#The Dark Forest

[murkshade]

can this dude get a break

[mothpawbs]

still thinking about my leafhawk au so here's a silly comic :)

[ratstaratstar]

brush test!

[esoteric-terror]

Moth Flight - Leafpool - Mapleshade

im feral about them. rambling under cut bc i have so many thoughts

i always see moth flight + leafpool and leafpool + mapleshade, but im shocked to not see moth flight + mapleshade more, and of course all 3 together

they have similar situations, and particularly mapleshade and moth flight have. eerily similar traits? prideful, easily jealous, and have strong faith in starclan.

all three lost their kits, whether willingly or not, they were not their to mother their kits. and i imagine neither moth flight nor mapleshade would like that leafpool got it “easy”, both would definitely be in the “leafpool didnt suffer enough actually” camp.

for moth flight she doesnt like seeing others happy when she couldnt, leafpool barely gave up her children, why is she allowed to be content when moth flight didnt even get to see her children constantly?

while mapleshade didnt even get to take care of her children since their lives were taken from her. leafpool basically had it perfect in maples eyes bc at least leafpool lived with her children. (unrelated but my ideal scenario in the last hope, that instead of attacking sandstorm and killing spottedleaf, itd be with leafpool and hollyleaf. i think itd be much more impactful to 1) see maple and leaf interact, and 2) have hollyleaf die for leafpool since she tried to kill her, itd come full circle)

theyre both envious and prideful, both take that anger and jealousy out on others in death (and life for mapleshade), with moth flight attempting to send anyone who breaks her rule to hell and mapleshade attempting to kill or at the very least physically harm those who got what she wanted but didnt get. but leafpool, whos children openly expressed their disdain for her (albeit not for too long), doesnt take out those negative emotions out on others, she doesnt blame squirrelflight for saying that her and bramble werent their real parents, she doesnt blame her children for being mad at her, and i cant imagine that moth flight or mapleshade would do the same. shes still kind regardless

idk. this isnt nearly as coherent as it is in my head but Oh Well

[gildedskully]

TIGERSTAR

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as that hella cool dream tiger originated by govy9807 over on twitter

[eggfeather]

darktail

[cheecats]

I don't think I was meant to make it out of this.

[sageokami]

the fire scene was never about the three

[fabsfightcats]

lion n jay concepts from couple months ago

[cheryxshug-designs]

Can you do mapleshade or jayfeather

mapleshade !

took a long time to perfect this one lol.. but i think im content with the final product

(for the person requesting hollyleaf... i promise she will get a ref eventually.. her design changes slightly every time i draw her LOL)

[murkshade]

Hunters moon with Mapleshade?

[mothpawbs]

Snowtuft !!!

SNOWTUFT!! one of my obscure favs who's... not so obscure anymore, haha. i love him a lot. for his dark forest reclaiming the dead-type design, he has tree branches growing from his scars! and i realized just how over the garden wall these designs are while i was drawing him XD

[to-skit-or-not-to-skit]

the dark forest trainees (they r just sleepy kitties)

[esoteric-terror]

I want to watch you fail.

[floofhips]

Trisolaran biology :] from the "remembrance of earth's past" trilogy by cixin liu

[eggfeather]

curlfeather