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  • I want Warrior Cats society to permanently change.

  • The cats all live in a structured system,

  • which is fun and interesting for somebody who's new to the series.

  • but after 40 to 60 books, you start to notice that

  • not only are all the clans the same, but they also have no reason to be separated in the way they are.

  • You start to get more exhausted by clan borders and romance rules than interested by them.

  • Along with, that the structure isn't utopian. It's not quite dystopian either, but it's flawed.

  • It's unfair, it's harsh to outsiders and it goes unexplained as to why their society thrives over others.

  • I mentioned that it's not utopian, specifically because these characters within warrior cats think that it is.

  • They seem to be under the impression that their way of living is the only way of living,

  • and it's backed by not only their in-universe religion,

  • but also the writing of the books themselves.

  • Up until the most recent series, and I expect through the most recent series,

  • despite it being called "The Broken Code",

  • the cats have always found that they are living in the best possible society,

  • despite constantly breaking its rules and exploiting its flaws.

  • So what I want to happen is that it gets... changed up a little!

  • For a while, their current structure worked fine because no other cats were in a society.

  • This group was isolated, and on some level

  • it was implied to be just how wild cats operated in general.

  • The warrior cats world seemed much, much bigger in the first arc than it did in the arcs to follow.

  • But then they introduced something terrible...

  • The Tribe of Rushing Water.

  • Introducing another group of cats living separately from the clans,

  • along with the concept that cats do not naturally live in clans, kinda stabs a hole in the warrior cats system,

  • because it makes me less forgiving of the flaws that it has.

  • In Warrior Cats, introducing another group is usually proving how much better the Warrior Cats clans are,

  • and a lot of the time the warrior cats are trying to force their culture on the other group.

  • It's part of the whole concept where the narrative is pushing that the best way for these cats to live

  • and the only way for cats to live is in the clans.

  • On top of that, the Tribe is boring!

  • If we every have to go back to the mountains again in this series, it will be too soon.

  • It always feels like filler,

  • even when Jayfeather is going back in time, establishing something or guiding the original tribe cats,

  • it all feels like an abstract distraction from the main plot.

  • And more importantly than that, as I said before, it feels like the tribe can't properly take care of themselves.

  • Repeatedly, they need to be helped, to be taught how to defend themselves,

  • to be taught how to be a society, even though they're older and more established than the Clans are,

  • to the point where they're being driven out by a ragtag group of young people and outcasts.

  • Going to visit the Tribe cats, in every book where they are visited, is treated like a chore.

  • They're written as if they're stupid and incompetent,

  • along with being so stubborn that they never actually listen to the advice of the Clan cats until it's too late.

  • They are written, in the books, as being inferior. They are not the only ones.

  • Single cats are considered inferior,

  • stray cats, kitty pets, along with any and all other groups.

  • The warrior Clans are considered the height of society, the perfect and infallible society,

  • both by the narrative and by the characters.

  • Every cat they come across either needs to be fixed by them, or treated with disdain,

  • and they do it to every single cat they meet,

  • every single group they meet!

  • Heck, Tigerheart's Shadow seems like it's going to be a book

  • where Tigerheart learns that forcing his culture on another group of people is wrong,

  • but it doesn't really accomplish that. Instead Tigerheart brings half the cats back with him

  • to go live in what he's convinced them is a perfect society.

  • Firestar literally goes five miles south to establish a new Clan after some dead cats beg him to,

  • and convinces like thirty people, far disconnected from the Clans, to become one.

  • Despite everything, this group of people doesn't immediately fall apart.

  • But despite the fact that they seem to be trying to convince us

  • that warriors are living in their best lives in the best possible system, it's clearly flawed.

  • First of all, there's five Clans, all separate, all constantly fighting,

  • not to defend themselves in any normal way, but in theory to fight the other Clans.

  • But for what? All events that threaten an entire Clan have always been resolved peacefully.

  • We've never had a severe starvation event,

  • and all mass sicknesses have either been resolved by being gifted or stealing herbs from another Clan,

  • seemingly with little repercussions.

  • It seems like we haven't had a fight that was actually treated as being a normal thing

  • since we had Sunningrocks in the first series,

  • and that was fighting over a rock that the RiverClan cats wanted to sit on!

  • And you'd think that with the danger and conflict between Clans being

  • non-existent for such long periods of time,

  • having a death toll of zero for books and books and books,

  • people wouldn't be so tense and worried all the time about stolen squirrels!

  • But they are, because it's Warrior Cats!

  • They keep themselves separate and fight over territory and resources for little to no reason,

  • especially after learning multiple times that the lesson [is] that

  • they need to stay together and defend themselves from outside threats as a unit.

  • Not only do they live in a separated, aggressive community, but they believe in this separation.

  • But...

  • ...why?

  • Every time they try to live as a unit or dissolve a Clan, God intervenes.

  • Ok, not God, but the warrior cat ancestors,

  • which I've gone over specifically how little sense they make in the video 'StarClan',

  • so check that out if you like me talking aimlessly about cat books.

  • Anyway, they seemingly don't have a higher knowledge of events or the way things should be,

  • and there's a sense that the Clans are supposed to be the way they are for some reason of fate,

  • but it's really unclear as to what fate is in the first place or why.

  • They have prophecies sent from a higher power,

  • a higher power seemingly even [than] the dead cats,

  • about what's going to happen, all concerning this one group,

  • and seemingly because of just how special the warrior Clans are.

  • But here's the thing.

  • Recently, it's been kind of showcased that different cats live in different ways,

  • and interact with kitty culture and the afterlife in different ways.

  • The Tribe never counted for this because they basically had the exact same afterlife the Clans had.

  • But there's lore now!

  • The series has recently implied that dead cats just kind of wander aimlessly around as ghosts after they die.

  • All dead cats that aren't in the clans, anyway.

  • Why? Who knows? Who knows..

  • But this does prove that an afterlife isn't exclusive to the Clans,

  • so that's like a start, I guess, in the direction of humanizing outside groups and cats.

  • Anyways, we've seen that other cats, specifically the new group, the Sisters,

  • have a unique and functioning society outside of the Clans.

  • They have a [pseudo] leader. Ooh, I can't say 'sway-do', that's a fake word.

  • They have a pseudo leader, they have a proper religion,

  • and, although silly, their own way of doing things.

  • [imitating Moonlight] "Get out of my house, son."

  • "I never want to see your dumb face again!"

  • But I feel like just the Tribe of Rushing Water and other past groups kind of closed the door on how cats work.

  • The sisters opened one. The clans don't need to be the way they are!

  • They're not set in stone by laws of the universe.

  • They could be more like the Sisters!

  • Or maybe they shouldn't be more like the Sisters, but they could be more like something else!

  • The warrior cats, of course, think that the way that the Sisters do things is super weird and awful,

  • but to be honest with you, the way the Clans do things is also weird and awful!

  • Fighting for no reason, living in five separate groups that are barely distinguishable from each other,

  • having absurd rules against certain people having babies,

  • and certain people having babies with certain other people,

  • and it's really just not that far off from whatever nonsense they're constantly judging other cats for!

  • So what I want, and what I hope will develop from the introduction of other cultures

  • that are treated a little bit more evenly, is that the warrior cats will stop and think:

  • "Wait a minute. What are we doing here?"

  • Obviously this sort of thing has been briefly gone over in the series before,

  • but, every time, something goes wrong... morally.

  • Despite being of a human level intelligence,

  • the cats somehow don't have the level of thought required to separate religion from morality.

  • They also somehow cannot pick out the merits of individual rules without damning the entire code.

  • For example, when Sol wanders in and convinces ShadowClan to give up on their religion,

  • They also give up on important elements of the warrior code, along with elements of their culture as warriors.

  • [imitating Sol] "Hmm, no more religion? This means we should stop feeding the children!"

  • But their religion isn't what needs to go.

  • Despite the ambiguity of the warriors' ancestors,

  • and their borderline-untrustworthy manipulative elements, they are real.

  • What does need to go, in my opinion, is Clan borders, kitty xenophobia,

  • and all those silly rules about who you can't or can have a baby with.

  • The complete separation is nonsense.

  • Four Clans, five Clans, it doesn't matter at all that they're separated.

  • They work together 90% of the time anyways,

  • They could still live in separate groups with their own leaders and camps,

  • hell, even have their own hunting groups and rules about them.

  • What I'm proposing would change very little about the Warrior Cats universe beyond the fact that, logically,

  • They wouldn't be fighting over which side of the border a squirrel was caught on, or where an herb was gathered,

  • when every Clan has an obligation to feed everyone in the first place.

  • Essentially, it would work like this: The Clans recognizing that they are one entity, that's step one.

  • In theory, the territories, hunting grounds, and population is [are] too large to live in any one area or one camp,

  • especially with a big lake in the middle, so they cannot live all together and probably wouldn't want to.

  • But an understanding that everyone should be fed and defended equally should be carried by every Clan,

  • in an added-to-the-warrior-code sort of way.

  • If RiverClan's dying because the river is frozen,

  • there's no reason for them not to be able to spread out and hunt elsewhere,

  • or at the very least, seek help from other groups, or stash their elders or queens away in a healthier camp.

  • It's already in the warrior code to care for elders and kits first.

  • If the cats were to have a problem with a rule like this, they have a problem with the warrior code already.

  • Obviously it would be a strain in leaf-bare for them to be taking in these extra cats,

  • but the Clans, or at least ThunderClan, participate in this sort of sheltering for kittypets and strangers

  • all the time already, despite things being tight,

  • and they have never been shown to actively suffer from it

  • to any dangerous level within the books.

  • Despite what the complaining of a cat like Spiderleg or Dustpelt might lead you to believe.

  • Additionally, I feel like the Clans should be treated a little bit more like categories.

  • If a cat feels like they would find themselves more useful in WindClan than in SkyClan,

  • they should be able to have the option to Twigbranch themselves over.

  • Clan loyalty in a world where the Clans are a cooperative entity would be loyalty to all the Clans anyways.

  • This could be used to focus on the different leadership styles and strictness of any given group,

  • along with our vaguely boring contrasts between hunting styles and battle moves.

  • Obviously, much like Hogwarts houses or the sports team your dad likes,

  • the Clan that you were born into might be a point of pride.

  • Rivalry might still be a thing, along with your peers being put off with it if you decide to switch,

  • but no longer that rule that you need to pick one and keep it.

  • Along with that, the idea of half-Clan cats or relationships would no longer be a problem.

  • Like someone in another clan? Go there! Have them come here! Don't want to do that? Don't worry about it!

  • Come visit ThunderClan just to check up on everything, bring a couple mice for the fresh-kill pile, and say hi.

  • I also like the idea of there being groups of cats who go from Clan to Clan.

  • Young people being warriors for whatever Clan needs it.

  • Staying wherever they like when times are easy,

  • but traveling about if there's an outside threat, a fox to fight,

  • or a Clan who just needs a little help accomplishing something.

  • I also think that the medicine cats should be even more interconnected with each other than they are,

  • sharing their knowledge of herbs, sharing the herbs themselves,

  • coming to each other immediately when there's a disease or injury they don't know how to handle,

  • and, most importantly, being able to temporarily move a medicine cat

  • from one Clan to another if there's some sort of problem.

  • The Clans obviously already do basically all of these things when it comes to medicine cats,

  • just unofficially, under the radar as if it's against the law.

  • I would make a couple of changes, though.

  • First of all being more medicine cats. ThunderClan had three recently,

  • and I think three fully-trained cats is a good number per Clan, even if it seems excessive.

  • Or two with one apprentice, obviously spaced out in such a way that

  • the medicine cat isn't taking on an apprentice until they've reached a certain age.

  • Second: Medicine cats should be able to have mates and families.

  • There's already no real reason besides lack of manpower that this rule exists to begin with!

  • On the subject of multiple medicine cats, by the way,

  • a lot of people complain about how many medicine cats there are recently,

  • but I think that the amount of medicine cats we have has actually kind of kept up with how many cats we have.

  • Compare how many cats there were in ThunderClan in the first series

  • to how many cats there're in ThunderClan right now!

  • I want these changes not to make Warrior Cats more boring or more peaceful, but to do the opposite.

  • I feel like the limitations between Clans actually put a big barrier on how much drama there can be between them.

  • Every Clan issue is related to prey stealing or border pushing all the time.

  • I think if the Clans were more intermingled, they could actually have more interesting stories!

  • It makes no sense, as it currently stands, for cats from different Clans to work together

  • or be together as they have been.

  • We very frequently have to switch perspectives to explore what's going on in the other Clans,

  • and it's frustrating when the perspective in question has little to nothing to do with the ongoing plot,

  • and the character in question barely knows the other.

  • Along with that, characters like Dovewing, Lionblaze, Leafpool, Twigbranch,

  • have already dipped their toes into a lack of understanding of Clan borders,

  • along with making good friends in other Clans,

  • and just how many main characters have had friendships and relationships outside of Clans

  • should be a good indicator [of] just how many all those millions of side characters logically would have as well!

  • Another good thing that would come from this would be, obviously, improved genetic diversity,

  • as pretty much every young cat in ThunderClan is everyone else's second cousin at this point.

  • I also think that making the Clan you reside in more of a choice

  • would allow for the differences in hunting, culture, and training easier to explore and compare.

  • As it stands, all the Clans just seem like the same group with a different food type.

  • The Clans' distinct features from each other lately feel like: "We're ShadowClan! We have pine trees!"

  • or "We're SkyClan! We're ThunderClan that can jump a little higher!"

  • I also think this sort of thing could definitely work in the story's favor if nothing else.

  • Here, a scenario:

  • A kit in SkyClan is saved from drowning in the lake early on in his life by a warrior who trained in RiverClan.

  • He becomes fascinated with RiverClan,

  • so, when apprenticed, he makes the choice to travel to a new Clan and train as a RiverClan cat.

  • but has to deal with a different climate,

  • and being surrounded by Clanmates he didn't grow up with.

  • We could also explore a Clan from a newcomer perspective again,

  • giving us a fresh look at the characters in the perspective of someone who doesn't know them yet,

  • along with showcasing what makes RiverClan RiverClan over another Clan.

  • When we have cats that are just kind of born in their Clan,

  • a lot of things that would make that Clan interesting or unique

  • when compared to ThunderClan aren't explored at all.

  • I noticed this especially when reading The Broken Code, every Clan just feels like it's the same Clan.

  • But why do we have five of them when they're all

  • the same thing?

  • Obviously, in this sort of scenario,

  • having the leaders meet up more often or send messengers to help discuss things would be a must,

  • along with the mediator job being more substantial,

  • so along with the others, I would like to propose

  • two more jobs for cats alongside the medicine cat.

  • The first would be a mediator for every Clan,

  • responsible for one border.

  • but mediator's apprentices would only be assigned when needed

  • and trained by the mediators from the other borders.

  • There would never, ideally, be two mediators per Clan at once.

  • So no mediator and the mediator's apprentice.

  • I'd also imagine that anyone training to be a new mediator would be

  • a respectable level-headed warrior already

  • and not an apprentice or a child that was trained up for the job.

  • I would also have a messenger position,

  • for a cat who essentially travels with news to other Clans or leaders as quickly as possible.

  • Fast apprentices or apprentices with a lot of stamina would be pulled aside for this sort of job.

  • The difference between a messenger and just any old cat who can run would be a question of availability.

  • The messenger would always be on call to travel to ShadowClan last minute

  • and tell them about a badger attack.

  • Obviously, I'm sure this brings up a question of the messenger

  • not really being a contributing member of the Clan,

  • where the mediator can still hunt, the messenger would have to be around,

  • but I'd imagine in this sort of scenario,

  • they're half an emergency "Go and get help from WindClan" system,

  • and also half "someone who brings news of the day from other Clans."

  • early morning mini-meetings and gatherings of messengers could take place

  • where they learn the day's news and badger sightings and bring them back to their own Clans.

  • I can imagine situations where apprentices are having the messenger ask ShadowClan

  • how their littermate is doing in training, or if Spottedflower has had her kits yet.

  • I'm sure this wouldn't disable the need for Gatherings either,

  • which could still be used for announcing important topics, shouting names,

  • and just spending some time with your friends who've chosen different paths.

  • This would have me reserving six cats per Clan for non-warrior activities:

  • Three medicine cats, one mediator, and two messengers.

  • The mediator at the very least would hunt and maybe the medicine cats, too,

  • if all the herbs were sorted and collected and somebody was around.

  • Honestly, I have no clue what the medicine cats do all day already,

  • especially when Leafpool, Alderheart, and Jayfeather were there.

  • There isn't always someone sick.

  • Anyways, that's how I want to restructure warrior cat society!

  • It's not going to happen of course,

  • but I can't help but talk about what I want to see!

  • Basically, I just want them all to combine!

  • I want them to stop fighting over silly stuff

  • or at least revise the code a little bit,

  • get rid of all of that forbidden relationship nonsense,

  • or make a couple rules about it.

  • Uh, in the end, um, uh...

  • Tigerstar was right...

  • [laughing] I think I've said this before!

I want Warrior Cats society to permanently change.

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I want Warrior Cats to Change Permanently

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    WarriorsCatFan2007 に公開 2024 年 02 月 18 日
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