#brokenbreeze

[bramblewhisker]

Brambleclaw x breezepelt

Berrynose x breezepelt

Breezepelt x brokenstar. do with these what you will

Too lazy to go copy the question template so quickly:

BrambleBreeze: I like it in the context of Breezepelt trying to get back at Crowfeather by going to find a better dad. I picture Brambleclaw constantly trying to be like, nice and supportive and having a hard time balancing that with trying to reject Breezepelt's advances for the sake of propriety. He probably fails.

BerryBreeze: The only thing I can see for this is some sort of silly oneshot wherein Berrynose wants to go get back at Breezepelt for messing around with ThunderClan, and since it's Berrynose he ends up with his face in the dirt.

BrokenBreeze: YES. I eat this up. Corruption arcs my beloved. And it has to do with daddy issues? Yes.

[bramblewhisker]

Okay, but consider this, BrokenBreeze but Breezepelt is so messed up from it he starts feeling things for Crowfeather when he starts getting positive attention from him. Now THAT'S a lot to unpack.

YES this is fantastic addition. Awkward post-oots BreezeCrow feelings...

[bramblewhisker]

Any Brokenstar x Breezepelt ship thoughts? I know this is very out of nowhere, but this has been stuck in my mind and it pains me that I don't really see anything about it anywhere, at least in terms of fixs or posts.

Fair enough tho, since I don't have any actual coherent thoughts about it either except jhnnhjjhkhghnbhjnnn

Idk, something about it just lodged in my brain

BrokenBreeze feels like it should be a classic! I can't say I've spent that much time thinking about it personally - the Dark Forest plotline in OotS lost me quite frequently - but it makes a lot of sense! Breezepelt is a tom who didn't have a good relationship with his father at all, so he'd be easy prey for Brokenstar to groom into a tool for his own ends. This is basically just implied to be what happens in canon, we just don't get much time with the two of them since we (criminally) got no Breezepaw/pelt POVs.

I imagine Brokenstar starts very softly: "I see how hard you work to be a good warrior. I see your great potential and your strength. I see everything your father refuses to see. Come with me. I will train you to be the best you can be. Then you can show them how wrong they were to scorn you." Breezepelt has never had such "positive" reinforcement before so he's eager to please, and is more than willing to go out of his comfort zone to keep getting Brokenstar's approval.

It's easy to imagine this growing past Dark Forest warrior stuff and into more ~intimate~ areas. It's not healthy or romantic or equal in any way: for Brokenstar it's about control and dominance, and for Breezepelt it's about staying in the good graces of the tom he thinks respects and values him. But it surely grows intense (Brokenstar gave off Big Creep vibes in life and I can't imagine that changed when he went to cat hell).

Interesting also to think about how Breezepelt has to unpack all of that after the great battle. It can't be easy for him once the realization sets in that Brokenstar didn't truly value him for him, but was just using him. Just another disappointing father figure :(

All of that still leads nicely into Crowfeather's Trial, really.