#SwanHeart

[dollunicornfairymermaid]

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[cryptidclaw]

Ive been thinking about my Clan Gen Challenge characters a lot... so heres two redesigns/redraws for my fave fucked up twins <3

Im working on planning out lore and stuff for these guys stories rn, and Im planning on eventually making a blog for them but Im proud of these refs so I wanted to post them!

A bit of info for their story tho... their group (clan) is now called The Hawthorns, they live in a California inspired territory, specifically they live in caves! Leaders are now called Monarchs, and I'm thinking I will call Deputies Vices tho I may change that...

They also live in a post apocalypse like RoC but there are absolutely no humans like how it is in Guardians of Ga'Hoole!

Also Swanheart's eye patch was crafted from the fabric of a human sleep mask hehe, i thought it looked cute and cool !

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[Image 1 ID: a digital drawing of Monarch Spiderweb, a warriors inspired oc. She is walking with her left side showing, and she has a smug smile with squinted evil eyes. She is a long furred black cat, her fur fluffs up around the upper parts of her legs, and below that her legs are darker and short furred. She has blue eyes with red pupils and eyelashes and she has red scars going across her face, chest and back. Above her is written "Monarch Spiderweb" in red, and next to that is a front view of har face, a view of her paw with her claws unsheathed and her red paw pads showing, and a close up of her mouth open, which is red inside./End ID]

[Image 2 ID: a digital drawing of Vice Swanheart, a warriors inspired oc. he is walking with her left side showing, and he has has a scared expression on his face, and has a navy blue eye patch with a white outline of a closed eye on it covering his left eye. he is a long furred white cat, his fur fluffs up around the upper parts of his legs, and below that his legs are light gray and short furred. he has blue eyes and pink scars going over his chest and left leg. The scars in his chest go across a light gray heart marking. Above him is written "Vice Swanheart" in blue, and next to that is a close up of his eye patch, two front views of his face, one with the eye patch, and the other without, showing his eye covered in pink scars and the eye droopy and blind, a view of his paw with his claws unsheathed and his pink paw pads showing, and a close up of his mouth open, which is pink inside./End ID]

[wabastian]

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[ratasum]

The immediate follow-up of the big Feral Leyya boss fight. That's two young women who are going to go, bloody and furious and exhausted, to beat the shit out of Eparch. Part of our rewrite shenaniganery.

Featuring @wall-legion's Odetta Swanheart.

Leyya is trans and uses she/her pronouns.

[athena-xox]

I feel like all of these are rly underrated pairings

[royalrebelpropaganda]

Lizzie x Duchess for the ship asks plz, also happy belated Valentine's Day! -@ldthegreen

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godddd… people try to forget about the love triangle but I am OBSESSED with it. duchess getting crazy spitting mad about daring only liking lizzie while lizzie genuinely really really likes duchess and just wants to forget about that dumb fucking man and duchess not being able to process her own feelings and using daring as a conduit!!!! AURGH!!!!!!! they both don’t feel comfortable in their destiny and they cope in different ways and duchess can’t stand her but yet only hangs out with her and. in 20 years they will still be living together and waging actual war over who’s turn it is to take out the trash. maybe then will I finally let them kiss. that being said have you READ next top villain lizzie was head over heels for that girl and they could be so so so adorable if duchess would just develop some emotional competency…. sighs

happy valentine’s day!

[wall-legion]

Don't Make Me

Countess Anise hated coming to Lion's Arch. It was so disorderly and uncouth compared to Divinity's Reach. She sniffed as she passed a female charr, dressed in pirate's garb and arm in arm with a norn male who was dressed similarly. Pirates, she thought to herself with a sniff. What is their council thinking, letting piracy continue unchecked in their ports? But then again their council was mostly run by current and former pirates, so one had to take that into consideration she supposed.

She tipped her chin up and picked up her pace through the streets, wishing she had sent Logan on this errand instead for a brief moment... but no, he would be useless, as usual. Thackeray was a tool, a hammer to swing when you had a nail in sight, but otherwise he was too much "of the people" to be practical when it came time for anything that required more than a little finesse and likely any words that would come up with more than two syllables. Beyond that, her target was one of his little projects so that would likely have led to him getting distracted by small talk. No, as badly as she would have liked to avoided this whole job by sending him in her place, she knew deep down she needed to be the one to do this.

It took another few minutes of walking and a brief stop to check her directions with a local, but finally she stopped in front of her destination: a narrow, two-story building that clearly housed a storefront on the first floor and all its living space in the upstairs. The small wooden sign hung over the door read "Rose and Moon Soapcrafting". As she watched, someone left and called a goodbye over their shoulder through the door.

Good. She was home.

Anise strode forward, pulling the door open to step inside and slide to the side to hopefully disappear from sight. There were a few other people in the shop at the moment, a norn woman who appeared to be making a delivery to the girl while a charr couple appeared to be shopping together and an asura was browsing on their own. The girl was cheerily thanking the norn for the delivery, and hadn't appeared to notice that Anise had entered at all.

She tentatively took a few more steps to the side, as her target started focusing on the charr couple, so she could peek through the door behind the counter. Her breath caught in her throat at what she saw next.

The rumors were true: she was harboring a monster. It was tall enough that if it stood up straight its head would touch the ceiling, had two extra limbs emerging from its back to hand it tools and bottles from the shelves, and eyes the color of bloodstone.

Eyes that were now meeting hers, and narrowing.

"Who are you?" it said, setting down the bowl it was holding and starting towards her. Despite herself, Anise stepped backwards and reached for her scepter.

That was when the world froze for her.

"No weapons in my shop." The girl finally came out from behind the counter, holding a shield that was faintly glowing. She must have had it under the counter, Anise thought as she watched her easily slide it onto her back. "This is a nice establishment, after all."

"Could have fooled me," Anise managed to growl through her magically-shut teeth.

"And here I thought the nobility were taught manners. Silly me." She turned to look at the asura. "I'll be right back with you for that order for Bayside Boutique in just a moment. Let me deal with... this."

The asura just tittered. "Oh please. Don't rush on my account."

Anise would have grimaced if she could, but instead she was picked up by the thing and lugged into the back, only to be tied up in a chair just in time for the spell to drop. She took the opportunity to kick the beast in one of the arms as it was finishing a knot. "You should have died in the jungle with the rest of your disgusting siblings-"

"I know." It tied her legs to the chair after that and stood up, eyes downcast. "I know." With that, it left her, and she sat in the back room of the soap shop for at least twenty minutes before the girl finally came back to join her.

"I apologize for Sheridan," she said as she entered, with the monster- apparently she called it Sheridan- not far behind. She produced a dagger from a fold of her skirt. "They're very protective."

"It's certainly something. How'd you teach it to talk?"

Odetta frowned sharply at that. "They knew how to talk when they were a sylvari, and retained it through the blighting." She cut the ropes away and Anise stood up, stretching briefly. "What do you want?" "I'm here to speak to you in regards to the recent... phenomenon that occurred in Garenhoff." Odetta's eyebrow quirked at that. "Are you accusing me of making an entire tower of disappearing, Countess? I had a very large order to complete for Mr. Oskar Garoldsen of the Bayside Boutique, I didn't have time for that kind of nonsense."

"Besides that, Odetta would never do anything of that sort. She is too kind." "Thank you, Sheridan." "Too kind, perhaps, to freaks," Anise muttered. "And what is that supposed to mean-?" the thing snarled. Anise recoiled at seeing the mouthful of fangs it had. She couldn't recall any of the Mordrem she had seen to have teeth such as these. "Kindly recall your snapdragon, before I have to do something you'll regret." "Sheridan." Odetta laid a hand on its arm and looked up at it. "Please. It's fine. The countess will be brief and then she'll leave. Won't she?" Anise watched as the Mordrem backed off, and privately wondered when the orphan had grown such a backbone. "As I was saying, the incident in Garenhoff has her majesty's attentions, and she is requesting that it be addressed promptly. I'm sure you know that your commander is... well..." "Commander Firstblood is in the process of getting married as I understand it, via Olmakhan customs," Odetta said cheerily. The girl seemed to revel in celebrating the other races' weirdness. "We've received an invite." "Goody. And of course the others who have previously been commanders in your guild-" "Oaklinna stepped down after Traehearne's passing, and Vezz and Rissia have their children to mind now." "Of course. But most importantly, her majesty wishes this to be handled... well, this requires a human touch." Odetta gave her a long look. "The elder dragons never required a specific race. Why start now?" "Because Garenhoff specifically lies within human territories, and has for a very long time. We don't know who is in that tower, and the last thing we should be doing is sending another race in there to muck up anything we could potentially utilize-!" Anise drew herself up. She had misspoke, and she knew it. Odetta stood very straight, blue eyes glowing faintly from her magic starting to build. "Countess, I may have been a citizen of Divinity's Reach and of the Queen, but I left it behind as soon as I was of adult age. I've lived here in Lion's Arch- which, I'll remind you since you and apparently Queen Jennah seem to have forgotten, is not a part of the kingdom she reigns over- for almost ten years now. I have this little business now. I have my friends. Do you think I give one shard of bark off Melandru's leafy ass about where you two want me to go?" She flicked her hands, and Anise looked down to see a portal start opening beneath her. "I took a moment after Sheridan saw to you to go to the beach and place the end portal for you. I think a little fresh sea air would do you a world of good, Countess. Clear your head and get those silly ideas about me leaping when you say 'jump' out." "You wouldn't-" Anise started. "I would." Odetta made the final movement for the spell with her left hand, and Anise felt herself start to fall. "Do give the Queen my best. And good luck with that tower problem." As soon as the other woman was gone and her shrill, angry scream had stopped emerging from the portal, Odetta quickly moved to close the portal so she couldn't come back through before sitting down in the now empty chair. "You were very brave just now," Sheridan said after a moment. "Thank you," Odetta said. "I didn't feel brave. I felt terrified." "Well, you didn't let it show. -I locked the front door and put the closed sign up, to be safe." "Oh, Sheridan, you're a blessing." There was a noise on the stairs behind Sheridan, and they both immediately looked as someone started down the stairs from their residence above. What began as panic though, gave way to relief and slight embarrassment as it was only Leyya. "What in the Alchemy was all that noise?" she demanded. "I woke up to someone shrieking!" "...we'll explain over a cup of tea."

[fitzrove]

Top 5 nightwish lyrics!!

!!! Ahh as a teenager I used to have a notebook where I would write down all my favourites 😁😁 But if I think of some just now...

5. From Sagan: "Entering the unknown / Sending all the poets to the stars / Daring to see beyond the manmade / Woe to you who evade the horizon".

It was my favourite song from EFMB (2015) when the album came out and I was so sad that it was just a deluxe extra thing sjkfkdk. But then I was SO happy when I learned they made a band shirt out of this song (with the text "woe to all who stop at the horizon") because it means the song didn't go underappreciated by fans!! And I also bought the shirt and it's my favourite band shirt >:]

4. "Angels, they fell first but I'm still here" from End of All Hope. I know it's meant to be depressing and like noo I'm in so much pain, but especially with the musical vibe of the song, I always thought it was a super inspirational lyric. Like, you don't have to be a perfect angel as long as you survive and get through whatever struggles you're facing in your life 🥺😌

3. From The Escapist: "Journey, homeward bound / The sound of a dolphin calling". It's so evocative in such a brief time!!!

2. There's too many lines to pick from in Storytime... but maybe my favourites would be

"A painter on the shore / Imagined all the world Within a snowflake on his palm / Unframed by poetry / A canvas of awe / Planet Earth falling back into the stars"

1. All of Stargazers - it's so dorkily epic... If I have to narrow it down it's probably the opening verse (A grand oasis in the vastness of gloom / Child of dew-spangled cobweb, Mother to the Moon / Constellations beholders of the 3rd vagrant / Theater for the play of life). I saw them play it live at multiple gigs I went to in the late 2010s (not a given since this is from Oceanborn, an album that came out in 1998) and Floor sang it so well and I was so happy :']

[gooseplumesart]

Miss Odetta Swanheart, a secret santa gift for @wall-legion! Was fun scouring her tag for Themes to put into her portrait :)

[phantom-voices]

Tarja performing 'Swanheart' by Nightwish. This is from her 'Beauty & the Beat' bluray/DVD. You can purchase a copy here:

[wall-legion]

[record scratch]

Yup that's me Odetta.

So that picture of Lucretia? Was photobombed by a divebombing...I think Odetta? Not sure, there for the hud-hidden screenshot and gone on the next! Kinda like how I kept missing any shots of @i-mybrunettelady's Alysannyra! (I have like. Two shots of her. And none of them are front facing with hud-hidden.)

[dollunicornfairymermaid]

Goodbye funny snowman

🌨️☃️❄️🤍🧊☃️

[sectumsempraxz]

Yes I'm listening to Nightwish old albums while I think about Crowley alone crying over Aziraphale

[the-hawthorns-ocs]

Vice Mothheart!

Sad soggy cat with a cool eyepatch

Character Bio:

Kinship: The Hawthorns

Gay; Tom; he/him

Age: (3 cycles, 4 moons; ~29 Hyrs)

Voice Headcanon: (haven't found an actual voice yet) maybe, Lonely! Martin Blackwood- TMA, but if he wasn't British

Title meaning: -heart =  A kind hearted cat; and empathetic cat; this cat stands tall and is prideful of their role in their Kinship; a cat who is not afraid to speak out about what they believe in.

Role: Vice

Previous Role: Keeper

Mother: Pinefang

Father: Ospreycry

Other notable kin: Heir Night (nephew)

Extra Notes: He was originally named Swanheart, but I changed it to Moth to better fit the setting (there are no swans where he lives!) He is now named after the Vestal Tiger-Moth!

Also his name symbolizes how "he is a moth caught in a spider's web"

Character Summary:

Vice Mothheart is Monarch Spiderweb's litter mate but despite this, they are very different cats. Moth is an empathetic cat, he's soft spoken and often quite meek. Though when he was younger he was more likely to stand up for himself and be more brave.

Moth was the weaker and smaller of the litter and Spider was their mother's obvious favorite. Despite this he and Spider used to be close, though looking back on it Moth cant tell if Spider ever actually cared about him, or just liked having him around for her own gain and ego. Moth likes to believe that she did care about him, and he wants to believe somewhere deep down she still does, it would help him feel a bit better about the fact that despite everything, he still cares about her.

Spider and Moth's relationship started going down hill when Spider began training with the Dark Maw. Moth didn't know what was going on, but he could see she was changing and becoming worse, and she was pulling away from him.

Moth realized Spider's true cruelty, and the lengths she would go to have control when as adults, Moth fought Spider on a decision. Spider, enraged by Moth daring to disagree and stand up to her, decided to get vengeance and establish power over him. She tricked him into going out in the forest alone to an area that had recently been inhabited by a fox (which Moth did not know).

Moth was attacked by the fox and nearly killed, he lost sight in one of his eyes and received several other scars. He has only survived, because Spider sent a patrol to save him right before things went /too/ far. Ever since this, Moth has been absolutely terrified of Spider, he knew that if he ever stood up to her she would not hesitate to do worse.

Moth will now do anything Spider says, and stays quiet about anything she does. This is why Spider chose him as her Vice. Moth knows he is a selfish and weak cat for choosing to do nothing all to save his hide, but he feels like all his bravery left the day of that fox attack.

PS. I love this man, i love complicated characters, who are good or bad depending on interpretation... like my boy has sat by as his sister murdered people but also hes traumatized and i feel bad for him </3

[ratasum]

A reunion in the Skywatch Archipelago medical ward. Odetta checks in on Leyya after the fight is over.

"Her injuries are healing nicely, for the most part." Narcisse's voice was soft, mindful of the recovering wounded through the medical ward. "They couldn't save her eye, but she'll keep the arm. It may be a while before she's able to use it well again."

Odetta was wringing her hands together as she followed the sylvari. Since they'd been here, everything had seemed to go sideways, and everything with Leyya in Nayos had been the icing on the worst cake she'd ever seen. She hadn't even had the chance to see or speak with Zojja since they got back. It was worrying.

That, however, wasn't important at the moment. What was important was making certain Leyya was all right.

"Knowing Leyya, she'll figure it out. She's very determined."

That got a chuckle out of Narcisse, who moved aside once the pair arrived at Leyya's bedside. "I'll give you some time to speak with her, but she'll need rest."

Tipping her head forward slightly, Narcisse slipped away, leaving Odetta to sit down on the edge of the bed where the white haired asura lay quietly. She was quiet for a moment, not wanting to disturb her, but Leyya shifted slightly once she sat. "Mmh... Odetta?"

"Hey there." Odetta smiled softly, looking over the asura in the cot. Leyya looked exhausted, her pale hair mussed, thick bandages wrapped around her injured right arm and a thick patch covering her lost right eye. But she was alive, which was more than anyone could've hoped for. "How are you feeling?"

Leyya scrunched her nose up slightly before groaning softly, turning her head slightly to look up at her friend. "Sore. Tired. But I'm on this side of the topsoil, so I don't really think I can complain."

Odetta's nose scrunched up in response, reaching out to smooth the sheets covering Leyya's frame. "I suppose that's true. I'm still really sorry this happened. You could've- what if you'd lost your arm too? Or worse?"

"No use dwelling on the what-ifs." She reached out to grab Odetta's hand, pausing its movement. "I did something stupid. I could've hurt you guys. You, Zojja, Logan, Dagda, Lyhr... I wouldn't have forgiven yourself if Cepir and I had hurt any of you. We shouldn't have even tried a stunt like that."

Shaking her head, Odetta curled her fingers in the sheet. "You were trying to help. There was just... a lot going on."

Leyya offered a wan smile at that. "I don't think that quite justifies it, but it is what it is. What about you? I couldn't see much, or at least not make sense of it, but I heard shouting about Alistair...?"

Odetta hesitated, worrying her bottom lip with her teeth for a moment. "...Mr. Thackeray- Logan- killed him. I guess Isgarren saw that as a positive? Something about them not trusting him anyway. Though why you'd bring on someone you didn't trust..."

"Well, I know a thing or two about second chances." Leyya pressed back into the pillows further. "He just screwed up his." Silence fell between the two for several moments as Odetta worked her hand free, carefully adjusting pillows and blankets, anything to keep her hands busy, before Leyya spoke again. "...have you talked to Zojja?"

"...not since we got back. She said she had a lot on her mind and wanted to think. I don't know. Do you think she'll stay?"

"...if she does, I'll support her choice. I don't like it, but... that's not my business." Leyya wasn't looking at Odetta as she spoke, gazing instead with her remaining good eye up towards the ceiling. "We'll know eventually I guess."

Frowning, Odetta leaned back, letting out a soft sigh. "I hadn't realized how unhappy she was."

Leyya shrugged, wincing when the movement pulled at her injured arm. "I don't know that she's been unhappy. Zojja's always been like this. She'll be so sure she has a problem handled but then it gets out of hand. She doesn't know what to do, so... she reacts. Been like that since we were kids."

Odetta lowered her head briefly, but after a moment, she smiled, tucking the sheets gently around Leyya's shoulders. Maybe it didn't reach her eyes, but she was trying. "Well, whatever happens, we'll deal with it together. We'll be okay. But for now, Narcisse said you need a lot of rest to get better. And getting better needs to be your absolute first priority."

"If you say so." Leyya did close her eyes, though, resting her head back. "We'll be okay."

"I know." Odetta went to stand up. "...I know we will be."

[bonefall]

hi bonefall! I decided to translate my warriors ocs in clanmew ! they're a big-ish family so I thought it'd be fun to do

Starting off with the two parents:

hrrushai / hrrukafyar - dovestar / doveblaze (dovewildfire)

Hrrushai / hrruawhaf - pigeonstar / pigeondawn (rock pigeondawn)

I realized when writing this they had the same suffix which I know is intentional cuz you said it but I thought it was funny

And their children

huopwyr / huofyn - owlpaw / owlflame (owlflame)

yi'ipwyr / yi'iwish - hawkpaw / hawkheather (sparrow hawkbell heather)

hchombabun - swanheart (swanheart)

wipiwickharryr - finchcloud (quial quick moving cloud) (couldn't find the word for finch)

mraawawmun - crowdusk (crowdusk)

also! bonus!

hchomkee - swanmoth (swaninsect) shes hrruawhafs sister and hchombabun is named after her, she's a fun aunt :p

hope you have a nice day!

It's surprisingly unknown that doves and rock pigeons are the same animal! Clan cats recognize these as the same species, doves are just a white rock pigeon.

You could say, to Clan cats, they see no difference...... dove is dove

Notably though a white rock pigeon would be less beautiful to Clan cats than the gorgeous, rainbow-necked standard color. The word for pigeon they're usually using is Huwoohoo, referencing a wood pigeon

(The bird that gives me echolalia almost as bad as morning doves. Btw if they did have morning doves they would call it a Hoowu)

Anyway, I made a Finch Expansion last night that you'll be interested in!