#sparrowtail

[warriorsproject]

Sparrowtail

[scarechrow]

Rafael and Eva from RIO but replace it with Sparrowtail and Berryheart.

Sparrowtail, in the middle of getting terrorizied by Hollowkit, Spirekit, and Sunkit: "Ow! Hey! Look, do you want me to get your mother?!"

The three run off screaming.

Sparrowtail speaks: "Ha! Works everytime. They're scared of death from her!"

Then Berryheart appears, scaring the shit out of Sparrowtail: "Call me for what?!"

Sparrowtail: "Ah! Berryheart, my love!"

grouping these together bc u guys seem to like my berryheart posting

[lemnnshark]

"Sparrowtail is a large brown tabby tom."

[animatewarriorcats]

Sparrowtail! He is Kinkfur's son, Brother to Mistcloud and Dewkit. He and his siblings harrass Ivypaw in Night Whispers before the apprentice scares them with a hiss. He doesn't appear as an apprentice, but is a warrior in the Apprentice's Quest. He is Needletail's Father, with Berryheart though the cats don't acknowledge each other. He joins the Kin but dips early with Berryheart Cloverfoot and Slatefur according to Tigerheart's Shadow, but does appear in the battle at the boarder of Riverclan in Shattered Sky even though I would have said that group leaves before those events. He has another litter with Berryheart while away from the clans, Sunbeam Hollowflight and Spireclaw. He stands by his mate and they seem to be close in the Starless clan arc, following Berryheart through her entire fall from grace with Shadowclan and sticking with her when she teams up with Splashtail to attack their clan as Riverclan deputy. He mourns her when she is killed, and tells Tigerstar that Berryheart was the only cat who he was more loyal to than his clan and without her he need not question Sparrowtail's commitment to the clan. He is mostly used as support for conservative ideas despite not being that old, but not as strongly as characters like Scorchfur, Spikefur or Berryheart. He supports his daughter and hopes that she lives happily in Thunderclan.

He's got a lot of continuity stuff going on, as he says he was apprentices with Berryheart at her funeral despite Berry being born an entire arc before him, but both litters were never listed as apprentices before being fully formed adults in the Vision of Shadows arc so I think it's possible. Snowbird is listed in the Nursury in Bramblestar's Storm's Allegiances so for Needletail to be the same age as Beenose and Yarrowleaf Berryheart and Sparrowtail would need to be warriors and mates before that book to make it work. In my mind he was probably apprenticed shortly after Night Whispers and Warrior by the Last Hope, but the truth is this was all probably retroactively sewn together and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[fauxtasm]

ok man

[shellswoop]

You know what I'm mad about? The difference between bad fathers and bad mothers in warriors.

Bad fathers are typically fathers who just aren't there or are disinterested. Crowfeather, Spiderleg, Tigerstar, etc. Bad dad doesn't mean absent dad, because it's basically an expectation that a father in warriors doesn't need to be there. Dewnose, Sparrowtail, Almost every first arc tom... so much so that Toms who do the bare minimum are celebrated, such as Graystripe or Fernsong. Yet these dads aren't hated on as much as mothers are.

A bad mom in warriors is either abusive, or perceived as evil. Rainflower, Curlfeather, Berryheart, etc. If a mother is absent, it's noticed, like Sparkpelt or Lizardstripe. Mothers in warriors aren't allowed to take a step back from being mothers, so much so that it becomes most of their characters. Almost every evil she-cat we see, the first thought is "Oh, Berryheart, Sunbeams mom." Or "Oh, Mapleshade, a Mom."

Let us have bad moms who are still redeemable characters. Crowfeather is a bad dad, but he's still rewarded by the narrative and loved in the Fandom. .

[t4twnyclaw]

*UPDATED* hopefully these genes make more sense... berryheart's family tree!

[pineconekitty]

Might as well do more of the BerrySparrow family so let's do Berry's hubby. Yeah, Sparrowtail. The man that stuck to his wife to the bitter end.

In canon, he does absolutely nothing. He just sits in the background and really is just there but him grieving over Berryheart was really sad.

Sparrowtail of ShadowClan

"I can fix her!" - Sparrowtail, probably

I admire his devotion to his wife. He supported her in all of her rights and wrongs, even followed her out of ShadowClan. We never got to see the details of their relationship, but the speech he gave at Berryheart's funeral was enough for the reader to know all about it. She was strong where he was not - she completed him, in a way. It was written very sweetly and beautifully, just a husband mourning his beloved wife. But when I thought about it, their relationship was probably rather toxic, considering how Berryheart is... It seems like she was just overpowering him mentally, taking advantage of his timidness to make him dependent on her. I might be looking too far into it, but that's just how it felt to me, especially after Sparrowtail's speech. I'm not saying that she was completely using and manipulating him - no, in books like Tigerheart's Shadow, it looks like they genuinely did love each other. Berryheart is just the type of person who would be willing to use these feelings to her advantage.

I can honestly see why he's so attached to Berryheart. He lost his family early on - we never met his father, his sister Dewkit died before they even got to leave the nursery. His mother, Kinkfur, died to yellowcough, and then both his other sister Mistcloud and his daughter Needletail were murdered by Darktail. He almost lost Berryheart too, since Darktail attempted to drown her as well. Sparrowtail himself had to run away from the Clans to avoid such fate, along with his miraculously surviving mate. Berryheart and their second litter of kits - Hollowflight, Spireclaw and Sunbeam - were his only surviving family.

But even when we put Berryheart aside, Sparrowtail really just seems like the follower type. He's always just a part of the crowd, never speaking up first, always following someone else's lead. He had his own opinions - he was more accepting of Spireclaw's relationship with Fringewhisker, though reluctantly at first. He generally seemed to be more open-minded than Berryheart, not even being an active member of her clique. Still, when she needed support, he was there to provide it, whether he agreed with her or not. Even when she was being just straight up evil, he still believed that she could change, that she was still good, somewhere deep down. It seems like she just meant to him more than his personal views did, which might seem sweet at first, but can be pretty damaging in the long run.

Anyway, heavy stuff aside. He had this one really cute scene with Ivypaw back when he was a kit. She was being held hostage in ShadowClan, and he asked her if she can fly, to which she told him that actually all ThunderClan cats fly. They're just cool like that. It was just a generic funny kit scene, but I thought it was cute, so I'm mentioning it.

Since we don't know who his father was, I just made him resemble his mother. He has practically all the same markings, just with different colors - he's brown with green eyes, while Kinkfur is gray with dark blue eyes. He has the same scruffy, unruly fur as her. He's skinnier than her, though, being rather lean, but still with big paws.

Thank you for requesting him! Since I made most of his family already, Sunbeam, Hollowflight and Needletail are coming soon, along with Kinkfur, Mistcloud and Dewkit c: