Ooh, chance to share my female Brambleclaw propaganda!
Tigerstar has two daughters with Goldenflower but it doesn't make things easier. Tawny may not have her father's coloring, but her features are sharp and she has a quick temper, and that's enough for some cats.
Bramble has Goldenflower's softer features, round and fluffy and warm, but her pelt is dark and her eyes are amber. She starts big and grows bigger, towering over many of her clanmates when she's done growing; large just like Tigerstar and taking up too much space.
Bramble wants to be a good warrior and is a natural fighter. She tells herself that is why she is given her name, tries to pretend that Firestar isn't thinking of her resemblance to her father when choosing her name.
She tries to be good and patient as an apprentice but it's exhausting always being the people pleaser. On the good days, she can still get along with everyone. On the harder days, she's moody and easily frustrated; any little thing can be a reminder to those who remember.
Brambleclaw is ambitious and wants to be deputy, something plenty of cats want, but Tigerstar did awful things to get it and Bramble can't help but feel like she's leaning into that side of her heritage. Perhaps it would be easier if she was more like Goldenflower, gentle and focused on kits instead of leadership.
But she-cats are discouraged from being both mother and deputy at the same time. Brambleclaw is more ambitious than she is maternal, so she ignores passing thoughts of kits. Besides, do her clanmates really want more of Tigerstar's kin here?
(Tigerstar wanted a son. Brambleclaw is the favorite in every way, if only she weren't a daughter. Hawkfrost is the son he asked for but still a lesser copy of him.)
Then along comes Leafpool with her secret children and they need parents to claim them as proper clan kits (regardless of Squilf's gender but I prefer her as a trans girl in this au) and that means telling Brambleclaw.
It's breaking the code. Her relationship with Squirrelflight is so new that anything could break it. Are they really ready for kits? But she knows how it feels to be judged for one's heritage and she can't burden these kits with that same feeling. So these kits becomes hers and Squirrelflight's.
Despite all of that, she earns her clanmates' trust, gets the deputyship, and has a happy loving family. Everything is alright.
(Before Hollyleaf reveals the secret and everything falls apart.)
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