Xela Winchester wrote:I never understood why kittypets were allowed into ThunderClan. None of the other Clans did that, and they were just fine.
I always just figured the Erins did it out of plot convenience. The longer the series went on, the more kittypets got accepted into the clan, so to me it seemed like the Erins just needed new bloodlines into Thunderclan so that there would be no obvious inbreeding. Since the readers don't follow the bloodlines/know the families of the other clans as well, the Erins wouldn't feel the need to add kittypets to the other clans; they could just make couples with whoever they wanted without worrying about readers thinking bloodlines might being crossed. And I can kind of see where they're coming from with it, but it just isn't realistic and it seems weird. Yeah, it would probably be strange for their younger readers to see cats who are siblings/related in some way having kits together, even though that's realistic, so they had to figure out a way to constantly keep up new bloodlines. Continuing to bring in kittypets just gets really annoying though, and it also becomes unrealistic to a point too, so they're really stuck in a bad situation with the choices they're given.