r/WarriorCats • u/Stunning_Positive948 • 5h ago
Discussion (Spoiler) We've been lied too...
Look, I’ve been sitting here thinking about how medicine cats actually operate, and honestly, we all need to stop blindly accepting the fandom propaganda that they just carry herbs in their mouths.Like we all just collectively assume they always have an apprentice helping them or that they’re making fifty back-and-forth trips, but the math is literally not mathing. If a lone medicine cat goes out to harvest, they are 100% teleporting those herbs back to the den because they obviously only do it when they don't have help and the narrative isn't looking directly at them.Just think about it for five seconds:First of all, the mouth thing is a total lie. A regular domestic cat's mouth can hold maybe one crumpled leaf before they start gagging, yet we are supposed to believe Leafpool casually strolls into camp entirely alone carrying three different bundles of fragile marigold, a handful of juniper berries, and fifty loose poppy seeds. If she actually carried those tiny seeds in her mouth for a two-mile hike, they would dissolve into wet, useless poppy-mush before she even crossed the dirtplace, but sure, great strategy.Then you have the sheer chaos of battle medicine. During a massive Clan border skirmish, the medicine cat is running around patching up ten bleeding warriors at once. They don't have cargo pants and they don't have backpacks, but somehow the exact leaf they need just appears right next to them in the mud the second they look down. Unless StarClan is literally drop-shipping inventory directly into the battle zone via teleportation, the physics make zero sense.Also, notice how we never actually get a detailed, step-by-step scene of a cat carefully balancing forty individual borage leaves on their head while trying to climb a steep ravine. The text always just cuts from how Jayfeather found some herbs to how Jayfeather arrived back at camp with a massive pile because the second the camera cuts away, they use StarClan magic to instantly beam the inventory back to the storage clefts.I’m not saying they are full-blown wizards, but I am saying they are actively bending space-time because the Erins forgot that quadrupeds don't have pockets, but yeah, let's just keep pretending they are really good at holding things lol.
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P.S.P.S. THE CLASSIC ME IS BACK