[ID: Colored digital art featuring Lionblaze holding Dovepaw in StarClan and Hawkfrost holding Ivypaw in the Dark Forest. Their positions are mirrored vertically, linked by Dovepaw and Ivypaw's twined tails.
In the top half of the image, Lionblaze holds Dovepaw close to himself, shielding her with his paws, and he growls protectively at the viewer. Dovepaw seems to be uncomfortable at Lionblaze's overprotectiveness, trying to get out of his grasp. She has a solid yellow halo behind her head, and there's a larger yellow ring around her and Lionblaze. Six disembodied eyes are watching them. Outside the ring are several winged StarClan cats, with halos above their heads and around their wrists.
In the bottom reversed half of the drawing, Hawkfrost draws Ivypaw closer to himself, smiling deviously as he covers her face with his paws. Ivypaw looks away with a downcast expression. She has a solid red halo behind her head, and it's dripping like blood. Behind her and Hawkfrost is a dark purple forest of dead trees. Six paws claw upwards towards StarClan. Where the two sides connect are clouds and dripping blood.
The second image is identical, except that it is flipped so that Hawkfrost and Ivypaw are on the top. End ID] ID written by @curlfeatherstar
when it comes to people discussing characters within warrior cats who've been affected by the sexism of the Erin's it always kind of perplexes me that people don't really discuss spottedleaf on the same level as other characters like squirrelflight or frecklewish. I know shes a background character with no plot relevance and dies within the 13 chapters of the first book of the series, but I still find it really hard to believe that a good chunk of the fandom still believes that spottedleaf's feelings towards firepaw were always meant to be romantic and not just a side recon to make fans of the series who shipped fire x spotted happy and also because they quite literally had nothing else to do with her character because shes a female background character who served no purpose to the plot so they could write anything they want about her and write it off as canon because they couldn't bother to write an actually personality for her besides "hot doctor woman who firepaw had a crush on". and the fact she got a side book about her being groomed by a man who's been pursuing her since she was a KIT, and yet people still swear up and down that shes a pedophile due to a half ass recon about a man she had no relationship with when she was alive just rubs me the wrong way