when i talk abt how erin hunter doesn’t know half of the interesting things they’ve unintentionally made canon and doesn’t know what to do w them i mean like. how darkstripe and graystripe are actually half brothers and that, keeping this in mind, so much of darkstripes character specifically could’ve been so much cooler if this had actually influenced his character rather than being confirmed out of the books. or like how dappletail was heavily suggested to be infertile in bluestars prophecy, and how we can take her being a former nursery queen in the first arc as her moving into the nursery and adopting + helping out the other queens. but the erin’s retconned it. or how dustpelt and ravenpaw are littermates. or the fact that brindleface, frostfur, tigerclaw, and whitestorm all grew up together and whitestorm and tigerclaw especially were extremely close friends. or that swiftpaw is brambleclaw and tawnypelts half brother and bramble + tawnys bio father was the one responsible for swiftpaws death. cinderpelt and brightheart are littermates. i can go on and on
