How many lives?????

[@spritenado6983]

Wouldn't it be neat if a leader conquered all 4 clans, becoming leader of all of them and thus got 36 lives and the series shifts to trying to kill this quasi-immortal dictator to restore the Clans

[@creativityrunswild]

Oh gosh I love that idea!

[@snarkychan7504]

his name is... gigglestar the grand

[@doc-savage]

There are 5 clans. So 45 lives, lol.

[@Sirius_Iris]

@@doc-savageriverclan is dead. 4 clans lol

[@mulitpower8827]

This^ This is what Scourge and Darktail’s arcs should have been like

[@kestreldomann2787]

Concept: the lives that leaders don't get are just given to a random Clan Cat. This is why Heavystep died like three times.

[@IconicxReimi]

Yessss

[@CheeseyCat252]

Yes absolutely I'm talking this :3

[@TiredBirb490]

I love how the explanation just comes to “they forgot how to count”

[@MBZ901]

Warrior cats can only count in "shakes of a fox's tail" or whatever so it makes sense

[@treplox4318]

​@@MBZ901cat freedom units!

[@kiru_red4691]

The problem is, I totally believe they would suddently forget to count, just because they're Erin Hunter and constantly forgetting (or ignoring, who knows) their own lore xd

[@TiredBirb490]

@@kiru_red4691 they make me feel better about wanting to write. I forget stuff all the time and could definitely see myself just forgetting how to count in an important situation lol

[@masonbeeeeees]

So the conclusion I'm drawing from this is that Firestar and his descendants (with the exception of mr special jayf) all have the warrior cats equivalent of the cilantro-tastes-like-soap gene (the starclan-feels-like-dying gene) and when squilf gets her nine lives (hopefully. erins please. let her have this) she will also feel like she's dying briefly, lmao

[@Yeibaldreamss]

I don’t understand this

[@capybara2244]

​@@Yeibaldreamss Some folks have a gene for some reason where cilantro will taste like soap. We don't know why or how this is,but it just is. It's hereditary,it's a gene. So what MasonBees is saying is that FireStar's descendants will have a dying sensation when receiving their lives,and again,we don't know why or how it is,but it just is. It's an odd thing that happens and it just happens.

[@NellaJade]

Who knows but it’s clear to all of us that mistystar had like 20.

[@nolongervisible5850]

Bluestar was just slipping her lives under the table LOL

[@SLTheOneAndAwesome19]

Mistystar got to keep all the lives StarClan took from the leaders before their ceremony.

[@NellaJade]

@@nolongervisible5850 NAH THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT

[@MBZ901]

@@nolongervisible5850 must've been what happened with Heavystep too xD one of the leaders was just like "I like this guy, I'm gonna give him a couple of my lives"

[@user-DragonWhiskers]

Blue star gave her at least eight lives, probably more tbh

[@Hailpaws]

Starclan just has fan favourites.

[@capraisin]

Facts

[@KZFathom]

@@capraisin one of those favorites was ashfur

[@MadilynMeiFan]

Another was Cinderpelt.

[@MBZ901]

and they hate Nightstar

[@warriorcatkitty]

so true.

[@NightStarOfShadowClan]

I can imagine it now, Squirrelflight gets her lives, to which the Fandom will celebrate, but then there'll be some strange starclan nonsense and she only gets like one life, sending fans spiraling with anger.

[@cryptidkoi8418]

Starclan seeing Squirrelflight : erm… woman alert! O_O eep! *proceeds to give her one life* *blames her for shit* yada yada squirrelstar yada gittout

[@JustDuckiest]

"Well ya see, Bramblestar actually still has 8 lives so we're just gonna give you 1 lol bye Squilfstar, have fun being leader for two books"

[@Tw2wuv]

REALLLLLL..

[@Tw2wuv]

@@cryptidkoi8418 Ermm.. woman alert??! 🤓/j

[@starvoltnexus3139]

@@cryptidkoi8418I don’t know about women alert but definitely Squilf alert

[@lj2659]

I remembered there was a "warrior cat fact video" fact that medicine cats had heart attacks when they visited Starclan

[@SpineBones]

Maybe firestar's bloodline just has a mild starclan allergy

[@mochasandwords6966]

Tbh I'm really sad Sunstar doesn't get more from the fandom. He's honestly a really cool character and I think his being a dad and mentor to Bluepaw has a lot of missed opportunity. As well as how he semingly pines for Moonflower in a Thushpelt(ish) sort of way. With how much Thrushpelt is loved (and don't get me wrong I love him too) I feel Sunstar would be equally loved. Especially bc his death was brutal like damn-

[@charchukk]

i love sunstar!! he’s one of my favourites!

[@JerzyImajewski]

I love moonkitti talking about weird inconsistencies in warrior cats. Like yes, talk about them lives

[@ophisidian]

i feel so bad for nightstar like i'm sure brokenstar has lost several lives why didn't he get those

[@ophisidian]

and i find that raggedstar has such a bullshit death; if he got killed by a bite to the throat there's no way that would have stolen all his 9 lives--other leaders have received that injury and revived

[@KZFathom]

@@ophisidian i guess for the second thing, hypothetically brokenstar could have just killed him nine times, not letting him revive enough to fight back. his death did happen off screen.

[@cursedstarflight]

​@@ophisidianit is possible for ragged to die somewhat like tiger1.0, just dying as soon as he has returned, like how you would grind in some games, just standing beside a mob and killing it as soon as it has respawned

[@Abyss_Watcher1]

@cassketch9041 I'm pretty sure Brokenstar had become leader like 1/2 moons before or after Firestar joined TC and that the only battle that Bromenstar was involved in was driving out WC and even then he isn't mentioned as being at the battle.

[@falcon_arkaig]

​​@@ophisidianWhat I'm guessing is that Brokenstar killed Raggedstar in a way that took away all his nine lives. Like how Scourge killed Tigerstar and took all his nine lives in one blow. What I'm guessing is that Brokenstar held onto Raggedstar's neck as he drained all of his lives.

[@SwissCoda]

I do honestly think the premise of visiting Star Clan being something that kills the individual - atleast temporarily to be something actually kinda neat, like yea - youre projecting yourself into whats essentially the afterlife; so the notion or idea of a cat having to die, atleast temporarily to visit starclan be it a leader or medicine cat sorta makes sense

[@wolfieolfie]

3:32 I like the interpretation that Starclan just ran out of cats.

[@wolfieolfie]

I’m gonna continue to make silly explanations for inconsistencies like these. 5:53 Starclan has favorites.

[@AlexHarrier]

Leafpaw's experiences makes me think if you could somehow make sure the medicine cat didn't wake up you could strand them in starclan by taking their sleeping body away from the moonpool haha

[@theMyRadiowasTaken]

i think that might be murder

[@CheeseyCat252]

Uhm yeah that's probably murder, so I'm taking this and putting it somewhere on my messed up warrior cat timeline

[@abigailkondoudis5772]

This is a bit off topic but I would love for Brindleface to give Squilf a life and apologize for Ashfur. I can imagine it kinda going like this: The next cat was one Squirrelflight had never met before, but had heard about many times. The she-cats familiar silver spotted coat almost made her shudder at the familial resemblance, but this cat was far less angry that Squirrelflight had seen Ashfur in a long time. Brindleface stepped up silently, and in a quiet monotone, she spoke, “With this life, I give you decisiveness, to know when a cat cannot be saved.” A wave of emotions rushed through Squirrelflight, strongly and painfully, not unlike the life for a mothers love. But this life was far different. Darker, colder, resigned. The burning protective emotions were not meant to keep a cat safe, but to save others from them. A sense of duty that she wished she never had to feel again. It was by far the most painful life, and Squirrelflight could hardly bear it. Once it was over, Brindleface stood still for a moment, and then, in a barely audible whisper, she said, “I’m sorry about Ashfur.” Before stepping back and letting the next starry cat take her place. Can basically guarantee that this won’t happen, but it would be awesome if it did.

[@phantomstarsx9343]

Legit almost started crying reading this. Poor brindleface

[@-Some_Random_Chicken-.]

OMG THIS IS SO GOOD❤

[@pharaotix9007]

I really like the idea of brindleface showing up again and the life she could give to squilf, but her apologizing for ashfur feels... sort of icky. It sounds like she would be apologizing for giving birth to him in the first place, back when nobody could have imagined how he would turn out to be someday, and that is just a completely messed up and victim-blaming thing to do in my opinion (...so completely on brand for the series if I think about it, she-cats getting the short end of every stick). Ashfur had every opportunity to stop himself and reevaluate his actions, while brindleface was only such a small part of his life, not really able to raise and keep him in check and thus probably the least likely to turn ashfur into a psycho and murderer. Don't make her apologize for being a mother. Make her sympathize with the pain squilf had to endure and reinforce that she has to use this life to let something like the rise of ashfur never happen again.

[@dias951]

This is too good and too smart, they would never do this, although thank you for writing this into the world 😭

[@Romanticoutlaw]

I guarantee you that you've thought about and remembered brindleface more than the erins have in five books. The fandom once again having a power level far above canon

[@LuckythecatZ-]

I just want starclan to be bored one day of giving nine lives and just give each new leader three so they die quicker and we can have newer leaders a little more often and not another mistystar

[@silber_lowe]

I feel like if the warrior cats team actually makes squirrelflight a leader, they will do something like that to her

[@KZFathom]

@@silber_lowe lmao it is totally in character for starclan to finally do something good only to take something away from squilf

[@JotaroKujo-ip5wb]

@@silber_loweshe’s dying before she becomes leader be real now

[@AmythestAnimations]

they start out with one life, travel to the moonstone, and get nine more. the pain from gaining the new nine lives kills them and takes away their original life, leaving them with nine.

[@lunerwerewolf]

This actually makes me wonder if Fireheart was meant to be a medicine cat

[@endereye964]

I actually love this idea, with the fact he was having visions throughout his entire arc. Let’s face it- if Fireheart was a protagonist now, he’d definitely be in the Medicine cat’s den.

[@lzrshark617]

@@endereye964 Was just about to say that. If he had showed up in any arc past like New Prophecy, (especially around Vision of Shadows era), he *absolutely* would have been shoved into the med den

[@froggy4250]

can you imagine writing books for a series you've never read

[@PaperGardensOfficial]

I know what I'm going to say is irrelevant, but the complications of the Warriors lore is the reason why I make up my own rules when it comes to creating a cat who is a leader to use in roleplay. I once roleplayed a leader named 'Boastar' who only received three lives because I made up a story about how she was some kittypet who joined ShadowClan and got brainwashed into believing other clans are bad yada yada yada so she ended up doing bad things and StarClan refused to gift her nine lives due to her actions and instead three ghost kittens, who were drowned in a barrel by Boastar's previous owner, gave her three lives and started haunting her as revenge for what her twoleg did to them. But Boastar thought they were haunting her as a punishment for her actions, so she decided to somehow repent and became a better cat.

[@evdrexel5192]

That's a really interesting concept! It has a lot of potential!

[@PaperGardensOfficial]

@@evdrexel5192 There was even a funny scene where it was the gathering and I had Boastar experience one of her hallucinations of seeing one of the ghost kits on top of ThunderClans leader’s head and Boastar just began hitting the air above their head and the ThunderClan leader was so confused

[@PaperGardensOfficial]

@@Lazy_.Lavender Oh her warrior name was Boawhisker before she became leader, the suffix was whisker because she often plucked the whiskers of any cat she disliked so the previous leader was like 'eh why not grant her the name Boawhisker'

[@Melodyinthemoss]

That would be good as a whole arc

[@warriorcatkitty]

omg that's such a cool storyy woahhh. now i wanna start writing again tbh.

[@Danmeilover69]

You know it's gonna be a good day when moonkitti uploads and causes you to question Warrior Cats more than you already do.

[@GoosekittyGaming]

If other cats that died before getting to the Moonstone/pool still got to become leaders, why couldn’t Curlfeather. The only explanation I can reasonably think of (other than saying they needed to give more time in the books) is that the wounds were too great for StarClan to heal. Sorta like a Tigerstar 1 scenario.

[@SLTheOneAndAwesome19]

I think it's because her body was only collected the next morning. Wind Runner and Tigerheart were brought to the Moonstone/pool as they were dying/freshly dead.

[@jeriko_studios]

I think thats because Frostpaw had run away, meaning the body couldn't be collected and dragged as fast to the moon pool (especially considering Riverclan is literally directly opposite of the moonpool, meaning its actually a very long journey for rc cats that might take till dawn to reach by nightfall) meanwhile Wind Runner was dragged immediately but probably not nearly as fast as possible, and Tigerheart died i think on tc territory, meaning the moonpool wasn't very far and therefore could be revived

[@GoosekittyGaming]

@@jeriko_studios That actually make a lot of sense! Thanks! 😄

[@SerraZuckerman-q9b]

I imagine curlfeather really got torn apart by the dogs, so much that starclan couldn’t have healed her all the way with only 9 lives

[@portobeIIa]

in a completely unrelated note, in my countrys folclore, cats have SEVEN lives, not nine. i dont know what causes the lives disparity from english speaking countries to my country, but it is a reality. i'm used to hearing "seven" and not "nine." nine feels like the wrong number, and yes it was weird watching puss in boots the last wish because of the weird number of lives. i havent ever read anything past into the wild in my native language, so i have no idea if cats have nine lives and we just have no explanation as to why it's nine and not seven, which is probably what it is, but i love imagining that there's an entire new timeline of events of a leaders live because they had to exclude two lives and compress the events into seven lives.

[@kinrateia]

Hey! As a folklore enthusiast, could you maybe vaguely point me to region you're from so I can explore this on my own? :0

[@inkylynx2777]

If I were to make a poor attempt at a guess for why it's nine (in a Doylist reckoning, not Watsonian), my guess would be nine being an important number among Germanic mythologies, where the cultural atmosphere of the UK takes some cues from. That being said, it may not be true because I'm _pretty_ sure some modern-day Germanic cultures (ie Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, etc) have cats have five or seven lives (I've slept since I checked, so hhh). But I do know Turkey has a smaller number of lives, I'm pretty sure it's five, but it could be seven, again, I've slept since then, idk if it's the right one.

[@Stormwolf4]

I like thinking that the cats also can't count, so they just didn't bring nineth, thinking they already had 9. Seems like something starclan would do

[@jaybam2276]

You know, maybe StarClan was experimenting a bit with Firestar, Blackstar, and Leafstar. All those ceremonies happen around the same time, so Starclan decided they should try out killing the old life before adding nine more.

[@bennytheboi4210]

Hello, fellow elder warrior cats fan in their 30's here, Squinting at my memories but the whole... FIRESTAR THINKS HE DIED thing when he got his lives, where he got 9 new ones entirely. The thing where they trash can the original life. Wasn't there a scene in that series (And maybe the others going forward if they kept it) where Firestar saw a ghostly version of himself in starclan? Is that the original life, they take the "soul" of the cat into starclan, and they basically "live on" in gifted lives until they finally go back themself in starclan? For ORIGINAL INTENT maybe, even if it was lost, YOU KNOW. Am I just too tired, literally drinking my coffee. Someone with better recall wanna ramble on this?

[@MakotoYusei]

Iirc that happens in the darkest hour after Firestar loses his first life to Scourge. But since it appears the first time he dies as a leader I think they tried to imply that each time a leader dies the ghostly form becomes less and less ghostly until the leader dies 9 times and is fully in starclan

[@evdrexel5192]

Correct me if Im wrong but I think it was Jayfeather who saw Firestar in Starclan before he died. It was like Jay's first time in starclan iirc and yellowfang explained that the faint ghost was the lives 🔥🌟 had lost already.

[@StrawThatBends]

i believe the faint version of himself firestar sees is each of the lives hes losing. he first sees that faint cat when he dies to scourge that first time. but i mean it could always contain his first life in there and starclan just adds each life he loses until eventually firestar dies and has 10 lives in his dead-cat body or something idk

[@sabermoons]

I definitely recall that, but I don't think they ever explored it further after the last hope

[@alucamon]

I remember this! But i’m pretty sure Firestar saw that fraction of his ghost *after* losing his first life to Scourge in the 6th book of the original series. Someone correct me if i’m wrong tho, it’s been around 2 years since i last read the first arc

[@Countcluckular]

Moonkitti I know this isn’t a talking video but can you talk about ocelot in the next video? I think it’s so interesting we had that one novella about the kitty pet and how their owner seems to have the warriors minis ”the little kittens that were completely still” on the owners shelf.

[@Hailpaws]

If this happens, it’ll be the best video on the moonkitti channel.

[@galaxydeathskrill5607]

i can't wait I love Ocelot so much

[@siliconsulfide8]

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Are you joking (which I assume is what's happening) or did they actually make Moonkitti canon in some recent book?

[@Countcluckular]

@@siliconsulfide8 I’m joking wc wouldn’t have the power to do that(but I wish they would)

[@CheeseyCat252]

You made me think this was a real Warrior cat book :(

[@That_one_weirdasf_person]

Akira AND Moonkitti in the same day?!?! THIS IS ONE GREAT DAY!

[@Spinosaurus_4egyptiacus]

They both post in saturday, thats why they almost always post on the same day ^^

[@That_one_weirdasf_person]

@@Spinosaurus_4egyptiacus That makes every Saturday Great!

[@Espion-]

im calling it now, just to cause even more pain and suffering for squirrelflight fans, they're gonna say some shit like 'bramblestar's alive and you broke the code or something so you only get 1 life' and then she's gonna die

[@runic_raptor]

I think you are 100% correct that they just forgot the 9th cat. Everything they say IMPLIES that they got 9 lives, its only when you count them that you realize she absolutely did not. The 9 lives thing has always confused me a bit because of the whole 9 plus your original 1 life thing. I always assumed the life-giving ceremony just killed you. (Not because of Firestar, I read that book like 10 years ago, you expect me to remember how his leader ceremony was described? Ha!) Or maybe it's like a bank. In order to take out a loan of 9 lives, you have to put up collateral of your original life, which you "get back" when you go to starclan and you're allowed to be your full self again. Idk.

[@jeriko_studios]

My hot take is that Tigerheart had the coolest leader ceremony place in the series, like sure the fourtrees or the moor is nice and all, but cmon a floating rock platform in the already gorgeous abyss of space is just perfect, and reminds me of something you'd see after the Eye of Eden in Sky: Children of Light

[@BumbleTus]

It's ok warrior cats team, I can't count either

[@cryptidkoi8418]

not theory cause it won’t happen, but cool idea (i think): Falling or Teleporting is dependent on who is getting the lives. Falling into starclan could be the leader getting their lives from cats in the dark forest, as if they were trying to tempt them into being an evil leader due to hurt in their life, and teleporting is actually going to starclan, in an attempt to try and motivate them to become a better person as leader, both trying to lead them down a specific path, either of bad or good. firestarish coldness is just going to starclan as a sort of either “you’re forgiven” or a kiss on the cheek. not real, will never be real, but idk- seems neat to me, and has the kind of bare minimum effort that i expect from starclan.

[@admiralensin.]

5:45 i like how leg cramps are an important enough factor to be mentioned in literally every example

[@Answeredriddle]

"Maybe legs cramping is death" okay but consider: muscle cramping IS death and leg day is worst day

[@HollyArt.]

I can only think that squilf might not get her nine lives ( because the Erin’s are very disappointing) but at 8:34 fire star and leaf pool had the same experience when talking to starclan, yet when squilf has a turn to the moon pool things will go horribly wrong, she could die or possibly be seriously hurt. anyways now that I got 23 likes- (thank you) I’ll do another theory, while squilf and jay or alder are on there way to the moon pool some new villain or ambush may stop them along the way and cause conflict between them or thunder clan, I’m kind of imagining this new villain or ambush would take over thunderclan and become their leader. because no arc or book is safe :) edit 3: this edit is about her lives she is going to get, squirrelflight was in a unfamiliar place *am I floating?* squirrelflight thought, but then a blue cat approached her, it was Bluestar she have heard of her from tales in the nursery, “ squirrelflight with this life I give you the life of independence and faith, I know you will be a great leader for thunder clans future.” than bluestar padded away letting the next starry cat to take her place.

[@cowgremlin11]

i just had the realization that the worldbuilding of starclan and all the magic there is like a middleschool online roleplay. change it however you want, dont answer the big questions cus you dont care, no set rules cus no one can agree on anything.

[@thesillyone3837]

Technaly Bramblestar never went to StarClan and never shed his life meaning he should have all 9 lives

[@Star_Starbee]

I think from what my thought is/ how I think it should be, medicine cats and leaders give up their original live to Starclan. They die. Like an investment that they swear to uphold the warrior code and follow Starclans guidance. So that way they can give their lives to a future leader or medicine cat.

[@BuzzPrincess12]

I think that Raggedstar is just horrible and didn't want his boy to not be leader anymore

[@TwoHeadedTy]

Gay Starclan be like “it’s giving lives”

[@Silvermoon32109]

Perhaps when windstar was dying they stripped her of her dying life and replace it with n equally dying life if that makes any sense? So she does get 9 but still is dying from the same cause of her original life.

[@ChoccoGlx]

I will now be making a horror au where the medicine cats die and get replaced every time they visit Star’Clan, their original soul forever trapped in their body

[@LilLalaTheStar]

I find this so funny bc I literally had this same epiphany yesterday lmao

[@123tatortots]

wasn’t there a time in the old forest when apprentices went to the moonstone before their warrior ceremony? what happened to that

[@Toby-Sillyguyy]

Babe wake up Moonkitti posted

[@MaybeNotAFurry]

Here have fake internet points

[@Toby-Sillyguyy]

@@MaybeNotAFurry YIPPIEEE

[@hyahymnal]

I feel like if anything they're gonna A. split the lives between Bramble and Squirrel. I'm afraid they're not gonna make her a full leader. B. Bramble is gonna step down before starclan and his lives will get zooped out of his body and transferred to Squirrel. Squirrel gets Ten.

[@StrawThatBends]

YES 10 LIFE SQUILF MUST HAVE NOW

[@Smelliellie988]

I thought it said tigerheart was given eight lives? I haven’t read the series in months but still?

[@thelanktheist2626]

Yeah that’s what I thought too? Like they gave him nine lives but he still died so he still technically started his leadership with eight?

[@Moonkitti]

Yeah. He gets 9 but only has practical use of 8

[@Smelliellie988]

@@Moonkitti wow hi 😭😭 but yeah I see that

[@aplepotatocat]

Imagine Starclan gets the lives mixed up and suddenly we have two Tigerstars but one of them is in Harestar's body

[@Pheebasaur182]

Not the "Have you heard of this thing called a "churu"" from Pinestar XD

[@PIGEONS_AndAXOLOTLS]

I think nightstar DIDNT get lives was because brokenStar still had more then one left. Like 2 or 3 so they declined nightstar those lives because brokenStar still ha Shia. Pinestar became a kitty pet with only 1 so that’s how many he contrasts

[@purplespork3497]

My little head canon of where prophecies and super powers and wot not in wc is that it come from the cats who have faded from startclan. Idk how to explain but basically I think that because we know cats fade from starclan/the dark forest and the fact that so few cats who are dead outside of these seem to stay connected to the living world is that once they are forgotten by those alive completely their souls can move on the the real afterlife. Cause I’m a little bit of a nerd who’s interested in space and that kinda of stuff I feel like this afterlife would let these very dead people watch over the living and see what is to come (ie see through time and space) but because they are so very dead they can’t directly communicate with the living but because starclan cats are technically dead as well they have a slight bridge for communication. It’s just not strong enough for direct communication so proficiency’s are are given to starclan as a way to try and help the living. This after life is where I feel Bristlefrost and snowtuft would have ended up and idk cats like tigerstar the first maybe just got their energy yeeted back into the world for the next villain to inherit

[@cristiniarguedini6186]

I always had a headcannon that the surge of energy the new lives goves eventually wears down the ldeader, killing their og life

[@MARSSMARSSMARSS]

What if a friendless cat became leader but had no dead friends or dead ancestors and stuff so they got 0 lives and died on the spot

[@autisticseagull9737]

Thank you for being such a part of my childhood

[@Greenkitten45]

You would think the cat with the most allies and friends at death would be more likely to get extra lives to lead their Clan longer while the cat with the fewest allies and friends would get fewer lives to prevent them from ruling forever.

[@riban3768]

I think starclan should stop giving leaders lives and give them all to jayfeather

[@annabellesgamingadventures5243]

Theory: The coldness they feel is genetic :OOO

[@CharlotteWard-br1wv]

Anyone else excited that Ivypool is becoming the deputy? In the thunder excerpt it said that if squirrel was accepted as leader, Ivypool would be deputy.-

[@Capt.Bandicoot]

She's not the only novella fan I miss the novellas so much

[@LOWQUALITYSHEEP]

Tigerstar laughing down a wind star with his 9 lives

[@paranoidlizard6338]

I don’t know if they would actually do this for the reason i’m about to say, but i wonder if you could explain some cats having intense reactions from interacting with starclan through the moonpool or the crystal because of a dissonance between the consciousness and the body that is rare but could still happen. If whatever makes that happen happened to be genetic, it would explain firestar and leafpool both experiencing it, and maybe it could be worse for some cats than others? Sort of similarly to how neurodivergency or mental illness can be more likely to show up in people whose parents were also diagnosed

[@paranoidlizard6338]

If medicine cats also have a higher tendency to experience visions and signs from starclan from a young age, that also might explain why it happens less in medicine cats than in leaders

[@uglebeffus]

I think maybe the cramping was supposed to be some sort of sped up rigor mortis? I dunno. Maybe it's just different for everyone.

[@wolfieolfie]

Also (yes another comment) shouldn’t this confirm Squilfstar? Like Tigerstar died before reaching the moonpool, so if Squirrelflight dies shouldn’t that mean that she’s still confirmed her lives? (even if it’s -1 life or whatever)

[@ssupermarlo]

maybe they forgor because curlfeather died before reaching the moonpool or maybe the wounds were too severe like tigerstar the 1st idk

[@wolfieolfie]

@@ssupermarlo But from what I’ve read (assuming it’s not Warriorcatssexism™️) it’s implied the Curlfeather wasn’t actually meant to be leader? Because of Frostpaw’s messed up visions and Curlfeather’s ghost showing up and saying to look “beyond the obvious choices” for a leader. Now I haven’t full read the recent arc so take that reading with a tablespoon of salt. But, Squirrelflight doesn’t have any of that. By the warrior code, she is the next in line to become leader. No fuzzy Starclan messages or anything, just point blank she should be leader. I’m rambling. Tl;dr I’m going to fight the Erins personally if Squilf dies before becoming leader.

[@wolfieolfie]

@@ssupermarlo I’m leaning onto false hope here. I’m going through the stages of grief. They absolutely forgor. 😭

[@pikathemimikyu6655]

This always confused me. Nightstar gets nothing because they wont take away Brokenstar's lives, but they give Sunstar some lives even though Pinestar is alive. Windstar maked sense until Tigerheart got 9 for some reason. StarClan is so all over the place and inconsistant, and it's really annoying. Honestly, the whole concept of StarClan has really deteriorated over the years. In the first series, it was mysterious and cool, and StarClan rarely ever showed itself. They only had for simple guidance given through certain cats, and they were these mythical beings. But now they meddle in literally everything, and they are so stupid and make so many wrong choices. I just feel like the writing has gone off the rails and they keep trying to write in old popular characters that are dead for nostalgia points in their audience, but in doing so they sacrifice the whole point of StarClan.

[@damlatorun6756]

We really hit the jackpot with both akira and moonkitti uploading today

[@DucksAndShrooms]

I like the idea that the experiences cats have while going to visit StarClan has to do with their level of ‘connection to StarClan’

[@WolfBoy-om6dw]

I hope we get a new CherryClan video soon

[@RoseProseFroze]

Me: You see the reawon Wind runner got 8 lives and Tigerstar II got 9 is because Wind Runner is a she-cat...

[@CharlotteWard-br1wv]

Yes, Tom cats are op in warrior cats.Squilf must show lots of spiciness and anger whilst receiving her lives. >:)

[@riban3768]

im pretty sure at some point in moth flight's vision, Windstar says something like "yep. StarClan give me this life back and 8 more etc. etc." So what I think this means is that Windstar's original life is the life that dies before StarClan "kills" the original life. Her spirit would originally start making its way to StarClan, but getting Wind Runner to the Moonstone freshly dead immediately teleports (or something) Wind Runner to StarClan. But since her spirit/soul was disconnected from her body in a way different from the typical method StarClan uses, she isn't conscious for it. Then the ceremony continues and she gets 9 lives (my opinion is that the Erins didn't count right and forgot to add a cat) as usual. Then her spirit is launched back down into her body and she wakes up.

[@Sirius_Iris]

In my opinion I think sence starclan was new when windstar became leader that they didn’t give her nine and only 8? Idk

[@thatboredaroace]

moonkittis voice is fucking cathartic after 7 hours of work

[@JupiterKat]

Unrelated but I’m so used to a rewrite on tumblr (bonefall) that has Tigerheartstar with a different name (Heartstar, to avoid doubles) and she’s trans and I was so used to that the second I heard moon refer to heartstar as a he I got thrown for a loop lmao

[@womunculus]

"average leader gets 9 lives per ceremony" factoid actualy just statistical error. average leader gets 0 lives per ceremony. Lives Georg, who lives in starclan & gains over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[@jax-ninjanat8778]

Windrunner has being a women desease and Starclan aint touchen that so she arrives as Windstar the lady with 8 lives

[@Mclyney123]

I image starclan not wanting tigerstar the second and revived him

[@kiru_red4691]

I thought that leaders die to get nine lifes and medicine cats have near-death experience... I mean.. Until I realised it's warrior cats and constantly contradict itself. Also I thought Sunstar got lives because Starclan is Xenophobic and doesn't respect Pine as a kittypet, but Brokenstar is just an evil leader... Happens, why would we need a new one?

[@thj_5046]

im not really into the books but hearing this is so funny because on the roleplaying site i frequent like half the clans have a incredibly long line of leaders being denied their names and lives 😭

[@AllMyFriendsRFruit]

I came to the same “they didn’t count” conclusion while whatching this around the second theme Windstar v Tigerstar 2 was mentioned. There’s just no other sensible conclusion. (Though if anyone decides to make an in world explanation feel free to share! I always think it’s fun when the fandom patches the puzzle)

[@zeroheartwcue]

Time to write- eek. Well, Tigerstar II was dead, right? And StarClan needed Tigerstar II to lead ShadowClan. So, when he was getting his lives, they gave him 9. If the cat's old life was included in this, that would mean the cat had 10 lives. No, the cat doesn't. So the death feeling must be StarClan *killing* the cat's old life and giving it 9 more. What about the spirit of the old life? Well, it's mentioned in one of the books Firestar's spirit in StarClan, though he had not died fully yet. It is *possible*, not *the truth*, that Tigerstar II's old life made its way into StarClan. Then you have Windstar. Windstar was severely injured, and she got her lives, like Tigerstar II. Here is a part from the fandom: "However, in Moth Flight's Vision, Moth Flight receives a vision to take Wind Runner to the Moonstone as the leader is severely injured. Wind Runner loses her original life, but by then StarClan has already bestowed her additional eight lives, also renaming her Windstar." In this section, Windstar was said to have died after her getting lives. How StarClan could see the future I am not sure, but this is what I understand. Here is another part of it: "After touching the stone (or drinking from the pool), the new leader cannot move for a short period of time, because their old life is being ripped away so they can receive nine new ones." This means the leader *does* die and gains 9 *new* lives. "Sunstar only had eight lives because Pinestar never officially retired at the Moonstone." -Fandom. "After the battle, Pinestar chooses to leave the Clan to become a kittypet. He says that he only has one life left, and he doesn't want to lose it in battle." Okay. "Sunstar later reveals to Bluefur he received only eight instead of nine lives because Pinestar still had his one life when he left the forest to become a kittypet." *GOING BACK OVER A FEW PARTS HERE!* Sunstar went to the Moonstone, had his old life *killed*, gained *eight* new lives and *left*. But like Moon said, why are the cats *loosing* a life when they die instead of *gaining* one? The answer to this question is Sunstar's ceremony. But then, what about Nightstar? Nightstar didn't get nine lives because Brokenstar was still alive. . . Why is this when Tigerstar II, Windstar and Sunstar all had it differently? And Brokenstar was also on his final life. So this makes it even *more* confusing. Nightstar should've gotten *eight*, not *none*. "When she receives the answer, she then decides to keep him prisoner and to call him by his warrior name, Brokentail, stating that he is no longer a leader in the sight of StarClan." -Fandom. If he is no longer a leader, shouldn't that just add more proof as to why Nightstar should get *nine* or even *eight* lives. Unless Bluestar was *wrong*, and StarClan still saw Brokenstar as the leader of ShadowClan. But this doesn't explain why Nightstar should get no more lives instead of getting nine or eight. Unless I'm getting this wrong, Nightstar's writing was the bad part of all this.

[@lordyglor]

Don’t know if this was mentioned, but this is how I thought it went: - Wind runner is on the verge of death - wind runner dies before they can give her a life - they use that one life to bring her back so now she has eight

[@Draconicdisciple]

But... Tigerstar II only has 8 lives. He was given one and it was taken to revive him. Then he got the others as usual. He has the exact same amount of lives as Windstar by the end of her ceremony. Windstar was the same way, hers was still basically given and then taken for her to be revived. The wiki even has his as being taken to bring him back to life.

[@btierfaith]

someone count how many 'stars' were said in this video

[@The-one-who-drives]

If i remeber right nightstar is the one that died from the rat sickness right? The book hinted at the fact that the sickness took his 9 lives. The whole lives thing cure the wounds you died form, not all so im just assuming after dying the deseise regressed but only sligtly. If i remember right after dying for whitecought bluestar didnt get better instantly either

[@breadboygamingwholegrain]

Yes, he died from sickness, but no, he didn't have nine lives. I'm pretty sure the "Nightstar lost all nine lives from sickness" was a lie that Shadowclan or maybe Nightstar himself(? I don't really remember) told to not seem weak or something? honestly I don't know WHY they lied about that, but it was revealed in a later book that Nightstar never did get nine lives, and was more of an honorary leader who just died of sickness once. even LATERER it was confirmed to be because Brokenstar was still alive and didn't intend to give up his leadership, and therefore it was "out of Starclan's hands" for some reason.

[@axelf9947]

Nah, that was clarified later. It’s in the prologue to (I think) Rising Storm, and the ShadowClan cats, who don’t know that Nightstar didn’t get 9 lives, say that it seems like he’s losing a life every day. Nightstar only ever died once to the carrionplace sickness because he only ever had one life, and iirc runningnose admits that later on :p

[@The-one-who-drives]

​@@axelf9947oh, alr must have missed that

[@KlearlyIMme]

I know it’s on accident but Firestar Leafpool and Alderheart having similar feelings entering starclan seems like it’s generic

[@TsunayoshiSawada469]

Right? Like they feel it the same way?

[@flyingfridgezzz7347]

In my stories I just completely recreated StarClan. Gave myself a set system for just about everything. Is it entirely canon? No. And I’m in case that’s a good thing.

[@ImaDeltaNow]

Theory: Starclan kills their only life so they can go to Starclan so they can get 9 lives, hence why they don't have an original life. (Edit: You said that lol!)

[@_exolite]

Something I think should be mentioned is that inconsistencies when it comes to starclan is usually experienced by someone who had a strong connection. Eg, shadowsight, firestar, and jayfeather.

[@St4r1368]

Question, can we have a mini talking kestrel flight video? He hasn’t had much attention as other back characters.

[@capybara2244]

Im really new to warriors and when i this "play" of book 1 (and read it for myself.) i was confused about the amount of lives and thought the cats would have 10 (their starclan lives plus the one they had pre-ceremony) so watching this qnd seeing how starclan would take a life confuses me even more 😭

[@Mumble785]

I was thinking a cool headcanon could be that the reason firestar, blackstar, and leafpaw feel like they're dying is because either Endgame Rebirth symbolism (kittypet and redeemed jerkwad) or something something at odds with starclan (future code-breaker), but onestar kinda throws a wrench in that unless i'm forgetting something smh (maybe something about the shotgun deputy appointment ig??)

[@coyoteskip6302]

Cat Math

[@СарраКарагозян]

Maybe the reason for "We can't save this life" is similar to why Scrouge's claws were so dangerous? Something so severe even Starclan additional lifes can't save you from.

[@demon_lamb]

there HAS to be some sort of bug at 5:56 , i think theres an audio error and the rest of the sentence is cut off and starts into a totally different one but every time i try to reply the part to make sure its just an error, the client freezes and starts endlessly buffering. nothing fixes this. ive reloaded this video like 13 times lol

[@Br3rry.hellaverse]

MOONKITTI UPLOADED DAY MADE

[@tanookitty]

moonkitti u da best

[@cursedstarflight]

the fact that the translate also agrees by making it "moonkitti the best" is amazing

[@Honeycrisp48]

I find it funny this video popped up right while I was reading Warriors lol

[@drag0natlas]

with the concept that each clan can only have 9 extra lives at once, it would be neat to see a leader somehow give up a life to save someone else

[@WhispersongSDG97]

You're not the only novella fan. There are at least two of us.