Littlesprout's Stories is a YouTube channel dedicated to telling Warrior Cats fan-stories played out in Roblox and narrated over as videos. These stories, featuring recurring original characters, roleplay-based storytelling, and dramatization, run the gamut from being tragic tales of death and abuse, to more light-hearted stories about kits and in-game challenges given storytelling twists.
Note: Each main character may show up in multiple videos with different stories each time, so examples will specify which video these events occur in.
The videos can be found here
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Littlesprout's Stories provides examples of:
- Aborted Arc: At the beginning of "Autumnheart's Curse", Fadedeyes is exiled for attacking his mate and vows to return, all while insisting that Autumnkit is a curse. This is never mentioned again, though Autumnheart's bad luck eventually comes back, and she's later murdered by a cat named Loomingeyes.
- Abusive Parents: In "Autumnheart's Curse", Fadedeyes starts out as a caring father before Moonkit dies in the river. He immediately turns on Autumnkit, insisting that his own daughter is a curse and thus responsible for her sister's death, and even attacks his mate over it.
- Anti-Hero:
- Shadestep in "Shadestep's Choice" is abrasive, untrusting, and standoffish toward anyone who isn't his daughter. At the same time, he's a father just trying to find a home that would protect said daughter, and bravely escaped the battle-hungry RiverClan to do it.
- Autumnheart winds up as a well-intentioned one of these in the kit-home-finding challenge video, as the result of the kits all being siblings according to the backstory. She's a kind-hearted cat who travels Clan territory to find some homes for the kits, but separates the siblings in the process, forcing other characters to do the job of reuniting the four of them. Littlesprout herself calls this out multiple times, admitting that what's being done is well-meaning but flawed, and may reflect badly on the protagonist.
- Emma, the border collie from one of the kit-stealing videos, has the somewhat-heroic goal of collecting kits so that her family's housecat can still be a mother after her own kits were taken away. She accomplishes this by trying to steal kits from the Clans, including multiple ThunderClan kits, and vows to come back to said Clan after they chase her away.
- Bittersweet Ending: "Elsa's Journey" ends with Willowtail dead and ShadowClan shaken and recovering from her death. At the same time, Elsa and Badgerstar have confirmed their feelings for each other, and may go on to become mates.
- Bully Turned Buddy: For much of "Elsa's Journey", Willowtail bullies Elsa for being a kittypet, stemming primarily from possessiveness over their shared love interest, Badgerfur. However, after the group splinters off of ThunderClan and Willowtail takes over as Badgerstar's deputy, she formally apologizes to Elsa and the two of them agree to be friends.
- The Ditz: Littlesprout described Elsa as being "no-brained"; a naive kittypet who, despite her good heart, tends to space out or make silly mistakes.
- Downer Ending: "Autumheart's Curse" ends with multiple Clanmates dying mysteriously before Autumnheart herself is murdered.
- Fake Interactivity: The "POV roleplay" videos have characters ask questions to the audience, who are encouraged to write down responses in the comments as part of the game. But, since the characters in the video can't actually hear you, they respond with vague answers a few seconds later and then move the plot forward, regardless of how your character actually reacted.
- Gamebooks: An audience roleplay variant. In the "POV roleplay" series, there are branching paths split off into separate videos for audience members to insert a character into and roleplay down in the comments.
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Downplayed in "Shadestep's Choice". Blackluck's kits, Halfkit and Spottedkit, both resemble Shadestep quite a bit... but he spends the beginning of the story being unconvinced they're related to him, because Blackluck spoke to another tom before they were born. He gets over this relatively quickly.
- Nice Guy:
- Elsa is a sweet, but naive, she-cat who spends all of "Elsa's Journey" being kind and compassionate to the Clan cats, even after just meeting them for the first time. She meets Badgerfur because she'd decided to bring some extra herbs over to ThunderClan, jumps at the chance to help find a missing kit even when she's not a clan member, and supports the other cats after finally joining in.
- Burn, despite initially wanting to eat kittens, proves throughout his video to be a polite, cowardly, and affable fox who chats happily with the kits he comes across, and eventually befriends one of them and brings them back to their Clan.
- Orphan's Ordeal: The post-challenge content of "Can Autumnheart find 4 kits new homes in 30 minutes?" involves one of those re-homed kits, Tangerine, going missing while trying to track down Gull, their birth mother who'd abandoned them.
- Paper Tiger: Burn might be a fox, and therefore bigger and stronger than the Clan cats... but he's also cowardly and shy, and runs away whenever a Clan cat notices him. This puts some kinks in his "steal and eat kits" plan.
- Stargazing Scene: At one point in "Elsa's Journey", Badgerfur takes her to a rock above the thunderpath and talks to her until it gets dark, at which case Elsa is stunned by how beautiful the night sky is when there's no lights around, and he explains StarClan to her.
- Time Skip: After Fadedeyes is exiled, "Autumnheart's Curse" skips ahead several moons, told in a series of hand-drawn stills, until her sister has left the Clan and Autumnheart took over as medicine cat.
- Would Hurt a Child: In "Shadestep's Choice", Shadestep threatens to kill Sandkit simply because Sandkit is from ShadowClan, the Clan that killed his mate and daughter. This is despite the fact that, as a kit, Sandkit had nothing to do with the battle, and the fact that he was taken to the barn before the fight even happened. Luckily, Spottedkit convinces him to take Sandkit home, instead.
