Daddy Lessons 🌾 Tawnypelt & Tigerstar

This project took me many, many hours of work, but it was all worth it in the end! I'm pretty pleased with how it came out, and it felt like a real return to my old way of making videos :) Since it took me so long though, I am considering simplifying my style slightly for my next video.

Initially, I planned on this being a story about an evil Tawnypelt AU, and it still has pieces of that original idea in it. However, the story of this one really ended up being more of a story about toxic familial codependency and how one can become just like their parents. I envision that in this version of the story, she would receive the name "Tawnyclaw" from her father (I would probably name Brambleclaw something different as a result, perhaps Brambleflower after his mother?)

Tawnyclaw is definitely a "daddy's girl" in this story, and I wanted to show how much she loved and idolized her dad before she realized how ambitious he truly was. Even after the revelation of his betrayal towards Thunderclan, after she saw how their family completely disowned him, she wanted to be the one cat who would stay by his side. She followed him to Shadowclan when he got exiled, and she sat idly by while he committed the many crimes he does as the leader of Shadowclan. She is not happy with the violence, but she is comforted by her father when he told her how strong she was. When she saw him get killed by the rogue Scourge, and his final words were about how she should be Shadowclan's leader, something in her breaks. This is when the cycle is complete, and once she enacts vengeance on Scourge, she earns the same distinctive scar on her face that her father had.