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  • Everything I think I know about Warrior Cats

  • an essay video by someone who has never read a book

  • Well, a Warrior Cats book anyway.

  • There are... four? clans of cats

  • SkyClan, who I think live on a hill, putting them slightly closer to the sky?

  • RiverClan, who live next to a puddle with a small stream.

  • ThunderClan, who lived next to a road for cars, because they can't read and thought it said "cats"

  • ShadowClan, which may actually live in the shadows

  • Also, there's StarClan, which is cat heaven and the dark forest which is cat hell

  • All of the clans are led by "Thing"stars, because star is a magical sacred word

  • and becoming leader allows you to have the word star in your name.

  • Otherwise, your name is Thingthing or something like

  • Ivytail, or Leafpool, or Jayfeather, or Green Lantern

  • Some cats aren't living in these clans and those cats are the sensible ones called Kittypets.

  • They're cats, that are pets.

  • They're sensible because they get food and vet trips

  • and don't have to put up with being visited by the cats in StarClan telling them to do something stupid

  • All cats born in the clans start their lives as "Thing"kit

  • and if they survive long enough, and are also remembered by the writers, they become a warrior intern

  • or are relegated to being a medical student

  • and they lose the "kit" and become "Thing"paw

  • And once they finish their internships, they have a coming-of-age ceremony and they gain their second "thing", given to them by the clan's Thingstar

  • Medicine cats live in a damp hole where they grow weeds and moss

  • and they use them to heal the Warriors, 'cause they constantly get into fights with each other, other clans, badgers, dogs

  • and sometimes just the general environment

  • More often than they are supposed to, they have cross clan affairs between cats

  • like Romeo and Juliet

  • Also, they all die all the time, also like Romeo and Juliet

  • Because of how often cats die, clans want to abduct kits from other clans

  • and sometimes they go to the twoleg villages and recruit normal cats.

  • They just roll up and be like "Hey, buddy"

  • "Are you fed up of being constantly fed?"

  • "Having somewhere comfortable to sleep and not having to worry about being murdered in your sleep by a jealous ex-lover or their family?"

  • And for some reason they go, "Yeah, I am actually!" and then they join a clan

  • Which, now that I think about it, it's like joining a clan in an MMO

  • because you're bored of not constantly being ganked in PVP

  • and think that your nice player housing is a bit dull

  • despite having put like a hundred and fifty hours into getting it so nice

  • And then you get there and the clan housing is awful because no-one can actually get the resources together to make it good

  • Because they're all busy doing PVP and dying

  • One of these cats that they're able to convince is a ginger tom called

  • Something or other

  • and they tell him that he's also the chosen one

  • So they call him Firepaw....maybe.

  • and he's destined to lead...

  • ...ThunderClan??

  • And he eventually becomes Firestar, and that's why I don't know what his kittypet name is or what his warrior name was

  • But someone who I do know the kittypet name of is Purdy!

  • He's an old old old man, who for some reason has an incredibly thick Yorkshire accent,

  • and he constantly tells stories about what life was like back in the day,

  • except none of it's true.

  • But he's a pretty cool dude aside from that he's a grumpy, cynical

  • and barely has any time for the idiot children who keep pestering him.

  • I wonder why I ended up voicing him

  • When you become a "Thing"star you go to the Moonpool

  • Which is a magical pool that you dunk your face in until you are visited by StarClan

  • and they go "Hey yeah, you're a leader, cool."

  • and then they give that cat extra lives like it's a Mario game

  • This works, not because the pool is magical, but because StarClan is the afterlife

  • and you're basically drowning yourself to the point of near death.

  • Also, just because you're in heaven clan and you get to visit people in their dreams and stuff and tell them what to do

  • and give them prophecies of the future

  • doesn't mean that you're competent, helpful, or right about any of it

  • Like, the living cats just have to do what they say

  • Because they're in heaven.

  • As well as the Moonpool,

  • there is a gathering space where they have planned meetings between all of the clans.

  • And basically, what just happens is the leaders go

  • "Absolutely fine, and there's no famine. Everything's perfect."

  • Which is always a lie.

  • There's also Sunningrocks,

  • which is some rocks that get a good amount of sunlight.

  • And because cats like to sit in the sun, this is the most heavily contested place ever

  • Currently it belongs to whichever Warrior Cats YouTuber memed about it last.

  • Which means I think it belongs to Dovewing's green eyes.

  • There is a small cat called Scourge

  • Who managed to accidentally knock a tooth out of a dog's mouth

  • and he haves this in his collar, and he pretends that he killed the dog

  • and I'm pretty sure he just named himself Scourge to make himself sound cool.

  • Uh, what else?

  • Time for a very short list, of equally short unrelated facts.

  • There is a cat called Jayfeather. He has a stick.

  • There is this one badger that's cool.

  • There's a clan boss called Bramblestar, and they are voiced by my friend

  • and that is literally the only thing I know about them.

  • Tigerstar is evil, and no one likes anyone with "tiger" in their name as a result.

  • I think Tigerstar died and went to the dark forest,

  • but for some reason, because that's kind of just like next door in the actual forest,

  • right next to where all the clans live,

  • they can just like, leave sometimes and just like attack people.

  • Also, my government assigned cat name is "Sneezeslate"

  • Which I know is Sneeze Slate,

  • but the way it's written, I refuse to read it as anything other than "Sneezes Late".

Everything I think I know about Warrior Cats

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