I know several other people have redrawn that one official cloudtail & brightheart art but i wanted to take a crack at it. Hire me harpercollins.
[ID: a digital painting of Cloudtail and Brightheart from Warriors in a semi-realistic style. Cloudtail is a fluffy white cat with blue eyes, and Brightheart is a ginger-and-white cat with one blue eye and heavy scarring on the other side of her face, including an empty eyesocket, shredded ear, and part of her lip torn away to reveal her teeth. The cats are facing towards the viewer, looking happy, with Brightheart leaning her head into Cloudtail's muzzle. They are in a field of tall grass with mountains visible in the background and a tree with a few leaves looming over them. End ID]
Original below the cut for comparison
[ID: a painting similar to the first one, but Brightheart and Cloudtail are drawn in a more realistic style, lacking expression, and not leaning into each other. Brightheart has much less ginger on her pelt and her scarring is reduced to a few scratches on her eye. End ID]
in terms of canon ships, they're heavily overhyped but still decent. i really don't care for how in the prophecies begin brightheart has to find her worth in a "man" and how it's cloudtail who has to bring her back to health and make her want to relearn to be a warrior. it'd be nice if brightheart had done it herself WITH his help. 7/10
thinking of brightcloud but like. specifically brighthearts feelings about cloudtail and how they change
when he gets his warrior ceremony before her she's likely resentful towards him, right? like, here's this kittypet, who's younger than her and had been breaking the warrior code because he couldn't decide if he even wanted to be a warrior, then deserted thunderclan, finishing his training before her. what did he have that she didn't? the nerve of this guy!
but then after her injury he's the one never leaving her side, refusing to call her lostface, helping her retrain and find a fighting style that works despite her newfound disability. he's the one comforting her, reassuring her that she's not an eyesore.
and now she has to confront the ways she judged cloudtail, how she let her jealousy blind her to how sweet and kind he actually is.