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Fan ArticlesMoonpaw shares their love for Twigbranch.
Hi! It’s Moonpaw here with my second article, and today you’ll see why I love Twigbranch, my favourite character (yes, an unpopular opinion, I know).
Before we start, in case there are any other Moonpaws out there, I’m Moonpaw/leaf. Just to clear anything up!
Please note that I have read up to Sky of A Starless Clan. I don’t know anything about Twigbranch in Shadow and onwards.
Let’s get on with the article!
A General Look at Twigbranch
Twigbranch is a kind, thoughtful, and peace-loving she-cat who has a tendency to dream her life away and who has, let’s call it questionable, taste in possible mates. Due to her unsteady kithood, she has a particular longing to find a sense of belonging and family. She served three apprenticeships, under Ivypool, Sandynose, and Sparkpelt. Her mother died when she was a kit and her father was separated from her at the same time. She has one sister, Violetshine, who she at first felt the need to be very close to. Her mate is Finleap and she is a part of ThunderClan.
Family
Twigbranch’s family went through a really rough time. Hawkwing lost his mate and kits to a Twoleg, and soon after that, Twigkit and Violetkit lost their mother. From this, we can understand that Twigbranch feels a real need to connect with a family. At a young age, she does this through her sister Violetkit, then Violetpaw, but Violetpaw takes their situation in a very different way. She feels the need to make her own way in the world, not wanting much to do with Twigpaw. We may not agree with Twigpaw/branch’s obsession with family, but we can at least understand it.
As she gets older, when she goes on the quest to find SkyClan, and meets her father, she can’t decide whether to be a part of the family she’s always wanted, or the family that has raised her.
Clan
Twigpaw goes through not one, not two, but three apprenticeships. This is because of her indecision over which Clan she wants to be a part of. This in my eyes is very understandable. Wanting the family she’s longed for her whole life battles with wanting to have some loyalty to the cats who shaped her life. It’s a really hard decision for her, and by the end of all this she has experienced so much training and different views that she is very confused and all in a blur. In the end she decides to stay in ThunderClan, which I believe is the right choice.
Now, I’m going to go into why I love her, and why I think you should too! This will all be drawing from the previous sections.
Why I love her!
I love Twigbranch because she goes through so much, but still works hard and chooses to be kind to everyone. I think the fact that she finds it hard to decide which clan to stay in shows that she wants to please all, and that she has a deep sense of where she should belong. She’s thoughtful, too, and takes time to think about her actions. I also relate to her massively, but this is specific to me.
Defending her
Twigbranch is not petty, spoiled, or insensitive, not at all.
Your argument:
Twigbranch is SO petty and makes such a big deal over a small matter. Like, why can’t she be happy with the cats who raised her?
Countering:
As a kit, Twigbranch is a kit. Yes, read that sentence again. She can’t have a complex understanding of emotions or situations, and having a family is all she wants. This is completely okay. No one can expect a kit or young apprentice to just have the difficult feelings of accepting she belongs where she doesn’t have family.
As an apprentice who wants to be close to her sister, the only family member she has left, Twigpaw feels super hurt when Violetpaw attacks her and joins the Kin. The last time she saw Violetpaw, as kits, Violetkit wanted to be close to Twigkit too. She isn’t making a big deal – Violetpaw is the only cat she’s known her whole life, and she’s surprised and upset when Violetpaw hurts her.
Now, I’m going to speak about another part of Twigbranch’s life – her mate, Finleap. Okay, so before we start, I majorly shipped FinpawXTwigpaw, but I certainly don’t ship FinleapXTwigbranch. Finpaw and Twigpaw are so cute together – especially when Twigpaw is the only cat that Finpaw will even talk to.
As a warrior, Twigbranch fell in love with Finleap, who came back with her to ThunderClan. Finleap wanted to have kits with Twigbranch – but Twigbranch wasn’t ready. Finleap was saying that Twigbranch didn’t love him enough, pressuring her. But it is ultimately Twigbranch’s decision, and if she’s not ready, Finleap should respect that.
Your argument:
Twigbranch is super spoiled and pampered, she never had to go through what Violetshine had to go through! She doesn’t care a bit about Violetshine or Hawkwing’s feelings.
Countering:
Just because the sisters grew up in different environments doesn’t mean that one is immediately whiny and spoiled. In fact, ShadowClan specifically want Violetkit – and then with no reason whatsoever, all start being horrible to Violetkit/paw just so that we as readers feel sorry for her. I actually really like Violetshine – but some of the way she’s written bothers me. Twigbranch is not spoiled at all – a strong will in a slightly quieter cat might be mistaken for this, but she is allowed to be impulsive *cough* like Violetshine *cough*. It’s just a part of her personality, and last time I checked, spoilt is not a personality trait.
She also cares deeply about Violetshine and Hawkwing’s feelings – the decision to change her Clan was rooted in caring about and wanting to be with the aforementioned cats, and wanting to pave her own path and thank ThunderClan.
Overall, Twigbranch is an amazing character who has flaws such as getting lost in fantasy or indecision (but for valid reasons) but is also strong, kind, and a great character.
I hope this has changed some of you guys’s opinions on Twigbranch.
Thank you for reading.
-Moonpaw out
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Yes!!! Twigbranch is an amazing character!!! Amazing article, Moonpaw!
I don’t agree. Twigpaw had a loving and caring foster family in ThunderClan yet the best she could do was act like a spoiled brat towards everyone especially her sister Violetpaw. She was so ungrateful for the life she had that she ran away to find SkyClan despite everyone telling her not to, just because she wanted to find something better. She had a very good mentor, Ivypool, who advised her against finding and then joining SkyClan, but Twigpaw couldn’t see her point of view at all and instead got mad at her for it. She even left to join SkyClan eventually, but as soon as it was the slightest bit inconvenient for her, or she couldn’t understand her mentor who was—again, advising her to do the right thing. And she was extremely bratty towards Finleap and always insisted on her own way, and made him play the defense instead of talking to him calmly about it that she didn’t want kits. The only reason it escalated was because Twigbranch had to treat him, like everyone else, like a piece of crow-food and only cared about herself. Great article though!
She was not bratty or spoiled and she cared for Finpaw/leap very much, just didn’t want kits, and that is perfectly fine. Also, her father was enjoying life with Violetpaw, and seemed to not care that Twigpaw was also in SkyClan, not just Violetpaw. She left to rejoin ThunderClan because cats there she knew from kithood, unlike the cats in SkyClan. Also, she didn’t have the best childhood, so I can see how that affected her later life.
I was always pretty impartial to Twigbranch but this article kinda changed my mind! Great job.
Good article! I disagree though. Twigbranch was making dumb decisions allllllll the time, like swapping Clans JUST AFTER SHE PASSED HER ASSESMENT. That annoyed me so much, everyone is proud of her and loves her but miss Sticketystick isn’t happy. Like, she didn’t even know Hawkwing, and still she leaves her amazing foster family who love her deeply for him! And she also whines about Hawkwing loving Violetshine more, while he loved all of his kits equally! And then, she doesn’t care about Finpaw at all when he lost his tail, she’s like: ‘Ugh, he’s so whiny!’, while SHE is the whiny one! She’s so insensitive! She also swapped Clans AGAIN and AGAIN at the worst possible moment!!! This gets on my nerves sooooooooooooooooooo hard! Then she abuses Flypaw, her apprentice, (who I love), AND THINKS SHE’S RIGHT TO DO SO! She yells at Finleap when he defends poor Flypaw, who deserves that, and Twigbranch is also too insensitive to let Finleap meet his sick sister, while she meeted Violetshine even when she wasn’t sick! That’s why I hate Twigbranch, tho I respect all opinions and you did a pretty good job on this article!
How did Twigbranch not care about Finleap when he lost his tail? I’m pretty sure she helped him through that tough time and aided him in adjusting to his permanent injury.
But she was always expecting him to be happy when he just lost his tail, like, nobody would be happy then!
as far as I read twigbranch showed so expectations for his happiness. the only thing she did was try her best to motivate him and comfort him, and shared fear that he might never be able to do stuff with his tail. I just finished re-reading that book (such a good book btw aaah)
and also, I must admit that you are right that she made a lot of stupid decisions, especially regarding finleap. but let’s not forget that characters are not supposed to be perfect at all. twigbranch has flaws, and to me that makes her much more interesting. I like reading about characters who do super dumb stuff all the time! its cool.
She’s not whiny. Twigbranch’s story has always been about her finding where she belonged, and while she did have the stupid decision to leave just before she became a warrior both times she switched Clans, she wanted to be in an environment that was best for her wellbeing, and she did eventually learn and grow past yelling at Flypaw and reconciled with Finleap over their disagreements.
I think she is whiny. She always expects others to be happy while she is super indecisive and never happy!
I disagree with you (having made my own article about Twigbranch under the name Leafpaw), but still, Great article
I agree! Great article Moonpaw!
Great article!
Great article! I love your style of writing, but I disagree. In my opinion, Twigbranch is spoiled and self-centered. When Violetshine was suffering under Darktail, all she cared about was finding her parents, even when her biological sister was struggling right under her nose, and she didn’t lift a finger to help her. She was also unkind to her mentor, Ivypool, even when she let her visit her sister, bending one of the cardinal rules of the warrior code. Next, her Clan switching annoyed me. Twigbranch doesn’t really think about the consequences of her actions, or how they will affect other people. She was mean to her apprentice, Flypaw, who just needed extra help that Twigbranch never bothered to give. She never listens to others opinions or suggestions, and always believes that she’s right, for example when she was told by both the Clan leader and the medicine cat that going to find SkyClan was a mistake at this point in time, but she went anyway. After she rescued them, which, by the way, could have gone badly wrong, everyone congratulated her, which just inflated her already oversized ego. She only found SkyClan for her own selfish gain. When she joined SkyClan, she deluded herself into thinking that Hawkwing loved her sister more, which was completely untrue. This was yet another thing that Twigbranch just had to make about her. Anyway, just my opinion! Please feel free to disagree with me.
what makes her spoiled? (this next one sounded kinda mean so just to clarify I don’t mean to sound rude lol) first, being spoiled is other people’s faults. and the only cat who ever spoiled her was alderheart, and even then all he really was was nice to her. and I would object that twigbranch knew how much violetshine was suffering. violetshine lashed out at her several times, and when they met violetshine just told her to go away angrily, even when twigbranch did offer to help her and bring her to thunderclan. twigbranch lifted fingers to help her all the time, but violetshine was constantly angry and rude. and sure, I will agree that twigbranch was rude to ivypool at times, but twigbranch was also extremely kind to ivypool, thinking of her as a second mother. she says things like “I’m so happy you’re my mentor” “your opinion means a lot to me” and “you always have my back” which I think thoroughly disproves that she’s constantly rude to ivypool. and her clan switching? I mean, she switched twice, (Exact same as nightheart, and violetshine switched twice too ((not really switching between two clans and you may think “but she was pressured by needletail” and she was, but twigbranch had a lot of peer pressure from violetshine to join SkyClan, and pressure from her father who directly expected her to join SkyClan))) and that is more than usual (usual as in 0 times) but lets not forget the pressure she was receiving and her longing to be with her bio family. she soon realized that she belonged in thunderclan, so came back. was she supposed to not go back and live somewhere where she didn’t belong? and you may say that she shouldn’t have switched in the first place but how could she not? her family was breathing down her neck about it (even though they were semi-respectful ((until violetshine said that only she deserved to be happy at the end of darkest night, that was really cool (((at least violetshine apologized for that tho))))) and her rashness and semi-selfishness imo are pretty cool. nobody should want a character to be without flaws, that would make them flat and boring. imagine if all of the povs were firestar every single arc! and about flypaw, don’t you think it’s pretty cool that for once one of our povs are bad at being a mentor? a lot of people said it twigbranch was making flypaw’s life terrible and that wasn’t entirely true. twigbranch had a terribly hard time and so did flypaw. they both had some pretty bad issues with each other that they resolved. every time twigbranch yelled at her she profusely apologized, admitting her mistake. I wont lie, twigbranch should’ve treated flypaw better. but I thought it was really fun to read about and a cool thing to add to her character: never let this woman mentor people again!! /hj
and I do also agree that finding skyclan was EXTREMELY selfish. after all, she admitted in her own mind that all she wanted to do was find her dad. this really damages her mental health, though. she feels terrible in darkest night, but that goes away in the next book lol. and about the thought that hawking loved violetshine more, this is something twigbranch was truly upset about. hawkwing was always going around with violetshine more and did seem to love her more (from an outsider’s prospective ((that outsider being twigbranch))), in turn making twigbranch miserable. she searched for skyclan just so that she could have her father because last time she checked violetshine was fully ready to attack and hurt twigbranch in any way possible to please needletail. (hey, me editing,this whole reply sounded rude to me so just tryna clear the air I was in no way trying to attack you or anything! just countering every single point in this comment!! ((I am insane)) and so yuh just saying)
Great article but I disagree very much.
First, why should Twigbranch be allowed to have exceptions like swapping clans, not once, but twice! She is sooo lucky that Thunderclan let her back in, if it weren’t for them, she would’ve been a rouge! You might say she had a bad childhood, but. Violetshine had the same childhood as her, maybe even worse.
Twigpaw had a kind and caring family in Thunderclan, a nice mentor and friendly fellow apprentices! Unlike Violetshine, she was wanted yet was still complaining how she felt unwanted. Violetshine however, never once complained when the only cat in Shadowclan that made her feel appreciated was Needletail.
But great article though!
I love this article so much!
I’ve always loved Twigbranch and felt uncomfortable when people said she was spoiled and bratty, and felt I had to agree with them.
Now that you’ve written this article, I finally have words to my thoughts and can defend her!
Great article Moonpaw!
I disagree. Twigbranch only went to find SkyClan for her selfish self. And when she brought them to the lake, which caused a whole war between SkyClan and ShadowClan, she left them!! And when she leaves her warrior ceremony to be happy in ThunderClan and Violetshine is finally happy she’s together with cats who actually LOVE her, she yowls “Why do you always get to be happy?? Why can’t I ever be happy?” It’s really unfair for Violetshine. She had to watch millions of cats die, while Twigpaw momentarily tortured her sisters reputation by sneaking into Darktail’s camp and the ShadowClan camp. Twigpaw claims she doesn’t have a family but Lily(something I forgot her name) and Ivypool love her very much. Meanwhile… Violetpaw‘a clan is falling apart. She has a bad foster mother. She’s stuck with Darktail. Twigpaw didn’t deserve to switch clans or do anything at all. (Not trying to be rude.)
Twigbranch drives me up the wall. She’s soo egocentric and always thinks she’s special and the most important. Like when she rushed to ShadowClan camp at night, not thinking about consequences and getting both her and Violetpaw in trouble, just to tell Violetshine something she already knows. Like girl for real thought her feelings are more important then the warrior code. And then when she was held hostage because of her own stupidity she just layed in her nest pittying herself. She always makes everything about herself and makes stupid decisions and then whines. Like when Violetpaw went missing she wasn’t even looking for her but then when she got upset she rushed to find her just to whine. It’s like she just wants her sister out of selfish reasons, when she’s upset. Even after Twigpaw herself ditches Violetpaw imideatly in favour of going back to ThunderClan she still expects Violetpaw to ditch ShadowClan for her. She had an amazing foster family at ThunderClan and both Alderheart and Ivypool looking out for her, yet she still keeps whining about how she feels unwanted and out of place. She was cute as a kit and I’m glad she didn’t just turn into kit machine after her arc but otherwise she’s just a bunch of self-absorbed whining.
yess I LOVE TWIGBRANCH!! I relate to her a lot. let’s not forget that violetshine didn’t treat twigbranch very well. I’m not saying this isn’t justified, but I am saying that violetshien didn’t properly apologize. ew violetshine. otherwise I do like violetshine, but nowhere near as much as twigbranch.
the brat allegations are crazy, and the spoiled ones. excuse me? just how in the world was she spoiled, nobody but alderheart and lilyheart and ivypool ever actually talked to her and liked her, and even then lilyheart didn’t give her as much attention as her own kittens, which I believe is what eventually convinced her that thunderclan didnt appreciate her as much as they said they did.