#Warrior cat ships

[bramblewhisker]

As someone who ships Firestar with basically everybody I feel like I'm going to be eating so well with these graphic novels.

They don't even make Tigerclaw instantly hate him in this one. Lookit how much Firepaw wants the big strong warrior to like him ;;

And the tense LongFire energy is PEAK. Rusty like oh god oh god do I fight him or kiss him.

[fallenrain40]

i was thinking about shadowroot recently and realized how much i love this pairing tbh, however, i personally see them as QPRs! though i don't mind seeing them as romantic too, i just really like the idea of aroace shadowsight and like to see QPR ships explored more! but, I also don't mind not shipping them, and just seeing them as friends <3 SO. I wanna know how everyone else feels on them! POLL TIME. (pls reblog for larger sample size btw)

[alatoartsalot]

So dear, no matter how we part, I hold you sweetly in my head

And if I do not miss a part of you, a part of me is dead

If I can't love you as a lover, I will love you as a friend

And I will lay a bed before you, keep you safe until the end

(Redraw of a peice from 2021, featuring Leopardstar and Sunfish as apprentices together.)

(https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/alatoartsalot/668843649839382528)

[oceanluvsships]

some warrior cat ships/hcs!

tw: proship/profic/comship/agegap/incest/grooming (but cats not irl) for anyone whos sensitive to stuff like that! <3

ships:

dovewing x ivypool

• dovewing: she/fae lesbian alloaceflux

• ivypool: he/they/she mean lesbian (he/she/they pronouns lesbian)

mothwing x leafpool

• mothwing: she/her asexual lesbian

• leafpool: she/her polyamorous (secretly hypersexual) bisexual

violetshine x sleekwhisker

• violetshine: she/they omnisexual (pref for nonbinary identities and girls)

• sleekwhisker: they/them (maybe she) nonbinary faunic-daunic sapphic lesbian

bristlefrost x baypaw(shine)

• bristlefrost: she/they blueberry bisexual

• baypaw: she/her/him transfem mtf polyamorous lesbian (dating flamepaw/nightheart!!)

[kbitty]

i love them.

[alien-s0da]

Old Woman Yuri‼️‼️

[meroaw]

mothpool

[krisssxcats]

KrisssXCats

[flixiastar]

I like these two sapphics grandmas

[splint-er-exe]

Doodle from the workplace since I have nothing to do for an hour.

Take this sad Cinderpaw. When I was a kid she was my favorite character for a while

[glassshine]

warrior cats fans be like

"this ship is PEAK"

and then post this

[bramblewhisker]

Warrior cat relationships were better in arc 1

I just hc that they never changed. I think it opens the door for so many more interesting relationship dynamics if we don't force two cats having kits together having to mean that they are monogamously tied to each other, or even anything more than friends, necessarily.

The broader warrior cat society has undergone some interesting changes since the first arc. The clans' inevitable move from several independent at-best-non-hostile groups to an interconnected and interdependent society of "nations" is natural and interesting. It's been what's driven a decent chunk of the narrative for multiple arcs now. That's all cool.

But the way interpersonal relationships worked in arc 1 is significantly more interesting (and fun for shipping) than the heteronormative, monogamy-driven shift that happened starting with arc 2. I don't even think "mate" was uttered a single time prior to arc 2.

The key element, raised several times throughout arc 1's plot, is the idea that a queen is under no obligation to say who the father of their kits is. You get the sense that it's a social faux pas to ask or even wonder publicly (though I'm sure it was the source of untold amounts of gossip every time). This could be because the father is from a different clan (something that's ~illegal~ but everyone realizes is necessary for some good old genetic diversity), but it could also just be because the kit-making was a purely transactional thing.

Take Brindleface, whose kits were retroactively assigned to Whitestorm. Were they "mates"? The text doesn't really support that. More likely the two of them decided that they would make some good, capable ThunderClan kits together, had the necessary interactions to make that happen, and then went about their separate lives again.

I think about Firestar and Sandstorm. They're the subject of the first use of the word "mates" in the series iirc. But are they? Sandstorm definitely had a crush on him, and they spend a lot of time together, but mates? I think they work a lot better as really good friends and confidants who decided to have a litter of kits together. Sure, she still shares his nest sometimes, but we all know that Graystripe is in there as much if not more. Firestar's got a wife and a boyfriend and no cat has a problem with it. It's great.

As another example, think about Lionblaze and Cinderheart. They spend a huge chunk of Omen of the Stars boring everyone to tears with their relationship angst. I say it's better if the two of them decided, hey, Cinderheart's brains and Lionblaze's brawn would combine to make some pretty great kits. So they decide to periodically have some kits, but everyone knows Lionblaze is dating Berrynose, come on.

It doesn't always have to be transactional. Dustpelt is the ultimate "I love my wife so much" guy, and he and Ferncloud have kits as a natural consequence of their romantic relationship. But arc 1 gave us such a better vehicle for storytelling by letting us decouple romantic/sexual relationships for the act of making more kits for the clan. I choose to believe that never changed.

[sageokami]

MOON YURI MOON YURI

[scourgebff]

sooo icewing and ivypool huh

[nota-archive]

glad to have each other

[cheerclaw]

its a yuriful day today