#kestrelsong

[t00nyah]

it's been more than a month since i teased those pics, and i finally finished! splat clans au idol designs!

if you're wondering: i drew squid sisters the last and they were....surprisingly difficult considering they're idols who i draw the most usually lol

this au is still very underdeveloped and i'm very open to your suggestions of names and such

you can find some info about the clans here and my first art post of this au here

callie(really want to call her something like kestrelsong but dunno) and marie(marigoldshine? cause firefly squid?) are very important cats - callie just being a very talented and social warrior and marie being the medicine cat

as you may have guess marie gets some sort of a sign about a long forgotten clan going the dark path in need (this being octarian clan stealing all the herbs) and the cat who's able to save their clan(this being three), that causes them to form a traveling group all together for the prophecy

well of course as usual marina(juniperpool? really want to name her after some herbs 'cause she was in a very good medicine cat in training and something that relates to her original name(pool is close to sea, right?...)) is a warrior of the said octarian clan who was brought to inkling clan by pearl(pebblespark?), a daughter of respected senior warriors, and is said to be just a very cool rogue friend of hers

marina is a very great help to her new clan due to her being a fast learner and a medicine cat apprentice in her past. she's very conviniently there when marie is away with some new prophecy, weirdly being too similar to the last one... (this prophecy is also fabricated this time. she made it up because it's still the same herbs problem, it has to be octarian clan...also where in the name of starclan are three and cuttlefish? ughhh probably shouldn't have let them go to the twolegs territories alone...)

and of course deep cats! ahem. i meant. deep cut!

honestly. let me ramble a bit but while the other designs were inspired by the in-game designs mostly, with deep cut i actually had something to use as a reference. shiver is referenced from some mako shark images i found and frye is obviously referenced from moray eels. they also were A BIG PAIN IN THE ASS with trying to make them look at least a little bit genetically accurate before i gave up. i tried my best to make it somewhat based off cat genetics(cause i'm a cat genetics nerd) but. yeah. deep cut. (no big man you were the best one bc i could literally just use your in-game design as a reference you were a bliss thank cod big man exists) also i really want to point out bc i really love how i made frye's side scar long and wiggly looking a little like an eel and shiver's scars are meant to look like shark's gills.

AHEM. me rambling about designs aside.

deep cut are the splatland clan elite:

shiver(sharpstar?) is the leader. she has the charisma and she can keep her cool...kind of.

frye(no, no idea fr) is the deputy. she's very good at organising the patrols even though you would probably argue that frye could be the one to organise something, trust me, she just knows her stuff very well.

and, of course, big man(i literally can't come up with something not including 'big' in it directly HELP sadfgargagaw) is the medicine cat. with his pacifism and not really wanting to fight attitude it's probably quite obvious!

and of course they still descent from cats who've been living there since the very begginings of the clan!

separate versions under the cut

[spacefinch]

The Star Trek Voyager crew as Warrior cats!

Leader: Jaystar (formerly Jaycrest) (Captain Janeway)

Deputy: Chivetail (Chakotay)

Medicine cat: Sloethorn (the Doctor/EMH)

Apprentice medicine cat: Kestrelsong (Kes)

Dewfoot (Tuvok)

Newtflight (Tom Paris)

Torrentclaw (B’Elanna Torres)

Harrierheart (Harry Kim)

Needlestalk (Neelix)

Seven (Seven of Nine)

Notes:

- Yes, Tom Paris’s Warrior cat name is a Threshold reference. No, Threshold doesn’t happen in this AU (namely because I don’t know how in StarClan it would work here)

- Seven gets her name in this AU because she’s a polydactyl cat— she has seven toes on one of her paws. She was called by a different name as a kit, but never uses that name now.

- Newtflight, Torrentclaw, and Harrierheart were all apprentices at the same time.

- Seven currently has an apprentice of her own— Wildpaw (based on Naomi Wildman). However, the mobile image limit won’t permit me to show her in this post.

- Chivetail and Torrentclaw were former rogues that joined Jaystar’s clan during a harsh time. They were formerly known as Chive and Torrent.

Known apprentices and mentors:

- Jaystar mentored Newtpaw (later Newtflight).

- Chivetail mentored Torrentpaw (later Torrentclaw).

- Dewfoot mentored Harrierpaw (later Harrierheart).

- Sloethorn mentored Kestrelpaw (later Kestrelsong).

- Seven is currently mentoring Wildpaw.

[the-anonymous-club]

Here’s Tenderheart’s beloved dads! Kestrelsong (who was adopted by my friend Tate, aka LostInTheVertigo on Toyhouse) and Downyfeather, who unfortunately passed when Tendy was 20 moons old :( rip to trophy husband

[mallowstep]

(free time; sibling bonding; leaffall)

"Mallowstep!" Deerpaw cried. "Mallowstep, come look!"

Mallowstep yawned. "Deerpaw, if this is just another leaf..." he grumbled, stretching out his back and walking across camp.

"This one is cool," Deerpaw said, pointing to it with his paw.

"It's just a maple leaf."

"Yeah, but look -- it's a different colour."

"Right. That's what happens in leaffall. They change and fall off."

Deerpaw wriggled, like he was adjusting for a pounce. "But this one is nice."

"You say that about every leaf!"

Behind him, Mallowstep heard Kestrelsong snicker.

"Come on, it's his first leaffall. Let him have fun." She licked Mallowstep's shoulder. "I remember a certain someone getting soaked on the first snowfall last year."

"That was both of us," Mallowstep said. "Crickettail was so mad at us."

"Right, and this does no harm." Kestrelsong flicked her tail towards Deerpaw, who was currently diving into a pile of leaves that had blown against the wall. "I wish I still had his energy." She leaned her head against Mallowstep. "Mossytail keeps asking me if I want to go for a walk, but honestly, just climbing out of the gorge seems exhausting."

"Well, you're getting close to kitting."

Kestrelsong purred. "Hm. Still."

"Mallowstep! I found another one!"

He groaned. "This is why we can't encourage him. He'll never stop."

Kestrelsong lifted her head, her eyes shining. "Hey, Deerpaw! I want to see your leaf!" She started off across camp, and Mallowstep shook his head. She had put off moving into the nursery until recently, and it was like all the lethargy she had been fighting crashed into her at once.

She still resented it, alternating between pacing around camp and napping outside Mallowstep and Oakfrost's den, and took any challenge head on.

Mallowstep was dreading the day she couldn't quite make it out of the nursery with ease.

Deerpaw clutched a whole mouthfull of leaves, trilling and bunting against Kestrelsong.

"She loves me," he said, laying them out. "She wants to see my leaves."

"You're so dramatic," Mallowstep groaned. "Alright, c'mon. What do we have?"

"Mostly maples," Deerpaw said. "But this one is a birch."

"I like it," Kestrelsong said.

Deerpaw turned his gaze to Mallowstep. He sighed. "I like them too, Deerpaw." He licked his younger brother's head. "But if you wake me up again, I will tell Lichenpelt to make you clean out all the leaves in camp."

Deerpaw's ears flattened.

"He doesn't mean that," Kestrelsong said. "He's still got that feather you gave him in his nest."

Mallowstep's ears flattened.

"Hah! You do love me!"

"Of course I love you, furball," Mallowstep said. "I'm just tired. Between you and Piperheart and Wrenwhisker, I've been up all night and now all day."

"Sorry," Deerpaw muttered. "I forgot that they were hurt."

Mallowstep sighed. "It's alright." He was exhausted, after spending all night fetching blackberry leaves to soothe the stings they got trying to fetch him what they thought was abandoned honeycomb, as well as monitoring their breathing in case they had gotten too many stings, but he couldn't stay mad at Deerpaw.

Kestrelsong started to speak, but Deerpaw's head whipped to the side.

"Aspenface!" Deerpaw called. "Aspenface, come look what I found!" He gathered the leaves up, and Mallowstep sighed in relief.

Kestrelsong nosed his shoulder. "You wanna go nap?" she asked. "I hear there's an available patch of sun."

He purred. "Yeah, but if Deerpaw wakes us up, you're dealing with him."

[warriorgrayfawn]

These are elders Sunfur and Kestrelsong. They're Star Marigold's parents.

[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

How magical to have a kestrel perch on your fingers and serenade you. . This is a #Repost from @axelavram ・・・ #americankestrel #bird #birds #birdsofinstagram #birdsong #nature #naturelovers #falconry #falcon #falconer #nature #naturelovers #animal #animals #animales #blog #blogger #bloggers #fashion #Kestrel #KestrelSong https://www.instagram.com/p/B1rJoD2Ak_4/?igshid=16bzyatgh7nrx

[clans-of-the-sea]

KESTRELSONG - NightClan Moon Court

Player: @geminikitties

Name: Kestrelsong

Gender: Female; Can Bear Kits

Age: 18 moons

Clan: NightClan

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Description: A red silver and black silver torbie molly with less than fifty percent white, classic carrying solid, normal ears, bobtail, and long laperm fur.

Personality:

Ghost seems like a very innocent cat. She’s joking, chattery, friendly, and always hanging around with others and in the middle of stuff watching things. She’s totally ruthless and will kill without concern or question but doesn’t take any pleasure in being evil and mostly just doesn’t care. She has ambition to be great but not much direction yet. She’s very untrusting of everyone and always inventing conspiracy theories in her head. Paranoid but adaptable she will fall in with anyone who will help her advance or benefit her and has no other loyalties or concerns for anybody. She is stealthy and quiet and sneaky and likes to appear and disappear and stalk others to try to learn all their weaknesses. Perhaps this is all a shell to hide a much gentler cat who’s afraid of dying and will do anything to survive, or maybe she truly is ice cold through and through. She definitely has high and low mood swings and is exuberant and humorously melancholy in turns.

[birdsong-warriors]

I got a few Asks and realized I should have a sort of mascot to answer stuff with! So I took my initial idea for my Warriors OC, Kestrelsong, and did something with it, lol. I went for a super toony Flash style for fun. XD I probably won’t go this route with Asks because I’m bad at lining things. 

So here is my new mascot with super simplified versions of my troublesome feathered sons. cB Now time to answer things!

[imconsumedbymurdercats]

I need to make a separate blog for ocs lol 

[pizzasdumbcats]

Name: kestrelsong

Position: hollow camp fighter

Old position: oak clan warrior

Gender: female

Age: 29 moons

[warrior-cats-oc-help]

A suffix for Kestrel?

Would Kestrelcreek, Kestrelfall, Kestrelsong, or Kestrelspeck work?

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

Any suffix suggestions for the Kestrel prefix?

kestrelthorn

kestrelbreeze

kestrelfeather

kestrelspeckle

kestreldapple

kestrelspot

kestrelstripe

kestrelbeak

kestrelleaf

kestrelbird

kestreltalon

kestrelsong

kestrelwind

kestrelcloud

kestrelleap

kestrellight

kestrelsky

kestrelstrem

kestrelfrost

kestrelblizzard

kestrelstorm

kestrelscratch

kestrelclaw

kestreldust

kestreltuft

kestrelscreech

kestrelflower

kestreldrop

kestrelmoss

kestrelfall

kestrelstrike

[everybody-loves-purdy]

Any suffix suggestions for the Kestrel prefix?

Kestrelwind

Kestrelwing

Kestrelfeather

Kestrelsong

Kestrelbreeze

Kestrelclaw

Kestreltalon

Kestrelswoop

Kestrelleap

Kestrelsight

Kestrelspring

Kestrelfrost

Kestrelscreech

Kestreleye

[mallowstep]

talking about my oc because i want to

so my blood sugar is doing a Thing and while i wait for that to regulate itself, i figured i'd ramble about my boy mallowstep for a while!

mallowstep, i.e. the title of this blog, is my warriors...oc? he's...not quite a self-insert, but he was the oc i made as a child, altho his backstory has been reworked many, many times, including very recently with inclusion of lore from the sisters.

anyway.

i figure if i type out some words i'll be distracted while i wait for the Good Food to sort itself out. (i'm fine btw. i don't talk about Personal Stuff here mostly but rest assured, i'm fine. just a lil shakey until i eat.)

on that note, my spellchecker is off because hands shakey means i do not want to navigate any way but typing.

right. mallowstep. key points:

he's got a white front left leg. i change the side a lot when i draw him but it's supposed to be left, and all of his paws are white.

i don't want to rework him bc i love him but also his whole deal is very much Impossible i was like eight when i thought of all of this

his vision is shit. he's not blind, but uh, somewhere around 20/400 vision. roughly. he can't see shit, is what i'm saying, he can't see shit.

or okay, so he's blind but in the sense of being "legally blind," not what people think of as blind.

this is because cats don't have opthamalogists. eye doctors. he has no glasses.

he's got a younger brother named deerpaw. same mother, different father. their mother is not around, so mallowstep is stepping in somewhat as a parental figure for deerpaw, but not fully.

he's a medicine cat? did i mention that? by choice. he chose this.

he sees the Ghosts. it's a whole thing with his backstory. but he sees the Ghosts.

his best friend is named kestrelwing (altho i'm considering kestrelsong), and her mate is mossytail. they've got three kits: eaglekit, kitekit, and dawnkit. (whose eventual warrior names are eagleclaw, kiteflower, and dawnstorm. i change those a lot rn tho it's just what i'm feeling at the moment.)

they're skyclan cats.

uhh there's a running joke about how mallowstep could have sired kestrelwing's kits and no one would know.

(he did not.)

deerpaw's eventual warrior name is deerleap.

okay, so...uh, idk?

mallow is born to the sisters, probably in a litter but his story Begins when he's left. he's not born with as bad of vision as he ends up with, so he does okay at first. he meets a cat named jag, who he grows close with.

(this is also in my about page, btw.)

jag and mallow are around the same age, and they're...they've got tallstar/jake vibes, is what i'm saying. (i'm not avoiding saying they're gay, here, but that's the vibe. tallstar and jake are gay in a different way to ravenpaw and barley, is what i'm saying.)

right, so anyway. jag is...fuck i forget his backstory, but he ends up meeting a different traveling group of cats. he falls for a she-cat named violet, and when her group gets ready to leave, he follows.

mallow is pissed. mallow basically writes off jag immediately. his vision is getting worse and worse, and he's pretty convinced he's going to end up blind. jag is like, "but i said you could come with us!" and mallow is like "bruh! i can't! for a very clear and obvious reason, i need to stay in an environment i know!"

so they part ways. they never meet again, this is all like, exposition.

mallow is pissed, but he also is kind of convinced jag is going to come back for him. so he stays where he is, because he just...in a way, he needs to believe that jag will be coming back for him.

the ghosts start talkin' to him, being like, "you should move on," and he's like "fuck no," but eventually they persuade him.

in part because it's becoming obvious he can't take care of himself.

(before you @ me, the most self-insert-y part of this is mallow's disabilities, and i'm not really listing what's wrong with him, because part of his story is figuring out his own limitations.)

anyway, he's a trash hunter, and he's got problems, and the ghosts are like! you know! there's some other cats you can live with. go live with them.

and because this takes place in a weird combination of canon and noncanon lore (the ghosts thing always was a part of his backstory, but when i discovered the sisters, i reframed it as that, and so on. basically, his backstory has been tweaked many, many times, so parts of it don't line up with canon and parts do. just keep that in mind.)

right because this takes place in a weird combo of canon and noncanon lore, mallow ends up w/ skyclan but a completely different set of skyclan cats than canon. i think the leader is dovestar? or rosestar? i don't remember, they're not super important.

so mallow shows up, like, hi! i can see ghosts, and passes out. the medicine cat, oakfrost, takes care of him, he meets kestrelpaw, mossypaw, aspenpaw, and birchpaw (i liked tree names okay?), and they're all good friends.

(aspenpaw and kestrelpaw are littermates, mossypaw and birchpaw are adoptive littermates. aspenpaw and birchpaw don't have much relevance in the story, because they don't.)

okay, mallow agrees to train as a medicine cat, he resolves some ghost issues, he's about a year and a half old, and deer shows up and oh i forgot to explain something, mallow leaves trail markers in case jag follows him back. it's four white stones bc mallow can see white p well and he has four white paws.

right, so deer doesn't know this, but he does know where mallow was left, and he actually is young, he runs away from the sisters because they're moving on, and he wants to find his brother. he's like four moons old. in an mostly unexplained manner, deer figures out the trail, and yeah.

this happens maybe like, two weeks after mallow becomes mallowstep. and the clan is kind of like...another one? but they take him in because well they don't really approve of the sisters and at least deer (now deerkit) is not blind.

(they don't say that part but it's on their mind.)

deer btw is adorable he looks kind of like a fawn. he's a dilute chocolate (which is called fawn but i didn't know that when i named him) ticked tabby, and he's got a white underside, and a white tail tip. they both have that, actually, but mallow doesn't care about his.

(mallow is a silver tabby? did i ever say that part. you can get an idea by looking at my icon, but he also has a lot of browm markings that aren't really shown.

woof okay sorry, you guys can't tell but i can i had to remind someone that no, i very much Need to Eat and you cannot unexpectly change dinner times on me.

right. but i am running out of time, so i'll wrap this up.

deer comes, and becomes deerpaw, we have a bit of a timeskip, kestrelwing is in the nursery, etc...

skyclan needs to leave. the villain was never specified, it can be darktail. the important thing is! they send a scouting party. the plan is, crew one will go, and the rest will leave in three moons. that gives crew one enough time to turn around. they leave a trail behind them a la mallowstep (who doesn't go with them, because, blind. oakfrost goes, she dies before the groups reunite, mallowstep is very sad.)

right, deerpaw goes! he leaves, it's all very symbolic, bc this time mallowstep does follow the trail and he does come back to the one he loves. with also a cute scene in between when skyclan is on its way and mossytail, mallowstep, and kestrelwing are each carrying a kit.

alright, and that's pretty much that. lots of me rambling for no reason. there's a lot of other stuff that happens, kestrelwing is a fun character, etc., but that's the main body of it.

<3

[warriorgrayfawn]

[dazzdoesanart]

Soulrunner/Soulstar

Female/she-cat

Windclan moor-runner · deputy · leader.

daughter to nightfur and flowerstep

Mate is crowheart. (Pure black, sleek tom with green eyes)

No kits.

Soulkit was born into a clan to be treated differently, why you ask? she is a half breed. Her mother is from riverclan and her father is from windclan. She was named soul due to how bouncy she was in the nursery when she was born and how the marking on her back was 'a sign from starclan', the cats didnt believe her mother that she was a special kit. She was an only child and a very skinny one at that. Scrawny too. She spent her whole life in windclan and became a great apprentice, unfortunately. Her father abruptly left her to deal with the cats laughing at her for being a half breed and escaped to riverclan to live with his mate. leaving a very heartbroken apprentice. She didnt need an adoptive parent since she was old enough to catch her own prey and slept in the warriors den. she pushed herself to become strong and the best moor-runner she could be. she was determined to become a great cat. However. Misfortune came again. Her mentor. Stormheart. did nothing to help her, believing she was a lost cause of an apprentice and would be better off giving up and going to switch to being a medicine cat apprentice. She taught herself battle moves. she boosted herself up. While getting laughed at every day. Called nothing but a mangy halfbreed. she worked herself to death. Coming into patrols aching and pushing on despite how tired she was from waking up early to train herself to make up the time lost from having no help. Her warrior name, she finally got and all the work payed off, she was named soulrunner due to her endless determination and the endless 'running' she did to earn this name. The next big event in her life was when the moor caught fire. She risked her own life to save the other cats who treated her terribly, she didnt hold a grudge for long when it came down to it, she saved the lives of those who made her life a living hell. once she got the others and apprentices out the next day she was appointed deputy. Although the leader at that time was very skeptical, as they got their nine lives a cat had told them the next to come after them would be a determined cat from another breed. a marking to represent their specialness. who would put away their differences to save those who wronged them. she finally got what she deserved. She worked so hard and it payed off. shortly after the leader passed and she became leader her mother had been killed by a monster in riverclan, her father came mourning back to her and begged to come back to the clan. She accepted. She still believed no matter how bad, no matter what a cat did or where they came from they could still be redeemed and should be given a second chance. She gave him a second chance.

And eventually, her father became the deputy. and was redeemed.

Sadly she died of greencough.

her nine lives were

Flowerstep.

the kindness and belief no cat should suffer for no reason.

icetongue

sharpness and a good sense of words

Foxtail.

Inner Strength

Owlstar.

Kindness is great, however she is given the power of wisdom to know who deserves forgiveness and who does not

Kestrelsong

Selflessness. Save other cats before yourself.

Mistydrift

Stealth and the slickness of a great warrior

Nightbird.

The belief you can do whatever you want to if you work hard enough, as shes already proven she can.

Slowfern

Slow and steady can be a winner sometimes. Calculate what you need to calculate first. Dont always rush things.

Articlight

The power to guide yourself, even through the toughest of times. When others cant be there you have to be there for yourself.

Flaws -

She is, the very definition of doormat. think of firestar doormat. And amp it up by 10×

Shes a bit too self reliant. She tells herself she'll be fine on everything and sometimes denies help when she needs it

Very overprotective and values queens a bit more over the others due to how her childhood was and does not want another kit to suffer like she did. To be forced to work as hard as she did with almost no say.

Very, very. Stubborn when she has to turn away a hurt cat.

(Also her ears are fine, i just messed up on the ref it was a leader mark lol, its transparent click to see it)

Its an au of petals but.

Kind of an oc too??

its weird lmao.

Shes both. i call her an au of petals when shes not but sh