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Moon 23.1: Apprentices!!!

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@splinterclan she's enjoying grandma-dom

also headcanon Elkkit is TINY like bro why u so small

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MOON 38

Slightstar’s kits are apprenticed. Sunleopard fought a rogue and was badly injured.

This moon’s story under the cut!

“It feels like yesterday I was curled up next to the three of you in the nursery.” Slightstar mewed proudly, looking down at her three daughters as they stood below her. It was finally time for them to become apprentices. “But I know that you cannot remain kits forever, and I look forward to seeing you grow and flourish into wonderful warriors.”

From the back of the crowd of cats, Anisepaw let out a quiet scoff; Slightstar hadn’t said anything like that at her apprentice ceremony. She was clearing favouring her own litter already.

“Whisperingkit, Prairiekit and Brookkit, you have all reached the age of six moons and are ready to become apprentices.” Slightstar mewed, raising her volume to signify the importance of the event.

“From this day forth, until you become warriors, you will be known as Whisperingpaw, Prairiepaw and Brookpaw. Your mentors, consecutively, will be Mossgleam, Tunnelbeam and Badgerdust. I hope that these strong warriors can pass down all they know to you.” Slightstar finished, and the newly appointed mentors stepped forward to touch noses with their apprentices.

“Can I catch a rabbit? Can I chase a fox off the territory? Can I do something cool?” Whisperingpaw began nexcitedly as the meeting disbanded. Mossgleam only chuckled, remembering how excited Sunleopard had been at her apprentice ceremony.

“Have patience, Whisperingpaw.” Chaffinchbounce mewed, padding up to the new apprentice with happiness in his eyes. “One day I’m sure you’ll do all of those things and more.”

Whisperingpaw nodded, a little starstruck at the appearance of the oldest cat in the clan. Every cat in the clan respected the previous deputy deeply.

“Now, how about we take you and your sisters out for some group training? It’ll do you good to practise with cats you’re comfortable with.” Badgerdust was saying to Brookpaw, and Tunnelbeam nodded.

“Sounds good to me.” The young warrior mewed, trying to hide her anxiety about having her first apprentice.

“Then let’s go! I can’t WAIT!” Prairiepaw exclaimed, leaping to her paws. She had always been a ball of energy, and that was only to be amplified by her training.

As the mentors and apprentices trotted out of camp, Brokenpaw and Lotuspaw watched them with narrowed eyes.

“I hope they won’t be annoying.” Lotuspaw sighed. “The apprentice den is crowded enough as it is.”

“I bet they will be. Especially Prairiepaw, she’s so loud.” Brokenpaw grumbled. “Hopefully we’ll be out of there soon though, right?”

“Right.” Lotuspaw nodded. “Come on, let’s go visit Sunleopard. She’ll be feeling rubbish after that run-in with the rogue.”

The two apprentices trotted side by side across the clearing, heading over to the medicine den. “Hello?” Lotuspaw called as they entered.

“Hello!” Berryspot greeted them. “Are you here for Hushstep?”

“No, we just came to visit Sunleopard.” Brokenpaw corrected. “See how she’s doing, and all.”

“That’s nice of you. She’s just over there.” The grey medicine cat directed them to the far side of the den with his tail.

“Hi, Sunleopard.” Lotuspaw mewed, approaching the injured deputy.

“Oh, hello. How are you two today?” Sunleopard asked politely, looking grim as she winced and rolled over onto her side.

“We’re fine. Slightstar’s kits just had their apprentice ceremonies.” Brokenpaw told her, not sounding particularly thrilled.

“That’s nice. I thought I heard a meeting. Who are their mentors?” Sunleopard wondered.

“Ummm….” Lotuspaw hummed, trying to remember who was who. “I think Mossgleam has Whisperingpaw, Tunnelbeam has Prairiepaw and…”

“Badgerdust has Brookpaw.” Brokenpaw finished for his sister helpfully. Sunleopard nodded, thinking.

“Mossgleam was my mentor. I never think of them as a senior warrior, but they must be getting on in moons now.” The ginger she-cat mused.

“Probably. I don’t keep track.” Brokenpaw shrugged.

“And quite right. Enjoy your youth while it lasts.” Sunleopard advised the two apprentices. “Because believe me, it’ll be gone before you know it.”

Lotuspaw raised an eyebrow—Sunleopard’s words were that of a much older cat than she; was she missing her apprenticeship?

“You’re still young, aren’t you?” Brokenpaw questioned, seeming to think the same thing as his sister.

“Not particularly. I’m nowhere near retirement though, that’s for sure.” Sunleopard seemed to declare this, as if reassuring herself. Even though Sunleopard could only be 50 or so moons, the role of deputy seemed to have aged her faster than any cat.

i love all the apps so much man!! i headcanon that berryspot has been much cheerier these days since he rejected stoatstripe, maybe cuz he knows hushstep is proud of him

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Moon 17: So yeah! This happened!

(Sidenote for Cedar's kits, they're meant to be 4-5 weeks/1 moon old already - so they're weaned from needing milk)

Also, also baby refs:

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BABIEEEESSS They're so so so cute omG 😭😭😭 The roundest of beans - I love this!!! Thank you so much for drawing them!!!

The kits from @splinterclan, my current favorite Clangen blog! Thinking about the most recent update and hoping this family of kitties is okay.

(Still trying to learn how to draw cats.)

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So, Cedarheart... How is it, to be a single dad?

He's loving every minute :')

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Moon 18 (again): Some bonus happy moments! :D

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Some extras!! These are bonus moments I felt like I wanted to draw to pad out the characters' experiences so far - Droplet (and Pansy) facing her emotions about Myrtle's wounds, Myrtle seeing her grandbabies again, and Cedar telling his kits to shhh about going to see someone

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Moon 21.3: :o?

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Moon 19.1: Calm before the storm <3

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Moon 21.2 : Going horizontal? Also Siblings <333 Also also this marks Pansy moving back into the Med den and Cedar becoming a nursery King (for as long as there's kits in there!)

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When you said calm before the storm you weren’t lying ): and “currently alive” has me WORRIED … hang in there Myrtle!!!

If it’s in character for one of the cats to ask them, what do Cedar’s kits think about their new cousins? 0:

They're mostly just excited about having extra playmates currently!

doing as well as she can be ;n;

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can we see the kittens sprites?

Real baby hours over here

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Moorsnow is not a chimera! White is a dominate trait, it covers up a cat's base color.That little spot of color is actually her true genetic coloring the white did not get to while she was in the womb. Genetically, I would call Moorsnow a high white spotted golden tabby cat. It's debatable if Whorlstar is a regular torbie or a chimera, depending on if you consider her warm color to be red or cream! It could be either. But the way her darker coloring and her warm coloring is so cleanly split by her fur I would personally lean towards being a non-dilute/dilute chimera (split between chocolate(nondilute) and cream(dilute)) However Prairiekit is definitely a chimera! She is a mix of solid red + black tabby. The black tabby part genetically is not possible since both her parents are Red, but ClanGen itself isn't genetically accurate in the first place :) A solid-tabby chimera.

that's super interesting!

Again I know nothing about cat genetics so many mistakes are done on my part - Like in Clangen's defense Cedar's kits did not have a canon mother until I made one up for them/designed her myself and I just thought since they were orange, mom should be orange xD I am definitely not going for realism with my designs but I love that for Prairiekit <3 Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

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Other for Vinekit or Larkkit or anyone else passed or outside the clan! Sorry would've added everyone but I ran out of options :'Y