#wcposting

yellowfang taught him the ways of lesbianism. bonus he/him and butch lesbian icons under the cut

Clawface:

First ever appearance is being described by Graypaw as a "[one of the] great warrior(s) along with Stonefur" whom he admired as a stupid teenager

kidnaps babies, kills a medic whilst kidnapping same babies (said medic was the Firepaw's crush for the whole damn series even after she died and he got a wife and kids, and apparently she smelled really good),

gets almost killed in a battle by Firepaw as revenge for kidnapping babies and killing a medic until somebody pulled him away because murder is a crime

goes into exile with his twin flame toddler killer dictator Brokenstar into the city, attempts to return and slay again but then gets killed in a battle by Graypaw-now-Graystripe who was defending Firepaw-now-Fireheart. So long Clawface this is the last time you appeared in the mainline books until a decade later

In YfS (a prequel SE) he's revealed to be brothers with Nightstar, and is said to be, as a child: "(a) sturdy young cat, inclined to be a bit too rough, but always kind to his weaker brother". In another scene, Nightstar (then Nightpaw), is taken away from training because he's wheezing due to his heavily implied asthma, and Clawface (then Clawpaw) touches his nose to Nightpaw's ear, telling him to get well soon. Awwww :33

Anyway, Clawface grew up and this aged spectacularily in the kinda-midquel-prequel Nightstar GN released nearly a decade after, in which he is nothing but nasty towards Nightpelt, telling him that he's doing nothing but dragging the Clan down and essentially 9876785 synonyms for "useless" or "a burden". This was also around the time when he started to have a massive henchcat boner for Brokenstar and considered that child soldiers maybe weren't actually that bad-

Had an entire wife and kids. the wife in question was Brokenstar's aunt but they didn't know because uhhhh secret adoption plot and shit

His dad had two entire named girlfriends, emphasis on named cause there was apparently a third fucking one, and different children with all of them. No this wasn't a cheating situation his gfs were fine with each other and this is actually the closest we'll ever get to a canon warrior cats polycule. Gee Clawface how come the writers let you have FOUR parents??

The first since an entire decade, and the last time we ever saw him in a mainline series, is TBC, when he appears as a minor spirit in cat hell now serving Ashfur. End of this freak

Moon Shadow:

appears in DotC (prequel arc) as the brother of Tall Shadow who is cool and ends up founding ShadowClan. he himself is the most annoying man alive with nothing to his name zero accomplishments no wife no kids nobody that fucking cares and he will be forgotten by history for being so fucking useless and

lived at the mountains, cats were splitting into those who want to stay and those who want to leave (because the food situation sucked), had a pregnant wife there who had to stay, he decided to leave with Tall Shadow, his wife started wondering why she allowed him to become a father, it is actually mentioned that Moon Shadow did promise her earlier that he will stay with her but he Forgor and when she gets mad he literally does not even give her a response

Characterization wise he's kind of a jackass and a manchild that's full of himself but also nobody around even cares. Even Gray Wing, the shittiest most annoying man to ever be created in Warriors, called him annoying

Gets beaten up by random strangers quite a lot whenever he goes out on his own. In order to prevent him from getting into fights for no fucking reason again, they literally have to always let him out with other people to protect his ass. And even then foxes appear out of nowhere and beat the shit out of him again.

Learns nothing

He literally burns half his skin off in a fire, and he doesn't even die shortly after, no, he literally rolls around in unimaginable agony for several hours while his friends try to still save him somehow. He finally dies and as they notice his dead body he is said to be "splayed out as if in a spasm of pain". So uh, yeah, lmao.

(as they roll him into a grave, his belly is exposed and his sister (Tall Shadow) literally wails in distress and turns him over because of how horrific his injuries are)

So long Moon Shadow get well soon. also his wife ended up having three kids and two of them died as toddlers and the third one left to find him (and the other cats that left) only to find out he kind of died

Yall know Scourge and Darkstripe but Pinestar is also my poor blorbo meepy one of the cats ever please let me talk about Pinestar. People are so weak for not liking him unlike them I am enlightened and have read the books. Also he's like, the absent dad of Tigerstar aka the guy who fucked up Scourge for life when he was a little baby kitten + Darkstripe's boss who he was very gay for so I guess they're all connected even lmao