Y’know, I noticed something about Lightningfur.
Did you notice that her Bloodclan collar looks exactly like Scourge’s?
First off they’re both purple (duh) and have the same kind of teeth and claws. And though it looks like Lightning has more teeth/claws than Scourge, it can mean that she might’ve collected some more and added them to her collar.
Second, Lightningfur’s collar looks torn and bloodied… it’s almost as if the collar was previously owned by someone who was murdered by Lightning and that collar ended up getting torn up and sullied in blood in the process.
This has led me to believe that Lighting killed Scourge in cold blood and took over leadership of Bloodclan.
https://youtu.be/gZgLzxATMsA
This PMV gives out the biggest evidence of my claim. To start off, during the ‘each of these, with shaking knees has knelt before me’ line it shows Thistlecuck, Scourge, and Tigerstar.
However… if we focus on Scourge here… on the 0:32 mark, we see that its stomach has been sliced open and one of its paws ripped off. Which indicates that Lightning managed to overpower it and kill it which earned her leadership.
The part with Fury and the other Bloodclan cats also shows that Lightning might’ve gained power. And seeing how fearful most of the cats are, it suggests that they are terrified of Lightning after she murdered their leader.
But why would Lightning take over Bloodclan? She has a deputy position in Riverclan so what happened with that? Well there are three possibilities…
A. Riverclan was starting to grow tired of Thistle and Lightning’s bullshit and when Thistlecuck is killed (either poisoned by Firestar or killed by Lightningfur in some way) the clan finds out about Thistlestar’s past and what he did to Primosepaw and Featherpaw and refuses to have Lightning as a leader (probably because they would think that Lightning was in on it) and chases her out.
B. Thistlecuck is killed and Lightning is defeated by Leopardpelt and exiled.
C. Thistlecuck dies and Leopard IS killed but Lightning is defeated and exiled.
But you may ask, “But how would Lightning kill Scourge?”. When looking at the injuries, it can be plausible that Lightning killed him in the same way Scourge killed Tigerstar in canon. While not as gory or huge, it still looks like an injury that would kill a cat especially since it went over the ‘squishy spot’ which holds all the vital organs in a cat.
But why the missing paw? Isn’t that unusual? Well there can be two explanations for that.
Either A. Lightning managed to brutally injure Scourge’s paw so bad that it started coming off its body.
Or B. Scourge was already dead and Lightning severed it paw as a trophy and to further piss on it grave.
Or maybe Lightning fought dirty and managed to release a dog or something that managed to kill Scourge and stopped said dog to frame herself as the hero and earned her leadership position that way.
But hey, I could just be reaching. It’s best if we let time tell 😈
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Part 1 C was the closest to how Lightningfur became exiled and in a position to join BloodClan!