#pick your poison. warrior cats villain written as a bad person but then given forgiveness anyway bc who cares what he does to women Haha

[lesbikill]

discussion around character morality & fandom reaction to it in warrior cats always gets really annoying because people fail to realise that a lot of the time it’s not the actions of the characters that decide the way we respond to them but the way in which they’re written and the way the authors and the narrative view them. characters who are written as bad people, or at least morally gray people, will end up being received better then a character like brambleclaw because brambleclaw is supposed to be seen as a noble character who’s negative actions are totally reasonable or even good.

characters who are bad people but are written as good people are some written incarnation of negative biases within the writing team at worst and just straight up annoying to read about at best. it’s more fun to read about a character doing bad things without the erins beating you over the head with how morally superior they are almost every time a character thinks about them!