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[mineashthetrash]

god chasing shadows was Shit, but brambles funeral was genuinely kinda n- wh- what, what do you mean people are saying its contradictory

guys bramblestar Was their father for their entire lives, and leafpool Wasn't their mother. I'm sorry theyre.... recognising adoption???? as real???????????? Like i know you dont like brambleclaw but thats not a contradiction, theyre two reasonable responses

leafpools death was incredibly early and sudden, and came right on the tail of a LOT of family drama and shit. They hadn't entirely forgiven her yet, and its ok for them to be upset??????? Very tired of 'leafpool did nothing wrong' turning into 'the three have no right to be upset', thats not the same thing. Brambles death was slow and drawn out, dying for days and days with every cat trying desperately to save him. He raised them as his kids, and continued seeing them as his kids for literal years. Bramblestars death happened years and years and YEARS after leafpools, after years and years of fatherly bond. It makes SENSE, because they unfortunately had time to think about it. being upset your mate or father died isnt unreasonable, despite how much You, Personally, Do Not Like Him. You are not Jayfeather. He loved his father, and thats ok.

just. generally tired of the defense of characters turning into "if anyone is upset about it they are evil and stupid and wrong." Squirrelflight did nothing wrong taking the kids. Leafpool did nothing wrong HAVING kids. It is also reasonable, expected, and OKAY, for the cats who have been lied to their entire lives to be a BIT UPSET. It is okay, in theory, for bramble to be upset about being lied to. The problem is how he takes it out on squirrelflight, not "how dare he be upset at his wife lying to him." THAT PARTS NOT THE PROBLEM.

[idrawcats]

Adding to this, I’ve seen people take issue with the fact that Squilf says she was rude to Brambleclaw as an apprentice and shouldn’t have argued with him so much. What she’s saying AT HER HUSBAND’S FUNERAL shouldn’t be taken at face value! She is mourning her husband - of course she’s not gonna shit-talk him at his funeral! And I’m saying this as a HUGE Squirrelstar fan and Bramblestar hater. Nothing about this funeral was OOC for anyone involved

[great-or-straight]

This outta be good considering you got rid of the “better off not a couple” button

Squirrelflight/Squirrelstar (both are her name) x Brambleclaw

How can they be improved?

Better if m/m

Better if f/f

Better if “m” is enby/genderqueer

Better if “f” is enby/genderqueer

Better if both are enby/genderqueer

Better if polyamorous

Better if genders swapped

Voting ended onOct 31, 2025

[lowpawly]

disabled cats in warriors: i am...useless...I can never be a warrior...I am a burden to my clan...at least in starclan I will run again...

disabled cats in real life:

[idrawcats]

Not to be That Guy but this cat is on a tile floor. Briarlight would have much more difficulty and a high risk of injury on the forest floor

[snowspot]

i will die your daughter

[schr0dingers-catboy]

Berryheart but if I wrote her because I can give these characters the depth she deserves.

Berryheart’s favorite child was Needletail. She was her first child, and at the time, her only child. She swore she would protect her through everything, but she didn’t, and in a way, she doomed her.

Berryheart was one of the two warriors to actually ally with Darktail initially. I don’t see very many people talk about it even though it juxtaposes her later characterization. And I think this moment was a big part of regret for her.

Berryheart supported her daughter’s rebellious nature. She agreed with her that Darktail would be a better leader than Rowanstar and left ShadowClan to follow him.

But what did this lead to?

A big part of ShadowClan was wiped out, and her daughter was dead.

And does this run through her head? How her decision resulted in the death of her only child. She failed everyone.

So what else is there to do? Rebelling against the warrior code caused Darktail to take control, so now, she had to follow every bit of the warrior code.

She couldn’t mess up with her new litter. She had to ensure none of them must be led astray like Needletail was.

And it falls apart again.

The warrior code has been reworked, and cross-clan relationships were now legal. But they represented the act of disloyalty. By being disloyal to your clan once again, only harm would come your way. So when both Sunbeam and Spireclaw have fallen in love with cats from other clans, are they just repeating history?

Everything Berryheart did was to protect her children, but she misunderstood what that meant. She ruined her relationship with two of her remaining kits, and was exiled for trying to take down her current leader. Was this act of trying to remove Tigerstar from his leadership position, was she not repeating her past mistake of rebelling against Rowanstar?

And I think as this tragedy continues, as she tried to protect her kits from any harm, she loved them, but not as much as she loved Needletail.

[angstpelt]

something that it's probably totally unintentional by the writers and something that's also completely forgotten by the fandom is how berryheart was also needletails mother, that needletail, rebellious kin following needletail. And not only that, but she herself aligned with dark tail and had disavowed Rowanstar as a leader. After needletails death and the dissolution of the kin she lived as a rogue with some other warriors I honestly can't remember who they were until tigerstar found them.

It would be so interesting to view berryhearts character and her treatment of sunbeam taking into account all of this, think about it, what if berryhearts overprotectiveness and conservativism is stemmed from her grief and guilt about needletails death, what if, in trying to fix the mistakes she made parenting needle she ended up going the other extreme and butchering her relationship with another daughter she loves

[idrawcats]

I’m pretty sure this is her canon character motivation

[rookflower]

curse or blessing, trash or treasure.

[laserwalnut]

So save your prayers / For when we’re really gonna need ‘em…

Drew this almost a year ago now! Time passes

[cryptidclaw]

Tbh crazy that starclan to ask Pinestar of all people to kill tigerkit

Like ask some kinda evil, down to do murder guy to do it... ask Thistleclaw, not Tiger's DAD ofc he's not going to kill his BABY

[idrawcats]

I just reread Pinestar’s Choice and I think that Pinestar’s dreams of StarClan pressuring him to kill Tigerkit were nightmares brought on from Doestar telling him that he’d need to “make a difficult choice” and that Tigerkit could POTENTIALLY kill everyone. Of course, that’s after 8 lives spent watching his Clanmates fight and die in ultimately meaningless battles

[eggsistential-breakdown]

my friend paid me to make this

Kind of a continuation to this

Jarbage mouthwashing gets decimated by women in warrior cat hell

[eggsistential-breakdown]

Curly should've killed J*mmy this, Swansea should have killed J*mmy that,

Anya should have gotten to Brokenstar his ass

Bonuses:

Jackshit mouthwashing first human in the dark forest (warrior cat hell)

[fellwar-finch]

Splashtail and Curlfeather have really interesting parallels to Blackfoot and Brokenstar.

Both Curlfeather and Brokenstar are the schemers, they plotted to take over control of the clan, Splashtail and Blackfoot are just the muscle, the cats who get their hands dirty to fulfill their leader’s ambition.

But the real interesting part is that it’s Splashtail and Brokenstar that are motivated by power and personal gain, and Curlfeather and Blackfoot that are motivated by a real desire to make their clan as good as it can be.

When the schemer is the one who wants power and the muscle is the one who’s just following orders, just being loyal to the clan and to the leader, working to build a strong clan, you get a terrifying force of villainy in the clans.

But when the muscle is the one who wants power, and the schemer is out to build a better future, loyal to the clan and working to make it strong, you get a woefully underprepared muscle who’s trying his best to keep a plan that’s way too complicated and has way too many moving parts from getting away from him because he killed the one who knew what she was doing.

Might be a bit of a stretch, but I still think it’s neat!

[boysencj]

Kamala Harris is Squirrelstar coded

[idrawcats]

If Ivypool has a million fans, I’m one of them. If Ivypool has 5 fans, I’m one of them. If Ivypool has 1 fan, that one is me. If Ivypool has no fans, I’m no longer alive. If the world is against Ivypool I’m against the entire world. Till my last breath, I’ll support Ivypool

[tigertine]

needletail is such a weird character in fandom spaces because like. god did she treat violetshine badly. that relationship was toxic. undeniably. but also i find it really hard to believe that needletail was actively plotting to manipulate/groom violetshine into dependency on her & initiation into the kin.

needle was a self-centred teenager. we don’t get her point of view, but we do know that she genuinely believed darktail was the better option and could see very well with her own eyes that no one in shadowclan was treating violetshine well. it makes more sense to read her as a teenager who really believes what she is saying (at least to some degree) then as some kind of mastermind. toxicity isn’t always a planned action, often it’s something you’re completely unaware you’re perpetuating until it’s too late and we see needletail realise this about herself and TRY to fix it.

both of them were very very young and both of them were stuck in a cult. needletail is both a victim and someone who causes a lot of destruction. needletail is someone who had both a negative and positive effect on violetshine. needletail can be messy & complicated & unhealthy in her relationship with violetshine without being actively malicious in every single action she took.

[unofficially-ace]

Ok warriors fandom, what’s your favourite widely accepted design headcanon that has little to no basis in canon? Mine is dilute calico Bristlefrost.

[would-you-punt-them]

Thistleclaw (Warrior Cats)

Punt him into the Sun?

PUNT!

Don't punt!

Voting ended onApr 5, 2024