i cant keep making leafpool videos forever, i say, lying, and making another one (tho to be fair this is a shortened and simplified version of a more fleshed out amv idea i have)
song: will u still u by jeff rosenstock
to give a brief rundown of what's happening here, since it's out of chronological order and pretty fast-paced:
-hollyleaf confronts leafpool, telling her to eat deathberries
-leafpool has a flashback to the time when she decided to run away with crowfeather, and cinderpelt lunged at her in desperate anger. she felt betrayed and hurt by her mentor (who was representing the will of starclan), and chose love. now, years later, her daughter/own former apprentice feels betrayed and hurt at her for this decision, and has effectively chosen starclan/the warrior code over leafpool.
-leafpool pleads with starclan for forgiveness for her transgression. flash forward to her trial, where a starclan cat taunts her with "well, why did you do it, then?"
-leafpool thinks about her grief and all the suffering that her breaking the code "caused" (cinderpelt's death, squirrelflight being forced to take her kits/lied to about her fertility, brambleclaw being lied to, ashfur's actions, squirrelflight being divorced, her children not forgiving her, losing her job, crowfeather denouncing her at the gathering, starclan doing nothing to help). she has no room left for sympathising with or paying penance for hollyleaf's anger, semi-sarcastically expressing that her own misery doesn't matter.
-back to the canon scene where leafpool calls hollyleaf's bluff and is like "yeah, sure, why don't i eat the deathberries?". hollyleaf backs out.
7 сен 2024
