#Thunderstars echo

[everybody-loves-purdy]

So I’ve been making some covers for individual novellas for my tier list, because I really didn’t want to lump things like Spottedleaf’s Heart and Pinestar’s Choice together in rankings.

They are not very good at all, nor super consistent, but I am going to post them anyway so if anyone else wants to use them for ranking lists etc then feel free to go ahead. I’ll reblog this with each novella set I do (which will be all of them that have never had novellas published individually).

So first up, legends of the clans

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[awarrioraday]

day 1: acorn fur

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Acorn Fur

I decided I really wanted her to live up to her name, so I made her pelt the color of an acorn, her tail is the leaf of an oak tree, her nose is an "upside down acorn" (the dot beneath her nose is the stem!) and her hair is also an acorn top. Extremely proud of the paws, trying out some new style stuff.

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Milkweed - ThunderClan warrior

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[artaintfartwarriors]

Thunderstar/Violet Dawn bebitos

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[shallowbreeze]

Gooseberry

Gooseberry is a pale yellow tabby she-cat

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🥺

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[bambinaax]

apple blossom

[bonefall]

I have a question abt thunderstar's justice. Why is killing Clear Sky the wrong thing to do in this situation? I mean I know the in-character reason is One Eye is seasoning him, but there's presumably an OOC reason that that's the situation, a moral that's trying to be told. Clear Sky is not only an unrepentant serial abuser but he's *still skyclan's leader.* he's still in a position to do immense harm as a petty immature warmongering autocrat.

Largely because it will resurrect a 12-foot-long prehistoric megabeast who takes his paychecks in the blood of your enemies. The climactic ritual takes place after One Eye's first defeat in this story, which Skystar had reluctantly joined into after he watched him eat Tom.

They only managed to defeat One Eye through quick thinking on Moon Shadow's part. After this, Star Flower seduced Skystar so she would be able to use him in a ritual to bring One Eye back. She kills him 8 times, bleeding him out fully, counting as 8 individual sacrifices.

Skystar is unrepentant, yes. Thunderstar's stand isn't being done in some attempt to acknowledge Sky as a worthwhile person, or bestow 'forgiveness,' saving him here is not a 'reward'.

But this isn't retaliation or stopping him from committing some evil deed; Skystar was seduced by Star Flower to end up on the wrong side of a sacrificial alter. He joined with the other Clans to oppose One Eye earlier. He's already died 8 times before Thunder arrives.

Thunderstar could have all the might of One Eye on his own side, if he takes Star Flower's offer. He could open up Skystar's worthless throat and be done with him right here. It would feel good, it would feel so, so good.

But where is the honor in that? And where would it end, afterwards, with an ancient God released back into the world?

"A true warrior doesn't need to kill to win their battles," means that there are times you are releasing someone who will go back to a position where they could do harm. But 8 lives down, after being helplessly tortured for hours, being sacrificed to a monster he had previously lent his strength to fight... that is where it crosses the line between Justice and Revenge.

It wouldn't make Thunderstar ""just as bad"" if he took that deal. He doesn't take it because he's better than Skystar will ever be.

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Patch pelt & Beech tail

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Snail Shell - ThunderClan Warrior