#lutumlore

-@warriorwhiskers

(I believe this is referring to this post!)

Also, are you scared of death? Do you entrust you have your 9 lives? Can you or your medicine cat even convene with StarClan these days?

"My greatest regret is thinking I'd have more time to fix things."

Did we ever learn how Honeyspring got their leg injury? It’s fascinating to me how it all seems so avoidable, just bad luck, and yet… how would she have been if she had lived to birth her kits? I can’t even imagine the grief.

What was her relationship like with Tanglefern before the whole ordeal? Their hatred for him seems so simple and clear. Was it enough to fully uproot any positive feelings she may have had about him, or do memories of the past still linger?

Lastly, are the kits meant to be a ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ kind of thing? Smallkit with cyclopia, Flailkit with the constant wailing, and Palekit with the mouth?

I absolutely adore this comic already and I’m so excited to see what happens next!!!

With gentle paws, Tanglefern crushes the Clottingroot into a fine powder, dusting it onto a soft pad of moss before wrapping it around his clanmate's injured leg.

"There!" He exclaims softly, eyes narrowing as he quickly reviews his work. "You're practically good as new! Give it a few days, and you'll be fitter than a newleaf mouse."

Firstly, we know Honeyspring was very desperate to have kits, not just because of her desire to become a mother but also due to their bloodline having trouble with conceiving and futility, plus possible expectations and pressures to have children caused by the declining birth rates of Lutumclan. iirc, Honeyspring is a cat that would do anything to achieve their goals.

Then, there's this post about how Honeyspring figured out Tanglefern poisoned them. Honeyspring claims Starclan told her about it, but the quotation marks in the tags are definitely sus as hell (pun intended), adding on the fact that sc cannot see Lutumclan, Honeyspring had been interacting with an entity that probably isn't Starclan. (interesting enough, Honeyspring refers to Starclan without the quotation marks. Perhaps it's to deceive or maybe a sign of ignorance)

Finally, there's the fact that Honeyspring's kits lack a father/sire (presumably a biological one, and not in reference to her sapphic relationship).

In conclusion, in order to get the family she always wanted, Honeyspring tried everything to have kits, but nothing sticks. Perhaps she seeked them out herself, or perhaps they were drawn to her desperation, an entity that isn't Starclan (probably the Dark Forest) made a deal with her, and granted Honeyspring their kits, but due to this Honeyspring was barred from stepping foot into Starclan, and in a kinda monkey's paw-ish way, the kits all had some type of birth defects (even without the mourningsbane poison).

tldr: Honeyspring made a deal with demon for babies.

That’s a very interesting theory you’ve crafted! Color me very impressed!

"He spends much of his time staring at the dirt, but he eats and drinks well enough, so all he needs now is rest," Tanglefern says softly, "I've done all I can, wrapped him up well and tight. He's just in shock, I suppose. Give him time, and I'm sure he'll open up again."

Four moons till █████████.