#and tigerclaw being firehearts dad also serves to tie him into clan culture

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This is less an ask, but more a compliment- I love, love, love the choice to have Tigerclaw become Fireheart’s dad. I think it’s my absolute favorite change y’all have made from the source. It adds so much complex emotion and dramatic tension to a part of the story that always felt very flat to me. The scenes between TC and FH continue to stick with me. Brilliant change.

Aww!! Thank you! I appreciate the kind words you lot and Dullard have given me!

Tigerclaw becoming Fireheart's dad was sort of an incidental notion sprung from a few ideas taken to their logical conclusion arranged in such a way to crush the hearts of the then-hypothetical readers. And from how yall have reacted, that gamble was a success. I always found Goldenflower fascinating as the cat-wife of Tigerclaw and mother of her children, and her newly-minted role of matriarch puts her in the prime position to look at a young child who needs a mom and say, "My baby now." Tigerclaw would then be Fireheart's father, and Fireheart would have to confront him! And Fireheart would also be impacted by Tigerclaw's actions on an emotional level besides just Bluestar and Goldenflower and the Clan as a whole! Oh! How juicy! How dramatic! It's just like the melodrama canon likes to indulge in, except actually relevant to the plot and characters!