#and do more artfight stuff i kind of fell off with that

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The day after the hot springs incident

The og tweet under the cut:

[rookflower]

ok, so. i drew every warrior cat! here's a long rambling sentimental reflective-type post on the blog i guess.

I started this blog when I was 15, in 2018. I was bored at a summer job, scribbled Onestar on the back of a sticker sheet, and thought "huh, there sure is a lot of Warrior Cats characters! I've seen some design blogs around, I think there's a "draw 100 cats challenge" people do, wouldn't it be fun if I gave that a try?" I had nothing going on art-wise at the moment, I was losing steam on my Pokemon webcomic and had given up askblogs a while ago, so I quickly fell into it.

Starting out was weird- I'd only read up to about Power of Three at the time, and hadn't read TPB or TNP in quite a while. I vivdly remember someone sending me a request to draw Tawnypelt about 20 cats in or so, and I genuinely couldn't remember who she even was. I think I got a request to draw Jagged Peak before I even knew DOTC existed? I wasn't working off of a specific list, and would miss certain cats out entirely due to forgetting them which frustrated me. Drawing cats was fun, and once I got to 100 eventually I found myself going "well, now what? I haven't even drawn Sorreltail, Nightstar, Appledusk, Spiderleg..." so, i kept going!

Then 2020 rolled around and lockdown hit, and I was suddenly stuck in my house with no plans, seemingly unlimited time, and a desperate need for some kind of outlet that offered escapism from the world.

Drawing Warrior Cats was something mundane and rhythmic but creative and enjoyable, and I found the aspect of looking at it as a challenge alluring, the same way I had when the goal was "100 random warrior cats". How far could I get before having to stop? I couldn't do over 1000 cats, right?

uh.

I could!

sunk cost fallacy or whatever, I guess?

Lot has changed in my life over the course of this. I started the challenge just after leaving high school, and now I'm headed into my third year of uni. Some family's moved around, we have a cat now, I started playing video games again, my bedroom's been revamped, I met some internet friends IRL for the first time, I'm more or less publicly out as gay, all different kinds of stuff. It's fucking wild to consider that one of the biggest constants in my life these past few years has been drawing goddamn warrior cats. I've had the Warriors wiki list of characters open on my computer basically forever, and finally closing it feels like a goodbye.

So what's happening with this blog? Well, I'm not upkeeping a daily queue anymore, that's for sure. There are some cats here I KNOW I'm going to want to go back and redesign at some point though, so this isn't over! Even if I'm less active here, for now, I'm not going anywhere. I'll probably also use this for any general warriors art/posts I want to make, as well as those "send me asks" request meme thingies. those are fun.

I'm hoping to be maybe more active on my youtube now, as well as just generally experimenting with my art more. One of the biggest downsides of spending 3 years drawing fullbody flatcolours of warrior cats and not that much else is that my improvement on every ground except cat anatomy and character design has become pretty fuckin stagnant lmao. I need to make art with backgrounds and shading and non-cat characters again or i think ill explode. time to get out of this comfort zone!!

speaking of, very lucky this thing ended right at the start of Artfight. I'm @/RioBlitzle there and I try to revenge back attacks! Will probably put my energy into that for a wee while.

@daily-mario-characters might come back,, eventually but I'm not promising anything, and if I haven't learned anything from running this blog you might see me on a "drawing every pokemon" streak in a few months. it is how it is.

Anyways, thank you all so much for your support. Massive shoutout to everyone who's ever left nice comments in the tags of my posts, I don't really have a way to respond but I read every one of those and please know that they absolutely make my day.

Thanks for sticking through this challenge with me!

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Headcannons, mind showing their parents and family and knowing about their relationship and first reaction the Legion’s disappearances

Uh well to be honest with you, I don’t even have their full designs yet. I have like small segments of ideas and headcanons for their parents, Especially Joey. Their parents are still a work in progress; but now that artfight is over I can get back around on working on them!(kind of.) I can show you what I have so far and talk about their reactions. I’ll put a read more since there might be alot haha. I also don’t know if I could really give you headcanons for each but I can definitely talk about them.. since… it’s still a wip.. sorry about the inconvenience!

We actually got an ask about their parents and this is where I left off before I got busy with personal stuff and other things.

I always saw Joey’s parents the disco/soul type before Joey came into their lives, And Joey loves it. He actually carries a photo of their younger days with him in his backpack and holds it to him dearly. He just loves his parents and looks up to them heavily. As for Julie and Susies parents, I dont have really anything for their past. So sorry about that. And Frank is uhh, just Frank haha.

I’ve somewhat brushed on their relationships with their parents but I could talk alittle more about it!

Starting off with Joey, His relationship with his parents slowly went sour after Frank stumbled upon his life. His father became ashamed of Joey as he went through a transformation. looks, style,everything. He used to look like this:

I guess you could say he felt like he lost his boy, seeing the people he hanged out with. I wouldn’t say he despised him, more ashamed of him in a way. Joey didn’t end up the son his father dreamed of having. Though his mother doesn’t mind who he has become. Joey and his mother still held a close relationship, the only thing that got in the way was the drinking. His mother’s drinking habits held a burden upon him and his family, and it pushed him to distance himself from spending time with his mother. He couldn’t handle the atmosphere of constantly taking care of his drunk hungover mother. It depressed him watching her waste her life away, but there were brief moments where it was just the two of them spending time together just like when he was a little kid. To put it in a more simple way, Joey is sort of a mama’s boy. Sure he loves his dad even if hes too hard on him, But his mother was always good to him and he knew for a fact she would always love him no matter what. It was already mentioned that after their disappearances everyone just thought they ran away and left town until finding a body. It starts with devastation, especially with his mother. She’s in denial about it- the thought of her son killing someone just doesn’t seem real. Then him just suddenly disappearing, absolutely no traces to be found, she’s heartbroken. She blames herself for that night. Drinking so carelessly. Not getting up from the couch. Not stopping him at that doorway. She can’t help but blame herself, she feels like she failed as a mother. Then ontop of that her husband blames her too. I figure their fighting would escalate after the disappearance of their son, probably leading to a divorce or Joey’s mother dying from heartbreak. We haven’t really decided yet.

Yeah so I really dont have a grasp on designs for Julies parents. Well, pretty much everyones parents. I want to make sure I get that 90′s feel to their designs so i gotta tinker with it. But I Just… haven’t got around to it. On the other hand, Julie’s relationship with her parents is just a typical teen thing. She was their little sweet pea until highschool came around. Julie used to be the kid they were proud of showing off. A straight A student who played a bunch of sports, with a sweet simple girl personality,popular.  But highschool changed that. In a way, Frank changed that. Her grades started dropping, all her relationships with her friends fell apart, personality did a complete 180. In a way, her parents were pretty disappointed in the path she chose. Instead of trying to talk things through, they became a little more pushy with her. Trying to push her back to sports; mother trying to get her into cheer leading, signing her up for tutoring and what not. And of course this interfered with their relationship.I would say there were alot of arguments between her and her mother. Her father though was more on the sidelines about things. Yes he was disappointed on how she turned out to be, but getting between her and her mother wasn’t something he was interested into doing. He’s more silent about his disappointment, but spoke loudly through his actions. For instance, barely being able to look at his daughter, Or even talk to her at the dinner table kind of thing. Julie didn’t really mind, or at least showed that she didnt care. If anything, Her families actions pushed her more into her impulsive actions. Then when shes gone, they’re both devastated. They both blame eachother for her disappearance at first until the body showed up. They go through a range of emotions. Shock, anger, betrayal, disappointment. They would have never thought their own daughter would do something like that, but knowing the type of person Frank is, they could believe she could be behind the murder along with Frank. Although it upsets them that their daughter is probably behind the murder, they pray one day they could just hold their daughter one last time.

As for Susie, Her relationship with her parents isn’t bad. She isn’t angsty, She doesn’t fight with her parents, and she tries her best to be a good daughter.  Of course the group interferes with her for being an honest good hearted child, but the group doesn’t interfere with her relationship with her parents. We feel as though Susie and her family had a strong bond, they get their ups and downs but they only grow a stronger relationship. As stated before, Susie’s mother is extremely protective of her- practically all of her children. With being protective, she is also supportive of Susie and her dreams. She works hard to help Susie pursue her dreams of going to college for arts and encourages her heavily on her projects. Susie loves her mom, and admires her hardworking self, along with her father. We cant really see any complications about her and her fathers relationship other than him not understanding why she would want to go to school for art. They bicker about it at times but its nothing to big to ruin their relationship. I’ve already talked about Susie’s relationship with her siblings- Since they’re so young she cant really hate them. Kids are just obnoxious, and theres no stopping that. Obnoxious or not, she still loves them; even though they might steal her stuff, ask her millions of questions, or argues over control for the TV. She would protect her siblings with her life, and to the same with her from her siblings. But when she’s gone, they don’t understand. They don’t understand why their parents are crying, making thousands of calls desperately asking for more information on their daughter. It only leads to more confusion when their parents just turn silent about the situation, they won’t bring it up around them. Their parents won’t give them any answers- If anything, their parents probably lied to them and made up some story that Susie finally went off to college to at least leave some positive image of her behind. Now to get more into their parents reactions, of course they’re upset. They would never think she would just suddenly disappear like that, especially knowing that her relationship with the group isnt that strong. (at least with Frank.) They know for a fact she loves Julie with all her heart, and would be willing to do literally anything or her. They first come to the conclusion that maybe she was kidnapped, or possibly lost. With scarce information, their questions were answered with the murder of the janitor with multiple stab wounds. They couldn’t accept it, they couldn’t accept the fact that Susie would do something like this or that she would disappear so willingly. They automatically put the blame on Frank and Julie for her disappearance, unwilling to accept the fact she would do such a thing or even accept the fact she would just disappear so abruptly.

Then there’s Frank. He’s just a sad story with a sad ending. A nobody ending as a nobody. His parents gave him up, his foster dad didn’t even care about him when he was around. We don’t really think his foster father would care if he was even gone. Maybe even glad. It would be no surprise to anyone if he was the one behind the murder in the first place or the disappearance. Everyone knew the type of person Frank was, and everyone in the right mindset knew to stay away from him. There’s really not much to tell for him.

[thedappleddragon]

Day 114 (Saturday July 4th)

I don’t remember a ton about this bay because I didn’t write these 2 entries until Monday but HERE WE GO

Also I’ve decided fuck it, y’all get to know my siblings names because referring to them as my brothers and sister is dumb. Eric is the oldest brother, Greg is the other older brother, Emily is the little sister.

Eric was already home, and he woke me up at like 1pm. I started getting ready for the day just because now I assume if someone is waking me up we’re about to do something. Greg came home sometime in the middle of the afternoon. My dad made food on the grill and we all sat around and ate and talked a lot, and eventually my sister leaves out to have a sleepover with friends. My mom gave her grief about it because she wanted to watch fireworks with the whole family. We drove to some huge church property because they were the only ones around shooting off fireworks, and I made everyone clover bracelets and we got ice cream and an elephant ear because there was a whole-ass fair situation. We all wore masks tho. It was really nice just being outside and doing something almost normal for once. They had a speaker playing music and someone made an announcement thanking local law enforcement and we all went “ACAB” and laughed. The show was nice, my dad braided my hair, and I got to sit on the roof of the car waiting for traffic to lighten up. My brothers talked about math the ENTIRE time. After the show, we went to the store for key lime pie and my brothers got alcohol and stuff for drinks. We all talked more when we got home until I got tired.

Day 115 (Sunday July 5th)

Eric woke me up again, but this time to get McAllister’s and go to the park. I got less sleep than usual and kind of tired all day. Eric and Greg also got coffe at Starbucks. We ate at the park and sat on the bench for forever, trying to decide on something to do. We talked about kayaking, but all boat rentals needed to be made a day in advance. We instead decided to go hiking!! We went home to prepare, and headed out to the Monon trail. It was hot and humid out, and there wasn’t much shade at first, but we crossed a street and turned a bend and ended up in a heavily wooded area that was super pretty. We were wondering when a good turning around point would be, and had just started going the other way when a huge thunderclap rolled overhead. We decided that was a pretty good sign to head back. It started sprinkling, and as soon as we got out of the woods the rain picked up and we had to run to the closest shelter in front on an ice cream shop. It started coming down in sheets, so we booked it to an open jimmy johns across a small street. We bought some soda and waited out the worst of the rain, but we still had to walk a little over a mile while it was still sprinkling. Eric considered paying for a 1 mile Uber lmao. I felt like I was in a Studio Ghibli movie with all the greenery on either side. The rain fully let up as soon as we got to the car, but some guy with a blunt in his hand tried to talk to us as we passed by him, saying we looked like cowboys walking through the mist. We laughed it off and went home. As soon as we got there, we changed clothes, had a quick snack, and went to our neighbor’s house. One of our neighbors had died, and his neighbor was having a little get-together to remember him. As soon as I got there I was stuck talking to the two wierd homeschool kids for an HOUR. I HATED it. I had to text emily and her friend to come rescue me. We talked on our porch for a little bit, but then they kicked me out so I went inside and waited for everybody to get back. Dad came home first, since Eric and Greg were still talking with neighbors. When they got back, we wanted to watch a movie, and I brought out Shrek on tape, but we couldn’t get the tape player to work. Eric and Greg played video games, and emily and I played Mario kart ds. It had been forever since we were able to play, but because I found my white ds, we were able to!! After a while, I went to my room for a bit and drew for artfight. I got a headache, took some medicine, and sat next to Greg on the couch watching him play rimworld until I fell asleep. I later woke up and moved to my own bed.

Day 116 (Monday July 6th)

I woke up wierdly early (10am ish), but Greg was still asleep on the couch, so I had to be quiet while getting some breakfast. I spent the morning sketching for artfight and going between the kitchen and my room. Eric didn’t show up until some time after noon, and the first thing he did was show off his new infrared thermometer by zapping my forehead. He had to work all day, so I didn’t see much of him. I went back to my room to draw until Greg’s girlfriend texted me asking if he had his phone on him. I had to wake him up at 3:30pm lmao. I went back to drawing until I got sick of it. Later I talked with Greg in the backyard about college and mental health for probably over an hour until emily came outside and asked if we were going to do anything tonight or tomorrow. We went inside and fetched Eric, then all gathered on the couches to eat dinner. Eric bought procreate on his iPad for me to play with, and it’s really fun to draw with. I drew while Eric and Greg played video games and emily watched TikTok. She eventually left, and I sat on the couch drawing until past 2 am and went to bed. My G O D procreate is so fun to draw with, it’s a shame Eric is taking his iPad when he leaves :/ ill just have to buy and iPad and pencil for myself some time