#dfoc

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

I haven't been posting as much about my favourites (Tunnel poly, Eye-out poly, Valley family) because my hyperfixation changed so now I gotta make new characters based on that

the only problem is coming up with a detailed story, which I sorta got, just gotta decide on if I want story A or story B, but also and more importantly: I CAN'T DECIDE WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Tarantula

Wanted to show his fur tufts! He has one on each cheek and two on his head. They resemble spider  chelicerae, likely where he got his name from.

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@ambitiousauthor​ @elementaldeityoffood​ @umbranoxs​ @wills-woodland-warriors​ @liberhoe​ @starfalcon555​ 

[newtness532]

we've spent around 80 pages on DONC and the day is still not over and there are only 100 pages left and i have a feeling that this is actually dfoc (day full of consequences)

[postsofbabel]

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[sagecoloureddaydreams]

Dangerous Fellows Art 2 ~ Ice Cream

!!! Lawrence Route and Memory Spoilers !!!

I'm already back on my shit...

I have a randomiser full of prompts that I plan on drawing Dangerous Fellows fanarts of (with, of course, my Self-Insert/avatar, Vic). I'll try to include the other boys but I am biased so uhhh, expect a lot of Lawrence.

The prompt that I was given today was 'Eating Ice Cream' and because it has been universally decided that Lawrence likes sweets, I chose to draw him. I pictured this prompt in an au where MC/Vic noticed Lawrence admiring them for a while and asked him on a date...also the apocalypse never happened so Lawrence can't exactly get away with his uh, 'shenanigans' as we've seen that he believes he only got away with it because of the lack of police and forensics.

Anyway, here it is:

Also... Look they've got matching bracelets and necklaces with umbrellas on them (for obvious reasons)! And Lawrence is being a simp with his lovey-dovey goo-goo eyes.

Later Cowards,

Sage

[gemsiiie]

STOP- IM DYING RIGHT NOW IM TOO TIRED FOR THIS

SO LIKE IM STUDYING FOR A BIO TEST RIGHT, AND IM TRYING TO FIND A MNUMONIC DEVICE RIGHT? AND THE ACRONYM IS DFOC, AND ALL MY DUMBASS COULD COME UP WITH IS “DONT FUCKING OPEN CAT” AND I THINK I NEED SLEEP

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[thealexbadia]

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[yungbearz]

UMMMM HI NEW FOLLOWERS WELCOME TO MY BLOG HERES SOME HIP COOL AND NICE FACTS ABT ME!! my name is Eli! I'm an African immigrant (I came here when I was four), im Cape Verdean (Portuguese and west African, making Me afrolatino) and i luv being black it's fun it's cool it's great no one can stop me from loving it thank yewwwww! i have aspergers :D Im a demigirl! she/her or they/them please!! i am also a lesbian and love girls and feminine presenting nb folx! i am polyamorous and have a bf named tony and a gf named Sarah they r my cool dfoc (date friends of color) and i would die for them thanks!! i do have ptsd from experiences in Africa that I will not go into só racism will never be tolerated neither will 'slavery' threads! i fuckin hate that shit! i speak Portuguese and English and love interacting with other black and/or Latinx ppl so hmu!!!! thanks for following :D

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

How was Lilybeak’s and Flightdur’s relationship? I can’t tell if their close or not

Complicated!

Flightfur loves her daughter more than life itself, but she hasn’t really ever shown that love to her because she was completely consumed by grief. In the nursery, she spent most of her time staring blankly at the wall, not responding to her kit simply because she wasn’t registering that her child was trying to get attention.

There were moments when her head was more clear. Usually it’s when she catches someone talking shit about Lilybeak, then she becomes mama bear and lets them have it.

Flightfur wasn’t entirely absent. It lasted to her death, and the nursery days was when it was really bad, but as stated, she has her moments. She was aware and cheering at both Lilybeak’s ceremonies. She would check in on Lilybeak and make sure she’s okay. She was the only one in the Clan that respected Lilybeak’s love of her skull and would offer to watch it while Lilybeak had to work.

At the same time, it’s hard for that kind of neglect—even if unintentional—to not affect someone.

Flightfur’s times of clarity occurred most often in the later moons, after Lilybeak was already a adolescent/young adult (in other words, her mother was more absent when she was younger and more impressionable)

Lilybeak was a moon old when she lost her remaining brother, and older when her grandmother (who she was very close to) passed, but Flightfur was too deep in depression to notice that her child needed her (not her fault or course! Just the facts of it)

Most of the time Flightfur defended Lilybeak was when cats were talking without Lilybeak in earshot, so she didn’t know that her mother was defending her, nor that there was anyone to defend her from, other than the whispers she herself heard.

Lilybeak didn’t lie about her mother because she hates or or resents her, she only did it because the skull said so.

They love each other deeply, but Flightfur also carries a lot of guilt for not being there, and a tiny part of her resents Lilybeak for bretraying her (and she hates that part of her, she hates hating her daughter even if just a little bit—like I said, complicated!). Lilybeak loves her mom, but it’s tough to say if she loves her like she would a parent, it’s hard to identify what sort of love she has for her mother and how deep. She just knows it’s there

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To put it short: they love each other, but cannot / will not express that in a way that they want to because they were not kind or loving to each other in the past, and they can’t take that back and don’t know how to move forward.

Or to be it in quotes:

Flightfur would be—

“I love you more than life itself, but I messed up raising you. I want to be able to laugh with you and talk with you and I want you to love me too, but I can’t change what I did or didn’t do and I don’t know how to apologize. But I don’t really know you. I didn’t pay attention to who you were growing up, and now it’s like smiling at a stranger, hoping they’ll smile back.”

Lilybeak would be—

“I think I love you, but I don’t know. Your name brings good memories of warmth and smiles. But it also brings memories of silence and cold. You were always a part of my life, but it wasn’t always positive, and it wasn’t always negative. Sometimes it was blank. I think I should love you like a mother, but were you really a mother to me? You hurt me so much sometimes, I can still feel the sadness in my chest. But I know you didn’t mean it. I’m sorry for hating you for it. I’m sorry I can’t love you the way that I should. I want to be close to you, but is it because I love you, or because I want the mother you haven’t been to me?”

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Dark Forest Residences: Crowpaw & Weaselpaw

Crowpaw

Aliases / Nicknames: Slimy Crow, Spoiled Brat, Lazy Brat 

Gender: tom 

Sexuality: heterosexual 

Family: Finchblaze (mother), Stormpuddle (father), Petalpaw (sister), Weaselpaw (brother), 

Other Relations: Darkfrost (first mentor), Webstripe (second mentor), Hailstrike (third mentor) 

Clan: BushClan 

Rank: apprentice 

Characteristics: snarky, lazy, misogynistic, looks up to his brother and Webstripe

Murder Motive: kills those who talked bad about Webstripe, kills to impress Webstripe 

Number of Victims: 8 

Number of Murders: 8 

Murder Method: forcing others to choke on moss, biting necks 

Known Victims: Bearpaw, Maplepaw, Hawkpaw, Cloudmane, Juniperleap, Smokefleck, Adderlight, Hailstrike 

Victim Profile: apprentices and elders who talked badly about Webstripe, his third mentor 

Cause of Death: impaled through the eye/skull with a branch, killed by Petalpaw 

Cautionary Tale: Even temporary mentors must be chosen wisely--just a little bad influence may irreversibly change an apprentice's life 

Story: 

Webstripe was the best mentor Weaselpaw and Crowpaw could have ever asked for!

They had never been too fond of their original mentors, Firefeather and Darkfrost. Firefeather was a loud and stupid oaf of a cat, and Darkfrost was nothing more than a spineless coward. And they were both weak, preferring to obsess over their mates and their new kits! 

Why did queens deserve so much respect anyways? They were useless! All they did was sit around and pop out kits! Why couldn't they have gotten mentors who actually cared about the Clan? 

StarClan must have been listening to their prayers, because soon their wish was granted. Crowpaw was freed first. 

Darkfrost's stupid spawn had all been killed by a hawk, and the weakling was so caught up in grief that he was killed in a battle with OceanClan a mere week later. Crowpaw was giddy as is, but then Fennelstar did something right for once in her life and made Webstripe Crowpaw's new mentor. 

Weaselpaw and Crowpaw had both wanted Webstripe for their mentor initially--he was independent, dedicated to the Clan, and put she-cats in their place. Crowpaw's dream had finally come true! He was so happy, he didn't even care that Darkfrost's idiotic mate Redflower died in her sleep of a broken heart the next day. They could be happily useless and idiotic in StarClan together, for all Crowpaw cared. 

And Weaselpaw didn't have to wait long either, for just a mere moon later, history repeated itself. Firefeather's useless spawn were all killed by a fox, and Firefeather succumbed to grief so bad he was killed in a battle against OceanClan not long after! Weaselpaw was worried about getting another lame mentor, but then brave, noble Webstripe offered to mentor him as well. The brothers were very close, after all, and with the war killing so many cats, they were short on mentors anyways. Webstripe was more than happy to ease the burden of picking a new mentor for Fennelstar. 

The brothers were overjoyed to have the same mentor, one they had looked up to since kithood. 

They were so happy, they didn't even care that Firefeather's mate Briarclaw died in her sleep of a broken heart the very next day, like her sister Redflower before her. 

They were all useless anyways. 

Webstripe was the perfect mentor. He was everything Weaselpaw and Crowpaw could have asked for. He made them feel respected and powerful, and validated all of their thoughts on their old mentors. 

Real toms didn't have time for she-cats. Only those who focused on themselves were worthy of being true Clan cats. 

Those four moons were the best moons of Weaselpaw and Crowpaw's life. Nothing could ruin this for them! 

They were proven wrong in the worst way possible one fateful noon-high in Greenleaf, when a soaking wet Sunnyheart strolled into camp, grasping the limp, bloody body of a silvery-white tabby in her jaws. 

Webstripe was dead. 

Weaselpaw and Crowpaw thought it couldn't get any worse, but then Sunnyheart called a Clan meeting and revealed to the Clan how Webstripe was the one to kill Darkfrost, Redflower, Firefeather, Briarclaw, their kits, and Sunnyheart's own kits--Webstripe's nieces and nephew. She spoke of how jealous Webstripe was of the toms, how much he lusted over the she-cats, how he was so in love with Sunnyheart in particular, so jealous of his own brother, Thistletail, that he killed their kits and almost killed Thistletail too. 

Overnight, Webstripe turned from one of the most beloved cats in BushClan, a contender for deputy, into a reviled and hated tom, the butt of every joke. It made Weaselpaw and Crowpaw seethe with anger. It wasn't fair! Why couldn't they see that Webstripe was trying to do the Clan a favor by getting rid of soft hearted-toms and useless queens? 

And to rub salt in the wound, Fennelstar made Berrymoon and Hailstrike Weaselpaw and Crowpaw's new mentors. Two she-cats. Did Fennelstar think they were jokes? What was she thinking, making two she-cats their new mentors?

It had to be part of some kind of agenda, to humiliate them for daring to still care about Webstripe! 

Weaselpaw and Crowpaw had been mulling over these thoughts when their younger denmates, Bearpaw, Hawkpaw, and Maplepaw, came strolling in like they owned the world. They were laughing and talking about how much of a loser Webstripe was, how they always thought he was a weird loner of a tom. 

Weaselpaw and Crowpaw snapped. 

Nobody appreciated Webstripe anymore. 

They would make them all pay for not appreciating him anymore. 

They would show Webstripe that there was someone out there who still appreciated him. 

They were surprised they weren't caught, what with how loudly they ripped up the moss and how loudly those weaklings screamed. But not even seeing the siblings' father wail over their cold bodies was enough to satisfy Weaselpaw and Crowpaw. It only made them angrier. There were weaklings still to be removed. And the message hand't gotten through yet. 

Berrymoon and Hailstrike had forced Weaselpaw and Crowpaw to go give moss to the elders. They stood their ground, not wanting to be bossed around by she-cats, but relented when they threatened to tell their parents. So they stomped into the den, planning to just drop the moss down and call it a day. The elders could do it themselves, after all. They shouldn't be so lazy just because they were old. 

Instead, they stumbled into a conversation between Cloudmane, Juniperleap, Smokefleck, and Adderlight. A conversation about Webstripe. 

Smokefleck and Adderlight were calling Webstripe so many awful names, and Cloudmane and Juniperleap were trying to tell them that Webstripe was already getting what he deserved in the Dark Forest. How dare they say that?! Webstripe should be celebrated in StarClan for his deeds! It was them who weren't getting what they deserved! 

Thankfully, with how fragile they were, it was much easier to shove the moss down their throats. But the message still wasn't getting through. Their efforts weren't being appreciated at all, least of all by Berrymoon and Hailstrike. 

They had the gall to take Weaselpaw and Crowpaw out for solo training and reveal that they knew what they had done, and that they were done putting up with this behavior. 

As soon as they finished talking, Berrymoon and Hailstrike were going to tell Fennelstar everything, and Weaselpaw and Crowpaw would never become warriors. In the heat of the moment, Weaselpaw and Crowpaw had to improvise. 

But they still pulled it off. 

They waited until Berrymoon and Hailstrike had turned their backs to return to camp before leaping at them and sinking their teeth into their necks. It was a move Webstripe had taught them. They hoped they were making him proud. 

Unfortunately, Weaselpaw and Crowpaw had forgotten to account for one thing. 

Their stupid spoiled brat of a sister, Petalpaw, was taking her warrior exam at the same time as their little "talk" with their "mentors,” and the smell of fresh blood brought her into the clearing just in time for her to catch Weaselpaw and Crowpaw red-pawed. 

They thought they could take her down easily, her being a weak little she-cat and all. 

Oh, how wrong they were. 

Weaselpaw

Aliases / Nicknames: Slimy Weasel, Spoiled Brat, Dumb Brat 

Gender: tom 

Sexuality: heterosexual 

Family: Finchblaze (mother), Stormpuddle (father), Petalpaw (sister), Crowpaw (brother) 

Other Relations: Firefeather (first mentor), Webstripe (second mentor), Berrymoon (third mentor) 

Clan: BushClan 

Rank: apprentice 

Characteristics: dumb, arrogant, misogynistic, close with his brother, looks up to Webstripe

Murder Motive: kills those who talked bad about Webstripe, kills to impress Webstripe 

Number of Victims: 8 

Number of Murders: 8 

Murder Method: forcing others to choke on moss, biting necks 

Known Victims: Bearpaw, Maplepaw, Hawkpaw, Cloudmane, Juniperleap, Smokefleck, Adderlight, Berrymoon 

Victim Profile: apprentices and elders who talked bad about Webstripe, his third mentor 

Cause of Death: impaled through the skull with a large rock, killed by Petalpaw 

Cautionary Tale: Even temporary mentors should be chosen wisely--just a little bad influence may irreversibly change an apprentice's life.

Story:

See Crowpaw.

Additional Information: 

--Submission by @starfalcon555​

 --From Star: “I had to mess with the timeline of Wesbtripe's story a little to make this work, so now Webstripe's first two litter-victims were born at the same time and killed one moon apart! I also retconed Redflower and Briarclaw to be sisters to make it work - they were the kind of sisters that had to do everything together, including having kits lol.” 

--Bearpaw, Hawkpaw, and Maplepaw were all names they originally considered for Weaselpaw, Crowpaw, and Petalpaw, hence them being littermates too. Their father is Sunnyheart's brother, hence why they were so keen to talk shit about Webstripe. 

Smokefleck was Darkfrost's father, and Adderlight was Firefeather's mother, hence why they were so keen to talk shit about Webstripe. 

Cloudmane and Juniperleap were mates, and they were the parents of Berrymoon and Hailstrike, hence why Berry and Hail were able to figure out so quickly that Weaselpaw and Crowpaw were behind their murders. 

--Weaselpaw and Crowpaw were seventeen moons old when they died, their warrior ceremonies being delayed to the constant changes in mentorship as well as them being brats who didn't put in work. 

Petalpaw's mentor was Thistletail, and her own warrior ceremony was delayed due to Thistletail's coma causing her to fall behind in training. She wasn't close to Weaselpaw and Crowpaw at all - they bullied her a lot as kits - but she still cared for them and always hoped they would change somehow. She only killed Weaselpaw and Crowpaw out of self-defense (she was trying to use the rock and the branch to shield herself) and she regretted killing them until the day she died. 

--Petalpaw’s warrior name isn’t known yet, but she becomes Thistlestar's second deputy after Sunnyheart's passing!

--BITCHES BITCHES BITCHES. You knew once you saw ‘misogynistic’ that they were gonna be SHITFACES.

And you KNOW they’re gonna get their asses handed to them in the DF. That attitude will not fly.

[betweenheroesandvillains]

PSA

just a quick reminder at you all out ther that versus-verse's Different Forms of Combat is a thing

[versus-verses]

hey :) i have a question regarding your fic DFOC. does it have an e rating because of the violence or because of sexual content? (sorry if this is a weird question)

The answer to that is...complicated, and wrapped up with my own feelings as I wrote it, so bear with me here.

Originally, it was rated M, and I hadn’t really posted smut before and I was preeeeetty sure I was going to be pushing things into the E range, so I bumped it up. When I wound up writing those scenes, though, they didn’t really...feel like they needed to be as explicit as I’d originally thought. There was no reason for them to be, is what it ultimately came down to.

There’s other material in the story that deals with very mature themes, particularly character responses to physical abuse. I had a number of readers who had been consistent up until chapter 7 approach me either in the comments or privately and say they were enjoying the story but just couldn’t keep reading it with that plot point. For me, writing that was...cathartic? in a way? and I wasn’t going to change it because even from the beginning, that was it, that was how the story was going to go. But it was extremely clear that it was making some readers extremely uncomfortable.

Part of the reason I never bumped it back down to M was because I wasn’t sure what all I was going to do at the end, and the other part was because the issues of abuse brought up in DFOC need to be looked at in a pretty critical light. All in all, I think it requires an emotionally and mentally mature audience, but it’s not explicit.

tl;dr it could be rated M and I should probably go change it to that, tbh

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

Mouseshell would have so many friends in the Dark Forest because she’s just so happy to be there and it rubs off

many of them are used to the way things are and most newcomers aren’t nearly as thrilled as her so while there is fun there’s also a lot of either dullness or bleakness

but then she shows up and she’s like “holy shit real pools of blood?! Last one in loses a limb!” “We can remove our organs? That’s so cool! Who wants to help me make a sculpture with them?” “What if we dip plants in blood to have some flavour?”

She knows she did horrible things. She knows other residences did too. She doesn’t care, she just wants to hang out and have a great time

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

is rushtree in the dark forest?

Okay initially he wasn’t and wasn’t meant to be

buuuuut

joining a place where many suffer in the hopes of helping them and wanting them to suffer less is 100% something Rushtree would do PLUS the added benefit of seeing his closest friends against

If he does go, it’ll probably be during the “StarClan cats can go to the Dark Forest see to have kits” part in new Clan history, so it wouldn’t be right after he died. Definitely after Martenstep and Cricketfur’s kits were all adults (possibly save for Martenstep and Daisydust’s litter)

I also imagine that he would have a group of Dark Forest kits and apprentices that he looks after. Possibly as a parent, But more likely as their surrogate big bro