Jayfeather is such a good medicine cat that he's doubled the life expectancy of everyone in Thunderclan.

Ive honestly always thought a famine could be a good way to kill off a lot of cats. The clans grow too big and all of a sudden they don't have enough food to support them. I think it would provide lots of drama and kill off a lot of the old characters as older cats would have a harder time making it through the famine.

"You either die a Runningwind or live long enough to see yourself become a Mistystar."

(Or a Onestar, or a Harestar, or a Bramblestar.... basically what I'm saying is Leafstar is the only good leader in the Clans right now.)

Let’s not forget that all Bris said about her mentors death was
“Oh no Rosepetal!”

To be fair the Erin's arent even in control of their books - they can't even name cats anymore. It is the Working Partners team who constructs most of the story.

Did you notice how many filter words were in the second passage you read?? "Bristlefrost noticed", "Bristlefrost felt", "Bristlefrost remembered", "Bristlefrost became aware". These filter words distance the reader from the character/scene. In the passage from Rising Storm, Fireheart's pov uses none of those filter words. Context aside, the prose itself is hindering our ability to experience the characters' emotions.

(Erins, take note.)

On a different note, your narration and voices when reading the passages was AWESOME!

I feel like Stemleaf’s death was lazily done compared to Yellowfang’s, they put way more emotion into Yellowfang’s..

I think the reason Bristlefrost didn’t react much to Rosepetal, Berrynose, and Stemleaf’s deaths is because if she did then that would take away attention from the main conflict, and oh no, we can’t have that! Remain focused or something, I don’t know lol. It doesn’t really make that much sense to not have her grieve for at least Rosepetal and Stemleaf! If she was given that chance, than maybe she could have more personality in Darkness Within.

It really sucks that these characters’s deaths weren’t given more attention, but hopefully in Daisy’s Kin and Spotfur’s Rebellion they get some respect!

Except Squilf. Squilf can never die, she's Firestar's daughter, she learned how to live like a main character!

I actually have a headcanon that the lake territories are warmer, larger and more prey rich overall, leading to explosive cat populations compared to the old forest.

In addition, a lot of cats used to die on the thunderpath, but since there really isn’t any around the lake territories, there are no car hit related deaths or injuries anymore

4 years later and we still have cats from the first arc -_-

Could you make a follow up video regarding how death works in Warriors?

Like, when a cat dies, or someone kills another, there’s LITTLE TO NO REACTION. This might just be a personal gripe of mine with the series, but I feel like death should be more prominent, especially when a POV character is responsible. It’s DEATH! It should have an IMPACT on people! (Or, cats, whatever.)

This only really ever happens when it’s relevant to the plot, it’s DOTC, it’s Hollyleaf, or it’s in the first/second series. (Redtail, Silverstream, Whiteclaw, Bluestar, Yellowfang, Feathertail, Hawkfrost, Tallstar, Mudclaw, etc.) And yes, I’m aware that there are a few exceptions like Firestar and Leafpool but you know what I mean.

This is just an idea I had and you definitely don’t have to use it. :p

-Ltb

I honestly like the prequel series more. A trackable amount of cats, great twists, and one HELL of a battle! I actually tracked how many deaths went on in that series, and...hoo boy... There's a lot.
Poor TurtleTail though...

Honestly, I think Graystripe's going to be dead before the series is over.  

Graystripe's Vow brought him back to the foreground for a moment.  Let's look at what that book contained:  Graystripe displaying leadership skills in the past, Graystripe displaying leadership skills in the present with Warriorclan, and the moonstone breaking.  Also, Graystripe had the feelign that the clans were changing, and realized they didn't need Starclan.

So what I gather is this:  whatever's interfering with starclan is Big -- big enough to block them away and big enough to let Ashfur come back and big enough to shatter the moonstone, and interfere with life and death itself.    Beyond that: I think Graystripe is going to return to the clans, he's going to see the mess going on right now in the SPOILERY PREVIEW OF THE NEXT BOOK NOT RELEASED YET. IF YOU HAVN"T READ THE PREVIEW, THE NEXT FEW SENTENCES MIGHT HAVE SPOILERS, THOUGH I"LL TRY TO BE VAGUE.  SPOILERS!!!!  and take charge of the matter because of the circumstances and act as a level head between the 5 clans.  He's probably going to sacrifice himself heroically at some point, possibly to save his best friend's daughter, or something.

and I think we're going to see the warrior code change.  they're foreshadowing it pretty hard.

"Oh, no, it's Stemleaf!" has the same energy as "Oh, hi Mark."

Yeah, it's so hard, because it'll be sad when the OG characters die (like I really want to see Crowfeather and Squirrelflight become the leaders of their Clans so that we can hopefully have some interesting leaders for once) but at the same time they really need to die because the amount of characters is just getting out of control.
Also, congrats on almost 2k! You deserve way more though, these videos you make are AMAZING.

I’m over the legacy kits. Not every cat has to be a parent. I wanted Ivypool to be mateless bc she was cool on her own but then she gets with her cousin

Before TBC came out: No major deaths in The power of 3.
After TBC: A S H F U R S    D E A T H

Tbf, The Lake arguably softened everyone up by being seemingly better turf than The Forest.

I will always tear up at Yellowfang's death. We can feel Fireheart's pain and desperation. We've gotten to know Yellowfang just as he did. The detail of her wheezing breaths, smoke burned lungs, and inability to move help cement her determination to talk to Fireheart, to thank him and confide her fears to him despite being in so much pain. Fireheart tries to reassure her, listing off every amazing thing she's done and how good of a cat she was to ease her fear of being cast out by StarClan or somehow being a bad cat. It's to comfort her but, as we watch her die, it's partially to comfort himself.

Meanwhile, that latest death feels cold. He's by other dead cats. Bristlefrost is talking about herself and her grief and missed opportunities. This isn't about or for him. There were no last words. Though honestly, having no last words can work very, very well in some cases. Here, it did not. There were also filter words on Bristlefrost's case, furthering our emotional connection further.