Drawing Every Warrior Cat

she goes to sparkpelt, using the fact that theyre kin to persuade her that this is for the best. sparkpelt, who cares for her family and is anxious about the tension this is creating around the lake, agrees that yeah, skyclans old territory was pretty good! she's seen it! they could go back there and everyone could get along again! so she starts working within thunderclan to get them to support shadowclan.

then sleekwhisker starts to get unstable. she hasnt been able to get her lives (rowanstar is still alive and picked someone who was NOT her to be his deputy), and being a very young cat managing a clan that is at war is very stressful. darktail's teachings start getting in her head more and she settles on a new plan; if she cant get her lives because of rowanstar, get rid of rowanstar. if she cant make leafstar leave, get rid of leafstar. any skyclan cat who won't get off her territory? kill them too.

Like, Mudclaw's followers were loyal to him, he was a spry aggressive deputy to contrast Tallstar's more passive nature, and that earned him plenty of loyalty, particularly when he was fighting against Shadowclan tooth and claw when Windclan was getting expelled.

So by all right, the announcement that Tall changed his mind last second and made Onewhisker deputy (which was his own decision here, not Starclan's) in private and corroborated by only the Thunderclan leader, a coup should have been a cakewalk for Mud.

Walk into the leaders den, make Onewhisker say that he lied, and reclaim leadership. No one actually thinks fucking Onewhisker would be a good leader, so very limited opposition. Hell, Mud may not have even been planning on killing One, just chase him off the territory.

The only problem was, Onewhisker was related to quite a few cats. And those relatives realized that they were now not only related to the leader, but it was timid, yes-man, 'does what you say if you say it firm enough' Onewhisker. So when Mud goes and tries to question the story and intimidate One, he finds voices of opposition, Cats going to Onestar's defense, much firmer ones.

Basically, Mudclaw was defeated by the power of opportunism and promises of Cronyism/nepotism.

And also Thunderclan, no way in hell was Fire going to let this much of an opportunity just slip by.

leafpool gets propped up a lot for conversation abt fandom misogyny bc shes Easy to talk abt. she gets everything thrown at her and internalizes it instead of externalizing it so shes easier to sympathize with.

ivypool is emotionally and physically abused from childhood into her adulthood bc shes forced to stay training in the dark forest. shes also forced to Kill people. one of these people is an already dead antpelt who is gone forever. and even then ppl were giving her shit for not giving the kindest response about her daughter meeting the same fate to dovewing.

like i cannot grasp the “leafpool should be allowed to kill people” shit when its coming from the same ppl who didnt like ivypool snapping at dovewing over rowankit and bristlefrost. like yeah i wonder why her Erased From Reality daughter might be a topic she cant exactly repress all her emotions on.