#he had potential

[miwiheroes]

mike wheeler wear this tshirt

[frogpropaganda]

I don't hate A.ang I just really wish they didn't make him Like That in season 3

[starrfettii]

Nikolai Lantsov is exactly who the fandom thinks the Darkling is.

[quietercat]

Flametail was an odd character in retrospect. He was a point-of-view character in the middle of an arc for one book, and died in such book. He was a medicine cat, yet he didn’t behave like a typical medicine cat. He was also worn down by his huge responsibilities. The way the Erin’s went about his character was relatively unique and interesting, especially considering he was a point of view character in an arc where you would expect the authors to be strictly focused only on key characters.

His character intrigued me, and I found myself even finding parallels between him and Hollyleaf, which I enjoyed.

That being said, I don’t think the execution of his arc was done well, especially with the whole “destiny” aspect of his arc.

In the end, his contribution was simply for the purpose of pushing the narrative that ‘clans must stick together’, and to be some sort of “destiny child”. Not only that, but his death was almost entirely a plot device for Jayfeather’s ‘destiny’. I assumed Flametail’s death would be more significant than just a “stepping-stone” for Jayfeather’s ‘destiny’ growth, but when the cats (Dawnpelt and others) started accusing Jayfeather of “drowning” Flametail and Jayfeather had to temporarily step down from being a medicine cat, I knew it would be a painful read from then on.

Then, later in the arc, in The Last Hope, chapter 16, this scene happens and makes everything worse:

Jayfeather is so hell bent on the idea that Flametail is the fourth cat, so he goes to find him, and when he eventually finds him, Flametail is quite angered.

—“It wasn’t my time to die. I had to survive!” —

—“And I didn’t?” —

—“It was such a stupid way to die!”—

—But you still have a destiny to fulfill!”—

These two lines strike me in particular because it’s a direct clash of ideologies. Jayfeather, is a character who is obsessive with “destiny” (I would even argue he’s deluded by it), and Flametail is a character who suffered from “destiny”, and wants to opposes it (at least at first). These kinds of interactions are very important because they challenge the narrative and ideas present…. Yet, as the chapter continues it’s all abruptly “resolved” and Flametail “fulfills his destiny”:

—“You have fulfilled your destiny.”—

—“How strange that I had to wait until I died to fulfill my destiny”—

Flametail’s destiny was to die and then say a couple of sentences to other medicine cats to “unite the clans”? ‘How strange’ is definitely a phrase for that, a rather tamed phrase on Flametail’s part. He deserved to be way more angry at his situation.

Warrior Cats has an almost dangerous relationship with “destiny”, Flametail is proof of that.

I don’t honestly like to think that Flametail had this sort of “divine destiny”, he was a character broken and used as a pawn for destiny. Flametail was aware of this, when he called his death ‘stupid’ and ‘not fair’, it was showing he absolutely understood his role, and he hated it. Jayfeather probably also understood that Flametail was mistreated for the sake of destiny, but throughout his entire life, Starclan and ancient cats around Jayfeather had been conditioning him to believe that everything that happens and that he does is for destiny. That is an incredibly toxic mindset that was instilled into him, and because of that toxicity Jayfeather started to develop what I like to call the “It’s ok because it was all for destiny” coping mechanism. That coping mechanism in turn lead Jayfeather to believe that Flametail’s death was all for destiny so it was “ok” (which, again, is an extremely unhealthy and dangerous mindset to have when he just experienced a traumatic event).

This is starting to turn into a Jayfeather analysis segment, but Flametail is such an important character in showing Jayfeather’s tragic ideology, that I feel like I must discuss him more in relation with Flametail. Jayfeather was obviously traumatized by Flametail’s death, he felt guilty, rotten, wrong, and to top it off, cats blamed him for Flametail’s death. But Rock had told him to let Flametail go, to let him die for destiny, so Jayfeather obviously did the right thing, right? Jayfeather’s only way to cope with his horrible situation was to believe it was all for “destiny”. When Jayfeather heard there would be a 4th cat in the prophecy, obviously he assumed it had to be Flametail, the cat he let die for the sake of ‘destiny’. The reason Jayfeather in the chapter above kept going on and on with his ‘destiny’ mantra to Flametail was because any other reality would have suffocated him, which is tragic.

Obviously, Flametail died to fufill his ‘destiny’, obviously it was his time to die, and obviously he had to be a pawn for ‘destiny’, because if it was anything other than that, Jayfeather would have had to grapple with the fact that perhaps he watched a cat die for nothing.

(Yes, I know he’s blind, I used “watched” in a metaphorical sense).

I’ll eventually dive more into the relationship between Warrior Cats and destiny, because there are some sour and delusional elements to it that I want to discuss.

[fairycorewalterwhite]

tadc spoilers I guess

Why didn’t Jax actually get punished for all the shit he did??? I started off assuming Jax would have a redemption arc and get punished for abusing people but no. He just abstracts without even actually facing his crimes and wrongdoings. Like he was straight up sexually abusing gangle and then he abstracts so we have to forgive him????

[cararata]

My boy denki, I had an urge to draw him bc he used to be my favorite character before shinsou stole his place but he still holds a dear place in my heart, I'm still bitter that he wasn't the traitor and/or that we didn't see much of him

Idkkkk if his body looks weird but I like the feeling it gives, I like the clothes. You guys are free to tell me if it looks weird I would really appreciate it

[undeadsnail]

sometimes i mourn the person nate could have been if he locked in on becoming a better person rather than a product of his environment

[joshbruh10x]

Im gonna murder those pairs of dentures

There goes another add to my list of reptile favs, oh boy. Anyways OGNEKFK I literally watched the episode after waking up today and dear god why did they do him like this.

Literally after the episode, I went OGNEKFO TIME TO DRAW. I think I got the color scheming wrong, and idk how to make the texture gummy-like, but hey, Gummigoo :]