#cause thats the best fuckin headcannon ever

[charbroiledchicken]

this is a will solace safe space. i will protect my child to the ends of the earth. my little bisexual country boy did nothing wrong.

[yarnclan]

Ive written some posts about why i like him so much already, but ultimatly it boils down to me liking him because he's simultaneously so annoying and weird (in a way that i find satisfyingly relatable in how it causes me to think about my own flaws) and also Correct about a lot of things regarding clan culture. (ThunderClan holding such high regard for itself partly because of Firestar and his decendants. The fact that everyone goes along with rules and fhese set out life paths without question) Though i think his "issues" with clan culture manifest in ways that play into other baisis that he holds as a result of beong raised in that society (mysogony), but hasn't examined because they dont effect him in the same way. Which is a concept i find realistic, pertantant, and fascinating to think about. Which all is to say nothing of my own headcannons beyond my inturpritation of what's presented in the text.

I havent read beyond the books that are currently out in paperback (bc poor and dont like reading on screens). But i was suprised in how much i liked him and sunbeam's romance. Im the freak who loves traveling books, and the parts where Nightheart and Sunbeam travel together and experience new things (fuckin fair grounds rotisserie chiken??) does a hell of a lot to develop their relationship. I think it would have made sense to build up to Nightheart's 'confession' slower, (especially bc they always seem to need to stretch the plot pretty thing in books 4-5) but the scean where he leaves to go to shadowclan is litterally one of the funniest fucking things ever. He's ready to try hard, and make amends, do his best and be a good boy, but recives one (1) critisisim, has a meltdown and runs away. Its hilarious. (I genuenly think that scean is meant to be funny and show his flaws/vulnerabilities because of how its paced. Its amazing.)

Also... ok. This is an area where i need to reread the books. But i did go into them having heard that "nightheart blames sparkpelt for leaving him as a kit." I kinda.... didnt get that impression? Or at least not to the degree/way others did, and found it way easier to read him having a vauge Problem with thunderclan in general. He's mad/annoyed with his mom/sister/grandmothers for other/multiple reasons(see above point) but its not really because he blames her for something she couldnt control, or at least he didnt once he fully understood the situation. And is more mad that she has Expectations of him based off what he sees as a shallow inturpritation of himself because she didnt know him when he was very young. He sees her pushing these generational legacies on him as a way of filling in for her not being there to get to know him when he was young. They didnt have a chance to know each other, and each of their personalities (pride verging on arrogance, with pride from different and conflicting sources) prevents them from coming to terms with the past and actually getting to really know each other. Maybe it can't ever happen the way it was "supposed" to. And thats a tragedy that can be impossible to move past. But its interesti g to look at and to think about...

Sorry this is incoherent. Tl; Dr : i like nightheart because i think hes shitty and hes right. I dont think he shitty in the same ways a lot of people seem to and i think certain perceptions of him have been uncontrollably memeifiyed. He's interesting because hes kinda shitty. I hope he keeps being shitty because its fun.

Why people still defend Nightheart BAFFLES me. Why is everyone suddenly liking him? I would like to remind everyone this is the same guy that bashed his own mother multiple times for things out of her control like she got exiled, she had PPD and Nightheart blames her for leaving him? SHE HAD. NO. CHOICE. It wasn’t her fault AND she’s working on repairing their relationship! All this soggy wet rat does is whine about his name, bitch about his mom, stalk his crush to the bathroom, and now he’s absolutely nothing but background fodder and uninteresting one at that. I really hate this character and I really hope he goes out soon.

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