Chapter 12: Heart Sought

Chapter 12: Heart Sought

The crusaders run into Ratoo, Clauneck and learn that Narinder still has access to one godly power

also posting this today, alongside the earlier one-shot I wrote

More warriors OCs! Yippee!!

Meet Tallstar, the newest leader of RowanClan, but probably the oldest leader out of the three despite that

She was a new deputy when Spottedstar started isolating RowanClan from the other Clans due to her paranoia in her old age. Tallstar, Tallwing then, was too nervous to step up at first and it caused a lot of young warriors and the apprentices not to respect her. But as she spoke with the medicine cat about her worries, she came up with a plan

Together with several others, she started planning to overthrow Spottedstar and MAKE her step down. That... didn't work. It came out that Spottedstar had killed a lot of cats in her past and the previous leader of BirchClan took her final life himself

Now Tallstar is doing her best to rebuild her Clan and balance her new family she's started with her mate

Tansytail (they/them) was the apprentice of Misteye and learned from her about being comfortable in their own skin and identity. After their ceremony, they came out to those closest to them and did their best to be a great warrior

They didn't get an apprentice until AFTER Spottedstar was overthrown, but they were still made deputy despite that. They're very close to Tallstar, after all (also, Tallstar's other options were two old people, nepotism times a thousand, two pregnant women or apprentices/young warriors without apprentices)

Tansytail is happy as deputy and was glad to get to know the other higher powers in the other Clans, especially becoming close to the then-deputy-now-leader Feathersong. Now they're not the only non-binary cat in power now that Roseheart of BirchClan is Featherstar's deputy

At the beginning of the story, Goldenlight had left her Clan to go on a spiritual journey. As the only medicine cat, it was dangerous to leave her Clan alone, but luckily the elders were knowledgeable enough to act as healers for her while she was gone. As soon as she returned, she discovered two abandoned newborn kittens and she brought them back to her Clan... at least, this is the story she's told her Clan. Only her medicine cat friends know what she was really doing. I'm not going to reveal her secrets though. That's not my story to tell

Goldenlight was Tallstar's number 1 supporter during the revolution and now she's her number 1 supporter as leader. All she wants now is for things to cool down and to maybe get an apprentice to assist her with all the injuries her warriors seem to love getting. She already has her eye on a kitten, too. A certain little tom-kit named Newt

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

My cat just laid down like this, and he's done it before, and yet it BAFFLES me???? He lays so weird and I don't get it?????

The text is hard to read so here you go

Purple: brother’s trombone case

Red: arms tucked

Blue: legs splayed out for some reason???

Like, look at my baby boy! he's so strange!!!

He CAN loaf. He literally did it earlier tonight, but he likes doing this for some reason???? My son is so odd

Anyways, to bring this full circle, I think I should draw Narinder from Cult of the Lamb doing this because it's funny

Honestly, this AU could very much just boil down to "I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot" and Shamura completely missing the social cue and trying to shoot their shot while the ghost family yells at Sozonius to not fumble this baddie, if you wanted

I just really like tragic man and the hot baddie trying to flirt with him and totally failing at getting his attention while he experiences the horrors, alright? Sue me

Listening to music gives you the best ideas, guys

Anyways, go5 an AU idea that I will not be using so I thought I'd share

Basically, after Dr. Sozonius gets out of rehab, he's allowed to just do as he does whatever. Okay. That's normal

But all of the sudden he starts hearing voices, and not like the fun ones who'd come to see him while he's high.

No, he's haunted by the ghosts of his family (wife, kids, siblings, parents, you name it) instead. And possibly a physical (imagined) manifestation of himself while possessed by the parasite.

And while he struggles with his crippling guilt and also ghosts, Shamura starts trying to make moves on him. Like, he's just sitting there like "I think I need to become an alcoholic" and Shamura goes "ok, but have you considered allowing me to rizz you up?" and the ghosts of Sozonius's family are just chanting at him "ancient sins" or "damn, why that spider kinda fine tho" or something along those lines and the hallucinated Sozo goes "hear me out: you should try 'shrooms again"

And by the end he's just done with it all and just wants to make human connections again, so he confronts his ghost family and they go away. And then he happily goes off to date former gods to his heart's content

The ghost part is inspired by the song Sex With a Ghost by Teddy Hyde, so do with that what you will

Just please credit me if you end up using this idea :)

Describing COTL to a friend