#duskfur wc

[bonefall]

Am I the only one a little put off by Duskfur, one of the VERY vocal supporters of Frostpaw being kicked out for “misunderstanding” Splashtail’s advances, suddenly turning around and becoming a good guy? It irks me a little that someone involved very vocally in that scene putting down Frostpaw is likely getting a redemption. I’m sure they’ll say “oh it was all an act” but it certainly didn’t seem written that way.

Overall I agree, BUT I do have a bit of a different reason why

It's not really about the "redemption" of it all, I would be fine if Duskfur realized she'd made a MASSIVE mistake and turned around (especially if Frostpaw never forgave her for it. Like there was always this tension, from now on, that she knows Duskfur cannot be trusted) then that's ok. A couple of folks are dipping into "she doesn't deserve it" language and to that I solemnly shake my head and say that redemption shouldn't be about deserving; it should be about change.

SO with that out of the way, what I dislike most about this is that it's based on nothing. It feels like a bad characterization moment. Duskfur's actions don't feel like actual motivations, she believes what the plot needs her to.

This outspoken supporter of Splashtail hates him now? For some reason?

She was willing to throw Frostpaw under the bus, and now she is not?

Didn't want to believe that her daughter Curlfeather is a bad person, but then accepted Splashtail's ridiculous lie about Evil Sleeptalk Plans?

And now that Podlight is medcat, her OTHER child, now she's cool with believing he's a liar?

What changed her, what PROMPTED this shift in allegiance? It's sudden, and that makes it feel shallow and dissatisfying. Makes you feel like they're just going to do this for an unwanted "You've gotta forgive your shitty family always bc theyll be there for you eventually" kind of moral

It sure would have been nice if they like, had a notoriously impulsive character to get his POV into RiverClan so we could see the cats developing. Some kind of guy who makes hasty decisions entirely motivated by his emotions. A cat that had just developed a bond with Frostpaw and knows how badly she wants to know what's going on in there. Someone, who is not orange, who could have been suspected as a spy as Splashtail's descent into active villainy took effect, raising the stakes of the story

if only we'd had a character like that laying around :(

[lemnnshark]

"Duskfur is a small dark brown tabby she-cat with a nicked ear."

[letyachan]

289.Duskfur

"If you ask me, it seems like more living cats should help decide the rules we live by. I'm not saying Mistystar is trying to mislead us. But what's so special about the Lights in the Mist? Who are they? Mistystar, Crowfeather, Shadowsight, Rootspring, and Violetshine. Why should they get to decide the rules for all the Clan cats? At least you're a leader, Mistystar, but Shadowsight's the cat who got us into this mess, Crowfeather was a codebreaker himself, and I'm not sure I know enough yet about the SkyClan cats to trust them."

[clanborn]

some asc riverclan cats

[exocynraku]

redesigns :3

[3zethe3zr]

I'm a Reedwhisker is Curlfeathers father beliver

Frostpaw takes after their mother, Graypaw after their father, and Mistpaw is a mix of their grandparents

[fatal-rewrites-warriors]

Nightstar's family has been pretty wrought :')

[songleap]

calling it now this is gonna be our leader, deputy, medicine cat lineup at the end of the arc

[t4twnyclaw]

i completely redesigned my frostpaw

[owlart18]

“had she been so worried about a new leader for riverclan that she had failed to notice a murderer among her clan mates?” - Frostpaw (from Shadow)

Speedpaint

(Commission info in pinned post)

[icicle-rain]

tigerheartstar when the power of friendship doesn’t work

[strawberryfrostedkitties]

[jayfrost-designs]

Here's the last of the ref sheets I currently have done. Duskfur's whole family has bright shiny new ref sheets due to their newfound relevance to the story, and her ref sheet is not only wildly out of date but also wildly innacurate, so I figured it was high time this snobby old lady got a makeover. ^^ So here's Duskfur!

You can find the reverse side of her design here.

For her physical description, Duskfur is described as a small she-cat with a torn ear. She's very short, about Frostpaw's height, with a stockier build and broader face that she passes on to Podlight, and a very long, thick coat. The torn ear (the biggest nick in her left half-ear) and several of the scars on her face are from being captured by Darktail's Kin, and the scars on her neck are from the Dark Battle, a calico tom was described landing a "mighty blow" on her neck.

For her pattern, Duskfur is described as a brown tabby she-cat. I made her a colorpoint like her kits, so she's a lynx point tabby with a nice medium brown coat, a darker shade of her daughter's pale brown. She has no canon eye color, so I gave her the same amber eyes I gave her kits.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with how she turned out. :D

[clanslist]

[exocynraku]

wrensnag whiskey

[warriorswarriors]

Duskfur