#Shell won't even stop Rain from renaming their son to Yuckykit and the whole fandom claps at him

[bonefall]

...your breezepelt, lionblaze, and thunderstar post had me very confused for a moment. i was like "shit i know bramble sucks ass but i didn't remember him being an abusive dad". it took me way too long to realize that the abusers in question weren't ALL the boys' dads. [i may be very stupid]

Wellllllllll

Bramble did actually contribute to Lionpaw's abuse, by enabling Ashfur's physical torment. He was told about the beating by Ashfur, so when Holly tried to get help, her father laughed it off. Hollypaw is also not the only one who got a "You're my little pogchamp so I can trust you to be quiet about this" moment; Lionpaw got one too.

Lionpaw's was when Bramblestar started crying about how unfairly judged his genocidal dictator father is. To his child. Lionpaw immediately jumps to comfort him, and this downplaying of how bad Tigerstar was contributes to why Lionpaw was manipulated by Tiger and Hawk in the Dark Forest.

This is downplayed even more than Ashfur's physical beatings of Lionpaw, because even people who acknowledge Bramble is abusive towards Squirrelflight often won't admit he wasn't a great parent either.

#The bar is so low for fathers in wc that playing with your kids a few times is peak parenthood #Shell won't even stop Rain from renaming their son to Yuckykit and the whole fandom claps at him #Warrior cats analysis #Cw child abuse