I don’t think I could explain in human words how much I HATE the stereotypes for Martin “The Spinners Little Boy” Blackwood.
The two main characterizations I’ve seen of him either make him a soft teddy bear who does nothing but make tea and cry, or the complete opposite and make him a blood thirty angst machine who is addicted to murder and trying to fuckinv idk break laws ( *cough* a certain yt creator *cough* )
NEITHER of these are good characterizations of him. Yes, they can be good characters, but not Martin.
Martin Blackwood is a character who grew up with a neglectful mother and a “family is blood” mentality, leaving himself to run himself ragged to take care of his only blood relation who wants nothing to do with him, ending in him with no choice but to fall into near poverty and the last choice to lie about his experience to get a half decent job. He is a character who cares so much with so little care thrown back at him. He is a character whose experience and surroundings leave him deep in isolation and loneliness. He his a character who had no choice but to learn how to manipulate himself into peoples perception as an innocent bystander with no fight, and when he’s given to chance to go all out and be vengeful for once he takes it, forcing his one trustful companion out of their comfort zone and nearly throwing their relationship off a cliff via murder.
He is a character so wrapped up in the story, that he ends up with no choice but to fall in the wreckage of his metaphorical and literal prison, holding the bleeding body of his reason for living after having to choose between his love and the world.
He is so much more than his stereotypes.
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mmm would it be possible for Mistystar and Leopardstar to fight/met during the BOTTE? or was Leopard already fed up with Tigerstar, his batshit insane plans and her status reduced to 'Tiger's another lackey' (like Darkstripe and many others) to really care about revenge? if she ever thought about it, that is.. im assuming she would be pretty pissed about being killed (there was a post about Mistyfoot first trying to poison her and Leopard realized it and instead decided to take her on a solo patrol to.. deal with a rogue i think? and then Misty gave her a rock appointment) and might had thought about making Mistystar pay, but it's been soooo long before BOTTE that she might had.. moved on? or just decided she had better things to do, not sure.
I have a BIG rule for the BOTTE, an unmoveable object, which I will abide by like a solemn vow;
NO spirit will be killed by the same cat twice.
I already changed it so Yellowfang doesn't get Brokenstar (he's not even present) and Brambleclaw doesn't get Hawkfrost, so I certainly wouldn't have Mistystar do it to Leopardstar!
I have some ideas but first; context.
The Killing of Leopardstar
Mistyfoot was sloppy.
Leopardstar recognized the way that Mistyfoot had poisoned her food, because she'd done the same thing to Crookedstar before her. Not enough to make it quick, just enough to weaken.
The emotion that licks at her is frustration.
Is this what her life has come to? Dramatic irony? Is this some kind of cosmic joke? To die just like her predecessor, wasting away for a few seasons in the darkness of this musty den, before solemn mourning and empty platitudes from her underhanded murderer.
What should she even do about this? Reveal Mistyfoot in front of everyone, exile her, she plots against her from the safety of another Clan, some kind of rebellion, rah rah rah we just dealt with this.
It's boring. It's so boring it's offensive. This will be the state of RiverClan forever, deputies poisoning leaders and taking power quietly until the end of days. No honor, no nobility, just treachery until the sky dries up and its rich blue becomes a crackled pale-brown.
If she is to die, she will not go out in the slow and painful way she killed crookedstar without a fight.
So she smacks the limp fish aside and brushes past Mistyfoot with a snarl, not even caring enough to drink in the way her traitorous deputy's ears flushed pale, knowing she'd been caught.
Leopardstar calls for a rushed meeting, telling them all that there's actually 40 - 50 feral rogues on the border right now and she saw them all last night or something, so she's taking Mistyfoot to go confront them right now. Don't follow us.
(Something that the more astute members of the Clan immediately recognize as Leopardstar setting up cover for a death match, including Misty's brother Swansong. She snaps at him when he runs to stop her, Don't Follow.)
Once they're a fair distance away, at the southern delta that divides WindClan and RiverClan, where the cliffs will hide them and the wet stones will not catch the scent (and where Reedwhisker will die, someday), Leopardstar lays it out.
No more tricks. No more schemes. If one of them is to die, it will be with honor.
"You want my lives?"
(Boss music fades in. Misty sees the health bar appear lmao)
"Come and take them."
After she came and took them
Leopardstar is kind of obsessed with the final battle of her life. That fight was everything she hoped for, except that she didn't win.
She wants it again, and she will triumph this time.
Hawkfrost is easily able to twist it into, "You lost only because StarClan shone upon her with that stone. It wasn't real skill. Join our cause and we can get you that rematch, we will defeat Mistystar, win back RiverClan, and dethrone the Stars!" But at the end of the day, it's an excuse.
Same sort of excuse Leopardstar came up with when she believed she wanted an honorable battle, rejecting the guilt and fear that clawed at her to think about dying the way Crookedstar did.
She does this a lot. Dodging feelings of remorse or regret by substituting power fantasies, avoiding any hard lessons. She says she wants revenge, but what she's actually doing is avoiding taking an L. Shame is a vagrant in Leopardstar's heart; she will never let it stay for long.
But...
That's really hard to do when Tigerstar is actively using her and speaking over her in every interaction. Being here, in the Dark Forest, taking the SAME advice she once groomed into Hawkfrost to only look at the positives of Tigerstar's legacy and ignore atrocities, is embarassing.
It's HUMILIATING.
She had her starshine BASHED out of her with a rock and went to the hell she'd been downplaying since she "regrettably" tore down the Bonehill. Being Tigerstar's stooge. Reducing the proud, ferocious leader of RiverClan into a goon.
Towards the end, she will have a scene with Hawkfrost, proud warriors that they are as mentor and apprentice, and vaguely address this. As far as Leopardstar's ego will allow, of course... the shame of it.
It's an important moment, because it's as much about Leopardstar and Hawkfrost as it is about Hawkfrost and Ivypool.
Leopard is too set in her ways to change, even if she is capable of brief glimpses of self-reflection, of which this is one. Hawkfrost, however, is seeing his mentor and himself in a different light. How she'll let herself be humiliated over and over as long as she can cling to her ego... and how by doing Tigerstar's diplomacy work, Hawkfrost is doing the same.
And he's dragged his OWN apprentice into it, too. She accidentally double-killed her friend, Antpelt, but he killed him more by bringing all of these trainees here to begin with. How Ivypool gets pitted against Tigerheart because TigerSTAR is playing mind games, how it's destroying her bond with her sister, how much fun and joy in the Dark Forest he's missing out on by not giving the afterLIFE a chance...
How much he's thrown away for this, before and after his death.
I'm not sure yet if it's the LAST stop before the BOTTE, but it's close to the end of Hawkfrost's redemption arc. Recognition of self through the other. He is part of a cycle he has a choice to break.
But anyway... back to Leopardstar.
She wants to fight Mistystar, but I don't think I'll let her have that satisfaction. She has already gotten nearly everything she ever asked for and can't even acknowledge that she did.
I think it's most fitting for SWANSONG to finally get what he craves; a chance to take a burden off his sister.
Leopardstar allowed TigerClan to STRIP his brotherhood from her because they don't share blood. Forced him to pretend like Rippleclaw meant anything to him, as if Oakheart hadn't been his proud baba as long as he could remember. Stonefur, Mistyfoot, and Swansong are the kits of Graypool; and he's not gonna let this golden FART ignore that ever again.
So my idea is that when Leopardstar meets Mistyfoot in the Second Wave of the BOTTE, she pounces onto her for her rematch, but Swansong BURSTS out of the crowd in response and rips her off, allowing Mistystar to go back to defending their Clanmates
"I don't want YOU," Leopardstar spits, "My battle is with Mistystar!"
"Tough titfeathers! It's MY turn to get a hit in for Stonefur!" He bristles with equal parts fury and excitement, lunging towards a fight he's dreamed of for years.
Still subject to change, though! And I'm not sure if Swansong dies here, or in the 3rd Wave, or if maybe he succumbs to injuries after the BOTTE is over.
It would also be fitting if he got a whack on Mapleshade though... since Maple doesn't even consider him Applekin and won't curse him. It would be neat for him to get angry about that lmao. "What do you MEAN my siblings are haunted by a demon? But NOT ME?? What ELSE am I getting left out of???"
EDIT: I'm currently planning to kill him in the 2nd Wave
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Velvet x F reader oneshot!! requested
No warning, entirely fluff
You & ur gf Velvet go SHOPPING (YAY)
sorry for holding this off for so long😭
"Hey uhm can we go shopping 😐" u ask ur gf Velvet, of course she replied with yes and youu didn't have to ask but, you wanted to make sure.
She's been feeling more stressed out lately:( Opening fanmail, being nice to fans, song ideas, etc is ALOT of work, so it drained Velvet out! So u decided a small break would be the perfect thing for her, & u were right!
U both got jewelry & clothing, some bags, makeup, nail polish, she even got a spa for the both of u 😮
After putting all the bags in the car & going back inside, she decided to give a break from shopping (and a break to the poor assistants arms☠️) with icecream
After the sun set in the distance u both decided to go back, cuddling up in her room & falling asleep. Organizing & putting up everything will be tomorrow's job.
GUYS PLEASE GIVE ME TIPS MAYBE😰😰
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AITA for wanting to follow my own path?
My [15F] mom [45F] wants me to follow in her footsteps. Unfortunately, those footsteps are evil. My mom is literally proud to be evil, and wants me to be evil like her.
If it was just my mom, I could ignore her, but it’s also the head of my school, my teachers, my classmates… everyone. But, I don’t want to be evil.
There’s rumors that we’ll all disappear if I don’t follow in my mom’s footsteps (well, if any of us don’t follow in our parents’ footsteps), but no one has actually been willing to test that, so we don’t know if it’s true. And if it’s not true, then we’d all be free to choose our destiny!
My roommate [15F] thinks I’m being selfish because I just have to poison her (temporarily - her boyfriend’s destiny is to be the cure), but it’s not just poisoning her. It’s also being doomed to being hated and scorned for something I don’t want to do in the first place. I’m punished for going against the status quo and not doing evil, but also I get punished when I do evil things. No matter what, I can’t win.
Also, it’s not just for me. It’s for our friends, so they wouldn’t have to sleep for 100 years and wake up among our grandchildren, or marry someone they don’t love, or watch loved ones die in the name of “Destiny.”
Still, it hangs over my head that there is the risk we’d all go “Poof” if I don’t follow in my mom’s footsteps, and some people could end up with worse fates than what they have now, but I keep thinking there’s got to be something better than this.
So, AITA for not wanting to follow in my mom’s footsteps of evil?
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