Hey guys. Happy 2016, and Happy New Year! That's going to be hard to remember.
Review replies:
Snowfall16:You have a good point. I have to agree. They definitely were both at fault. Yellowfang should have given a valid reason, and Raggedstar should have been more understanding. However, I still think that he was a jerk to her, especially since he stopped Yellowfang from seeing her own son. Then at the end he comes crying to her and saying, "Boo-hoo! My little baby son is evil! Help me!"
Keeper of the Starry Night:Yes, that is very creepy! I wonder how the TalkFictions people coded the website? How was it possible? Oh, and don't try logging in again. I think that the site has viruses. When I went there, random pop-ups started appearing on my computer and my CPU usage went to 80%.
Warrior Cats Fan Article #6: Hollyleaf
*MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE THIRD AND FOURTH ARC AND HOLLYLEAF'S STORY*
In my opinion, Hollyleaf is one of the best cats in the series. She deserved to rise to awesomeness and it was really sad when they killed her off.
I'm going to say right now that Hollyleaf should have been the third. What is really annoying is that the Erins 'couldn't think of a power for her'. Oh, I can think of a million powers for her trust me.
Let me start from the beginning, when she was an apprentice by the name of Hollypaw. To be honest, I really wanted Hollyleaf to be the medicine cat. She would have been really cool, and a much better medicine cat than Jayfeather (not that I don't like Jayfeather, I just think he shouldn't be a medicine cat). Just because she couldn't memorize a few herbs she had to switch over. That was pretty disappointing.
She was a good warrior though. Sure, her focus on the warrior code was very annoying, but you could tell that she was a very well-developed, moral character. She always did what she thought was right, which I admire.
Now, let's move on the whole Ashfur thing, which is the only reason why people read a Hollyleaf rant.
Ashfur was a [*insert curse word of your choice here*], okay? He deserved what he got. I wish that Ashfur had gone to the Dark Forest. That would have totally made my day. But then there's that scene where Bluestar says "If he comes here he belongs here, and it's not up to StarClan to change that". Um, Bluestar, I'm sorry, but I think StarClan deserves to make a choice about who they keep. Gosh, StarClan is so stupid and hypocritical. But I'm not talking about StarClan, I'm talking about Hollyleaf. Maybe I'll rant about StarClan next.
So anyways, Hollyleaf kills Ashfur, goes crazy and announces everything at the Gathering, then commits suicide in the tunnels. That part of the book drove me nuts. It was so rushed and I was thinking, "What just happened here?" And if you really needed Hollyleaf to leave for whatever reason, couldn't you have thought of a better way to make her exit? Not kill her in a tunnel? Okay, I get it, Hollyleaf came back afterwards, but still.
Talking about the tunnels, I'm going to talk about the one thing that I dislike about Hollyleaf.
I'm going to retell the last part of Sunrise. So Hollyleaf goes to the Gathering, stands up in front of everyone, and says, "Hi everyone, how are you doing? I just wanted to tell everyone that me and my brothers are half-Clan. Our actual parents are Leafpool and Crowfeather. Bye and have a nice day!" If that weren't bad enough, she goes and tries to commit suicide in the tunnels. Really? Not only did she basically ruin everyone's life – hers included – then she doesn't even stay back to help her brothers cope with it? Why would you do that? I find that a cowardly. She pretty much killed Ashfur for threatening to tell everyone at the Gathering, when she did it herself! (Ashfur deserved it, but what she did was still very hypocritical.) I don't really blame Jayfeather for being a jerk to her in The Last Hope. She did redeem herself when she came back, but still.
And about her dying – and I mean her actual death, not the one where she collapses in the tunnels. Okay, for those of you who don't know what happened, Hollyleaf basically 'dies' in one of the books, then in the second-to-last book – big surprise – she is actually alive. Then in the very next book, they kill her off again. Why would you do that? I mean come on! And Hollyleaf should have been one of the Three. She showed so much loyalty and devotion to her Clan, but the Erins had to kick her out and replace her with Dovewing.
My overall consensus is: As*fur is an idiot, and Hollyleaf is awesome, but was very flawed. What I really admired is that when she found out that she was excluded from the prophecy, she didn't whine. She just did her thing and was even more loyal to the Clan than before.
