Millie...

some people just like garbage idk

I hate it when people just absolutely hate Millie. I don't LOVE Millie, I'm neutral on her, so this is where my neutrality comes in because while I do not approve of her being too overly attached to Briarlight, I still defend Millie because I UNDERSTAND HER. If you don't have the time to sit back and look at things from her POV, then you are just hating on her just to hate on her for one or two actions. So please do not say I support bad parenting because I already said I DO NOT.

Millie was a kittypet. She'd been sheltered her entire life. She's used to having sickness and injury being healed very quickly (at least compared to the warriors where medicine takes a bit longer). She knew the risks when she left her twolegs, but she still did it because she cared for Graystripe, whom she got to know really well through training with him. Then she goes to his clan with him and they are mates. They have kits. Millie is a first time mother while Graystripe is a second time father. Millie was great to her kits when they were kits and apprentices. Briarkit got sick with her and they both could have died. Then Briarkit almost got killed by a snake which someone else died saving her from. Those are TWO instances where Briarlight could have died. Her siblings on the other hand, are perfectly fine and healthy. We don't know how Millie thinks. Maybe she's grateful her other two kits are mature, healthy, perfectly responsible for themselves warriors, while she could view Briarlight as cursed and fated for sickness and injury because Briarlight's accident shattered Millie more than it did Briarlight. Millie thought Briarlight was finally going to be okay. She survived those two incidents as a kit and was now going to be a warrior, but the tree accident was the final straw. What was Millie thinking then? Did Millie think it could be her fault for being a former kittypet that Starclan cursed Briarlight to have accidents and never have a normal life? We don't know. Millie's a first time mother and probably will never have another litter (thank god). But this doesn't change the fact that no one helped her understand the situation clearly. Briarlight didn't speak up. Graystripe's a dead beat father who takes his Thunderclan family for granted. Leafpool didn't give Millie a lecture like how she gave Spiderleg. So how is Millie NOT supposed to be over protective of her "cursed" kit? Briarlight has been "cursed" with injury and sickness and accidents all her life: fatal sickness, the snake, the tree, the dogs, and now the flood (which everyone suffered from but she somehow survived). And how is Millie not supposed to yell at Blossomfall? She is always stressed because one of her kits will NEVER EVER feel the joys and pride that comes with serving their clan. She KNOWS Briarlight felt useless and pointless at some point in her life. That's a horrible thing for a parent to learn that their child feels. Blossomfall, in Millie's eyes probably, was taking advantage of her wellbeing. She's able to walk, run, jump, be a warrior, explore, etc. Yet Blossomfall chooses to do something foolish and almost get her and her clanmate KILLED. Millie had every right to yell at Blossomfall for almost taunting Briarlight with being able to walk and run. Blossomfall used her wellbeing to do something foolish instead of serve her clan like how Briarlight wishes she could but can't. That's probably what Millie was thinking and honestly, it's what I thought the more I read that scene. So yes, I defend Millie in these cases, but not where she is in the extremes of "ignoring" Bumblestripe and Blossomfall. Blossomfall could have talked to Millie and we could have seen it on screen, but no. She CHOSE to join the Dark Forest for something so immature.

Because people look at characters differently.

Because they want to.

'Cause we are name buddies