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Post by foxstride on Mar 28, 2021 16:33:15 GMT -5
So, I started rereading the series again, as I do every 1-2 years. I normally start right from the beginning, but a relative is borrowing my books. I decided to pick up Yellowfang's Secret again and I'm halfway and... struggling a bit. I forgot how odd some of the SEs could be, especially when they retcon things, like Yellowfang's empathy power. I'm not a fan of the powers certain medicine cats and future protagonists get, and I'd honestly forgotten she had that at all. Reading again, I remember why I've only read it once before.
I do love the rat raid in it though.
Other than that, I wondered what other people thought of "magic retcons", where a Super Edition goes back and gives a protagonist a power or influence. For instance, Tigerclaw's Fury or Crookedstar's Promise both feature magic retcons with the presence of Mapleshade. I guess it's to keep it in line with more fantasy that the future series has, though I don't remember DOTC getting that sort of treatment - which is one reason why it's my favourite series since TPB.
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Post by Ṣanɗypaw™ on Mar 28, 2021 21:29:00 GMT -5
In my opinion, if you're going to give Yellowfang power, at least let that power be mentioned somewhere outside of her SE so it can become a little more canon and so that it affects the plot of the main story somehow. That part kind of annoyed me about her SE.
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Post by foxstride on Mar 29, 2021 11:37:48 GMT -5
Those two answers combined definitely work for her. Empathy... doesn't. Empathy as a power is interesting to me in other fantasy settings but the way it's handled in Yellowfang's Secret was really disappointing and didn't work at all, especially given it was a magic retcon. Now if Jayfeather had had empathy as a power, I'd like that a lot more than the offensive way they handled his power.
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