Something I’ve always wondered, and sorry if you’ve answered this before:
What is the technical stance on being a ship cat to clan cats? In the books I know warriors look down on kitty pets for the “soft life”, but does the same apply to ship cats? Even if Herons mother was a -star? How well known of a thing are they? And are they “ranked” above kittypets if they’re still looked down upon here?
I think I answered something similar to this in a prior post, but clan cats and ship cats are two ships passing in a storm (lol). Clan cats probably assume ship cats are rogues or kittypets, while ship cats are likely descendants of former clan cats/rogues. They create a bastardization of clan rules as they are scrambling for normalcy in a constantly moving territory (the ship).
This is why Heron messes up with a lot of traditional warriors information, improperly names Slickclaw with a warrior name instead of a healer name, etc. Her knowledge of warrior code is one that has been changed and misunderstood so many times that she likely appears very rude to clan cats.