#Duskfur wc

[bonefall]

Am I the only one a little put off by Duskfur, one of the VERY vocal supporters of Frostpaw being kicked out for “misunderstanding” Splashtail’s advances, suddenly turning around and becoming a good guy? It irks me a little that someone involved very vocally in that scene putting down Frostpaw is likely getting a redemption. I’m sure they’ll say “oh it was all an act” but it certainly didn’t seem written that way.

Overall I agree, BUT I do have a bit of a different reason why

It's not really about the "redemption" of it all, I would be fine if Duskfur realized she'd made a MASSIVE mistake and turned around (especially if Frostpaw never forgave her for it. Like there was always this tension, from now on, that she knows Duskfur cannot be trusted) then that's ok. A couple of folks are dipping into "she doesn't deserve it" language and to that I solemnly shake my head and say that redemption shouldn't be about deserving; it should be about change.

SO with that out of the way, what I dislike most about this is that it's based on nothing. It feels like a bad characterization moment. Duskfur's actions don't feel like actual motivations, she believes what the plot needs her to.

This outspoken supporter of Splashtail hates him now? For some reason?

She was willing to throw Frostpaw under the bus, and now she is not?

Didn't want to believe that her daughter Curlfeather is a bad person, but then accepted Splashtail's ridiculous lie about Evil Sleeptalk Plans?

And now that Podlight is medcat, her OTHER child, now she's cool with believing he's a liar?

What changed her, what PROMPTED this shift in allegiance? It's sudden, and that makes it feel shallow and dissatisfying. Makes you feel like they're just going to do this for an unwanted "You've gotta forgive your shitty family always bc theyll be there for you eventually" kind of moral

It sure would have been nice if they like, had a notoriously impulsive character to get his POV into RiverClan so we could see the cats developing. Some kind of guy who makes hasty decisions entirely motivated by his emotions. A cat that had just developed a bond with Frostpaw and knows how badly she wants to know what's going on in there. Someone, who is not orange, who could have been suspected as a spy as Splashtail's descent into active villainy took effect, raising the stakes of the story

if only we'd had a character like that laying around :(

[lemnnshark]

"Duskfur is a small dark brown tabby she-cat with a nicked ear."

[letyachan]

289.Duskfur

"If you ask me, it seems like more living cats should help decide the rules we live by. I'm not saying Mistystar is trying to mislead us. But what's so special about the Lights in the Mist? Who are they? Mistystar, Crowfeather, Shadowsight, Rootspring, and Violetshine. Why should they get to decide the rules for all the Clan cats? At least you're a leader, Mistystar, but Shadowsight's the cat who got us into this mess, Crowfeather was a codebreaker himself, and I'm not sure I know enough yet about the SkyClan cats to trust them."

[ploverpaw]

Segment from my Curlfeather animation meme Just wanted one with all these frames together

[mourninglamby]

soooo excited for star let’s go Cat Girls

[3zethe3zr]

I'm a Reedwhisker is Curlfeathers father beliver

Frostpaw takes after their mother, Graypaw after their father, and Mistpaw is a mix of their grandparents

[rudymentari]

grandmother of the hour

[clanborn]

some asc riverclan cats

[exocynraku]

redesigns :3

[mistlestripe]

I'd really like to see a Mistpaw design if you'd want to draw her :)

Your design for Whistlepaw is one of my favorites and I headcanon her and Mist as close friends. :')

Aaahhh your style is so adorable! The kitties look precious!

Graypaw too to go with :3

[fatal-rewrites-warriors]

Nightstar's family has been pretty wrought :')

[songleap]

calling it now this is gonna be our leader, deputy, medicine cat lineup at the end of the arc

[dawn-sunlight]

Honestly, Minnowtail should have been the third RiverClan rebel, not Duskfur. Duskfur was one of the most vocal opponents of other Clans getting involved and a huge outspoken Splashtail supporter in the first few books and now that she's suddenly decided she thinks Splashtail is terrible now, it looks like we're kinda just gonna gloss over those facts.

Like Duskfur literally complains in the preview that the Clans do nothing but talk now and that they should rally and drive Splashtail out of RiverClan. Icewing had to be looking at her with the biggest "are you serious right now" look ever because this is the same cat that argued with Mistystar about the code changes, who was extremely vocal about ShadowClan needing to be driven out of RiverClan, and who questioned Icewing and Harelight's loyalty to RiverClan because of their previous exile. and life in ShadowClan.

Meanwhile, Minnowtail is a former Dark Forest Trainee and one of the oldest cats in the Clan, and you're telling me that she of all cats is too scared to join the RiverClan rebels?? Considering Minnowtail's been doing absolutely nothing this arc, Duskfur's argument of not believing Frostpaw because "picking a side might have resulted in a fight" makes SO much more sense with Minnowtail. Especially since Duskfur literally did choose a side during that Gathering, and it was Splashtail's.

[t4twnyclaw]

i completely redesigned my frostpaw

[ploverpaw]

frame wip for the video i'm working on

[heepthecheep]

I see headcannons about Curlfeather being Reedwhisker's daughter, and I raise you:

What if Duskfur was Hawkfrost's daughter?

She shows up in tPoT as an adult, but if she where born soon after the clans reached the lake, she'd totally have her warrior name by then?

Maybe her mother was Swallowtail, or Dawnflower, who had a relationship with Hawkfrost before he died, which led to Duskfur.

And maybe Curlfeather takes after her great-grandmother, Sasha. Frostpaw too, with color point markings. Maybe Frostpaw even has her great--great Grandfather's eyes.

And Mothwing would be training her little grand niece, which is just 🥹