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Rumi & Jinu’s Daughter: Diva

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The Demon King’s Daughter

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I like to draw gold

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Still not over how Toralei says "Comforting" here. It's like the whole concept is alien to her

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Alright so bear with me on this one. XD I actually drew this a while ago, maybe a month or two, and I've been waiting to have more stuff done to post it. Allow me to explain (slightly copying and pasting from when I went on a rant about this on Discord a while ago XD).

So I’ve always seen all these “Squirrelflight is Scourge reincarnated” posts/drawings because of the shared white paw, which never really felt fitting to me as she’s nothing like him, as well as “Hollyleaf is Scourge reincarnated”, which makes a bit more sense because she has his intelligence and she did kill someone, but it still never felt like the right comparison. Then, the other day, it hit me - Hollyleaf isn’t Scourge, Jayfeather is Scourge

I don’t mean literally, he’s a grump but he’s not got any of Scourge’s evil in him, plus he’s already busy being Jay’s Wing’s reincarnation let alone Scourge’s. But there’s a certain core similarity to their stories. Both the smallest of their litter, both considered weak or incapable in some way, which led to resentment and a burning desire to prove themselves. They both have (or at least Jayfeather had in his youth) a fascination with the way they could hold power over others. In the early days of exploring his powers and the prophecy, Jaypaw seemed more interested in testing what his powers could do and ignoring whether he was hurting anyone - spying on dreams from the other medicine cats and then wanting to take advantage of the information he learned there to either strengthen his own Clan or weaken the others.

But ultimately, he has some of the things Scourge lacked - a loving family, supportive siblings, a whole Clan around him who, although sometimes a bit too prone to dismiss his capabilities because of his blindness, do truly care for him. He also has a true goodness in his heart that won out over his youthful fascination with power. He’s everything Scourge didn’t become. So this drawing is less of a "Jayfeather as Scourge's reincarnation and also he's evil AU" and more just an observation of certain similarities, which I believe fit this pair more than some of the other cats Scourge is usually compared to, but ultimately a comparison Jayfeather managed to break free of by following a better path and choosing love for his Clan and his life over bitterness and revenge.

Anyway this might just be the prettiest thing I've ever drawn. XD I wanted to make Scourge look kinda like graffiti on a brick wall come to life, and I think I was decently successful there. I decided to try something new with doing the shading and pattern on Jayfather by sketching out each stripe and doing a sort of sketchy shading, we'll see if I can replicate that in the future but it definitely turned out great here.