Cats of the river

An ask/rp blog, inspired by the Warriors series. Sideblog of Ombekende

[ghyllclan]

ok bit of a vent but also i feel like im going insane and its just me and my friends that are noticing this??

image text/description in readmore bc my handwriting is not great along w a bit of a rant i guess

Panel 1: "Oh boy, let's go look for new warriors maps!"

Panel 2: Google search, the results are

"Ashfur map" Description is "New map showing how Ashfur was not evil but in love!!!" The thumbnail is a closeup of Ashfur's face with heart eyes.

"(6/9) Ashfur map AU" Description is "(The AU is that it's literally the same)" Thumbnail is Ashfur smiling in front of fire.

"Literally just the fire scene map" Description is "Map about how absessive and evil Ashfur was, even in the first arc!!!" Thumbnail is Ashfur making a kissing face at Squirrelflight, who just looks annoyed.

"Ashfur and Squirrelflight map" The rest of the result is cut off by the bottom of the screen.

Panel 3: "Why."

This isn't directed at anyone specifically btw. You can make whatever map you want, I can't judge you!! And it of course depends on the artist if they want to join or not.

I'm not even super active in the MAP community, we've just been noticing a lot of recent MAPs/parts being about Ashfur and I'm honestly starting to wonder,,,, what is even left to do with his story?

Again, not meaning to start drama. Just,,,,,, why ashfur

[ghyllclan]

i really cant say i am active, but yeah i do know that he is a prominent villain

and thats kinda my problem? not really with the community itself but also the books because why ashfur

i havent read past third arc myself but even there hes just,,,, not a good villain. he is only barely more important than a background character until near the end, where he suddenly becomes important

unlike for example tigerstar or hawkfrost in the first two, who were important to the plot before the last book

and still just.... its all the same, most ashfur maps ive seen that are about the new arc still start with the old stuff, which has been animated for years already

[ghyllclan]

a lot of people really like ashfur and he is a very interesting character! especially since hes gotten a far more prominent role as the most recent arcs main villain. theres also just a lot of songs that fit his story

I haven't read the recent arc, and yeah I understand.

Personally I'm not a fan of Ashfur since they kind of... destroyed his character just to have an antagonist for the third arc.

Him being bitter about how he has treated makes sense. But for that to suddenly become obsessive to the point of him being willing to murder several cats? To me it felt like it came out of nowhere. The writers just used a cat that had even a tiny reason to want to expose their secret, and made him evil. (Then brought him back over 10 years later because he was popular)

And there being a lot of good songs is also I think a part of what bothers me? Because yeah, you can make an animation with 500 different songs, but they'll all have the exact same story. There are a lot of songs about love and bad relationships, but they are all very similar.

For example I love Evil Spottedleaf AUs. Their songs could also work for Mapleshade too, but the MAPs not being about Mapleshade, but a completely different character is what makes that AU unique.

I really don't want to sound like I'm judging people but seriously... The third arc ended in 2009, I've seen fire scenes animations since I was a kid. His story is not even that interesting to me, especially when people only focus on his rejection in the second arc.

Ashfur is an interesting character, I agree, but he's not the most interesting in the series, and I really don't feel like enough happens in his story to make that many MAPs about.

[ghyllclan]

ok bit of a vent but also i feel like im going insane and its just me and my friends that are noticing this??

image text/description in readmore bc my handwriting is not great along w a bit of a rant i guess

Panel 1: "Oh boy, let's go look for new warriors maps!"

Panel 2: Google search, the results are

"Ashfur map" Description is "New map showing how Ashfur was not evil but in love!!!" The thumbnail is a closeup of Ashfur's face with heart eyes.

"(6/9) Ashfur map AU" Description is "(The AU is that it's literally the same)" Thumbnail is Ashfur smiling in front of fire.

"Literally just the fire scene map" Description is "Map about how absessive and evil Ashfur was, even in the first arc!!!" Thumbnail is Ashfur making a kissing face at Squirrelflight, who just looks annoyed.

"Ashfur and Squirrelflight map" The rest of the result is cut off by the bottom of the screen.

Panel 3: "Why."

This isn't directed at anyone specifically btw. You can make whatever map you want, I can't judge you!! And it of course depends on the artist if they want to join or not.

I'm not even super active in the MAP community, we've just been noticing a lot of recent MAPs/parts being about Ashfur and I'm honestly starting to wonder,,,, what is even left to do with his story?

Again, not meaning to start drama. Just,,,,,, why ashfur

[ghyllclan]

guess which idiot accidentally deleted all their important pages with lore and character lists? ;D

[ghyllclan]

kinda spoilery but shh

also kinda old but shhh

[voidpunker]

iceloaf

[voidpunker]

and his friend ashloaf

[voidpunker]

He knows he’s an idiot and he’s proud of it

[voidpunker]

Foxkit thought he was pretty tall (he was almost as big as his dad!) but then he met Owl’s Ears. Even after training to be the biggest (and tallest) warrior she’s still taller than him, which he doesn’t like.