#river wc

miss frostie!! she’s very sweet i like her :]! I gave her a leaf pouch to keep her stuff in, 

this is specifically directed at people that have gotten river early btw.

PUT A SPOILER WARNING IN YOUR POST!!!!! ITS LITERALLY NOT THAT HARD TO GO “warning: river/asc spoilers” BEFORE YOU SAY A SPOILER !!!!!! OR YOU CAN PUT THE SPOILER UNDER THE CUT!!! OR JUST DONT TALK ABOUT THE BOOK AT ALL UNTIL IT COMES OUT MAYBE !!!! I KNOW YOU PUT WARNING TAGS IN BUT NOT EVERYONES GONNA HAVE THOSE BLOCKED!!!!!

i know i sound like a karen right now but PLEASE me and all the other non river havers just dont wanna be spoiled :((((

It makes literally no sense to me why Squirrelflight, Sparkpelt, and Finchflight disapprove so adamantly of Nightheart changing his name when it was BRAMBLESTAR who CHOSE THE NAME. Yes, Flamepaw asked to have a more fitting name than Flameheart, but it was Bramblestar who let it happen. Nightheart didn’t even suggest the night prefix. Shouldn’t at least some of the ridicule who named him? This book is ridiculous.

And let’s talk about how ridiculous this ridicule is in the first place! I do not remember what Sparkpelt was like in her previous appearances, but in this arc, she has clearly been established with the motivation of trying to develop a good relationship with her son. Considering this, It makes no sense for Sparkpelt to be outraged with Nightheart’s supposed disrespect of his family if what she wants is to become closer with him! Does she not see how backwards of an approach that is?

The only thing I think this could be implying is that Sparkpelt cares more about upholding Firestar’s legacy than her own son, which I just don’t believe, no matter how much of a angsty teenager he is. She even calls him stupid in front of the whole Clan. She didn’t seem like the kind of parent to punish him like this.

It doesn’t make sense for Squirrelflight to be mad either. Her entire portrayal in A Starless Clan has felt sort of off to me. When was she such a hard ass? Check this out.

This passage just reeks of an irrational, emotional woman having to be put in her place by her husband. Her husband being BRAMBLESTAR by the way. One of the most emotional and irrational cats of all time. I know Flamepaw understands why she’s angry, but she’s still in the wrong.

And it makes even less sense for Finchflight considering she SUPPORTED Nightheart’s decision to have a different name. No reason is given for her change in opinion.

I know we are supposed to sympathize with Nightheart, but if the only way the writers can think to make him sympathetic is to make other cats unreasonably illogical, then that is just bad writing. You have a plot beat you need to hit, okay, but could you come up with a better way?

Frostpaw is Riverclan’s new med cat apprentice under Mothwing. However, something happens that manages to take out Mistystar, Reedwhisker, and possibly Mothwing, forcing Frostpaw to step up sooner than expected.