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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2017 1:34:14 GMT -5
I thought Shattered Sky was a great book, but one slight thing that bothered me was Darktail's backstory. Darktail was a good villain, but I expected his backstory to be so much more than him just having daddy issues. It just felt like a fanfiction to make Onestar have a secret son who comes back for vengeance ten years later.
Also, if Darktail did all of this to get back at Onestar then why did he bother with WindClan the least? He screwed everyone but ThunderClan and WindClan over, and you'd think if he did all of this with the intent of killing his father and making him pay for what he had done to him and Smoke that he would have given WindClan the worst of it all but all he did was kill Furzepelt and make Onestar crazier than normal until he died.
Like I don't have a big problem with Darktail's backstory, but I just feel like it kind of takes away from his character and makes him less interesting.
It also bothers me there was no confrontation between Hawkwing and Darktail for one last time. I wanted Hawkwing to kill him.
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Post by 𝓣𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓿𝓲𝓮𝓵 on Apr 16, 2017 1:47:59 GMT -5
Glad you enjoyed SS.
I actually don't mind it. Onestar was always a bit of a coward and this just adds to it. We also never see his PoV, either, though I suppose more foreshadowing could've been in use.
And my guess is why Darktail dealt with WindClan last is probably because it was one of those "save the best for last" situation? That's my guess, anyway. He did try to take in WindClan in TAS though, but was defeated and only caused Furzepelt to die. He might've also wanted to weaken the other Clans as much as possible before moving on to WindClan. Smoke also taught him to hate the Clans in general, not just WindClan, so Darktail might've not cared which order he took them out, just that he took them out at all.
I would've liked a confrontation between Darktail and Hawkwing, but I actually don't mind Onestar finishing him off, either. It seems fitting, given all the trouble Onestar has caused that he can at least do this one last good thing before he dies. I still dislike him as a cat though, but he's sort of grown on me as a character. Sort of.
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Post by ʀᴀɪɴʟᴇᴀғ 🍁 on Apr 16, 2017 2:25:33 GMT -5
Assuming he knows all about the Clans, he could know about ShadowClan and WindClan being in hostile relations for a good majority of the first arc. This would be one of the most traumatizing events and in an attempt to play mind games, he goes for the Clan that had done so much harm. Considering the kind of cat Darktail is, this seems in character and also makes the Erins look clever.
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