Hello everyone! I didn't know a fanclub existed for Rise, so that was a super cool discovery <33 My name is happysparrow, and I have
Dogwoodclan! My leader (and only kitty thus far) is
Owlstar, the lovable idiot lol. I'd love to connect with other clans and make some friends for Owl! Or, of course, enemies - I'm sure she'd have plenty of those as well with such a smart mouth, lol
But yeah, I wanted to introduce myself and see what's up <33 To end, I'd like to answer Lady Raincloud's question;
If you change one key factor of your clan's story OR a cat's history- ex, who their parents were- what else would change?Owlstar would definitely not be as cocky if she hadn't become a leader so young, I believe. Due to a den of foxes having moved in, there were a few instances in the night where cats would be killed off, and by the time they realized what was going on, their leader had already been spirited away. The deputy had been exceptionally close with the old leader, and was unable to handle the role and fill the pawsteps as well as they needed to. After the fox issue was solved, the new leader just...walked out. Nobody knew where they went. Needing a new leader, however, they picked the only one who still had some sort of spunk after the tragic incidents. Not wanting the old clan's name to be soiled, Owlstar instead founded it under a new one. While this caused several cats to leave, a few of the OG did stay to help.
While she is very smart and strategic and really helped the clan back to its paws, Owlstar also gained a little too much power too soon from all of this. She's far too eager to start battles to show off the fact that her clan is strong, especially because of the ridicule that came from other clans following the fox incident. This is something that definitely becomes an incident in the future, as I plan that she'll end up picking the wrong fight with the wrong cat, but I think that will be the event that mellows her out.
But all in all, I feel like she would have been more of a hands-off intellectual type had the clan picked someone else to fulfill the role of leader.
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@Palefur - Good luck finding someone!! 0: My oekaki skills are fairly poor and I've been feeling pretty yucky lately, so I can't offer any help, but I do hope you find someone soon! <33
@BlueEyedKite - I hope Risers is a thing, lol! But yes, I would love to do a 1x1 with you if you don't mind my clan currently being a clan of one, haha. I wouldn't mind doing multiple cats, though <33 I'll probably shoot you a PM!
@Knickknacks- Oh, that is a really interesting concept! I'd love to hear more about that, and how the cats that later rejoined feel about Northclan. Lynxstar is also a very pretty name - I also wanted to point that out, haha!
@TheSongOfTheStars - That would be cool to see that as an AU! Maybe it would be neat to put your cats in a desert type setting just to see how they react - it helps flesh out characters a lot when you just write them into all kinds of situations. It makes you think about things you never would have considered otherwise : )
@Elliad. - That is the absolute wildest backstory, and it's crazy to see how something so seemingly small really snowballed into a whole complex timeline. I really like the way you write!