sorry-" she stands abruptly, quickly departing the camp in an effort to save face.. to hide the fact she is overcome with the urge to spill her guts on the floor again.

  • hello gamers! i'm going to be doing all the namings in this thread over various posts. i'll put the ic date at the top so you know when your character would've been named since i think it'd be difficult and silly to do it all in one go. please make sure to message me @tieirlys on discord with requests for warrior names if they are not already publicly accessible (listed on the mega roster) otherwise i won't know what to name you !!! thanks so much... and here's to the start of thunderclan!
  • juniperstar
    leader of thunderclan
    nine lives remain

Week of Dec 28, 2024

LOVERS BROTHERS KILLERS | sable

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A light flickered in the distance, something stirred - like a kitten drawn to the warm glow of the nursery den mouth she moves toward this new and enticing thing to find herself suddenly drenched in vibrant color once more. Something had happened, some shift, some change, the details were not clear to her yet but she had wasted no time in embracing her newfound freedom from the tangled thorns and cold shadows. The world was so different now, yet still achingly familiar. Her soul knew this place even if her eyes did not yet recognize it for what it was. Her paws dripping black and her eyes burning the point molly continues forward in her exploration and stumbles tall thicket walls enclosing an area all too close to her heart; yet this closeness was riddle in sharp and poison. The scent of pine would have made her retch if she had the olfactory senses to do so, the benefit of being dead was you simply didn't need to breath if you didn't want to and she'd gone without bothering for so long she was still as stone now, why waste the time clinging to living habits. Cats murmured in a hushed choir, talks of a battle, of those who died, of ThunderClan newly risen...of the stars that guided them here. The stars that warned them of danger, saved them from an ambush in the night.

She feels her hackles raise, teeth barred though none could see - she could stand in the open and go undetected but something kept her belly low to the ground and creeping; glittering dots speckling the heaven's above told her all she needed to know and more that the unfamiliar cats did not. Those ethereal fools had grown back into power and thought themselves saviors, the only way any mortal cat would know of ThunderClan and subsequently StarClan was to be told directly. What happened to their cryptic approach, their holier than thou refusal to do more than leave idle thoughts in dreams and crushed flowers as signs. The point molly's dark nose wrinkles in disdain, desperation bred boldness and she knew now what she intended to do about it.
To the marshland..., someone whispered, hushed tones to avoid upsetting young ears. This was where Sable had fled after the battle. Once again StarClan picks and chooses its favorites, holds ThunderClan aloft while the other clans are forgotten. Once again ShadowClan is left with nothing. Unless, she can revive it herself.
Afterall, they are in her old haunt now, the loamy earth and rich soil, the scent of rot and the nearby carrionplace in the air; it was not much, but it was home.

Inspired she takes back to the shadows, curled tail swaying as she makes her way swiftly without a pawstep to be heard through the winding pines and back to Fourtrees where the scent of blood is still thick in the air, she does not linger on this sacred place of stars, moves past it further into the soft soil and peaty texture of the place she was once almost known as Fleecestar if for a brief moment in time before her opportunity was ripped from her with jagged claws and sharp teeth. Black lips curling into a sneer she continues forward until she finds them, the rejected cats of the colony, chased away to pick up the scraps of their dignity in the aftermath of the heaven's blessed favortism and just as quickly she finds him. A cat addresses him as Sable, a brief exchange leaves him alone once more and she sweeps in to brush past him with sharp teeth in a sparkling smile, her eyes hollow and piercing,
"You fought well, that you lost was not your own folly nor your followers. You were outed by the stars themselves, they came to warn your enemy of your plans from their comfortable sanctuary above. A place where 'good' warriors go when they fall, welcomed into a warm embrace and those they deem to ambitious, too harsh, they leave to the shadows to rot."


Fleecefur's ice blue gaze flits from his face, gauging his reaction before she tilts her head with a smile that was too sweet to be sincere,
"It is what they did to me. My methods too cruel for them, my intentions not pure enough, but I was once in the same place as you - serving a weak leader who would only lead my clan into prolonged suffering."
She can remember it all too well, the bitterness inside her as she watched what she had fought so hard to defend, to guard, be left neglected by a fool who would not fight for it with the same tenacity as she would. So she counted, one by one, until the dead of night she sought to remove that final obstacle only to be caught in the act and killed; how ironic that they would not kill to defend their clan from outsiders but they would turn their teeth on her without hesitation.

"The stars have chosen their champions and you are left the loser, but who is to say they alone can recognize the potential of a group of cats? I can give you the same power as a leader with nine lives, I can offer you the advice those weak-spirited fools would never take. To the shadows you were chased, so the shadows you shall become. ShadowClan, the clan of cunning, the clan that survives and you...will be Sablestar, its leader, chosen by the darkness that embraced you where the light would not. Will you accept? Will you take what is rightfully yours?"

  • OOC - @SABLE
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    FLEECEFUR

    — Dark Forest Denizen | Former ShadowClan Deputy
    — She/Her
    "SPEECH", 'THOUGHTS', ATTACK
    — A tall black color point molly with blue eyes.
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