when you really want to write a slowburn romance between your two mentally ill battle cats so you make up a whole, complex-as-hell narrative to hide your degeneracy behind the guise of innovative warriors literature.
anyways here's redpaw and dogpaw having sad boy hours hahahaha
“No, Redtail. ThunderClan will never be beaten!” Tigerclaw yowled back, leaping to Redtail’s side. “This is our territory!” Blood was welling around his broad black muzzle, and he shook his head impatiently, scattering scarlet drops onto the rocks.
hc the other apprentices used to bully Redpaw about his future warrior name like "You have two choices! Redtail.. or RedHAIR lets hope they pick the latter goofy ahh"