#weredogalism

May 22, 2022:

Mint Secondary, Snapper, Okapi.

poppyfrost! okay, first up, most of what i have to say about her can be summed up in my three fics about her, so links:

what catches the ear; what catches the eye | breath like sweet dream smoke | cardamom pods and vanilla beans

man it's been ages since i've talked about Who Characters Are To Me.

i've seen moonkitti's poppyfrost video but i definitely have a slightly different take on her. i see her as...

honeyfern and cinderheart both stand Out. the reasons why aren't necessarily the best, but they are, well, Figures. and poppyfrost is sort of drifting. she almost dies, she's close with jaypaw, jaypaw then helps cinderpaw. she becomes a warrior, honeyfern dies defending briarkit, she ends up being mates with berrynose, they have one litter and then just kind of are.

so.

she has a lot more character than she does cats like mossyfoot and troutstream, where i have to basically import a full personality. i don't think i really have to say that she's reasonably intelligent, she's got a bit of sass, etc., because po3 sets that up pretty well.

my main interest in her is her relationship with death. i like...i really, really like that jaypaw saves her life. wcte is one of my favourites because like. well. it's what i wanted to write about.

also because i have a bit of an obsession with honey as a metaphor and because dammit it's nice to flex my poetic muscles now and then. it is really, really satisfying to get to -- do something i'm good at.

anyway. this is about poppyfrost.

i think she's self aware and i think she's...aware she's kind of a background character. i think she loves honeyfern a lot.

in general, my take on poppyfrost is a...not the best at anything, but pretty upbeat about it. has a good amount of insecurity, but tries not to let it show.

jayfeather is one of her closest friends, and really, one of her only friends.

hm.

sorry i don't have a ton to say, i've just happened to write about poppyfrost xd.

this passage isn't really about poppyfrost, but i like it a lot. so. from cpavb:

As a general rule, Jaywing avoided using his power on Clanmates. But then, there were times like this.

Times when he could feel eyes on him, and he couldn't help but be curious.

Seeing what Poppyfrost was looking at was not the same as seeing what she saw, of course. He didn't know more than what she was focusing on, and learning to filter out all of the light and motion to see that much from anyone was hard enough.

But Poppyfrost wasn't anyone. She might not have been Hollyleaf or Lionblaze, but she was more than anyone, because Jaywing could see the way her gaze shifted at the flick of her tail, how her eyes were half-lidded in the sun.

"You're staring," he said.

lol WELL

a lot of them? most of my non-canon ships are pretty well disliked and a few of my canon ships, too.

yknow just looking through my list i think itd be easier to name my ships that ive never seen hate for! just kidding the answer to that is none of them

i think my most hated currently are prooobably rapunzel/cassandra, entrapta/hordak, luka/marinette, callum/claudia, aaaand gray/carmen? obviously those are for shows that are still airing and have active fandoms so that makes sense

y'all have a few days n then i don't care and will talk about anything.

ahhh thank you so much! i'm glad you're enjoying it <3

we're in the thick of the plot, and there's a lot going on. every chapter from ch8 until the end is identified in my notes by the biggest plot event (in this case, "breezepelt"), but then there's like several paragraphs of what's going on. i can't wait to share (parts of) my planning doc for this fic.

but ohmygod thank you <3 my heart is a fluttering.

onto your actual question ;3

the skull crack would have killed her, but bramblestar killed her before it had the chance. starclan heals both tho, which is why it takes so long and bramblestar has time to declare her fully dead.

i'm not sure if she has any specific new scars from this battle. she didn't take a ton of damage after she died, so she came out of matters fairly well, if exhausted. she might have gained a new nick in her ear or something, but nothing big and dramatic.

thank u so much!

terra: beast boy! raven, starfire, cyborg, robin. genuinely anyone from the show and a couple characters from other shows