#deputy leader

[splashtqil]

mr. warrior cats

[franklyfeline]

cant have shit in ponyclan

[allofthewarriorsproject]

Squirrelstar

and Squirrelpaw

I tried to show how her hardships changed her by designing a young and old version. I like that she's a leader now but my girl really deserved better the years before :(

her looking down on the younger version was also 100% intended

[velo-cats]

Gorsestar

[abcwc]

get squilfed

[fallenclan]

chumtail can be real but he's a shallowclan cat now. sorry

[alexandriaellisart]

team meeting

[clanborn]

i love when clangen accidentally makes an interesting story my deputy just murdered the medicine cat. whose sibling was murdered by the deputy’s husband the moon before. the deputy was found out by the med cat’s mom with ghost sight. she gets exiled since the deputy was the vengeful leader’s apprentice and they have a close relationship. the deputy and his fellow murderer husband break up. it’s like poetry

[airoarts]

Leader and deputy

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[bristlefrosting]

squirrelflight

[chasing-faith-and-fate]

Moon 16

Pt 2

Moon 16 p1 | Moon 17

[splashtqil]

The family ever

[briar-wc-design]

[allofthewarriorsproject]

Firepaw/Rusty

Fireheart

Firestar

[bitterclan]

this is funny. to me

[bonefall]

Maybe I'll make a post on this at some point but like, something deeply fucked up about TNP and Po3 that people have totally forgotten about is how badly they try to whine that "Tigerstar Had Good Traits :("

Firestar does it, Brambleclaw does it, and they keep doing this after it becomes this GRAND irony that Firestar almost gets Tiger'd to death in a fox trap because he was too trusting. Bramble gets his pity award of keeping deputyship and then cries to his son about how No One Saw The Good In Tigerstar :(

And it's wiiiiild that no one else in this fandom has done anything with the fact that Leopardstar broke the Warrior Code to appoint Hawkfrost, who had no apprentice, an extremely aggressive and warmongering Tigerclone who says things like "Tigerstar wasn't the worst cat to look up to." ONLY qualifying trait was being kinda like Tigerstar.

And she practically did that the SECOND Mistyfoot went missing. And then Leopardstar continued to be one of the most violent and xenophobic leaders through Po3, joining with WindClan to attack ThunderClan.

What I'm getting at is that like, a few years ago, with books like "Blackfoot's Reckoning" and "Shadow in RiverClan" it's like they suddenly decided to retcon in a bunch of "redemption arcs" in hindsight. They just pretended like there was this grand high reckoning with TigerClan, when there literally wasn't, and if anything that caused SERIOUS problems for the cast that the authors didn't fully acknowledge as such.

And now ppl haven't actually read the main series and are just working with their recent memory of all these retcon books.

But TNP and PO3 are still there, and you can go and see the ACTUAL timeline where Leopardstar is really not apologetic at all, and Blackstar is a useful stooge for the very next wannabe dictator that strolls in, in spite of the new side content that COMPLETELY mischaracterized them for their plots to work.