#nightheart asc

[buddicat]

some cool ships i like that i wanted to doodle! proud of my featherbrook designs

rarepair requests are still open!!

[wokeleftistmob]

I think we all can agree that Nightheart is pretty generic name. What would've been a better name instead if they had an actual choice in their name? I want to hear other people's ideas

(I use all pronouns for Nightheart)

[ask-nightheart]

hi, fl- I mean! Nightheart! What do you think fo your mother and your uncle? I'm sure you love them both, but do you have any specific opinions?[yes I know what's going on, I just want to see how he'd react to this lmao]

[asc-rewrite]

All right, I have come up with a compromise about the TC P.O.Vs!

So, Finchlight is the tc protag, which means she gets most of the chapters... But Nightheart gets smaller chapters in his point of view; thinking about how he deserved to be more like Firestar and all that (to hide his actual thoughts and feelings, to give more mystery to the character)

Finchlight gets a lot of chapters in River and Sky... Until in Shadow; Nightheart is getting most of the pov chapters, revealing his thoughts and his prospective on things.

I want Nightheart to be more like a jerk, to make the audience feel annoyed by him. I want him to grow more as a person during Shadow, to realize his mistakes and how much of a jerk he'd been, so he leaves ShadowClan and comes back to ThunderClan to make up for what he has done.

After that, Finchlight is back as a main POV for the rest of the series.

My goal for Nightheart is to make his redemption feel more earned. I want his prospective to be so much more different than his sisters. I want to make his unreliable narration make more sense than in the actual books, to make his narration more obvious, until after you progress more through the book, you realize his narration is changing when he is changing.

Anyways sorry for my off-topic rambling! I just wanted to explain why he'd be the main POV in Shadow ^^

[t4twnyclaw]

everyone (women) hate nightheart

[bowiestarzzz]

those clans sure are starless

[panspy]

a classic case of warriors editing mistakes and misgendering their own cat, or he/her wafflepaw? you decide

[shitwarriorsquoteunquoteart]

if those spoilers are accurate this arc is going to be a trainwreck of previously unseen magnitude

[sweetriverstyx]

gonna miss these guys

[stickstone]

there is something so comedically perfect about chapter 22 of star providing a beautiful, poignant ending for frostpaw, one that the book absolutely could have (and should have) concluded on… and then you flip the page and the last chapter of the book is a fucking nightheart chapter where he looks at the camera and says “yep this arc was about me and the name thing all along. i’m not orange and this is the note we’re ending the book on. And Sunbeam Is Pregnant.”

i had almost forgotten about how much i hated him. we were so close to a final book where nightheart remains in the background where he belongs. and then the final chapter of the entire fucking arc comes in with a steel chair of nightheart

i cant even be mad. it’s so absurd. this is the perfect summation of what reading warrior cats is like. nightheart’s been a social experiment this entire time, goodnight

[sanitizarium]

i read thunder last night and i love their contrast

[clanborn]

eclipse

[jayietheriverwarrior]

She opened her eyes. Daylight dazzled her.

“You’re awake!” Mothwing gasped beside her.

The air was cold, the light harsh. Frostpaw began to make out Mothwing’s “face. Behind her trembling mentor, she saw Sunbeam and Duskfur and Mistpaw. They were all here. She struggled to lift her head and saw Nightheart and Graypaw and, crowding the entrance, Nightsky and Minnowtail. Outside, her clanmates were jostling to see in. Their eyes were fixed on her, wide and shining with joy as she looked back at them. Her heart skipped a beat. They were waiting for me. They wanted me to come back. The realization filled Frostpaw with an emotion so strong, her throat tightened. She couldn’t speak. She felt a rough tongue lapping her head.

“Don’t rush to sit up.” Mothwing was washing her like a queen washing her kit. She sat back, her eyes bright with joy. “Take as much time as you need. We’re just glad you’re with us again.”

Frostpaw was suddenly aware of how weak she felt, but the deathly heaviness had gone. And she was hungry. Then she saw Tree.

The SkyClan tom was outside, blinking at her from among her Clanmates. “You heard the singing.” He pushed his way into the den. “It brought you back.”

“I was in StarClan,” she told him breathlessly. “Then I heard voices. They carried me here.”

“I’ve seen the Sisters do it,” he told her. “I wondered if it would work for you, so I fetched everyone I could think of. All the she-cats who love you.”

Frostpaw looked around once more at the faces of her Clanmates, and at Nightheart and Sunbeam. They really were shining with love for her. Her heart quickened. For the first time in moons, she didn’t feel alone.

I can't tell you how many hours I've spent tweaking the lighting and color filters on this. It's been multiple days of the drawing itself being done and just doing countless tweaking. I'm still not happy with it but I'm just. Done. I'm proud of how the poses and shading on the cats turned out and the composition of the piece, and I'm sure I'll be happier with it in a few months looking back on it, but right now I'm just. Blah.

Frostpaw is of course in the nest with a slathering of cobwebs over her throat wound, Mothwing is licking her head while Duskfur is leaning over her. Then in the middle row we have from left to right Sunbeam, Mistpaw, Tree, Nightheart, and Graypaw, then in the front on the left is Nightsky, then Icewing in the very corner of the image, with Minnowtail (who needs a new ref sheet but the new TEQ kiddies will probably get theirs first) just behind her.

The RiverClan medicine den is described as under a thorn bush overhanging a stream between two mossy rocks, with a stretch of pebbles in front of the den, and herbs hidden behind reeds within the den, so I tried to show all of that accurately.

[ask-nightheart]

hi nightheart, do you think bramblestar is a bad cat, because I sure do.

[the-owl-tree]

familiar yet different

[t4twnyclaw]

AU cast for that 'Changing Skies' ARC