zswansong
Everybody knows that characters with disabilities in the "Warriors" series are often given the short end of the stick. Blind and paralyzed cats perfectly able of becoming more than sufficient hunters and steadily capable fighters are almost always ushered to the medicine den, tucked out of the way and out of sight, often being used as disposable sub-plots. A prime example of this is Snowkit in "the Prophecies Begin" series. A kit born deaf, Snowkit is killed off almost as quickly as he is introduced, used as only a pawn to drive the narrative and pressurise Bluestar's descent into madness. But what would have happened if the Erins had decided to let Snowkit live? Would he have become a warrior? Or would he have been met with the same forced fate others like him had faced? Instead of killing off a character with such great potential, why not flesh out his story and allow him to forge his own path, and to walk his own footsteps as the forest's first warrior in his circumstances? In this novella, discover just how Snowkit's life may have played out if he was given a fair chance at survival.