RiverClan Meetings (August 20, 2024 & August 31, 2024)

[Crown_Sage]

Willowkit stood in shock of the news, then shook her pelt out. She didn't understand any of this anyways.

[Fish]

Adderstrike
Determined ⋆ Loyal ⋆ Lawful Good ⋆ She/Her ⋆ Killer Aptitude T3

“One day I’ll be the greatest warrior of all the clans!”

"I personally didn't think the voting thing was a bad idea, I think what Seabreeze was getting at was that everyone should get a vote not just high ranked cats or more 'popular' cats but if that's what you desire to go on with, sure." Adderstrike spoke up to Fadingstar defeated at the though of no democracy. What could she even really do about this anyways? It made Adderstrike daydream to what she could do for the clan if she had some sort of power. Maybe she could try to get into the lionhearts? Hopefully she was old enough, it always seemed when a spot like this opened up she was too young for it.

[Luna16]

Irisdream nodded, feeling her fur relax as the leader came to his senses and made a decree on the matter. Now things would be able to resolve and move on. She agreed with Fadingstar's cunning on keeping Duskleaf within the clan, letting him go was too much of a liability. She was glad this was resolved. She blinked casually at the mention of the Lionhearts being re-evaluated. She truly had no such ambitions to gain high ranking within the clan, though she knew many of her clanmates did. She could only pray this wouldn't lead to even further division amongst the clan, they truly couldn't handle that.

[OPEN]

Rainpaw breathed a visible sigh of relief, feeling her shoulders sag with it. She turned, racing to Floodsight's side and pressing her muzzle into her shoulder. "That was so horrible..." She murmured. "I didn't what was going to happen, I was so scared..." Rainpaw didn't care if she was being cowardly, she just knew that Floodsight was going to be a safe space for her right now. She didn't think Ravenpaw wanted to speak to her yet.

[@ace.]

Ravenpaw was just as relieved as Rainpaw, but less expressive about it. She felt her fur relax (she hadn't even realized she had been bristling) and her heart-rate slow. She blinked nervously at Redmire. "Will things...be okay now?" She asked in a hushed voice. So much internal fighting, so much division. Ravenpaw just had a bad feeling about all of the turmoil. She knew things had been difficult for RiverClan in recent moons, but returning home should help unite them. Instead, it seemed that their difficulties continued. She just didn't want it to be a pretense of things to come...

[@dino.]

[goodacacia]

Floodsight
✦ she/her | 21 moons | Mind Reader ; Beefed Up T1 ; empty slot

She didn't know what to feel. Just like that. Just like ... that, just a few cat's words made Fadingstar change his mind. Was it just that easy? Floodsight felt this should've been an internal vote, especially one with apprentices whom yet to experience the world to the fullest. There are somethings the little ones just didn't need to experience, such as a clan divided in two while being in a middle of a crisis. She shook her head disappointed...no it was a strange feeling that she couldn't describe. With a deep breath and a momentary silence, she had left.

And suddenly, she was met by a bicolor kitten pressing their muzzle into her shoulder. The little one had just looked so upset. She gave Rainpaw a couple a licks on the head and murmured sweetly hoping to calm her down a bit, "I know, I know. None of us did."

Floodsight was just relieved it didn't end with bloodshed. Though Fadingstar's announcement may have just unseated a lot of cats on both sides of the argument, his word was clear.

[ @Luna16 ]

[alec]

->> jayfrost <<-
[ he/him | killer aptitude t3 | riverclan ]

jayfrost had been critical of the current riverclan situation for moons, hell that was the prime reason why he had wanted to run away when fadingsun first got into power, now he had slightly different views, mostly because dusklion was far more like a cat he was willing to follow..even if he didnt really like that either but this really wasnt the time to think about his distain for modern politics in this forest. whatever, fadingstars latest phenoninal idea was taking the backseat and letting the clan publicly decide about a cats fate. at least it wasnt murder. and jayfrost liked the idea of warriors and apprentices having a right in decision-making but this felt awful for a first time of that. fadingstar also had clearly no idea how letting his followers, or whatever the hell he would call them, vote worked. this should be a neutral space with facts alone and not this honeycoating dirt. bla bla bla duskleaf is a good head lionheart, he didnt care, the leaders note about windclan having been peaceful was minorly insane, judging by the simple fact that windclan did not have immediate access to them but whatever, maybe jayfrost wasnt smart enough to understand fadingstars brilliance.
oh dear he was getting quite worked up here..when it finally came to voting jayfrost remained still, watching his clanmates pick sides. multiple of his clanmates spoke up, and he couldnt help the surprised expression slip through briefly. he had not really expected any solid points to get out of this, yet welcomed them with open paws, regret he himself had not yet spoken up slowly digging into his stomach. whilst jay had never really agreed with redmire and was overall anti violence as far as possible, redmires call for justice was well..justified. and he would certainly not be one to stand in the path of truth. the bias was evident, and jayfrost was sick of it.

and wow what a surprise! (not). fadingsun was once again backpaddling on what he had previously said, stars jayfrost was sick of a leader that couldnt stand his point, or think for more than two seconds about anything as to ensure he wouldnt change his opinion the very second anyone raised a point. it wasnt even him being wrong that ticked him off, it was that is was such a stupid thing to be wrong about and he had changed his mind after barely any backlash, leading jayfrost to the one and only possible reason being he simply had not given this much thought.
"I know that some of you don't give a rat's ass about my word" very right, that was probably the first correct thing fadingsun had said since promoting himself to that position. fadingsun moved on, great, jayfrost couldnt help the eyeroll and briefly played with the idea of simply leaving to not have to suffer through any more of this meeting but ultimately filed it as a thought driven by emotion and not worth his time.

[ my opinions do not align with jays. post is open ]