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[Mapleshade tearfully embraces her kits after crossing the river]
Hi! Im Racoonkit here 4 my FIRST article. Today i wil be talking about a much-discussed topic, Mapleshade, and whether she deserved the DF or not. So, without further ado, let’s get started!
First, let’s think about what happened to mapleshade. She was a brave warrior who was known for courage when she faced foes shuch as badgers, or foxes. Then, she fell in love with a riverclan warrior named Appledusk, and ended up expecting his kits. Recently, there had been a battle for sunningrocks, and a thunderclan cat named birchface had drowned. Frecklewish concluded HERSELF that birchface was the father. When thunderclan found out that mapleshade hat kits with a riverclan cat, they got mad, and exled her and her kits into a storm. Mapleshade tried to cross the river into riverclan, but her kits drowned, and appledusk rejected her for that. Then she went crazy.
Now, it’s time to talk about what mapleshade did. She mated with a cat from a different clan, Appledusk, who had killed birchface. Then, she let frecklewish, birchfaces sister, to believe that she was expecting birchface’s kits, only for it to be revealed by ravenwing that the appledusk was the acutal father of the kits. Then, she tought it was a good idea to cross the FLODDDED river with KITS! And her kits died because of it. Then, she killed frecklewish, ravenwing, and appledusk! And she tried to kill reedshine!!!! And then she died and went to the DF.
My opinion on all this is that MAPLESHADE IS INNOCENT!!!!! She was hurt very deeply when she was exiled from thunderclan, and then that hole in her heart was deepened when she lost her kits! All she had left was Appledusk, and he rejected her, and even flirted with another cat in front of her! That was the last straw, so she was driven into insanity by Appledusk, Frecklewish, and Ravenwing. And then she killed them, which I think they deserved. She also deserved to go to Starclan, in the place of Appledusk.
That’s all i have for today! See ya later! 😀
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Great article!
I disagree. Regardless of what Frecklewish, Appledusk, and Ravenwing did, they did not deserve to die. Mapleshade’s actions shouldn’t be excused and she isn’t innocent. Cool article though! It’s great to see other people’s perspectives on this topic 🙂
Congrats with your first article! Even tho I don’t agree that Mapleshade is innocent, I liked it!
I dissagree that she is guilty, she was tormented by fake visions and voices of her kits telling her to kill and avenge them.
Great article, but I do disagree with some of it.
Cool article! I agree that what happened to Mapleshade was terrible, but she didn’t deserve to kill other cats. Her actions hurt other cats like Frecklewish, who was also hurt because she believed that her brother(who recently died) would live on through the kits. So I understand why she was mad. So Mapleshade’s actions weren’t justified, because she shouldn’t have killed either way. I understand that she thought she was avenging her kits, but when she went to the Dark Forest, she was happy. So, I disagree with the article, but I understand why you would say she’s innocent
great article! I do disagree that the cats that she murdered deserved their deaths tho.
I, SOOOOOO Agree w/ you!!!!
She went thru a lot and was tormented by fake visions and voices of her kits! Wich then sentenced her to the DF… :<
Great article, but I don’t agree with you, YES she was exiled unfairly, YES appledusk should’ve taken responsibility as well, but at the end of the day, SHE was the one who decided to take her kits across a flooded, rushing river, and it was HER choice to kill cats who were just following a code, Mapleshades actions shouldnt be seen as reasonable just because she was ‘driven to insanity’, but its nice to see other perspectives on such a discussed topic
I AGREE W/ YOU AND I DISSAGREE WITH ANYONE WHO DISSAGREES
👏 beautifully worded
Just because she suffered doesn’t mean she didn’t do bad things. Sure she went crazy, but that shouldn’t excuse her actions, especially the murdery actions, and she did have multiple chances to prevent her fate (not meeting with Appledusk, not implying her kits father was Birchface, not taking her kits to a flooding river, etc.) That being said, nice article 👍