NettlePerch

NettlePerch is the slash ship between Nettlepaw and Perchpaw from the Warriors fandom.

Canon
When Nettlepaw brings herbs to Mapleshade, he explains that he was supposed to take them to Ravenwing, but decided that Mapleshade would need them more. While Mapleshade eats them, Nettlepaw explains how Frecklewish watched the kits cross the river. Mapleshade asks why she didn't help the kits, and Nettlepaw explains that RiverClan cats were already helping them, which presumably includes Perchpaw. After Nettlepaw's explanation, another cat calls his name, and he leaves Mapleshade behind. Mapleshade thinks about this.

Later that day, when Mapleshade wakes up from a nap, Perchpaw goes to the clearing, without his mentor Appledusk or Appledusk's mate, Reedshine. He pretends to fight ThunderClan cats, using twigs and moss to do so. He snaps the twig and crushes the moss. Soon, he realizes that he could've taken the moss to the elders, and goes to search for more. Mapleshade pins him, saying she will use him as bait.

Later, Appledusk comes to search for his missing apprentice, saying that Perchpaw will be in trouble if he practicing battle moves instead of gathering moss like he was supposed to. This is when Mapleshade reveals Perchpaw, asking if he was what Appledusk was looking for. Appledusk orders Mapleshade to let his apprentice go, or he would call a patrol. Mapleshade said that he could have Perchpaw back, but only if he wins a fight against her. During the fight, Mapleshade attacks and kills Appledusk. When she is doing so, Perchpaw leaps on her back, and bites her neck, leaving a wound that would later cause her death. He then slides off of Mapleshade. Reedshine arrives, and the rogue she-cat begins to leave. Perchpaw tries to follow her, but Reedshine calls him to come back, saying how Mapleshade had done enough harm to ThunderClan and RiverClan, and should be left to crawl away and die alone.

Eventually, Mapleshade comes to a barn, where a barn cat named Myler tries to heal her. However, the wound was too bad, and Mapleshade bled out in her sleep. When she wakes up, she ends up in the dark forest, because of what she's done. She then swore to get revenge on Appledusk and anyone with his bloodline.

Later, when Nettlebreeze becomes a warrior, and apprentice named Daisypaw begs Nettlebreeze to share what happened when Mapleshade found Frecklewish. He obliges, crouchine downward and raising his back fur. He says Mapleshade found her by Snakerocks, and then got an idea. She forced Frecklewish to where the snakes were, and then explains how one of the snakes shot venom into Frecklewish's eyes. He pauses, and screws up his eyes to show what had happened. He then says that Bloomheart found her, grief in his tone when he informs them there had been nothing he could do about it.

Fanon
NettlePerch is very unpopular. There are no fan fictions about it, and barely any ship art. It's rare that you'll find more than one fan fiction or fan art. If you're lucky, you may be able to find some of the art within tumblr tags or discussions. For example, if you were to google "Nettlepaw and Perchpaw", you would barely find anything. Maybe one or two pieces of fan art, or maybe some fan fics. But not much.

Some people were interested in what happened after the events of Mapleshade's Vengeance. The people that ship this think they would make an interesting couple, maybe bceause Nettlepaw/breeze helped Mapleshade, while Perchpaw was the cause of her death. A user on tumblr called starf1ower says: "In case you aren’t aware, Nettlepaw is the apprentice that gave Mapleshade some herbs and told her that Frecklewish had seen her kits drown. Basically, he unintentionally assisted in the murder of two of his clanmates." and "Perchpaw is Appledusk’s apprentice, and the one who ends up killing Mapleshade."

The tumblr search "Perchpaw and Nettlepaw" (linked in the fandom section) also barely has results, and the ones that are there, less than 10 of which are NettlePerch shippers. The small amount of NettlePerch shippers out on tumblr have made art, just barely any (as shown in the infobox and the one-photo gallery). Most NettlePerch shippers are serious about the ship, and some even give reasons, and example is the one shown in the previous paragraph. All the reasons given are all true and have some background to them. Most of these lists and reasons end with why they would make an interesting couple.

Fandom
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