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my beloved wet paper bag of a man

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any guy can be a babygirl but it takes a man to die in childbirth

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shes so awesome

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thats eagleheart btw

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i have now cried tonight over the cat i made up nearly six years ago because i put these two pictures together

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amber mutation. she kind of grew out of her name huh

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ignore that i forgot her necklace i dont feel like adding it. puzzle i love you

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puzzle i love youuuu

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save me characters doing fucked up things out of self-preservation…..characters doing fucked up things out of self-preservation save me………..

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“weird and unhealthy relationship that cant be categorized neatly as sexual or romantic or platonic but has a defining air of devotion and obsession to it” wins sound of the summer for the 13th year in a row

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There’s a melody in everything, I’m trying to find a harmony, but nothing seems to work, nothing seems to fit

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"ThunderClan has had a great loss," Emberstar began. "A coyote was found on our territory, and chased one of our patrols into ShadowClan territory. We were fortunate enough for a ShadowClan patrol to come across the fight and help our warriors, but Asterpaw died of his injuries on the way back to camp."

Before the gathered cats could hold a silence for the fallen apprentice, a voice cut above the crowd. "ShadowClan refused to help him!" Redfoot stood tall, fur bushed and teeth bared. "He could barely walk, and collapsed before we could get home! He was bleeding internally and needed immediate attention, that ShadowClan denied." He swung his gaze to Comfreystar. "Were you made aware that your warriors broke our code and left a 9-moon old apprentice to die? Or is ShadowClan only concerned with keeping injured, exhausted cats off of their territory?"

As Redfoot described Asterpaw's injuries, Oakfoot looked more and more horrified in her spot under Comfreystar with the other healers. Smokemist leaned over to whisper something in her ear, and her face fell.

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them. i need to make applestrike more smiley in the second she looks annoyed lol

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redfoot interrupting the announcement of asterpaws death to admonish shadowclan + smokemist explaining asterpaws internal bleeding to shadowclans healer oakfoot

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i think it might be kind of fun for applestrike to have a massive fuck up right at the triumphant end of her rebellion arc, ive been trying to figure out what to do with redstar and meadowmist. from day 1 of this plot they were meant to die in classic bad guy fashion and im still generally leaning that way. sometimes im like but what about the ethics and morals of killing oh nooo and then i remember im not required to teach anyone anything in my warriors oc story. this story is built for my own political venting and i can kill the tyrants if i want. but regardless redstar is still a leader with multiple lives. close to 9 if not the full 9. so killing him once in your epic final battle isnt enough and i dont feel like pulling a scourge. right now i like the idea of applestrike forcing him to rescind his position and him giving in to that magically makes his lives go away and then she kills him

but i think it would be cool. if making him give up his leadership was supposed to be the only thing they did. like thunderclan came to the decision that thats how he should be dealt with. and maybe they were still deciding if he should be exiled or not. thunderclan is dealing with a change of power and their new leader and deputy are trying to pick up the pieces and find the best way to move forward, how can we avoid becoming redstar's thunderclan again? how do we usher in peace without letting the other clans walk all over us in revenge? etcetera. but during that period of redstar being redfoot again and on camp arrest or something applestrike just fucking murders him. shes lost hope for thunderclan after they offered her the deputy position and she doesnt think theyll ever truly be incapable of becoming Redstar's ThunderClan again. thunderclan doesnt know what theyre doing. none of the clans know what theyre doing. applestrike has to do this herself again. shes also incredibly fueled by grief for her father and brothers, grief for the childhood she lost as redstars apprentice, grief for the pain lightningheart endured because he couldnt bear to be without her. so she murders him. either it happens pretty straightforward and the clan is horrified, or she's pretty easily able to claim he tried to finish her off and she only defended herself. either way shes done something terrible- the clan sees her dishonorably kill, or she knowingly lies to cover up her dishonorable kill

this veers back to moral-of-the-story and a "killing is bad" statement but idk. its cool. its not applestrike being the good moral protagonist putting an end to the war. its applestrike doing something horrible.

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the thing about "does redstar deserve to die" is. while technically it would be possible for him to fix his shit because most of it is xenophobia and a disregard for others, he was also so purposefully and calculatingly horrible to applestrike i dont feel like entertaining the idea. i cant honestly say hes the type of antagonist that Has to be killed because nothing else would stop him. but im also not leaving him alive