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splinterclan · 7 months ago

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I can't remember if it was said anywhere but are we ever gonna get the exact reason why Bess isn't willing to join Cedar in the clan (if there's more to it than what she said when they first met about oakclan)? Or if it's not a spoiler territory, what is the reason? 👀

It's mostly just what happened with Oakclan + the fact that she's lived on her own for long enough that she's been able to completely demonize the clans in her own mind. She imagines joining the clan would immediately mean being judged for everything she does, being told what to do at every moment, and losing everything she enjoys about her life.

She hasn't even tried to imagine a scenario where living with them would be good, because she just doesn't want to do it

#txt #asks #life as a young apprentice in oakclan was super rough #lot of expectations to be instantly great at everything and to help care for all the aging clanmates around you whilst never really #getting recognition for it bc everyone was too traumatized to be pleasant #there was also the expectation to have tons of kits to repopulate the clan which she hated #and was partly the reason she distanced herself from her kits after they were weaned/handed them over to splinterclan #but then she actually found out she liked them and sees whorlstar wanting to 'keep' them is just the same thing oakclan would do #except its not that and whorl just doesn't want to uproot kids she loves from the home that they love #bess

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