[a full-body design of Rock holding onto the stick with his tail and a paw]

Introducing Jay X Stick’s Ultimate Competitor! by Rosefern

Rosefern proposes a funny alternative to the Jayfeather x Stick joke ship.

[a full-body design of Rock holding onto the stick with his tail and a paw]
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[a full-body design of Rock holding onto the stick with his tail and a paw]

So a lot of people ship Jay X Stick. I do too! It’s really funny and cool! But I just realized something, there’s a better cat for the stick then Jayfeather…and it is…Rock!
Hey I didn’t say it was a likable cat! I hate Rock, he’s my least favorite character, and one of the reasons I want to keep thinking about Jay X Stick is because I like Jayfeather much better. But I think it makes sense.
First of all, Rock was the one who invented it. I mean obviously one day in the way way past it was just a regular stick. It just lived its life as a tree branch, with bugs and birds crawling over it, pooping on it, doing other such evil things, and Rock must’ve rescued it one day and given it a purpose other than collecting bird droppings.
Even when he died or whatever, and had to live in the tunnels he kept it with him, and face it, I’m sure he talked to it too, when no one was around, he be like “Hey stick, you know your precious boyfriend Jayfeather? Well, I’m very annoyed at him right now, because he doesn’t want to follow his destiny.”
Anyways yes Jayfeather did check on the Stick and probably also talked to it, seeking its unspoken advice, but he wasn’t constantly with it. Plus, if he cared about it, he wouldn’t have broken it.
When Jayfeather broke the Stick Rock did actually come and scratch him I think, that’s my headcanon, to sort of say “What did you do to my precious boyfriend the stick, you little monster?!” and he even kept the broken halves with him.
We know that because of in The Last Hope we see he has them and he throws them at Jayfeather to make a point. I know Rock doesn’t really show his emotions to Jayfeather, but he has them, and I’m sure he wasn’t just mad at Jayfeather for tampering with the past and disrespecting all of the cats that he liked to boss around in his early days, but he had also developed a bond with the stick. He spent all these years, all these centuries, living in the tunnels with the stick the only thing to keep him company, he always held onto it forever until the tunnels flooded and it was washed away to where Jayfeather found it.
He got it back then, he probably knew he would bc he can see the future, but once it’s broken, there’s no going back, and he probably just couldn’t imagine life without it.
Okay that’s me, although I love Jayfeather and despise Rock, I still think Rock X Stick is the superior pairing. Let me know what you think in the comments! *Rosefern out*

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