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Willowshine the Willowshine Gets her fur texture and color from her mama!!

She's one of the youngest Riverclan cats to make the journey to the lake, along with Minnowtail [kit], Pebblefoot [kit], and Tumblekit [kit] She's technically their aunt, but she's a kit around the same time, only a season older, so her big sister Dawnflower and mama Mosspelt end up raising the litters mostly together.

Quite soon after arriving at the lake, Minnow, Pebble, and Tumble [As well and Dawnflower and Beechpaw] get super sick after the kits play in poison. Tumblekit dies here. This is also the first scene where we see Willowkit showing an interest in medicine and volunteering in the med den. I imagine it gives her a sense of control in what feels like a helpless and awful situation and is what sets her on her life path moving forward. In mymind she also feels a sense of ingrained responsibility after helping to look after her younger niblings for most of her own kithood.

Dark Forest guy [E I like to imagine his comments to Thistleclaw about family were sincere because ☝️ I think it is the more interesting option for his character and my agenda will always be to humanize the dark forest cats where I can “Snowfur was your mate.” Shredtail narrowed his eyes. “Aren’t you grieving, too?” “Of course!” Thistleclaw slashed at a moss-coated tree. “Snowfur shouldn’t have died! It should’ve been Bluefur on the Thunderpath instead!” “What about your kit?” Shredtail pressed. “Your son?”

In Rudyverse Shredtail's mate and kits are killed after sheltering in a badger den, and Shredtail leads a very unnecessary very bloody war against every badger they can hunt down, crossing moral bounds several times. Partially because of the above and this line: “Grief can bring strength,” Shredtail warned.