#notdarkforest

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Remember the episode when Holt and Kevin got re-married and Kevin said “there is no one here anymore but family” and the entire squad was there? You remember that?

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Sometimes you wake up with a new appreciation of Mary Shelley, queen of everything

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Flamepaw: Firestar was the greatest leader and cat the Clans have ever known. I will never live up to his name :( :(

Firestar, watching from Starclan, remembering the time he smeared his own pelt in fox shit:

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Everyone: CHIHUAHUAS ARE EVIL LITTLE MONSTERS THAT WILL LAUGH AS THEY RIP THE FLESH FROM YOUR ANKLES!! THEY ARE THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL!

Chihuahuas:

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My favourite horror stories are the ones where the main character is stopping to get help somewhere, like their car ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere but miraculously there’s a gas station, or they have food with a kind lady in a house, only to leave to find out the station / house was abandoned. 

Because it’s meant to be freaky like “oh, they were talking to ghosts this whole time!” yeah man, ghosts that just wanted to give you food and chill. They didn’t have to help you or be nice at all, and there’s literally no consequences for them being mean or violent because they’re already dead, yet they choose to have tea and cookies. You think it’s scary, I think it’s sweet

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Let’s play a game!

It’s called-- is it hard to be Flamepaw?

We’ll start by writing down all of the living kin to Firestar in Thunderclan. And let’s highlight all the characters that did something legendary!

--Sparkpelt (granddaughter to Firestar) --> helped in finding Twigbranch and Violetshine

--Alderheart (grandson to Firestar) --> found Twigbranch and Violetshine

--Squirrelflight (daughter to Firestar) --> found the lake territory

--Lionblaze (grandson to Firestar) --> part of the power of three

--Jayfeather (grandson to Firestar) --> part of the power of three

--Fernsong (great-grandson to Firestar)

--Finchwing (great-granddaughter to Firestar)

--Cloudtail (nephew to Firestar)

--Dewnose (grandnephew to Firestar)

--Whitewing (grandniece to Firestar)

--Ivypool (great-grandniece to Firestar) -- fought in the Dark Forest

--Thriftear (great-great-grandniece to Firestar)

--Flipclaw (great-great grandnephew to Firestar)

--Leafshade (great-grandniece to Firestar)

--Honeyfur (great-grandniece to Firestar)

--Hollytuft (great-granddaughter to Firestar)

--Sorrelstripe (great-granddaughter to Firestar)

--Spotfur (great-granddaughter to Firestar)

--Bayshine (great-great-grandson to Firestar)

--Myrtlebloom (great-great-granddaughter to Firestar)

--Stemkit (great-great-grandson to Firestar)

--Graykit (great-great-grandson to Firestar)

--Bristlekit (great-great-granddaughter to Firestar)

--Flamepaw (great-grandson to Firestar)

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Now let’s look at who remains!

--Bramblestar --> leader, found the lake territories

--Birchfall

--Mousewhisker

--Poppyfrost

--Daisy

--Bumblestripe

--Cherryfall --> helped in finding Twigbranch and Violetshine

--Molewhisker --> helped in finding Twigbranch and Violetshine

--Cinderheart

--Blossomfall --> trained in the Dark Forest

--Eaglewing

--Thornclaw

--Stormcloud

--Twigbranch --> Skyclan blood, believed to have been part of a prophecy

--Finleap

--Shellfur

--Plumstone

--Brightheart

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Well, that is still a lot! But let’s calculate that

Kin to Firestar = 24 / 42 --> 57%

Not kin / kin only through mate = 18 / 42 --> 43%

Of course there are still many kin to Firestar outside of Thunderclan or recently deceased.

Maybe cats are a bit hard on him, maybe it’s all in Flamepaw’s head. What can be taken from this, and what we all know,

is that they need so many more cats from outside to join their Clan because so many of these ‘kin’ are also mates with each other

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Thought 13-- I was thinking about how Squirrelflight was clearly trying to connect Sparkpelt and Flamepaw, when it hit me

She was probably thinking about her sister-- Leafpool, who desperately wanted to be close to her kits, but was forced to give them up. Leafpool, who spent her whole life being as much of a mother as she could, always falling short. Leafpool, who never stopped loving her kits, even when they stopped loving her. Leafpool, who lost her daughter only shortly after they had reconciled.

Squirrelflight knows how precious time between a mother and child is. She doesn’t want to see Sparkpelt waste it anymore than she already has, because she knows the heartbreak that it causes.