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Fan ArticlesSilverthorn argues why Mapleshade’s actions were justified.
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This is sliverthorn here with my second article. I know there are a lot of Mapleshade articles, so I decided to make my own. Here’s why Mapleshade is absolutely justified:
A lot of other cats have had cross Clan kits. Leafpool and Crowfeather,graypool’s parents, everyone from DotC. They may have gotten punished, but they certainly didn’t get EXILED.
Plus, her kits are only 2 moons . Leafpool arguably did worse and only got reduced to being a warrior. How can ThunderClan be mad to get 3 new warriors? And yes ,ok,I get it,she murdered 3 cats. But frankly, they deserved it. First, she killed ravenwing by ambushing him from the moonstone tunnel. That avenged larchkit. Out of her 3 victims, I feel like he deserves it least. But he did get Mapleshade exiled, so yeah. Next is frecklewish . He just stood there and let her kits DROWN. He literally did nothing about it. So Mapleshade tricked her into getting bitten by a snake. Absolutely fair. And it avenged petalkit . 100 percent ok. Now pachkit was avenged by the death of appledusk. Having 2 mates if one dies is fine . but getting a second mate while your first one is expecting kits? Definitely not. Also ,cut Mapleshade some slack. She was killed by an apprentice. Mapleshade also technically committed murder after death to. She caused Crookedstar, Crookedjaw then, to let rainflower drown. Now she deserves it too. Mapleshade’s still in the right. But look at how many cats she Didn’t murder . Look at how many are appledusks kin. Bluestar. Stonefur. Mosskit. Silverstream. Graystripe. Feathertail and stormfur. Mistystar( well I guess not Mistystar because as of now we don’t know how she died) technically snowfur and whitestorm. Even thisleclaw.They
Were all wonderful cats. And appledusks kin . And she didn’t kill them. They did die. Just (probably for Mistystar)not from her. Well, not from her directly. She might have caused tigerclawstar to commit some of his murders. But still.
That is why Mapleshade is absolutely justified. I’m not justifying all murder. Just this murder. Keep an eye out for “giving other book characters warrior names “
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Great article!
I agree, Mapleshade should go to StarClan.
I disagree, but nice article.
I see your point! Great article!
Those murders were not okay!
I haven’t read Mapleshade’s Vengeance, sure, but I have heard enough spoilers and read enough articles to have an opinion.
1. It is not at all Ravenflight’s fault. Sure, he told his leader about Mapleshade mating with a RiverClan cat, but he didn’t mean to get her exiled! That was the leader’s choice, not his. He was only doing the right thing by telling his leader, and didn’t mean for those bad things to happen to Mapleshade.
2. Frecklewish was told that her DEAD brother was the father of Mapleshade’s kits. Once she figured out that Mapleshade had been lying to her, she probably didn’t even care about the kits anymore. She was also probably angry that Mapleshade had been lying to her about her dead brother being the father of the kits.
3. Appledusk totally deserved it. He’s a jerk, and was an awful cat for what he did to Mapleshade, but that still doesn’t give her a reason to just kill him. Of she didn’t want her kits to drown, maybe not cross the river with three young kits. She could’ve easily taken some other path, or just waited for the river to calm. Blaming that on Appledusk and killing him for it doesn’t make any sense.
I’m too tired to come up with an article lengthed comment on why I both disagree and agree, but great article nonetheless! ^^
Eh… her actions are very not okay, especially since she avenged what were confirmed to be hallucinations by the very author of the book. Also, Frecklewish deserves better than this slander.
Also also Whitestorm’s family tree is not connected to Appledusk’s. They’re just inlaws.
Great article, tho I heavily disagree. Ravenwing only did his job. Oakstar was the one who exiled Mapleshade.
And what exactly was Frecklewish supposed to do? A ThunderClan cat in a flooded river? While she saw a RiverClan patrol on the other side? She would only risk her own death. But that’s not all. No matter how much the cats deserved it, what Mapleshade went through doesn’t make it okay to murder super many. With this logic, there are A LOT of cats with hard lives who should have become maniacs as well.
Woop worry for the long rant 😛
I disagree, but that’s a great article. 🙃
Great article, but I highly disagree.
I do agree with the statement that Mapleshade shouldn’t have been exiled. She broke the rules but she shouldn’t have been left to fend for herself while raising three kits. However, I don’t think Ravenwing is to blame for that. He was just doing his job in telling Oakstar about something he should know. He received an omen regarding the parentage of Mapleshade’s kits. Why would StarClan send him an omen if he wasn’t supposed to do anything about it? It was Oakstar’s decision to exile Mapleshade- not Ravenwing’s. Ravenwing was just a new medicine cat who was doing his job based on an omen- giving information from StarClan to his leader.
Frecklewish didn’t do much wrong either. I don’t at all blame her for not doing anything when she saw the kits drowning. What was she supposed to do? Jump in the raging river (as a cat who didn’t even know how to swim) to try to catch three rapidly rushing kits? She had just seen Flowerpaw die doing something very similar a few moons ago, and she was trying to catch her mentor, Birchface, a bigger target. There was also a RiverClan patrol at the scene. Frecklewish wouldn’t have been able to save the kits- she would’ve just been another cat to save. She couldn’t have done anything to help the kits- she would’ve just likely died trying to do the impossible.
I don’t think Frecklewish is completely innocent because she seemed to have an excessive amount of hatred for a few kits based on their mother’s actions. But I can’t blame her for not helping the kits in the river because that would’ve been impossible. She would’ve died for no reason.
Also, Frecklewish is a she-cat.
I think Ravenwing was completely innocent, and Frecklewish wasn’t guilty enough to deserve murder. Mapleshade is an unreliable narrator, which twists two decent cats into indirect murderers based off faulty logic.
I don’t Mapleshade should be ‘cut slack’ because she was killed by an apprentice. Should Bone be cut slack because a flurry of apprentices killed him? No, he did bad things. How a bad cat died doesn’t matter much when deciding their guiltiness, IMO.
I also don’t think she should be praised for not murdering certain cats. And I wouldn’t call Thistleclaw a ‘wonderful cat’, especially considering Spottedleaf’s Heart.
Great article! Sorry if this comment is messy; I’m tired right now :p
There is an aspect to this story that I have never seen anyone mention: why did StarClan send Ravenwing that omen? StarClan is supposed to be above clan divisions, so why do something to promote “clanism”? Kits are just kits and totally innocent, regardless of their parentage. Also, StarClan is supposed to be able to see the future, at least to a limited degree. Were they unable to see the horrible consequences of their actions?
Perhaps there was a worse future that awaited if Mapleshade wasn’t exiled. If she got her way and stayed in ThunderClan, perhaps she would’ve done something worse than killing three cats, somehow. Maybe StarClan had to choose the events that actually happened in Mapleshade’s Vengeance by sending Ravenwing an omen over some theoretically worse events.
I honestly think StarClan can’t see the future at all outside of the vague prophecies they recieve.
Yeah but they pretend to because they wanna look so amazing and they’re really not👹👹👹
I love this article so much I can’t put it into words.
Okay, yes, I don’t agree that murdering that many cats was COMPLETELY justified, because that’s just terrifying. But she had really good reasons. So I don’t think she was justified, but it was understandable and shouldn’t get completely blamed for the things she did.
At any point Mapleshade could’ve chosen not to murder three cats. She could’ve thought everything through and realized that she was, at least partly, at fault for everything that had happened to her. She never did. I think it is right to blame Mapleshade for murdering Ravenwing, Frecklewish, and Appledusk. No one made her murder them- she chose to do so herself.
Also, Mapleshade did not have good reasons to murder any of the three cats. Ravenwing did nothing wrong. Frecklewish never could’ve saved her kits. Appledusk just made a mistake that he handled badly. None of these are reasons to murder someone. Mapleshade was a terrible cat and everything that happened following RiverClan’s rejection was her fault.
I have to disagree with you. It is true that some cats treated Mapleshade badly, especially Oakstar and Appledusk, but no one is ever justified in in committing murder for revenge.
I completely agree. Murder is never justifiable.
Also, um… mods?
Removed the part you referred to ^^
I’m disturbed even more now. I had already read this article once, gotten upset, made a comment on the Hug Page, and then reread this because I hadn’t actually read it thoroughly and I wanted to make a comment on the article (I skimmed it the first time), and saw THIS
Pardon me?
I think Hollz intended to reply to Twinklecutie.
I was talking about the part that you removed, sorry for the misunderstanding
I totally disagree sorry. Oakstar was so mad that Mapleshade lied to him all this time but I guess she still shouldn’t have be exiled but yeah. Her kits couldn’t stay anyway because of the omen Ravenwing got and there is no guarantee for sure that they would have any better life moons later when Mapleshade tells the truth. And no, I don’t think Frecklewish and Ravenwing deserved death. Ravenwing was just a young medicine cat who wanted to the best for his clan. I am sorry but I am not taking the side of killing innocent cats. And Frecklewish.. she was also heartbroken about what happened to her and she never meant the kits to die. There is absolutely nothing she could have don’t that 3-4 Riverclan warriors cannot do. I guess she was still mean to the kits but I understand.., she doesn’t deserve death. It isn’t 100 % okay. Well Appledusk deserves it but the one she was going after was Reedshine. Reedshine was pretty annoying but I don’t think she has to be killed. But I do like her as a villain after she dies though, Her villainous qualities don’t need to be justified. And yeah, she didn’t kill other cats but that does not mean she didn’t kill at all.
No offense if this was offensive but I am sure you worked hard on this article! 😀
I VERY strongly disagree with every word of this. The reeds and the water were an omen, and Ravenwing was just reporting it to his Clan leader. And before you say that Ravenwing and Frecklewish didn’t say or do anything to support Mapleshade when she was getting exiled, a lot of cats do things without thinking that they regret later. Ravenwing’s mentor had recently died, and he was also supporting his Clan leader. Frecklewish was angry at Mapleshade and wasn’t thinking clearly. And by the way it is NOT “absolutely justified” or “100 percent ok” to MURDER a medicine cat, let alone the only medicine cat in the Clan. Also, he was at the MOONSTONE, which is a SACRED place like Fourtrees or the Moonpool or the Gathering island and commiting murder there is even worse than it would be somewhere else. It is also NOT in ANY WAY okay to just SIT there while your FORMER CLANMATE gets BLINDED by a SNAKE. It wasn’t clear how much of the kits’ deaths Frecklewish saw or if she even saw them at all. What I think is that Frecklewish followed Mapleshade to the border to make sure she left, looked at them for a few seconds as they went onto the first stepping-stone, and then turned around and left. And even if Rainflower deserved it, how is Mapleshade in the right for murder? I hate Mapleshade and I don’t understand why everyone loves her so much. I assume it’s because she’s female, but if Tigerstar, Darkstripe, Brokenstar, Splashtail, and others like that were also female, I don’t think people woud like Mapleshade as much. AND ALSO I think Appledusk is a GREAT character and WHY does everyone think he CHEATED on Mapleshade? Yes, he sort of did, but he ALSO cheated on Reedshine, and a lot of people who love Mapleshade hate Reedshine. FOR WHAT? Reedshine is innocent! She didn’t do anything! And that is why I VERY strongly disagree with basically every word in this article. Although I would like a moment of silence for us to all scream at Oakstar in our heads because he is horrible. (Not as horrible as Dolores Umbridge or Gilderoy Lockhart or Cornelius Fudge, though.) Now that I’ve finished typing this I realize how very long it is. Also sorry for the screaming