I don't really blame Bluestar
Sept 13, 2016 14:44:39 GMT -5
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Post by Pandean on Sept 13, 2016 14:44:39 GMT -5
For going crazy near the end of her life, tbh. Even if it wasn't dementia, she did deal with a whole lot.
I mean, she lost her mother right after she was apprenticed and saw her being murdered. She also lost her old mentor. It was shown she wasn't really coping well and had very few friends in the Clan so she was isolated a lot. Then she has a rivalry with Thistlepaw which continues until he's dead. Bluefur learns of the Fire Alone prophecy and the rest of her life is effected by it in multiple ways--she doesn't really get close to anyone, Goosefeather meddles in her life because of his insistence that she become the next leader, etc. Snowfur dies and for a while she has no one, then she is raising Whitekit while trying to dodge Thistleclaw's wrath. When she's a queen she's forced to give up her kits and knows that Mosskit's death is her fault--and she does this because of Goosefeather's insistence that she become deputy less the worst happen.
She has very few friends in the Clan that aren't related to her and a lot of what she does is Clan-oriented. TBH, she never really had any chance to develop a social life or any type of personality outside what the prophecy said and what she was pushed into being by Goosefeather.
Had she not known of the prophecy and had she not been pushed so much, she probably would have turned out entirely different.
Bluestar always struck me as a no-nonsense character who while ambitious, didn't exactly choose the path she would've wanted otherwise. She gave literally everything for ThunderClan to the point where at her core, her identity was to protect ThunderClan.
Tigerclaw's betrayal and the subsequent things happening afterward would have been a slap in the face to her. She's given up everything even though she didn't have to--because she was basically told by Goosefeather and StarClan to do so--to dedicate her entire existence to the Clan only for it all to fold under her.
I just realize...man, how lonely must she have been? She had Whitestorm and Lionheart, but Lionheart died and Whitestorm always seemed like an advisor more than a friend even though they were related. Rosetail isn't even mentioned other than her dying. All the other cats that she's interacted with in BP are dead due to starvation, disease, etc.
I wouldn't trade places with Bluestar for the world. Like, it just goes to show that when a cat has a prophecy, the younger they're told about it the more it affects them negatively.
Dovewing would be a prime example. Also the Original Three.
I mean, she lost her mother right after she was apprenticed and saw her being murdered. She also lost her old mentor. It was shown she wasn't really coping well and had very few friends in the Clan so she was isolated a lot. Then she has a rivalry with Thistlepaw which continues until he's dead. Bluefur learns of the Fire Alone prophecy and the rest of her life is effected by it in multiple ways--she doesn't really get close to anyone, Goosefeather meddles in her life because of his insistence that she become the next leader, etc. Snowfur dies and for a while she has no one, then she is raising Whitekit while trying to dodge Thistleclaw's wrath. When she's a queen she's forced to give up her kits and knows that Mosskit's death is her fault--and she does this because of Goosefeather's insistence that she become deputy less the worst happen.
She has very few friends in the Clan that aren't related to her and a lot of what she does is Clan-oriented. TBH, she never really had any chance to develop a social life or any type of personality outside what the prophecy said and what she was pushed into being by Goosefeather.
Had she not known of the prophecy and had she not been pushed so much, she probably would have turned out entirely different.
Bluestar always struck me as a no-nonsense character who while ambitious, didn't exactly choose the path she would've wanted otherwise. She gave literally everything for ThunderClan to the point where at her core, her identity was to protect ThunderClan.
Tigerclaw's betrayal and the subsequent things happening afterward would have been a slap in the face to her. She's given up everything even though she didn't have to--because she was basically told by Goosefeather and StarClan to do so--to dedicate her entire existence to the Clan only for it all to fold under her.
I just realize...man, how lonely must she have been? She had Whitestorm and Lionheart, but Lionheart died and Whitestorm always seemed like an advisor more than a friend even though they were related. Rosetail isn't even mentioned other than her dying. All the other cats that she's interacted with in BP are dead due to starvation, disease, etc.
I wouldn't trade places with Bluestar for the world. Like, it just goes to show that when a cat has a prophecy, the younger they're told about it the more it affects them negatively.
Dovewing would be a prime example. Also the Original Three.
