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Summary:

As a ThunderClan apprentice, Jaypaw knows he's running out of time. Despite his wishes, his aunt, his parents, and his leader expect him to give up on his dream of becoming a warrior in order to train as a healer. A dream visit from one of his warrior ancestors, however, prompts him to make a decision that will change his fate and finally give him a chance to prove himself.

Chapter 1: Allegiances & Author's Note

Notes:

yellowfang was forced into being a healer and tbh she should have argued more for jaypaw being a warrior! anyway, this is just the allegiances, and there aren't super major changes, so if u don't want spoilers for who's going to show up later, feel free to skip this chapter.

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|| THUNDERCLAN ||

LEADER: Firestar - ginger tom; green eyes

DEPUTY: Brambleclaw - dark brown tabby tom; amber eyes

HEALER: Leafpool - light brown tabby molly with a white chest and paws; amber eyes

WARRIORS:

Brightheart - white molly with ginger patches; one amber eye

Ashfur - flecked gray tom; blue eyes

Squirrelflight - dark ginger molly; green eyes

APPRENTICES:

Hollypaw - smokey dark gray molly with green eyes; Leafpool's apprentice

Lionpaw - golden brown tabby tom with amber eyes; Ashfur's apprentice

Jaypaw - gray-brown tabby tom with blue eyes; Brightheart's apprentice

ELDERS:

Longtail - pale gray tabby tom with darker stripes; green eyes

 

|| SHADOWCLAN ||

LEADER: Blackstar - large white tom with black paws and extra toes; amber eyes

DEPUTY: Russetfur - reddish-brown molly; green eyes

HEALER: Littlecloud - small brown tabby tom with white paws; blue eyes

WARRIORS:

Oakfur - small brown tom; green eyes

Rowanclaw - ginger tom; green eyes

Smokefoot - black tom; amber eyes

Toadfoot - dark brown tom; green eyes

Applefur - dappled brown molly; green eyes

Crowfrost - black and white tuxedo tom; blue eyes

Kinkfur - brown tortie-tabby cat; yellow eyes

Ratscar - brown tom; amber eyes

Snaketail - dark brown tom with a tabby-striped tail; amber eyes

Whitewater - thick-furred white molly; blue eyes

Ivytail - dark tortoiseshell and white molly; blue eyes

APPRENTICES:

Owlpaw - light brown tabby tom with yellow eyes; Smokefoot's apprentice

Olivepaw - dark tortoiseshell molly with green eyes; Crowfrost's apprentice

Shrewpaw - gray cat with black paws and blue eyes; Ratscar's apprentice

Scorchpaw - dark gray tom with torn ears and amber eyes; Snaketail's apprentice

Redpaw - reddish-brown tortoiseshell molly with amber eyes; Whitewater's apprentice

QUEENS & KITTENS:

Snowbird - white molly with green eyes; pregnant

Tawnypelt - tortoiseshell molly with green eyes; mother of Talonkit, Dawnkit, and Flamekit

 Talonkit - dark brown tabby tom-kit

 Dawnkit - pale ginger she-kit

 Flamekit - ginger tom-kit

ELDERS:

Tallpoppy - light brown tabby molly with long legs; green eyes

Cedarheart - dark gray tom with a white patch on his chest; green eyes

 

|| STARCLAN ||

Yellowfang - dark gray molly with protruding upper canine teeth; yellow eyes

 

|| NOTES ||

Tigerkit has been renamed to Talonkit, after Rowanclaw's apprentice that was slain by Jacques and Susan.

Kinkfur is nonbinary (fae/faer), and Shrewpaw is agender (they/them). Jaypaw is a bisexual trans tom (he/him). There are a lot of LGBTQ cats in this story (i'm a nonbinary lesbian lmao) but their identities will come up later. Those three are just the ones that I figured I'd explain ahead of time.

In canon, Snowbird is pregnant with Scorchfur's kits, but he's still an apprentice at the time. To fix this in my story, she got pregnant with a rogue's kits and won't name the father if asked, mostly because they broke up after he found out she was expecting. Later, after Scorchpaw becomes Scorchfur, he and Snowbird become mates, with him adopting her previous kittens as his own.

The phrase "medicine cat" has been replaced with "healer".

I had to piece together the ShadowClan allegiances so that there were more than six cats in the clan, lmao. I tried to make it as accurate to canon as possible, but if anything seems off just ignore it.