I have tried...so hard, to like Warrior Cats. But it seems to me now that I can't even remember a positive experience with them during this game, it's just one disappointment after another, not only with mapless Warrior role plays, but more surprisingly with mapped WC groups. Just as a disclaimer before I get into it, I understand that not every warrior cat role player is rude or illiterate, but it seems that the vast majority of these players are unfortunately just that. And it seems to be getting worse as more and more WC's are starting to appear in Feral Heart.
For example, whenever I've joined a Warrior Cat rp, i've been so overwhelmed by the excessive use of bad and inappropriate language that i've been forced to leave the groups. Normally within an hour or less of joining, it gets that bad. I don't understand it. On the outside, I'll approach a group that seems friendly and literate, along with the fact that they're boasting a large and beautiful map, which attracts me because I love exploring new maps. I'll send in my rp sample, and as soon as I've joined them someone will immediately drop the f bomb and it will just be an unending torrent of horribly inappropriate jokes and an onslaught of profanity that I just cannot tolerate. At first I thought maybe I'm just getting unlucky. But I joined three different Warrior cat rps between yesterday and today, trying to find a nice group for my cat Maplesky, and every single one had this problem. I just couldn't believe it. Granted, there were one or two very friendly people in the rp's, but it seems to me that they just smiled and kept their silence as their more vocal clan mates just trolled on and spammed the group chat so much I wanted to just shout at them to be quiet. Perhaps you have to 'overlook' some of the more vulgar behavior to get by in a WC rp, but that kind of role play environment is just not for me. A lot of you might suggest 'well why didn't you just turn off your Group Chat?" I could have, to be sure, but getting along with a group and talking to them OOC is makes the RP worth coming back to if you can make friends with the other players in your group. Having a good community that makes you feel safe and comfortable is worth everything to me when I join a new group, and sadly I'm seeing less and less of that in a lot of rp's that I join.
There's also the problem, as Lady Alizarin mentioned above, about how strict some warrior cats can be. Particularly with the names. I once had a cat character that I absolutely adored named Winterheart, but whenever I tried to get her into a group, every time she was rejected because of her name. They would say things like 'Warrior cats called Winter time 'Leaf bare' so we wouldn't know what Winter is. I know that was in the books, but if you took that logic further, that would mean they wouldn't know what the word 'Fox' meant, or River, or Sky, or practically every single english word in the dictionary, because all of those are names /humans/ gave to the animals and objects in the world. I also find it really frustrating when I do have to change my name and after I join I find myself scrolling through the members list and picking out names like "Wraithspirit" and "Obsidianpaw".
Another thing that I absolutely could not stand about being in those warrior cat rps was their apparent infatuation with mating and having kits. Seriously, when I joined the last group before I called it quits, from the moment I was accepted to the moment I quit, the entire group was talking about how this one cat *FakeName* was going to mate with an apprentice. And then they actually did it. I was disgusted to say the least, not to mention they KEPT bringing it up. Literally the female apprentice continuously said just horrible things like "She wobbled around feeling dizzy and had to lie down" and other things like that, while in tandem going about in group chat saying "Oh, *FakeName* banged me, did you know that?"
Then it got worse. Everyone started making rape jokes. She said she was 'raped' by the male. And that she liked it. And everyone was laughing and making it seem like it was oh so funny. I couldn't hold my tongue after that. I felt sick, I felt humiliated to even be in a group that would make something as serious as rape as a joke. And I told them so. But they didn't seem to really realize the weight of their words and brushed it off. The apprentice said something along the lines of "Oh, I didn't make a joke about that...I mean I didn't mean to." and everyone was all "Ah, we know you didn't mean it." And it was just...awful. I left after that.
I really wish that Warrior Cat rp's were not like this. A while ago when they first started appearing, I hadn't even read the books but it sounded interesting and I joined a few rp's that didn't last very long but were enjoyable enough. They motivated me to read the first few WC books and I liked them. But after seeing this absolutely unacceptable behavior again, and again, and again, I cannot tolerate Warrior Cats and their Rp's in Feral Heart anymore. Let it be noted that i've never joined another type of Rp group that acted this horribly. There are just too many unsightly players that think it's okay to make vulgar jokes and act in just the rudest way possible, while the nice players just smile thinly and say nothing so they won't get kicked out. (This is a little off topic, but I also cannot stand RP's that never seem to take anything seriously. When a joke goes too far and I say something about it, like asking them to stop, everyone seems to get so /offended/. Why can't people just accept that sometimes enough is enough?)
If that's what it takes to tolerate Warrior Cats in Feral Heart, then it's not for me. And I know that I'll probably get some hate for this, but there is no love for that type of roleplay left in my heart anymore, and I will never join a WC rp again.