#ratpaw

[cricketclan]

how come the cats that got accessories this moon all have blue eyes jKLGDJSG

also cricketclan is stealing more apprentices

[thebritishdragon]

[plut0s-dying-star]

THE FALL OF DAYCLAN - MOON 0

[boypaw-s]

some style studies/character refs for a project i've been working on w/ my gf

[firehollyalder]

Newleaf Moon 3 Patrol

FUCK i had screenshots of what went on with Lightgaze and Parsleypaw but TUMBLR ATE THE SCREENSHOTS >:(

anyway so Parsleypaw had a dream and she and Lightgaze had a serious conversation about it.

Gingerpaw spots a rabbit up ahead but it seems to be acting strange. The patrol can see its tremors from a few fox-lengths away.

Gingerpaw avoids catching the rabbit and looks for other prey.

Grassheart: STAY AWAY FROM THAT RABBIT!!! IT'S SUS!!!!

Gingerpaw: 0_0 okay

Your patrol cautiously moves towards the sound of barking. Near the border, they spot a dog chasing something. Oh no, it's a cat!

(Tumblr ate the second screenshot to >:( )

The patrol swiftly jumps into action. They capture the dog's attention and draw it away from the cat. Mossywillow stayed hidden while the rest of the patrol lured the dog away, but when they go to find the cat, they see that it's still running! Oh well, at least they're alright.

Awww.... :( no newcomer. Also, look at THIS:

Bye Willow :(

As the patrol arrives at a beach, they spot Twolegs and their kits lounging around a brightly colored pelt of some kid, and smell food-scent.

The patrol decides to avoid the Twolegs.

[leafpoolstanblog]

ShadowClan-Y1-GL

Volewhisper graduates from his apprenticeship. 

Blossompaw, Swamppaw, Applepaw, Ratpaw, and Oakpaw are apprenticed to Stumpytail, Ashfur, Runningnose, Boulder, and Rowanberry.

Mudclaw and Ashfur are killed during the uprising against Brokenstar. The uprising is not successful and Brokenstar remains in power. Swamppaw is re-apprenticed to Brokenstar. 

Brownpaw dies during training. 

Oakpaw flees to seek refuge in ThunderClan when Brokenstar comes out on top of the uprising.

[spcatau]

i dont like cartman but this must be done here is Ratpaw hes a brown flat faced british shorthair with Heterochromia obviously he has his hat and i gave him a raccoon like tail in reference to his hero alter ego

[iceclan-iterations]

[fallenclan]

Ratpaw is the fourth cat. That’s why he left FallenClan lol/jk

ah! damn it all! how'd you figure out my clever plan down to the last detail......

[bistaxx]

Gave into temptation and started playing that one funny wc's game and god the doubletake I had to do when I saw this cats fucking name

[nib-ling]

I hope my hands stay

Dry from all the washing, my

Clothes so full of ink;

If every day

Could be just like today, I'd

never need a thing.

[cricketclan]

moon 59 lets gooooo!!! fun fact i had this lined for forever now and just now finally finished it

[nanistar]

if moonclan doesnt rly keep track of time when do they decide kits become apprentices? is it when they reach a certain size or just vibes? do litter mates sometimes start training at different times? (i love the comic btw!)

hiii! moonclan is able to tell some rudimentary time by paying attention to the purple mushrooms, which tend to flare up/glow brighter around the time of a full moon (Not that they know what that is) usually the apothecary will keep track of stuff moon-to-moon to track things like pregnancies and kitten age.

because moonclan has no nursery, kits don't really have a "safe" area to be confined. they are taught to swim and fish for food as soon as they are weened + can be trusted not to die around water, usually 3 months or so but that's not a hard rule-- so sometimes littermates will start this stage at different ages. from there, they are expected to do odd jobs around camp and help out where they can. they might spend some time with webwhisker to learn about life cycles and religious stuff (more on this in canon later) or they might shadow their parent/s in some of the safer lower tunnels so they can get a head start on learning the routes.

there's no real rule about kits being 6 moons old before beginning their training. there's not a lot of fighting or hunting to learn, moonclan has no enemies other than the occasional rat or bat that makes it too far in the caves. and they don't usually hunt except the aforementioned rats and bats. they fish for little cave fishes. so the main thing they learn in training is navigating the caves, collecting scrap, and how to determine if a cavern is safe to go into basically. spot signs of cave ins and rockfalls.

moonclan life is incredibly slow. cats don't get up and hunt and patrol or do some other busy job like they might on the surface. they sometimes will do nothing but hang out and chat for days on end. no need to go out and hunt since they get all their food from the lake in camp.

the leader is the one to "officially" appoint apprentices and mentors and to make warriors, so with bonestar disappearing for moons on end sometimes things like aging up ceremonies get delayed. they will still go on and do the job as appropriate, but they will just be called by the same name. rubblekit is 8 months old and should be an apprentice, and webwhisker is training him as one, but he still goes by -kit for the time being. ratpaw and minnowpaw are both old enough to be warriors, and are treated as such.

oh that got long. oops

[dawnfinchh]

i made full "canon" allegiances for the start of fire and ice: google doc link

this is a part of a series im doing where i've made the full allegiances for the first book of every arc in order. now i'm making allegiances for other main series books

here is the masterpost for all the allegiances

"canon" is in quotations because a lot of this is guesswork about who logically would be around at that point in time, but aren't listed in the allegiances or mentioned in the book

this is mainly meant to be a resource for fanworks

general stuff that's still the same as last time:

wiki pages are linked to character's names

med cat = cleric

characters are listed by age. where there are no concrete ages, i make my best guess

tc is the only clan without a "kit" rank as all kits born into or taken into the clan have known parents

this is where things start to get pretty messy due to the sheer number of prequel cats i need to make decisions about, pretty much entirely in rc and sc. i'll provide insight into why the ones i have listed are still around as these prequel cats do just tend to randomly fall off the timeline with no explanation or canonical deaths

thunderclan:

cinderkit and brackenkit are listed as kits instead of apprentices bc they are not apprenticed until like 100 pages in

swiftpaw is still listed as an apprentice bc he is apprenticed in like the first chapter

ashkit, fernkit, and tulipkit are listed. elderkit is already dead and tulipkit dies this book

shadowclan:

they lose a LOT of cats from the previous allegiances due to their last mentioned appearances being at the end of yellowfang's secret and not a lot of them reappearing in exile from shadowclan or tigerclaw's fury

whitepaw/whitethroat - not mentioned until rising storm, but needs to be a warrior by then. i made him a kit in the itw allegiances and thus now he's an apprentice

applepaw/applefur and ratpaw/ratscar - not mentioned until tigerclaw's fury but need to be warriors by then. i made them kits in the itw allegiances and thus they are now apprentices

brightflower, crowtail, archeye, featherstorm, hollyflower - alive and rejoined shadowclan's camps at the end of exile from shadowclan

volewhisper - alive and rejoined shadowclan's camp at the end of exile from shadowclan, but specifically needs to die before blackfoot returns due to continuity issues with blackfoot's reckoning

ashheart - not mentioned or listed in tpb, but alive bc she needs to make semi-canon kits with cinderfur in rising storm

scorchwind - not mentioned or listed in tpb, but alive bc he needs to make rowanstar and cedarheart with darkflower

rowanberry, deerfoot, flintfang, and fernshade - are in tigerclaw's fury

wolfstep - is mentioned to still be alive when tigerclaw first comes to shadowclan in blackfoot's reckoning

riverclan:

mistyfoot - reedwhisker is not listed because i've gone with the timeline given in tnp for him. mistyfoot's other kits are listed

mosspelt - listed as a warrior instead of an expecting queen as her and silverstream's kits need to be close enough in age for her to feed/foster them, and graystripe and silverstream haven't even met yet

mallowtail and birdsong - they are still around after shadepelt and heavystep receive their full names

frogleap - he dies later

grasswhisker, shimmerpelt, lakeshine, cedarpelt, piketooth, and timberfur - mentioned to be alive after the flood that kills frogleap

beetlenose, ottersplash, sedgecreek, voleclaw, and vixenleap - mentioned to join tigerclan and/or lionclan, so they are safe for the entirely of tpb

rippleclaw and emberdawn - are at nightpelt's first gathering as a leader

skyheart and reedtail - need to make kits together in mothwing's secret, so they are safe for the entirety of tpb

windclan:

thrushwing - again, the canonnity of her character is questionable, but windclan needs more she-cats. there's also an unnamed non-morningflower tortoiseshell mentioned a couple times and i think she works fine to fill in that vague role

morningflower - the way that she and gorsekit are described make it sound like she gave birth like the day before fireheart and graystripe showed up, so she is tagged with (expecting kits)

tawnykit/tawnyfur - an apprentice in rising storm and a warrior in a dangerous path, so she is likely a kit around this time

eaglekit (ashfoot's kit) - not listed bc i think they have died

elders - there are about 5 unnamed elders described while windclan is crossing the road. the only specific elders that have strong cases to be around are crowfur (he is in a forest of secrets) and cloudrunner (he is gorsepaw's father)

i have them listed under rogues and loners, but sometime during this book it's likely that stagleap and sorrelshine rejoin windclan after the clan returns to their territory

cats outside clans:

shadowclan exiles get their own group

stagleap (wc) and sorrelshine are listed here

princess is listed as (expecting kits) as cloudtail has not been born yet

[hayheadd]

kitty clara pathologic!!! (warrior cats au)

Have a lot to explain for this one. Just like in Pathologic, she showed up in Steppeclan seemingly out of nowhere. All med cats have the -heart suffix there so she called herself Miracleheart. But everyone calls her Ratheart (deliberate insult) instead cause she's weird and lanky. She's a teenage kitty but is really tall. In Pathologic Clara is just a little taller than Dankovsky btw. I tried to lean into that with this drawing. She's a dilute calico thing. The bones are like a part of her body but she covers that up with all these red leaves and flowers around her chest. She has two sparkles in her eyes to represent the two miracles: the polyhedron (moonspire) and the earth/abattoir (bullplace), as well as a star on her forehead. The little scar on her leg is actually a steppe rune. If you look it up on the wiki it says it "denotes a connection with death". Her single yellow leg looks a little like it's made of bone when it's dark. They don't trust her but let her heal cats anyway since no one knows how to deal with sandcough. When the clan splits into three over their disagreement on what to do with moonspire, she becomes the sole healer of Humbleclan. If she gets her way and becomes a mistress (they're called queens in this au) her name is changed to Miraclesight (Ratsight for some). Also I thought I wouldn't name her Ratpaw cause she's already taken the healer/prophet role within the clan and it's not like Bullheart and Snakeheart are mentoring her. Click here for kitty Daniil and Artemy!!!!!

[firehollyalder]

Newleaf Moon 2 - Patrol

With newleaf bringing ragwort back on the medicinal menu, Lightgaze heads out to find where the silly plants have decided to sprout this year.

Try as she might, Lightgaze can't quite remember the exact shape of the ragwort leaves, and they aren't going to harvest from plants they haven't conficently identified. Better safe than sorry, as they say...

Hatchstar suggests this might be a good chance for the cats to practice new hunting techniques, particularly with Parsleypaw present.

Everyone has a nice practice session, picking up a nice selection of new tricks to try out on their next hunting patrol. Parsleypaw really gets into it, and is praised for her focus and enthusiasm.

Your patrol (Chervilleaf, Ratpaw, Gingerpaw) has a disagreement and look to Chervilleaf to settle the dispute.

Chervilleaf has no time for this spat and pulls the patrol to a halt to remind them that they have a star-damned job to do and quarreling like kittens will not be tolerated. The patrol returns to their work collecting nesting material with newfound vigor.

Grassheart spots a rabbit up ahead but it seems to be acting strange. The patrol (Grassheart, Greenshadow, & Mossywillow) can see its tremors from a few fox-lengths away.

Grassheart catches the rabbit and it is eaten as normal.

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SLAY PARSLEYPAW KEEP SLAYING!

WHEEZE Chervilleaf doesn't get paid enough for this shit.

Ratpaw just must like picking fights. She doesn't seem to like many cats.

and uh-oh. Sus rabbit 👀