The Untapped Potential of Goldenflower (Warrior Cats Character Analysis)

[@kirikat9365]

I always figured the way Fireheart treated Bamblekit/paw was trauma. It's one thing that he got to see how bad Tigerclaw was before everyone else, but Tigerclaw did almost let him drown one time. If Longtail hadn't saved him (a great character moment for him btw) he would have died.

[@sexygirlmax2019]

Firestar Ravenpaw and Graystripe all faced trauma from being threatened with their lives by the deputy, that they could be killed off just like he threatened Ravenpaw if they ever told Bluestar about Redtail....But..Ravenpaw and Firestar deffo faced the worst of it, and they both faced different kinds of trauma from the same cat

[@Amanecer458]

Yes it have to be difficult, and people only treat him like paranoic. Is like conviced a pregnant woman to accept the baby of her raper

[@julianalipira2991]

The rest of clan also feared him.

[@luvxoxundertalehazbinhotel1835]

@@julianalipira2991 not really. Only at the end

[@julianalipira2991]

@@luvxoxundertalehazbinhotel1835 Who are you talking about...Tigerstar? Bramble was still receiving hate well into apprentice hood. So I don't know what you mean, because...he was literally born into it..? Tiger got hate at the end after his grand scheme was revealed.

[@izzy.mushroomz]

the fact that tigerclaw’s father left to become a kittypet really explains why he has so much hatred for them. he was most definitely thinking his father didn’t want him anymore, therefore planting a thought in his mind that kittypets are bad.

[@cinnamonbun1354]

Ironic cause he was also got with a kitty pet

[@eve123princess9]

I can only imagine how she felt when Brambleclaw and Tawnypelt were gone, especially when she already lost Swiftpaw. :(

[@jeriko_studios]

It would've been really sweet to have a moment where goldenflower sees her kits back and she greets them like sandstorm

[@luthientinuviel3883]

I love Goldenflower! She's really strong and compassionate. Also I think it would be cool if we got a short story detailing her and Tigerstar's relationship.

[@sexygirlmax2019]

I wish she got a Novella fr fr :(

[@googleuser4054]

i love brambleclaw

[@ApricityGlow]

Or a graphic novel to mirror Sasha.

[@lpshorselover1949]

You know, I always forget that Goldenflower actually made it to the lake territories. In my mind, I always thought she had become an elder before then, and had decided to stay behind in the old forest to die. This really goes to show how little Goldenflower is used in the books; she’s utilized so little to the point I completely forgot she was there in the New Prophecy at all

[@hawktalon7890]

I only remember it because I did a re-read of TNP from start to finish recently. But between Sunset and The Sight, she just dies offscreen.

[@DewyStudios]

Oh my gosh I just realized that Brambleclaw, Tawnypelt, Feathertail and Stormfur were all nursed together and then went on the journey together.

[@jeritheweirdchild]

Omg

[@GilbertFeathers]

3:34 May I point out that perhaps her not being bigoted towards Graystripe's kits was because she grew to realize she had been wrong about Cloudkit having seen him survive and grow? It could have been unspoken character development.

[@justagoofyfrog]

Goldenflower is my absolute favorite cat in the entire series. I wish the Erins would have utilized her more. But I'm hopeful that someday they'll give her a novella so we can see how she felt with everything going on. I'd love if it could be called Goldenflower's Guilt, detailing how she felt having been Tigerstar's mate and everything that comes with it, including the ostracizing of her younger children and the death of her oldest. I want to see how she reacted finding out Tawnypaw moved to Shadowclan. How did she feel about moving territories? (I imagine along the way she randomly said something like "when we get there, I'd like to retire to the elder's den" and that's the reason for her abrupt roll change). I especially want to know: did she live long enough to meet her grandchildren, the three? There's still so much to explore with Goldenflower. She was the best queen (imo, of course), and an unintentionally amazing character. Thank you for discussing her. Your analysis videos have been so enjoyable to watch/listen to

[@ApricityGlow]

I think we would know in Leafpool's Wish if Goldenflower lived long enough to see the Three, but I don't remember.

[@izzy.mushroomz]

@Just A Frog, the Goldenflower’s Guilt is actually such a creative and awesome idea! maybe one day it’ll happen!

[@newabbmantics]

SAME???

[@aliviahouk7018]

I really like goldenflower! She is often forgotten because well her death was OFF SCREEN! I think she should have had a bigger role in the books. She's the wife of tigerstar damn it! She needs a novella or a graffic novel or something, I want to know about her and tigerstar's life together, her reaction to mothwing and hawkfrost, more an when tawnypelt left, and her thoughts when tigerstar was found to be an evil serial killer.

[@jeritheweirdchild]

There's so much they can do than just her backstory like the other novellas, I NEED a POV book of how she felt throughout the series when she was alive that they could make it a whole book.

[@QuirkOverhaul]

Was it confirmed that her first mate was patchpelt, tigerstar's uncle, which would also make tigerstar swifty's cousin. Warriors family relations are soo odd sometimes, and from a human perspective, would make some things really awkward. Anyway, seen a ton of fans mention they'd like a goldenflower novella, and of course I agree, but we just gotta have patience, the Erin's will make as many books on as many characters as they can. Something that is really great about not having a ton of background on a character, is when they do get their own story, it makes things a lot more interesting. I mean Goldenflower is swiftpaw's mom, I'd love to read about that, and how she must of felt knowing that the cat she gave her heart to is essentially responsible for her son's death. Just gotta have patience, goldenflower will get her time in the sun, and it will be golden.

[@Ixyywr]

We need a goldenflower super edition about how she and tigerstar got together and just her character as a whole

[@queencharlene]

I just realized that maybe part of the reason Tigerstar goes on his murderous tirade against the half-clan cats in riverclan is that he was angry at featherpaw and stormpaw for getting the same love and affection as his children from Goldenflower. Obviously he's also driven by disturbing, bigoted ideology as well, but I hadn't considered his personal hatred towards Greystripe's kits.

[@SoEeveelicious]

Goldenflower has stated a few times in the books that she loved Tigerclaw, and was devastated by what he became. One of the Erins said to tigerclaw his feelings for goldenflower were just that she would be the perfect mother for his kits and that to tigerclaw his relationship with her was like spiderleg’s relationship with daisy, but goldenflower did love tigerclaw

[@ZirconiaGacha]

You just gave me the idea for an AU where Pinestar leaves ThunderClan to be a kittypet but takes Tigerkit with him (Tigerkit chose to leave, I should say that), leading LEOPARDFOOT to try and do a search-and-destroy mission on Pinestar just to get her "perfect" kit back. But it turns out that Tigerpaw/claw (whichever stage of his life he'd be at) pretty much decided to be a vigilante loner for ThunderClan, trying to solve issues before they get big.

[@Bailderdash]

I love goldenflower so much and I never quite could figure out why she stuck out so much to me but you put it very well into words. Great video!

[@Moony1568]

I’m loving these single character analyses! Edit: yeah make that patron! I’ll 100% support you!

[@GracieFitzpeter]

Aw thank you you're really sweet! Here's the link if you want to check it out patreon.com/user?u=47685609&Link&

[@sandyaraujo5222]

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[@zrainyday5266]

If the Erins won't give us Goldenflower content, we'll make it ourselves and treat it as canon instead >:D But seriously she needs a SE so badly. She deserves it more than fucking Onestar. She's so interesting and the way she took it Feather and Storm was so cute. They really did this character dirty because she could've been so much more. I actually think she could've been a good choice for deputy and paralleled Tigerstar far better than Bramblestar did but maybe that's a stretch

[@QuirkOverhaul]

I think onestar needed his own book, he was a pretty important character, regardless of how we all feel about him. The good news is, goldenflower will probably get her own book one day, the publishers will have the Erin's cranking out as many books as humanly possible, goldy will get her dues eventually, just gotta be patient.

[@zrainyday5266]

@@QuirkOverhaul I suppose. Hopefully if mah girl does, it's not as crappy as Onestar's book. But also, Onestar's Confession was not needed. A Onestar book? Maybe? But dear god the one we got was awful, 'justified' horrible actions and added barely anything new or gave us any look into important moments and feelings for him XD

[@QuirkOverhaul]

@@zrainyday5266 I agree, onestar's book was a mess, they really didn't do onestar any favors with that super edition, I think fans hate him even more now. I'd like to give the Erin's the benefit of the doubt with Onestar's Confession seeing as it was sprung up on them by the publishers, they were working on another book, I think about Riverstar, and had to rush to get Onestar's book out. Goldenflower won't have that problem, she'll probably get a nice novella eventually, and with a lot of her life being unknown to us, it'll probably be pretty good.

[@erismason3441]

Yeah the Onestar book was the one that finally broke me. I'm not buying another super edition after that...which feels crazy, since I own all the warrior books now. I'll just get the new ones from the library eventually or something if I hear they're actually good. If not, well. No great loss.

[@LINTOXO]

i love all the perma queens, apecifically daisy however no matter how much she annoys every one else

[@spyderbyte975]

Honestly, Goldenflower deserved the right to kill Tigerstar. She deserved that. She deserved to defend her kits. She deserved to stand by them, adopted or birthed of her. She deserved MORE.

[@ismellupdog]

Isn't Longtail also Swiftpaw's half-brother? I could totally see Goldenflower viewing Longtail as a newphew figure for that reason, growing attached to her son's big brother in a similarly maternal way as with Graystripe's kits.

[@buggie851]

The Bramblekit/star thing is kinda similar to in wings of fire (A different series in case anyone isn't aware.), Riptide being punished for his father stealing an egg. I feel like people saying that personalities are genetic is kind of stupid, an example being Bramblekit/star or Riptide, both are being punished for something their father has done, yet they turned out good.

[@EllaElla-n6t]

I am sorry for commenting so late but that art is just amazing. You’re so talented and how you know that much about Warrior Cats is amazing! I subed

[@Just-Some-Creature]

I stand by the statement that warrior cats in just one giant continuity error.

[@PokemonkaDub]

Tigerclaw was not born evil, he was DESTINED to become evil not that he was born that way. It's like the Eodypus.

[@florest_pawz9188]

I know that it’s said Swiftpaw’s dad is Patchpelt but I think it would be Way cooler if he was actually half clan and golden’flower had at some point been in a relationship with a cat from a different clan (that I would assume didn’t last long) it make sense why she cares so much for grey’stripes kits cause her own kit was half clan, I also know the forbidden romance plot or really over used nowadays but it also help with the genetic diversity in thunder clan.

[@eve123princess9]

Also I honestly thought Goldenflower died in the second book of TNP, sense I didn’t remember her in the rest of those books.

[@MrWereWolfGirl]

I am always annoyed when they say that someone's family when they don't really grieve or show any relationship between said characters x.x

[@beepbow8444]

I feel that tiger leaving didn't actually doom him to be evil. When the father leaves, the responsibility fell to the clan and Firestar. Goldenflower especially made him good

[@Fiyera]

I guess I'm wrong, but I remember reading that Goldenflower died before Midnight. I've only read that series once and she's barely (or not) mentioned which probably reinforced my mistake.

[@jeritheweirdchild]

this video inspired me to write a goldenflower based fic about her life and relationship with Tigerclaw, simply because her character had so much protentional. Your ideas and points (that i heavily agree with) will help me write this story to add more protentional to her life, while still feeling like the book. Goldenflower deserved better :(

[@Amanecer458]

11:35 Hypocritical, imagine that you leave near a psycopat killer that tries to murdered you so many times and later you have to accept a kid that is a copy of them. It's not the same thing as hate someone just becose where come from, it's already a deep trauma.

[@GracieFitzpeter]

Yea fair. There were so many chunks in this NOT dedicated to Goldenflower that I felt bad analyzing another character, but yeah I could’ve definetly gone into Fireheart more. He is nuanced. I actually have an old script about Fireheart and some of his trauma, maybe I’ll dust it off? Idk

[@sandyaraujo5222]

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[@CoolattasLab]

"It's proof that the writers are terrible at writing consistent characters!" literally though. so many of the issues with this series and how good characters become shitty is because the writers are bad at their job lmao

[@MesozoicBirds15]

Your style reminds me alot of Lois Wain! Keep up the good work!

[@shadowfluf]

I love the music I'm vibing to in this video rn

[@akalanaka1229]

Love your artstyle

[@YourLocalArtblock7348]

This is a really cool series/Analysis. If you don’t mind the idea, When I read Leopardstars honor (or whatever it was called), I couldn’t stop thinking about Tigerstars flirting with leopard fur. It may seem small, but It went on since she became a warrior, and Tigerclaw/star was just made deputy/already mate to Goldenflower. Which means that all he wanted was to gain Leopardstars trust from a young age, as if he already knew the events of the darkest hour- and if you think about it he pretty much Manipulated all of Riverclan and Shadowclan (in the beginning of the first series Thunderclan, too) to trust him. In my opinion, despite it being a seemingly small topic. It is really messed up and should be mentioned. I know that this was most likely meant to happen, but it makes the books a lot more confusing to read. Plus, no doubt Tigerclaw used Goldenflower to make Thunderclan grow with cats who will stand up for him- but spreading it out to make other clans trust him by *FLIRTING*?!? So if you make a TigerStar video I think you could add this, or A leopardstar. (Summary since I am horrible at making points) In Leopardstars Honor (or whatever it’s called) Tigerclaw is seen flirting, or manipulating Leopardfur to trust him. This leads to a false sense of security around Tigerclaw for most-to-all-clans. The reason why this is messed up is because Tigerclaw already has a m8, and kits. Plus, Tigerclaw didn’t know the events of the darkest hour, since he is not a time traveler. So, Why did he want Leopardfur to trust him? I would really like to find that out. (This was made really late, so if anything is seen as offensive please tell me and I will delete the comment. I just thought it would be something to mention)

[@ApricityGlow]

I don't remember Tigerstar flirting with Leopardstar before they were leaders? I do remember they had conversations, but not with any flirty undertones. I can't see why Tigerstar would flirt considering he still had a kit maker at that time.

[@YourLocalArtblock7348]

Good point, I’m looking back and that doesn’t look correct. But he does compliment her sometimes.

[@sorrelmoon]

I’M SO EXCITED FOR THIS

[@tonkuriihq8133]

I always wanted to know more about her relationship with tigerstar. Did he love her, or at least care ahout her? Or did he just use her to have kits to carry on his bloodline? Her talking about him at all was only shown after he was exiled. They didnt seem to show any interaction between the two beforehand from what i remember. I always found it so fascinating, since she seems like such a good hearted cat, and she chose Tigerclaw of all cats to mate with. How much did she know about his true nature? I doubt she knew, i really dont see her wanting to be with him if she did. Its made even more complex in that she was with Patchpelt beforehand although queens having kits with multiple toms (which is more realistic to feral cats tbh) wasnt unheard of in the first series. Ive always wished so much that they elaborated on their relationship

[@lavandergalaxy3669]

I always think of Goldenflower as interesting character that should be talk about and is my favorite queen.

[@duxduxduckie]

Could you maybe do a video on Tawnypelt? I feel like shes a really underappreciated character and also I would love to just listen to someone talk about my favorite character for some time.

[@Meng10993145]

TBH I'm just happy that in the last video i commented about Goldenflower and here we are now

[@DAMAGEDCODA666]

Goldenflower is so underrated in the story

[@callerunknown]

Love the art, very pretty and it was fun to see your process

[@frannie4310]

I never write fanfiction but you’re making me want to write golden flower fanfiction

[@Pinkotica]

Golden flower is one of the best characters I need her to have a super edition rn

[@therextwins1086]

Finally thank you somebody else also notices golden flowers thing and swiftpaw's relation to tigerclaw that could have been so interesting not to mention that there was a non-canon sibling of swiftpaw's name links kit that could have been interesting to in someone's AU I made a pretty interesting one

[@2cat4life]

moonlight in the background hell yea 🕺

[@Tanzles]

Hey so I was wondering if you could talk about fathers too, maybe the fathers of the original leaders. Like Stormtail, Shellheart, Sandgorse, and Raggedstar. It’d be interesting to hear your perspective on them and how they potentially motivated their kids, good and bad.

[@peytoia]

i always interpreted it as goldenflower going out to look for her kits (which is why shes missing) and then maybe she was injured on the journey and retired when they got to the lake, but thats kind of a patch-up-the-holes idea of mine LOL

[@arrowvanlanduyt6319]

Bramblekit has done nothing wrong ...yet

[@Third7Plays]

5:56 oh boy Lightleap oh boy. (Lightleap is the only female Tigerstar clone btw)

[@hannahevertson8306]

All i can say is early Bramble had so much potential and it ended up squandered because they wanted to inject more anst. Not sure how much of that was the main writer of The New Prophecy not knowing enough about the character or them not knowing how to create drama with Brambleclaw where he should have been at the start (far more interesting, maybe have him be afraid of leading because he hates everything his father stood for but maybe a little of Firestar's old mistrust sunk into him, maybe he's afraid that having any amount of power will turn him into his father. Have him end the second series as deputy still but it's a far easier to work with base (what I would have wanted to do with him)). But no, they had him wanting to prove himself and learning to reject his father again. Again the dude is squandered potential and he is a favorite of mine only for the potential he once had to be a great character.

[@asagothe_fander]

I do want to mention that there is a another queen who we literally only know of in the first book and she’s never brought up again. She’s not even name she’s just a shitty cat with distinctive tabby markings and a few kits

[@asagothe_fander]

And brambleclaw character arc from the second series is thrown out the window and he becomes abusive. He might not be like his father in some aspects but he definitely is not a good guy

[@cawingcrows2072]

The sad thing is, he did end up being evil in a way in the end It was like a self-fulfilling prophecy Hes a very bad person who is awful to his mate and then [spoilers] gets possessed to be even worse

[@MolarMacabaret]

Tbh id totally love to see a super editon entirely abt goldenflower. Like the way tigerstar was killled was badass, but it wouldve been even more badass if goldenflower did it, if we could see her rage and stuff, itend to associate tigerstar with an abusive stepdad i had for a decade and i feel the authors totally missed a chance to create a detailed analysis on abuse and to make one of the most badass supermoms ever. I may create an au based on this lol

[@MolarMacabaret]

Potential super edition names would be, queen goldenflower, goldenflowers grace, or just calling it ‘goldenflower’ Like i think itd be interesting if they made an entire alternate universe arc that plays with this idea.

[@moonmews4715]

This sounds like AU potential

[@AnNaRoXs100]

I could have sworn that Goldenflower died in the first series. I remember reading Firestar telling Tigerstar that and he had a response similar to "Well she was useless anyway" to just solidify that he was a evil tom cat. Did I hallucinate that? I feel like I must have if she was in the second series.

[@Meosketch]

You're probably thinking about Thistleclaw saying that about Snowfur to Silverhawk in the dark forest, in Crookedstar's Promise. When Silverhawk asked if he was sad about his mate's passing, Thistleclaw told Silverhawk that Snowfur was weak anyway, and that Whitekit was like his mother.

[@Terracodda]

was fireheart really wrong about brambleshart though.

[@Mehhhhhhhh]

Warriors hates she cats so much gotdamn

[@jayfox4291]

I do agree in general though. Warriors side characters could use more love, including her. She’s memorable, but under used.

[@tiredsunny6206]

I really would like if you would do rain flower because of her and crooked kit and how she was probably the the worst mother in the Whole fandom. She’s very selfish but also there’s the medicine cat who is there for crooked kit , she’s more of a mother to crooked kit than rain flower would ever be because rain flower unlike golden flower and gray stripes kits she looks at her son with discuss and hate and I feel she needs a video about her not only her and crooked kit but also her other son, she keeps her other son by her side 20.4.7 but pushes crooked kit away like he’s crow-food and than when crooked kit grew up he grew up to have sliver stream so a video ether about crooked star/kit or rain flower.

[@tiredsunny6206]

Also love your stuff and I loved this video and the fern cloud and daisy video

[@shiftis5521]

first of all, I paid attention to the video because it seemed to me that Russian illustrations of warrior cats were on the cover

[@Gryphoenixheart111]

Can you talk abt RavenPaw????? Please?

[@sketchyd6521]

24:31 They literally wanted to date 😭😭😭

[@kyuupid217]

goldenflower novella when

[@Bee8467]

WHY DIDNT I SEE THIS AH

[@krscartwright4951]

OMFG YES YES YESSSSS

[@sandyaraujo5222]

🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@newabbmantics]

WE NEED A GOLDENFLOWER NOVELLA!! ❤️❤️

[@blueppaw4490]

I will never accept this "oh fireheart you should tell them who their father is" garbage like WHY????? he was not involved in the heat he has no responsibility

[@ainsleyjackam8849]

SquirrelFlight maybe????

[@2cat4life]

YEEEESSSSSSSS

[@jayfox4291]

I really don’t understand your retcon. Why’s it an issue he accidentally caused the death of his step kid? When he’s totally willing to kill his ex & all his old clan mates. It’s not like he cared about swiftpaw. And most everything he said or did in arc 1 was in the sake of manipulation. So yeah using swiftpaw’s death as an excuse to get what he wants, is 100% if his character.

[@musclespasm1557]

Squirrelflight is also in the wrong.

[@Serasugee]

Did you really call feral cats thinking pets are weak "bigotry" lmao that's the most hilarious statement I have ever heard

[@iotaifield1253]

That's what it's portrayed as in the books so it's fairly accurate

[@-.RuhRoh]

It’s pretty accurate because of how they are displayed in the books 😂

[@Serasugee]

There are exceptions where kittypets are pretty strong, but the books still portray most of them as being lazy and weak (even moreso than real housecats) Feral cats are huge compared to housecats and considering how often battles happened in the first series I think it's entirely reasonable to be concerned over the safety of a kittypet in the clans. Besides, the word "bigotry" is so overused by everyone nowadays, it seems to be the favourite word for "people saying things I dislike"

[@-.RuhRoh]

@@Serasugee both the cats in the books and the house cats are both.. still cats. But the story is told through the eyes of the clans, which obviously think they are superior to kittypets and heavily look down on them. Bigotry is a word which just works in this situation 🤷 not that deep, its accurate. The words “me” and “you” are pretty overused too, doesn’t mean they mean anything less lmao

[@Serasugee]

@@-.RuhRoh of course they're still cats, but they're not the same by any means most kittypets are weak, that's a fact not a stereotype "Me and you" are not misused or overused, what do you mean?

[@tigerwoman4411]

Swiftpaw wasn't his stepson

[@jessi-rose]

Sorta was since goldenflower was his mom

[@sexygirlmax2019]

do u not know how family trees work

[@tigerwoman4411]

@@jessi-rose They are cats, cats don't have stepfathers

[@sal-my1id]

@@tigerwoman4411 ?? its a book series about humanized talking cats with complex feelings i feel like they're capable of forming family bonds beyond direct parentage😭

[@Amanecer458]

@@sal-my1id i'm getting tired of people that thinks complex feelings or thinking means humans moral. If we see in the past human were very awfull even with our children