History Headscratchers / WarriorCats

* In the Warriors: The Ultimate Guide, Mapleshade is described as a RiverClan cat even though she was not allowed to stay in RiverClan camp for even one night. How do you explain this?

* Leafpool is getting plumper, avoiding others, and possibly having changes in her eating habits and/or smelling odd. She and Squirrelflight go on a journey outside the territories for a couple of weeks to look for a herb that StarClan supposedly sent her a vision about. They come back a couple of weeks later with three kits who do not look a thing like Brambleclaw or Squirrelflight. But! Lionblaze and Jayfeather are both tabbies like Leafpool. Lionblaze has amber eyes like Leafpool. Hollyleaf had black fur, just a little darker than Crowfeather-Leafpool says straight out that she's the image of Crowfeather, and even wanted to name her after him until Squirrelflight talked her out of it-and incidentally if they're doing this whole charade to hide whose kits they really are, was she seriously planning on naming her Crowkit? But anyway-and Jayfeather has gray fur, a little lighter than Crowfeather's, and blue eyes, like Crowfeather's. Nobody had known that Squirrelflight was expecting kits. Not even Brambleclaw or Sandstorm. Squirrelflight certainly hadn't ''looked'' like she was expecting kits. And yet she went on a journey while expecting! This was explained away as the kits being born very early. But even Brambleclaw didn't know? Squirrelflight had no milk, necessitating the kits being nursed by Ferncloud-what did she tell the Clan they had done for the past couple of weeks while they were in the woods? And she recovered from the birth ''extremely ''quickly. And they didn't come back with that herb either! [=ThunderClan=] isn't that obtuse. [[ContrivedCoincidence How in the name of StarClan did nobody realize anything?]]

** Here's another explanation (which more or less builds on the first): Lostface was named so because Bluestar was being unusually mean and cruel, using Lostface's name as a means to get back at StarClan for what she believed was a war against her or her Clan. Fireheart was especially sympathetic in this case because he understood the situation leading to Lostface's name change and this made him all the more determined to change it. Since One-eye and Halftail never mentioned their own name changing ceremonies or never complained about how tragic theirs ''might have been'', Fireheart saw no reason to change theirs.

* Sooooo...no one really stopped to notice that ShadowClan had an awful lot of "apprentices" who looked way too young to be out of camp, let alone on a battlefield, huh? Not one single cat stopped during a battle and said, "Yo, I'm not fighting this kit. They look like they'd be trotting home after this battle to nurse from their mother before they go to sleep tonight, and you expect me to slice them to ribbons? I ain't goin' there, square." Especially when Lionheart pointed out that an apprentice he was talking to appeared to be too young to be attending a Gathering.

** Take Spottedleaf’s Heart, a novella entirely focused on a warrior making advances on an apprentice, for example: Vicky Holmes herself described it as “a very young apprentice being approached by a much older warrior” and said it was part of why Thistleclaw was sent to the Dark Forest. Ergo, the authors or at least Vicky consider it morally wrong for a warrior to pursue an apprentice, solidifying apprentices as teenagers. Plus, for books targeted at schoolchildren, it only makes sense for the characters getting their education to be coded as the readers’ ages.

*** In that case there's be a few cats called [[AwesomeMccoolName "Nothingness" or "Void"]].

** According to the timeline on the Warriors Wiki, Firestar is 9 years old as of leaf-fall of Fading Echoes. (And wow, that's ''very'' weird when you consider that that's almost a fifth of the entire length of time the Clans have existed!) Wiki/ThatOtherWiki says male house cats can live 12 to 14 years, and although feral cats in real life don't live nearly as long, you can assume that cats with human intelligence, the capacity to love and care for one another, and the knowledge of local medicinal herbs give the Clan cats something of a leg up on real life feral cats. So, basically, it isn't crazy that Firestar is still alive, especially when you take into account the fact that no cat or narrative has ever mentioned that he's old or starting to look/act like it.

* Leafpool is getting plumper,avoiding others,and possibly having changes in her eating habits and/or smelling odd. She and Squirrelflight go on a journey outside the territories for a couple of weeks to look for a herb that StarClan supposedly sent her a vision about. They come back a couple of weeks later with three kits who do not look a thing like Brambleclaw or Squirrelflight. But! Lionblaze and Jayfeather are both tabbies like Leafpool. Lionblaze has amber eyes like Leafpool. Hollyleaf had black fur, just a little darker than Crowfeather-Leafpool says straight out that she's the image of Crowfeather, and even wanted to name her after him until Squirrelflight talked her out of it-and incidentally if they're doing this whole charade to hide whose kits they really are, was she seriously planning on naming her Crowkit? But anyway-and Jayfeather has gray fur, a little lighter than Crowfeather's, and blue eyes, like Crowfeather's. Nobody had known that Squirrelflight was expecting kits. Not even Brambleclaw or Sandstorm. Squirrelflight certainly hadn't ''looked'' like she was expecting kits. And yet she went on a journey while expecting! This was explained away as the kits being born very early. But even Brambleclaw didn't know?Squirrelflight had no milk, necessitating the kits being nursed by Ferncloud-what did she tell the Clan they had done for the past couple of weeks while they were in the woods? And she recovered from the birth ''extremely ''quickly. And they didn't come back with that herb either! ThunderClan isn't that obtuse. [[ContrivedCoincidence How in the name of StarClan did nobody realize anything?]]

* Leafpool is getting plumper,avoiding others,and possibly having changes in her eating habits and/or smelling odd. She and Squirrelflight go on a journey outside the territories for a couple of weeks to look for a herb that StarClan supposedly sent her a vision about. They come back a couple of weeks later with three kits who do not look a thing like Brambleclaw or Squirrelflight. But! Lionblaze and Jayfeather are both tabbies like Leafpool. Lionblaze has amber eyes like Leafpool. Hollyleaf had black fur, just a little darker than Crowfeather-Leafpool says straight out that she's the image of Crowfeather, and even wanted to name her after him until Squirrelflight talked her out of it-and incidentally if they're doing this whole charade to hide whose kits they really are, was she seriously planning on naming her Crowkit? But anyway-and Jayfeather has gray fur, a little lighter than Crowfeather's, and blue eyes, like Crowfeather's. Nobody had known that Squirrelflight was expecting kits. Not even Brambleclaw or Sandstorm. Squirrelflight certainly hadn't ''looked'' like she was expecting kits. And yet she went on a journey while expecting! This was explained away as the kits being born very early. But even Brambleclaw didn't know?Squirrelflight had no milk, necessitating the kits being nursed by Ferncloud-what did she tell the Clan they had done for the past couple of weeks while they were in the woods? And she recovered from the birth ''extremely ''quickly. And they didn't come back with that herb either! ThunderClan isn't that obtuse. [[ContrivedCoincidence How in the name of StarClan did nobody realize anything?]]

* Leafpool is getting plumper,avoiding others,and possibly having changes in her eating habits and/or smelling odd. She and Squirrelflight go on a journey outside the territories for a couple of weeks to look for a herb that StarClan supposedly sent her a vision about. They come back a couple of weeks later with three kits who do not look a thing like Brambleclaw or Squirrelflight. But! Lionblaze and Jayfeather are both tabbies like Leafpool. Lionblaze has amber eyes like Leafpool. Hollyleaf had black fur, just a little darker than Crowfeather-Leafpool says straight out that she's the image of Crowfeather, and even wanted to name her after him until Squirrelflight talked her out of it-and incidentally if they're doing this whole charade to hide whose kits they really are, was she seriously planning on naming her Crowkit? But anyway-and Jayfeather has gray fur, a little lighter than Crowfeather's, and blue eyes, like Crowfeather's. Nobody had known that Squirrelflight was expecting kits. Not even Brambleclaw or Sandstorm. Squirrelflight certainly hadn't ''looked'' like she was expecting kits. And yet she went on a journey while expecting! This was explained away as the kits being born very early. But even Brambleclaw didn't know?
Squirrelflight had no milk, necessitating the kits being nursed by Ferncloud-what did she tell the Clan they had done for the past couple of weeks while they were in the woods? And she recovered from the birth ''extremely ''quickly.
And they didn't come back with that herb either!
ThunderClan isn't that obtuse. [[ContrivedCoincidence How in the name of StarClan did nobody realize anything?]]

* Leafpool is getting plumper, avoiding others,and possibly having changes in her eating habits and/or smelling odd. She and Squirrelflight go on a journey outside the territories for a couple of weeks to look for a herb that StarClan supposedly sent her a vision about. They come back a couple of weeks later with three kits who do not look a thing like Brambleclaw or Squirrelflight. But! Lionblaze and Jayfeather are both tabbies like Leafpool. Lionblaze has amber eyes like Leafpool. Hollyleaf had black fur, just a little darker than Crowfeather-Leafpool says straight out that she's the image of Crowfeather, and even wanted to name her after him until Squirrelflight talked her out of it-and incidentally if they're doing this whole charade to hide whose kits they really are, was she seriously planning on naming her Crowkit? But anyway-and Jayfeather has gray fur, a little lighter than Crowfeather's, and blue eyes, like Crowfeather's.
Nobody had known that Squirrelflight was expecting kits. Not even Brambleclaw or Sandstorm. Squirrelflight certainly hadn't ''looked'' like she was expecting kits. And yet she went on a journey while expecting! This was explained away as the kits being born very early. But even Brambleclaw didn't know?

Nobody had known that Squirrelflight was expecting kits. Not even Brambleclaw or Sandstorm. Squirrelflight certainly hadn't <em>looked</em> like she was expecting kits. And yet she went on a journey while expecting! This was explained away as the kits being born very early. But even Brambleclaw didn't know?
Squirrelflight had no milk, necessitating the kits being nursed by Ferncloud-what did she tell the Clan they had done for the past couple of weeks while they were in the woods? And she recovered from the birth <em>extremely </em>quickly.
And they didn't come back with that herb either!
ThunderClan isn't that obtuse. [[ContrivedCoincidence How in the name of StarClan did nobody realize anything?]]

ThunderClan isn't that obtuse. [[ContrivedCoincidenceHow in the name of StarClan did nobody realize anything?]]

* Leafpool is getting plumper,avoiding others,and possibly having changes in her eating habits and/or smelling odd. She and Squirrelflight go on a journey outside the territories for a couple of weeks to look for a herb that StarClan supposedly sent her a vision about. They come back a couple of weeks later with three kits who do not look a thing like Brambleclaw or Squirrelflight. But! Lionblaze and Jayfeather are both tabbies like Leafpool. Lionblaze has amber eyes like Leafpool. Hollyleaf had black fur, just a little darker than Crowfeather-Leafpool says straight out that she's the image of Crowfeather, and even wanted to name her after him until Squirrelflight talked her out of it-and incidentally if they're doing this whole charade to hide whose kits they really are, was she seriously planning on naming her Crowkit? But anyway-and Jayfeather has gray fur, a little lighter than Crowfeather's, and blue eyes, like Crowfeather's.
Nobody had known that Squirrelflight was expecting kits. Not even Brambleclaw or Sandstorm. Squirrelflight certainly hadn't <em>looked</em> like she was expecting kits. And yet she went on a journey while expecting! This was explained away as the kits being born very early. But even Brambleclaw didn't know?

ThunderClan isn't that obtuse. {{ContrivedCoincidence}}How in the name of StarClan did nobody realize anything?

** this is actually explained in leafpoll's Wish. Too long: didn't read an entirely different book which is only mentioned once on this entire page, it's revealed that she is pregnant but she hides it by telling everyone she's eaten something weird (note: my only source for this summary is Moonkitti's I spoil. video, and not the actual book itself) and the reason why they were the only ones there was because instead of having a normal birth, like any sane she-cat, she decides to run off in to the wilderness with Squirrelflight and tell everyone that she Mothered the kits.

* Why are cats always falling for cats in other clans? When do they get the oppurtunity to interact enough to want to know each other better? Why is inter-clan forbidden love than medicine cat forbidden love? Do the authors think that it's harder to avoid romantic/sexual relationships with cats that you're fighting with most of the time than it is to avoid romantic/sexual relationships completely?

** Well, what's the "point" of any relationship in the series? To create drama, or a good storyline, or because two characters are cute together, etc...from my perspective, the relationship served a lot of purpose storywise because a) we got to see a forbidden relationship through the point of view of a character actually in the relationship (for the first time, anyway), b) we got to the Clans' reaction to a finding out about a medicine cat being in love, c) it helped to give Leafpool some characterization, d) it had a lot of dramatic potential, e) they were just cute together? That last one is subjective, but regardless of whether you didn't like the couple, it definitely wasn't pointless. And they didn't really pretend the other didn't exist. There's still a lot of tension between them in various scenes throughout Power of Three.

** I suppose you could say it's because his relative immaturity made him less suited to a parental role, or that his lack of facetime outside of the OS made establishing a relationship between him and his kits irrelevant to the plot (only a handful of characters even acknowledge their family). But realistically, his popularity is probably because he is, by and large, the only consistently light-hearted character in the entire series. Firestar and a few others used to have similarly magnetic personalities before the third arc, but after that, the entire cast largely became a bunch of humorless stoics. Then again, the Warriors books have had sort of a penchant for odd and face-punchingly incipid Karma Houdini[=s=]; Blackstar, Leopardstar, and Ashfur, to name a few.

** Well you must remember that during the [=BloodClan battle=], Firstar mourned Tigerstar's death since his strength would've been so helpful toward winning. He was disappointed with how Tigerstar had misused his ambition, and hopeful that Brambleclaw would have a brighter path, since they were so similar. Brambleclaw was named somewhat soon after the batlle with [=BloodClan=], so there should be a reason for Fireheart's thoughts about Tigerstar to change yet, since he doesn't know about the Place of No Stars at that time.