#“a wail of protest” breezepelt and nightcloud's relationship is everything to me fyi

[the-owl-tree]

makes me go unhinged ppl are like nightcloud 'attacked' crowfeather and ignore the fact he is deliberately watching breezpelt get beat down by lionblaze (who has almost killed crowfeather before) like not even running to get help or verbally telling them to stop and then when leafpool intervenes and gets hit by breezepelt in the process thats when he steps in to attack him and then nightcloud pulls him off and he threatens to hit her too until breezpelt steps in the way

The way the scene has been exaggerated or completely removed from its context to make Crowfeather look better is so telling. It's not great Nightcloud grabbed him, but there is too much going on to say this is any sort of "normal" behavior going on from her. Meanwhile, Crowfeather behaves exactly the way we've seen from him in previous books: waving red flags by belittling Leafpool and being shitty to his family.

The fact that Breezepelt felt the need to get in between them and defend his mother is so telling. I don't think Crowfeather would have hit her (because imo Nightcloud would have rocked his shit), but Breezepelt doing so anyways....no red flags there apparently to some people. The way they describe Breezepelt's wail too, it really is telling.

#deer rambles #you hit your kid and your kid learns to hit back. shocker. #“a wail of protest” breezepelt and nightcloud's relationship is everything to me fyi