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pinestar+hollypelt hypokit?

hmmm.... good taste...

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assfur

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someone smarter than me needs to explain to me why riverclan and shadowclan collapsed entirely over seemingly minor situations (the kin/death of mistystar) like yeah its a system and systems and structures can fail and its buildt to keep the machine running, not to benefit the cats or lives lost to it but like...how does a whole group and culture of cats just becoe displaced and threatened by minor events.

and why was a literally child/teen in charge of restoring an entire clan that distrusted her and called her delusional...

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the fourth apprentice?

des anybody know what fucking book/page it was in oots where dovewing almost spies on brackenfur and sorreltail about to Make Their Second Litter because i fucking swear it happened and im fightingbfor my fucking life trying to find it in pdfs pf the last 3 oots books

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Wait I saw ur Bad Luck post w Brindle Ash Dove and Shadow and feel like I dont fully understand it (Art is amazing tho) can u share any thoughts on it? :0

i would love to!

i like to imagine that brindleface, ashfur, dovewing, and shadowsight all have a bleeding-heart marking like the bleeding-heart dove. i think it works well as a mark of a difficult life or a tragic end.

brindleface appears to live a relatively peaceful life. she loves her children fiercely, and her last act is to wish one of them well, before she's slaughtered by a tyrant to feed to dogs.

ashfur seems to be quiet, calm, and sensible, but when the object of his affection rejects him, he cannot let her go. instead of moving on and making something of his life, he clings to his obsession, attempting murder several times and being killed himself because of it.

dovewing has huge expectations placed on her from a very young age, and she is pushed around by two older, more experienced warriors, who are jaded and impatient and stress that what she wants pales in comparison to her value as a tool. even after the prophecy is fulfilled and she escapes to shadowclan, she is still ivypool's punching bag (not bashing ivypool here, i like the sisters' relationship and i like it fucked up) and she fades into the nursery like many female characters before her.

and shadowsight, like his mother, has huge expectations placed on him from a very young age. he does his job, which is to pass on messages from starclan warriors, and he does it well. how is he to know that this particular starclan warrior can't be trusted? in my rewrite of tbc he dies taking out ashfur, but even in canon tbc his life is miserable, as his clanmates constantly question him and don't respect him, and he suffers from survivor's guilt after ashfur is deposed.

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just talking with grandpaw's friend. plus ref

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Hello, I just wanted to say I’m a little obsessed with your art and your oc’s… I’m really excited to learn more about them!! Thank you for sharing them with us! <33

thank you, i like sharing them and i'm glad you like them!! i started working on them in late 2022-early 2023 and they've been on my mind since. i'm still working out the character designs and names and plot etc which is why things change so often. so i'm very sorry that every time i upload they have different names lol. but i hope to figure out what i'm doing with them eventually and to share that as well!!

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the other functional family + annotated version

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incredibly functional family + annotated version

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bristlefrost kills shadowsight at the imposter's bidding, and then he dies in the dark forest taking out ashfur, wiping him from existence

rereading tbc to remember why i hate it and how i would rewrite it. new protagonists are tree, who is struggling to fit in with the clans, strengthening his diplomacy skills, and developing a relationship with violetshine; bristlefrost, whose short-sighted devotion is taken advantage of, and she is compelled to do terrible things and live with the guilt; and shadowsight, whose connection to starclan is used against him and everything he loves, who sacrifices himself to rid the world of a great evil.

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rereading tbc to remember why i hate it and how i would rewrite it. new protagonists are tree, who is struggling to fit in with the clans, strengthening his diplomacy skills, and developing a relationship with violetshine; bristlefrost, whose short-sighted devotion is taken advantage of, and she is compelled to do terrible things and live with the guilt; and shadowsight, whose connection to starclan is used against him and everything he loves, who sacrifices himself to rid the world of a great evil.

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the "rule" is stated in forest of secrets, but i have a feeling that it was cooked up just for bluestar's situation. i agree that the litters of early into the wild were fatherless just because the erins didn't think to give them fathers

I keep seeing people talk about this unspoken rule in the first arc where if a she-cat had kits and didn't announce the father, no one would question her. And I don't know how the fact that this is a headcanon to explain some first arc weirdness and not in the text got lost in translation.

Yes, Ashfur and Ferncloud's father is never revealed in the text, but there's no indication that Brindleface is keeping this a secret. In reality, the Erin's just didn't give them a father when they wrote the kits into existence. The same way Sandstorm has no parents and deciding her parents are Redtail and Brindleface is an out-of-book retcon that happened years later.

This is a great headcanon to handwave away kits materializing out of nothing without making everyone more related than they already are; I like this headcanon and have adopted it into my own fanclans' lore. But no where was it a rule in TPB, unspoken or otherwise, that a she-cat could show up pregnant and mateless and no one would question it. It's a Watsonion explanation to a Doyalist hiccup that isn't even supported.

When Yellowfang has to give Brokenkit to a foster mother, she is immediately questioned, and the matter is only dropped because she says his mother, who she implies is not herself, doesn't want anyone to know, and iirc Raggedstar also chimes in (though I may have made this part up), and Lizardstripe isn't going to question her leader if he seems unbothered

Another Watsonion explanation that makes just as much, if not more, sense re: Brindleface's non-existent mate is Fireheart just never thought to ask. It could be literally any single tom in the clan, or a loner or a kittypet, or a RiverClan cat and we will never know until an Erin decides to retcon one in (and no I don't like Whitestorm as this choice) because the cat who fathered those kits never existed in the first place.

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has tree ever successfully resolved a conflict because in every scene he just seems to be getting on someone's nerves

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new addition to the cult :3

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experimenting with the family tree

i am playing around with the wc family tree rn and i'm thinking. nightheart as a cinderlion kid who's constantly being compared to hollyleaf, his father's dearly beloved sister who his mother was really in love with

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bad luck

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dudeee i love your ocs so much #cultcats

thank you so much, that means a lot to me!! i came up with the characters about three years ago, and they've gone through a lot of changes as i've figured out more what i want their stories to be. they'll probably change a lot more too lol

i would love to make a full-fledged comic, but i don't think i have it in me, so smaller pieces it is!