reblogging my own post to tack on this "additional" commentary.
whenever questions of the worst wc character come up, i can't really understand the fact that darkstripe has genuine vitriolic haters that think he's one of the worst characters in the series. like obviously morality holds some stake in character preference, and i can also understand why people hate on him in a jokey way because canon keeps putting him in a position where he's easy to point and laugh at and he's given very little on-page sympathy or reasoning unlike other antagonists, but, like. darkstripe? he serves his narrative role well, he's got room for intrigue and headcanons, he can be at least funny or endearingly pathetic if you don't want to do that, and he's still not nearly the most morally reprehensible character in the series even though he tries to poison a child/potentially his little sister depending on how much parentage retcons you buy into, so like idk what you people even want from him
I think where people flounder is when they misread Curlfeather's last scene to be a kind of disownment from Frostpaw ala the Patchkit AU MAP, and not as an indictment from Frostpaw of Curlfeather's actions up to that point.
Frostpaw is not saying— "You're a bad mom, and I don't love you,"
She's saying— "How could you do all this, that goes against the core values and morality of our society, turning Splashtail into a murderer, faking my dreams from StarClan, taking the life of your deputy, tearing RiverClan apart— How can you do that, and not acknowledge your wrongdoing?"
I mean, literally, look,
She doesn't want Curlfeather to leave. She loves Curlfeather, but also is filled with the weight of the betrayal and of her future burden— Rebuilding the home that Splashtail and Curlfeather had destroyed through their actions.
She still loves her Mom, guys.
I feel like Harlan Guthrie is the opposite of a queer baiter.
John and Arthur are being pushed as being almost aggressively straight and platonic in the last few episodes so that no one can ship them anymore.
He's two steps away from declaring that John and Arthur share a brother bond or are like father and son, lol.
I don't have it in my heart to get into an argument online, but Spottedleaf's Heart (2017) came out like almost a decade later from Bluestar's Prophecy (2009).
I just don't care about it, it is a pointless retcon, that reframes Spottedleaf, and Thistleclaw's entire character arcs.
I don't think anyone should be forced to interact with it as canon if they don't want to.
My biggest tumblr fear is making a sideblog and not knowing what to do with it. I just talk here. If I made a sideblog, it'd just be me talking somewhere else??
Ahhh, I can't decide.
Tigerstar death scene but he's Caesar and all the Clan Cats come at him with knives (claws) at a Gathering or something.
What if Warrior Cats had executions? Like, guillotine, hangings, etc. How absolutely sick would that be? Let's behead Splashtail.
I love my url sooooo much, but I also want to delete all my posts and pretend I was never here—
Not because of anything fandom related I just get in those moods where I want to delete stuff. And Idk.
Is it a safe space to say this ,,, Sol is the most nothing Warrior Cats character.
He was just there to pad for pages, until we finally got to the reveal. I wanted to smack him with toy hammers every time he showed up.
Our protagonists had much better things to do than stare at the silhouette of a guy on a hill who predicted one thing one time, and then just bloated the arc with his nonsense.
He was just a loser who knew nothing about the three's parentage, or their destiny.
And he sucked— and I think he's boring—
Kayne fans who now hate him after 52 are FAKE. I love it when he’s an evil bastard :)
TRUEEEEEE I LOVE KAYNE AND THE SOUNDS OF HIS BARE FEET SLAPPING THE FLOOR
I never had an issue with 'age gaps' in Warriors because they're cats.
At no point in Warriors does anyone say, 'I think Onestar being mates with Whitetail is a symptom of a major issue in our society'.
—As it stands, the world building is that it's acceptable in their society.
The world building is that the cats are ok with it.
They are in no way analogous to real people unless you're looking to ignore the fact that the books are about cats and not people.
Ferncloud and Dustpelt, for instance, were thinking about being mates long before Fernpaw had even received her warrior name.
If you compare this to a human relationship, yes, that would absolutely not be ok. But, again, they're cats. They're not humans.