#its also funny to think about alderheart bc I do a doomed alderneedle romance and its like DUDE!!!! are you really doing this right now

[spiderfaang]

I truly, desperately need to talk more about alder and spark being nightsquirrel kits bc like they got so much going on for real, just based on past family drama. Their cousins and older sister were part of a prophecy and had super powers but at the end of oots are exiled for openly accusing starclan of their bullshit. Older sister hollyleaf killed a man. AND revealed how med cat fireheart (grandparent) had children then placed one in windclan (squirrelflight), then their aunt is also her bio mom and was also placed in windclan and crowfeather (and squirrelflignt, though the clans do not know that) knowingly put her in windclan and she was a med cat as well who also disappeared shortly after the reveal and also was assumed dead until oots. Not to mention their older brother (breezepelt) was training in hell and only switched sides during the battle and he and the other windclan dark forest trainees are still struggling with being accepted in their clan. Squirrelflight naming one of them spark after her recently deceased father bc she never got to know him that well, and the other one alder (a clearly thunderclan name) to also try and reconnect with her thunderclan roots and telling the rest of windclan to deal with it bc EVERYONE knows!!!! We had 2 arcs of this, get over it. Then alder wants to be a medicine cat and remember how hollyleaf went? Yeah. Also spark is sharing her body with her deceased grandfather and absolutely 100% not having identity issues and is not experiencing the horrors