ik you already have a line for darkstripe but if there's anything else id love to hear it
also what does ripplestar do
for darkstripe: he definitely shows up at different people’s apartments and acts like he was invited but he’s really just bored. tigerstar won’t let him hang around and acts like he doesn’t even know him much to darkstripe’s dismay. he has hawkfrost kick him out of their room
so he’s in that sitcom role of “guy who keeps showing up at our house” and he takes snacks and negs people but he’s actually only there because he’s bored and lonely out of his mind
also he lets it slip that he got his ass kicked by firestar in rootspring’s body and bristlefrost is proud of her bf and doesn’t let darkstripe forget it
it’s absolutely devastating to him that firestar was the one who killed him. since it was firestar but also not-firestar maybe there’s some wispy fake flames coming from the wound that killed him. this is repulsive to tigerstar which is why he shuns him.
the flames are darkstripe’s greatest shame (until he realizes that he was a terrible cat while he was alive and dead — then maybe listening to some of the less villainous cats convinces him that being evil wasn’t worth it)
for ripplestar: I’m realizing I don’t think I’ve read code of the clans! I have a couple of the field guides that came out when I was a kid but that’s it. but from his wiki page he sounds like he’d lurk around all quiet in the halls but then play music really loud in the middle of the night