warrior cats is so fucked for the fact that i could ship thunderstar x lightning tail and have no idea they're brothers, or brightpaw x swiftpaw and have no idea they're cousins
“i hope u die” lame, boring, unoriginal. “i hope ur favourite mostly female show’s top category on ao3 is f/m or m/m” horrifying, blasphemous, tragically realistic, no way to survive.
the fact that i was so excited at the beginning of this arc because it seemed like we were going to get a starclan-less political mystery drama and i actually liked the writing of river……….. is it worse to have loved and lost or never loved at all
I still maintain that this arc started off strong. Others in my "orbit" don't like Nightheart but I am a fucking bastion. A wall. A Tower. I think he could have been fascinating if handled with more awareness, set up as someone who causes most of his own problems, failing to live up to his familial legacy as a descendant of Firestar and lashing out at everyone who's just trying to connect with him over this sensitivity.
Between Mistystar's literal collapse, Tigerheartstar's good intentions paving the road to hell, Lightleap struggling with feeling inadequate, the radicalization in ShadowClan... the arc had so much going for it, man.
But no. It's godless heathens. The solution is StarClan again. We thought we were getting a grounded mystery only to be lifted off the ground like a lawnmower in a 7-second vine. Alas.
I don't know why "[insert creepypasta character] wouldn't treat you like that, they'd abuse you!" Is even an argument in the first place? Like yeah sure, maybe, but I like imagining otherwise?? Let people be, a lot of people in this fandom have been seeing them as their comfort characters since they were like nine, why do you care?
Thinking about how Tigerstar’s “true love” is Sasha yet his favorite child is Brambleclaw
Hawkfrost is Sasha’s son, Brambleclaw isn’t.
When Tigerstar looks at Brambleclaw he sees only himself, there’s no Goldenflower in him.
However, each time Tigerstar looks at Hawkfrost, he’s staring into Sasha’s blue eyes.
Tigerstar went against the very beliefs he killed others for when falling in love with Sasha. Sasha brought out his hypocrisy & that weakened his authority.
Hawkfrost was born out of an affair Tigerstar would consider shameful & sinful. Tigerstar killed Stonefur for being a half-clan cat. He tried to kill Stormfur & Feathertail for the same thing. And he HATES Kittypets.
And yet, he made Hawkfrost. His own little half-clan demon that he fathered on a Kittypet.
Brambleclaw was bred to be his perfect son. Goldenflower was nothing but a “proper” womb for his “heirs”.
Tigerstar may have loved Sasha as much as someone like him possibly could, and I believe a small part of him loved Hawkfrost as well, or at least wanted to, he kept him by his side after all
but Tigerstar’s ego can’t allow him to love anyone more than he loved himself, his pride, & his ambition.