leafpool being the one to lie for hollyleaf would have been an endlessly better way to go about it since it’s implied that leafpool knew hollyleaf killed ashfur from the start and kept it a secret to protect her and it would also sow some frankly deserved seeds of guilt in hollyleaf that the person she tried to kill still only wants to keep her safe to the point of being willing to put her own neck on the line for her, thus forcing her to consider that this was in fact the very reason leafpool lied about the circumstances of their birth in the first place, to protect them from scorn, which she wouldn’t have to do if not for the code- but yeah sure brambleclaw daddy daughter tv tropes heartwarming moments they have to remind us how good of a person brambleclaw is when he lies for a good cause it’s heroic and shows us how good of a parent he is but only when he does it nobody else. i’m not mad you’re mad
