Dovewing and Tigertwo are related?

They are also actually blood related too - at least very distantly. 

Dovewing > Birchfall (Father) > Ferncloud (Mother) > Whitestorm (Mother) > Thistleclaw (Father) > Poppydawn (Mother) > Fallowsong (Mother) > Sweetbriar (Sister)  > Pinestar (Son) > Tigerstar (Son) > Tawnypelt (Daughter) > Tigerheartstar (Son)

Edit: I remembered that I already did this but shorter so here you go lol

Dovewing/Ivypool -> Whitewing (Mother) -> Brightheart (White’s mother) -> Lionheart (Bright’s father) -> Goldenflower (Lion’s sister) -> Tawnpelt (Golden’s daughter) -> Flametail, Tigerheart, and Dawnpelt (Tawny’s kits)

Oh lol, that was because I thought Brindleface was somehow related to Tigerstar, and then I switched her to Whitestorm but didn’t fix that part.

I feel like we should acknowledge that more lol. The wc family tree made so much incest and so many problems it’s insane

They're distantly related but it's not like that's an issue with the characters. You got people like Hawkwing and Pebbleshine who are first cousins having kids so.

they r second cousins once removed.


dovewing's mom is whitewing.
whitewing's mom is brightheart.
brightheart's father is lionheart.
lionheart's sister is goldenflower.
goldenflower's child is tawnypelt.
tawnypelt is the mother of tigerstar II

yeah they're canonically siblings now. graystripe (and darkstripe) nnow dont have canon dads [its not patchpelt lol]

I can assure that a lot of people (also on here), including myself, take issue with Thistleclaw's grooming of Spottedleaf when she was a kit/apprentice even without his training in the Dark Forest being taken into consideration. And Thistleclaw was revealed to train there during Crookedstar's Promise long before Spottedleaf's Heart even came out showcasing his alarming behaviour towards Spottedkit/paw anyways so I'm not exactly sure what point you're trying to make there.

There were also people on here who had a problem when Onestar got together with his former apprentice Whitetail. That said, those who compared Onestar to Thistleclaw in this regard got rightfully corrected for it on here and in other spaces of the fandom because Onestar simply did not do the same things Thistleclaw did. He did not pursue Whitetail romantically or thought about her in such a way while still acting as an authority figure in her life unlike Thistleclaw who actively sought Spottedpaw out thus implying certain intentions. I will say though, that the scene of Onestar explicitedly thinking about Whitetail as his former apprentice in the same sentence as he is considering her romantically was very much unnecessary and felt highly uncomfortable.

Edit: Wait, did I just write this whole thing out in regards to the overall forum perspective on OneWhite and ThistleSpotted (*shudders at having to even type out the "ship" name*) when you might have actually meant the in-universe reaction of other characters to these couples? If so, whoops.

Yeah, they could have definitely written things in SH better to make someone actually help Spottedpaw get away from Thistleclaw and hold him accountable for his behaviour around her.

Featherwhisker (her medicine cat mentor) or Thrushpelt (her warrior mentor) already got scenes in her book to showcase them being worried about her but it's not explored enough imo. She still had to live in the same Clan with Thistleclaw until he finally went and got himself killed in that provoked battle with the RiverClan patrol.

Imagine how easy would it have been for Bluefur/star to realize what's going on and protect Spottedpaw from even having to interact with Thistleclaw. Especially considering just how aware Bluestar was of Thistleclaw in her own SE, a portion of which even overlaps with Spottedleaf's novella timeline-wise (her taking the kits to Oakheart). But alas, the writing team somehow did not think it necessary to adress any of that while including such a serious topic in their battle cat children's book series so here we are.

As for Onestar becoming mates with his former apprentice Whitetail and no cat in-universe caring about it, that's because it's just not being written to be frowned upon or anything like that as it typically is in real life. Also, wouldn't be the first or probably last time it happened either (just look at Sharpclaw x Cherrytail).

back in the day, people thought redtail was sandstorms dad, which would make squirrelflight and brambleclaw 2nd cousins.

but now sandstorm has no canon parents, so squirrel x bramble r no longer related as far as we know. i think its way too late to try and give sandstorm parents bc no matter who they pick from prequel material, they will more than likely make squirrel x bramble related and make more cats in thunderclan related to firekin than they already r lol