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Disclaimer (1/8/2020): To anyone coming in here to tell me about this character, what I'm about to mention in the story below is not the personality of the original Ashfur, but my own interpretation of him. I have no intention of trying to make him seem like the good guy while everyone else is bad or stupid, but I tried to give him a personality that was more up front instead of just the one or two instances that were inconsequential up until his more infamous scenes. None of the characters in this rewrite / AU were bastardized to "benefit" another character. I tried to keep the core aspects of Ashfur's personality intact, but didn't explain things well enough or wrote things in a way that made it seem like I'm hating on certain characters when that wasn't really my intent. I have no hatred towards any of the characters in the story period. This was only just a fun little thing I wanted to do and I was tired of being afraid to share my ideas about this subject in particular.

Lookie what I did, sum warrior cat designs owo
It was bound to happen eventually since I've been silently looking in the fandom for years now but never
really wanted to make myself known bc I was too afraid of the shit that was happening from time to time.

Silly thoughts aside, I kept resisting the temptation to actually do designs of cats and I'm kind of at that point where I DESPERATELY want to get my design ideas out there for people to enjoy ;w;
Knowing me, I always want to be more literal with my designs to give them more weight so for example, Ashfur here is a bit different than usual. Instead of him being an all grey cat with dark grey spots, I made him a white / light grey cat with a grey back that looks like he's perpetually covered in ash. He also favors Whitestorm since he is apparently Ashfur's dad... just found this out not too long ago and I don't know how to feel about it, so this is another reason Ashfur is mostly a white / light grey cat. This was really fun to make considering the idea I have in mind for him.

Now I know what you're thinking... I'm not an Ashfur fan. I don't side with the things he has done nor do I think he's a baby that needs to be protected. But I do feel he is a missed opportunity. You see if the books were actually done well, Ashfur would've had an actual personality...

This cat literally had no one (the audience) give a single fuck about him up until Squirrelflight's dumping of him which caused him to then have a hate boner for her as he slowly went insane. The decade long debate was always, "Who's fault was it to have caused this to happen?!"...

Everyone. It's everyone's fault here.

Not only did no one try to council Ashfur to have him cope with Squirrelflight's decision, but literally no one talks to each other in these damn books so of course Ashfur would end up as he was in the fire scene. Squirrelflight is stupid to have went back to Brambleclaw despite how he treats her, Ashfur is stupid to have disproportionate retribution towards Squirrelflight for dumping him instead of confronting her with his feelings about it, and Brambleclaw is stupid for just being the most flipfloppin' ass cat alive.

But yeah to make a long story short, I'm making an AU where the idea is, "What if Ashfur was still alive?" and basically what if he actually won against his fight with Hollyleaf. Not only would I have given him a personality that fitted his character, but would also justify why he ended up the way he was in the fire scene.

The Nitty-Gritty Warriors of the Stars AU Story in a nutshell
(Prepare yourself it's a long one lol)

My version of Ashfur is kind of rambunctious, but is an otherwise good cat. Aside from that, he has a soft side, which is what he displays with Squirrelflight when she suddenly decides to use-I mean date him to make Brambleclaw jealous (and over something so fucking dumb... again, they are both at fault here). He felt it was touching that she felt that way about him. So when she dumps him just as suddenly as she came to him to be in a relationship, he starts to think to himself as to what he did wrong and why she went back to Brambleclaw. This slowly causes him to go into a depression and he starts to not take care of himself for quite a long time. He is even slimmer than before depicted in the dirty variant above. The other cats think that Ashfur is just going through something and that he'll get over it eventually.

I am weaponizing the clan's lack of communication to strengthen this situation (but seriously I hate the fact that no one tried to at least help the damn cat recover). So yeah, cutting to his attempt at making Squirrelflight suffer ala Firestar getting rekt by a Foxtrap, he fights his bitterness and feels ashamed with himself after sending Hawkfrost to murder Firestar. So he then goes back to tell the others what happened out of guilt, but keeps it hidden so they don't suspect him of being a part of the attempted murder.

So after Hawkfrost is murdered, Ashfur distances himself from everyone for a long time bc he's ashamed of himself for being an accomplice to murder his own leader. His friends are worried about him and attempt to speak to him, but he doesn't really conversate. So they think that he probably needs some time alone (WHICH IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE NEEDS DESPITE HOW HE'S BEHAVING). Firestar decides to talk to Ashfur and thanks him for letting the others know about what happened with Hawkfrost. Ashfur nods his head, but continues to not tell anyone what happened out of fear of being called a traitor. So after a while, he starts coming around camp proper, but keeps seeing Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw be all lovey dovey, but at the same time witness Brambleclaw be an asshole from time to time to Squirrelflight... Ashfur can't help, but scoff at this. At first he brushes it off bc it was her choice to choose someone like Brambleclaw over him, but... eventually it starts to eat at his mind even more so than before. The question rose again in the back of his subconscious: "Why him? What makes him so special?"

And so, after witnessing multiple moments of the couple being as they are, we cut to when Leafpool had her kits and Squirrelflight lying about them being her own to the clan so Leafpool doesn't get in trouble. Ashfur only witnesses her having the kits around her and grows internally upset when he attempted to spend time with his friends again and leaves them again to sulk and take his frustration out on whatever is in his path. His friends continue to wonder if he should be alone, especially now that he has grown standoffish after finding out about the three's "birth" by Squirrelflight. They decide to do nothing this time.

(Also mentioning the moment when Ashfur apparently fights back a badger for Squirrelflight, but she still doesn't value this as a heroic deed or something I apologize if this isn't accurate, I haven't read the books at all and never read the Power of Three, I only really have MoonKitti's shitposts to rely on at this point as well as some Multi Animator Projects that are trying to tell the whole story in a non bias way... that's rare honestly, but I digress.)

Cutting to when The Three are now old enough to be considered not kittens, Firestar figures that Lionpaw should be Ashfur's apprentice to at least give the depressed tom something to do. But fails to understand why Ashfur has been so upset lately. Lionpaw doesn't make it any better by being a little entitled brat and they fight for real, which causes Lionpaw to get his ear nicked (I'm keeping in mind that Lionblaze's powers are bullshit and underdeveloped, but are probably not active here as he has yet to learn how to control it in my AU... I'll explain further when I upload The Power of Three Trio Design sheet). The usual stuff happens here and Ashfur sarcastically congratulates Lionpaw for being such a "good fighter". They both are in trouble for starting a fight anyways.

At this point, I try to have Ashfur be in the limelight in small intervals at first before ending up more apparent as time goes on in appropriate scenes where we see his slow decent into madness. He becomes more cold, unreadable, and sporadic in his expressions and body language. The other cats begin to wonder if Ashfur is even the same cat he was before being with Squirrelflight and his friends feel that their decision to leave him alone was a VERY bad idea, but it becomes far too late for them to do anything about it as he keeps reassuring them that he's totally ok, his expression is that of a hollow smile. He wears it a lot now and he's slowly metamorphosing into the final design that will appear in the fire scene, but not as insane.

So speaking of said fire scene, prior to it happening, Ashfur pretty much gets consumed by his bitterness which becomes absolute hatred for Squirrelflight and eventually makes the conscious attempt to speak his mind to her, but before he could do that, the fire scene happens. Now I did do a rewritten version of the fire scene called Warriors: Recoded - Long Shadows and Sunrise, but I never got to the point where Ashfur is confronted by Hollyleaf via surprise attack, so it's just Long Shadows for now at the time of this description. What will be somewhat different from my rewrite of that scene is how Squirrelflight and Ashfur behave in this scene. No Squirrelflight won't be a heartless bitch while confessing that the kits aren't hers, nor will she be crying and begging for Ashfur to not kill them either. I will get to that in a moment.

So the Three behave exactly as they did when the situation happened as well as Squirrelflight in trying to save them. And Ashfur still goes to Squirrel's aid and stops the Three from getting out as per usual. In my rewritten scene, Ashfur has this cold look in his eyes as he sees Squirrelflight as nothing more than prey before sporadically becoming more unhinged as he spoke to Squirrelflight. She herself feels really guilty for fucking with his feelings the way she did and she wasn't aware of the fact that Ashfur was still upset up until now. He then, instead of telling her about the multiple attempts to make her suffer (like in the original and in my rewrite), tells her of the good things he's done for her to make her feel like shit even more. He soon goes and mentions how he tried to get Firestar killed just so Squirrelflight would know how he felt when she dumped him for Brambleclaw. She assumes he is throwing his frustration onto her because of Brambleclaw which he confirms is entirely false. Brambleclaw isn't the problem.. at least not entirely. It's Squirrelflight bc of the fact that she would rather be with a cat who treats her less than favorable than a cat who legitimately wanted to treat her right and be a good mate. He soon starts breaking down, showing just how full of heartache he is. Squirrelflight tries to reason with him, but he doesn't want to hear it. So he feels that her ultimate punishment is to have her kits taken away from her for making such a horrible decision (still keeping the disproportionate retribution intact). Squirrelflight shakes her head and says "No.. no Ashfur.. you can't hurt me that way... there's no point..." to which he becomes confused. She then confesses that the three are not her kits in a calm, yet sad way, realizing the harm she has caused to a cat who just wanted to be there for her despite how spontaneous their relationship was. The three are understandably in shock by this revelation, with Hollyleaf taking this EXTREMELY to heart considering her love for the Warrior Code (which is so hilariously broken that it really shouldn't exist). Jayfeather also takes this to heart because he's more sensitive than the other two even if he doesn't show it (in my opinion).

But yeah, then Ashfur begins to chuckle softly before laughing incredibly hard in disbelief, letting the three cats go across the bridge as he leaps into the smoke, disappearing from their sight. And thus we get to the infamous Hollyleaf yeets Ashfur into Starclan bit. This is where the story changes drastically. It starts out as the norm where Ashfur sits quietly to reflect on what he had done and had learned. He doesn't really care anymore for his actions because his main goal was to tell her how he felt. But his hatred for her still lingered, but it died down now that he had a moment to breathe. Hollyleaf unintentionally relights this flame however. While she surprise attacks him, she is unsuccessful at actually killing him bc he's literally far more experienced than her. He may be underweight, but he still is capable of holding his own. He then talks to her while he has her pinned to the ground, not surprised to see her considering what happened earlier. They soon discuss about what Squirrelflight said and Ashfur proposes to have Hollyleaf and him make Squirrelflight suffer together while also figuring out who Holly's parents really are. Now in the rewrite, by this point, Hollyleaf would declare that she would do it herself before she killed Ashfur to get him out of the way. But this time, Ashfur chooses his words wisely, manipulating Hollyleaf by using the code as justification for punishing Squirrelflight. She reluctantly agrees, but her grudge against him hasn't faded away. So by the time of the gathering, Ashfur is the one who causes a stir instead of Hollyleaf as she soon stands beside him to reveal the two cats that birthed her into existence. Jayfeather and Lionblaze are understandably upset about Leafpool and Squirrelflight keeping this a secret from them as is Hollyleaf. And Brambleclaw breaks up with her like in the original book except with much more weight because they don't become a couple again for a VERY long time (so yes you all can still have your Alderheart, I'm not heartless lol).

So yeah then at that very same moment, Hollyleaf backstabs Ashfur and tells EVERYONE about his involvement of Hawkfrost attempting to assassinate Firestar all that time ago AND his attempt to burn her and her brothers alive during the fire scene to which everyone is both understandably pissed and horrified. Ashfur is in disbelief, but it soon turns into fury because she did that shit on purpose to screw him over. Hollyleaf was not going to let that shit slide, not even for a moment. She had her own agenda to bringing the bastard down, so this is pretty much what he gets to trying to get her to be his partner in crime lol

So yeah they then fight AGAIN in front of everyone. Crowfeather, Leafpool, Lionblaze, and Squirrelflight stop the fight before either one of them are killed. Ashfur is pretty much thrown into cat dungeon while Hollyleaf is treated by her actual mother, to which she wants NOTHING to do with and berates her to being a traitor to the code and an irresponsible medicine cat. Leafpool ignores her daughter's screeching and treats her in silence. The Gathering is in shambles and Firestar is just frozen with shock. So later he goes to where Ashfur is being held at a few hours later and talks to him in private. At this point, everyone hates Ashfur, even his former friends. Ashfur looks at his leader with hollow eyes, expecting him to scold the dirty cat for his horrible actions, but Firestar doesn't do that. He instead asks him why he did all of this and that their conversation is only for the two of them to hear. Ashfur after so long, finally opened up and mentions about Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw from her randomly being interested in him to her dumping him for Brambleclaw despite how shitty he is towards her. Ashfur even wanted to make Firestar certain that the heartbroken tom wasn't being bad towards his daughter at all throughout their entire shortlived relationship. Firestar understands, but doesn't let him off the hook just because of his honesty. The ginger cat then tells Ashfur that he has a long way to go in earning everyone's trust back, so he decides to appoint him to patrols and basically do labor work as punishment for his traitorous behavior. Firestar also assures Ashfur that he'll have someone be his counsel while doing all of this so he can finally recover from all of this.

And so Ashfur lives trying to clean up his act, at this point he's pushed to the background for real but does appear showing his progress in appropriate scenes where his existence is needed. So yeah, that's my attempt to give Ashfur a much needed upgrade to his character arc. Because my god, the books didn't even attempt to give him proper build up...

With that, I shall throw the three on here as well ;u;
I'll do their description later, but yeah this is all you get for now uwu

Ashfur ~ Erin Hunter
Character Design & Warriors of the Stars AU ~ SiscoCentral1915

Description
Disclaimer (1/8/2020): To anyone coming in here to tell me about this character, what I'm about to mention in the story below is not the personality of the original Ashfur, but my own interpretation of him. I have no intention of trying to make him seem like the good guy while everyone else is bad or stupid, but I tried to give him a personality that was more up front instead of just the one or two instances that were inconsequential up until his more infamous scenes. None of the characters in this rewrite / AU were bastardized to "benefit" another character. I tried to keep the core aspects of Ashfur's personality intact, but didn't explain things well enough or wrote things in a way that made it seem like I'm hating on certain characters when that wasn't really my intent. I have no hatred towards any of the characters in the story period. This was only just a fun little thing I wanted to do and I was tired of being afraid to share my ideas about this subject in particular.

Lookie what I did, sum warrior cat designs owo
It was bound to happen eventually since I've been silently looking in the fandom for years now but never
really wanted to make myself known bc I was too afraid of the shit that was happening from time to time.

Silly thoughts aside, I kept resisting the temptation to actually do designs of cats and I'm kind of at that point where I DESPERATELY want to get my design ideas out there for people to enjoy ;w;
Knowing me, I always want to be more literal with my designs to give them more weight so for example, Ashfur here is a bit different than usual. Instead of him being an all grey cat with dark grey spots, I made him a white / light grey cat with a grey back that looks like he's perpetually covered in ash. He also favors Whitestorm since he is apparently Ashfur's dad... just found this out not too long ago and I don't know how to feel about it, so this is another reason Ashfur is mostly a white / light grey cat. This was really fun to make considering the idea I have in mind for him.

Now I know what you're thinking... I'm not an Ashfur fan. I don't side with the things he has done nor do I think he's a baby that needs to be protected. But I do feel he is a missed opportunity. You see if the books were actually done well, Ashfur would've had an actual personality...

This cat literally had no one (the audience) give a single fuck about him up until Squirrelflight's dumping of him which caused him to then have a hate boner for her as he slowly went insane. The decade long debate was always, "Who's fault was it to have caused this to happen?!"...

Everyone. It's everyone's fault here.

Not only did no one try to council Ashfur to have him cope with Squirrelflight's decision, but literally no one talks to each other in these damn books so of course Ashfur would end up as he was in the fire scene. Squirrelflight is stupid to have went back to Brambleclaw despite how he treats her, Ashfur is stupid to have disproportionate retribution towards Squirrelflight for dumping him instead of confronting her with his feelings about it, and Brambleclaw is stupid for just being the most flipfloppin' ass cat alive.

But yeah to make a long story short, I'm making an AU where the idea is, "What if Ashfur was still alive?" and basically what if he actually won against his fight with Hollyleaf. Not only would I have given him a personality that fitted his character, but would also justify why he ended up the way he was in the fire scene.

The Nitty-Gritty Warriors of the Stars AU Story in a nutshell
(Prepare yourself it's a long one lol)

My version of Ashfur is kind of rambunctious, but is an otherwise good cat. Aside from that, he has a soft side, which is what he displays with Squirrelflight when she suddenly decides to use-I mean date him to make Brambleclaw jealous (and over something so fucking dumb... again, they are both at fault here). He felt it was touching that she felt that way about him. So when she dumps him just as suddenly as she came to him to be in a relationship, he starts to think to himself as to what he did wrong and why she went back to Brambleclaw. This slowly causes him to go into a depression and he starts to not take care of himself for quite a long time. He is even slimmer than before depicted in the dirty variant above. The other cats think that Ashfur is just going through something and that he'll get over it eventually.

I am weaponizing the clan's lack of communication to strengthen this situation (but seriously I hate the fact that no one tried to at least help the damn cat recover). So yeah, cutting to his attempt at making Squirrelflight suffer ala Firestar getting rekt by a Foxtrap, he fights his bitterness and feels ashamed with himself after sending Hawkfrost to murder Firestar. So he then goes back to tell the others what happened out of guilt, but keeps it hidden so they don't suspect him of being a part of the attempted murder.

So after Hawkfrost is murdered, Ashfur distances himself from everyone for a long time bc he's ashamed of himself for being an accomplice to murder his own leader. His friends are worried about him and attempt to speak to him, but he doesn't really conversate. So they think that he probably needs some time alone (WHICH IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE NEEDS DESPITE HOW HE'S BEHAVING). Firestar decides to talk to Ashfur and thanks him for letting the others know about what happened with Hawkfrost. Ashfur nods his head, but continues to not tell anyone what happened out of fear of being called a traitor. So after a while, he starts coming around camp proper, but keeps seeing Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw be all lovey dovey, but at the same time witness Brambleclaw be an asshole from time to time to Squirrelflight... Ashfur can't help, but scoff at this. At first he brushes it off bc it was her choice to choose someone like Brambleclaw over him, but... eventually it starts to eat at his mind even more so than before. The question rose again in the back of his subconscious: "Why him? What makes him so special?"

And so, after witnessing multiple moments of the couple being as they are, we cut to when Leafpool had her kits and Squirrelflight lying about them being her own to the clan so Leafpool doesn't get in trouble. Ashfur only witnesses her having the kits around her and grows internally upset when he attempted to spend time with his friends again and leaves them again to sulk and take his frustration out on whatever is in his path. His friends continue to wonder if he should be alone, especially now that he has grown standoffish after finding out about the three's "birth" by Squirrelflight. They decide to do nothing this time.

(Also mentioning the moment when Ashfur apparently fights back a badger for Squirrelflight, but she still doesn't value this as a heroic deed or something I apologize if this isn't accurate, I haven't read the books at all and never read the Power of Three, I only really have MoonKitti's shitposts to rely on at this point as well as some Multi Animator Projects that are trying to tell the whole story in a non bias way... that's rare honestly, but I digress.)

Cutting to when The Three are now old enough to be considered not kittens, Firestar figures that Lionpaw should be Ashfur's apprentice to at least give the depressed tom something to do. But fails to understand why Ashfur has been so upset lately. Lionpaw doesn't make it any better by being a little entitled brat and they fight for real, which causes Lionpaw to get his ear nicked (I'm keeping in mind that Lionblaze's powers are bullshit and underdeveloped, but are probably not active here as he has yet to learn how to control it in my AU... I'll explain further when I upload The Power of Three Trio Design sheet). The usual stuff happens here and Ashfur sarcastically congratulates Lionpaw for being such a "good fighter". They both are in trouble for starting a fight anyways.

At this point, I try to have Ashfur be in the limelight in small intervals at first before ending up more apparent as time goes on in appropriate scenes where we see his slow decent into madness. He becomes more cold, unreadable, and sporadic in his expressions and body language. The other cats begin to wonder if Ashfur is even the same cat he was before being with Squirrelflight and his friends feel that their decision to leave him alone was a VERY bad idea, but it becomes far too late for them to do anything about it as he keeps reassuring them that he's totally ok, his expression is that of a hollow smile. He wears it a lot now and he's slowly metamorphosing into the final design that will appear in the fire scene, but not as insane.

So speaking of said fire scene, prior to it happening, Ashfur pretty much gets consumed by his bitterness which becomes absolute hatred for Squirrelflight and eventually makes the conscious attempt to speak his mind to her, but before he could do that, the fire scene happens. Now I did do a rewritten version of the fire scene called Warriors: Recoded - Long Shadows and Sunrise, but I never got to the point where Ashfur is confronted by Hollyleaf via surprise attack, so it's just Long Shadows for now at the time of this description. What will be somewhat different from my rewrite of that scene is how Squirrelflight and Ashfur behave in this scene. No Squirrelflight won't be a heartless bitch while confessing that the kits aren't hers, nor will she be crying and begging for Ashfur to not kill them either. I will get to that in a moment.

So the Three behave exactly as they did when the situation happened as well as Squirrelflight in trying to save them. And Ashfur still goes to Squirrel's aid and stops the Three from getting out as per usual. In my rewritten scene, Ashfur has this cold look in his eyes as he sees Squirrelflight as nothing more than prey before sporadically becoming more unhinged as he spoke to Squirrelflight. She herself feels really guilty for fucking with his feelings the way she did and she wasn't aware of the fact that Ashfur was still upset up until now. He then, instead of telling her about the multiple attempts to make her suffer (like in the original and in my rewrite), tells her of the good things he's done for her to make her feel like shit even more. He soon goes and mentions how he tried to get Firestar killed just so Squirrelflight would know how he felt when she dumped him for Brambleclaw. She assumes he is throwing his frustration onto her because of Brambleclaw which he confirms is entirely false. Brambleclaw isn't the problem.. at least not entirely. It's Squirrelflight bc of the fact that she would rather be with a cat who treats her less than favorable than a cat who legitimately wanted to treat her right and be a good mate. He soon starts breaking down, showing just how full of heartache he is. Squirrelflight tries to reason with him, but he doesn't want to hear it. So he feels that her ultimate punishment is to have her kits taken away from her for making such a horrible decision (still keeping the disproportionate retribution intact). Squirrelflight shakes her head and says "No.. no Ashfur.. you can't hurt me that way... there's no point..." to which he becomes confused. She then confesses that the three are not her kits in a calm, yet sad way, realizing the harm she has caused to a cat who just wanted to be there for her despite how spontaneous their relationship was. The three are understandably in shock by this revelation, with Hollyleaf taking this EXTREMELY to heart considering her love for the Warrior Code (which is so hilariously broken that it really shouldn't exist). Jayfeather also takes this to heart because he's more sensitive than the other two even if he doesn't show it (in my opinion).

But yeah, then Ashfur begins to chuckle softly before laughing incredibly hard in disbelief, letting the three cats go across the bridge as he leaps into the smoke, disappearing from their sight. And thus we get to the infamous Hollyleaf yeets Ashfur into Starclan bit. This is where the story changes drastically. It starts out as the norm where Ashfur sits quietly to reflect on what he had done and had learned. He doesn't really care anymore for his actions because his main goal was to tell her how he felt. But his hatred for her still lingered, but it died down now that he had a moment to breathe. Hollyleaf unintentionally relights this flame however. While she surprise attacks him, she is unsuccessful at actually killing him bc he's literally far more experienced than her. He may be underweight, but he still is capable of holding his own. He then talks to her while he has her pinned to the ground, not surprised to see her considering what happened earlier. They soon discuss about what Squirrelflight said and Ashfur proposes to have Hollyleaf and him make Squirrelflight suffer together while also figuring out who Holly's parents really are. Now in the rewrite, by this point, Hollyleaf would declare that she would do it herself before she killed Ashfur to get him out of the way. But this time, Ashfur chooses his words wisely, manipulating Hollyleaf by using the code as justification for punishing Squirrelflight. She reluctantly agrees, but her grudge against him hasn't faded away. So by the time of the gathering, Ashfur is the one who causes a stir instead of Hollyleaf as she soon stands beside him to reveal the two cats that birthed her into existence. Jayfeather and Lionblaze are understandably upset about Leafpool and Squirrelflight keeping this a secret from them as is Hollyleaf. And Brambleclaw breaks up with her like in the original book except with much more weight because they don't become a couple again for a VERY long time (so yes you all can still have your Alderheart, I'm not heartless lol).

So yeah then at that very same moment, Hollyleaf backstabs Ashfur and tells EVERYONE about his involvement of Hawkfrost attempting to assassinate Firestar all that time ago AND his attempt to burn her and her brothers alive during the fire scene to which everyone is both understandably pissed and horrified. Ashfur is in disbelief, but it soon turns into fury because she did that shit on purpose to screw him over. Hollyleaf was not going to let that shit slide, not even for a moment. She had her own agenda to bringing the bastard down, so this is pretty much what he gets to trying to get her to be his partner in crime lol

So yeah they then fight AGAIN in front of everyone. Crowfeather, Leafpool, Lionblaze, and Squirrelflight stop the fight before either one of them are killed. Ashfur is pretty much thrown into cat dungeon while Hollyleaf is treated by her actual mother, to which she wants NOTHING to do with and berates her to being a traitor to the code and an irresponsible medicine cat. Leafpool ignores her daughter's screeching and treats her in silence. The Gathering is in shambles and Firestar is just frozen with shock. So later he goes to where Ashfur is being held at a few hours later and talks to him in private. At this point, everyone hates Ashfur, even his former friends. Ashfur looks at his leader with hollow eyes, expecting him to scold the dirty cat for his horrible actions, but Firestar doesn't do that. He instead asks him why he did all of this and that their conversation is only for the two of them to hear. Ashfur after so long, finally opened up and mentions about Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw from her randomly being interested in him to her dumping him for Brambleclaw despite how shitty he is towards her. Ashfur even wanted to make Firestar certain that the heartbroken tom wasn't being bad towards his daughter at all throughout their entire shortlived relationship. Firestar understands, but doesn't let him off the hook just because of his honesty. The ginger cat then tells Ashfur that he has a long way to go in earning everyone's trust back, so he decides to appoint him to patrols and basically do labor work as punishment for his traitorous behavior. Firestar also assures Ashfur that he'll have someone be his counsel while doing all of this so he can finally recover from all of this.

And so Ashfur lives trying to clean up his act, at this point he's pushed to the background for real but does appear showing his progress in appropriate scenes where his existence is needed. So yeah, that's my attempt to give Ashfur a much needed upgrade to his character arc. Because my god, the books didn't even attempt to give him proper build up...

With that, I shall throw the three on here as well ;u;
I'll do their description later, but yeah this is all you get for now uwu

Ashfur ~ Erin Hunter
Character Design & Warriors of the Stars AU ~ SiscoCentral1915