if you’re a former main character in warrior cats you don’t die in a heroic or characteristic fashion anymore you just step on a thorn and die of infections
the windclan civil war plotline does drive me crazy bc for once theres some actual shakesperian tragedy shit going on and yet most fans of the series opt for an interpretation of it with zero nuance and things just happening for no reason
windclan civil war plotline: so growing close to firestar as an ally in his old age, tallstar comes to regret his choice in deputy as being someone more aggressive and xenophobic than him who will destroy their clans' relationship, so he does a last minute switch up to make firestar's friend onewhisker his deputy instead but the timing or planning and lack of open communication or being in touch with the brewing politics of his clan or any care about onewhisker or mudclaw's actual feelings dooms this action because it spends mudclaw spiraling into conspiracy and anger at being randomly denied the job and power he's been working towards and feels entitled to and he begins a coup. meanwhile onestar doesn't want to be leader whatsoever and this responsibility randomly being dropped on him and paranoia over his clanmates nearly killing him over it leads to him becoming more spiteful and feeling forced to become more xenophobic and nationalist out of necessity to save his image with said clanmates, becoming the very thing tallstar was seeking to prevent but ultimately became the catalyst for instead.
posts about it: so tallstar changed his deputy i guess but onestar randomly decided to become the worst guy ever (kind of mean to firestar) and ruined the clan. he was so much more interesting and a better character before when he was a bland nice nothing side character. tbh mudclaw is justified in trying to kill him though cause it was very rude that he randomly got demoted so i guess tallstar messed up there but only a little bit
WindClan cats tie flowers by their stems to a branch at the entrance to the nursery. This way, when it's windy, the flowers move and the kits know not to go out because it's too cold.
“But no one could believe that he had once been a docile kittypet.
“What they saw standing before them was neither Tiny nor Scourge,
“but some kind of unknown creature that froze their blood.”
This is a redraw of some concept doodles from 2021. The old art is at the bottom here under all my lazy rambling here
In the movie/book the movie is based on Uo serves as a father figure for Chirin; Tigerstar does not fill this role for Scourge literally (and in chirin i don’t think it’s meant to be taken completely literally either, although it is also literal ofc). Rather the memory of tigerpaw is the role of a sort of ‘older brother’/mentor in the sense that Tiny was taught a very important lesson from his point of view, that being we live in a dog-eat-dog world rigidly bound by the laws of nature where predators eat prey and prey can’t do a damn thing about it (ironically, the obstinate submission to this belief leads to him doing something about it). This is reductive and incredibly pessimistic but that is the point. Anyways, i mostly find this plausible bc as a kid i thought (like, an accidental headcanon sort of) that scourge chose to put dog teeth over his claws bc tigerCLAW is described as having claws so long that he can’t put them away and they’re always visible… so, tiny/scourge putting the dog teeth on his claws obviously they can’t be sheathed and he looks sort of like a little kid doing anything he can to copy his older brother without even thinking about it
I find the fact that Uo killed Chirin’s mother specifically and that Chirin forgave him for it to be much more compelling than if, for example, Uo beat Chirin up who then conceded to Uo’s view of the world and participated in the cyclical violence production machine; Chirin isn’t the only one hurt here, where he would decide to take his hurt and turn it into something. His mother was killed. She didn’t want to die—even if she didn’t have a son, she would not want to die. Her life is worth living for herself, too. Chirin really has no place to be forgiving Uo for that (although again it’s not that simple bc Uo also has to eat and it wasn’t personal. But if we forget that for a moment and pretend it was thoughtless violence, like when tigerpaw beat up tiny).
So as an extension of that, I would really like if Quince left the house to look for Tiny (do you remember blazethefiredragon’s third episode of their adaptation of the rise of scourge? yeah). She would find Tiny in the middle of getting beat up and then go to protect him and in turn Tigerpaw would kill her. There IS something here that bugs me if this was actually done in warriors bc of the misogyny in the series and the tendency to throw away female characters like disposables but I’m doing this myself as someone cognizant of these issues and in my perfect world where all that idiocy would be patched up in the other areas (i mean. As much as is possible without knocking the entire series over like the fragile house of cards it is, which isn’t saying a lot), to allow for space to have things like this happen with actual purpose
The timing of Scourge killing Tigerstar would be changed as well. Since their rapport is actually built here as opposed to being false to begin with the battle would begin without any issues. To create a parallel to the farm raid in Chirin I imagine instead that Scourge would be about to attack some younger apprentice who would then be protected by their mother (which should be entirely possible, though I can’t think of any cats who would fit the bill). His hesitance would be challenged by Tigerstar like Chirin’s hesitance was challenged by Uo
Finally. “I’m a sheep!” would be replace with “I’m Tiny!” or “I’m a kittypet!”. “I’m Tiny!” fits The Rise of Scourge as a standalone story better, but “I’m a kittypet!” being said within The Darkest Hour with Firestar himself standing there (perhaps right before pity-killing him) would be just insane. The way that that would challenge the mostly unchallenged xenophobia in the series, unwaveringly and in front of the parallel milquetoast protag to boot, would be just nuts. To me
I also like chirin juxtaposed to breezepelt and brokenstar, but it doesn’t fit nearly as well and is moreso an extension of me dragging around the dead horse i beat as someone with a horrible ‘relationship’ with that parent. But breeze using brokenstar as a stand-in for his father, who has plot armor made of fully enchanted netherite, and then killing him. Is just so funny. Hey you’re my dad now. Wait a minute, I fucking hate my dad. DIE!
sometimes there's character interpretations where its like well i disagree but that's fine we just have different ways of seeing it. And sometimes i need to kill people
not an apologizer but a contextualizer. yes the character did that but please understand the Circumstance. yes they had other options but they had to make this choice in a sea of available bad choices. and also it made the narrative more interesting. won't anybody think about the narrative!!!!!
onestar being one of the only cats who’s descent into needless violence and extreme practice of clan patriotism is very well laid out as a product of various traumas - the majority a direct result of the clan’s systems itself - and yet also one of the only cats who’s negative traits are attributed to the writing “just suddenly making him an asshole” as opposed to most characters, like ivypool, who were clearly forced into it and actually a masterclass on complex emotion and the way it warps us is kind of really fucking funny
shattered sky has some of the most “it’s hard to believe they let them put this in children’s literature” scenes in warrior cats and that’s saying something considering the series at whole. anyways iykyk. daily sketch 6.13.25
violetshine warrior cats would not experience everything she did with darktail and then decide to have children immediately after. she would not have seen the power that the high ranks of warrior cats have over children in their society after her and twigpaw's childhood and decide to have them in the middle of recovery. violetshine warrior cats would not have children after reuniting with her mother at last in starclan and knowing how much torture it was to have her literally ripped away from her children
violetshine warrior cats would not spend her formative years making herself "[keep] her paws neatly together and [curling] her tail along her side, with her head bent submissively" because "she knew this was a pose that would please darktail" to then have children
why in the world do i keep seeing the stupid “think of the children!” argument be used as to why brightheart’s scarring can’t be portrayed as written in the book. in what world is “children can’t see characters with severe disfigurements” a good argument
to be even clearer, warriors could be the most kiddy silly pbs cartoon-esque series ever and i would still reject the notion that people with disfigurements or visible scarring are somehow “inappropriate” to show to kids.
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