AlderPuddle will always be as canon as a not-actually-canon ship can be, to me. The inherent homoeroticism of gingerly feeding another tom the flesh of deathberries from which you painstakingly removed the seeds with your own claws in order to save him from a mysterious infection - even under the threat of your own death from his clan leader, were your cure to fail - cannot be ignored.

kind of funny how many of the well written friendships in the books are ones that feel gay. like. grayfire, mothpool, hollycinder, alderpuddle, rootshadow, probably others i'm not thinking of. kind of baffling honestly-