10 years ago today, on april 13th in 2014, i was 8 years old and had just learned about warrior cats through animations i found on youtube. this would do two things for me--one, ignite my passion for art and storytelling--two, lead to the creation of my very first oc: a thunderclan med cat named cedarfeather (a name i got from one of those "your birth month/date your warriors name" games), who would later become a rookclan med cat named cedarmask, before finally abandoning the warrior cats identity altogether and becoming the medic for a colony of cats called rook creek and being given the name dionysus.
dio is the root of everything for me, art and writing wise. i could not have written the stories i have (misfit mania, my 40-chapter mcsm oc fic) and am currently writing (truenorth, my 56-chapter novel) without him and the cast of characters surrounding his story, which both have so many aspects of my own life and experiences. i've had this idea in my head ever since i first heard the song fish in a birdcage, and i wanted to do something special to celebrate his 10th year.
SA: COLORED LIGHTS SUMMARY:
🌱 dionysus is born to his parents semele and ares in the colony of rook creek alongside his twin brother, apollo. for their entire childhoods, the two get along fantastically, apollo being wild and willing to take risks while dio was more hesitant and cautious. they made friends in the other colonies named nyx, zephyr, and sol--but also had two friends in rook creek, named vesta and elk.
🌳 all his life, dio had been fond of plants, and had chosen to be the apprentice of a cat named corvus, who was a medic. apollo, vesta, and elk instead followed the paths of being hunters and guards. but for as long as dio had been fond of ferns, he had also been haunted by a shadowy, sleek, apparition of a cat--a cat he did not recognize, for he could never see their face. he did his best to ignore this unknown figure, until one night, he has a terrible dream where he's consumed by shadow. the next time he opens his eyes, still in the dead of night, the bodies of semele, ares, and apollo lay in front of him, bodies strangled by vines coated in thorns and throats torn by his claws.
🌲 from the shadows of the trees, vesta emerges, horrified and asking dio's what he's done; but she doesn't seem angry with him. he doesn't even speak as vesta circles him and panics, insisting that they have to hide this. so as dio stands rooted to the ground, she digs one massive grave and buries the three inside. bringing dio to a nearby river, she helps him clean off the blood, and he rises from his haze and insists that he has to leave. reluctant, vesta agrees--and the two seek out nyx, sol, and zephyr, who had all discussed leaving before.
🍀 after learning of a possible fourth colony far away from the others, dio and his three other friends depart after dio and vesta share a tearful goodbye. the four journey for weeks, until they find an abandoned human city. as dio and nyx go out to search for signs of other cats, they're attacked by a large wolf, resulting in nyx being fatally wounded. as dio desperately tries to protect his friend, the wolf is scared off by a bursting water pipe, and a new cat emerges from the alleyway--an older tom, named thorn, who offers his help.
🍃 being given shelter in the colony of thornbush, dio tends to nyx's wounds for days before she finally wakes up and has a tearful reunion with sol and zephyr. its here where thorn, who reveals his ability to bend water, gives them an offer: he senses great power within the four of them, and offers to train them if they choose to stay with him and his cats. all four cats agree, and they unlock their own powers; photokinesis for sol, umbrakinesis for nyx, aerokinesis for zephyr...and chlorokinesis for dio.
🥀 months go by, and as everyone grows closer, they "graduate" from thorns training. he gifts each of them with special gemstones attached to accessories, much like his own necklace. however, dio is seeing the shadowy cat in his dreams again, and is visited one final time before being possessed and forced to attack thorn. stopped by his friends, the spirit--rook, the founder of rook creek--is enraged, and tries to flee. as dio catches his footing, he spots rook and leaps for him, using his newfound powers to kill him.
🌹 now free of the spirit's influence, dio feels a new sense of freedom, but knows deep down that there's more for him to do. he must lead the thornbush cats to the other colonies and use his fully realized powers to help bring down the oppressive leadership of rook creek. the question is: how?
CHARACTERS:
semele (she/her)
apollo (he/him)
dionysus (he/him)
rook (he/him)
vesta (she/her)
zephyr (he/him)
sol (he/they)
nyx (she/him)
thorn (he/him)
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