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yuridovewing · 9 months ago

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It was so strange to me to read the scene where Snowbush dies cause he's apparently Lilyheart's husband )I think) yet we never see him do anything before he dies. Shouldn't we have seen him interact more with Twigpaw if he was so important to lily?

well as this book asserts over and over with fernsong, a tom interacting with and parenting his children is weird and unusual! so snowbush was probably a deadbeat dad and no one cared! because thats the female's job. /s

actually we don't see his kits react to his death at all, twigpaw only ever talks about lilyheart and iirc doesn't really respond to his death in any unique way. for larksong being a topic in this book, we don't really see him interacting with snowbush and he doesn't seeeeeem to have a unique reaction to snowbush's death, especially not compared to his mother. so the erins might actually have thought that, idk.

#im not trying to be like '''OMG SNOWBUSH IS NEGLECTFUL'' i dont really think that. i just think the authors dont care abt him sdklfjlksdf #its more like it likely just never occurred to the writers that he should interact with his children #..... but also yknow if he was a woman people would raise hell-#although it IS worth pointing out that cloudtail and brightheart arent pointed out as mourning him either #so i think the erins just didnt care and wanted a nobody death #man in my discord server i said this but i compared it to longtails death #imagine if he didnt have an established bond with mousefur and he never really had any relevant history #and barely interacted with anyone especially the main characters- and also the tree didnt kill him immediately he just gets forgotten about #and then a few chapters later they write a weird and uncomfortable death scene where he just keels over #instead of dying in the actual impact which wouldve left an actual impression #i point out longtail bc hes literally mentioned in the chapter like ''wow remember this sad character death? lets make another like it.#but lamer!''#longtails death worked because he was a known and beloved character and he left behind more loved ones like mousefur #ntm his death was sudden and avoidable but not in a way that feels cheap #with this it feels like they swung the roulette wheel to pick who dies this week

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