#Bitternfleck

[trashclangen]

ALRIGHT let's get this show on the road!! Also UH, HI!! There's like A WHOLE LOT OF YOU, especially considering only the teaser was up for weeks wow

[anonspiceart]

Happy trans day of visibility!! Did a quick lil thing for both my comics c: Neither of them really focus on being trans specifically but these characters are all canonically cisn't. As am I! I've talked about the Dragon's gender a bit before but basically it doesn't have a flag because... it doesn't subscribe to any particular label! Maybe it hasn't decided, maybe it never will. Idk!! Shout out to people that are definitely not cis, but aren't using any label in particular. Whether that's because you're still figuring it out, find labels too stressful, or aren't in a position to be visible right now

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[beaudesoleil]

i need to draw them more

[maddy-bean]

moon six continued:

wishsilk is having a chat with bitternfleck, wondering if perhaps they are kin because of there similarities in pelts.

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

Vinepaw became a medicine cat. Swiftkit doubts her abilities.

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Vinepaw believes she is part of a new prophecy.

Sunpaw is trans!

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Swift is called Swifttwist and becomes the 'leader.'

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Sunpaw becomes Sunglide. He becomes deputy.

Vinepaw becomes Vinedawn.

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Sunglide was injured after a fight with a Clanmate (Vine) that Swiftstar encouraged.

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Swiftstar rejects Sunglide.

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Swift and Sun become mates.

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After talking with their mate, Sunglide confessed feelings to Vinedawn, and they became a poly.

The next moon, Swift and Vine become mates as well

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Vinedawn and Sunglide have a single kitten: Robinkit.

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Vinedawn and Swiftstar have two kits: Icekit, Bitternkit.

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Robin is names Robinsmoke.

Ice is named Icefreckle

Bittern is named Bitternfleck

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Vinedawn and Sunglide are expecting.

Vinedawn and Sunglide have three kits: Ploverkit, Hazykit, Heatherkit.

Sunglide and Swiftstar have two kits: Erminekit and Rindlekit.

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Sunglide retires and Robinsmoke takes over as deputy.

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Vinedawn wandered out in the territory, and was found dead.

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Swiftstar lost a life to a spider bite.

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Sunglide was found stiff in his nest, having died in his sleep.

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Swiftstar fell into a hidden burrow and was burried alive.

End: Moon 173

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This can either be just the three of them, or three kits in an existing Clan (that way they're not raised as kinda siblings).

The three became a poly, as hoped! Here are all their kits:

Robinsmoke,

Bitternfleck,

Icefreckle,

Hazyvalley,

Heatherbracken,

Ploverscar,

Ermineleap,

Rindledapple

The Three Musketeers (Clangen)

Starting a Clan with just three kits.

Will update with just the interesting stuff, since I don't want to write detailed moons again yet

Characters: Vinekit, Swiftkit, Sunkit

[trashclangen]

Moon 0

Now that the first moon is up I can post the refs of the starting cast, yippee!! I included Orangesky's moon 1 ref as well bc after the first few pages, that's what she looks like anyway lol

Disclaimer: PLEASE do not think about the genetics at play here lmfao. The nitty gritty of colour genetics is super cool, but I am NOT thinking about them in my silly clangen side project, don't come for me. The notes on their colours are mine and for me, so I can easily look up references. If characters kids are genetically possible that's super cool, but I will largely be going with what suits the character and what's a pigeonified approximation of their in-game sprite

[trashclangen]

What do their cat sprites look like? Curious to compare them with the refs!!!

I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED!! Now I have an excuse to talk about My Design Process!! (Also take their game-given names as an added bonus bc idk when else this would come up lol)

In general, my design philosophy for Trashclan is "find the closest morph I can and then take liberty with the markings". Thankfully this is pretty easy because as long-time domestic animals... pigeons come in lots of colours!!

Orangesky:

I thought her sprite looked super striking so I tried very very hard to match it to a pigeon as close as I could!! Translating the hearts was easy (keeping them consistently shaped is another story, but I'm willing to suffer for her <3), 90% of the work was in me digging around searching for the closest brown pigeon morph I could manage... and some weird recessive dilute situation came through for me!! I'm honestly surprised I managed to find something with both the browns and the grey lmao

Her name I was also pretty attached to by the time I put the run of the game down, but orioles uh... do not exist in this country c': I briefly considered changing it to "Blackbird" or "Thrush" because those are birds in the same family, but pretty much immediately settled on "Orange" because it just kinda looked similar enough for me to be really happy with it! I always knew I was gonna ditch the whole "star" suffix thing for worldbuilding reasons, shoutout to Pav who suggested "sky" bc it 100% keeps the energy of her game-given name and is in general just a rlly good name fhbefr

Ermineleaf:

Ermineleaf was a no-brainer, I took one look at their sprite and went "oh, that's a standard blue bar pigeon" lmao I think I briefly debated changing their prefix to "stoat" because while we have those there (invasive), idk if they moult into their white winter coat and officially earn ermine status... but it was another name I was pretty attached to so I decided to let it slide lol

Bitternfleck:

Straight up, he's just based on my real life pigeon but old and droopifed lmao. My pigeon has pearl eyes, aka she looks haunted by the knowledge of the wilds at all times and I thought that was a perfect translation for the bright cyan

Buttercupfledge:

This design was also a pretty easy 1:1 translation! The majority of the decisions here were just simplifying the pied spotting, aka something I would have done even if she was a cat lol. I also made the call to give her no wing-barring even tho her sprite is striped, also for simplifying reasons.

Settling on "fledge" as the suffix for apprentices was also a no-brainer bc it's... simply the age at which they're fledging! Easy!

Bonus Fringeclaw bc yes he was a real character in the game that I real killed in the first moon:

Fringeclaw is a perfect example of a totally standard cat name that I changed to be bird-applicable! Pigeons don't have teeth but they do have claws, easy swap!

His design is the furthest I departed from the sprite, I genuinely don't think I looked at it when I coloured him in the moon he's in, I just knew he was brown and I wanted him to share colours with Orangesky lmao

[maddy-bean]

moon 7 continued:

bittern fleck (left) and copper pelt (right) are now mates! The illegal ship is now forever in history. Let’s hope star clan doesn’t punish my boy bitternfleck

[trashclangen]

Heyyyy long time no moon! I promise Trashclan is still alive, the "updates when I have time" thing is just kicking my ass c': I've finished prepping my stuff for market, but decimated the buffer of my main comic in the process. Oh and DStD is about to end so I need to build a buffer for my next main comic. And also get all my things in order to be starting it in the first place... Basically, I remain extremely busy and it might be like that for the foreseeable future c':

Happy trans day of visibility!! Did a quick lil thing for both my comics c: Neither of them really focus on being trans specifically but these characters are all canonically cisn't. As am I! I've talked about the Dragon's gender a bit before but basically it doesn't have a flag because... it doesn't subscribe to any particular label! Maybe it hasn't decided, maybe it never will. Idk!! Shout out to people that are definitely not cis, but aren't using any label in particular. Whether that's because you're still figuring it out, find labels too stressful, or aren't in a position to be visible right now

Read Don't Slay the Dragon | Read Trashclan