choose the main character for 2022's super edition  and the votes as of now are pretty evenly split,  

teetering between Ivypool and Riverstar. I am  here today for one reason and one reason only.  

I'm telling you to vote for Riverstar.  Please. Vote for Riverstar yourself.  

Encourage your friends to vote for Riverstar. Even  if you've never read or touched Dawn of the Clans,  

I have a few reasons that should  hopefully be compelling to you.

1. Both of other options have already had  dedicated point-of-view time. Mistystar had  

her novella, Mistystar's Omen, and Ivypool  had an entire arc of being in the spotlight. 

2. Both of our other options would have very slim  chances of anything good happening. Mistystar's  

super edition would, at best, be a retread of  Leopardstar's Honor and A Shadow in Riverclan  

from her point of view, perhaps with a  little bit of River's plot sprinkled in.  

We will know all of the information  they could share. It is not helpful.  

Also you know…Mistystar is just a  somewhat hopeless character at this point.  

In Ivypool's case, we have already seen, mostly  through her eyes even, every meaningful event of  

her life. The only things left for a super edition  would be far more time than necessary spent on  

either her relationship with Fernsong, which  would be more interesting from his perspective,  

or an entire super edition of her being  mad at Dovewing for leaving Thunderclan.  

They can't make her too involved in the story  because they still need her for the next arc,  

and they won't take the opportunity to make her  leader, in case any of you were hoping for that,  

because they only just brought Bramblestar back.  They're not going to kill him now. I'm sorry.

But also, Riverstar is a really good, even  important character to give a point of view to.  

In Dawn of the Clans, his personality, lifestyle,  and connection with the clans was all glossed  

over or ignored, something that is downright  insulting considering he founds one of the five  

supposedly equally important clans. Whether this  book took place before the arc started with his  

time in the Park, during the arc to show what he  was doing and what he felt about becoming a clan,  

after the arc to show how he dealt with being  leader and finally work in his information  

from the field guides that he started the  mentoring program, or a mixture of all three,  

it is both an untouched and necessary story to  tell, which could be really interesting to read.

It's not guaranteed to be perfect. Execution is  always up in the air, but any of these stories  

*could* be bad. Riverstar however  has the best chance to be good.

In conclusion, go vote  Riverstar. Everyone. Thank you.