#bb!featherwhisker

Runningnose

Very, very rarely actually expresses a belief. It's hard to know what he's thinking. But he would watch this with great interest and curiosity-- no wonder StarClan fears him. What an interesting case to observe...

Ravenwing

Probably doesn't know about it since he keeps to himself. But if he did? He'd be afraid of him too. A being BEYOND StarClan? Something that can defy death itself to yank people back from their graves? Surely this can't be good.

Ravenwing has a complicated relationship with StarClan after his unfair damning, but not entirely furious either. He thinks they were correct about their judgement, even if it was made in anger. They didn't send that sign (and he doesn't know Birchface was the real culprit), so... he DID misinterpret some reeds, and it IS partially his fault the kits died.

So he actually does not want to see StarClan fall, or be fearful. If they're afraid... what does that mean about the Place of no Stars?

Featherwhisker

Is pogging out. Oh my god. OH my god, marvelous. How can he give him a call? HOW can he send this man a giftcard so he can buy himself something nice on Steam?

He wants to talk with him and they would have a good time, chatting about defying god, how he can learn from Featherwhisker's mistakes and not get caught.

[ID: Featherwhisker from Warrior Cats, for the Better Bones AU. He is a white, fluffy cat with a plumy tail and a pink underbelly.]

Raise your hand if you always forget canon Featherwhisker is supposed to be silver-gray 🙋

I wanted to do a different take on him than usual, his brother is Sunfall, his dad is Flamenose, his mom is a tortie, so I wanted to keep a 'warm' kinda feeling to the dude.

I swear I meant the belly to be ginger but picked a color that was too pink... but then Clumsy by Fergie came on my playlist and it was like, oh okay, the Spirit of Hunty Featherwhisker is possessing my color picker. That's what's happening here.

I had to re-draw his tail a billion times too, because the little curve kept looking like a butt. This was a very fun design.

That's how he would be btw. BB!Featherwhisker's personality is SO silly and funloving, he's a rulebreaker, he's a cheeky bastard, he's nosy, he WANTS the gossip.

Featherwhisker is the secret biodad of Frostfur.

He has a fondness for a kittypet that he visits frequently. See, Featherwhisker has a philosophy... more of a realization.

The Cleric is the most powerful role in the whole Clan. Sure, a leader has final authority, and a deputy organizes day-to-day life, but what does that matter when StarClan is supposed to be their final authority?

If you don't get caught, if you're just careful enough to be respectful... the Cleric is uncontested. And when his brother is the leader, who will stop him? Goosefeather? The one who got his own sister killed?

Yes, Goosefeather is powerful on his own right, and a fight between Clerics would be a headache, even if he would probably win thanks to his popularity... so he shrimply doesn't get caught, you see.

Or, at least, that's his perspective.

And BOY OH BOY is this influential to Spottedleaf. She wants this so bad. You can see a TON of his mindset in her.

That said......

Featherwhisker is in the Dark Forest. Not because he's a bad cat, in fact he's SAINTLY, ALWAYS there for his Clanmates when they need them

But... he's pretty picky-and-choosey with what messages from StarClan he relays. He only respects the parts of the code that make sense to him.

So he won't share a bad prophecy. He sired a child with a kittypet. He frequently channeled spirits directly instead of contacting StarClan's warriors the way he 'should'

StarClan took that as disrespect, and damned him for it.

Mind you, this is before Fire Alone.

Featherwhisker meets his end in Spottedleaf's completely gutted, reworked, reshaken, and replaced SE, Spottedleaf's Plague.

He dies of the titular plague just 1 year - 6 months before the start of TPB, catching it from Leopardfoot while treating her.

The book closes out with Spottedleaf and Tigerclaw having lost someone beloved, taking in very different ways, both of them lamenting the distance that's come between them.

On the OTHER hand though, Feather NOT in the df would show how starclan is emotion driven. How unfair they can be. Feather broke the code, but managed to weasel out of it regardless- SOME dark forest cats have to feel absolutely bitter about that.

Overall though, i think if Bluestar gets in hot enough water that someone needs to pull an ace attorney stunt to get her out, Feather is going to need something similar. There needs to be someone backing her up HARD. I do think the story works better though if feather is in the df, since it gives a more 'modern' cat in the df we can sympathize with.

This is a really good summation of the argument, it shows both sides of the choice really well

I've decided that Featherwhisker definitely works best in the Dark Forest for BB. It's important. If he was able to wriggle out of StarClan's angry judgement, then it makes Bluestar’s Ace Attorney Stunt less impactful.

Dude woulda LOVED Fire Alone. He would have adored Fireheart, too, he would have called him a little cutie right alongside Spotty. Told him stories and aided his escapades.