#leafdapple

[firestars-twolegs]

Made some edits to my last go at a leafstar, i think shes both cuter and less busy which were my goals! wahoo

[eelclaw]

okay new arc... my thoughts.

leafstar:

leafstar was one of my favorite characters as a kid, but not because of anything she actually did. i liked her graphic novels, but only mostly because i was delighted by sol being a pathetic girlfailure.

also my copy of skyclan's destiny was misprinted and had pages out of order, and i loved having a fucked up book.

i liked her in firestar's quest, but... she's done nothing in every book since.

sharpclaw pushes her around in skyclan's destiny, then tells her he was just challenging her to make her a more confident leader. nothing comes out of this.

she's worried about female leaders not being allowed to have kits and about inviting daylight warriors into the clan, and it would've been great to just skip these plotlines entirely. skyclan had a chance to be a different kind of clan, a breath of fresh air from the shit we normally read about, and they didn't take it.

in ravenpaw's farewell she decides that skyclan hates outsiders. then ravenpaw proves her wrong by helping chase out some rogues that skyclan somehow couldn't chase out on their own, so she changes her mind, but only enough to take in bella and riley.

the general back-and-forth and nothing getting done in avos, tbc, and asc just annoys me.

her going blind is actually pretty interesting, but it needs to be handled well, and it's not going to be.

she's pretty old at this point, so i hope she dies, but the kid in me still hopes she gets an awesome death.

tawnypelt:

the way she's treated in avos and in her novella is incredibly uninteresting.

her clanmates don't take her seriously because of how closely she was associated with rowanstar. that's cool! that's interesting! but how long has it been since avos? she's far and away proved herself to be a valuable member of shadowclan.

the "kids these days" plotline is so fucking frustrating, i don't want it to come back.

i thought her novella had a nice conclusion. she accepted that her lost loved ones were lost, and that she could not go back to the way things were, but she could keep moving forward, and she would see her family in starclan some day. from the blurb, this conclusion is going to be completely trampled.

i'm also sick of tigerheartstar changing every book, just to drive whatever the current mess of a plot is.

moonpaw:

not many thoughts. betting her parents are nightheart and sunbeam.

hoping she's distinct from frostpaw and shadowsight. i can't take a third one.

it would be interesting if nightheart dies before she's born, paralleling larksong dying before nightheart was born. then nightheart might realize a bit of what his parents were going through.

overall. not hopeful. i'm super tired of the formula they've been using for the past few arcs. i don't care about "the end of the cats' connection to starclan". just because these books are about religious cats doesn't mean we can't have deep, meaningful, character-driven plots. why can't we get one of those.

[airoarts]

Some cute cats

[ID: a drawing of several disabled Warrior Cats characters. Leafstar is a brown and cream tabby with cataracts, sitting down. Crookedstar is a big brown mackerel tabby with his jaw twisted to one side, with some teeth and his tongue sticking out. His nose is also twisted upwards and his eye is squinted. Cinderpelt is a gray cat with a few white spots, with a twisted hind leg she is keeping off the ground. Brightheart is an orange-and-white cat with significant scarring on one side of her face, without an eye, ear, or lip on that side, and scarring over the rest of her body, in a sitting position. Deadfoot is a black cat with a twisted front foot, which he keeps off the ground as he runs. Briarlight is a dark brown colorpoint cat with paralyzed back legs. Her front legs are fairly buff and she appears to be talking to Jayfeather, who is a silver cat with markings like a blue jay on his face and blue eyes, blind from birth. He is sitting and his large ear is pointed towards Briarlight. Longtail is also a silver tabby with scratched blind eyes, which are slightly open with the third eyelid showing. He is relaxed and smiling. end ID]

[needlepine]

Do you ever think about. What if Needletail lived, asked to take the blame for all the cats who defected to the Kin, and was fully prepared to be exiled until Violetpaw begged Leafstar to let her join SkyClan. And then what if Leafstar mentored her and helped her become a better cat and gave her a new name to symbolize her growth

Yeah I think about that too

[anotherwarriorcatsblog]

*shows up after a year of no activity* So those Changing Sky protags huh?

[tapolc]

Leafstar🌿

[unicornicdesigns]

How about Leafstar of Skyclan?

tanuki leafstar, do u see the vision

[warrior-cats-rewritten]

If I had to rewrite Changing Skies:

Tawnypelt

The Clans are going to fight the humans.

Tigerstar is too busy leading and keeping everyone calm, so he sends Tawnypelt and whatever friends she wants to go on a mission to find out how they can stop the Twolegs.

Tawnypelt doesn't really WANT to, but does it because she wants her son to know she trusts his judgment.

She brings along Crowfeather (let me cook) and Brambleclaw. (LET ME COOK)

First major event is Crowfeather dying. He gets a terrible wound on his back leg from doing something Tawnypelt TOLD HIM NOT TO, and the infection kills him.

Tawny and Bramble are on their own now, and tensions are high. Not only that, but they have NO CLUE what to do, and the Twolegs are getting closer every day...

The only clue they have is with a strange kittypet named Rufus, wearing a strange bulky collar.

Tawnypelt is getting angry, and tired with Brambleclaw. He isn't the brother she thought he was, and their relationship has been fractured since the reveal that he trained in The Dark Forest. Sure, she supported him during TBC, but that ended up not being HIM and it was a terrible mistake to make...

It's his insistence that she listen to him, that he "prove himself", that he is the choice-maker and... Tawny's had enough.

"Brambleclaw, you're older than most cats around the lake, for Starclan's sake, GROW UP ALREADY!"

He leaves, insisting that he knows what is best, and she'll feel so sorry once he's right! No one ever believes in him, just because of his father!

She finds his body the next day. Rufus helps her bury him, but there isn't time to dwell, she needs to keep going. Rufus keeps walking up to humans wearing sleek white pelts that hild little flashing boxes up to Tawnypelt, he keeps saying it's fine but the way he lets them PICK him UP is going to give her a heart attack!

Kids these days. (Affectionate. Bewildered. 3 seconds from signing adoption papers.)

Leafstar

Leafstar is suffering from depression, and notices that her sight is starting to dim.

Fidgetflake tells her that she is developing cataracts, and Leafstar just takes it as "one more thing to happen to me". Her mate has died, her daughter Stormheart was killed in the horrific war against Splashstar and Berrystar that she herself barely made it out of with her last life... Her children have grown and have kits of their own, they don't need her anymore, cats don't want to talk with her...

She's completely lost her spark, and finds no joy in anything. She's not only losing her vision in a physical sense, but she's lost her 'vision' for Skyclan.

She also needs to hold the election for a new deputy, as Skyclan does things differently, and Hawkwing has been killed by a polluted stream.

The candidates are: Violetshine (who now has trained Beetlepaw instead of Reedclaw), Macgyver, and Rileypool (death swapped with Sagenose and mentored Kitescratch).

Violetshine is selected, and immediately some cats are calling for her to be made leader instead. A vote goes through, but not enough cats vote in the theoretical Violetstar's favour. (She doesn't mind!)

Leafstar is distraught when the construction comes Skyclan's way, poisoning their main stream and leading MANY cats to sickness, including her sweet granddaughter Wrenflight, born of Harrybrook and Bellaleaf.

The others Clans have less sympathy. Skyclan is using kittyp-er Daylight Warriors, they'll be fine if they just go back inside their homes. Maybe Starclan's angry that they're taking resources.

She slams her paw down onto the Moonpool's thin frozen surface, it cracks beneath her paw, the cold water spreading its horrible chill, ignored as Leafstar snarls at Starclan.

"Answer my pleas, stop punishing me, or my Clan, or I am taking us back to The Gorge, Other Clans be damned. Help us, or you will prove to me that you truly are a bunch of useless dead cats parading around with sparkling fur and empty promises!"

A ghostly figure appears, just for a moment, whispering to her.

"You may not have sight any longer, and I know all hope seems lost, Leafstar, but brighter times are coming. Do Not Let The Moon Fall."

Moonpaw

Since the writers wanna be awful about Sunbeam, I'm going to one-up them and do this pre-emptively.

Nightheart brought Sunbeam to Riverclan. He wasn't made Leader or Deputy, no, that was given to Icewing and Minnowtail.

Sunbeam, tragically, passed in childbirth soon after she got pregnant by accident... She left Nightheart with a single kitten, a tiny tortoiseshell tabby molly with a white chest, and wide blue and yellow eyes.

Nightheart, still stubborn about names and meaning and holding a grudge against his mother for not providing him with the Orange Gene, names his daughter Moonkit, determined to constantly remind her how she Doesn't Have To Be Like Sunbeam. She has quite a few friends, some in different Clans!

Moonpaw is apprenticed to Flame. An ex-Kin member that joined Riverclan during WCR!AVOS who Nightheart hates with a passion. Guess why.

Moonpaw is a good kid, but her relationship with her father is strained beyond belief. She wishes he would stop... Acting like this. Like he's the only cat to have ever suffered, stop arguing with her sweet mentor over the pettiest thing, stop comparing her to her mother in the most backwards way he can by trying to push her to somehow be the opposite of a cat she's never met...

She is good friends with Frostfeather and Whistlemoon, especially Whistlemoon, for obvious reasons. Moon buddies!

Moonpaw is dared by an older apprentice, Rapidpaw, to "go spend a night at the Moonpool when it's a new moon with all the ghosts!"

She's scared, not of the dark but if her dad finds out. "Sunbeam LOVED breaking rules!" He would always say, "But you can be good and do what YOU want. Just because your mother liked to stand out, doesn't mean you always have to! You can be special in your way!" She always saw Frostfeather glaring when he said that...

"Rule breaker." Frostfeather would scoff. "Didn't know her at all..."

Anyways, aside from a fright from a possum, she makes her way to the Moonpool with ease.

Too much ease.

She walks around, stepping into the pawprints on the ground, and batting a little plant that's growing at the entrance.

Not scary!

She walks into the main chamber, eyes sparkling and growing bigger as she lays eyes on the Moonpool for the first time.

It's the most beautiful thing she's ever seen.

In awe, Moonpaw slowly steps up to it, looking at her own reflection in the sparkling, crystal water, she pokes a paw in.

The gentle ripples lap at the edges, and Moonpaw swears she can hear a soft whispering.

Immediately though, she is bombarded with noise, giggling kittens, cats chatting with one another, and a soft warning.

"Careful, don't fall in!"

Moonpaw looks around for that voice, softer than any others, yet more clear. She stares into the crystal clear, sparkling water of the Moonpool, deeper, deeper, and deeper, drawing her in and making her more calm than she's ever felt...

She falls into the Moonpool.

[mineashthetrash]

OG Skyclan cats! I miss Echosong :( Personally I disregard most of the official Leafstar art, as well as the current wiki sprite, cause her names Leafdapple and there's little to no dappling lol

Left to right - Leafstar, Sharpclaw, Echosong

[since-times-long-forgotten]

are you still doing hypokits? if so, leafstar x echosong kits? :3c thanks regardless!

Leafstar/Echosong hypokits coming right up! Took longer than I would've liked, but such is life.

[click image for better quality]

Here we go! Top two cats are Echosong and Leafstar, bottom two are their kits, Flamefeather and Badgerkit!

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Flamefeather - longhaired red silver tabby tom with medium white spotting and yellow eyes

Badgerkit - longhaired black classic tabby tom with medium white spotting and blue eyes (deceased)

— — —

closeups, genetics, and AU ideas under the cut.

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AU Ideas:

Honestly, I don't have a ton of AU ideas.

But in this AU, things go as normal until Sharpclaw starts doing the whole undermining-Leafstar's-leadership shit he pulls in SkyClan's Destiny (he made me so mad) (I kind of hate him), and as he tries to essentially guilt-trip Leafstar into forgiving him, Echosong steps up and puts a stop to it, berating him about his lack of respect for their leader.

She helps Leafstar stand up for herself, and they put him on a sort of deputy-probation until he can prove that he can support his leader's decisions and respect her as a person (cat?).

So anyways, she and Leafstar get together, and they're like... yknow what? we want babies. So they visit StarClan and demand that they grant Leafstar the ability to carry Echosong's kits via StarClan Magic™, and since it's just SkyClan StarClan, they agree- the more future SkyClan warriors the better SkyClan will be able to defend itself. Both Leafstar and Echosong have two X chromosomes, so it would be impossible for them to have two XY babies even with magic, so let's just say that StarClan gave both kittens a Y chromosome. Or something.

So Leafstar gives birth to two kittens, Flamekit and Badgerkit. Flamekit is named in honor of Firestar, and Badgerkit is named for his markings reminiscent of the white stripes on a badger. Unfortunately, when the boys are about 2 moons old, a rodent-borne disease passes through SkyClan, and Badgerkit doesn't make it.

Flamekit becomes Flamepaw, mentored by Plumwillow, grows into an anxious but resilient young cat, and is given his warrior name early- Flamefeather.

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Genetics:

Leafstar- longhaired black tortoiseshell classic tabby with medium white spotting, yellow eyes

A/A (agouti) B/b (black carries chocolate) XO/Xo (red & nonred- tortie) D/D (nondilute) s/s (nonsilver) mc/mc (classic tabby) Ws/Ws (white spotting) l/l (longhair)

Echosong- longhaired black silver classic tabby with medium white spotting, green eyes

A/a (agouti carries nonagouti) B/B (black) Xo/Xo (nonred) D/d (nondilute, carries dilution) S/s (silver carries nonsilver) mc/mc (classic tabby) Ws/w (white spotting carries nonwhite) l/l (longhair)

Flamefeather - longhaired red silver classic tabby with medium white spotting, yellow eyes

A/a (agouti, carries nonagouti) B/B (black) XO/Y (red) D/D (nondilute) S/s (silver carries nonsilver) mc/mc (classic tabby) Ws/w (white spotting carries nonwhite) l/l (longhair)

Badgerkit - longhaired black classic tabby with medium white spotting, blue eyes

A/A (agouti) B/b (black carries chocolate) Xo/Y (nonred) D/D (nondilute) s/s (nonsilver) mc/mc (classic tabby) Ws/Ws (white spotting) l/l (longhair)

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[magpiesky]

Changing Skies Protags!

Three different flavors of tortie gals!

Leafstar and Tawnypelt band together to fix their connection to Starclan. Realizing that nothing gets done without Thunderclan and/or an apprentice involved, they pick the special-est Thunderclan apprentice around to join them. They both take care of the serious stuff, while Moonpaw thinks she's fulfilling her destiny in taking their smaller tasks.

Leafstar looks like a brown/white tabby on first glance, but actually has the most colors on her. Heavily based on the comic and super edition designs.

Tawnypelt gets her black pelt from her grandma (Leopardfoot), and her golden (dilute orange) from her mom (Goldenflower). I was sad to take her half/half design from previous iterations, but wanted to make her distinct in this lineup.

And Moonpaw! I have no idea what her parents look like, so her design is wholely original. I wanted to give her two coats more variation- she would have to be a chimera to be smoke/tabby.

[magicdungeon]

I gave her subtle heterochromia

[eelclaw]

your moonpaw design is how i found out that leafstar is a torbie and not just brown tabby #1752

i think she's not canonically torbie! she's described as a "mottled cream and brown tabby", which is slightly more interesting than just brown tabby, but not explicitly tortie either. i definitely see her as torbie though!

there's a pretty specific picture out there that captures what i think she looks like, but this one (not my picture) is pretty close.

my design is also inspired by wayne mcloughlin's art of her.

and in her graphic novels, she's brown tabby with white!

[moths-wc-aus]

found an old pride WIP from two years ago, so i finally finished it... just in time for july first LMAO

[lemnnshark]

"Leafstar is a mottled pale cream-and-brown tabby she-cat with amber eyes, cream patches, and a long, brown tail. She has a scar on her chest between her forelegs."

Warrior cats fandom, is Leafstar supposed to be a torbie? Her description sounds like it, but the only official design depicting her as one is her icon on the website family tree. It's also worth noting that silver tabbies are usually described as "silver-and-black tabbies" (which would mean she's cream with brown stripes if we apply the same logic), and she wasn't described with cream patches until Ravenpaw's Farewell (published ~6 years after SkyClan's Destiny)

[iamfabiloz]

TWIGBRANCH OR LEAFSTAR

Bi cats! Bi cats everywhere! 💖💜💙