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Worst news, your emotionally distant, disapproving, (possibly homophobic) father is crushing on your despotic, dickhead leader, what do you do?

I mean, one look from Ouzelstar and Thawflank immediately went along with the Medcat idea, he is obviously smitten /j

(they do have some low-key divorce energy going)

(I am very sorry for this ask)

bahaha unfortunately their relationship hits a lot of the benchmarks for shipping territory 

like, Thawflank is SO mad Ouzelstar isn’t paying attention to him anymore, Ouzelstar is SO jealous of Thawflank’s family, they were childhood bestfriends turned playful rivals turned worsties 

Like I cannot stress enough that the traditionalist shitheads are not intended to be read as epic divorced salaryman yaoi but unfortunately I think I did write em that way huh

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Can I ask how exactly Thawnflank's removal as deputy went?

Was it him trying to juggle everything to the point that it was becoming really unhealthy and he was doing a poor job if it (seems like something he would do for some reason) so Ouzelstar basically had to force him to drop being the deputy

Or was it more like

Thawnflank: "That sure was a nice vacation I took off from being deputy, so whe-"

Ouzelstar: "Oh you liked the vacation, well good news, it's getting extended! Indefinitely! :)"

(side note, Thawnflank of all characters got lodged in my brain, he seems like salary man for some reason? Eyebags, tired, kind of a dick, got demoted, trying to suck up to his boss, probably not great mental health, single father. Idk, can just imagine him working a corporate job for an unhealthy amount of hours a day and being an asshole to his co-workers)

Don’t apologise! I love fielding questions about my ocs lol

It was sort of a combo of the two!

Thawflank really tried to make it work; becoming clan leader one day is the ambition he’s carried with him all his life, and it’s fundamentally shaped him as a person.

But Tumblestone’s death drained him significantly, and he realised that after his duties he had very little space for his son, who was also coming to terms with the loss (and it didn’t help that the only other cat who could’ve looked after Moonpaw at the time was Martenfur, a cat Thawflank despises) so he stepped down, quite possibly the most selfless thing he’s ever done in his life. His decision didn’t come without encouragement, though - mostly from Berrystem.

He was fully expecting to get his position back once his son was apprenticed, but whenever he tried to broach the subject with Ouzelstar he was brushed off, never getting his role back but never being told he WASN’T getting his role back. As such, the gratuitous brown-nosing on Thawflank’s part began.

Thawflank and Ouzelstar have been best friends and rivals for a very long time; both of them dreamt of being leader, and competed heavily as apprentices and warriors, both promising the other that if they did become leader the other would be deputy.

When Ouzelstar became leader things were good between them - then after years of Thawflank’s stubbornness and Ouzelstar’s jealousy, their friendship soured. Nowadays, a part of Ouzelstar enjoys the fact that he pretty much has Thawflank under his thumb, and a part of Thawflank’s thrills whenever Ouzelstar’s fucks up as a leader. They have a relationship based on waiting for the other’s downfall, more or less.