#Fennelposting

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I found a black crystal during the eclipse

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would not be surprised if the erins crammed in some weird, out-of-character, toe-sucking skystar cameo in the remaining books. like during a frostpaw dream he pops in with riverstar and riverstar raves about how cool and awesome his bestie skystar is

We can't rule anything out at this point. They took a detour in a FIELD GUIDE to gush about how cool and awesome their woman-hating dictator is. It could happen at any moment.

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any Fennel Enjoyers in this twitch chat tonite

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REBLOG TO KILL TOM

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I have never empathized with Clan cat cultural xenophobia as hard as I did when I realized the Tiktok ban is going to cause them all to come here. Just thinking of having more Sadboy Infection Enthusiasts around has me out marking the border. 3 patrols a day is not enough, we need to start battle training

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Blog cancelled everyone! Pack it in! Animals can't b- OH MY GOD???

MOUSEWHISKER WARRIOR CATS??????????????

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Is it too late to do the meme

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I couldn't care less about Brambleclaw. It's not his fault he fell for a faithless she-cat. I know you think I've never forgiven Brambleclaw for stealing you from me, but you're wrong, and so is every cat that thinks so. My quarrel is with you, Squirrelflight. It always has been. You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, left to die from infection.

STOPP im trying not to laugh in public, I'm so glad I wasn't the only one reminded of Ashfur's Bleeding Stones quote but PLEASEE

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Warriors game where you play as a group of researchers trying to collect data on the cats as they sabotage every attempt for you to observe them. AND you're on a budget.

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how to the clans view eating roadkill?

Generally, roadkill is seen on the same level as carrion. It's coated with the overwhelming scent of the road, with crows, ravens, and buzzards almost always finding the carcass before Clan cats. They might try to salvage what they can, especially if it was a large animal like a deer, but generally this meat is avoided.

Unless you're ShadowClan. ESPECIALLY if it's badger meat. Do you know how hard it is to kill badgers, deer, and foxes?? You're just gonna LEAVE a free meal there?! It's GOOD MEAT, Tawnypelt, we NEED to get you over this ThunderClan snobbery, StarClan made all the animals out of food and here you are just rejecting our ancestor's sweet, sweet blessing. Now get over here and help me drag this thing off the thunderpath before the car comes back

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Cat? Gray. Eyes? Blue. Hotel? Trevago.

Design babble stuff below

BLUESTAR

Good god it's been over a year since I last drew her. I can do so much better now

I give her a wolf motif for BB, because in my mind it's about the myth of the lone wolf. Lone wolves aren't normal, they're pack animals. At first, Firestar sees her as this ideal, strong leader who stands independently of everything... but he's wrong!

She's NEVER acted fully alone! She's always been devoted to her family, even as it dwindled. Her ruling style is to protect other Clans, unlike any leader who's come before her. In BB, she even had a mixed-Clan friendgroup called the Forget-Me-Nots.

She helped to depose ShadowClan's tyrant. She sent Firestar to fetch WindClan, even against the wishes of the other two. She even fought Nightstar and Crookedstar when they tried to drive them out again.

She even takes the code SO seriously that she refused to kill Brokentail, extending a mercy that ended up backfiring.

And Firestar learns everything about leadership from her. Grace, diplomacy, fairness... and she was fair to a fault.

Both her and her apprentice would eventually face down Tigerkin, Bluestar during the coup and Firestar even lost a life after defending Hawkfrost for several books.

The only time Bluestar ever became a "lone wolf" was in her cruelty arc, when she was dragging everything she ever stood for down with her.

Her wolf motif shows up in her entire family, to connect them. It's in her nephew Whitestorm, her uncle Goosefeather, her daughter Mistystar, even all the way down into Curlfeather and Frostpaw who are descended from Reedwhisker in BB.

The scar comes from her fighting a badger to rescue Darkstripe and his sister, Cricketclaw, when they wandered off as kittens.

CROWFEATHER

He's a mix of spiky and swirly, as a cross between his dad Deadfoot and his mother Ashfoot.

He's older in BB to change that he was an apprentice on the Great Journey, and also to fix an inconsistency where his dad would be dead when he was conceived.

I think it was a huge missed opportunity that Crowfeather's bond to his mentor, Mudclaw, is barely mentioned in-canon. In BB they were VERY close and Mudclaw was incredibly influential to his personality.

Deadfoot is dead-- Mudclaw was like a father to him.

Crowfeather is torn between the influence of his mother, who was a Forget-Me-Not in her youth, and the hard ideology of his mentor. All the while, the ego boost he got from being selected to go on the Great Journey massively affected him, in a bad way.

He ended up taking Mudclaw's side in the rebellion-- not because he believed that ThunderClan had told a lie (in fact he defends his friend's honor) but because he believed Mudclaw would be a better leader.

But eventually, he found himself surrounded by cats he didn't want anywhere near WindClan. Good intentions or not, Mudclaw was willing to work with cats like Blackclaw and Hawkfrost-- people who want a second TigerClan.

Crowfeather betrayed the rebellion, running to fetch Brambleclaw and ThunderClan reinforcements. In the fight, his nose was scratched in a chevron, the shape of Mudclaw's stripes.

I like the idea that he carries it with him, but always tries to put it off his mind. He mistreats and misuses other people, ignoring the reminder that he is a fallible person that's carved onto his nose.

died of infection. Sad!

All of his kits resemble him in some way. Lionblaze inherited his tail, Hollyleaf has the spikes, Breezepelt has the build, Jayfeather is a miserable git has the ear swirls

He was head of Kitchen Patrol until BB!OotS, but I'm actually planning for him to NOT be deputy in BB. His character growth feels a lot more satisfying in realizing he really doesn't handle power very well, and should stay away from it.

He has old relationships and burned bridges to mend, and staying part of Kitchen Patrol seems like the way he should plan to do that.

I talked about him a lot in Nightcloud's summary and he's going to be coming up in the outline of Nightcloud's Pannage a lot. Much as I love taking potshots at him, he's got a very kind arc laid out.

CINDERPELT

She is the daughter of LIONHEART whY don't you people give her A MANEEEE

let her be THICK

In BB, the Frostfour are actually from two different litters. Cinderpelt and Brackenfur were in the older one.

Frostfur was head of Kitchen Patrol at the time, and very overworked lmao

So Cinder and Bracken both have an "older sibling" energy. Their mom was usually involving them in every little activity to get some help. Brackenfur is over-responsible, and Cinderpelt was always trying to help out other people and prove herself.

Of course, it also lead to her running right into Tigerclaw's trap which was set for Bluestar-- she wanted to be helpful.

The injury didn't heal right and she has chronic pain. She has severe mobility issues in the hip, and usually keeps the leg bound to her body so it doesn't drag or hurt.

She could have still been a warrior if she wanted to, but discovered while healing that she loved working with Yellowfang. I also interpret it this way in canon, to be fair, but TNP decided to remember it completely differently.

After saving Littlecloud's life they became absolute best friends. They worked on a mobility device for Wildfur together.

They style their manes in a similar way, pushing it up into that "spike" on their heads and out of their faces.

ASHFUR

Moonkitti's blonde Ashfur remains iconic, I fear

I draw him like a cheetah so he has the funky cheetah cub hair

I'm a HUGE fan of what the Erins did with the direction of Ashfur's story, with him being an obsessive spurned lover, but that's not really the sort of story I tell in BB!

So I approach his obsession on Squirrelflight as being very... Judge Frollo-esque.

Frollo's ultimate goal isn't to possess Esmerelda. He wants her, but it's a wrench in his plans to commit ethnic cleansing using his religious justifications. Hellfire is about how he finds a way to shift the blame for his own lust onto her, and offers an ultimatum; "She will be mine or she will burn (along with everyone else I plan to slaughter)"

In Frollo's mind, he "forgives" her for what she's "done to him." For what she is. He sees what he's doing as giving her an "escape."

It's not for her benefit. It's for HIS. By giving her this "escape," if she takes it, he gets to think of her as redeeming herself (and thus being worthy of him).

If she does not... then it's no skin off his back. He's Done His Part. Everything was always her fault. He is blameless.

Either way he gets to walk away feeling justified.

All that to say-- that's how I approach BB!Ashfur.

He wants to punish codebreakers. He wants the Clans to suffer for how far they've fallen from where they should be. They've become vulgar, ungrateful, unworthy of StarClan's grace.

He tried to kill The Three because he'd learned of the Fire and Tiger prophecy, and was only trying to protect the Clan. If Squirrelflight had CHOSEN HIM, then none of this would have happened.

He was righting a wrong, you see, and StarClan understood, in his eyes.

When Hollyleaf slaughtered him, violating the Code, it only confirmed he had been right all along.

And again and again and again, he offers Squirrelflight what she needs to redeem herself. He wants her. He wants her to "be better."

When she lets him down... then it's not his fault. She's forced his paw.

SO the blonde hair isn't totally just a fun reference, I also find it fitting because aside from the cheetah motif, he sees himself as angelic.

It's also why I don't portray him as "grubby" like some folks do, BB!Ashfur is much more vain than Canon!Ashfur, caring immensely about his appearance. Thinking about it, he probably won't even let his Bramblefake vessel fall into disrepair, he'd feel more grossed out than usual.

He also gets a very cool boss fight form at the end of BB!TBC which I still need to design lmao.

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Pre-reveal Lionpaw to Breezepaw: "Bro I'd kill your dad for you haha"

Post reveal Lionblaze to Breezepelt: "Bro I'd kill our dad for you haha"

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Hi Bones! Since clan cats regulate and plan their hunting, how would they react to kittypets hunting with 0 regard for the ecosystem? What might be somw things said to the Kittypet in question?

RiverClan apprehends a kittypet fishing illegally (REAL)

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i would simply not exile a mother and her kids normseperate a mother from her children. what im saying is oakstar had a skill issue.

You see if I was Oakstar and I found out that the grandchildren I was present for the birth of and had helped raise from their first moments alive were not biologically descended from me I would still say they are mine. Because they fucking are.

"ohhh they spring forth from the blood of my enemy" uhh, yeah?? The grand irony it's his blood they'll grow to spill??? Do you not see the savage poetry in raising Appledusk's so-called children to eventually kill him??? Absolutely no vision. Pizzazzless behavior.

I'd be such a good WC villain. Ez.

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The funniest asks I get are always the ones who preface a perfectly normal question with, "I know this sounds crazy" or "This is deranged but." You guys weren't here for Herb Anon. Nothing has topped Herb Anon yet.

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Clear Sky is.......

A founder of a notoriously violent empire

A colonizer who killed and brutalized the indigenous population so he could take more land

A child abuser

Excused and downplayed both in and out of universe because of his role as a historic figure which makes certain people not want to reckon with what he stood for

featured in emotional musicals where the characters sing about their feelings, which end up ignoring or downplaying the horrors of the nation he's building

...he's a Hamilton character