#tigerstar1

I think we can all agree that it was a complete dick move of Sasha to tell all the Clans about Tigerstar fathering Mothwing and Hawkfrost, a secret she left the Clans and her kits to keep silent.

Why did she do it? Because it would be easier with the secret off her kids’ backs? So that they could accept their heritage and move past it?

Nope.

She did it because she wanted her two kits to get kicked out of their Clans so that they could live with her. 

The scene basically goes like this:

1. Sasha explains that now that the Clans are moving, she wants her kits to leave their Clans to live with her.

2. Hawkfrost is firm on staying in Riverclan. Mothwing hesitates. Hawkfrost tells her that he’s Riverclan now and that “one day I’ll be leader.”

3. Sasha responds “No. You won’t.” Then she walks up to Leopardstar and ask that she order Hawkfrost and Mothwing to stay back, after her kids very clearly tell her that they don’t want to go.

4. After Leafpaw tries to convince Mothwing (who still seems unsure) to stay, Firestar cuts in, stating that the choice is theirs, though he agrees that they should remain in Riverclan.

5. Sasha then angrily asks (and this is a direct quote): “You want them to stay? In spite of the fact that Tigerstar was their father?”

Yeesh, Sasha. 

She knew very well that her kits would be ridiculed if cats knew that Tigerstar was their father. That’s why she left them and the Clans in the first place. But when things didn’t go her way, she immediately uses the secret against them. 

It’s not that she thought nothing would happen. She wanted to have them kicked out of the first real home they knew, the home they had now spent moons living in. She wanted them to leave behind any friends they may have made, any bonds. She wanted to turn their Clanmates against them so that she could have them.

Yes, she probably did it out of anger and desperation, but still. Seriously? Either if they had been kicked out or stayed, she could have ruined her kits’ lives.

I’ve only finished chapter 2 of the Silent Thaw but who else could it be??