The pratical reason why Mapleshade can’t go to Starclan by Cedarpaw

Cedarpaw shares the reason why Mapleshade can’t go to StarClan.

Hi fellow Blogclanners! My name is Cedarpaw. This is my first article and as you can see I am already digging deep into the dirt, because I’m talking about Mapleshade!

It’s become a rite of passage of sorts for a fandom member to share their opinion about Mapleshade’s Vengeance, and in the end it all comes down to two questions: Is Mapleshade evil? And: Should she go to Starclan?

First of all, I don’t like the term evil, it’s not very, well, practical… How do you define evil, how do you know a person (or cat) is evil? After all a common excuse for Mapleshade’s murdering is that she experienced hallucinations telling her to kill after the death of her kits. If you are that mentally unstable and you kill someone, is that evil ?… I don’t know.

So let’s make it simpler, is she guilty of murder? Yes. Whether or not Mapleshade is good or evil, she has murdered. And that is wrong.

But more importantly- that is dangerous. That’s why she can’t go to Starclan. While Starclan isn’t all seeing or all knowing- far from it actually, they were probably smart enough to see that Mapleshade was willing to hurt more cats after her death. After all, you can die a second time in Starclan, and even if Mapleshade redeemed herself in the end it’s pretty likely that she would kill Starclan cats before that. It’s not about whether Mapleshade’s actions where wrong, but whether she would be willing to do them again and yes she would.

This is the difference between her and cats like Hollyleaf, who proved they were no longer willing to murder when they died.

So the question isn’t: “Does Mapleshade deserve to be in Starclan? It’s: ” Is it
safe for Mapleshade be in Starclan?” And I say no, it’s not.

A possibility fans sometimes talk about is Mapleshade going to some sort of purgatory place between the Dark Forest and Starclan. It’s an interesting concept, but this is where things get kind of open-ended in my opinion. Because we don’t know how powerful Starclan is or how much control they have over reality, and those are questions that deserve their own article. So bye for now!

Thanks to everybody for reading! I never covered whether or not Mapleshade actually deserves to be in Starclan, so let me know what you think in the comments! 🙂