I read warrior’s official graphic novel and i loved it!! Felt so nostalgic i drew a fanart….
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honestly most of my least favourite warrior cats could be salvaged if they didn't always have to be in the narrative right (despite when they do heinous things, and/or are presented in opposition to characters the narrative has unjustly placed in the wrong. usually for gendered reasons). like if brambleclaw's part in firestar's attempted assassination was some huge scandal, and the way he treated squirrelstar was textually recognised and remembered as cruel and abusive at times then he would be wayyy more of an interesting and nuanced character to me than "this guy is really good and heroic and noble just ignore all of the bad shit he's done". if nightheart was worse, if he really was an unreliable narrator at first, if the books didn't require finchlight and sparkpelt to turn around and belittle him for real to justify his feelings, if sunbeam didn't talk about having babies with him immediately after feeling abandoned by him twice back to back, and his impulsivity and selfishness were character flaws and not just funny quirks (that would be UNFORGIVEABLE were they placed on a female character. i really need to emphasise just how different the gender standards are in this series and fandom in terms of consequences) then yeah honestly i would maybe genuinely like and be invested in him. lack of consequences or flaws being recognised for flawed (primarily male) characters where (primarily female) characters frequently see unlimited fucking miserable consequences for less is like, my number one issue with characterisation in these cat books. but yet it is so damn prevalent
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I know next to nothing about WC despite reading like maybe five of the books when they first came out years ago. Anyway, is there any cat you have like a vary convoluted genetics head canon for? I would love to hear about it
Hmm, I think I'll take this opportunity to talk about Moth Flight, because her case was a tricky one, and because I love her. (sue me. she was wrong about so many things, but i love her.)
Moth Flight is pure white in canon. Full white is dominant, so she should have at least one white parent, but they are "brown" and "grey tabby" (they don't even have any white spotting). She has white, white spotted and no-white children.
I solved this mess by throwing out the full white and making Moth Flight pointed instead. Close enough, especially if I add tabby and dilution. (Everyone in this family is a tabby anyway.)
The orange/black situation is not better. Her parents, Wind Runner and Gorse Fur are both black-based, and all of Moth Flight's kits are yellows, which i almost always interpret as cream. So my best solution was to make both Wind and Moth torties.
I don't have a family tree, but i'll describe her whole family now:
Wind Runner: black tortoiseshell ticked tabby (heterozygous ticked)
Gorse Fur: blue mackerel tabby with white (low white, heterozygous)
Emberkit and Morning Whisker: black tabby with white
Dust Muzzle: blue tabby
Moth Flight: blue tortoiseshell tabby point with white
Micah and Honey Pelt: cream tabby
Blue Whisker: cream tabby with white
Bubbling Stream: cream tabby point
Spider Paw: cream tabby point with white
Wind Runner and Gorse Fur
Moth Flight (this color becomes darker as she ages, but she has white nose and paws, so only the upper part of the mask and the legs)
Moth Flight's kits
(warrior cats genetics ask game)
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