u/Reasonable-Host-3399

We're always talking about the best or worst cats in these topics. What characters were the middle of the road? I'll give some examples:

Mentors:

Twigbranch - While she got better over time, she was snappy with Flypaw in the early days of training.

Cedarpelt - He was harsh towards Crookedpaw throughout his kithood, and while he made it towards him, it was an awkward start.

Mates:

Lionblaze - Compared Cinderheart to Heathertail once or twice in his head. He got Ratscar to injure him to prove a point to her.

Parents:

Shellheart: While he did a lot right, he didn't do as much as he could for Crookedkit. He failed to prevent the renaming and let his son sleep alone in the nursery. He downplayed Rainflower's treatment as "Struggling to admit when she's wrong". An honourable mention to Brambleberry, as she knew about Mapleshade haunting Crookedkit and never tried to warn him.

Squirrelflight and Leafpool: While they were between a rock and a hard place, they had their missteps. Daisy and Ferncloud had to take care of the three a lot, as Squirrelflight went out to catch up with warrior duties. While Jaypaw was a difficult apprentice, Leafpool could say borderline cruel things. She got awkwardly sappy with Crowfeather in front of her kits and his WindClan family. When Jayfeather didn't want to forgive Leafpool, Squirrelflight snapped that "he didn't suffer the worst", and he was immature.

Bramblestar: He was never shown to pull his sons aside and to ensure he still loved them after the secret was revealed. He abruptly introduced Alderpaw to the medicine cats, despite his son still being very young and pleading to keep trying at warrior training.

I'd expand on the queen's right not to name the father of her kits and give them a new right as well - the right to "wander."

In real life, female animals may leave their birth group to mate with unrelated males. I'd apply that to the Clans too. She-cats have the right to wander off for a few moons and return home to give birth. Toms have this right too, but need to negotiate with their kittens' mother to move them to the Clans.

Queens can take mates from within their own Clan, but this would happen around 50% of the time. Usually with toms who joined the Clan later in life, or whose parent was originally an outsider. In this version of the world, mating with your second cousin would be frowned upon.

Plenty of queens would exercise their right not to name the father. If the father decides to follow the queen home to help raise his kits, he has two options by Clan law. He can stay on as an honoured guest, like the loners in Tallstar's Revenge, or undergo hazing to join permanently.

The Clans genuinely don't care who the father is, as long as he's a wild cat, such as a rogue or a loner. Though it remains taboo to mate with a kittypet or rival warrior, even if its diffcult to prove.

What the Clans are really worried about isn't the father's identity itself, but the risk of him following the queen home. Whether that means a "soft kittypet" influencing his kits, or a rival Clan cat starting a custody dispute. The warrior code states that kits belong to their mother's Clan, but that never stopped certain fathers from trying. But apprentices may request a trial period in their father's clan if they wish.

On top of all this, the Clans have a Roman-like attitude toward blood relations: your upbringing and guardian matter far more than your parentage. In Rome, a biological son and an adopted son had an equal shot at inheriting their father's estate, with the decision coming down to age and favour.

The same logic plays out in the Clans. Cloudtail isn't really bullied for having a kittypet mother, because he was "young enough" when Brindleface took him in and raised him as her own. Firestar, on the other hand, gets grief for being a kittypet, since he was one for six moons.

I do know that the Gamemakers can be pretty incompatible, and they couldn't foresee the rebel bombing.

But why did they think it was a good idea to place seniors around revengeful tributes? Arachne Crane dying at the zoo was entirely predictable. She wasn't a nameless employee; She was a televised face and a capital child. It was terrible PR.

The Capitol probably used 18-year-olds to crush any empathy they had for kids their own age getting murdered. But by doing that, the Gamemakers almost put the mentors into the Games themselves - even though the whole point was to punish the districts.

There has been a lot of critism towards Mikoto's DID in the latest song. If you could tweak or overhaul it, what would you do?

In the official games, they move on from the protagonist's transformation fairly quickly. They know how to use elemental moves instantly, despite never doing it before in their lives.

Do you know any projects that look at the funny, existential, etc. elements of a human adapting to the all-Pokemon world?

For example, what if Brambleclaw or Leafpool replaced Squirrelflight in the fire scene? Or what if the foxtrap scene happened between Mothwing and Tawnypelt?

What interesting/fun scenarios can you think of and develop?

The skillset I developed growing up is a bit of a random assortment.

I learned to create comics and simple animations on PowerPoint. I created digital artwork on Devinainart before moving on to writing as my main hobby. If I pushed myself, I think I could be capable of making something in the style of Your Turn to Die.

What development programs are visual-based? I do have dyslexia and borderline dyscalculia, so I do think raw coding would be very difficult to learn from scratch.

I have never actively tried to lucid dream. I’ve heard of the concept, but I never researched how to do it. However, I do have to be self-reflective on how my mind functions because of having OCD and being a writer.

I think I may have experienced a form of lucid dreaming, but it wasn’t the clean “become aware it’s a dream and begin tampering with the world like a god” type. Does this experience sound familiar to anyone else?

Early in the morning, I was drifting between wakefulness and sleep. I had literally opened my eyes and looked around my bedroom, yet I could slip straight back into the ongoing plot of the dream as though nothing had interrupted it.

It felt like my consciousness was split in two. There was my PoV following the “script” of the dream. It drifted between first and third person, but it was still a version of me. Sometimes I could hear their internal comments as they moved through the scenario.

At the same time, there was a second inner monologue running alongside it. This was my “true” self, sounding like my regular thoughts in daily life. I was self-aware that this was a dream and could logically react to things. Often, I was passive, but if I concentrated hard enough, I could “will” the PoV to act in a certain way.

I’ll give two solid examples from last night. “Logical-me” grew annoyed that I was in yet another school setting, since my dreams often make me relive being bullied. When my childhood teddy suddenly manifested in my hands, “Logical-me” immediately knew the NPCs would gravitate toward it and make snide comments. So I willed the PoV to hide it under a cushion. Nobody should reasonably have spotted what I did. However, the NPCs reacted exactly as I predicted, moving toward it. It made “Logical-me” think 'I told you so'.

The second example was when my PoV was looking for a women’s bathroom. When the PoV opened the door, the setting looked like something straight out of FNAF: Security Breach. “Logical-me” immediately clocked it as a cliché horror setup and wanted to leave before it turned into a nightmare. There was a famous YouTuber there, so I allowed the PoV to talk to them out of curiosity. But as soon as the conversation ended, I willed the PoV to get out before the door sealed shut and the animatronics started manifesting.