#*eats drywall*

Dead wife montage

Etymology: From a trope in film and television in which the deceased female partner of a grieving male protagonist appears in flashback or diegetic home movie, in happier circumstances than the protagonist now appears.

Definition:

(film and television, slang, literally) A montage that shows a male protagonist's female partner, in a lost idealized, intimate state, sometimes in an idyllic setting.

this is the clan that should, in theory, have the biggest genetic diversity of all 5 due to the age of the rebuilt clan and the various origins of their members. they're the only ones who pre darktail were bringing in fresh blood on the reg

and yet every modern member i can find is traceable back to the same 3 cats, two of which are SIBLINGS. clovertail, cherrytail, and sparrowpelt

HAWKWING AND PEBBLESHINE ARE FIRST COUSINS. HIS MOM IS CHERRYTAIL AND HER DAD IS SPARROWPELT.

kitescratch's parents (reedclaw, a PlumSandy kid, and quailfeather, a TinySparrow kid) are related through clovertail (plum and tiny are half sisters)

while we're on kite, his mate is needleclaw (granddaughter of aforementioned first cousins. granddaughter of pebbleshine, ALSO a TinySparrow kid)

featherstorm is a DBTSC (dark brown tabby she-cat)

hal is a DBTT (dark brown tabby tom)

raggedstar is Also a DBTT