#also they're both ticked tabbies!!

[hatsbattlecats]

oooo!!! Goosefeather au!!! can you share that one next?!

I don't have that one written out all nice yet like I do some of the others, BUT!! I can give you a lil teaser in the form of Goosefeather and Moonflower's designs uwu

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

can you tell me what the f*ck is going on with Hope?

he's mostly cream, not white, i know he looks a little pale in this image 😔

my first instinct was a chocolate self tortoiseshell and white. HOWEVER. as he is a cream colour this is not so.

Cream cats, as a dilute of red, are always tabbies even if they're genetically solid. He could be a ticked tabby cream, but we'd still see some tabby markings, especially on his face.

so I'm considering maybe a chocolate self tortoiseshell and white (with the white hidden by the chimera) and a fawn self chimera. This would allow Hope to have solid patches that appear cream, along with blue eyes, and his red and chocolate colouration.

maybe a fawn caramel? this could make him appear more cream...

On the other hand, he could also be a highly rufoused chocolate classic tabby (with white) chimera with fawn self, which would account for the brightness of his tabby patches. interesting design! i got to go off the rails with this one

final assessment: some kind of chimera, maybe with fawn?

Hi, Jay asked me to help assess this one! My first thought was "Oh, this could be labeled fawn!"

The white (cream-ish base that the other markings seem to be drawn over) clocks me as high white. This is partly due to the fact that the eyes are a pale blue, and that it doesn't match any pointing genes. Simple.

Other than that, my thoughts lead to a chocolate tortoiseshell self with high white!

I'll be tagging both of them in the post, because both options are valid interpretations!

[caliginousarchitect]

the KHR cats edition entries inspired by @bonesetblues‘ KHR/BNHA crossover fic “curiosity kills the cat (but satisfaction brings it back)” continue. It's the Arcobaleno this time (finally)! Reborn Black medium hair thing. Adult Reborn's drawn with such ludicrously long gangly limbs that we went with some oriental breedtype legs. In the end we couldn't decide between yellow eyes and near-black (which is technically biologically possible but there's only one recorded instance that I know of and they didn't reach adulthood) so both are here. By far he was the most difficult to work out a pose for, he did NOT want to cooperate. Also, curly ear hairs because his curly sideburns needed to be included somehow. I was thinking at the start, either something very small so it'd seem more whacky when he ended up somewhere he shouldn't be, or something quite large, so I also tried throwing a little hint of maine coon flavour in there, but it's not very evident at the end of it I don't think. The fic author's thought for Reborn was Savannah Cat, but I looked at that and went, nah, for reasons explained later on.

Fon Another black medium hair, with some rusting. He seems the sort to spend plenty enough time outdoors during the day for it. I didn't realise before this that Fon has brown eyes, actually. Oriental cat breedtype.

Colonnello Ough the pose, easy, very cooperative. The colour?? not so much. KHR does have characters with realistic blonde hair, but Colonnello is not one of them He has Anime Blond, aka, Yellow. So, Shorthair Black Golden with high ticking, and low-medium white spotting.

Lal Mirch And yet another solid black. Longhair. Her pose was also a tricky one, we knew the vibe of what we wanted, but the actual doing of it was hard. Trying to do her scar was also hard because there just aren't any very good references for it (especially since the anime basically just. turned it into... a tattoo?). Gave her a bunch of white hairs from little scars and some around the face scar. Darkish orange-copper eyes was about as close as we could get to her anime... pink... ish? reddish? eye colour.

Verde Dark blue classic tabby shorthair with low white spotting and blue-grey eyes (teeeechnically probably not very likely since he's not a Point colouration, but they are Possible and the only way to match Verde's canon grey. Why does he have grey eyes, the one time you get an anime character with anime colour hair and he DOESN'T have matching eyes, honestly). The expression was the hard part here, mostly. Trying to get any balance of smug/pideful and annoyed scientist and intrigued at situation? Hard. How is he meant to do a proper science with paws. He cannot hold a pen to write and keyboards are not designed for paws. He needs to make an invention to facilitate this.

Skull Another difficult one to pose, trying to get the bluster and also the fear. Chocolate shorthair with ghost markings and blue eyes. Open mouths from any angle other than side-on are haaaaaard.

Uni Blue/cream charcoal torbie bengal kitten! And here's the main reason we didn't want to do savannah cat Reborn- Uni is an actual hybrid, although we don't actually know her f-generation (... would you call it that, in humans-and-related-species?) from Sepira, but we can guess she was within 10 or so generations. Very low cream, but it is there. Bonuses: Reborn (yellow eye version), Verde (anime colour version), Skull (anime colour version) (and Viper/Mammon is not here becasue they're with the Varia)

[west-tokyo-incidents]

There's a very strange pair of rogues in the area. They're not quite loners, because they do aggressively guard a territory of their own, it's a portion of an abandoned mineshaft not far from town. No one really knows their names except a select few.

One is a very sleek, tabby ticked male with a missing leg and a notched ear named Whisper. He was neutered in a trap-and-release and his leg was amputated during the same capture. He's a very tricky sort, having learned his way around being a tripod very easily. He's also strangely aware of the ongoings in both the city and the clans and often uses this information in fights or for blackmail, giving him a rather rancid reputation among both groups of cats.

The other is a small ginger cat with nothing particularly noteworthy about him appearance-wise. But personality-wise is a very different story. His name is Click because of how he chatters and clicks far more often than most cats(that little chattering they do when they see a bird outside a window). He doesn't talk much and is usually seen just... watching. He's a very skilled climber and, due to his small size, can often sit in places larger cats can't. Such as on skinny little branches where he knows the muscle-dense clan cats can't climb on without risking the fall.

The mineshaft is close to the place the medicine cats gather every fullmoon, and Whisper is prone to finding Pinestep on his way to the place and pestering him.

Click, on the other hand, can often times be found playing with Clamp, a scrawny black cat who used to be a stray in a construction site.

Clamp has a pretty obvious neurological condition, very forgetful and scatterbrained, but he also has really bad days where his legs don't quite agree with his brain on where to go. It's not as extreme as some kittypets; he can still put up a hell of a fight, as Crowpaw learned during the winter when he was forced to stay in the city.

He was, after all, a feral on his own for the first few years of his life.

[slugswarriorsdesigns]

What would the kits of an amber ticked tabby bicolor molly and red ticked tabby bicolor tom look like? I'm just assuming they're both ticked based on the pictures

Let's put some stuff down on the table first so we know what we're dealing with.

From what we know, we have a XoXoB-D-A-Ta-ee molly and a XOY??D-A-Ta-E- tom, both with about 50% white spotting.

Bad news: Amber (e) will not pass and show. It's ressecive and the chance the tom also has amber is very low, unless he is a Norwegian Forest Cat or cross himself.

Obviously I can't name every single possible variation so to make it simple:

You'll get black and tortoiseshell kittens, they can not be amber but will 100% be carriers, they have a high chance of being ticked vs being whatever tabby pattern the parents are masking. And they can have from around 50% white spotting to 100%.

So you may have a ticked torbie bicolor and a completely white cat in the same litter

[basaltbutch]

There are four base coats when it comes to cats; black, red (most common), chocolate, and cinnamon. Most cats you see are either red or black, or their dilute forms, blue and cream. Contrary to semi-popular belief, red cats (or ginger cats as they're commonly known) are not "much more likely to be male," but rather, are only slightly more likely to be male based on statistics. (Broadly speaking, without regards to genetics, a female cat has a 33% chance of being red, while a male cat has a 50% chance.)

Male cats cannot be torties, calicos, or torbies because the red gene, O/o, is sex-linked. A female cat can have two (XOxo) copies of the gene which, as the red and black genes are co-dominant, means that they display both in equal measure. A male cat can only have one. (XoY). However, it is possible for male torties/calicos to exist, in the cases of chimeras and cats with Klinefelter's syndrome. Calicos and tortoiseshells are two different displays of the same gene, the more white a cat has, the more separated the patches of red and black display.

Tabby markings are a poly gene. In order of importance, it goes; non-solid/soild > ticked > mackerel/classic > spotted/broken. Wildtypes are also included in that list but I don't care about them so I'm not talking about them. Because of the way eumelanin is structured, red cats will always display a stripe pattern even if they are solid. Black tabby cats will have black stripes on a dusty brown coat.

White is a dominant gene that "covers up" the rest of the coat.

Inhibitors and modifiers affect the way a gene is portrayed. The ones I know about so far are; silver/smoke, wideband, amber, caramelization, and carnelian. Silver displays differently depending on whether a cat is solid or not; on solid cats, it presents as a fading from top to bottom and the presence of ghost stripes, on non-solid cats, it turns the undercoat into a very light, pale tone. Wideband is similar, though there is no smoke variant; it turns the undercoat into a golden color. Amber is a color change gene found in Norwegian Forest Cats, where a cat is born black but fades to an amber color, or born blue but fades into a cream color. There's a difference in nonagouti ("solid") and agouti ("tabby") amber cats but I'm not getting into that because it's hell. Caramelization is a modifying gene that only affects a cat if they're dilute (blue instead of black, lilac instead of chocolate, fawn instead of cinnamon, cream instead of red) that turns black coats into a very light, pale color, and red coats into a bright orange color, leading to some very interesting tortie/calico colorations. Carnelian is an inhibitor gene similar to amber, where it turns black coats into a gorgeous, vibrant red color, but instead of happening slowly and over time kittens are born with the gene visible.

I learned all this against my will so if any of it is wrong I genuinely do not care.

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