there at least seems to be a general consensus nowadays, at least in a post squirrelflight's hope world, that squirrelflight and leafpool were not "bad people for lying about the kits" (hooray, whoop tee doo, etc), but i still see a lot of "well it was still kind of shitty of them to not tell brambleclaw at least" and im sorry but i wholeheartedly disagree. even in a generous assesment of brambleclaw's character, from an in character perspective going off of the new prophecy, he is judgmental and insecure and quick to anger. he makes up assumptions about squirrelflight's beliefs in his head and then holds them against her. he does not tell her about training in the dark forest and how that lead to him having to make the decision to kill her father or not. he is very ambitious and proud of his standing. he just became deputy.
considering that this is warrior cats where a good chunk of their community is cruel and conservative, that people are always saying horrible shit about daisy around this time, that just shortly before squirrelflight and leafpool's lifetime (and during brambleclaw's) there was an incident where three cats were put to death for being half clan and two of the major parties involved in that are currently comfortably clan leaders- no i don't think it would have been the wiser kinder and safer move for squirrelflight to put her sister's life in the hands of her insecure and aggressive boyfriend and hoped for him to play along with secretly adopting her half clan medicine cat children as his own at his own risk. even if he'd *maybe* help them out with no issue, i still fully believe that that chance is signiiificantly less than 100%. hell even if he did help them I think he'd be horrible to them about it
