#warriors spoilers I guess

[tamathena]

To be entirely weird about a kids' book series for a minute

is it just me or is the ending to The Prochecies Begin (Warriors, Erin Hunter).... like.... strange as hell.

Tigerstar was an effective villain, especially for a fucking cat. He was smart, he planned well, he knew how to use the trust Bluestar had in him, and the trust the rest of everyone in his Clan had of him to get what he wanted.

But like... I think back on TPB, and think not really of how truly threatening and dangerous Tigerstar was, but of the weird shit that happened in book six.

Scourge really felt like he came out of nowhere, and then just... killed Tigerstar. The Villain, who had been endlessly terrorizing our hero, the forest, and almost gotten away with it, was just...... killed. Not even climactically. Slashed, left to bleed each of his nine lives onto the dirt while all watched in horror, so a new, badder villain could take over the final fight, and one we had literally been introduced to in that book.

I think Scourge could have been a more effective twist villain if ha had been set up more form the beginning- if there had been some hint that there was this cat.

who.... also wasn't really that dangerous I feel like? Scourge was a normal cat in most every way. He wasn't as threatening to me as Tigerstar, and I really didn't feel motivated to watch him be defeated, especially when the villain that had been build up for five books was just unceremoniously killed off for him. We had no connection to Scourge, we hadn't been seeing his misdeeds through the hero's eyes the whole series, knowing that he had to be stopped.

Scourge felt very nothing.

[cowllies]

Farewell

[movdotmov]

wind spoilers(?)

firestar doesnt like wafflepaw

[vigilskeep]

i’ll be excited to do a run without romancing neve or lucanis, despite the trial of resisting both their charms, because i think nevecanis could really do it for me if they play their cards right. their dynamic is always so good regardless of if they’re together and dock town’s detective getting a domesticated assassin who makes sure she eats breakfast is so incredible conceptually that i have to be on board

[the-random-tyler]

POV your new painter and his assistant have finally arrived

[climbdraws]

so squirrelstar huh

[snailchasers-den]

Drew my blue Moonpaw concept, I love her.

[kingskyless]

give it up for fucked up young protagonist number 3. she's a little inbred but she's got the spirit

(got commissions open in support of palestine if anyones interested!)

[vic-does-battlecats]

Ik that the Erins will not handle her well at all but I’m so interested in Moonpaw’s sister as a character actually (Maybe more so than actual Moonpaw tbh…).

The writing of the book and even the warriors website treats her as if she’s Completely Evil (going so far as to literally name a character trait of hers as ‘malevolent’ on the website) but like… This isn’t just an evil spooky spirit cat being evil just Because. This is the ghost of a kid who never got to grow up properly, never was properly parented, who had to live vicariously through watching and interacting with Moonpaw when she was a kitten. She had nobody else who could hear her, no other contact with anyone else. And Thunderclan refused to even acknowledge she EXISTED whatsoever, even hiding it from Moonpaw herself. So when Moonpaw suddenly needs to focus without someone chatting to her all the time, and begins to treat her sister like a nuisance and literally begins ignoring her… it would make sense that said sister, who basically has the mindset of a jealous, hurt, abandoned kid, would be mad about it. This is her ONE CONNECTION WITH ANYONE. So her being all ‘if I can’t be with you in your world, you’ll be with me in mine’ makes sense. Moonpaw is all she has. I’m on your side voicepaw….

[rookflower]

two of the new kids from this arc

[sparring-spirals]

imogen fumbling shit is just eternally good fodder for memes, alright. and its at least partly BECAUSE of how powerful she is. someone tripping while using a nerf gun? funny. someone dramatically hoisting up an outfit matchin heavy death laser gun and then immediately tripping and landing on their face? phenom. sometimes she goes "GROVEL" and the enemies grovel and we all go "oooooh" and "aaaahhh" and sometimes she just gets fully ignored and gets so huffy and petulant and ineffectually burns a cantrip just to be petty about it. sometimes she smites her enemies into dust with one move and renders a tree in half after threatening and other times she fucking. falls down a flight of stairs and accidentally sets everything on fire. fires a gun at her own team. loses all her hair. turns blue. etc.

Imogen lifts a humongous sand squid into the sky with her mind powers. Imogen is also falling out of a sky ship and landing on the desert sand far below and just. lying there. while her friend plays the flute in the background. epic hot failgirls NEED the HEIGHT to FAIL FROM. u gotta swing and miss sometimes!!! AND you gotta be REAL petty about it when u miss!!!! fucking fantastic.

[octakiseron]

the dying gasp

[egophiliac]

HELLOOOO HAVE YOU SEEN LILIA'S DORM CARD YETTTT

personally, what made me most gleeful about the update news is that the part 2 description implies that they forgot to invite Malleus to Lilia's farewell party. god yes rub that salt into the wound, Monday can't come soon enough

[pocket-goat]

hello arcane fans may i offer you some kitties of progress in these trying times. some silly jayvik cats.

i had such a tough time designing jayce but im pretty happy with how they both came out. they get little butterfly wings to wear because its cute and their butterfly motif makes me ill and like thats basically the cat equivalent of wedding rings right. matching accessories. might as well be married.

[vigilskeep]

i’m very baffled by the logistics of how lucanis’ early act 2 companion quest bloodbath ended. he was unconscious, right? and we’ve all just been fighting waist deep in blood? did we carry him back to the cantori diamond eluvian through the streets covered in that much blood. because i have to believe you’re not getting an unconscious man across those ziplines. did anyone say anything or do people in treviso just live like this. was everyone at the diamond just like yeah another working day at crow hq nothing to see here

[princemonarchempress]

You held it like a mirror, showing me the life I chose.