#background mothpool

[ask-warrior-jaypaw]

why don’t you go talk to tawnypelt? I’m sure she’d love to meet you three

Tawnypelt is here!

[eastcoast-envy]

Is when I'm alone with you

I've always been a fan of MothPool, especially because I've always found Mothwing interesting. It wasn't until recently that I learned about Leafpool (I'm not up to date with the books!) and it honestly hurt more than I thought it would :( Have some tragic yuri to one of my favorite songs!

(I kinda just made Leafpool's design on a whim, but Mothwing's is @meroaw 's design but slightly tweaked. If you haven't seen their work you totally should!)

[mangostar]

LESBIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[magpiesky]

Part of my sisters swap au - Mothpool is a given

[griffincloud]

This was originally done/being worked on for Valentine's Day but this is as far as I got before crashing (mentally) but I’m happy with it enough to post it as it is so far

BG under the cut

[cryptidclaw]

After checking my business email recently I was reminded of how popular this MothPool art is as a design on my Redbubble ... and I also realized that it is getting kinda old, my designs for these two (especially Moth) have changed and my art has gotten better since i drew it.. Sooo I redrew it!!

Here they are all new and updated!

Ough it was really fun to draw these guys again! and its also nice to see how much i've improved!

I decided to make their background round so it can work better as a sticker design! Though I also have a version of the design available w/ no background! Hopefully this is a good update and ppl will keep purchasing these designs hehehe

Bonus no background version (the other option on RB) and no background + unshaded version just because!

[manthemoth]

Certified mothpool moment (happy homo month)

[Image ID] A drawing of Mothwing and Leafpool from Warrior Cats but anthropomorphic. Mothwing is much bigger than Leafpool and is hugging her from behind while Leafpool has her head leaning back into Mothwings neck. The colors are warm with a white and peachy background and hearts around them in the colors of both the lesbian and bisexual flags. [end image ID]

[bonefall]

Bones, are there any Bisexual character in your AU? I myself, am a proud bisexual who NEEDS MORE BISEXUAL CHARACTERS IN MEDIA! I headcannon Bluestar as being bi and Leafpool as well! Mothwing is DEFINITELY a Lesbian!! MOTHPOOL FOREVER! HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!!!!!!🌈

I approach bisexuality as a default! Cats who lean towards certain genders are the exception, not the rule. I just write it being totally standard to feel attraction to whoever.

So I try to make an effort to show it in the story, by having cats visibly display it. I crave media that has bisexual people who act on that attraction as more than offhanded background lines, if that makes sense

Characters who are shown being bisexual;

Ivypool. Dates Blossomfall, has a pretty massive breakup, marries the ex-kittypet Fernsong.

Dovewing. Dates Bumblestripe, ends up with tiny wife Heartstar.

Brushblaze. Joined WindClan over how smitten he was with Onewhisker; eventually ended up with his Honor Dam Whitetail, and fathered Heathertail's half-siblings, Galerunner and Smokehaze.

Onewhisker. The iconic bisexual disaster. Of course. Brushblaze, Firestar, Smoke, Whitetail... they were all items at one point.

On that note, Firestar is aromantic but not ace.

Harestar, Breezepelt, Heathertail. They're married together.

Violetshine, Tree, Dragonfly. Also married to each other.

Leafstar. Husband Billystorm, girlfriend Echosong.

Bramblestar. Yes. The worst person you know is bi. He was in love with Stormfur during the journey and I do imagine he has at least a little bit of a thing for Spiderleg after he retires.

Squirrelflight also, though. Likewise I imagine she feels something for Daisy, but always has other things on her mind. I ideate about them ending up together in a peaceful moment after TBC and quietly being together in the latest arc

Also Nightmare Exes being contrasted with Dream Exes is VERY funny to me

Reedwhisker is still pining for Hawkfrost, but he did happily sire Duskfur's kits for her and took care of her. I think he would have been able to love her more fully if he wasn't constantly missing Hawk, he's had a lot of grief in his life.

Crowfeather made Leafpool feel loved and important for a while, and she thought he was hot, but god she regretted it after a few weeks and doesn't know what she saw in him

Bluestar had a LOT going on, but I wax poetic about her too much. She's a whole rainbow. This girl's pride flag is shrimp colors.

And this is all in addition to cats who casually talk about how attractive other cats are, how they'd consider relationships with them, but end up with one permanent romance.

So yeah there's a lot of bi cats, listing them is moot because if I don't explicitly state they heavily skew to one gender (Hollyleaf for example), I am writing them as bi-default.

[brightest-star2]

🍃tag nine people to get to know better🌽

tysm for the tag @lemon-mint813 ! 💖

🌊three ships: dnf, stucky, mothpool

⚓️first ever ship: Kopatani (The Lion King, hmu if you know who Kopa is I will love you forever /p /lh)

👀currently watching: Foolish's stream as background noise xD as for series, I'm still binging Agents of Shield

🎬last movie: uhhh Valerian? it sucks

📖currently reading: Physiologus (it's for an essay. It's basically The biology textbook for the middle ages, meaning they're convinced that everything that happens in nature is a reference to the bible, it's kinda funny)

🥦currently consuming: air (the last meal I had was caramel chocolate muesli with oat milk)

🥞currently craving: potato chips because I always crave potato chips. gimme

tags (apologies if you've already been tagged, also feel free to ignore this if you want! No pressure 💖): @diamantspitzhacke @grayyskies @quackitys-stuff @felidaefighter @v0idl1ng @cdrream @voidpidgeon @charles-simmons @i-anonymous-crow

[gaiteirocarente]

Fav elder: Purdy obv

Fav background character: Mousefang (she appears on firestars quest) dont know why, she just seems cool to me. Maybe some day i might post my drawings of her.

Fav comic page: ig the one in The Rise of Scourge, page 69, where kills one shadowclan cat and he bleeds from his throat. Was not expecting that at all!

First contact to wc: Into the wild at the school library, was 12-14 yo ig not sure tho

Scene that made irrationally angry: ig it was on the begging of a dangerous path. Where Fire just gives up on telling shadowclan and the rest of the clan in the gathering, what tiger has done till then. It was so anticlimactic too.

Times ive cried: none./j

*unrolls scroll* ahem.

First it was when Fire brought cloudkit to thunderclan and the clan cats are shit about it. I was sensive at the moment i read that alright!

second, the ending of rising storm. They did not have the right--

Third time it was the begging of crookedstars promise, my dude. What the- bros got neglected by one of his parents after smth happened to him? Same. Hit like a truck at the moment. Best book ive read.

And prob on bluestars prophecy when ykw. Car scene, and mosskit. Ive tho i was expecting smth bad was gonna happen, it was still pretty good.

ships i dont vibe with for no reason: (at the new prophecy) no hate on specifically, i just didnt see any chemistry on leafcrow. Like. Why. (I am an avid mothpool shipper so yk, ive good taste/hj) it just felt like "im gotta throw leaf with another clan cat cuz plot reasons" (at least, until where ive read)

first map i watched: I'm Not Ready

First pmv: Two Birds - Smudge and rust or Time of Your Life [Fireheart & Whitestorm]

First amv: In The End by NekoVocalNote

first warrior OC: when i was 16-17 yo idw

how many paragraphs could you write about your favorite warrior cat before you ran out of things to say: 8-12

have you ever lost friends over warriors related topics: nope

what's the most 2010s wcforum era esque fandom opinion you still hold onto and will fight people over: Bluestar having long fur and Mothwing being a ginger colorpoint

are you still up to date / reading the new books? if not, when did you stop: still reading! Im starting the fourth arc now, there is no translated version besides the first arc in my country, so i got to learn english to be able to read the rest of the series.

were you ever on warriors amino? (if you were, i'm terribly sorry): no, but i was on a furry one. So not that far off

about how much do your family know about warrior cats, if anything: they dont like cats, so they just "um dont read one about dogs?" but generally they don't care.

give me a song you're surprised you haven't seen turned into a warriors pmv yet - and what character(s) you imagine it to: Snuff by Slipknot, with Bluestar and myb if im the one doing it, id slip some blueyellow in it as well. It would pass mid dangerous path and with flash backs to bluestars prophecy and rising storm. Actually, i might pick up the wips ive done about it..

fav warriors related youtuber: Northflowo

what's the weirdest crossover au involving warrior cats that you've made? (if you haven't made any, then what's the weirdest one you've seen?): dont know if it counts, its more the other series with cats instead of people. But the closest is, TWD(game) and KE. Nothing more than one or a few drawing about it tho.

if you could make any cat leader of any clan right now, who would you pick: id let as it is. The lack of trust and communication between them is what keeps a story going right,,

would you hypothetically go to starclan or the dark forest: starclan

what's the biggest series plothole that's bugged you: rose-tail on the first book just, not mentioned on the alliances and appear one time on the middle of the book to be never mentioned or seen again.

how many people have you blocked over innocuous, not at all important warriors related takes: none

what dynamic between two cats has got you up at night pacing for hours: blueyellow rn and mothpool back then

what's a cat you genuinely forgot existed until recently: rosetail on the first arc

fuck it. warriors ask game except the questions are all weird and niche as hell

👴 : fav elder?

❓️ : fav total background character (im not talking minor characters like say. whitewing or moonlight, i mean cats with like...3 lines tops)

📖 : fav comic page from any of the mangas and why

👶 : how old were you when you first touched a warriors book? howd it happen

💢 : what scene made you the most irrationally angry upon first reading

💧 : how many times have you cried over this wretched book series? any favorite memories

💋 : is there any ships out there you absolutely hate for genuinely no good reason at all. like its not problematic in the slightest, if anything it's one of the better ones, you just cannot bring yourself to enjoy it

🐾 : have you ever named a cat after a warriors character OR given a cat a warriors styled name? if so, tell us the story

1️⃣ : was warriors your first animal based fantasy series? if not, what series was?

👑 : when roleplaying (if you ever have roleplayed warrior cats), did you used to power play? be honest.

🗺 : first map you ever watched?

🖼 : first amv/pmv you ever watched?

🖌 : when did you make your first warriors oc? (if you say you've never had OCs, i dont believe you)

📝 : if commanded to, without warning, approximately how many paragraphs could you write about your favorite warrior cat before you ran out of things to say

💔 : have you ever lost friends over warriors related topics?

🌈 : what's the most 2010s wcforum era esque fandom opinion you still hold onto and will fight people over (things like scourges collar color, dovewings eye color, etc)

🆕️ : are you still up to date / reading the new books? if not, when did you stop?

📱 : were you ever on warriors amino? (if you were, i'm terribly sorry)

🏠 : about how much do your family know about warrior cats, if anything?

🎶 : give me a song you're surprised you haven't seen turned into a warriors pmv yet - and what character(s) you imagine it to

🎥 : fav warriors related youtuber?

❎️ : what's the weirdest crossover au involving warrior cats that you've made? (if you haven't made any, then what's the weirdest one you've seen?)

🗳 : if you could make any cat leader of any clan right now, who would you pick?

🌟 : would you hypothetically go to starclan or the dark forest?

🤔 : what's the biggest series plothole that's bugged you?

😱 : how many people have you blocked over innocuous, not at all important warriors related takes?

☯️ : what dynamic between two cats has got you up at night pacing for hours? (romantic, platonic, familial, etc)

🌫 : what's a cat you genuinely forgot existed until recently?

[puppiekit]

❓️ 💋 ❎️ for ask game

❓️ : fav total background character (im not talking minor characters like say. whitewing or moonlight, i mean cats with like…3 lines tops)

I'm sorry but I cannot remember half of our primary characters do people think I can remember any background charcters WEHAHAH... The most minor character I can remember atm is Sorrelstripe. I REALLY REALLY like her. I havent read the newest ASC yet but I desperately hope the writers allow Nightheart to spend more time with her. Please I need more sweet foster parent + child content....

💋 : is there any ships out there you absolutely hate for genuinely no good reason at all. like its not problematic in the slightest, if anything it's one of the better ones, you just cannot bring yourself to enjoy it

I wouldn't say I hate it but I just cannot like mothpool. UH OH! Of course I dont hate it, or even dislike it, but I dont see the appeal at all. I feel its probably because 70% of the time when I see the ship, its nothing more than people reducing it down to "I dislike crowfeather so Moth shall be his replacement". Like damn do you even like this ship or do you just hate crowfeather?? So lame to me....

❎️ : what's the weirdest crossover au involving warrior cats that you've made? (if you haven't made any, then what's the weirdest one you've seen?)

Warriors x Neon Genesis is my only crossover so I suppose it counts!

[alexcharmsyou]

fic wip crumb;

its taking me forever because im having to reread the 2nd arc as i go but here is a little excerpt from my planning process notes>:)

--I want to focus on Mothpool and the struggles of their relationship, why it didnt work out and scenes we never got in the books that I think explain their whole thing a bit better. I also want to turn it into a medival setting where Leafpool is the princess of -Thunderdom-, first daughter of King Firestar, and Mothwing is a low status foreign exchanged knight of said kingdom. This is will be fun to write because a sapphic story of a knight and her princess is just cute. Yes i did get this idear from the meme and I have no shame. Mothwing is from another castletown (hence why shes seen as kind of an outcast, as well as her brother Hawkfrost who im thinking of making part of the royal council, this is how he tries to overthrow Firestar. Sasha will be seen in flashbacks, im thinking of making her some kind of pheasant from the other town and having Tigerstar somewhere in the mix. Most of the fic will be from Moth and Leaf’s pov but I have interest in Sashas pov as well, I want there to be background reasoning to how Mothwing responds to things (as there always is) and also Crowfeather chapters to see why he was how he was with Leafpool, just little things because I want to mainly focus on MothPool, it is THEIR fic after all;) --

randomly had the urge to write this one night and now im scavenging for all my books fhshwhdhsj

[miss-kittyy]

After 100 years I post again

A mothpool ft. background practice

[sageokami]

Mothpool! I didn't know what to do for the background so fall themed again. I’m still working on my mothwing design but other than that I like this. 

[mallowstep]

Does Tadpole / Frogheart get a love interest in the Misty au?

yes? maybe? i don't know?

i figure out ships when i'm writing. like, i didn't know about storm/shade until i was writing about shadepelt. the five f family panclan polycule came out of a joke, but they're background characters, so i didn't have to think about it, and i sorted out the squirrelcrow part before the five f family panclan polycule developed. (yes, i Will type the full name every time.)

feathertail/brook was because i didn't want anyone to die to sharptooth.

mothpool because i can't NOT write mothpool, it's humanly impossible.

frogheart kind of...takes a while to mature, i suppose. he doesn't become a warrior for a while, which is somewhat symbolic of that (the fact that he chooses not to move on is pretty symbolic)

so i don't Know. he might have a love interest? but until i start writing who he's close to, i won't know who that is.

anyway, excerpt is when the three meet tigerstar for the frist time. i might have already shared it. shrug.

(cw: referenced abuse, tigerstar manipulating feathertail's ptsd, etc.)

"Where are we?" Mothwing asks. Hawkfrost and Frogpaw are standing to each side of her, and she tastes the air.

"I don't know," Frogpaw says. Hawkfrost shrugs, and then his ears swivel.

"That was Feathertail," he says. "That way."

Mothwing and Frogpaw nod, then run after him. She strains to hear what Hawkfrost is following, making out a distant voice, and then something quiet.

"How do you know it's Feathertail?" she asks. "Could be anyone."

Frogpaw overtakes them both. "It sounds like her," he says. "I'd rather not be wrong about this. She could — she could get hurt."

That's enough to keep going. They've never said it, but they've never had to. If Feathertail is in danger, they'll be there.

"So she left you to raise them," someone says. "Figures. I suppose she would have just fucked them up."

Mothwing can smell Feathertail now.

"This way," she says, slowing to a jog. "We can..." She flicks her tail, trying to convey some indeterminate plan.

"Have you told them about me?" There's a pause, and Mothwing stalks forward. A tom is staring at Feathertail, his claws extended and his teeth bared, and she stands in front of him.

"What's she doing?" Frogpaw whispers. "She's so calm."

Mothwing studies the tom. Frogpaw and Hawkfrost press around her.

Feathertail has only described their father once. She did the thing where she folded her paw back and forth on the ground, her tail tucked between her legs and her ear folded flat.

They didn't ask about him after that.

But Mothwing had committed it to memory. She said he had amber eyes, said he had brown stripes.

The tom lifts his head, and tastes the air. Mothwing sees the scar that runs across the bridge of his nose, and she knows.

"I know you're there," he says. "Why don't you come out?"

Frogpaw pushes past her. He's the one who's been waiting for her, Mothwing isn't surprised. Hawkfrost and Mothwing run after him, and she presses her face against Feathertail's shoulder.

She was so sure Feathertail was still, but now, next to her, she sees the tremble in Feathertail's legs.

"Do you know who I am?" Tigerstar says. Feathertail stands, taking a step past them. Mothwing can see the shake in her legs.

"Get away from them," she says, her voice trembling.

"Does little Feather think she can stop me?" Tigerstar says.

Feathertail cringes. Nobody calls Feathertail Feather. Not Stormheart or Stonefur or even Mistyfoot, and before Feathertail left, she was almost inseparable from Mistyfoot.

"Get away," she repeats, and her voice is quieter.

Tigerstar takes another step closer to her, and Feathertail leans back. He puts his paw over hers.

"I thought I taught you how to behave," he says, his voice low and gravelly.

"Get away from her," Frogpaw says, brushing Feathertail's shoulder.

Tigerstar sighs, moving his paw off of Feathertail's. "I've done this all the wrong way," he says, his voice flooding with warmth. "This isn't how I wanted this to go."

Hawkfrost steps to Feathertail's other side, and Mothwing brushes to stand at her shoulder.

Feathertail is shaking.

"I'm sure she's told you about me," Tigerstar says, baring his teeth slightly. Feathertail wavers. "All lies, most likely."

He purrs. His tail flicks forward, across Frogpaw and Mothwing's chins.

"I hoped to catch you alone," he says. "So that I could have a chance to explain myself. We'll have to do it all together, then."

"I said stay away," Feathertail says, and she steps past them again. Every one of her muscles is tensed, and her hind paws splay out, the tips of her claws extending. Feathertail is trembling.

Tigerstar growls, and her legs buckle.

"That's right," Tigerstar says. He growls again, and Feathertail's stomach touches the ground. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. Mothwing glances at him, and then Feathertail.

"I'm sorry," Feathertail whispers.

Mothwing crouches down, touching her nose to Feathertail's shoulder. Feathertail whimpers, and Mothwing pulls back, staring at Tigerstar.

"You're...Hawkfrost," Tigerstar says. "Mothwing. Frogpaw. Hm. Not a warrior yet?"

Frogpaw's tail lashes.

"Fine, fine," Tigerstar says. "Don't talk. I am sorry for how this came about."

Hawkfrost turns his head towards Feathertail. "We don't want to talk to you."

"Because of Feather?" Tigerstar says, incredulous. "I suppose I have my work cut out for me."

Feathertail's ear is pushed all the way back, her tail tucked between her legs.

"You would've been better off with Mistyfoot," he says. "Go on. Tell me the terrible things she's told you."

Feathertail hasn't told them about Tigerstar. The elders have, but only in short spurts. Stormheart and Stonefur were always quick to usher them away.

"What's Mistyfoot have to do with this?" Mothwing asks, despite herself.

Tigerstar laughs. "She's your mother."

[duhcatluvr]

Some mothpool background practice