In this house, we stan Heathertail

everyone has one warriors character they’re irrationally attached to. who’s yours

every time a female character is one note and underwritten the fandom is immediately like “WHAT IF SHE WAS EVIL AND LOVED MURDER” but whenever a male character is one note and underwritten everyone is just like “aww what a perfect sweet baby boy he’s the best character in the entire series he deserves a super edition that is just him hunting for his clan and being a good bf i hope he never gains any character traits other than ‘nice’ and ‘loyal’ lest the erins ruin him by giving him Flaws” and it’s just such a… bizarre double standard imo

people are pointing this out in the replies but also very interesting how the fandom instantly jumped on the theory of curlwhisker being an evil mastermind and called her an awful mother for completely made up fanon reasons and now people are bemoaning the idea of owlnose and splashtail having had something to do with the deaths in riverclan because god forbid erin hunter ruins the Sweet Good Boys as if we are at all in short supply of male background characters whose only purpose is being “loyal to their clan” and it’s quite annoying to be fucking honest lol i hope fernsong is arbitrarily revealed to be a serial killer just to piss people off

“people relate to nightheart because they also have neglectful mothers so it’s bad to say they’re not allowed to like sparkpelt :/” ok but it’s not about fan reaction, it’s about how the authors continually make the choice to only have female characters exist in service of the male main character’s arc and be treated as antagonistic forces because they don’t tell him exactly what he wants to hear. it’s about how every male character gets to have an arc where their feelings about their place in the clan and the expectations placed upon them, but the female characters never get their feelings explored and exist solely in service of the male main character. it’s about how they made a character look inexplicably identical to the most important character in the series but never do anything with this and just handwave her with “she doesn’t feel any pressure to live up to firestar’s name!” only to give this arc about firestar’s legacy to her son and have it be portrayed as something that no one else in the clan can understand. it’s about how absent fathers in the series are either never acknowledged at all or given a sympathetic reason as to why they’re distant whereas sparkpelt is portrayed as emotionally neglectful because she didn’t sneak past the borders of an evil dictator after being forcibly exiled to visit her son. like… i am begging warrior cats fans to stop trying to analyze the characters as if they’re real people and not narrative tools. it’s not about the characters’ actions themselves, it’s about why the authors chose to write them a certain way and why it’s bad that they continue to repeat these writing choices over and over again 

i think one of the saddest things abt dovewing is the way she had her childhood ripped away from her and nobody cared or even knew because she was forced to stay quiet about it. she was so young and suddenly she’s a part of a prophecy that tells her she’s destined to save everyone she’s ever known and she has these terrifying sensory nightmare powers and she can’t get a moment of rest anymore. there’s only two people in the world that she’s allowed to confide in but they never want to talk to her about this, because they resent her for not being the person they wish she was. they wish her place in the prophecy had been for their (seemingly) dead sister instead, and dovewing can never hope to fill her shoes. and they’ll always hate her a little bit for that. all they do is tell her that she’s not like everyone else, she’s special, and therefore she’ll always be alone. and for her own good, she needs to distance herself from her friends and family because they’ll never understand and they can’t know and she can’t talk to them and she might as well start getting used to it. and when her sister pulls becomes suspicious and angry and jealous, when her mother is worried sick, when her friends and clanmates wonder about her, she can’t say anything. and this whole time she’s just a child. and this explains why later on she continues to keep secrets and feels like she can’t trust or confide in anyone anymore like this ruined her. and it gets to the point where she doesn’t even really feel she belongs in thunderclan anymore. she doesn’t really belong anywhere.

my relationship with Warrior cats could best be described as a strained marriage

the queen died but honestly leafpool has been through so much more. The hardships she’s faced aren’t even comparable to dying of old age. Until the queen has done what leafpool has done I don’t feel sympathy.

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Broke: Snowfur was making Thistleclaw a better person with her presence and when she died he went off the deep end, if only she didn’t die he would have been a rude but harmless wifeguy Woke: Thistleclaw was actively making Snowfur a more violent, xenophobic person which contributed to her death on that road chasing a defeated ShadowClan cat over the border. Instead of internalizing that his bloodthirsty mindset is reckless, got his mate killed, and certainly would kill countless more good warriors, he doubled down and set his sights on grander ambitions.