Arc Three Plot Brainstorming

Summer's approaching, so we need to start brainstorming about what exactly we want our next sitewide plot to be about.

https://warriorclancats.forumotion.com/t18685-a-new-sitewide-plot-arc-three

Throw out your ideas below and help us (the staff) come up with something to do.

High Sparrow based plot.

A leader/medicine cat has a vision from Starclan, that code breaking would destroy the five clans. That the clans are overrun with non-pure cats.

So a great purge happens? There is a witch hunt for non-pure clan cats, eg. half-clan, rogues, kittypets etc. Some cats that are like one fourth non-clan are spared, but treated with suspicion. Some clans that are mostly made up of non-clan/have a sympathetic leader, might be kinder and not purge. Then the more aggressive clans could attack and demand that they get rid of these cats or be attacked.

It can build up to a massive fight between the clans.

Cats can switch clans to escape their clans trying to kill them or become rogues. Mini-battles can occur in-clans. Some relationships can split off, others can get stronger. Families can be torn apart by loyalties. Medicine cats can really do their job and advise leaders. Back-stabbing can occur. Friendships lost.

It can be both fighting and RP Drama. As long as no one takes everything too personally. And the purist clans won't really be evil either as they're really only following the warrior code. And when you rely on your clanmates to hunt and protect, their loyalties are important.

Ooh, I likey this plot. I say it's good.

Question: What about cats that switched Clans? Are they considered treacherous too?

Big Brochu wrote:

High Sparrow based plot.

A leader/medicine cat has a vision from Starclan, that code breaking would destroy the five clans. That the clans are overrun with non-pure cats.

So a great purge happens? There is a witch hunt for non-pure clan cats, eg. half-clan, rogues, kittypets etc. Some cats that are like one fourth non-clan are spared, but treated with suspicion. Some clans that are mostly made up of non-clan/have a sympathetic leader, might be kinder and not purge. Then the more aggressive clans could attack and demand that they get rid of these cats or be attacked.

It can build up to a massive fight between the clans.

Cats can switch clans to escape their clans trying to kill them or become rogues. Mini-battles can occur in-clans. Some relationships can split off, others can get stronger. Families can be torn apart by loyalties. Medicine cats can really do their job and advise leaders. Back-stabbing can occur. Friendships lost.

It can be both fighting and RP Drama. As long as no one takes everything too personally. And the purist clans won't really be evil either as they're really only following the warrior code. And when you rely on your clanmates to hunt and protect, their loyalties are important.

This could either be really good or really bad for SkyClan, depending on how many refugees run to them... /shot
Because you know no one ever is going to fess up if they have a "dirty" blood-line.
Most likely very, very extremely bad. Even if half the clan has Silentstar's blood now, that still wouldn't be enough to appease any Falcon-tier fanatics.
Yay.

I like Brochu's, but Ebs got a point: Skyclan is big on that non-clan shiz. Most of my cats are pure-clan, so their safe, but Littlefang is in jeopardy- unless they are okay with Softsong being momma. I like it honestly, but yeah. Perhaps Skyclan can have some sort of... Like, i don't know, better way? Like, some could lie and trace their bloodlines back incorrectly or something? Just an idea, idk...

Well Skyclan can refuse to do as this prophecy tells them, or maybe not even receive this vision that other clans claim to have. Could be tension building as it sounds like an excuse to attack skyclan then.

And with nowhere else to go, clan cats can flee to Skyclan for protection, so Skyclan won't be crushed by larger clans.

Well Duskfall and Softsong were mates with the consent of Flameclaw, but they/their kits might have to go to extreme's to prove their loyalties. Like Littlefang/Hawkstrike/Coalpaw can refuse to talk to their mother, take on a Skyclan patrol by themselves, distance themselves from each other etc. Which is the drama I mentioned.

Tide wrote:

I like Brochu's, but Ebs got a point: Skyclan is big on that non-clan shiz. Most of my cats are pure-clan, so their safe, but Littlefang is in jeopardy- unless they are okay with Softsong being momma. I like it honestly, but yeah. Perhaps Skyclan can have some sort of... Like, i don't know, better way? Like, some could lie and trace their bloodlines back incorrectly or something? Just an idea, idk...

Technically, there is no actually pure-blood in SkyClan anymore. Lavenderheart and Silverstorm were Silentstar's only - and now dead - children that came from her, thus the pure-blood. Everyone in the clan, they probably have at least 1/4 or 1/8 of SkyClan blood, but most of them are pretty much 100% rogue, kittypet, and/or loner. SkyClan's going to have a terrible time with this plot.

Fal will murder them all...

SkC would obviously be the big "impure" safe haven in all this, as other people have pointed out.

I'm just wondering how many purebloods would actively persecute Clanmates with impure blood?

When I hosted that survey a little while ago, most people answered that half-Clan cats and former rogues and the like should be trusted as long as they're loyal. Also, purebloods outnumbered impure cats by a lot.

Just wondering on the logistics and motivations. We wouldn't want to start this only for nobody to listen to the High Sparrow, or for warriors in the "anti-impure" Clans (like WindClan) to start deserting en masse or refusing to fight.

@Echo: Ah okay, thanks. But Brochu makes a good idea there with Skyclan being a safe haven

@Brochu: I'm in with it if we all agree

@Brochu: This will be the perfect plan for Soaringpaw and Redpaw. They are both pure rouges and Soaringpaw has a crush or whatever on Coalpaw and Redpaw is going to have a crush on Sandkit (Maybe it's Sandpaw now, idk) from Shadowclan. They can have family drama, like maybe their siblings stop talking to them or something. Coalpaw could be the only one to talk to them because she is mates with Soaringpaw, or she could destroy the relationship, or whatever. Idk about Redpaw though. He hasn't even met his mate yet :3

Blazingheart is pureblood, as I assume Hollyberry is also. But, He knows that Duskfall's mate is Skyclan and Skyclan is made up of rouges, therefor he finds himself in a sticky situation. Drive out his best friend's mate due to Starclan's prophecy, or disobey his ancestors and stick with his bae. He also knows that Soaringpaw and Redpaw weren't born in the clan, so he knows they are rouges too. Agin, he is caught in a pickle.

Frozenflame stays mates with Hawkstrike, despite her bit of rouge blood she might have in her-it will get bred out of the family line eventually anyway. He struggles with his loyalty and his friends-Redpaw and Soaringpaw. The thought of Hawkstrike and her siblings being part rouge crosses his mind, but he ignores it.

Emberkit just sits around and watches everyone die as he sorts herbs as a new mca. He don't budge in on the fights and lets a new world war arise.


Someone could stand up for Soaringpaw and Redpaw and claim to be their parents. Maybe Duskfall and Softsong could arrange something for them. Maybe they could get windclan or shadowclan not riverclan bc they hate TC right now cats to claim to be their true parents and they left them on Thuncerclan territory for a better life or some random excuse.

Yeeaaahh.. I don't really want Fishstar getting persecuted and booted out of RiverClan right now. She's half-rogue. I also have a feeling this is going to go in a similar direction as the situation with Elea. A whole bunch of people are going to disregard/not listen to the High Sparrow. The whole High Sparrow dilemma is cool in ASOIAF, but as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), he didn't throw people in jail for being bastards/having tainted bloodlines. Also, how would this High Sparrow even know that certain cats aren't pure-blooded? Some of them don't even know, and like Ebs said, who would even want to confess that they're half-Clan?

Just my two cents.

Well I saw more thinking the "Let us all follow the rules set down by the Gods" part and breaking those rules should be punished aspect. And translating into cat verse, it's not super based on ASOIAF, more just the religious fanaticism. And as for the 'High Sparrow', I was thinking leaders/medicine cats could have this vision instead of some random NPC. This would help with legitimacy, and some cats on the fence could just do as they're told.

For how do we know about bloodlines, that's where the betrayal comes in. Everyone has confided in someone, and rumours exist. So like Gorsefeather, Nettlewing was super close to Suntail, and BAM! Nettlewing had kits with a tom but never told anyone who the father was. From this, cats could get suspicious about his linage when they normally wouldn't be due to this prophecy saying that code breakers would be the downfall of the five clans. Clanmate against clanmate. Witch trials, but for bloodlines/codebreaking.

Cats can even spy on each other and get super tense.

Not every clan needs to get super fanatic, maybe Riverclan can have a vocal minority wanting this purge, but Fishstar can be all, nah bro.

But ultimately, I do recognise that if no one is ready to get on board SS BURN THE CODEBREAKERS, this plot will fall apart at the seams. And I have heard the past history regarding fanatics on WCC. So hence the survey I made, please do that guys. I'll post the results on Saturday. Then we can know if this could work or not.

I'm all for the High Sparrow deal. The tricky part is getting people to not play the "hero," what with their morals and compassion. A question, though: will the parents of the Half-Clan cats be exiled/killed as well, even if they themselves are full Clan, or is it focusing solely on their offspring? Because that might influence the number of people affected and decide whether enough members are into this plot or not.

I think that it's a good Idea but it's being gone about the wrong way. Nothing in the Warrior Code says Rouges and Loners are not to be taken into the clan. It would be the mixed clan cats that would be persecuted because inter-clan mates are against the warrior code. If we went by this then at least it's not against most everyone on the sight but a smaller portion.
At least, That's my opinion.
Also, if this would be used I think if it started out as just hunting med cats and their kits who broke the aw and worked towards the inter-clan cats I think it would be cool so it wasn't just from acceptance to rejection of these cats but a gradual change in the demeanor towards the cats. Know what I mean?

Wait- but what if kits of half-clan cats and such did a huge something to prove their loyalty? It's not their fault their parents did that. Yeah, I think a proving loyalty thing could work. Like killing another half-clan.