No bc it’s the way Hollyleaf’s arc was so watered down by the series’s reluctance to challenge the status quo in any meaningful way… like they set her up so well in Power of Three as this character who is genuinely trying to do the right thing and loves her home and her family fiercely but is so deeply afraid of doing the wrong thing and failing her community that she relies on the archaic and dangerously uncompromising laws of her society to determine her every course of action instead of trusting her own instincts. So when she learns her values don’t align with her very existence she is left flailing in the dark and ends up losing everything she loves anyways by way of her own narrow mindedness not leaving any room for her flawed loved ones- not leaving any room for the love that motivated her in the first place. She is lost in religious ideology so puritanical it leaves no room for grace or mercy or kindness or love! This is A Lot she is a fluffy little kitty cat but like wow what a profound and horribly realistic phenomena for Warrior Cats to tackle! But THEN because because the authors are so fucking married to the status quo and are too scared to acknowledge how flawed and culty this society is we can’t have Hollyleaf then come to the realization that it was her militant rule-following that led her to hurt the community she had meant to protect and that only way to preserve said community would be to have it be a little more flexible and a little less Spartan because then we would have a character actively challenging the mindset they were brought up with and maybe advocating for change and we can’t have that for some reason!! Like!! What do you mean she never owned up to killing Ashfur!! What do you mean she never apologized to her mothers!! What do you mean she barely interacted with her two obvious character foils Dovewing and Ivypool y’all don’t know what you’re doing give her to me!!
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Y'all, Jaypaw is frustrating the hell out of me and I haven't even finished the first book of The Power of Three yet.
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He's just a guy who is there I think? I dunno, I haven't read the most recent arc.
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Another thing that’s annoying to me about Omen of the Stars is the way they keep insinuating that Hollyleaf’s mental break was caused by her realizing she wasn’t part of the prophecy when having reread Power of Three… that just is not?? What happened?? Like she revealed the secret at the gathering and tried to kill Leafpool after it was revealed that Leafpool was her mother, therefore the three of them were still related to Firestar therefore they were still likely candidates for the prophecy she didn’t know she wasn’t part of the prophecy!! Jayfeather was the one who cared the most about the prophecy!! Hollyleaf broke down because her religious ideology was directly at odds with the circumstances of her own birth, which makes for a much more interesting character than the books or the fandom remember her as why does this series fucking hate me oh my god
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Just started reading the first book of Warriors: The Power of Three. Not sure whether I have an attachment to Hollypaw or Jaypaw.
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Ashfur doodle I did a while ago for a design concept
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