Ashfur Pt 1

*WARNING-MAJOR SPOILERS FOR NEW PROPHECY THROUGH POWER OF THREE*

Ashfur. Just the name brings rushes of feelings and memories, as all good characters should. The betrayal, the love, the desperation. But the question remains, what do we really feel about Ashfur?

Now there must be at least a few of you thinking "Wha?!?!?! But he's evil! A traitor! What do you mean what do we feel? We're supposed to hate him!!" But that's the problem, isn't it? Yes, he was troubled, dark, maybe even evil. But no heroes are without fault. Squirrelflight herself hid from her own kits their true parentage. Firestar broke the warrior code innumerable times! Yellowfang killed her own son after blinding him! But, back to Squirrelflight. She held back that she didn't love Ashfur! She lied to him and then broke up with him by telling him she loved another cat! The fact that he didn't lose his mind then and there is amazing. For lack of a better analogy, from Ashfur's perspective it probably went like this:

So a person walks up to you and gives you a lollipop (you can already tell from that sentence that this is a horrible analogy.) They say "I really like this lollipop so I thought I'd give it to someone special." Then, a few days later, they rip the lollipop from your fingers saying "The lollipop is too special for you! I'm giving it to the more specialful person who later is going to break my heart cause I lied to him about his 'children'!"

Wow, i can't believe I just wrote that. Maybe I should have used like a wedding ring... Too late to turn back now!

Squirrelflight's perspective:

Someone has her lollipop and they seem to be flaunting it in front of her. She made a mistake so takes back the lollipop and gives it to the 'right' person.

I have a lot about Ashfur so I will leave you to digest that and right more tommorow.

Question of the Post: Who do you think was right for Squirrelflight?