#I hate canon gray wing. He's bottom two most hated characters in all of WC for me

[bonefall]

If you could completely remove a character from the series, who would it be? Would another character take their place?

gray wing.

Or even just kill him instead of Shaded Moss, have HIM originally been the leader of the Sundrown Patrol and after his death, all these cats start invoking his name like a god.

"I do this in the name of Gray Wing the Wise." "As Gray Wing the Wise once said..." "Gray Wing the Wise wouldn't have approved of this."

And Thunder would have known him like this ancient, wise sage... and been frustrated by it. He doesn't KNOW this guy, but apparently he was a god among cats, and everyone thinks he was on THEIR side. But all Thunder sees, looking at a sea of heartless tyrants and selfish cats clawing each other in the back, is people who make their choices first and then use his sacred name to justify them afterwards.

and the SHOCKKKKK on all their FACES during the First Battle, when Gray Wing comes down from the stars himself, and tells all of them, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY NAME?!" the VINDICATION for Thunder when this God Among Cats turns to him and says, "You. You are the one who has followed my teachings-- by questioning them, by challenging those who misspoke. This is wisdom."

Bright Stream would take all the roles of Gray Wing in-canon and have an arc about realizing that she was defending her abuser. And been Thunder's single mom.

#bone babble #I hate canon gray wing. He's bottom two most hated characters in all of WC for me #Clear Sky is WORSE but Gray Wing is frustrating #Clear Sky is a fantastic villain before they nonsensically decide that killing the weak and disabled is a funnie joke #and war crimes are fine if ur scared #but gray wing is never good. He has like 3 good scenes that promise something good and never deliver. #dotc hate #It's hard to think of a character that needs to be totally removed OTHER than gray wing. for me #I think most characters can work or are just inoffensively bland like Background ThunderClan Bloat Cat 23 #but gray wing........................... WELL I've done my fixes for him #and I have put a lot of love and effort into that fix that I am proud of #But it's only made me like... really realize that this story would have been stronger if he died in Sun Trail like he was supposed to