#shadowclan family

[bonefall]

Possible glitch warrior spotted: when i was rereading into the wild for my own rewrite, i found this odd mention

she's not listed on the wiki, is there any black-and-white molly from RiverClan or ShadowClan this could possibly be? and if not i think she could be a perfect addition to TPB shadowclan, and maybe one of deerfoot's rebels!

GOOD CATCH, I'm adding her to BB!ShadowClan immediately. I also went to go read the passage again myself-- she's an apprentice, around the same age as the TPB Trio. There's no apprentice in RiverClan at this time who fits the bill, so she must be from ShadowClan.

Absolutely ideal. I think I even have a really fun name for her, since I've wanted to give out more mushroom names.

This is called Nut Disco. It is a type of fungus that likes to sprout on rotten nuts and fallen fruit trees. It's interesting and usually quite striking, with the pure white caps dotting black rot.

ShadowClan's term for an attractive cat is "Skubi Yaywi"-- bright mushroom. So this feels like it fits very well. Disco is also just objectively a very fun prefix to have floating around.

For now I'm calling this cat Discopaw. I'll figure out her suffix depending on if Nightstar or Brokenstar is the one who names her. Brokenstar likes "fearsome" suffixes like slash, claw, blight, fall, etc. Nightstar is more "hopeful," giving positive and pretty suffixes like whisper, step, shine, bloom, etc.

[airocats]

[cacw]

you're my best friend

[blimbo-buddy]

I’ve probably said this more times than I can count but while I 100% agree that it’s strange to have the female characters move clans to be with their husbands, DoveWing is not at all a good example to be using for this argument

[spiderfaang]

Honestly makes me so mad that sunbeam's arc and her relationship w/ her mom get sidelined so hard in exchange for nightheart. Bc there is substance there, like needletail is sunbeam's older sister and we all know what happened to her. And how berryheart might have been a driving force for needletail turning towards the kin and how that same behavior is making sunbeam run away as well. But that would acquire the writers to like acknowledge that the shadowclan apprentices during avos were failed by the adults around them and taken advantage of and I think the erins would rather die than that.

[daily-whistlepaw]

daily whistlebreeze until fae becomes PoV day 1411

Whistlebreeze talking to Whisperbreeze requested by @pinestripe37

[skyscratch-wc]

The Foundations of the Skykin — the descendants of Cloudstar and Birdflight

I’ll explain these cats later in a different post (still drafting the story), but for now here are the major character changes from canon for context:

1. Birdflight goes to Shadowclan and is invited into the clan by the priest, Molepelt. Dawnstar is the least adamant that Skyclan leave and honestly given Redstar’s attitude and previous battles with Skyclan it makes no sense for Bird and her kits to go to Thunderclan.

2. Gorseclaw and Spottedpelt are now Lichenshade and Orchidblaze and they’re designs have been altered. Lichen is light brown rather than dark and Orchid is a dilute calico. I didn’t like how Gorse and Spotted were supposed to be the spitting images of Tigerclaw and Spottedleaf. The larger time gap in this au doesn’t make that make any sense either. So, they are their own cats now.

Some other fun facts:

1. Birdflight was a Skyclan Protector and was a renowed warrior within her clan, known particularly for her skill in ambushing and stalking opponents. She had a kind face but nasty claws.

2. Every cat in this tree (with one exception) is a protector. The warrior’s honor is strong in this family and they place a lot of value in combat skill. Sedgecloud is the only cat who is not a protector, and she instead is a Shadowclan priest.

Eventually I’ll put together a full family tree from Cloudstar down to the present, but it’ll be awhile before that

[angsttronaut]

absolutely nuts that tigerheartstar took over riverclan for a while and there were no deaths.

[pinetreedan-wc]

Pebbleshine, Hawkwing, Violetshine, & Twigbranch

Scattered family

[morningdraws]

snowscorch family

I enjoy playing with family resemblance a lot, and wanted to get Sunbeam's family fully done because I kinda like the SnowScorch kin a lot

from left to right, top to bottom we have

Snowbird, Scorchfur, Beenose, Frondwhisker

Buster, Cloverfoot, Berryheart, Conefoot, Gullswoop

Sparrowtail, Sunbeam, Bluebellkit, Yarrowleaf

Spireclaw, Hollowspring, Needletail, Hopwhisker, Flaxfoot

under the cut I'll go a bit more in leght about these traits the family shares because I have thoughts lmao

first of all. to simplify my life and because it makes designing these cats a bit easier I decided that Scorchfur wouldn't be the father of Snow's first litter. All three of these cats are massive and fluffy in my head and while Snow is fluffy, she and Scorch aren't really shaped like I want these three to be, so their father is another unknown cat, who did give the three cats their gray/black colors (because they are NOT coming from Scorchfur <3)

I made Snowbird herself a caliby mostly to explain how she has all these gray/brown cats and then Yarrowleaf. I technically could've just said she was these colors underneath the white, but I did want it to show just a bit to not forget the colors. The browns appear again with Hopwhisker and Flaxfoot. All of her kids and grandkids inherited her white though, that's the one color they all share at least a little (aside from Hollowspring who Does His Own Thing)

Buster is a spikier version of Snowbird. he's got about the same fluff as her, but more unkempt. He's obviously also got a pine-shaped at as a kittypet because obviously he's gotta have one.

Cloverfoot (my beloved) probably looks a lot like that secret father they have, though her neck fluff is an extended version of Snowbird's wings. in general she's bulkier and rounder than Snow, thought not as round as

Berryheart. I have a very clear image of her in particular in my head. the round shapes, the tuxedo, the black spot on her muzzle, she's got it all and she's ready to cause trouble.

Sunbeam has the same build as Berryheart, but a little less drastic; most of Sunbeam's white are a less drastic version of Berryheart's too. She got her brown colors and tabby pattern from her father Sparrowtail though. I did also decide to give Sunbeam a little beard while giving Spireclaw some lashes (that you sadly can't see well) to toy a bit with gender

Spireclaw and Hollowspring both got their black from Berryheart, Spire also got the Snowbird White and his matches Berryheart's more, but not entirely.

Making Needletail match her family was honestly the harder part because she's got a pretty famous description that makes her quite different from the rest of the Snowkin, but thanks to Sparrow I managed to scrounge enough spiky-ness (alongside Snowbird's cheek fluff) to keep her appearance. she's also got the same gray as Cloverfoot's lightest gray.

now off to the real snowscorch kids: Beenose, Bluebellkit, Conefoot and Gullswoop are all mainly white like their mother, but with some variety. Bee's got a black that I got from Scorchfur's lineart color, and a smaller version of Snowbird's fluffs, Gullswoop got the tiniest amount of Snowbird's brown and her fluff spikes up. Conefoot is mainly white, but he took Scorchfur's lighter gray to make him more varied. his paw fluffs are currently unique to him, though I could easily make Shinepaw get them too. Bluebellkit then is genuinely just pure white and a rounder version of Snowbird.

Frondwhisker and Yarrowleaf are the last two kits and the two SnowScorch that have little white on them. Frond is just a tabby version of Scorch, based on the definitely there tabby stripes Snowbird has hidden under her white and Yarrowleaf took Snow's stripes too, but also her orange. She's also just a thinner version of Snowbird shape-wise.

Hopwhisker and Flaxfoot do technically have a father (Nettle), but I barely know him and I wanted them to be Snowkin too, so all their colors can be traced back to SnowScorch <3. Hopwhisker got some exaggerated fluff and her tail can be explained by Nettle, but her colors are genuinely just a more obvious calico with the same colors as Snow and Scorchfur's eyes. Flaxfoot has Snow's two browns, but also a darker one for his stripes that is a browner version of Scorchfur. His eyecolor is also not Snowkin, but his fluff sure is.

[spiremassk]

Dovewing x Bumblestripe hypokits

(I don't ship them,just wanted to know what their possible offsprings would look like)

child of divorce. you know how litters can have two fathers? yeah this is that. born in the dovetiger litter but. clearly looks like bumbles family

[bonefall]

if you're stretching for shadowclan cats to use:

antpelt is mistakenly listed as from shadowclan in battles of the clans, and the wiki had him as a different character for a while. he also has an unnamed apprentice

shredtail is also mistakenly listed in shadowclan during bramblestar's storm

I am absolutely at the point where I'm willing to make absolutely ABSURD stretches. I'm affectionately calling all the extra cats I'm scrounging up from writer mistakes and background scenes "ShadowClan's Glitch Warriors." Thank you so much for pointing these three out, they're going in the list.

Suddenly, I was struck with an absolutely hilarious idea. Partner wanted something fun to draw but still has read absolutely nothing about Warriors, so I pitched;

"I will tell you nothing about these characters or who they are except their names. Draw a Shredtail, an Antpelt, and Antpelt's apprentice. TOTAL freedom over the designs here."

First they drew this lmao,

"This is a joke," they clarified

"NO I LOVE IT," I said, "KEEP GOING"

So we got Dollar Tree Shredtail, Great Value Antpelt, and the best thing I've ever seen in my life. Once they put these designs down, we talked personality and differentiators from the canon counterparts while they colored and refined them;

I loved the bushy gaster tail so much that I swore on the spot I was going to work it upwards into a whole bloodline, including the very obscure background warrior in AVOS, Wasptail. So even though they're mentor and apprentice in BOTC, I've decided these two will also be related. Probably siblings, or auncle/nespring.

The little black one is based off an Admiral Butterfly (it was my idea to make the little spots on their chest look like medals), so the name seems clear to me. Admiralpaw. Xey'll be meewa unless another gender works better; and I'm planning for xem to go out during a bloody battle against The Kin in true admiral style.

(funfact; admiral butterflies are extremely territorial. Males fight each other for control of a plant to attract females to.)

Warrior name is still undecided, though. Open to suggestions, leaning towards Admiralflight or Admiralflower.

Not-Antpelt I'm having name troubles with. I REALLY wanted to name them Majorheart, after a major ant, to keep the "military ranking + bug" pun that Addy's got... but it seems that none of the ants in this area would have a major caste. B'awww.

In the meanwhile, Antspot works fine. Alatefang or Dronepelt could work, too. Feel free to shout out suggestions, this guy's name and gender aren't set in stone.

Lastly, here's Diet Shreddy. Girl now <3

She is 100% going to be killed during The Battle of the True Eclipse, keeping consistent with the mistake in Bramblestar's Storm where Blackstar mournfully calls out the name of a Dark Forest warrior. I'm also undecided on if the actual Shredtail himself dies during that battle in BB, it might just be her.

In any case, she's probably going to be a TPB girl. If she's born during Brokenstar's time, she's one of the younger ShadowClan cats to take part in the WindClan Massacre. Might even be an early apprentice at the time, in a similar situation to Badgerfang (though in BB this was a one-time thing). If not during Brokenstar, then sometime during Nightstar's brief reign.

Right now she has no family, she's in my "reserves" at the side to use as a patch between generations. Her name is probably going to be either Tattertail or Shredclaw, given as an Honor Title after the Battle of BloodClan.

So she had a previous warrior name as well. She seems like the kind of troublemaker who would have the prefix Sike-- a small stream that dries up in summer. Sikestripe, if her name was given by Nightstar, or Sikestrike, if it was given by Tigerstar. Maybe it was one and then the other, in a sign of disrespect to his predecessor's lie.

[vic-does-battlecats]

Cloverfoot

[lifesteallord]

GOOD GOD STOP GIVING US THUNDERCLAN POVS LET ME OUT THIS BITCH !!! SHOW ME WINDCLAN IN MODERN DAY PLEAAAASEEEEEEEEE

[blimbo-buddy]

Imagine if BristleFrost had more connection towards DoveWing's family and was in Shadowclan for a good bit, and when she was dying in that damn water, she was trying to think of fond memories of IvyPool and FernSong plus her time in Thunderclan and can barely remember anything about it because neither of her parents ever really talked to her. Then she goes "Oh well" and her mind immediately floods with memory after memory of DoveWing and her family plus her time in Shadowclan

[morningmask27]

I'm going to be bitching about Star for a while now. I'll tag them all with #asc spoilers, but really what the fuck was this book?