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morningmask27 · 5 months ago

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Hey so, do you ever feel.. Iffy? Bad? Disappointed? That the Fandom at large only became interested in whistlepaw thanks to faer ship with Frostpaw? I admittedly was feeling a bit like that when the ship first started popping up, although I understand that Whis is quite a background character aside from that (and up until then, more or less). So like I get why fae would gain more traction only now but Idk. I can't help but feel a little sad about it since you've made me develop an attachment to this cat. Just curious about your thoughts on the matter!

I get chronically attached to background nobodies, so I'm used to people not really caring about my faves and I honestly like it more that way because popular characters are A Mess of discourse and drama,

but yeah it is a bit sad that Whis is only really seen as a love interest for Frostpaw in the major fandom, but in a way that's also what fae is in the books. Whistlepaw does nothing outside of supporting Frostpaw (and that annoys me So Much for daily whis purposes, I want more material!!!) and I can't blame the fans for not latching onto background WindClan cat #78 and making up a whole world around them

in the end the fandom portrayal is kinda bland, but inoffensive at least. I made Whistlepaw my little silly and have never really cared about the fandom at large; Fae's basically my oc at this point and if a few people enjoy what I do then I'm content

#morningtalks #I understand where you are coming from #I've just always had a more unbothered approach with how many people I attract to my art #I do want to make the whisses a bit more developped #alas canon doesn't give me a lot #except for Wind (which I will probably read in the summer but technically I'm really not there with the books #(I'm halfway through AvOs on a reading standpoint because I read them in dutch translation)#but I might make an exception for The Whis Content)#so it'll be up to me to add more drama to the whisses #I've been thinking of creating a sort of story that I'd have going on for a few consecutive days #but I do kinda struggle to come up with a believable conflict for this plot that isn't just #''stripekit gets stolen by a bird of prey; go save them! (they survive I promise)''#(which I have thought about last year but I'm not too keen on this idea for a plot)#but an interesting story wants conflict so I'm kinda still just tooling around in the void #but I'll see what nonsense I can get up to as soon as the summer arrives #because a more plot-based whis event could be fun to plan and post day by day #I'll also try to nail down a Real character for Whis #because right now Whis is really one of those amorphous blobs o :) in my head and I want to fix that #with real character traits positive and negative ones #and make whis more interesting because whis is my oc at this point and I will make the art for whis I crave

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