#just an analysis

listening to blackstar’s novella rn and i’m reminded that tigerstar uses extremely fascist rhetoric. brokenstar does too but spends less time speaking because he’s always trying to fight.

tactically brokenstar is the most successful. he drove out an entire clan. he accomplished a large goal, while also demolishing everything including his own clanmates (and literally baby cats) in his path. tigerstar failed to meet several of his goals.

tigerstar and brokenstar are two different types of evil. brokenstar is impulsive and shows no care at all for life, even his own. he does not care if kits die, he does not care if his family dies, he does not care if anyone dies and shows a complete lack of regard for his own wellbeing. he experiences no emotions, so he must do exhilarating things, including murder, to compensate. every cat he is closely involved with is simply a stepping stone or a tool and he does not listen to guidance while tigerstar may be slightly more amenable. i don’t think brokenstar would’ve teamed up with any clan at all.

tigerstar cares about his own life and the lives of some. he has attachments to some cats that he could consider friends and i do think that he cares about (at least some of) these cats as friends or family (i.e. dustpelt, longtail, whitestorm, thistleclaw, leopardfoot, goldenflower, tawny & bramble, etc. didn’t include darkstripe because i genuinely think tigerstar doesn’t like him.) he is like thistleclaw in this way but thistleclaw seems to be slightly more impulsive as well as willing to kill for sport like brokenstar.

brokenstar kills for sport (he uses needing more territory as an excuse to beat the shit out of windclan over and over) while tigerstar does less of. tigerstar is more complex because he actually seems to have emotions and feelings. both are evil for evil’s sake, it seems, but tigerstar has some motives. brokenstar is only motivated by war and killing and murder. and having power over large groups of cats.

tigerstar has some of the most textbook fascist rhetoric, like talking about how half clan or kittypet blood is destroying the “pure” blood of the clans that “their ancestors” had created for them. we know tiger’s dad was pinestar, a kittypet, so i think tigerstar has insecurities. brokenstar does not.