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harriertail · 2 years

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RIVER THOUGHTS + HOPES

Straight off the bat this book felt superrrr short omg.

They all lowkey feel like the early TBC protags... love sick Sunbeam/Bristlefrost, ‘i don’t fit in wah i have parental issues im not good at being a warrior’ Nightheart/Rootpaw (and Alderpaw), and eager but defo being tricked by StarClan Shadowpaw/Frostpaw : /

I don’t get Flamepaw, i do like his ‘why is everyone so obsessed with the Ashfur thing/the past’ but it does really feel like he’s putting the legacy thing on himself. A few ‘you come from good cats you should have more confidence in urself’ lines does not equal ‘you have to live up to all this’, maybe a few ‘how are you so fucking useless you’re descended from such good warriors you waste of space’ lines would make this more obvious/make us more sympathetic. Idk bully the protag 2k22 because it just feels like Alderpaw’s arc again : / It genuinely feels like the Erins are doing the ‘struggle with legacy’ arc they wanted to do with Alderheart, so I hope we get some Alder-Night bonding and Alder talking to him about worrying over living up to expectations

LOVED how we barely saw StarClan. just omens and a few brief convos. Felt like ‘old’ SC, in the background, vaguely guiding the Clans- also was the dock leaf sign fake? felt like they were hinting it wasn’t real.

Who was the green eyes? does it mean anything or is it just an normal SC interaction? Who killed Reedwhisker?? come on those claw mark remarks were def something. What the fuck was Lightleap doing? don’t give us more rogues pls.

Sunbeam/Blazefire is just. ouch. Def loving the more grounded tone focused on personal/real world issues and less SC bullshit. I kinda foresee him dying but I also like the idea of him thinking he ‘made a mistake’ and there just being loads of drama between Light/Blaze/Sun (fuck their names are kinda similar) espec if Sunbeam becomes like, deputy material and starts being a really good warrior while Lightleap goes thru her issues + fucking around. We havent had a leader or deputy POV for arcs (bristle doesn’t count) and Sunbeam could be a good choice!

Honestly I get the feeling they are trying to set up Berryheart and her supporters as antagonists but I lowkey agree with them so far- the stuff about it benefitting Tigerstar/Dovewing a lot and the ‘where do we draw the line’- why have separate Clans at all they might as well become one (id like to see them all become one if they are just gonna be so flexible with borders tbh)- would def like to see more debate on the changing of the rules and the specifics of allowing half-Clan relationships to change and not just standard ‘we want to make ShadowClan strong’ bad guy rhetoric from them. come on Erins. Maybe Cloverfoot would side with the ‘traditionalists’ and the whole ‘no deputy can overthrow a leader’ rule would be debated more. These new rules were made very quickly...

Fringewhisker and Sunbeam should become friends. Even if I’ve just said that Sunbeam should disagree with the new rule I’d love to see Gullswoop + Fringewhisker try to be her friends- maybe have a ‘this is how Lightleap behaved when I tried to be her friend’ moment to snap her out her sulking.

I love Finchlight. She spits 100% facts.

Curlfeather dying straight after the omen/she goes to get her nine lives is a fucking SIGN- the next leader is gonna get got. RiverClan civil war? I can barely name any RC cats but a competition over who should be leader would be good. Duskfur? Minnowtail? Is anyone gonna not want to be leader because they think it means dying?

Either RiverClan or ThunderClan is gonna have the ‘75% vote to kick out a leader’ stuff. the ‘something is off with Bramblestar’ is heavyyy.

Please don’t give us Sunbeam/Nightheart. Please. They are already going on about how much he doesn’t fit into TC and now added a few jokes about him going to find love in another Clan. If they do give us Protag/Other Clan cat relationship, i’d love to see an arc where its all lovey dovey 100% best relationship ever but slowly the honeymoon phase ends and it fizzles out- they made a mistake. they misses their family their territory their friends back home. nothing goes wrong per say its just not the right choice to make. like does Finleap or Fringewhisker regret moving? I rlly don’t like the trope of pinning everything on your ‘one true love’, but i would like to see someone realising this was not the right choice. (Maybe Nightsun could work like this idk)

The focus on names and their deep meanings (all of a sudden) made me wish that part of the changing Clans was giving up your old warrior name and getting a new one- maybe just a new suffix or smth. Like Fringewhisker would have to change her name after proving herself to the Clan.

Making some really early predictions. Nightheart changes Clan/goes stays in another Clan (SkyClan?) for a bit because he doesn’t fit in. Frostpaw might be forced into being med cat early after Mothwing dies (like Puddleshine). Sunbeam goes along with the stuff in ShadowClan and doesn’t have much agency

#warrior cats spoilers #asc spoilers #i have a lot of thoughts #my main issue is the narrative cant support the idea of 5 separate clans if they can just waltz between them #otherwise this was good and im lowkey looking forward to frostpaws chapters in Sky #maybe im sick of whiny characters but i want someone whos confident for once!!!!#i read this when the leaks dropped lol ive been thinkin about this for a week

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