#i think mousefur is the only female character confidently permanently immune to Heterosexual Romance beam | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

rookflower · 2 months

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u know what, sure, i've got my issues with feathertail's characterisation in A Shadow In Riverclan (specifically in regards to how they wrote her relationship with sasha) but honestly big up to her for breaking free of the "shallow dead love interest" box she was sitting in fanon-wise before that. im glad that a lot of people's first impression of feathertail is now about her trauma her and trust issues from that book rather than just about crowfeather. not because female characters with romance centric arcs are worth less obviously, but because warrior cats has such a deficit of major female characters that are not heavily associated with romance and/or motherhood that knocking one halfway off the list is, to some extent, a tiny little victory

#i fear the exact opposite of this would happen to cinderpelt if they ever picked up her pov for a book. it would be ALL about firestar #and they also went the opposite angle from this when writing leopardstar's se by giving her boyfriend drama and a son #i think mousefur is the only female character confidently permanently immune to Heterosexual Romance beam #and that was bc everybody in her age range died before they could pair her up and she got hit w the Xenophobic Grandma beam instead #mothwing is immune too actually but that's just bc before she became an old lady there were 0 suitable relevant characters in riverclan #and leafpool was already covering the medcat forbidden romance line

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