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Cats that do and dont deserve to go to the dark forest by Sunmist

Sunmist takes a look at some cats from the series and whether they have a spot in the Dark Forest reserved just for them.

Artwork by allepowerreal

hey guys! sunmist here 🙂 today I will be discussing cats that should have went to the dark forest. i will also be defending some cats who UNDER POPULAR OPINION are said that they should go to the dark forest. this is my first article so I hope you enjoy it!
!*SPOILER ALERT*! (there are lots of spoilers and btw I have read till the fourth book of omen of the stars)

Ashfur

I used to be one of those people who argued that Ashfur should’ve gone to the place of no stars aka the dark forest, but now, looking back, his only mistake was loving too much. (also he might’ve gone a little crazy at the end xD) technically, what did ashfur REALLY do? I shall now list all his mistakes;
-he had clingy problems
when Squirrelflight chose brambleclaw as his mate, we all can understand ashfurs trauma, but squirrelflight liked him as a FRIEND and it must hurt to be put in the friend zone. ashfur was just salty cuz he wanted to be squirrelflights mate! tbh i would have really liked to see the two as friends
-he went a little cray-cray (yes i just said cray-cray)
when the fire happened at camp and everyone was evacuating, ashfur trapped squirrelflight and her kits. he wanted her to feel the same pain he felt when he was rejected, so he wanted to hurt her kits. when squirrelflight said “you can’t hurt me because they’re not even my kits” (or something like that idrk) she was obviously lying. she loved those three kits (hollyleaf, lionblaze, jayfeather) just as if they were her own.
so all ashfur did was love too much. he never did anything SO evil that he deserved to go to that dark forest. he might have done some evil stuff but hollyleaf killed him before he could do anything. technically, ashfur did no harm.

now we have…
DUN DUN DUNNNNNN
rainflower
ok so this is one cat that definitely deserves to go to the dark forest. she used to be a pretty loving mother till her sons jaw looked…different. at the beginning of the book crookedstars promise, she was always praising her sons, crookedkit and oakkit, of how handsome they were. when crookedkit got injured, and he twisted his jaw, rainflower basically rejected him. when he was still recovering in the nursery, by the time his brother, oakkit became and apprentice, she went back to the warriors den. she called him ugly (not to his face but crookedkit overheard his mother saying that to his father) and was a horrible mother. rainflower deserves so go to the darkforest for isolating and verbally abusing her son. before cats started to train other cats to be murderers for the great battle, it used to be an endless place with no prey. maybe rainflower would be sorry when she is surrounded by all her thoughts! who knows? i mean, rainflower was pretty nice before crookedkits injury. BUT SHE DIDNT EVEN COME TO HER SONS LEADERSHIP CEREMONY :0

you know it was coming…
APPLEDUSK
I cannot discuss this cat without going CRAZY
ok so first of all… HE CHEATED ON MAPLESHADE WITH REEDSHINE LIKE NOT COOL HE SHOWED SO MUCH LOVE FOR MAPLESHADE AND THEN BETRAYED HER AND TOLD HIS WHOLE CLAN THAT HE NEVER LOVED HER OR HER KITS IN FRONT OF THEIR DEAD BODIES…. AAAAAND HE BLAMED MAPLESHADE FOR BEING KICKED OUT AND HER KITS DROWNING LIKE WHAT?! ok I’m so sorry but I cant go on discussing this piece of crowfood calmly. but you get my point hehe.

frecklewish
SHE WATCHED HER BEST FRIENDS KITS DROWN YOU DESERVE TO GO TO THE DARK FORESTOakstar anss Darkstar

these two are leaders and they don’t necessarily deserve to go to the dark forest but ima just list all the evil things they did so you guys can decide :] oakstar-
so he drove my baby mapleshade out >:( but even worse, he drove her poor little kits out even though they did nothing. i understand that he was birchface’s(the supposed mate of mapleshade) father and he was sad that his son didn’t live on in these kits, but seriously, WHY DRIVE THEM OUT?!

darkstar-
imagine this–
you are the leader of riverclan. you find a thunderclan she cat and your warriors holding three dead kits. you then find out that a warrior of yours has mated with this thunderclsan she cat. he says “I never loved her or these kits I am loyal” so you forgive him CUZ HE SAYS HE IS LOYAL BUT STILL HAD KITS and bury the three poor kits in the mud and tell this grieving she cat who just lost her kits and never even had a vigil TO GO AWAY >:(

oki doki guys! that was my article and I know a lot of you will disagree with my ashfur thing but I hope you liked it! (i know i forgot to capatalize the names so sorry if that bothers you) please feel free to comment your opinion and we’ll that’s it! byeeeeee

*sunmist out*

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24 comments

  • Okay…
    In defence of Frecklewish:
    First of all, Frecklewish was not to blame for Birchface’s and Flowerpaw’s deaths. Their deaths were completely by accident!
    Also, when she was asking about Mapleshade’s kits, Mapleshade had the chance to tell her they weren’t Birchface’s!
    And when she said that Mapleshade and her kits should be exiled she was in a state of shock and grief. She wanted to believe that the kits were what was left of her dead brother! And because Appledusk was the supposed killer, imagine what that would have felt to Frecklewish!
    Finally, Frecklewish had already suffered beyond all this mental turmoil: Mapleshade KILLED Frecklewish INDIRECTLY BY AN ADDER. Adder poison is slow-working and would have been agony, and it’s not honorable either!
    This shows that Frecklewish deserves to be treated better and Mapleshade deserved to go to the Dark Forest. Besides letting her kits DROWN…I can excuse the other killings as mental turmoil but when there’s a proper bridge to take and instead you SWIM A FLOODED RIVER, you cross a line!

    • I agree

      Mapleshade had a bridge to cross, but she decided to swim in a river that was full in the middle of a storm with her tired kits.
      In my opinion, Frecklewish has every right to be irritated by Mapleshade. Frecklewish had depression because of Birchface’s death, her own brother. Mapleshade lied that Birchface was the father of the kits, and Frecklewish was hopeful that Birchface would live in Mapleshade’s kits. But then she found out it was all a lie.

    • Frecklewish deserves to be treated better? yeah,right.
      After she just watched three innocents kits die without helping. sure.
      I believe she DID deserve a painful death.

      Sorry,but she couldn’t cross the bridge. one bridge was the bridge RIVERCLAN use to cross,and the way Mapleshade ended up on the river means Thunderclan chased her out on the South side,and the bridge is on the North side. she couldn’t cross either bridge.

    • So I don’t agree but here’s why,Mapleshade was going to tell the Clan once her kits were apprentices,Ravenwing poked in places he shouldn’t have aka spying on Maple.But Frecklewish could’ve at least gone down there and helped or seen what was really happening.

  • Ashfur did deserve to go to the dark forest. I mean, he tried to kill his own clan leader, three apprentices and a loyal warrior just because he got rejected by cat who wasn’t even technically his girlfriend and known for like two weeks? He just didn’t succeed at his kill. It doesn’t make him less evil or anything.

  • Frecklewish had all the rights to watch the kits drown and not help! Although it’s bad, it’s Mapleshade’s fault she fell for Appledusk (Who btw, killed frecklewish’s sister and brother)! Maple also faked that the kits were her brother’s

    • What? Just because she made a mistake,she has all the rights to break the code,and let and watch 3 INNOCENT KITS DROWN!?

  • MAPLESHADE WAS INNOCENT
    Frecklewish watched her kits die
    Oak star exiled her AND her kits but no one exiled leaf pool for having kits with crow feather
    Darkstar burried her kits in the mud said apple dumb was loyal and then sent Mapleshade away with out a vigil !😡

  • I really think Ashfur deserves the Dark Forest. Believe me, he did MORE than ‘loving too much.’
    Aside from that, I agree with pretty much everything you said.
    Also, I love Mapleshade too. <3
    RIP Alex Trebek

  • Ashfur DOES deserve the dark forest. he ‘loved too much’? nah.
    Loving too much doesn’t mean that he could try to kill all the cats she love.
    Listing the things he did? ok.
    Trying to kill Firestar.
    Trying to kill Lionpaw
    Trying to kill Lionblaze again.
    Trying to kill Hollyleaf.
    Trying to kill Jayfeather.
    Omg,he OBVIOUSLLYYYYY loved too much,did he?
    he threatened her,and became revengeful,just because she picked another cat. That’s obviously NOT OKAY.

    Rainflower
    Um……she was dead that’s why she wasn’t there in Crookedstar’s leadership ceremony. and besides,they made up in starclan,so i won’t say more.

    Appledusk
    YES. JUST.YES.

    Frecklewish
    YES. HISSED AND CLAWED AT HER. SAW THE KITS DIE BUT DIDN’T SAVE THEM.

  • How I feel:
    ashfur: I don’t think he deserves the dark forest. He was not the best cat, but I feel sympathy for him. He was crazy. I wish he wasn’t evil in the broken code. I would’ve liked a redemption.
    rainflower: I wished she had a redemption too. Or at least a talk with crooked star. I don’t think she’s evil enough to be in the dark forest. I wish I knew why she was so horrible to crookedkit. Yes crooked kit looks ugly, but why?
    Appledusk: horrible cat. He was disloyal and quite rude. Does he deserve the dark forest? Idk
    Frecklewish: no one has the right to let and watch a cat let alone kits die. I understand why she didn’t though. She had the right to be upset, but letting innocent lots die? I don’t know if she deserves the dark forest tho.
    Oak star: the kits didn’t do anything. I understand why he exiled maple shade. It wasn’t the best thing to do but I understand why he did it. But the kits. He wasn’t the best cat but doesn’t deserve dark forest.
    darkstar: mapleshades kits died. He could of done something. Anything. Something as simple as letting her grief. Horrible cat, but doesn’t deserve dark forest

  • Rain flower does but she has a little reason for this you see she could not except the fact that her son had changed she thought he would die and when he didn’t she couldn’t bear to see him and when she rejected him the first time she wanted to say sorry but she already started it so she couldn’t stop or something just search it up on YouTube it tells you I forgot most of it but it’s something along those lines

  • what did frecklewish do i thought she was a medicine cat who did not have any idea who mapleshade was