fine, great. - Jayfeather AMV

🐾 VIDEO EXPLANATION:

Note: When jay is blind, everyone is coloured according to whatever their eye colour is (e.g. squirrelflight is green, leafpool is amber). When jay can see, their normal pelt colour/markings can be seen. When jay is using his powers to sense thoughts+feelings, his pelt+eyes become the eye colour of the other cat, like how watercolour bleeds into other colours!! Red becomes the symbolic colour of injury/illness/anything that indicates jay needs to care for/save someone

0:00 Holly, lion, and jay become apprentices to their new mentors leafpool, ashfur, and brightheart.
0:05 Squirrelflight and brambleclaw express their pride to their kits holly lion and jay, as unknown to them leafpool looks at her kits with sadness at having had to give them up secretly
0:08 Jaypaw gets increasingly annoyed with brightheart’s constant warnings about things that might trip him, as he knows can get around just fine without sight. She warns him about a rock, a stick (which he ends up tripping on because she startles him with her shout), and a tree.
0:13 Jay finally snaps and turns and snarls at brightheart to stop treating him like he’s helpless. She’s hurt by his words.
0:15 Jay's powers allow him to sense her emotions as if they are his own (represented by brightheart’s colour bleeding into him), and he falters. He sighs and tells her more gently that he doesn’t need her constantly hovering over him.
0:22 As Jaypaw stalks off, he bumps right into someone he didn’t notice was there. He’s about to snap at them too before he realizes he can /see/ them. (this is kinda a transition into the scene in the books wehn jaypaw went to share dreams alone at the moonpool for the first time, looking for answers about his destiny)
0:27 He has bumped into spottedleaf, and soon yellowfang appears as well. Before he knows it, the whole of starclan is materializing around him, telling him his destiny is to become a med cat, not a warrior. Jaypaw is devastated.
0:31 Jaypaw wakes at the moonpool. He struggles with his feelings of disbelief and grief before steeling himself to numbly accept his med cat role and return to camp.
0:37 Jay walks through the camp, feeling increasingly worse with each cat he passes. He passes by his former mentor brightheart and senses how devastated she is at losing her first apprentice, then passes by hollypaw with her new warrior mentor + lionpaw with his mentor going out to train together and senses their excitement. He walks into the medicine den and stops at his new nest, miserable, and goes to sleep (leaf looks at him worriedly).
0:45 Jay is annoyed and tired of his med cat duties/training. Leafpool gets irritated with him when he seems disinterested with learning herbs.
0:48 Jaypaw is working in the med den and thinks he senses leafpool returning and greets her, only to hear his mother’s confused voice. He’s startled at his mix-up and turns to confirm that it’s squirrelflight’s scent not leafpool’s, who is only just arriving. Strange that leaf and squirrel are the only cats he sometimes mixes up….
0:53 Jay walks in firestar’s dreams and learns about the prophecy skywatcher told him about the power of three. Jay is delighted at having such a great destiny
0:59 Knowing about the prophecy only makes his med cat duties all the more mundane and tiresome: he listens with irritation to mousefur and longtail as he searches for ticks, and as berrynose makes a big fuss about a thorn in his pad.
1:02 Poppypaw(frost) is severely ill during an outbreak of greencough. Jay fears for her life, and becomes intent on making sure she survives long enough for leafpool to return with catmint (it’s not pictured in the video but the full book scene is jay goes to starclan to make sure poppy doesn’t join them). Red poppy symbolizes poppy’s dire situation.
1:04 Jay desperately tries to save lionpaw and breezepaw(pelt) who are buried under a badger den that collapsed on them. nightcloud and crowfeather shocked and racing over to help behind him. Jay’s med cat duties are taking on more importance in his life… Red dirt symbolizes lion and breeze’s dire situation.
1:06 Jay finds the stick; Rock appears behind him as jay suddenly finds himself in the tunnels of the ancient past, seeing Fallen Leaves flee from the flood that kills him, leaving his spirit stranded alone in the tunnels. Jay feels his fear and loneliness, and forces himself to leave.
1:10 The scene transitions into Jay, holly, lion, heatherpaw, breezepaw, and the 3 windclan kits they’re rescuing in the present day, struggling in the flooded tunnels. Red flood water symbolizes their dire situation.
1:12 Jay walks up to his family, squirrel, bramble, lion, and holly. His mood improves as he settles down beside them, sensing their love and happiness, before a lightning strike interrupts the contented family
1:17 Fire scene! Squirrel tells ashfur that jay holly and lion are not her kits. Ashfur is thrilled to hear this, and changes his plans of killing her kits to instead reveal this secret. Jay, holly, and lion are in shock and devastated.
1:25 Ashfur is found dead in the river on the way to the gathering. Jay is surrounded by his shocked and grieving clanmates, completely numb to their feelings as he holds the knowledge of what must have motivated Ashfur’s killer.
1:32 Jay and his sibling are cold towards squirrel, and the three are also not as close as they were to each other before either.
1:36 Jay has a dream where Yellowfang comes to him with a crow’s feather. He now knows Crowfeather from windclan is his father, and that Leafpool is his mother.
1:39 Leaf and squirrel try to reconcile with the three as everyone confronts the revealed truth, but Holly is completely unwilling.
1:42 Unable to live with the lies and how many rules of the code her birth broke, Holly reveals the truth to every cat and clan at the gathering. Jay watches her in stunned horror.
1:45 Jay is looking for Holly after the gathering, and he finds her in the medicine den. When she hears him approaching, she bristles and races past him, fleeing the den. He calls after her in confusion.
1:47 (tw:mention of suicidal behaviour) Jay’s about to follow her when he senses something sinister in the den. He finds deathberries on the floor. Jay stands motionless as slow realization dawns on him, dread building at the implications of finding Holly alone in the den with deathberries. (Ya’ll i think about this…. U ever think that the closest guess he would’ve had was that holly tried to use them herself :((( why would his first assumption be she tried to murder leaf u know)
1:56 Jay turns to race after Holly, calling her name, terrified.
1:58 Leaf is now working as a warrior, and Jay is the only med cat. Jay senses her nearby and turns away bitterly. Leaf shys away, hurt.
1:59 The third cat of the po3 prophecy turns out to not be Holly, but Dovewing (third star now has Dovewing’s light green eye colour)
2:00 Jayfeather places the stick against a stone. His anger at learning that Rock knew the truth about his birth the whole time, as well as general frustration for how his life has turned out and not knowing what the prophecy entails leads him to break the stick.
2:04 Transition scene; Jay senses a distraught, now pregnant poppyfrost heading to the moonpool to try and speak with her dead sister Honeyfern. He also senses breezepelt nearby, following her
2:05 Jayfeather rushes to defend Poppyfrost as Breezepelt threatens both of them, and happily attacks Jay, intent on killing him as he thinks he should’ve never been born, blaming him as part of his father Crowfeather’s neglectful behaviour. Honeyfern appears to fight on Jayfeather’s side, and Brokenstar appears to fight on Breezepelt’s. Jay senses the intense emotions of everyone as he is tackled by Breeze
2:06 Transition scene, Jay recovers from his fight with Breezepelt; He senses Flametail’s fear as he falls through the ice and leaps in to rescue him.
2:09 Rock appears next to him, telling Jay it’s not his time to die and to leave Flametail. Jay cries out helplessly to Flametail as Rock pulls him back to the surface, leaving flame to drown.
2:12 Briarlight rests with Jay in the med den, her back broken but otherwise healthy thanks to him. Jay senses that she’s been worried about how stressed and unhappy he seems lately, and he tells her that he’s fine.
2:13 Jay says the same to Lionblaze and Dovewing, who he can sense are similarly concerned. He turns and runs off, into the dream world, where he and the other clan’s med cats reunites Starclan (Starclan had been separating into 4 distinct clans out of fear of not knowing who they could trust with the Dark forest attack approaching). Jay also brings a dreaming Firestar with him, the fourth cat of the new po3 prophecy.
2:17 Jay feels overwhelmed but pushes down his fear for every cat in starclan and the 4 clans, and the scene transitions as he leads the 4 clans and Starclan, with Dovewing and Lionblaze beside him, into battle against the Dark Forest and their trainees.
2:19 Jay is in the medicine den with Leafpool as they tend to an injured clan cat’s wounds, the battle raging on behind them.
2:20 Jay senses a wave of pain and blood, and he rushes out of the den in a panic, startling Leafpool.
2:23 Ivypool, Dovewing, Lionblaze, and Brambleclaw are crowded around the injured cat
2:24 Jay pushes past Firestar, Fallen leaves, Crowfeather, and Squirrelflight as Leafpool catches up around them, stopping by the severely injured Hollyleaf.
2:26 Jay is overwhelmed with the grief and fear of every cat around him as he watches his sister die, unable to save her for the second time.
2:33 Leafpool and Jayfeather are sitting by Holly’s grave. Without saying anything jay rests his tail against Leaf’s, to her surprise. They give each other silent comfort as they grieve.

Can’t express how glad I am to see people finally noticing jayfeather’s pain. People think he’s just a grumpy good for nothing character, when he is actually super complex and has been through so much. He had to take in everyone’s emotions, never got to achieve his dreams of becoming a warrior, and when he finally found love, in half moon, he was told to forget and move on like he doesn’t have feelings. He literally had to bottle up every emotion he’s ever felt for the sake of keeping his clan safe, and it’s genuinely heartbreaking.

One little detail that I feel doesn't get talked about in this enough is that whenever water shows up, it's red, showing visually that Jayfeather has a fear of water. In this the color red, in Peppermint's words is symbolizing 'injury/illness/anything that indicates jay needs to care for/save someone' in this case it would him be feeling like he needs to save himself at any given time when water is around because of his fear. Which, for me, made when he dived into the water to save Flametail all the more impactful.

I do like that when he walks by leafpool, there's nothing indicating that he's reading her emotion(s) because for most of the 3rd arc he could never really pry into her mind

Watching this after becoming an adult, makes me realize how much jayfeathers story hurts.

He's constantly going and going. While Lionblaze feels the weight of taking on the huge battle, Hollyleaf doesn't know where she belongs, and dovewing has so much to know, Jayfeather has to take on everyones feelings. Hes someone who doesnt want to be worried about, but his blindness instills it. He's tired, and the only comfort he gets is with family. And its all stripped away. Even if he chose to accept it right away, everyone else was catatonic. And when he sees Hollyleaf, it comes back for a brief second, despite that she's dying.

Hes never been okay, except when he was younger. He tells people he is so he can trick himself that he is. So he can focus on others instead of himself.

"I hate worrying about the future, cause all my fucking problems, are based around the past"
thats so accurate when you think about jayfeathers life

You remembered he saved Poppyfrost! No one ever does, like how no one remembers that Hollyleaf wanted to be a medicine cat

It's funny. This was recommended beside the song Sarcasm.

"All my fucking problems are based on the past."
Well said.

From losing his opportunity to become a warrior, being different from other warriors just because he is blind, from his life becoming a lie, losing his sister and finding out that she nearly committed suicide, having a broken family and experiencing trauma in the fire and knowing that leafpool is his mother and crowfeather is his father and unable to have half-moon as his mate and losing everyone he cared about.

He really is the most broken cat in warriors.

While I was reading the first book, Jaypaw annoyed me at first, but seeing his struggles and exactly WHY he was so grumpy made me turn my opinion around. When he got the thanks he deserved at the Daylight Gathering, I was so happy. It was so sad when he didn't believe they were genuine though. Jayfeather's great, this AMV is well done and the concept of it is absolutely AMAZING.

No one talking about how cutely Brackenfur is looking at Hollypaw when she's apprenticed 🥺 Brackenfur was such a kind and gentle boy, and a good mentor to Tawnypelt (while she was in ThunderClan) and Hollyleaf. I hope he goes to StarClan peacefully when it's his time ❤️

I swear if Jay could sing this is what he'd sound like

me, spam pressing the spacebar so i can enjoy every single scene: ehehehe

the way you represented jayfeather's power and the cats surrounding him is absolutely phenomenal and extremely clever!! the [uncontrolled] flood of colors ends up being really impactful in some scenes and ugh, its just amazing. fantastic work with this amv!!!!

I like how, at the end, the emotion Jayfeather feels is entirely his own.

Jayfeather was Brightheart's only apprentice, which is kind of sad so being he never finished his training. But brightheart trained actually all of the apprentices by teaching them how to fight if their eye was injured during battle.

Jayfeather has always been something special to me. For a long time I could not understand why. After all, there were many other beautiful characters who were more sociable, more friendly. But I simply respected cats like Thrushpelt or Alderheart for their kindness and selflessness, and I really loved Jayfeather. Later I understood. And after watching this video, I again established myself in my love. The fact is that Jayfeather is real. He is offended, angry, sad, grows as a person. It is very well written. In his image there is no unnatural ability to instantly solve his problems, his feelings do not disappear as if by magic.
I am very glad that there are those who, like me, love Jay, see what path he has come through.

I never really thought how overwhelmed his power would have been. Especially because hes blind.

I picture this as Jayfeather’s voice now.

I actually love this so much, not only becausw I love Jayfeather but because you arent just portraying him as some grumply angsty teen or whateber i LOVE LOVE LOVE IT