Sunstar was a cool dude, but I did take issue with his choice of words while confronting Bluepaw. Telling someone who is struggling with grief/depression that they are being a burden on their loved ones is thoughtless at best and downright cruel at worst. I can't help but wonder that if Bluestar hadn't been taught at a young age to suppress her own feelings in favour of serving the clan; maybe she wouldn't have had such an... extreme reaction to Tigerclaw's betrayal.

Sunstar was time skipped out of existence

I'm having mixed opinions on Sunfall/star giving Bluepaw/fur the advice to just move on with life after losing her mother and her sister. There's a reason so many cultures in antiquity have ritualized mourning periods, and that's because it's a community effort to help ease the process of grief for those close to the deceased. It's really not fair to expect a grieving individual to just get back to work or get over it in a week, and with how mentally anthropomorphized these cats are, I wouldn't expect them to be so either. This proposition I have for a ritualized mourning period for Clan culture is heavily inspired by the Jewish mourning ritual, and I'd recommend looking into that and other mourning rituals from other cultures for inspiration. Those closest to the deceased (family and close friends) will keep vigil on the night before the burial, but once the burial is over, the mourning period begins. Mourners will abstain from going on patrols or performing their duties for nine days (in the cases of the leader mourning, the deputy performs their duties; for deputies, a temporary deputy is instated for the nine days; for med cats, they better have an apprentice or they can borrow another Clan's med cat for a spell). They will eat along with the elders, queens, and kittens before the non-mourning warriors and apprentices. After the nine days are up, the mourners will return to their duties, but they're still focused on grieving, so they will not attend any full moon gatherings (half-moon gatherings are fine tho) and there will be no ceremonies focused around them for one full moon cycle (warrior assessments will be postponed, as will warrior and apprenticeship ceremonies, and they cannot be chosen to be deputy or mentor until their mourning period is over). After this period is over, they are fully reintegrated back into society, but still perform small rituals and prayers for easing the grief and moving on. Anyway, yeah, here's your typical textwall XD

Poor Nightstar being forgotten as a leader without 9 lives

I like sunstar. I wish mentor apprentice relationships were touched on more. He shaped bluestar. We never see any of brackenfur or dustpelt's apprentices take on the den building role, sandstorm's become some of the best hunters, or mosewhisker's and hazeltail's become less xenophobic. Berrynose got his mentor's temper though. I do like seeing apprentices become friends with or are in scenes with their mentors for example poppyfrost being on a lot of thornclaw's patrols, hollyleaf and brackenfur both being chosen for the sol patrol, ivypool and twigbranch still seeming close on that squirrelflight's hope patrol, and sparkpelt and cherryfall seen sitting together. I also like seeing apprentices grief for they're mentors eaglewing for ambermoon in squilf's book, ambermoon for spiderleg is mentioned, ivypool I think bows her head for snowbush,bthornclaw may have grieved for briarlight, greystripe for lionheart, firestar for bluestar and then cinderpelt, cinderpelt for yellowfang, lefapool for cinderpelt, yellowfang for sagewhisker, and not bristlefrost

Sunstar's parts are some of my favorites in BP. I like the idea of a normally peaceful and level-headed leader placing too much trust in battle hungry cats but and just doesn't learn

It’s so good to see Sunstar getting some love!

Poor Sunstar. He's so underrated

Sunstar was an awesome leader tbh

Why is this so funny to me Bluepaw: Will-will I see my mother again? Sunfall: In your dreams, Bluepaw

Stepdadstar 😊

OH MY GOSH!!!! A SUNSTAR VIDEO!!!!!!!!!

Can you make a video about Blizzardwing? He is the only cat to have cheated I think, or kept his second mate a secret

Everybunny

Sunstar’s name is Sunsun/Starstar like how “Twigbranch” is “Stickstick” and no amount of “ACKSHUALLY CatS dOn’t KnoW thEy’re tHe SaMe” like I got during my Instagram days will convince me otherwise.

Gotta appreciate the Okami music

i got here from trying to find the megaman version of sunstar

I love the Okami music!!

This video has made sunstar one of my favorite cats ever omg the guy ever

I really want AU (if a map of fanfic exists already let me know!) of Thistlestar, with Tigerclaw as his deputy. the chaos would be riveting

Maybe I’m misremembering, but didn’t Sunstar admit to Bluefur that he wasn’t going to appoint Thistleclaw as deputy, nor was he planning to at any point? I thought he did because I remember thinking, “Oh, good, something you could’ve mentioned to her YESTERDAY!!” Before she had to give up her kits I mean. Anyway, just wondering. Plus, Moonflower made the comment in StarClan when Mosskit died that maybe being appointed with new responsibilities would change Thistleclaw into a more responsible cat. They were arguing about Bluefur giving up her kits for the good of the clan.

I love Dad Sunstar way more then the love intrest Sunstar. That time was weird lol. But overall I think that Sunstar made the wrong choice with Bluefur as deputy. Bluefur proved over time that she struggles with grief a lot (which is not a shame, to make it clear). First with Moonflower deaths as a ´paw as well after Snowfurs death as a warrior. So choosing her shortly after her kits got "killed" and giving her a position of power where you need to have a clear head, is a bit... questionable. But maybe he chose her because of the close bond to her. I like the idea that his feelings made him overlook all of that.

I think that Sunstar giving Bluestar a life for Caution would've been good, or possibly respect or peace. Any of those three, plus the ones suggested in the vid, would've been more suited to his leadership.

I honestly can't see Sunfalls way of handling bluepaws grief as acceptable. He kind of just quilt tripped and implied that she is a bad person if she (a child) doesn't get sadness together. I don't remember him actually saying anything useful or kind after the first few sentences

Sunfall was an asshole as Bluefur’s mentor

Ah yes I remember when tigerHEART killed redtail. You said tigerheart not tigerclaw. I don't think either of his parents were even born yet.