#furiouslightning

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it's a flurry of posts today hahaha! WE'RE SO ALIVE MWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

so anyway. you know when i was like 'haha i had something to post today but then realized WE HADN'T EVEN FINISHED THE CHAPTER THE POST WAS ABOUT'?

yeah so anyway-

what's silly about the last chapter is that Lolling and I haven't been able to hang out since like...November, I think it was, so our only communication has been texts (which we rarely if ever use), dms (used even less frequently haha), and the occasional time we're on the doc at the same time (shockingly, probably nearly as frequently as the dms) - and with the latter, we were chanting TOXIC YURI TOXIC YURI TOXIC YURI over and over XD

I even sent her a screenshot of part of FuriousLightning's whole Thing with the caption TOXIC YURI!!!!!!! while I wrote it

and then Lolling got carried away with the outline of the end of Lightning's POV and Silverstream popped up so SHE sent ME a screenshot screaming about how it Just Happened - and ofc, TOXIC YURI TOXIC YURI

so yeah. how was the toxic yuri chapter everyone we enjoyed kicking our feet and giggling over it >:3

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idk memes man

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Fury, trying to flirt: ;)))))

Lightningfur's ArospecAce ass: ＩＷ ＩＬＬ ＫＩＬＬ ＹＯＵ

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AAAUUGHGHHGHG

IM GONNA SCREAMMMM IM SO OBSESSED WITH FURIOUSLIGHTNING IM NOT EVEN JOKINGGGG YOU GUYSSSSSS CAN WE JUST SKIP BT AND GET TO THE GOOD PART

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HOW MANY TIMES CAN I REBLOG THIS????? LETS FIND OUT

HEY SO ANYWAY WHAT ABOUT FURIOUSLIGHTNING?????

Sketch cuddles under cut!:

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Girl pinning girl, will they kiss?

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Burning Thistles Favorites Game!

Lolling's - I'm trying not to do duplicates unless i genuinely can't choose another

Favorite Firesibling: Lightningfur

Favorite Firefam: Feathercloud

Favorite ThunderClan cat: Frostfur

Favorite ShadowClan cat: Copperleaf and Dawncloud (can't choose <3) (ooo also Swampfur)

Favorite RiverClan cat: Perchwing (Lizardflight second place)

Favorite WindClan cat: Hmmm.... honestly probably Spoilertail, but until then Airleap or Ravenwing. Or Runningbrook

Favorite BloodClan cat: Scourge, obviously

Favorite Main Character: Lightningfur

Favorite Secondary Character: ...Badgerfang? Blossomtail? Brackenfur? One of the B's lol. Oh or Missingheart maybe. Tulippaw? Longtail? Anyone in this general circle lmao

Favorite Background Character: hm. Oliver. Or he's more of a secondary character. Tallpoppy? No, she did things, she's a secondary too lol. Huh. *glances at allegiances list* OH! Shadepelt!! Or Vixenleap!!! Obviously!! Why didn't I think of them earlier lmao

Favorite Villain: Fury the unbeloved <3

Favorite Clan: ehhh I'm not a "favorite clan" kind of person... ShadowClan?

Favorite Ship(s): SpottedFrost, FuriousLightning, BrackenFeather (...I'm sensing a pattern in my favorite ships...)

Favorite "Arc" or "Book": BT War Era for sure <3333 Pack Pack Kill Kill is a close second

Favorite One-shot/Side Story: Hunted Lynx!

Favorite Scene: Brackenfur rejecting Feathercloud's confession lol... or Lightningfur killing Spottedleaf... or for something fluffy that scene where Whitestorm and Spottedleaf talk.

@firealder2005 and everyone else! this isn't really a "tagging someone" kind of thing so feel free to just reblog or comment!! and you don't have to do all of them and/or you can add a "favorites" category :)

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Chapter 165 is out!

and its surprisingly fluffy? well, aside from the beginning and i guess the end a little bit lol

but i love all of the relationship focuses we get, even briefly, so here's a list of them all (p = platonic):

GrassThistle - Thistlestar made Grasswhisker entirely dependent on him especially during his mentorship of her. She's never imagined a world without him and she's too terrified and too numb to comprehend how to live without him...

MallowVole - they are mates :) but they are both assholes <3 but Voleclaw is more your generic bully guy while Mallowtail's asshole-ness is amped up because she's mourning her mom Softwing's death but she also can't mourn her bcus her mom was a traitor and therefore Mallowtail is supposed to hate her but she cant hate her mom...

LizardGrass (p) - Lizard is one of the few who puts up with listening to Grasswhisler's rants, and, though she does find Grasswhisker annoying, she's also very concerned for Grass's safety and hates how cats talk about Grass behind her back

LizardWood (p) - Woodmask doesn't even particularly like Lizardflight but he's all alone now and she's all he has left off his friend group... and he doesn't hate Thistlestar but he's terrified under his rule, someone come save this baby

FuriousLightning - Fury and Lightning in a room, what will they do

ThistleScourge (p) - Thistle is "bowing his head" to Scourge's demands so he doesn't say shit about him being Scourge's father while Lightningfur is right there. He'll outwardly believe he has Scourge under control too, but on the inside he's afraid of the small tom and the power he holds

LizardPerch (p) - Perchwing and Lizardflight are in similar situations. Perchwing is afraid to speak out against Thistlestar and Lizardflight doesn't want to risk leaving ThistleClan medicine cat-less, because, as much as she hates it there, there are cats like Grasswhisker and Shadepelt (pregnant queen without a mate) that she's afraid to leave alone and without support.

GrassVixen (p) - Vixenleap resents Grasswhisker for not seeing her relationship with Thistlestar for what it is and "purposefully" being naïve. Vixenleap hates Thistlestar with a passion, not because he's a bad leader, but because of how he treats her sister. If she had been there for Grass's exile, she would have left with her sister to keep her safe. Now, she's terrified as she has no idea where her sister went.

ShadeVixen - Vixenleap doesn't have any close friends. Shadepelt feels isolated from her clan as the only queen (and the secrets she bares). Shadepelt is more chatty though, and knows Vixenleap hates Thistlestar as much as she does. Shadepelt couldn't sleep, and saw Vixenleap was distraught, and chose to gossip with her, knowing she'd feel the same about Thistlestar's actions. Girlies <3

RippleMaple (p) - two options, Mapleshade is visiting/manipulating Rippleclaw's dreams, or Rippleclaw is believing his normal dreams are prophetic/a StarClan cat is talking to him. either way, he's spreading what he thinks is the truth but it actually utter bullshit lol

ReedPrimrose (p) - siblings siblings siblings

ReedDawn - crushes crushes crushes <3

ReedTurtle (p) - Reedwhisker just loves making half-clan friendships lol

PrimroseNight (p?) - Primroseleaf is the kind of cat who pretends to be snotty/mean but never actually succeeds lol. and Nightpaw is a very determined cat who won't leave her alone (it's because Night is scared that none of the other apprentices came with...)

ReedOak (p) - Reedwhisker just loves making half-clan friendships <33333 Oakfur is so scared and lost. He followed his dad because he truly believes his dad knew what was right even though he (Oakfur) did trust/believe Tigerstar, and then his dad died... what does he do now... His best friend Littlecloud is still in TigerClan too...

ElderReed (p) - BEST FRIENDS FOREVER

ElderMistle - some brief pelt brushing for comfort there y'know how it be ;) but they just friends rn

GorseStorkQuail (p) - the siblings ever <3

DarkRunning (p) - friends to haters

DarkCherry - haters to friends

DarkFire (p) - "you were my brother..." but there's a little more trust now

BrambleSnow (p?) - briefly mentioned together, they r friends ur honor

BrambleFire (p) - FireDad BrambleSon but they honestly have a kind of older brother little brother relationship to me.... like they are the same... Bramble admires Fire and wants to be like him...

FireSand - must i say anything? eat, Estranger, eat

MissingSorrel (p!!) - they are friends now from their shared time in the med cat den. Missing looks after her :)

MissingBramble (p) - THEY ARE BROTHERS YOUR HONOR PLEASE REMEMBER THAT!!! Missingheart doesn't want Bramblepaw to end up like him!!! He wants him to be careful and stay safe!!!

SpottedCinder (p) - Spottedleaf was Cinderpelt's mentor just as much as Yellowfang... they are best friends.... Cinderpelt would go instead of Spottedleaf if not for her leg slowing her down in the battle

Frostfur - Frostfur

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little sparks was so cute!!! poor lightningkit :( even more heartbreaking when you look at her character now… i believe she does still love spottedleaf, but buries those feelings as she doesn’t want to be seen as “weak.”

what would you say caused such a drastic shift in her character? growing up with her + her siblings constantly stigmatized for being kits of a “codebreaking” medicine cat?

i’d love to see you write a lightningfur analysis.. only if it doesn’t spoil any future events though!

Lightningkit has grown up so much, my little murder baby <3

woof im not sure i could do a full character analysis like the ones i always scroll past on here but ill tell ya some stuff about her character progression!

In Little Sparks and "Prequel" (Before Into The Wild) chapters, Lightningkit loves her mother! She does the whole "I hate you! I'm not your mom!" attitude of a little kid. She was very rambunctious as a kit and always loved that Spotted would give her extra attention when she was being 'bad,' and hated when Spotted's attention was elsewhere (five kits, one who was very ill as well, plus Willowpelt and Darkkit, and her medicine cat duties--her attention was all over the place!). She acted out a lot as a kit and didn't like getting scolded, bossed around the other kits and got mad when Creekkit would be just as "bossy" as her (aka tell her off or try to lead the games instead to be more fair). She liked all her siblings except for Airkit, because she didn't get as 'attached' to him and just sort of saw him as the thing that always took Spotted's attention away (since he was sick in the med den).

Once she has her father's attention though, it all shifts and she starts changing from "I want to be good for Spottedleaf!" to "I want to be good (read: bad) for Thistleclaw!" She also admired Mapleshade A LOT and thought she was sooo cool and, later into her apprenticeship, started wishing Maple was her real mom because Spotted was "too much trouble." She hated that cats thought she was "less" just because her mom was a med cat and her dad exiled. As a kit, she sort of understood what all the fuss was about and sympathized with her mother, but as Thistle was there to twist her mind, she started to care less and less about her mother's "tough life" because "Thistle had it just as tough and he loves me more!"

Thistle really enabled her to keep her "acting out for attention" mindset, because whenever she did bad things (ex.: clawing during training, being rough with her siblings, getting mad at Spotted/others), she got his praise. She felt justified and vindicated in taking her anger out on others. Surprisingly, this also started to twist her feelings towards Airpaw from one of "ugh he's so annoying i hate him leave me alone!" to "follow me because im so much better than you and you need me to be good at anything :)" (aka the exact same stuff Thistle was pulling with her).

she liked Firepaw because he was a "neutral" ground -- he followed Thistle and he was willing to play rough, meanwhile Air was too "weak," Copper was too "soft," and Creek was too "obedient" to be mean. she was enraptured with the idea of leading the clans with all her kin, and she was enamored with the prospect Thistle gave them.

she also HATED Speckletail and Frostfur. Frostfur, in her early moons, was too "bossy" and would always try and correct Lightning and Lightning would be like "UR NOT MY MOM," plus Frost would always huff about Lightning's bad attitude. Speckle tried to be a good mentor, but she was blinded by her prejudice against Lightning, already viewing her as a "helpless bad case," so they just butted heads way too much and Lightning felt vindicated disobeying her thanks to Thistle encouraging her to

she ran to RiverClan because she LOVED the attention she received there. needless to say, everything Lightningfur does is for attention. And those who give her attention that she deems weak/pitiful/lesser than her (Airleap, Robinstorm, Sedgecreek, etc.), she treats like sh*t because "what are they gonna do? hate me? they love me too much to hate me."

it's kind of why Silverstream was her best friend. in canon, Silverstream is kind of, well, spoiled and thinks she can get away with anything. she's not mean, but she's just as attention-driven as Lightningfur. The two bounced off each other immediately, giving the other attention, but there was also this... allure with Silverstream, who -- unlike Lightningfur, who had to fight and bite and kick and scream for her attention -- only had to sit pretty and get stuff handed to her thanks to her loving and doting overprotective father Crookedstar. Silverstream's attention felt extra good to Lightningfur, because Silverstream held this air of I'm Better Than You that Lightningfur desperately wanted to have as elegantly as her. Needless to say, Lightningfur's aroace lesbian *ss crushed hard on Silverstream but buried that part of her feelings far far deep down.

Silverstream's death f*cked Lightningfur up. They were untouchable, and yet, there Silverstream was, clearly Touched. (Though Lightningfur doesn't know it, somewhere in StarClan, Silverstream is thinking the same bitter thoughts.) Lightningfur couldn't imagine a life without Silverstream, and now she became a lot more... aggressive in her behavior. Genuinely cold. Before there was a since of "we do this together," there was something grounded Lightningfur, something for her to love and remember how to be compassionate in her own Lightningfur-y way. Now, it's gone, and Lightningfur doesn't have any remorse left in her to regret the actions she commits.

This Lightningfur, our current Lightningfur, has grown a coldness in her heart. It numbs her to feeling anything but rage and sadistic pleasure. That isn't to say she never expresses some kind of fondness (ex.: Featherpaw is Silverstream's look-a-like daughter and Lightningfur will do everything she can to protect "what's left of her"), but that any kindness that might go along with those inner feelings is gone.

But cutting off emotions and refusing to acknowledge them leaves one blind, and oh, Lightningfur will be blinded.

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telling myself it'll be quick to color and shade this and then its an HOUR LATER and i still havent shaded and i have to be up early in the morning because Bottlefed Kittens

Fury, trying to flirt: ;)))))

Lightningfur's ArospecAce ass: ＩＷ ＩＬＬ ＫＩＬＬ ＹＯＵ

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HEY SO ANYWAY WHAT ABOUT FURIOUSLIGHTNING?????

Sketch cuddles under cut!:

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WOW YES LOOK AT THIS MURDERFEST OF A SHIP

HEY SO ANYWAY WHAT ABOUT FURIOUSLIGHTNING?????

Sketch cuddles under cut!: