Okay okay I feel like this gets lost under how repetitive and memed his character is, but from the prospective of the characters', Ashfur is possibly the most horrorifying villian in the series.
The last thing I wanted was to see him come back, but when he did it really just hit him how scary he is. Just how many other lives he ruined and brought into this mess all because he refused to truly love Squirrelflight and only saw her as her a belonging to himself than a person.
He tried to take her father. He played a part in the death of Mothwing's brother and her first appretince, Willowshine. He tried to take Leafpool's kits. In a way, he did. Hollyleaf was never the same after what she had to do to him. Dovewing had to grow up in a shadow because Hollyleaf wasn't there, and I feel like if she never had so much pressure, her and Ivypool's relationship could have been salvageable. Dovewing's kit, Shadowsight, is manipulated and mutilated and outcast by Ashfur directly. Ivypool's kit, Bristlefrost had to die to rid the clans of him.
It's just so tragic how far his effort reached all in this attempt to own Squirrelflight. How many died for it and how many he was willing to hurt.
