#dwcasks

[dogwoodclangen]

Swarmwatcher!

Favorite and least favorite clan task/chore/patrol?

he's gonna go sort his herbs now to calm down bc that's his favorite chore

[dogwoodclangen]

Frostfire , what happened to you?

there seems to be more to this story...

[dogwoodclangen]

@rainsnires requested the sprites so here everybody is! from left to right it's dustykit, frostfire, hawthorntail, and swarmwatcher

[dogwoodclangen]

Ahh! Dusty be careful : (

[dogwoodclangen]

🍀 for everyone but especially Hawthorntail, 🌌for Dusty, and 🙀 for Swarmwatcher (hopefully that's not too many!) Also, a little late, I think, but I'd totally be interested in prechaos couples

definitely not too many! and excellent choices

for prechaos couples i was thinking about doing drawings of the parents of our current four cats, but maybe i'll put up a poll of some other random ones too!

🍀What is a secret they’re hiding? hawthorn: my beloved hawthorn my favorite char of the og cast <33 hawthorn isn't stupid. she knows that both swarm and frost know things that they aren't telling her. she doesn't know why they won't despite her repeated attempts to let them know they can tell her. hawthorn is not the kind of cat who feels bitter toward others, but she has been doing everything in her power to keep the other three alive and healthy since the disaster. she can't face the fact that she's angry at them, so she's pushed it down so deep that she's convinced herself that she isn't. as confused as she was by frost's decision not to mentor dusty, she is glad that she is mentoring him. it's a full-time job and leaves her little time to dwell on things

swarm: swarm hates and distrusts starclan. he had been receiving omens and signs warning about the flood since he was an apprentice- so about a year and a half prior to the disaster. they were always violent omens that ended with someone getting hurt or dying. starclan was not present at his naming ceremony and he never had any direct contact with them, which has shaped his anger and distrust toward them. he sees them as cruel and uncaring, but he cannot let the others know because he is their healer and (supposed) connection to the stars

frost: frost has been able to see souls trapped in the "prison" ever since he was a kit. because of this, he was apprenticed to a cat named elderpond because his father, gamblestar, was concerned about it and elderpond also was able to see the souls. nobody truly understood what the souls were, so frost learned that overall, the souls were harmless and not to pay them much mind. now, however, frost is wondering if they were wrong about that and is worried that the souls are there to harm them. he refuses to speak with them and has not told any of the other three that he can see them

dusty: as a child, dusty doesn't have a lot of deep secrets, but something he tries to keep under wraps is just how lonely he is. he's heard stories about his parents and the rest of the clan, but they don't really exist for him. they're as real as a character from a storybook. because of this, he is extremely attached to the other three, but particularly frost because frost has been his primary caretaker for as long as he can remember. we'll see this manifesting more over the next few moons!

🌌 What is their relationship with Starclan like? dusty isn't sure that starclan exists. he doesn't think that where he met the dogwood was starclan, and shiveringleaf told him that the dark area wasn't starclan. however, hawthorn has such a strong faith in them and often tells him stories about starclan. he thinks it sounds nice and he hopes that maybe it does exist

🙀 What do they fear the most? swarm knows on some level that the timing of gamblestar's death and creekstar's leader ceremony is suspicious. like frost said, they all knew that creek was going to die of redcough and that gamblestar had almost all of his lives left. swarm tells himself that it was starclan that killed gamblestar for an omen, but frost's vision challenges that in a way that swarm cannot face. canopyholly was a great mentor and a good cat. he would not have killed another cat. swarm clings to this and fears that the truth may be different

[dogwoodclangen]

Can i get 🌱What is their favorite location on the territory? for swarmwatcher and 🪲What do they value the most? for shiveringleaf

i was gonna draw some for this but i'm never gonna answer it if i do (':

🌱 What is their favorite location on the territory? swarm likes the fields the most currently! a lot of the territory has been ruined for him since the disaster bc they lost the starwood tree, camp is empty, and he avoids any bodies of water now. at some point i will draw up a map

🪲What do they value the most? in life, shiver valued his friends, family, and good times most! he wanted everyone to be happy, especially those he cared about, so he was always going on some kind of adventure or doing a dare in order to make others laugh

in death, shiver values the safety and happiness of those that are still alive. he wants to find a way to fix things so that the clan can reconnect with the stars and avoid the "prison" that we saw dusty meet him in

[dogwoodclangen]

hello hello i'm ice (25, he/him) and welcome to dogwoodclan aka my attempt at making a comic and also feeding the clangen fixation

this is my first comic ever so there will probably be changes and adjustments as i learn more about the medium. anyways, all this to say art and layout and everything will likely be clumsy at first

character asks and ooc asks are open!

tags will be as follows: - moon updates: dwcmoons - cats: tagged with name - asks: dwcasks - ooc: ice.txt - fanart: dwcfanart

as per usual with this being a battle cats comic, you can expect the usual animal violence and death. abuse, murder, and the like will also be present in this story. triggers will be tagged accordingly, but if you have something you would like tagged, feel free to reach out

i will be shooting for a page a week but i am an adult with a life and a job and this is just for fun so don't be surprised if it doesn't happen weekly lmao

anyways! onto the cats

His thoughts and dreams were plagued for moons before the disaster. A giant black wall of water, the Starwood Tree shattered, and a silence that seemed to stretch on for an eternity. The stars were fickle at best, refusing to give him anything more and then-

Silence.

It was the silence from his dreams.

The tree broke.

And then there was nothing.