and for fun: talk about Tuftear!! She was deputy :0 and mother to Applepatch, mrs grumpy ass kitty
Yeah Tuftear is cool! She's one of the oldest cats in the Clans at this point and everyone has a ton of respect for her. She was a solid deputy to Hickorystar, a really good mentor (she mentored/helped mentor Sparrowscreech, Elkpaw, Timbertail, Elmleaf and Silverbird) and is just straight-up really likeable. She's strong and protective and loves her family to death.
She and Applepatch... do NOT get along. Applepatch has always been really difficult in general, she has a short temper and has always been insecure, as a lot of cats poked at her about both her height and her frankly weird appearance and it drives her nuts. She dove into training herself way too hard to be better than everyone else, and when Tuftear tried to get her to stop, Applepatch just got snappier. Her dad Nightstone facilitated this with private training sessions, working Applepatch as hard as she could bear, and it was the final straw that broke Tuftear and Nightstone's already strained relationship. She and Applepatch became even more distant after he died, and it's just been an ongoing problem.