#sunfinch

Sunbeam loves ThunderClan, but she fears she no longer loves the cat who led her there.

femslash february day 3 SunFinch

If I end up altering Nightheart's placement in any way (I REALLY want to put him in RiverClan) and Moonpaw is revealed as a canonical NightSun baby, 100% Finchlight is going to be her other parent.

Finchy kind of has an energy to me that she would end up with kids young, be a good and fun-loving sort of mom, and then in her older years give those adult children advice about enjoying their youth. The prodigy who CAN do it all, doesn't regret it one bit, but quietly matures into someone who wishes she'd been able to find more freedom during her life.

(And, with the kindness of time and distance, it's something she comes to appreciate about her brother. She wishes she'd broken more rules, back then.)

Surprisingly, if SunFinch DOES become endgame for BB!ASC, Finchlight would be the Mi and Sunbeam would be the Ba. I feel like Squirrelflight and Ivypool both have their eyes on Sunbeam and her potential, they're both trying to provide her opportunities to get her to be a significant warrior within the Clan.

So the unambitious Sunbeam finds herself working on her "career" while Finchlight, who has seen herself as the upcoming inheritor of Firestar's legacy since the day she joined her mother in the Impostor's exile, is enjoying the simple challenges of primary parenthood.

And

Abyssinian: If you could make a ship canon, which would it be?

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the "it was nothing" "it was everything" scene is a basic one to answer for me obviously, so I'll tour to Sunbeam's antics in Thunder when Finchlight, Myrtlebloom and Sparkpelt are being so kind and supportive to her. She's got a real family and a girlfriend or two now and they Do care about her. Additional moment to mention Sunbeam mentoring Moonpaw. Sunny-B deserves all the positive moments in the world

I'll be controversial and say I don't want FrostWhistle to be canon, or at least not in a really romantic way. I adore thel being close and have drawn them a lot, but partly because I'm projecting HARD on Frost and Whistle and also because Frost being aro is very dear to my heart, I kindof always did see them as really just Good Friends. They care for each other and trust each other so much and would do everything for the other, but it's not romantic. They love each other until the end of times in my mind, but not in a romantic way. It's more of a QPR technically, but yeah. Friends. I love platonic devotion <3

I will also announce that Flutterfoot and Appleshine have a kinda same-ish thing going on. No romo, all platonic. Yes even the kits (that they shouldn't have had NOW, it is Way Too Early For Them To Have Kits!!!!!!!!!!! (Except in the idea I Just Had that they found the kittens and adopted them. I consider adopted kits as full family when it comes to my tree nonsense, but this would make them being parents so young (both of them are barely two years old) slightly less painful to me)). Anyways, AppleFlutter. I called it before the books did, but my version is better.

As for a ship I really want. Moonpaw x Moonpool for the joke answer. Fanon Moon ended up being so much more interesting than whatever the fuck the erins are hallucinating with their newest plot. Make Moonpaw have a weird bond to the holy place! She's Leafpool's great-grandkid (on both sides </3), let her do like great granny and be important to that body of water!

Anyways, for a serious answer I'll go with SunFinch. I am an avid truther that Sunbeam should've ditched Nightheart once he bailed in Thunder. I know StarClan Said So, but Sunny should've realized while he was gone he never liked Night, but the attention she got from him in a time when her close relationships in ShadowClan were getting complicated.

Berryheart, Sparrowtail and Hollowspring were getting more radicalized, Spireclaw was busy with Fringewhisker, she just had That Thing with Blazefire and Lightleap and while she's okay with the other young ShadowClanners,. she's not as close to thel as she was with her brothers or Light and Blaze and she missed that connection and In Comes Nightheart, declaring his love for her and only her (right after a messy "breakup" with Blaze (and Light)), which made her felt desired again and she played into it because it felt nice.

Then Nightheart intentionally failed his challenge to return to ThunderClan and Sunbeam was heartbroken, but still didn't feel like she had a place in ShadowClan at the moment and ran back into the fake but comforting affection Nightheart had developed for her (also imo, they work nicely as buddies. She and Night in Shadow without the romance would've worked well. They played off of each other in a neat way), but then Nightheart left her again on his Special Mission and she had to rebuild from zero now. She couldn't just return to ShadowClan, that would've been too shameful, especially with Berryheart, so she had to stay. She had no connection to anyone else aside from being Spark and Finch' in-law now and yet it is in that same clan she managed to build a life for herself and be the truest version of herself with cats who love her and care for her.

She and Finch could then really hit off and Sun could for the first time really fall for someone and realize what she felt for Night and Blaze wasn't really love, but a craving for longing and attention and she could really begin a romance with someone who sees her for who she is and doesn't use her as a prop.

Sunbeam comforting Finchlight