Harestar for the ask thing
My rare pair for this boy is: Harespring x Lionblaze. All I can say is sorry but I'm gonna keep calling him Harespring cause I keep forgetting he's leader :') Also, this is canon in most of my AUs (not this one, since Lion and Cinder are together), but will only be touched upon in my PO3 AU.
- Harepaw saw Lionpaw first at a Gathering, speaking with Heatherpaw. He was pretty blown away by how handsome he was. He never mustered up the guts to talk to him, though.
- Harepaw often volunteered to patrol the ThunderClan border to see Lion, but they never met each other.
- It wasn't until many moons later that Harespring finally talked to him at a Gathering, not long after the Great Storm. He told Lionblaze he was very sorry for the loss of Dustpelt and Seedpaw. WindClan didn't lose as many warriors, and that makes his gut twist with guilt.
- Lionblaze takes a liking to the sort of jumpy WindClan cat (though he's only like that around Lion). He thanks Hare for his condolences, and they begin hanging out at Gatherings.
- Lionblaze and Harespring never meet at borders, at the island, or sneak into each other's camp, Lionblaze is too loyal to his Clan to act all that out. Instead, they just meet at Gatherings or when one of them visits each other's camp on a patrol. It was pretty obvious to Holly and Jay what was going on, but they didn't intervene, as they saw it as nothing but harmless crushes.
- Harespring definitely loved Lionblaze more than Lionblaze loved him, but he was sort of okay with that. He just liked being around Lion as much as he could, even though he knew it wasn't leading anywhere.
I haven't touched upon Harespring at all (since he's not really relevant in any of my AUs) so it was a bit hard to capture his character, but I do like the idea that he was a very strong, important cat to WindClan, but got jumpy and anxious around crushes.