#shadowstrike-wc

[climbdraws]

sketch commission for @shadowstrike-wc !

[fidgetheart]

The sweetest chill for the color pallet meme! -Shadowstrike-wc

oooh, I love it!! a good name and I absolutely adore the palette bc of the purples dsfhsdah

[slowgo123]

So what is you wc au about I love your cat designs and am very interested to hear about where they came from.

So it's like a mix between an old OC story and AU lmao. Generally there's 3 different clans (names for said clans still up for changing because im bad at naming things) Cloverclan, Duskclan and Cinderclan. Cloverclan has all the important characters minus Akechi but cat vers. n like local stand-in for Shido, who are part of Duskclan. Cinderclan is just copy and pasted from an old OC story. The current story is kinda loong so if you want a summary longer/more in detail let me know but basically it started with a p5 twin au and me getting attached to the twin OC character me and a friend of mine made. Current main Characters are: Shadowstrike - aka Akira (not the design from the art tho because that's from a whole different one), Ambershine - aka Akechi and Falconmoon - aka Ren, aka twin au OC. Shadowstrike is ambitous and has a v good rep in Cloverclan but the local leader is kind of ???, really good at what he does but has some bad stuff about him. He becomes deputy after Falconmoon jokingly "delivers" a "prophecy" to said leader and ends up kinda just?? accepting the role (it's based of a specific Akira from me and my friend's twin au, so his actions might seem ???) even after the reveal that it was due to a joke gone kinda wrong (Falconmoon has a LOT of issues regarding starclan, which what most of his arc is about. Shadowstrike now kinda has to figure out how handle his position. Ambershine on the other hand is the kit of the leader of Duskclan, and due to Duskclans version of the warrior code being inherently filled with nepotism, the sort of "heir" in line to become leader next. His story has to do with how he ran away from Duskclan after his mother's death and his want for revenge + strong ambition + extra moral stuff thrown in for flavor. So, yeah, that's the 3 main ones, if you want more details regarding anyone specifically feel free to send more questions i'm always dying to infodump on poor unsuspecting people!

[proximatespade]

So i made a sideblog

Its a warriors cat sideblog i made for my oc's and just posts about it in general. If by whatever chance you followed me for that stuff or just like it follow me @Shadowstrike-wc

I have no posts up yet but ask me about my OC's and my opinions if you want!

[fidgetheart]

What is the fic you mentioned wanting to write? If you dont wanna talk about it yet could you talk more about Sootpaw? -shadowstrike-wc (for some reason when I send asks it uses my main blog hence the anon)

I rambled so it’s under the cut ahah

okay, so the working title for it is currently To Belong, but I tend to change the title of different fics quite often so there’s no guarantee it’ll stick (tho, tbh so far it’s looking like it will, but I don’t wanna say for certain)

anyway, basically this is the gist: the Clans are struggling to get by through a particularly bad leafbare, most notably ShadowClan. the leader, Juniperstar, fears that her cats will die if they don’t find another source of prey, and with four elders, three queens, and five kits, she particularly worried about their health. in an act of desperation, she ordered her warriors to capture a ThunderClan cat in hopes she could hold them hostage in exchange for prey

Sootpaw is the daughter of a former loner turned ThunderClan warrior named Lilytail, who had disappeared a moon after her birth. with her father also being an outsider (most likely a kittypet), she faces a lot of scrutiny from her Clanmates due to her bloodline. while a few don’t have a problem with it (most notably her mentor Birchstep, the deputy Sunstripe, and fellow apprentices Sorrelpaw and Flamepaw)

Fernstar and Acornpelt, the leader and medicine cat of TC respectively, are the encourages of the Clan’s prejudice toward outsiders, and Sootpaw feels the most pressure from them, and she thrives to prove them that any cat can be a warrior if they work for it

Sootpaw ends up being the one who was captured by a ShC patrol, and when Fernstar comes across the, Juniperstar tells her that Sootpaw won’t return home until TC gives them a certain amount of prey. while Sootpaw can’t take on the four cat patrol herself, she can see how weak they are, and knows that if Fernstar attacks, the two of them could have a chance at winning

however, Fernstar agrees, with darker intentions in mind, leaving Sootpaw stunned that her leader would be so willing to leave her in the paws of ShC. she knows that Fernstar has never liked her, but she had always assumed that them being Clanmates was put above personal feelings

as with Sootpaw, she’s naive, willing to believe the best in her Clanmates even despite their prejudices toward her

she actually doesn’t believe in StarClan, but not in the way like it’s presented in canon - she knows they exist (if only because of the leaders losing a life and coming back), but she doesn’t believe in them, if that makes sense? she feels they’re overly worshiped by the Clans even though they’re just… them but dead

her belief in them actually deteriorates even more-so by the end but that’s pushing how much I wanna spoil dsfhdsfhj

that’s basically I wanna cover about it for now, since I’m still figuring out more details for what happens after (tho I do know the gist of what I want to happen)

but, yeah! I’m currently struggling with motivation to write, which is why I haven’t done anything with Foxflight despite me talking about it, but I do wanna do something with this at least

hopefully it makes sense?? I’m not the best when it comes to explaining stuff ahah