#Hmm... maybe I'll also play with its color. So the main tuft is always solid

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If you mean the like sparkle dog hair. Do you want that really really fun idea to go this family or like a more fun family

Yeah that's exactly what I meant in the tags. I like the idea of the Berryheart family having Sparkledog hair with the distinct striped raccoon tail bang.

This sort of thing, if you know you know.

What gives me pause isn't this not being "a fun family," but more that I want to make sure the Rowanstar Family's two-striped mane remains distinct. This is essentially a mane with a more "localized" stripe, if you get me, so I fear it would have overlap with BB!Heartstar's mohawk.

Plus, this lineage really "starts" with Snowbird and her brother Ratscar. Since Snowbi is so influential to the tree and Ratscar is so important to BB!Blackstar's expanded redemption arc, it's especially important that whatever trait that defines this family is particularly distinct.

I want it to IMMEDIATELY define the family at a glance so "the viewer" sees, in the design, that a particular cat is (or is no longer, depending on family tree changes) a member of this group.

Hmm... maybe that's another point in its favor, though. I could have Spireclaw cut his bang off to symbolize that he's disowning his mother, when she threatens Fringewhisker.

I'll sketch around with it.