#particularly the seven cheek tufts and highlights in the eyes [which are meant to look like sun rays]

[eeveekitti]

WC/RW DAY 14: SEVEN RED SUNS

this is sunray, leader before swiftstar, who retired from their duties early [and still outlived their deputy?]

they'd felt tired of leadership for a long while, and wished to simply live as a warrior amongst their clan once again. they returned their lives, their mark, and name as sunstar, leaving swiftstar and then moonstar to lead their clan.

pebblestar was a close friend of theirs, and they were the one who suggested he take temporary leadership to clear his illness through death. they were devastated, to put it lightly, when moonstar died before their eyes.

it had worked for them before, they returned their lives to starclan and lived. yet the cold body of the widely-beloved moonstar lay at their paws, and an equally cold pebblestar, though only cold in mind, followed them home.

they deeply blamed themself for the death of moonstar. they should have known, they told themself, that she was on her last life. yet pebblestar's condition weighed on their conscience as well, especially as it only got worse. their plan had failed. and it had cost a life, soon to cost two, of the cats they cared for most.

sunray died in the flood that wiped out most of drizzleclan.

among their friends in starclan, they found themself at peace, finally. they played their own part in rebuilding drizzleclan, guiding a promising kittypet named spikes to become one of the first warriors under peachstar.

and here's a living sunray! it's painfully obvious i draw the living ones first with how wonky the starclan ones look lol