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Ackbar96 It's a trope! from my secret lair. Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
It's a trope!
#1: Feb 27th 2011 at 5:02:28 PM

I was perusing my watchlist when I noticed the Warrior Cats Character sheet subpage. It is in dire need of examples, as well as character write-ups. I'd do it myself, but I'm not that good at matching tropes to characters.

For example, here is the entry on Firestar, the POV character for the entire first series as well as a supporting character throughout all the other books:

Firestar "Surely it is our struggle against hardship that makes us true warriors. You think fresh blood in the Clans will weaken us? A life without hardship will weaken us more." The protagonist of the first six books, and a major character in all later books. Currently the Leader of Thunder Clan. He was originally a kittypet, but was accepted into the Clan after feeling mysteriously drawn to the forest his whole life. His name comes from his fur, which is bright orange. Back From The Dead: Comes with being a leader. The Cassandra: Bluestar ignores his warnings about Tigerclaw until he ends up trying to kill her. Chaste Hero: As Vicky said, "stooopid man-cat." The Chosen One Heterosexual Life Partners: With Graystripe. He even has a bit of a Heroic BSOD after he thinks Graystripe is dead. Martial Pacifist The Scrappy: He is hated by quite a few fans, even being accused of being a Marty Stu.

Only seven examples for him, and one of them is an Audience Reaction! (Do those belong on Character pages anyway?)

So here is what I am proposing: 1. Copy all the character-specific tropes from the main page to the subpage. (This won't take too long.) 2. Write up descriptions for non-Thunder Clan characters and lengthen some of the Thunder Clan ones if it seems necessary. 3. Add other characters and add tropes for existing characters. 4. ?????? 5. Profit!

This is a sinkhole.
DarkHunter from New Mexico Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Feb 28th 2011 at 12:24:54 AM

(Says the person who added Thunder Clan character descriptions):

I do plan on adding/lengthening character descriptions when I have the time to do so. This is, however, an absolutely massive series and it's difficult for me to remember the details of every single character off the top of my head (I'd have written more for Ivypaw and Dovepaw but I couldn't remember anything beyond the basics).

I'm not going to get mad if people mess with/add to my descriptions. On the contrary, please help! sad

While we're discussing such things: is the "current position" stuff I have for certain characters a good idea? Like for Firestar: "Currently the leader of Thunder Clan". Some of those positions will eventually change as the series progresses, after all.

claystripe6514 Since: Jul, 2010
#3: Mar 2nd 2011 at 3:14:38 PM

Yeah, this page definitely needs some love. With the number of characters in Warriors numbering in the hundreds, this page should be ginormous, and it... well, isn't.

I think the current position stuff is fine. If it changes, just edit it. Simple enough fix.

claystripe6514 Since: Jul, 2010
#4: Mar 3rd 2011 at 11:54:05 AM

Question: Should Cinderpelt and Cinderheart be treated as the same character?

DarkHunter from New Mexico Since: Jan, 2001
#5: Mar 7th 2011 at 8:59:34 PM

Re-organized the page. Characters are now divided up based on what series they were most active in (or which series they first appeared in). Did this because all the characters were kind of mixed up together, and there seemed to be some confusion as to who was a "main" character vs a "minor" character. I think this will also make it more apparent where the holes in the character page are, and help people realize which characters need to be added.

If I put anyone in the wrong section, by all means, move them. (In particular, Shredtail. No idea where he goes.)

As to the previous question: I do think that Cinderpelt and Cinderheart should probably be treated as separate characters, but I can't remember much about Cinderheart's character, or I'd add her myself.

Goldenpelt Since: Sep, 2010
#6: Jul 13th 2011 at 11:01:20 PM

-disregard-

edited 23rd Aug '11 1:03:14 PM by Goldenpelt

Lightflame Stick of the Fallen from where you can't find me Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Drowning in your pond, hoping you'll notice me
Stick of the Fallen
#7: Oct 24th 2011 at 10:36:53 AM

Bumping this in hopes a mod will close. We've solved the problem now.

"Oh great! Let's pile up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them!"
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