a strange number of warrior cats fans seem to think that simply writing a character to be in an endgame relationship in general intrinsically implies the writer thinks all humans need to be in romantic relationships to be happy or something like how the fuck did this notion come to be and how people even start entertaining it in the first place. like yes obviously there is much to be said about how the source material assesses motherhood as a biological necessity but the problem there lays within the writer's patriarchal bioessentialist attitude about women, not in just writing a character who happens to have a lover or spouse within itself, people. no it is not Problematic to want squirrelflight to be in a post bramblestar relationship unless having a mate is explicitly being written as an ontological need for her as a woman that will leave her forever incomplete and hollow if she doesn't fulfill. context very much matters
innit. not to mention i feel like describing being in a relationship as something inherently "chaining" (or implying that squirrelflight as an abuse victim would simply be unable to ever find happiness in a romantic relationship with someone else) Has Implications