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Post by αɳσɱαʅყ on Aug 21, 2022 22:21:10 GMT -5
A thread for anything AUs (Alternate Universe), as long as it is an AU of the main, canon Warriors books. Found an interesting AU MAP/MV or fanfic? It goes here. Have an AU idea you want to share or need some advice planning? That also belongs here. Personal Recs: - Twisted Tree by phgealsm - AU in which Tigerclaw succeeds in killing Bluestar using the rogue attack, and Fireheart is blamed instead
- Ouroboros by smug_albatross - Time-travel/fix-it AU in which, after his death, Firestar is transported back in time to right before he joined ThunderClan
- Paws of Stars by Sunnyfall - AU/PoT-OOTS rewrite, the Dark Forest works differently and background characters are more fleshed out
- Simpler Times by Haroldosaur - Time-travel AU where Squirrelpaw and Brambleclaw are sent to the ThunderClan where Firestar is just Fireheart, and Tigerstar is Tigerclaw, ThunderClan deputy
- (YouTube MAP) Rustclaw Warriors by Maltose - AU in which Rusty is forced to flee ThunderClan after he loses against Longtail, and so he joins Brokenstar's ShadowClan instead and earns his Warrior name: Rustclaw
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Post by phantomstar57 on Aug 22, 2022 13:21:07 GMT -5
I do have an AU fic of my own but before I think to place it here, perhaps you should check it out and see if it qualifies. In the early chapters it fits in with the canon before diverging into its own timeline with my OCs as catalysts.Click my sig to get to it or click this link: wcrpforums.com/thread/293/blood-born-smoke-fire-poll
There are plenty of older fics too that would be o awesome here. CURSE by ShadowFace The Lighthouse by Katanaheart That Which Plagues Us by Searipple the absence of rain by eph
Newer fics Star of Dawn and Dusk by Brownie The Birds All Cry by Valleylight HyenaFangs War by Hyenafang
There are others --I'd have to search the forum to find them and will do when I have more time!
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Post by αɳσɱαʅყ on Aug 22, 2022 16:46:23 GMT -5
I do have an AU fic of my own but before I think to place it here, perhaps you should check it out and see if it qualifies. In the early chapters it fits in with the canon before diverging into its own timeline with my OCs as catalysts.Click my sig to get to it or click this link: wcrpforums.com/thread/293/blood-born-smoke-fire-poll
There are plenty of older fics too that would be o awesome here. CURSE by ShadowFace The Lighthouse by Katanaheart That Which Plagues Us by Searipple the absence of rain by eph
Newer fics Star of Dawn and Dusk by Brownie The Birds All Cry by Valleylight HyenaFangs War by Hyenafang
There are others --I'd have to search the forum to find them and will do when I have more time! Oh thank you for the rec list! And as long as your AU features canon Clan cats and have them as at least one POV character, it should be fine.
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Post by phantomstar57 on Aug 22, 2022 17:12:16 GMT -5
I do have an AU fic of my own but before I think to place it here, perhaps you should check it out and see if it qualifies. In the early chapters it fits in with the canon before diverging into its own timeline with my OCs as catalysts.Click my sig to get to it or click this link: wcrpforums.com/thread/293/blood-born-smoke-fire-poll
There are plenty of older fics too that would be o awesome here. CURSE by ShadowFace The Lighthouse by Katanaheart That Which Plagues Us by Searipple the absence of rain by eph
Newer fics Star of Dawn and Dusk by Brownie The Birds All Cry by Valleylight HyenaFangs War by Hyenafang
There are others --I'd have to search the forum to find them and will do when I have more time! Oh thank you for the rec list! And as long as your AU features canon Clan cats and have them as at least one POV character, it should be fine. I think it qualifies-at least the AU as a whole. Have tales from various POVs . The prologue of Born of Smoke and Fire is from Bramblestar's POV.
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Post by Brownie on Aug 22, 2022 17:22:11 GMT -5
I was also going to post some of my favs from writers on here but most of the ones I remember didn't survive the forum move :(
Beautiful insanity was probably the best "canon" focused AU Calliope was set in RiverClan, but I don't think it had canon characters in it?
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Post by αɳσɱαʅყ on Aug 23, 2022 0:32:12 GMT -5
I was also going to post some of my favs from writers on here but most of the ones I remember didn't survive the forum move :( Beautiful insanity was probably the best "canon" focused AU Calliope was set in RiverClan, but I don't think it had canon characters in it? You know, I always forget people used the old forums to post Warriors fanfics. So many are now lost to time u_u I think it qualifies-at least the AU as a whole. Have tales from various POVs . The prologue of Born of Smoke and Fire is from Bramblestar's POV. Yep, I agree!
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Post by phantomstar57 on Aug 23, 2022 13:14:45 GMT -5
I just realized most of the fics I listed are total AU and don't have canon characters! Sheesh. The ole brain is frying. But they are still good fics anyway! I'll have to go thru the archives. I know many fics did come here when we all moved to this forum in 2014.
Born of Smoke and Fire, however, does, and my OCs alter the timeline into their own AU almost immediately :-)
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Post by Brownie on Aug 23, 2022 16:25:37 GMT -5
yeah I really struggled to come up with any modern fic on this site that touches canon nowadays. Most people do their own fanclan stuff or straight up fantasy. Probably because most the people that wrote during 2016-22 haven't read a warriors book since even earlier than that haha I know the wff was notorious for not keeping up with canon as much as the rest of the forums, even back in the 2012 days
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Post by phantomstar57 on Aug 23, 2022 20:06:47 GMT -5
I remember a lot of canon stuff when I 1st joined the old forum in 2014. It is pretty rare to find AU canon stuff these days. I wrote New Blood Born of Smoke and Fire in 2014 and I think I finished it in 2015. I recall a lot of fics then, pretty good ones too involving "what if" scenarios . On the new forums there were a lot of those too. But they must be buried deep in the pages. I plan to take a look when I can. I know Minted might remember them better than I do! Still out there Minted? @mintedstar/fur
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Post by Brownie on Aug 23, 2022 20:40:23 GMT -5
yea I looked through the last 15 pages and found nothing finished. That covered up to 2017, though some of the reposts might have gotten a comment or two in 2018 that bumped them up (iirc it was around mid to late 2018 that a lot of the people here from the migration started leaving)
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Post by phantomstar57 on Aug 24, 2022 12:46:27 GMT -5
yea I looked through the last 15 pages and found nothing finished. That covered up to 2017, though some of the reposts might have gotten a comment or two in 2018 that bumped them up (iirc it was around mid to late 2018 that a lot of the people here from the migration started leaving) That is kind of sad. Explains why its been so quiet. I wish I could recall the finished fics from our earlier days on this new forum. I think Minted even kept a page of them. I may have to see if I can find that.
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Post by phantomstar57 on Aug 24, 2022 12:47:52 GMT -5
Ouroboros by smug_albatross - Time-travel/fix-it AU in which, after his death, Firestar is transported back in time to right before he joined ThunderClan
This fic was awesome and very well written!! He moved to another fan fic site before he finished it here. Dang.
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Post by Brownie on Aug 24, 2022 14:28:16 GMT -5
Ouroboros by smug_albatross - Time-travel/fix-it AU in which, after his death, Firestar is transported back in time to right before he joined ThunderClan This fic was awesome and very well written!! He moved to another fan fic site before he finished it here. Dang.Yea thats something too i know a lot of people that just moved to other sites as this one died. There might be finished versions of some projects out there that we'd recognize from people who arent on the wff anymore
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Post by Katanaheart on Aug 24, 2022 14:44:24 GMT -5
I know I did consider an AU where Mapleshade was accepted into RiverClan after the death of her kits. Unfortunately, that era has such lackluster allegiances I couldn’t scramble much together.
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Post by phantomstar57 on Aug 24, 2022 16:10:57 GMT -5
A lot of us are still here as lurkers for the most part. But it would be cool if we could suggest some fics for the forumer who started this post. Its sad that this place has gone so quiet. But I still visit. It alwasy meant a lot to me.
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Post by αɳσɱαʅყ on Aug 24, 2022 22:57:53 GMT -5
A lot of us are still here as lurkers for the most part. But it would be cool if we could suggest some fics for the forumer who started this post. Its sad that this place has gone so quiet. But I still visit. It alwasy meant a lot to me.
<3 I wasn't aware the fanfic section was pretty dead here. The AO3 for Warrior Cats is more active and there are lots of great fics! I think FFnet is still going strong too, but harder to filter.
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Post by Katanaheart on Aug 25, 2022 1:59:07 GMT -5
A lot of us are still here as lurkers for the most part. But it would be cool if we could suggest some fics for the forumer who started this post. Its sad that this place has gone so quiet. But I still visit. It alwasy meant a lot to me.
Same, Phantom! So far, only recent things I’ve read was a short one-shot comparing Hollyleaf to Gaheris and Brownie’s Star Rose, which I’ve yet to finish. TLH3 is being slow but I do intend to have an episode out at some point. Returning to AUs, was a really interesting AU with Brightheart on the old forums but I can’t remember the title.
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Post by Brownie on Aug 25, 2022 6:02:26 GMT -5
A lot of us are still here as lurkers for the most part. But it would be cool if we could suggest some fics for the forumer who started this post. Its sad that this place has gone so quiet. But I still visit. It alwasy meant a lot to me.
Same, Phantom! So far, only recent things I’ve read was a short one-shot comparing Hollyleaf to Gaheris and Brownie’s Star Rose, which I’ve yet to finish. TLH3 is being slow but I do intend to have an episode out at some point. Returning to AUs, was a really interesting AU with Brightheart on the old forums but I can’t remember the title. That was beautiful insanity by skyfall! It was the only canon AU that I remember that was super good back then
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Post by Brownie on Aug 25, 2022 6:08:11 GMT -5
A lot of us are still here as lurkers for the most part. But it would be cool if we could suggest some fics for the forumer who started this post. Its sad that this place has gone so quiet. But I still visit. It alwasy meant a lot to me.
<3 I wasn't aware the fanfic section was pretty dead here. The AO3 for Warrior Cats is more active and there are lots of great fics! I think FFnet is still going strong too, but harder to filter. yea out ff section has been very sad lately. A lot of people are just lurking and there's few readers that post, which discourages the new writers that do come around. I try to comment on every new fic, and so does phantom and mint, but we're only a few people and it's just not enough. It's funny to see there's a whole lot of people writing fic on warriors general and then......... not posting it here or interacting with other writers at all. </3 I wish they would just come over and liven the place up. wff used to be one of the most active boards on the old forums in 2014-16 back in the day; the front page would only be 15 minutes worth of posts at peak hours and there were hundreds of active fics and members! AO3 is fairly active still, FFnet is pretty dead. Wattpad is ironically doing well comparatively for our fandom, with most of the good stuff being wattpad/ao3 crossposted. Iirc there's another proboards forum that has a more active fanfiction section but I haven't looked at it and I think it's invite only.
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Post by frogbit on Aug 27, 2022 15:59:55 GMT -5
slides forward my favorite AU fic archiveofourown.org/works/10933845/chapters/24324375Its dead and it hurts... I especially like this bit, it reads so well Their hushed whispers grew silent as Thistlestar began to speak. "ThunderClan, we sent a patrol to teach RiverClan a lesson tonight. But one cat did not make it back. Sparrowpelt was a brave and loyal warrior." Thistlestar dipped his head at Sparrowpelt's kits and his mate, One-Eye. "This is a terrible loss for ThunderClan. It should never have happened..."
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"-and it never would have happened if RiverClan hadn't insisted on challenging us," Thistlestar finished, glaring at the RiverClan leader from his spot on the Great Rock. My favorite AUs are either: everything goes horribly wrong or a character about to go down a bad path is able to get help and lift themselves out of the pit for a better future
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Post by αɳσɱαʅყ on Aug 27, 2022 22:47:01 GMT -5
Man, yeah. I remember when Warriors fics were being posted up like hotcakes. It's kind of you all to encourage ffnet writers though! Great find, thank you for sharing :) I actually found a happy counterpart to this AU, snowdrifts, which is an AU where Bluefur keeps her kits but Thrushpelt is there to take over as a nursery queen so she can become deputy. It's from the perspective of Mosskit, who survives.
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Post by phantomstar57 on Aug 28, 2022 13:21:16 GMT -5
Curious- what is AO3?
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Post by Brownie on Aug 28, 2022 14:33:31 GMT -5
archiveofourown.org/Archive Of Our Own; it's a fanfiction site that is known for having no filters or moderation and a very good tagging system so you can find exactly what you're looking for. It's less of a forum or publishing site and more of, well, an archive. You do have to dig a bit to find gems, but there are also more people that are willing to dig and find finished 'fic instead of them just dying like they would without upkeep on other sites. It's a pretty decent place to cross post fics that you want to make sure survive any changes to the original posting site, since ao3 is known for keeping everything the same forever.
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Post by phantomstar57 on Aug 29, 2022 11:48:31 GMT -5
archiveofourown.org/Archive Of Our Own; it's a fanfiction site that is known for having no filters or moderation and a very good tagging system so you can find exactly what you're looking for. It's less of a forum or publishing site and more of, well, an archive. You do have to dig a bit to find gems, but there are also more people that are willing to dig and find finished 'fic instead of them just dying like they would without upkeep on other sites. It's a pretty decent place to cross post fics that you want to make sure survive any changes to the original posting site, since ao3 is known for keeping everything the same forever. Cool! I will check it out! Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2022 16:53:43 GMT -5
I'm doing a little practice rewrite/AU of the series 'cause I really wanted to practice my writing without struggling to devolop a plot. I have many AUs due to the writing. Such as Firestar losing all his nine lives, but he forces him self to live, using the cursed "tenth life". StarClan warned him what this would do, and it drove him mad in the end. He tried to kill/exile the Three, but that doesn't matter. I didn't want LeafxCrow, so I made Sol Midnight's apprentice and the SolxLeaf ship was born because Leaf went on the journey instead of Bramble or Squirrel. I was going to make Squirrel now have a mate, but we needed the fire scene so I need help deciding whether Stormfur the future important cat or Spiderleg her best friend and my baby for a mate. Who would you decide?
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