#troutkit wc

[lemnnshark]

"Floatkit is a tawny she-kit."

"Rapidkit is a gray-and-white she-kit."

"Troutkit is a brown-and-white spotted tom."

Old designs below

[rosemist50]

Okay look, I know I usually put the old version of the design first, so it's like reading it from then to now, but that means when I get a notification on the post, the old art is what shows up in the thumbnail, and it kinda throws me off, sooo I'm changing it. New art first.

Anyways first up is Tawnypelt!! She is one of the most redesigned cats, I have such a hard time getting a design I like for her. Sorta same story as in the previous post; I like her old design, but not enough for her as a protagonist, if that makes any sense? If she stayed as a side character then I think I'd be fine with the old design the way it was, but now that's she's a protagonist I wanted to change it. Then is the one and only Moonpaw!! :3 Her body design has stayed pretty much the same throughout design testing. Next is fixing up the new kits to follow the Super Edition's allegiances preview thing. I put Leafkit on the new one even though her design didn't change so that I wouldn't need to pull up two separate images in any drawings. Branchkit and her are now twinsies! And Grasskit is described as auburn?? Gave that a shot, most of her body design is taken from Branchkit's old one, I thought it was a better blend of their parents than Grasskit's old one. Then is Rapidkit, Floatkit, and Troutkit. Rapidkit and Floatkit pretty much swapped most of their design elements, and Troutkit got some spots and color changes. And thennn Russetfur!!! Wow! I did NOT like her old design, so here's a much better one.

Tawnypelt design extras under the cut

Y'all,, okay, so Tawnypelt's design gave me so much trouble omg.... You can see I started tweaking it in May, three months ago. All of these were Tawnypelt design concepts that I didn't like for one reason or another. I knew I wanted some yellow in there for her mother but that was kinda it. I know split face is popular with her, but with Moonpaw being split faced already I didn't want to make Tawnypelt also one. Too much white in the face was the problem with the first two, then not enough, then I took a break and came back at it with a full page of just throwing stuff at the wall (and a scrapped Branchkit idea hehe). I sorta wanted her to also have some brown, but I couldn't get it to look right so I scrapped it, then I tried a sort of lykoi style, which I thought looked cool but ultimately decided against, then got to the last two where I was trying alternating black and brown, and I liked how the first one on the end looked on paper, but when I put it in digitally there wasn't enough black so I ended up going for all black instead. And here we are now 😁 I very much hope that I like this design enough to keep it around for a while.

[splashtailstar]

My predictions for the protagonists of Changing Skies, the ninth arc in the Warriors series

WindClan: Leafkit

Daughter of Featherpelt and Oatclaw, her littermates are Branchkit and Grasskit, and her older siblings are Whistlepaw, Flutterfoot, and Songleap. They focused a lot on Leafkit in Wind, so I think she will likely be a POV character, especially since Whistlepaw is her older sister. The story team also said that Whistlepaw will become more prominent in the series, so having her younger sister as a protagonist will definitely serve that purpose. Adding onto this, WindClan has never had a POV character in the main series, so this is long overdue.

ThunderClan: Stempaw or Graypaw

They are Spotfur and Stemleaf's kits and perfect protagonist material. Related to Firestar? Check. Parents were plot relevant? Check. ThunderClan? Check. They are also being given a lot of attention right now. I do not think Bristlepaw will be a protagonist, due to Bristlefrost having the name of Bristlepaw one arc earlier. (Leafkit will not have this same issue as The New Prophecy was six arcs earlier.)

These are the only candidates who have really received attention, but there are several others to consider.

RiverClan: Floatkit, Rapidkit, or Troutkit

They are the kits of Havenpelt and Sneezecloud, and younger siblings to Splashtail and Fognose. They will have to deal with their older brother's legacy once he is gone. They could also provide a window on how RiverClan is doing after this current arc.

SkyClan: Ridgekit or Duskkit

They are the kits of Blossomheart (sister of Hawkwing) and Harrybrook (son of Leafstar). Duskkit is most likely named after Duskpaw, Blossomheart's dead brother.

ShadowClan: Birchpaw

He is the son of Tigerstar and Dovewing, and younger brother to Shadowsight, Pouncestep, and Lightleap. He appeared in Sky when his brother Rowankit died. I think this is the least likely option out of all of them, as I do not see much of what Birchpaw could bring as a protagonist, besides being the son of Tigerstar and Dovewing. That is unless, some sort of huge change happens within ShadowClan; then Birchpaw could provide a view into ShadowClan.

Other possible apprentice/kit options just for the heck of it (not including anyone who will receive their warrior name/medicine cat name very soon):

SkyClan: Beepaw or Beetlepaw, kits of Nectarsong and Dewspring (who are first cousins, of course)

WindClan: Grasskit or Branchkit, littermates of Leafkit; younger siblings to Whistlepaw, Songleap, and Flutterfoot; and kits of Featherpelt and Oatclaw.

ThunderClan: Bristlepaw, daughter of Stemleaf and Spotfur, and sister to Graypaw and Stempaw; or Wafflepaw

Of course, they could always choose to focus on a young warrior, like how they did with Sunbeam this arc, but these are just my speculations.

Edit: I can't believe I nearly forgot about Stripekit and Brookkit in WindClan, whose mother is Larkwing; and Cinnamontail and Slatefur's kits in ShadowClan: Firkit, Bloomkit, Streamkit, and Whisperkit.

[gougarpaw]

Troutkit is a brown-and-white spotted tom.

Rapidkit is a gray-and-white she-kit.

Floatkit is a tawny she-kit.

notes:

- kits of Havenpelt + Sneezecloud, siblings of Splashtail and Fognose

[jayfrost-designs]

For the last of the new kits, it's Troutkit! Up next are the apprentice designs for the SpotStem litter.

Troutkit has no physical description given other than his pattern, so I came up with my own for him. He's a poofball like his dad.

For his pattern, Troutkit is described as a brown-and-white spotted tom. I wasn't sure if that meant a bicolor white cat with brown spots (or the inverse), or a brown-and-white spotted tabby, but given Graypaw is specifically described as a white cat with gray spots but Troutkit isn't, I decided to go with the brown-and-white spotted tabby desription for now, I'll change it if proven wrong later. He's a very similar shade of brown to his brother Splashtail, with very similar markings (besides the white and the spots). He has no canon eye color, so I gave him his dad's golden eyes.

Overall, I'm really really happy with how he turned out.

[murkshade]

Artfight attack for @jambiird

[letyachan]

352+353+354+355+356+357

Family of Splashtail

[elementclangen]

Moon 293-Greenleaf

The Clan had just settled into having a new deputy.  Skipneedle (68) was doing great and may even have become leader one day.  But then she was bitten by a snake while protecting Boulderpaw (9) and succumbed to the venom.  For the second time in 16 moons, Creekstar (147) must choose a new deputy.  It’s weird.  She had one deputy for most of her leadership.  But this cat will mark the fourth deputy she’s had total.  Because the star-blessed apprentices are too young, that leaves her to choose between Bluestripe (68) and Dawnfreckle (77).  In the end, she chooses. . .Dawnfreckle.  Bluestripe has not fully mentored an apprentice yet, and Creekstar hopes that she’ll get along better with her new deputy than she got along with Primcrest and Skipneedle.  She doesn’t even really mourn Skipneedle.  They didn’t get along as well as she had hoped they would.  Skipneedle’s death also means that the original fearsome fivesome is down to just the terrible two: Bluestripe and Brightmouse (68).  The sisters lean on each other, mourning the loss of another littermate.  Brightmouse may not have been on the best of terms with her sister, but she still misses the warmth she brought to her life.  Tanglechirp (40), being a part of Brightmouse’s family now, decides to try and cheer up his sister-in-law by going for an unauthorized walk out of camp.  Echopaw (11) has decided to gossip about Alderflight’s (49) past as a loner.  He wonders what he got up to.  Alderflight is ignoring said gossip. Following her mentor’s death, Boulderpaw has been re-apprenticed to Almondback (64).  Creekstar has noticed how much trouble Burdockpaw (9) has been getting into lately and how she hasn’t been working well with her mentor, Dawnfreckle.  She makes sure to check in on the apprentice and remind her that, as a star-blessed cat, the eyes of the Clan, both living and dead, are on her.   Longpaw (7), being the leader’s apprentice, feels like she should be the best at everything.  She tries to show off a complex fire slash for Cherviljumble (98), but messes it up so badly that Cherviljumble cringes. Greenrapid (49) is still struggling with maturity and tells jokes about a child (Troutkit-4).  Rimekit (4) has decided that she is tired of being stuck in camp and boldly, right in the middle of the day, walks out.  Almondback catches her and gently shoves her right back in with a gust of wind.

Healer’s den: Pebbletuft (heat exhaustion), Petalkit (claw wound), Greenrapid (grief stricken), Tanglechirp (fleas)

[pinestripe37]

Names for the current kits and apprentices!

Frostlight Mistmorning Grayshine (All the triplets and their best friend Whis have a matching light theme) Rapidbrook Floatcloud (Fognose's little sister and apprentice!) Troutsplash (The name just works but it's also sad.. he has to wrestle with not just looking like his brother but being intentionally or coincidentally named after him. But Trout is a different cat than Splash and he and his clan will come to accept this.)

Whistledawn (I love her kindness. She gets a special name and also to match with her riverclan friends' special names.) Leafdrizzle Grassberry Branchfrost (I love Whistlepaw's adorable baby siblings and I really like these names for them.) Stripereed Brookstarling

Wafflesong Waspflight (I know he left but that's not the end of his story, at least not in the ideas I have planned) Bristlesedge Stemstripe Graypuddle

Birchflight Firbristle Streamripple Whisperpool Bloomshadow (I love Cinnamon's kits, Stream has a bubbly personality and Whisper is a thoughtful kitten who wants to be medicine cat and they're all a really nice family.)

Beetlespot Beestripe Ridgeflicker Duskflow

[rosemist50]

Haiii, couple more redos and also new kits from Wind! First is Ashfur, literally the only thing I changed in his main design is the fur length on his head, everything else is exactly the same. I've been drawing him with this kinda longer fur style for a while, I've just made it official. Also went ahead and made a version for him in TBC, the way I do Starclan and Dark Forest cats meant that he probably had special features, I just didn't want to figure out what those were until now. Technically all Starclan cats should have a white glow and all Dark Forest cats a red, but I usually don't put it in for simplicity's sake. Next is Flametail, again the only thing that really changed was I made him fluffier. And ever so slightly changed his colors. The main reason why I wanted to do him was because everyone else in the original got an update, so I felt he should get one too.

Veeeerrrrryyyy light spoilers for Wind under the cut:

Wind gave us new kits!! I'll probably need to draw them again once they get full names but oh well. First are Rapidkit, Floatkit, and Troutkit of Riverclan. They are Haven and Sneeze's new litter, making them Splash and Fog's siblings (MEGA INTERESTING 👀👀👀). Rapidkit has a mullet like their big brother Splash :)) Then are Grasskit, Branchkit, and Leafkit of Windclan. They are Feather and Oat's new litter, making them Flutter, Song, and Whistle's siblings. Only Leafkit has a canon description and gender of all six so far, so we'll see how accurate my predictions are.

[elementclangen]

Moon 292-Greenleaf

Longpaw (6) has been made an apprentice!  And with Creekstar (146) as a mentor.  The leader hasn’t taken on an apprentice since Bluestripe (67) was an apprentice, but, with every other fire-blessed or dark-cursed cat in the Clan already having an apprentice, Creekstar felt she had no other choice.  She hopes she does a good job with him.  In a bit of a twist, Bluestripe and Tanglechirp (39)  have become mates!  It seems that Bluestripe actually found someone she liked.  The rejection club will not be getting a third member.  Perhaps part of why Bluestripe chose Tanglechirp is that he’s proving to be quite good with kits.  Crouchkit (3) always wants to be him in her and her sisters’ games and Troutkit (3) is trying very hard to get his attention.  By walking along an unstable log.  Great idea.  Meanwhile, Cavecatcher (50) really hopes that he’ll have an apprentice soon.  He’s hoping that Creekstar will let him train Rimekit (3).  He’s grown quite fond of the little cat.  Boulderpaw (8) is proving that she’s going to make a great warrior one day.  When Petalkit (4) was grabbed by a hawk, Boulderpaw cleverly used a combination of wind and bursts of fire shot at the bird to get it to drop Petalkit.  Her low power-level didn’t hold her back!  Creekstar is impressed with her.  Even though he’s crushing on Alderflight (48), Downgaze (73) still makes time for his mate and goes on a nice moonlit stroll with Sweet Marmalade (77).  However, trouble continues to brew among the terrible triad.  Skipneedle (67) is frustrated with how much time Brightmouse (67) is spending laying around camp (she’s actually keeping an eye on Kestrelcreek’s-81-kits for her).  Bluestripe is staying out of their drama.  Since Skipneedle is training her sister, Copperpaw (8)  has been spending some time with the deputy.  She really admires her.    Echomoor may also be trying to reach out to Emberpaw (10), because the apprentice had a very strange dream.  

Healer’s Den: Pebbletuft (heat exhaustion), Brightmouse (heat exhaustion), Petalkit (claw wound), Kestrelcreek (recovering from birth), Almondback (stomach ache)

New personalities: Echopaw (oblivious and constantly climbing), Copperpaw (troublesome, quick to make peace, and interested in Clan history), Troutkit (daring, never sits still, and oddly observant)

[elementclangen]

Moon 290-Newleaf

Whorlstorm’s kits have been made apprentices!  Burdockpaw (6) is apprenticed to Dawnfreckle (73), as he will do a good job of keeping an eye on the little trouble-maker.  Now that she can leave camp, the whole mountain is fair game!  The quieter Boulderpaw (6) has been apprenticed to Skipneedle (65).  Creekstar (144) feels like Skipneedle will help bring her out of her shell. And Copperpaw (6) has been apprenticed to Brightmouse (65), just like Brightmouse had hoped would not happen.  Copperpaw still makes sure to watch out for the remaining kits and brings some feathers back from patrol for them to play with.  On top of that good news, Creekstar has been having another good moon!  She really appreciates how often Lakepelt (98) has been checking in on her.  It’s been helpful.  Kestrelcreek (79) loves being a mom and is proud of how outgoing Rimekit (1) is.  When she and Troutkit (1) team up, though, chaos ensues.  Troutkit will create a small fire and the two of them will take turns jumping in and out of it.  Kestrelcreek does her best to catch them, but they’re good at doing it in secret.  Almondback (61) is also spending some time with his kits, and the other kits, in the nursery.  He takes some fresh-kill and eats it near Petalkit (2) to make sure he feels included. Despite a few rough patches over the past moons, the terrible triad still care deeply about each other.  They have inside jokes that only each other can understand.   Lakepelt, despite once being a newcomer to the Clan herself, is annoyed by some of the more recent cats to join the Clan.  She doesn’t feel like Cherviljumble (95) and Aries (56) understand how to be Clan cats and how to stay safe in the wild.  They’re just making more work for her!  Burdockpaw and Dawnfreckle are already clashing and get in a fight over the best way to do a hunter’s crouch.  On the other paw, Echopaw (8) and Bluestripe (65)  are getting along really well.  Creekstar sees how well Bluestripe is doing as a mentor and regrets not giving her an apprentice earlier.  Primcrest was right about her.  Meanwhile, Echopaw had a strange dream where there was a cat who looked like him telling him that ‘the truth must come out’.  What truth?  And who was that cat?

Healer’s den: Cherviljumble (dislocated joint), Kestrelcreek (recovering from birth), Downgaze (sprain), Aries (running nose)

[elementclangen]

Kestrelcreek and Almondback's Kits

Crouchkit; Water-blessed she-kit with a power level of 28 (low); Insecure and a lover of stories

Troutkit; Fire-blessed she-kit with a power level of 28 (low); Daring and never sits still

Rimekit; Powerless she-kit; Daring and interested in Clan history