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ForestClan Masterpost

TW for the entire blog: horror; specifically body horror, sci-fi horror, existential dread, and analog horror. Frequent animal death INCLUDING kit death, willing/unwilling sacrifice, content involving spider-like creatures, fourth-wall breaks, scopophobia, plant-based zombies, and suicidal ideations. THIS CLANGEN'S ENTIRE PREMISE IS ABOUT THE WOODS BEING ALIVE AND EATING CATS, THE CLAN HAVING NOWHERE ELSE TO GO, AND THE TRAUMA AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS THAT CAN RISE FROM IT. I will tag things as best as I can, but viewer discretion is advised! If you feel like I haven't appropriately tagged something that should be obvious, please shoot me a message! I try my best, but I'm human and make mistakes.

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Firestar's nine lives.

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Better Bones Profile: Shredtail

[ID: A version of Shredtail from Warriors. He is a thick, spiky-furred, solid brown cat with prickly whiskers, a tattered white tail, and red scars. He is holding a spear with white and yellow twine.]

A guy whose mate and kits got eaten by a pig and he was VERY normal about it. He made a very normal weapon for the occasion. He normally hunted down a gigantic white boar for the rest of his life and revolutionized hog hunting in ThunderClan.

Shredtail didn't only target the grand boar Deadfrost; he aimed for any hog with a fleck of white on its body. If he would have no bloodline, then neither would it.

His obsessive quest for vengeance to kill Deadfrost eventually lead to him using a clanmate as bait to slaughter the beast. He died with his spear snapped and jammed in two places within the hog's hide, taking down his old foe with him.

Alignment: Dark Forest, ex-ThunderClan.

Time Period: Code Era

Relations: Unnamed mate, unnamed kits

His addition to the Dark Forest is Deadfrost's Hollow, a mazelike thicket where a giant white boar gives endless chase. With enough taunting, Deadfrost can break out of the hollow and terrorize the cats in the Dark Forest.

(more below the cut)

No more evil brown tabbies. Society has progressed passed the need for evil brown tabbies. Solid brown with white highlights.

Dark Forest cats need more types of motivations and new stories! Canon Shredtail has nothing written about him besides being very old, so I've decided to build something very relevant to Better Bones.

Shredtail was a huge innovator in hog hunting, and his techniques are still used to this day. He's only slightly younger than Cloudberry and Ryewhisker.

Traps, baiting, and spear-craft. Shredtail had a paw in creating or perfecting the creation of these things.

After leading his first successful boar hunt after the death of his family, he earned an Honor Title. His name went from Thornwhisker to Shredtail.

He is a highly valued member of Tigerstar's Dark Forest coalition, because of his innovative mind.

Shredtail was behind the technical plotting of Firestar's murder (but not the idea). It's nothing personal, but he wants Godhood just as much as his cohorts.

He's ruthless and dedicated. He believes strongly in the value of patience. His presence can be intense.

This is a warrior who is both huge and intelligent.

When asked about what he wants to do with godhood, his voice grows soft. "...I want to craft kittens."

The cross below the arrowhead is called a "lug." It's there to stop an impaled boar from pushing further down the shaft to get you. This was one of Shredtail's first improvements.

Yellow twine is for ThunderClan, white twine is for his mate.

The spear is something I'm going to refine the design of over time, this is a first draft.

Shredtail is based a little bit on Captain Ahab because I think that is very funny. The white boar, the obsession, the going down with it. Good stuff.

Today, weapons are typically only used for boars! Blades are considered a highly dishonorable battle tactic, and usually their claws are sharp enough to be as lethal as they want them to be. Shredtail tainted the association of spears forever.

He doesn't really do 'politics,' he just wants results and will work with anyone who can provide them.

So he doesn't care what Tigerstar actually wants or believes, if it means entry into StarClan.

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lil color reference for how I'm doing my warriors redesigns. basically I'm following cat genetics but in a fun way where I can add new things and take creative liberty. individuals can vary a bit in shade/saturation/hue (just like real cats) but will generally follow these. any red and any black can appear together in tortoiseshells. genotypes and dominance order (numbered) can be seen at the bottom

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nobody is ready for silly ear lionblaze

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fatherless behavior

(antpelt and beetlewhisker’s designs r a collab between me and @chaoticbeimg / @slenderverse )

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the note about goldenflower being a consideration for firestars first deputy is so fascinating. like I definitely don't want her to take whitestorms role and die in that battle, her surviving so long is much needed but. the idea of her becoming deputy is so juicy. just the moment when firestar walks out into his first gathering and tigerstar not only has to deal with HIM but also the fact that his ex wife who hates him after their extremely bitter divorce is the new deputy. oh god and bramble eventually taking over that role too. thank you for your work and this little note in particular that im chewing on

You see my vision lmao, yeah, the biggest reason I would not make Goldenflower the deputy is because I need that deputy to die versus BloodClan. It fits Whitestorm, and makes an excellent moment for his dying breath to be telling Fireheart to release his grudges because Longtail should be his next deputy.

Longtail serves well, then gets blinded while Firestar is away on his buddy comedy roadtrip with Brokenstar, Graystripe surprises everyone by really stepping up and showing good leadership, and so when Firestar comes back he just makes that official. And then Gray gets snatched up by the researchers.

If Goldie took the position, I'd have to incapacitate or kill her for the deputy dramas of TNP - OotS to take place. And like... nooo, I want her around, especially as a really interesting elder.

Goldie really would have been an awesome pick for Firestar's first deputy though, like, PLEASE feel free to take the idea and run with it because it's really good.

Bluestar dying and Firestar's first action is to pick Goldenflower, standing huge and powerful beside him, bringing back up the issue of Tigerstar demanding his children by correcting; "GOLDENFLOWER'S kits." She looks up at her ex-mate from her position below the rock, licking her chop like a threat.

The unspoken challenge; if you manage to get through Firestar, you will be broken against ME. ThunderClan will never be yours, not even in 18 lifetimes.

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Warriors design #1: Hollyleaf

I know it's tradition to start with Firestar but I like fucked up women more unfortunately.