#a prophecy fulfilled. even at the price of disobeying his leader and possibly harming the clan's personal sake yknow yknow

[greatshell-rider]

re: my own tags on a previous post i am too lazy to paste them here but needletail’s talk with violetshine is so shoddily done and i am offended on their behalf. first off it’s in alderheart’s point of view and like. that’s nice that he and needletail got to talk too, they deserved to have that, but COME ON. this whole book (well. some of it sigh) you have needletail’s ghost trying to track violetshine down, violetshine has awful dreams in which needletail disdains her, you have violetshine begging for forgiveness and understanding and reassurance that her one closest friend in ALL HER LIFE still cares for her and doesn’t regret sacrificing her life to save her, doesn’t blame her for anything- and in this scene where they finally talk, it is two lines. two pages before the end of the book. and in alderheart’s point of view

THROWS UP MY HANDS CMON

#truly what fanfiction is for. let the two have a damn conversation dear gods #author builds things up halfway to a point that it could get so juicy and interesting and then just drops the ball- chucks it over their sho #shoulder like nah nevermind imma just call it good here #TAKE THE SHOT DUMBASS. HOOP IS RIGHT THERE. DAMN FREE THROW CMON #and anyway alderheart and needletail's relationship could've been juicer too. thankfully it was never romantic but hhhhhhhh it could've been #so much more. friendships are so good and so undervalued and always forgotten and kicked to the curb and it's a fuckin travesty #*tragedy #gnashing my teeth #really let the ball drop on alderheart's character too i think. he was pretty interesting in the first couple books #a medicine cat apprentice with a close connection to starclan but stuffed full of anxiety #rarely agrees with bramblestar (cuz he's a bitch) and it would be so neat! to have a medicine cat like constantly rubbing the wrong way with #their leader like. so often clan leaders boss their medicine cats around or ignore them or refuse to let them do their job but alderheart ha #has a nice rebellious/noble/gotta do the right thing no matter what streak that could've functioned really well in him doing ANYTHING to see #a prophecy fulfilled. even at the price of disobeying his leader and possibly harming the clan's personal sake yknow yknow #COULD'VE BEEN SPICY #COULD'VE BUILT UP ALDERHEART TO PUT ALL HIS TRUST IN STARCLAN ONLY TO BE CRUELLY BETRAYED/DISAPPOINTED/LET DOWN #but no no for the past few books he's just. wandered about worrying over things but never doing anything about them. worried about needletai #needletail but never checking on her #worrying about skyclan and the rogues but never confronting that #worrying about the new prophecy and the six toed cat but only going looking the once #worrying about the clans falling apart but never pushing to reestablish connections or make deals or try and assist in their problems #make alderheart a diplomat medicine cat that would've been cool #i simply think alderheart would have benefited from learning a thing or two from needletail and rebelled a bit #see if they'd spent more time together they could have learned from each other. 'bad influence' this and that but they were good for each ot #other and the story could've gone a neat direction if the author had cared enough to let them interact beyond the first two books :P #>:( #anyway. once again complaining about shittily written children series about feral cats you are very welcome *takes a bow* #can't believe there are still two more books in this series slkdfjsldfjsdfskj yes there's a lot to wrap up still but whenever they even star #start to fix one problem another one (or the same one let's be honest) boils up and the first problem gets ignored lmao. how many more proph #prophecies will we get in these last two books alone