#leopard by shadow river and wind. tiger by thunder and shadow. broadly speaking!

[harriertail]

Do Lionblaze and Lionheart fit into your hc? Genuinely curious here (and also would love to maybe see you draw a lion)

they do!! (sorta)

the HC for Lionheart is that he is born sickly and smaller than his sister (HC: and a possible dead littermate) which causes Swiftbreeze to invoke the Lion- name, with Featherwhisker's blessing, and he makes a full recovery; ThunderClan has more of a 'this name will bring good luck/a bright future' view of the ancient names compared to Shadow and WindClan who are superstitious of it and see is as an exchange, something must be taken back by the ancient cats. Lionheart is set for deputyship once Bluestar picks him, but the curse comes back to haunt him when he is killed by ShadowClan- his death leads to Tigerclaw's deputyship and all... that. Lionblaze already suffers a somewhat traumatic birth (Leafpool struggles to deliver him) so she uses Lion- when she sees he is not breathing and panics to revive him. The downfall is his power, and losing his power, which defined him. I also like to think he was destined to die in the Last Hope Battle but his power over the stars let him dodge death.