My girlfriend suddenly buried her face in her hands like something was wrong and it took like 10 minutes to get her to tell me what was going on and she showed me this post
@klanced and @summer-arts are making a warrior cats au, but little do they know I have been thinking about this for months.
Note: You definitely need knowledge of the warriors universe to understand this, sorry. If you haven’t read something I’m glad to answer any questions pertaining to this au.
So here are the immediate parallels (things will seem weird but it’ll make sense I promise):
Bloodclan: Galra
Skyclan: Altea
The Four Forest Clans: The Aliens civilizations that Zarkon has conquered
Tribe of Rushing Water: Earth
Lionclan: Voltron
The story is basically a “What if Bloodclan won?” kind of deal.
Random Trivia:
Instead being called “Paladins of Voltron” the five of the prophecy are called “Lions”
The Alteans are all Orientals.
Haggar is a half-clan cat (Skyclan and Shadowclan) that supported Bloodclan
Shiro is Keith’s uncle but only Keith knows this. Shiro does not know.
Shiro and Keith’s dad are brothers.
When Keith’s dad brought Keith to camp, he claimed Keith was a lost kit he found.
Once Shiro becomes an official leader the Lions get warrior names.
They do not have their names in this au
The cats from the Tribe have tribe names
Lance: Rain That Falls On A Frozen Stream (Rain)
Shiro: Clouds That Cover The Night Sky (Cloud)
Pidge: Pigeon Flying From Bushes (Pigeon)
Hunk: Rock Covered With Roots (Rock)
Keith: Burned Branch Of An Old Tree (Burned Branch)
Clan cats have Warrior names
Allura: Shineheart
Coran: Gingernose
Alfor: Goldstar
Haggar: Lightningblood
Then there’s Bloodclan
Zarkon: Eclipse
Sendak: Tooth
Thace: Howl
The allies Lionclan makes are the forest Clans.
They liberate Thunderclan first
Then Riverclan
Then Windclan
Shadowclan isn’t “liberated” but the barn cats that help Shiro were once Shadowclan cats and they ally with Lionclan
Now onto the actual plot:
Bloodclan has taken over the entire forest and the clans are forced together to serve the invading Bloodclan cats. The clans fell around 8 1/3 years ago, aka 100 moons.
Skyclan was banished later than in the canon warrior cats universe, around 9 years ago (108 moons). However, much like canon Skyclan, almost everyone is now dead. Alfor dies when he tried to return to the forest to seek help from the other clans, only to find their numbers decimated and Bloodclan ruling the forest. Alfor had 3 lives left. He was killed twice by Bloodclan (they obviously knew leaders had multiple lives) and was able to return to the Skyclan camp on his last life to warn the others. Unfortunately Bloodclan was able to track him and most of Skyclan was captured or killed. Coran was able to escape with Allura, whom Coran was training as his medicine cat apprentice.
In present day at The Tribe, Stoneteller gets a prophecy about the invading Bloodclan, although it’s a prophecy so it’s vague.
The prophecy is worded as so:
“Only lions of blue, yellow, green, red, and black can keep blood from running through the forest.”
Stoneteller is confused af and sends a patrol of Matt, Mr. Holt, and Shiro to see what’s the deal with the forest. They get captured by Bloodclan and are forced to fight forest clan cats for Zarkon’s amusement. Shiro doesn’t injure Matt in this au but rather chases him out of the forest into twoleg territory. Who knows what Bloodclan did with Sam Holt. He’s a senior warrior so he was probably sent to one of the forest clan camps for labor or something.
Fast forward and Shiro is nearly dead with a horribly mutilated front paw. Luckily some “barn cats” (wink wink) find him and the twolegs that work the farm take him to a vet where he is taken care of but they have to amputate his front leg. Since he is a feral cat he isn’t adoptable so the barn owners plan to take him back to the farm where they can keep an eye on him but he doesn’t have to coexist with humans. Unfortunately, Shiro is really traumatised, so he starts his journey back to the Tribe.
Back in the Tribe, cats have assumed that the three cats sent to investigate the forest are dead and have moved on, except a Pidge and Keith. Keith has been banished from the Tribe and now is a rogue living on the outskirts of the territory. Lance has just become a prey-hunter and Hunk has just become a cave-guard. Pidge is still a to-be. Pidge sits “vigils” each night to look for her brother. Now since this is my au I’m mashing clan life with tribe life. Hunk and Lance are sitting their “warrior” vigils when all three see a shooting star, which is an obvious sign from Starclan (or the Tribe of Endless Hunting but I’m just gonna call it Starclan), so they run off in the direction it was “pointing” to. They find other tribe cats cornering a worn and tired Shiro. They recognise him and are about to stop the other cats when Keith surprises them all and grabs Shiro by the scruff and runs. Lance, Hunk, and Pidge run after him with the tribe cats chasing after them all. Keith obviously cannot carry a fully grown cat by himself so the trio catch up with him. Everyone is worried about the other tribe cats catching them (Lance and Hunk because they broke their vigil) so they agree to help each other and are able to lose their chasers.
Keith takes them to the old log he’s been calling home, and here they ask Shiro what happened to him but he doesn’t remember it all. Shiro tells the others about the prophecy and they all agree to go on a quest to find out more about Bloodclan.
The next day they are out hunting (you can’t fight evil on an empty stomach) and Lance finds a tunnel. Keith is like, “Oh yeah those exist.” Lance decides to explore further and they all find the Moonstone!! But guess who is guarding the Moonstone: Allura and Coran. There’s a little skirmish but Shiro tells the two Skyclan cats that they aren’t Bloodclan. Allura is now 100% sure these cats are the cats that the prophecy talks about, but the other cats are like, “How do you know about the prophecy?”
So it turns out the prophecy was sent to any cat that could understand Starclan’s messages. Allura was training to be a medicine cat before Bloodclan destroyed Skyclan and so she knows more of the prophecy. This information is basically the roles of the colored lions. All cats must become honorary warriors while Shiro must become leader. Shiro of course needs his nine lives of a leader but Starclan cannot give them to him yet. He has to prove himself. But they all form Lionclan nonetheless.
And thus starts their adventure. I might actually make this a comic because I have more ideas but this post is getting long.
I do have designs for what each cat looks like, but I’ll put them under the cut
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Svenni here, but u can call me Sam. I live in Germany, Sachsen and my birthday is on 25th Janurary. My Hobby is drawing and I'm doing my training as a graphic designer. I'd love to meet new friends ♥
