#Duckpaw

[cricketclan]

man.

[kudossi]

hear me out: a warriors character named duckpaw. their siblings and denmates consistently greet them by yelling DUCK as loudly as they can. the older cats hate this. some of them still duck to this day. the last time one of the apprentices needed to tell their mentor to ACTUALLY duck they got hit in the head by a duck trying to land on the water. the clan leader eventually gets so fed up with this that they try to give duckpaw a new name, but duckpaw and their parents veto it. the leader considers retirement. chaos reigns.

[sweetriverstyxwarriorsarchive]

[diaswarriorcats]

[eggfeather]

duckpaw

[lemnnshark]

"Duckpaw is a she-cat."

[blueblossem2]

[the-determined-sparks-au]

So I want to talk about a character and so

Mossflower the Soothepurr of Riverglade aka the surviving mosskit!

So mosskit, she survives the trip to Riverglade and becomes the Soothepurr gaining the name Mossflower

Because Soothepurr’s can have kits, she gets with Rootheart (Skyheart) whose brother Eelclaw (Blackclaw)suggorate and they have Duskpoppy, Icewing, Bramblepaw (yes it’s that Bramblepaw aka Brambleclaw)

Of course after the whole Leopardstrath Kingdom business and seeing not only her brother being killed by the orders of her sister and your only son being killed, with Rootheart siding with Rosetteanthem, she and Rootheart have a messy divorce something Duskpoppy who wants things to go back to the way things were does not like

Mossflower then gets with once outsider Bearflower and they have Dragonflypaw and Duckpaw, who Duskpoppy all but hates and Icewing just ignores because they can’t think them as their brothers after they lost Bramblepaw, especially Duckpaw who looks a lot like him

[letyachan]

152+153+154.

domain expansion: noisy brothers

Separate below

Duckpaw

Rushpaw

Tanglepaw

[wicked-west-cats]

duckie!!!

[pine-clan]

Saw this guy and wanted to draw him

@tide--clan your guy

[hopeclangen]

Moon 18

Welcome Duckpaw!

[starrblood]

Duckpawcharic // Gender related to Duckpaw from Warriors

Art by @/cloudtail

[bonefall]

Did Curlpaw's mentor encourage her associations with strength? Was it a good mentor-apprentice bond?

I want to connect much of Curlfeather's dark sense of honor to the absolute carnage she's witnessed over the course of her life, beginning with the Battle of the True Eclipse. Since I'm making her slightly older to be an apprentice who took part in the battles firsthand, it follows that her first major loss should be during that fight.

The RiverClan Family Tree I made was actually the first big one I did, and one thing I kinda regret is that I removed Dapplenose. I'm gonna bring her back in my next draft, and have her be Curlfeather's first mentor.

Dapplenose was kind and sweet. Friendly towards outsiders and a natural storyteller, she would have started Curlpaw's apprenticeship gently. It was important to her that she not only taught her how to fight, but also to appreciate the history of RiverClan and its culture.

Curlpaw felt unprepared for the maelstrom of fury that the Dark Forest warriors brought to the Lake in the devastating second wave. It was CHAOS. Being able to make pottery didn't help her survive, only the battle training did. When the screeching stopped and the demons retreated to regroup, Dapplenose was just one of the corpses.

It's the practical knowledge that Dapplenose taught which Curlfeather retained; How to structure a speech, insight to the overall functions of Clan operations, and that gentleness will get you killed.

She wasn't nearly old enough to become a warrior by that point, so Mistystar had to assign her a second mentor. Curlpaw seems like the sort of person who would have told her grandmother directly that she wanted someone more strict. Mistystar would have obliged.

There's a couple of good candidates, but I'm leaning towards Duckfur. Xey're one of the most practical, intelligent warriors in the Clan, and someone who quickly swung over to Mistystar's side when Leopardstar ""was killed by rogues."" Duckfur's Machiavellian "might makes right" philosophy, combined with xeir regret about TigerClan feels like something that would have contributed to Curlfeather's ruthless honor.

Plus, I've been meaning to give xem some more relevancy, I just think xey're neat.

To answer you directly; Curlfeather considers her bond with both mentors to have been good ones. She would have stayed close to Duckfur until the day xey died. I might even bring Duckpaw BOTC back and have them be Curlfeather's first apprentice.

[wc-confessions]

you know how Brightheart was named Lostface? I kind of took inspiration from that for an oc, obviously not as harsh or ableist.

The OC is named Duckpaw and he left his clan when he was an apprentice to join a group of nomadic cats that were near the clans. He is later kicked out of this group because of the leader of that group having a deteriorating mental state due to some brain damage from a fox and so he goes back to his former clan.

He is given the name Duckflight which doesn't really seem like a harsh name but there's a reason he was given that name. He was compared to a bird that leaves its home whenever things start looking bad and then returns to that home when the place they left to starts having things go wrong(like a harsh explanation of a migratory bird)

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