#5 and/or #26 for the wip ask game? :3
woah i ended up rambling
5. What are the main themes?
I would say the main big one would be good+evil/moral ambiguity? I really like looking at morality in stories.. because of this reason I could name very few genuinely 'bad' cats in this story lol
plus whatever theme goes with some sort of corrupt system :] I love those (fictionally) :]
smaller themes like power, death, war, hate/love etc and these are all looked at specifically in context/influence of their little corrupt cat society
26. What do you still need to plan?
a whole bunch of stuff! there's many little plot issues that annoy me that I'd love to fix, the main two big things however are Rainpaw's character arc and the entirety of Part 3. um lots of text under the cut
Rainpaw's my main protagonist, he gets pov throughout all 3 parts but. idk what he's really doing. its hard to get him to the end point of his story because I'm not really sure what would change his mindset to get there? His ultimate job is to restore StarClan after like a year of anarchy (a plot problem in itself because I don't want to portray the downfall of a corrupt government-ish figure as bad lol that's a good thing) but he starts SL totally anti-StarClan in comparison to his Clan. Right now I'm kind of passing it off as the inter-faction conflicts he faces after StarClan's fall make him want to restore the Clans as they were supposed to be when they were formed, but I also don't want anarchy (? for lack of a better word I guess) = chaos because that's boring and kinda shallow in my opinion
WHICH LEADS INTO part 3 because I have the end of it etched into my soul but the rest of it is just everyone. existing. totally unplanned I have no idea what will drive the plot of part 3 yet. I want to explore the conflicts between the different factions that are created after the Clans fall apart so that may drive the plot for Petalclaw and Rainpaw/storm but as for Night? I need to plan what she's doing because her one goal is to destroy StarClan. Once she's done that (end of part 2), idk what will lead her to everything I have planned out for her at the end of part 3, which is again her vs starclan :/ it's like when Night is there but StarClan is not there is nothing driving her actions so I need to figure that out...
WOAH SORRY FOR ALL THAT BUT IT WAS FUN. sorry if it makes no sense... it distracted me from the worst history assignment of all time from hell itself so thank you for the ask! :D
night
SCREAMING oh my god Night from 2020
i should post more of the stuff in my drafts
Ik I can literally just play god with my ocs but it’s like alpenglow is a FULL complete story and my brain just reveals it to me in little parts. lmao. Idk how to explain it man
fully convinced my brain is a whole seperate entity or something and I’m just along for the ride
alpenglow’s totally normal and not confusing dating system. did these a while ago and forgot to post :D it’s in human years
I say it has 3 ‘stories’ mostly for lack of a better word, more like main chunks of time that specifically are important. I included the characters to give an idea of where in the timeline I’m referring to with art or names etc. (you can tell if a Night I’ve posted is from stardust or shattered loyalty if her shoulder scar is visible - she has it in SL but not in stardust - she and a few other characters appear in both of those, obviously, as SL covers the dark forest revolt against starclan)
this bit was part of a thing I was making with a few other world-info guides but I’m not going to continue the rest of it.. thought the timeline stuff would be beneficial to post still :]
I'm a sucker for hypothetical children, so, what would a NightFinch hypokit potentially look or act like?
oohh ok! :0 i thinkk if its a hypokit, then any design with an incorporation of brown, black and some tabby stripes would be good... maybe ill draw one for fun..
its hard to say what the kit would act like.. because i think Night would absolutely suck at parenting. plus this would have to be a post-civil war situation (if they both didnt die) so Finch would be better off than Night but still a little messed up
if we go with the happiest possible option of alpine sort of communally helping them both and them supporting each other well i think they would grow up to act smart and reserved but absolutely be secretly a menace.. like will do what they're told but will go out of their way to be an inconvenience lmao. nobody wants to complain because they've all seen Finch dismember cats during the war and Night is Night
also to the followers here from my moonpaw posting i hope you like ocs because 99% of this blog is ocs if that wasn't already clear.....
new character, Pyrite :]
she was made so Night had someone to talk to early in her story, but by creating her I also accidentally fixed several plot holes lol
bonus thing? under the cut