badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
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Strikestar, Living and Dead by badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
Fandoms: Warriors - Erin Hunter
01 Jan 2023
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It's hard talking to yourself. Harder still when that self is dead, and you are alive.
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Now, she awoke in StarClan, face to face with the faded version of herself with stars in her pelt. "So you're back," this part of Strikestar said.
Strikestar growled. "So I am."
They sat in silence, the dead and living Strikestars. The forests of StarClan were not like the forests of the living world. They did not stir with the wind, nor whistle with birdsong. They glimmered instead, flickering like the embers of a dying fire, or maybe a fire being lit anew. Strikestar the living wasn't sure. Strikestar the dead had answers, but, she claimed, was honor-bound not to give them.
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A small warm-up fic using one of my own writing prompts!
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- Part 1 of CoralClan writings
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i'm the kind of kid that can't let anything go by badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
Fandoms: Warriors - Erin Hunter
07 Dec 2022
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Their first place of refuge.
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She did mourn that she might have tasted her last trout, though. And her last perch. And last minnow. And all the fish that the river had to offer. They were richer and fattier than ground-prey, and Leopardstar and Mistyfoot had said that that's why RiverClan cat fur was so sleek.
It was hard not to live with half her paws in the past when everything reminded her of it.
It wasn't so far away, she'd thought to herself. She could sneak off. All she had to do was follow the border back to Fourtrees, and then cross the bridge back to RiverClan.
But then Sasha would stir, and that sad and worried look Moth had grown used to would show up even while Sasha was dreaming, and Moth knew that she couldn't abandon her mother.
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But not the last.
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- Part 3 of in fair verona
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a thunderbolt ain't built to last by badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
Fandoms: Warriors - Erin Hunter
06 Dec 2022
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Hawkpaw needs to tell Leopardstar what's happened.
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"All I know," Hawkpaw said, suppressing a frustrated growl, "is that Sasha said she couldn't stay, and she was going, and Moth decided to go ahead and join her."
"So why'd you stay, then?" Blackclaw fell into step, flanking Hawkpaw from the opposite side of Heavystep. The black warrior wasn't that much taller than Hawkpaw, but his authority loomed over the apprentice like a shadow. "How come you didn't turn tail and run with 'em?"
"Because I'm RiverClan." Hawkpaw's tail lashed with impatience. "And I always will be. And if you'll excuse me, I need to tell Leopardstar about this now. Please," he added, though it sounded more angry than submissive.
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Hawkpaw, now more than anything, needs to prove that he's RiverClan to his core.
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- Part 2 of in fair verona
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hard to say farewell, harder yet it is to tell by badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
Fandoms: Warriors - Erin Hunter
04 Dec 2022
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When Sasha tells Hawkpaw and Mothpaw that she's leaving, one stays, and one goes.
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"I can't stay here anymore."
"Why not?" Hawkpaw's fur fluffed at the back of his neck. "It's good here. We're learning to hunt and fight. We're strong here. Please don't make us leave again," he added in a smaller voice. "I don't want to go."
Sasha blinked at him, slowly. "You can stay. In fact, I... I want you and Moth to stay."
"What?" Mothpaw felt sick.
"You have a good life here." Sasha gestured with her tail at the RiverClan camp. "Friends, good mentors, a future. Everything I could possibly want for you. And I won't take that away from you just because I can't stay."
"So, you're--you're leaving us?" Hawkpaw's ears swung out. "Just like that?"
"I'm sorry, Hawk." Sasha hung her head in shame. "This is just the way it has to be."
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Moth has no choice but to disagree.
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- Part 1 of in fair verona
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break it to me, break it to me softly by badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
Fandoms: Warriors - Erin Hunter
23 Sep 2022
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oh, i forgot myself / i don't want no one else
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Birchfall's kept secrets from Whitewing. Whitewing is not having it.
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Forest's Echo by aerial_jace, AQuietSanctuary, badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi), Doritopaw101, Heathfall (NoPenIntended), SedatedDreams
Fandom: Warriors - Erin Hunter
24 Apr 2024
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This is a collaborative TNP/AVoS mash-up AU, in which the destruction of the forest happens during AVoS rather than in TNP.
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"Two households, both alike in dignity / In fair Verona, where we lay our scene."
An AU where Moth left the Clans with Sasha, leaving Hawk to his own devices in RiverClan.
Tags subject to change as the series progresses, please keep them in mind, though nothing too heavy is planned at the moment.
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no one held me to the flame by mallowstep (fencesandfrogs)
Fandom: Warriors - Erin Hunter
22 May 2022
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feathertail/stonefur
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Bookmarked by badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
24 Sep 2023
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From Brokenstar to Tigerstar; from kit warriors to Bonehill; some cats have to trade in mistakes for wisdom. Blackfoot knows this better than anyone.
// or, the exploration of a warrior always on the wrong side of history.
Bookmarked by badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
13 Jun 2023
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blackstar my FUCKING beloved i would kill everyone in this room and then myself before i let anything happen to my favorite feline war criminal
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Stormpaw is seven moons old when he and his kin are taken prisoner by TigerClan and thrown into an old foxhole. Somehow, life doesn't get much easier after that.
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“Why,” Hawkpaw finally asks, deathly calm, “did you say that?”
Leopardstar shrugs. “I didn’t see either of you coming up with an explanation. You’re welcome for covering your tails.” She ambles to her den and doesn’t look back at them.
Stormpaw can feel Hawkpaw’s gaze burning holes into the side of his head. He sighs and decides that he’s ready for this night to be over, and he trudges to the apprentice den. If Hawkpaw wants to stand outside and glare at Stormpaw from all the way across the camp, let him.
It’s not like he's the one who just told all of RiverClan that they’re in love with each other.
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// or, Stormfur throughout TNP. Canon AU.
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Bookmarked by badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
28 May 2023
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Renamed to Crown of Thorns: Red Sky to denote that it is now the first in the Crown of Thorns series/rewrite. New look, same great taste.
What if, upon Leafpool receiving the "Bramble claws" omen towards the end of Sunset, she read it instead as "Thorn claws"? After all, one of those two was eligible for the deputyhood, and it wasn't Brambleclaw.
...After getting turned down for the deputyhood, Brambleclaw has a realization. Several realizations, in fact.
A canon divergence/rewrite of Warriors, starting from Chapter 17 of Sunset on. It'll extend for as long as I feel like it/have time.
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- Part 1 of Crown of Thorns (Warriors Rewrite)
Bookmarked by badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
23 Apr 2023
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take it as the truth, or you can take it as a grain of salt by mallowstep (fencesandfrogs)
Fandoms: Warriors - Erin Hunter
30 Jan 2022
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When she is nine moons old, Ottersplash tells Mosspaw she is pregnant.
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She complies, and Ottersplash crouches next to her, grooming her head as Mudfur runs a paw over her stomach. Embarrassment makes her feel hot and makes her ears fold back. This wasn’t supposed to happen — she was going to be made a warrior and then they’d court properly and then she’d have kits, but now it’s all out of order, and everyone will know how stupid she’s been.
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or, a logical intersection of two super editions.
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Bookmarked by badgerstep (NorthOfDelphi)
27 Sep 2022
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wow holy shit this is incredible. top tier stuff. mind the trigger warnings but goddamn this is an excellent fic.