There's a bunch of people here on Tumblr who're trying to cancel Rootspring and I just want to say I think they're exaggerating. It's about that line where Rootspring tells Ivypool that he wanted to have kits with Bristlefrost in the Ivypool's Heart Preview. Here's the context:
“There’s nothing to be sorry for. I know exactly what you mean,” Rootspring agreed. “Just like I keep thinking about how, before she died, I’d decided to leave my Clan so I could be with her. We would have been mates—we should have been mates. We should have had kits, and lived out our lives as warriors until we joined the elders together.”
“You would have had beautiful kits,” Ivypool murmured.
“I can see them now. Brave little ThunderClan warriors, with SkyClan’s talent for leaping and climbing. Gray and yellow fur mingling, and Bristlefrost’s blue-green eyes.” After a moment’s pause, she added, “Rootspring, I want you to know that it helps me so much, meeting you here to talk about Bristlefrost. I don’t think any cat but you understands the way I feel, not even her father.”
It's a little hard to understand due to the questionable formating on the website, but all Rootspring ever did was say: Man we should've had a long and normal warrior cats life and kits would have been a part of it. (Yk cause irl many people also want to have long and happy lives and they also want to start families???) And it's IVYPOOL who goes on about how wonderful the kits would have been and how they would've been brave and would've had both traits from ThunderClan and SkyClan blah blah blah.
Like, it's not even a Finleap-Twigbranch situation because Bristlefrost ALSO wanted kits. And may I remind people that Bristlefrost literally sorta sent a vision to Rootspring in ALITM about how they would've started a family and stuff as she was dying???
Like, please just leave Rootspring alone, the conversation with Ivypool is probably not even gonna be brought up again. I don't understand why this is worthy of a cancel😭😭
