#Bb!lilyheart

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twig and lily found family actually means sm to me especially since canonically shes her foster parent and recognizes lily as her mother in squirrels book so even if its not canon here they somehow still find each other,, in my head bonefall!lily is the arbitrary role model that got attached to this random kid (think lin and korra from LOK)

I always try to preserve the "emotional core" between characters with my reduxes! Even if they stop being related or don't end up as the foster or mentor, I try to shuffle in a way where they're at least friends.

BB!Lily is getting some odd differences, because I am swinging a machete at canon's tendency to set "nice mom" as the default personality of background women. So instead, my Lilyheart has no kits, and she has a personality that's more reserved.

She's a bit "sharp." Aloof, seems cold, but under that, it's because she has a tendency to blame herself. Lilyheart never really got over how Seedpaw died saving her.

If she'd been stronger, hadn't gotten tangled up, if she'd said something about retrieving stupid, useless shit from the camp, Seedpaw would still be here. Her dad Dustpelt had just died saving them. Seedpaw died helping her. Ferncloud's holding her tighter and it's all her fault.

(Changes: Jay's stick is a living tree so they were not fetching the stick of the fallen. Lily's parents got swapped because Bracken died in BB!Po3)

But she's not as ruthless as her sharp eyes suggest. Lily is actually very sweet and cares a lot about people. I'm coming to view all the Dustfern kits as having a bit of a "safety crew" vibe because of their dad, and a "sit up straight dear" one from their mom.

So! Lilyheart being Alderheart and Twigbranch's buddy is very fitting for her. The poor, anxious guys can hide behind her and she stick up for them.

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Hello ppl going thru all the main LilyHeart pairings rn so uh

Ayeeeeee ok cool fun facts

Loxker, Aka Loxy/Parker is the first canon pairing since they’ve been dating before the story began, we love middle school relationships that last.

Honestly they’re the only bitches that matter to me /j

Ok but let’s get into Headcanons haha-

They hold hands a lot, they’re just... constantly holding hands. Wether it be Loxy dragging him to show him something, they’re walking home from school, or they’re just chilling doing homework. All they know is hold.

Parker literally has one braincell and it’s not doing too hot because of the trauma so Loxy always helps him with his homework, she never yells at him for not grasping something and she remains patient. We love to see it,,,

WHEN THEY FIRST GOT TOGETHER (BECAUSE REMEMBER THEY WERE IN LIKE... SEVENTH GRADE) THEY WERE THAT “CRINGY” FETUS COUPLE WHO PLANNED OUT THEIR FIRST KISS, WOULD POST ON SNAPCHAT LIKE “HAPPY TWELFTH MINUTE ANNIVERSARY 💞”, AND STUFF 💔💔💔 they look back on those days with dread

Loxy could be talking literal nonsense and Parker would still be in the corner, looking at her lovingly like “Omg bb you’re so smart 🥺”

“So is anyone gonna wear this jacket?” “Loxy that’s my jacket-” “too late it’s mine now.” “...Loxy please it’s freezing outside-”

Constantly pushing the other in the right direction 💔💔💔 Loxy just stands at his beside like “You whore I love you but you gotta talk to a therapist.” And Parker would reply “You too dumbass you act like you’re gonna combust if you don’t please people by overworking yourself.” And then they both have an epiphany and just lie there like “Damn why aren’t we mentally well?”

Loxy keeps bringing up their One Inch height difference whenever she can just to tease him,.,..., giggling “Aw are you gonna have to stand on your tippy toes to kiss me?” And he’d roll his eyes and groan “Shut up” but then he does get on his tippy toes just to humor her because they are DORKS.

PARKER HYPES HER UP SO BADHSKHSJS SHED BE LIKE “so yeah when I went to my uncles’ house I killed a Fae” and everyone would be so shocked and Parker would smile all proud and loving like “YOOOOOOO‼️‼️”

In conclusion I love them it’s a shame I don’t talk about them as often as I should

[moss-pool]

warrior of the week lilyheart with a bonus bb twigkit

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Lilyheart x Snowbush

Honeyfur- black golden shaded molly with white

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Leafshade- black tortoiseshell molly

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Larksong- solid black tom

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[ID: Four headshots of Better Bones AU cats, Rosepetal, Blackstar, Dappletail, and Lilyheart. Each one is thinking about something utterly banal.]

Illustrated diagram, hope this helps

Bones, which kitties have resting bitch face?

Blackstar, Lilyheart, Dappletail, Rosepetal!

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Okay so a convo made me remember that Icecloud and Foxleap become apprentices 4-5 moons after the three, which means Ferncloud either had four litters so the three could nurse while also having kits so much younger than them, or she just so happens to have milk despite not having kits OR her last litter was really held back. Mostly bringing this up because obviously Squilf and Leaf still can't nurse the three in BB and I was curious if Ferc was still going to nurse them since I know you gave away her last litter or if someone else will do that or if there's a definite answer for this detail yet.

Daisy did it! Her kits were recently weaned, but Sorreltail at the time was nursing FOUR kittens. That's a lot for one suckler to handle, so Daisy would help out which kept her milk coming.

So Daisy has it handled. Ferncloud is still reeling from horrifically losing THREE children in a short period of time. At this moment in time, she didn't feel ready for more.

But, anyway! Foxleap and Icecloud are NOT DustFern kittens in BB. They were shuffled. This is because Ferncloud has waaaay too few surviving kittens while Brightheart and Sorreltail exploded the gene pool. Their kits in BB are;

Dustpelt x Ferncloud:

Spiderleg (ALIVE)

Shrewpaw (Car accident while chasing a pheasant; Squilf's guardian angel)

Lurchkit (Destruction of the White Hart)

Hollykit (Ditto)

Birchfall (ALIVE)

Seedpaw (Drowned)

Lilyheart (ALIVE)

Ferncloud is the Educator of ThunderClan until her death in TBC. She lives long enough to confront her little brother, Ashfur, who is now from a younger litter. Dustpelt died in the Battle of the True Eclipse, while defending his last litter from Dark Forest warriors.

Additionally, Spotfur and Duststripe (prev. Sorrelstripe) are now Birchfall's kittens, in trade for Dovewing and Ivypool to go into the Firekin family. Toadstep is also still alive; the husband of Lionblaze.

Lilyheart hasn't had any kittens yet, though. I'm still holding on to Leafshade and Honey...something i forgot her name. ThunderClan is already pretty full of cats and she really didn't need to have them so young. Plus, she got seriously traumatized from how Seedpaw died, and she's the sort of mature person to realize she doesn't want to be responsible for young lives when that's still affecting her.

Brightheart x Cloudtail

Whitewing (alive)

Foxleap (Battle of the True Eclipse)

Icecloud (Born after the BOTTE, named after Iceheart, alive)

Snowbush, Ambermoon, and Dewnose all still exist, but were adopted to other couples! They're going to show up in other Clans. Cloud and Bright kept a single kitten from each litter.

Foxleap is probably going to be younger than he is in-canon, because I feel like he often gets lost in the massive Po3 Apprentice Generation. So, he'll be somewhere between Po3 and OotS, interacting with Dovewing and Ivypool as they grow up.

Icecloud, also shuffled in age, is also going to end up with a bigger role in AVOS-era stuff, he's transmasc and a fast friend of Alderheart when he joins ThunderClan after being raised by his mother Jessy as a kittypet. Him and Lilyheart make up Alderheart's misfit friend group.

(In general I think ThunderClan feels less bloated if the births are spaced out better.)

Sorreltail x Brackenfur

Cinderheart (Alive; travelling with Fallenleaf)

Honeysnake (survived the adder; killed in the BOTTE)

Poppyfrost (Alive; inventor of gardening)

Molepaw (Greencough... angel name is Moleflight and he is constantly fighting Jayfeather)

JUST having the infamous Brackenfour. No more; BB!Brackenfur was killed in the Battle of the FALSE Eclipse at the end of Po3. Sorreltail is living for a MUCH longer time; she's still around in the current arc, preparing to retire as Head of Kitchen Patrol.

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Au: Nightheart tells Bramble he sucks at naming and he’s gonna choose his own name and everyone agrees with him

That is VERY funny lmao, I like that

Though I am fixin' to keep something else about ASC that I like a lot, and feel is being totally wasted; the fact that Nightheart seems to really like Bramblestar. Stick with me.

Why does he like Bramblestar, in contrast to the other cats in his life...? His mother, who he blows up at constantly. His sister, who is fed up with him treating their mom poorly. Lionblaze, who was angry after he defied a direct order. His mentor Lilyheart, who keeps telling him to stop being so wreckless.

Squirrelflight, who flunked his second assessment after putting himself in extreme danger.

It seems the only family member he likes... is the only one who has never told him no.

And what does Bramblestar DO with that trust? Immediately uses him to create an abusive set-up, which he can use to scream at Squirrelflight publicly for "ruling behind his back" while he refuses to. It's why I don't buy the "Oh, he has dementia and can't be held accountable for his actions" bit; Interesting how he couldn't recognize that he had to step down so we can't be mad at him, but abusing his wife was so second nature he can do it even when he's "not thinking straight".

SO for BB I'm thinking about really leaning into "the bond" between Night and Bramble, and unpack how easy it is to manipulate Nightheart if he feels validated.

In fact, it's a trait he shares with Bramble. Which I find fascinating.

BUT.

I don't rewrite arcs until they are done. I have a lot of ideas for Nightheart, but I need to see how it ends before I think about how to fix it.

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BB!Character Summaries Masterpost

...and also a place for me to dump my art

Version: 1.1

Character summaries are when I make a design for a character, and then ramble about their personality, role, and altered family in Better Bones!

I'm open to making these for just about any character, even if they're as minor as someone like Mumblefoot. I love kissing background blorbos on the head, like the pope but if he was cool.

For now I'll sort this by Clan and chronology, older cats first.

THUNDERCLAN

Goosefeather

Featherwhisker

Spottedleaf

Runningwind and Mousefur

Longtail (kind of, plus Jaypaw)

Dustpelt

Firestar

Sorreltail

Squirrelflight

Leafpool

Birchfall

Millie (headshot)

Cinderheart

Hollyleaf

Lionblaze

Ivypool

Sparkpelt

Alderheart

SHADOWCLAN

Deerfoot

Runningnose

Tangleburr

Wildfur

Tawnypelt

tigerHeartstar

Gullswoop

Shadowsight

RIVERCLAN

Whitefang and Dragonclaw

Sedgecreek

Hallowflight

WINDCLAN

Larkstripe

Brushblaze

Heathertail

Antpelt

DARK FOREST

Shredtail

Morningstar

Houndleap

Silverhawk

Antpelt

CATS OUTSIDE THE CLANS

Barley Senior and Barley Junior

PREHISTORIC CATS

Dove Wing/Half Moon + Jay Wing

Acorn Swoop

Bumble

Thunder Storm (ref; not a summary)

OTHER STUFF (because idk where else to put this)

ANIMATOR FRIENDLY BUMBLE

Hongry Ashfur

Snapper's Shenanigans Ft. Crowpaw and Gorsepaw

Brushblaze is Disappointed

Fallenleaf Card

Stupidhead

Bumble bestows a speech upon Tigerstar

Oakheart: the dad who stepped up

Resting Bitchface: Blackstar, Rosepetal, Dappletail, Lilyheart

Snowfur Doodles

Cloudtail's makeup

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heey you mentioned sorrel tail having brain damage from being poisoned as a kit; any more info on that? also what’s your plan in general for her

I need to redo her character summary along with a bunch of my older ones, but almost everything's right here in this post

Daughter of Willowpelt, has epilepsy as a result of her nightshade-based brain damage which expresses as absence seizures! Her treatment is a regiment of valerian root.

She takes over as Head of Kitchen Patrol from her mother-in-law, Frostfur. She LOVES food and is very passionate about making sure you never eat raw meat, much to the chagrin of her friend Squirrelflight, who finds uncooked meals absolutely delicious. Sorreltail's favorite food is grasshopper, notably strange for ThunderClan.

She got into cooking in the first place because no one was willing to cook her bugs besides her. Turns out she had a knack for it!

And she's living a lot longer. Her mate Brackenfur is killed in BB!Po3 during the Battle of the False Eclipse, as part of a Dark Forest plot, so I won't be offing her in the Battle of the TRUE Eclipse like canon. Dustpelt is dying instead, defending his last litter-- Seedpaw and Lilyheart.

Sorrel is alive to the current era, but definitely looking to retire soon. She also only has one litter of four kits; Cinderheart, Poppyfrost, Honeysnake, and Molepaw/flight (StarClan angel name).

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Can we ask about Bonefall Dustpelt? I always liked his arc going from kinda shitty bully to a responsible and supportive clan mate

[ID: Dustpelt from warrior cats. He has diamond-shaped markings on his chest, feet, and the end of his tail, with a large, flat marking on the top of his face. The background is the genderqueer flag colors.]

Since I made genders, BB!Dustpelt's story is coming together in my mind.

He's AMAB, or, ATAB. Assigned Tom at Birth.

Dust and Raven's entire family died a horrible death of plague about 6 months before TPB started. Dustpaw was one of the few who managed to not catch it; Ravenpaw survived with stunted growth.

That traumatic experience definitely prompted Bluestar to want to give them the strongest and most loyal warriors in ThunderClan as mentors.

Redtail is transgender and very disciplined, so he was given Dust who was pretty obviously gender-nonconforming and lashing out in the hopes they'd figure it out together.

This is how he got so close with Sandstorm! Her and Longtail are the kits of Redtail and Runningwind, from two different litters.

They're besties. It's completely platonic.

The mentorship wasn't perfect but it WAS working. Dustpaw was close with his mentor, but had a long way to go.

...And then the plot happened, of course.

He was really lost when he didn't have Redtail anymore, and associated poor Firepaw with that loss. It was made worse by his new mentor being Darkstripe. Him and Longtail became very close with Tigerclaw, supporting him and even joining the rumor mill about Ravenpaw.

Dustpelt regrets that pretty deeply now, that he did that to his own brother. It's something he did when he was young and susceptible, and he can't really make it right.

He was still trying to figure himself out through TPB, generally being antagonistic towards Fireheart out of anger and jealousy and dissatisfaction with himself

Sandstorm even started losing her patience with him

And yet, when the time came for Tigerclaw's plot to be revealed, Dustpelt didn't waver and proved his loyalty.

Even Fireheart's mentorships of Cinderpaw and Cloudpaw were both unfair because of his age and inexperience, AND ended disastrously. Fireheart knew when he was picking mentors for Fernpaw and Elderpaw that Dustpelt would need to be rewarded in some way.

But he wouldn't repeat Bluestar's mistake. So he had a solution;

Frostfur would mentor Elderpaw. Darkstripe would mentor Fernpaw. And for Dustpelt-- what he really needed was some way to put his paws to work.

One-eye came out of retirement for a while to grant him a third mentorship, as she had once been a nearly legendary builder and no one was ever truly able to pick up her skills.

He didn't need to connect with tom-gendered traits like patrolling and passivity. This felt right, and it felt good. THIS was what he needed.

And so, Dustpelt came into his own. He is genderqueer! After TPB, he becomes an important background character as the head of the Construction Patrol.

His surviving children are Spiderleg, Birchfall, and Lilyheart, and his grandchildren are Spotfur, Duststripe, Rosepetal, and Toadstep.

Foxleap and Icecloud are no longer his kittens; those are Bright x Cloud kids; in return, Lilyheart and Seedpaw are now his. Shrewpaw is Shrewface in StarClan and a guardian angel of Squirrelflight. Hollykit and Larchkit die similarly to how they do in-canon.

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what you’re doing with sparkpelt is really interesting :) any specific plans for better bones alderheart? 👀 i know he doesn’t do a whole lot in canon but i still have a soft spot for him…

[ID: Better Bones Alderheart. He is a dark ginger tabby with wide, scared amber eyes. His stripes are thin, blotchy, and he displays the characteristic 'raptor claws' of BB!Tigerkin.]

My favorite Canon Alderheart scene is when his best friend Velvet says, "Wow you're an anxious wreck, have some cat prozac anmd go home."

Admittedly, I am more interested in Sparkpelt My Beloved, but Alderheart is still important too! However, his POV is scrubbed from AVoS to rework it into a Kin-centric arc, and his perspective is contained completely in the SE Bramblestar's Thorns.

Design wise this one's prone to change, I'm not super satisfied with it. Those funny eyes are staying though. I'll eventually do his parents Jessy and Bramblestar and then re-visit this one.

His anxiety is a larger part of the character and this is not going away. I plan for him to actually medicate for this, there will eventually be an herb guide for anxiety, and a second one for depression.

He's a bit more snappish than in-canon, more tired. Prone to catastrophizing. He gets insomnia when he's particularly stressed.

When he was only a few months old, Jessy and Bramblestar had a massive cat divorce. Alder chose to stay with his mother, and was taken back to the big twolegplace close to the sea, Hengest. (Note: My map is reworked, I chose to move this twolegplace to this location. In-canon it is elsewhere.)

Kittypets have much reduced freedom compared to wildcats, so Jessy was very careful introducing her kit to her twoleg. Thankfully the twoleg readily accepted him, naming him "Louie" after a singer they like a lot.

His childhood best friend was Velvet, but he didn't have too many other friends besides his mother.

When he started to have visions, Louie really didn't want to go back. He wanted to stay with Jessy... but his 6th month was approaching, which is often a time of tumult for kittypets.

Many are brought to new homes at that age, or neutered. Jessy was frank with him that there was going to be uncertainty either way, and if he was taken, he may never have the chance to get to the bottom of his visions.

So... he went back to ThunderClan. She walked with him, confirming for herself that there was no returning. Though she misses her friends and the connectivity of Clan life, Sparkpaw was looking at her with barely-bitten back anger, and she was reminded of how bad her relationship with Bramblestar was.

Bramblestar changed his name from Louie to Alderpaw, the name he had at birth. Alderpaw wasn't fond of this, or the way it felt like Bramble wanted to erase his life up to this point.

Unlike canon, all of ThunderClan isn't goddamn horrible to Alder. He has a really strained relationship with Bramblestar, gets caught in the middle of Jayfeather's complicated feelings towards his ex-dad, and tries to rekindle his innocent closeness with his sister, but he has allies too.

He becomes very close with Lilyheart and Icecloud, in particular. (shuffled, now part of the post-Great Battle generation. Lily does not have kids, Larksong is combined with Hollytuft and is the child of Fallenleaf and Cinderheart.)

Sandstorm becomes one of his favorite elders,

Eventually, Alder ends up becoming the primary guardian of Twigkit. It felt wrong to watch her get separated from her sister the way he was, and he hoped he would be able to make her time growing up easier than his own.

A lot of this part I'm still working on. AVoS is definitely one of the harder arcs for me, imo, a lot of it is under construction.

He was a supporter of SkyClan's place at the lake, especially since this time, they helped to destroy the Kin. He faced accusations of only sympathizing with them because their ranks were full of kittypets like himself, though.

Alderheart eventually finds his place, confident from the support of his friends, beloved by Twigbranch and seen as her dad, having settled into a tense peace with his sister and father.

At the end of the SE, he has a final trip to Hengest with Sparkpelt, to gather catmint and other garden herbs.

He shows her places he's outgrown, she's open with him about feelings she's kept hidden about their mom, their dad, themselves.

They check in on their mom and see she's doing fine.

Eventually he visits with Velvet again, and she gifts him a juicy sprig of thyme to show she still keeps him close to her heart.

And that's what I've got for him, so far. I have a pretty 'neat' little bundle of story, hopefully it makes up for him no longer being a main character.

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Who you wanting for deputy if Squirrel girl becomes leader? (Personally hankering for the random hat pick of Plumstone, Idc she hasn’t had a apprentice let my background girlie be important)

GIVE me Ivypool but NOT an uwu softgirl who Loves Dovewing, I want the spiteful, grudge-holding freakjob from OotS/AVoS

I want AGGRESSION, I want the frothing impulsivity of someone whose kit died in the Dark Forest, but whose sister didn't. I want ThunderClan and ShadowClan to FIGHT, I want DRAMA

I think the "best" (as in most reasonable!) Choice would be Lilyheart! BUT I DONT WANT REASONABLE I WANT BLOOD

(Also btw in BB, Molewhisker is dead! If Mole is picked as a deputy in canon, BB!Rosepetal will become deputy of ThunderClan)

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Did Sol have a crush on Hollyleaf? In one of the explanations, you mentioned that Sol had a “This woman is crazy, I’m in love” moment.

OH nah, I meant the line more as a, "UNHINGED WOMAN I NEED TO BE NEAR YOU RN" kind of thing. He loves her like a cat loves a mouse who turns and fights instead of accepting death. It's about the interesting game he will play with her, not romantic love.

Tbh BB!Sol doesn't strike me as the sort of person who loves romantically or sexually, but I wouldn't really ID him as on the ace spectrum either. He's a force of nature now, having lost most of his initial humanity. He loves the way a river loves the chasm it carved, how blood loves its death in the creation of a life-saving scab, how the puddle loves the heat that makes it into rain.

If you ID with that as an ace person though I will not stop you lmao, my gender is boy who chases lapping waves of femininity but then runs away giggling when they roll back in lmao so I get it

I am putting lots of a-spec characters into the narrative though (Aro Firestar, Aro Blackstar, Cupio Rosetail, Aroace Longtail, Ace Rosepetal, Aroace Twigbranch, Lilyheart might end up being Ace, I feel like Spotty was Demi) so like, don't take this as me trying to dance around BB!Sol being ace. He's bizarre specifically because he's literally the god of being a weirdo.

EDIT: @aromantic-chara-dreemurr Changed term 'ace-spec' to 'a-spec,' is that correct? For the record all of the a-spec characters I listed are varying degrees of aro-spec and ace-spec, if they are not specifically mentioned as being aroace it means they are only one. For example Firestar is Aro, but not Ace.

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Hollylark

Been quiet because I got started on the TC family tree again and lads, it's time to finalize something

So by now, regulars will probably know that I'm combining Hollytuft and Larksong (AVoS). I was calling the composite character "Hollylark" to make this combination clear.

But now I'm sitting down to lock in the choice forever; have you all gotten used to the name? Or does it still not look right and youse think I should change it.

(NOTE: Please vote for your favorite choice and do not worry for the spoiler effect, if Hollylark is not the winner, I will whittle this poll down to 2 choices and you can vote again)

Before you vote, things to know;

This character is going to be they/xem (though I am tempted to make them any/all). Though Clanmew doesn't have gendered pronouns anyway, Unnamed Composite is Meewa-gendered

They are the child of Fallenleaf and Cinderheart. They were conceived magically and by total accident, because Fallenleaf does not know how to control her powers and sneezed Cinderheart pregnant.

There are no siblings; Snaptooth and Flywhisker were foundlings adopted by Lionblaze and Cinderheart and ergo are their cousins.

Lilyheart will not be having children in BB; Honeyfur and Leafshade are also eliminated for now.

Unnamed Composite is the other parent of Nightheart, Flickerkit, and Finchlight, and the mate of Sparkpelt, just like canon. Xeir kittens look a lot like xem

Xey will, sadly, be dying in a way similar to canon. Prey poisoning during a very tense part of Squirrelflight's Horror (Squilfhope Reduxed)

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Sorreltail x Brackenfur kits

Poppyfrost- black tortoiseshell and white molly

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Honeyfern- black golden spotted tabby molly

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Cinderheart- blue spotted tabby molly

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Molepaw- black tom with minimal white

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Seedpaw- black golden ticked tortoiseshell tabby molly

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Lilyheart- blue mackerel tabby molly and white

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