#clear sky

the whole hypocritical nature of the warrior code stems directly from gray wing whos seen as the model of leadership and strength in his time, while also being INCREDIBLY indecisive and flaky and kind of generally an idiot. hes respected so much because of how he deals with the constant overbearing misfortune in his life through mercy and resilience, which admittedly are very commendable skills for future warriors to learn described in the code, but its SO misguided in gray wing's life its cool as fuck to see where it came from

recently read riverstars home which i liked pretty much exclusively to see the mountain cats from an outside perspective. struggle is their life, and if they ever committed to the simple, pretty easy solutions of like "hey why dont we just not have borders and all trust each other", theres no value in that type of life. we must push this boulder up this insurmountable hill EVERY DAY or else life is not worth living