#wc dark forest

[bat0n-ant]

Warriors Cats: Fading Echoes, Chapter twenty. Tigerstar 1.0, Hawkfrost and Ivypaw in the Dark Forest

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

Dark Forest Resident: Batkit

Aliases / Nicknames: ??

Gender: tom

Sexuality: homosexual

Family: unnamed mother, unnamed father, Pebblekit (sister), Barkkit (brother)

Other Relations: N/A

Clan: WindClan

Rank: kit

Characteristics: impulsive, afraid of heights, afraid of birds

Murder Motive: wants quiet

Number of Victims: 1 (unintentionally)

Number of Murders: 1 (unintentionally)

Murder Method: leaving in the open for a hawk

Known Victims: Gorsekit

Victim Profile: noisy kit

Cause of Death: shock

Cautionary Tale: ??

Story: 

He didn't understand.

He knew that it was cold outside, and that's why he had to stay in the nursery, especially during the night. But nothing had to be explained to him further than that; he didn't want to go outside when it was cold anyways.

So he didn't know the dangers.

He didn't know that you could die.

When Littlesplash had her litter of kits, the tiny things were so noisy!

Batkit was awed at first to see cats so small, and was amazed that he had been so small himself, but soon enough the little things showed irksome behaviour. In particular was Gorsekit, who cried for no good reason day-in and day-out.

Too, it seemed everyone in the nursery was a heavy sleeper--everyone but Batkit.

He had enough. He wanted some rest, and to get the noise away from him. So he picked the little kit up and plopped him outside of the nursery, where the den walls would muffle his cries. And maybe the cold would teach him to be quite!

Then he was gone.

Batkit woke to the alarmed wailing of Littlesplash, who cried that she couldn't find Gorsekit anywhere. The Clan searched around and, feeling guilty, Batkit did as well.

But soon it became clear that Gorsekit wasn't still in the camp. Had he run away? Had Batkit upset him that much? Now that he wasn't so irritated from a lack of sleep, he felt bad for what he had done, made worse by everyone's panic.

Still, he didn't tell them the truth, too afraid of being scolded. Instead, while everyone was distracted, he snuck out of camp in search of the little kit.

There was no scent trials. Batkit was getting lost.

A shadow loomed over him, and before he knew it, he was being carried into the air. He screeched, alarmed, which caught the attention of Littlesplash and a patrol, who had left the camp earlier to search for her son.

The queen leaped into the air, unbalancing the hawk. It dropped him, then grabbed him again by the tail while Littlesplash clawed at it. It gripped onto him tightly.

Littlesplash slipped, but managed to grab onto Batkit. She pulled him down, trying to free him at the same time that the hawk jerked upward. Then there was a tearing, and an awful pain that made him screech, then they were falling to the ground.

Batkit and Littlesplash survived the crash thanks to the cats below catching them, but something was wrong. He was breathing quickly, everything was distorted. Cats around him were panicking, and soon, it was all dark.

Additional Information: 

--If not for the shock, he would have survived his injuries--though his apprenticeship would definitely have to be delayed.

--Story inspired by both A Thief in ThunderClan and Tallstar's Revenge.

In TS, Stagkit took Tallkit out of the den because he kept crying, and Sandgorse found him.

--Gorsekit was out in the open, small, and loud, so a hawk quickly found him and took him in a heartbeat. I figured that if they didn't smell the hawk in ATiT, they wouldn't smell it here, and not when it was a blink-in-the-eye swoop.

--He is adopted by Tarantulastar and Hummingbirdstar (likely seeing the Gossamer Trees as somewhere a bird could never get him because of all the mesh). He is adopted when he is three moons old. Charkit/lynx, his adopted brother, is also three moons old, though they do have an age gap of roughly two weeks. This also makes him an adoptive Smalljump grandbaby!

--Base: F2U Oriental Shorthair Cat Base by Grassdew44 on DeviantArt (his ref is more his adult form)

[fredkinnie]

god, please let me flog that horse!

its ms maple herself!! redrew a piece i've been drawing for 4 or 5? years now! based on an animation idea i've had for an equally long amount of time :] incitatus by birdeatsbaby is such a mapleshade song its insane

old versions, left is the oldest, top right is second oldest, bottom right is the most recent (still 2+ years old iirc)

[fareclipseart]

Alright y’all! I’m hoping to post these daily, I might not quite make it but I hope to at least complete it!

Behold! Joob’s September (Dark Forest!) Art Challenge!

Y’all are welcome to use it for whatever theme or month you want. I just really wanted to take some random fall themed things- and make them horrific!

I hope y’all will enjoy it! Text version below:

September (Dark Forest!) Art Challenge!

By DrJoob!

1 Abandoned

2 Acorn

3 Apples

4 Bat

5 Bear

6 Campfire

7 Candles

8 Corn

9 Dead Tree

10 Deer

11 Dried

12 Firefly

13 Fresh Bread

14 Gourds

15 Jar

16 Knitting

17 Leaves

18 Maple Syrup

19 Muffins

20 Mug

21 Mushroom

22 Old Toy

23 Pie

24 Pinecone

25 Rake

26 Scarecrow

27 Soup

28 Spider

29 Sunflower

30 Woods

[meowkarii]

i’d Looveee To see U do. snowtuft. and Other dark Forest cats pretty Please. :o)

The evil gang

[endlesscats]

"Oh, my father. I lived long enough among warriors to earn my place here. Don't you think?" — Darktail

[iamfabiloz]

oc x canon time… listen to me SNOWMAPLE!! ❄️🍁

my oc Snowshiver, ambitious and murderous fanclan deputy, somehow stumbles upon mapleshade in the df who she becomes enamored with bc of her bloody ways :]

what can I say, snow just has a thing for she-cats with big eyebrows and hatred in their hearts (glances over at velvetvein her actual current mate)

[thewisestdino]

36 with Breezepelt?

My boy, we don't see each other much My boy, we don't see each other much It'll take some time But somewhere down the line We won't be alone

[steel-designs]

Tigerclaw / Tigerstar I

[krabbu]

Poor Antpaw! Double-killed by Ivypaw in the books, disappearing forever... This comic is both a parody of a real shitty comic convinced that DND is a gateway to satanism, and of both how the books and artists view antpaw. Part of my goofy chic tract parody series. :3c

[rookflower]

Curlfeatherrr

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Dark Forest Resident: Talonpaw

Aliases / Nicknames: Little Light, Precious son, Darling Dear

Gender: tom

Sexuality: homosexual

Family: Sorrelhare (mother), Greystrike (father), Ferretkit (brother)

Other Relations: unnamed mentor

Clan: WindClan

Rank: apprentice

Characteristics: has trouble identifying and controlling his emotions, impulsive

Murder Motive: wanting to be seen for who he really was

Number of Victims: 2

Number of Murders: 1

Murder Method: neglecting help, pushing over a cliff

Known Victims: Greystrike, Sorrelhare

Victim Profile: his parents, cats that don't love him

Cause of Death: killed by a fox

Cautionary Tale: ??

Story: 

Talonscar knew from a young age that he was unloved.

He knew it as soon as was old enough to understand why his father left to patrol so often, why his mother looked to him like he was her whole world.

That sounds strange, doesn't it? If he was unloved, why would his mother look at him like he's her everything?

Because it's a lie.

Before Talonkit came Ferretkit, his brother who died of sickness before Talonkit was born. The two looked so much alike--they were blood, after all. That similarity warmed Sorrelhare's heart. She felt like her dead son was back again.

It wasn't Talonkit she saw. It was never him. Only Ferretkit.

Greystrike saw the similarity too, which is why it pained him so much to see his new son, and why he avoided the nursery as much as he possibly could.

All they ever saw in him was what he wasn't--a dead kit he never even met.

It's hard to feel love when no one really felt it towards you.

Talonkit spent more than a few attempts trying to get the attention of his father, trying to impress him with how he caught mossballs or was the fastest to find everyone in hide-and-seek.

But Greystrike's smile--when it was offered at all--would be weak and quick to fade.

With his mother, Talonkit tried so hard to be scolded. He would hurt other kits, try to sneak out, tear up his nest. He wanted Sorrelhare to see him for who he was, not this perfect thing she was pretending him to be to make her feel better.

It never worked. Nothing ever worked.

Talonpaw was empty. How can you feel, how can you be at all, when all you're ever meant to be is someone who is dead. What does his emotions matter? What do his actions matter?

Of course the first time Greystrike bothered to talk to his son in three moons was when he needed help. They were patrolling together--Greystrike spewing some nonsense about how it was time they tried to bond.

Heartless excuse for a father should have tried that while Talonpaw was still in the nursery! For seven moons, he acted like Talonpaw was poison, and now he expected that all to be forgiven and forgotten?

But before Talonpaw could snap, a snake did the job for him. Greystrike had writhed on the ground, begging his son to go get help.

Talonpaw, frozen, could do nothing but stand and stare. His father's eyes widened at his inaction, but still Talonpaw only stood until at last his father's movements stilled to a complete stop.

As Talonpaw returned to camp without a word and curled up in his nest, his shock thawed to a dark glee.

At last Greystrike saw Talonpaw for who he really was.

It was about time his mother saw him too, wasn't it?

It wasn't hard to get her to follow him out of camp for a nice mother-son stroll. She would do anything to spend time with her Ferretkit. When they climbed up the rocky plateau and he told her to look at the view below, she did just that--and shrieked when suddenly there was no rocks beneath her at all.

If it had been any other day, he would have returned back to camp, trained for more moons, earned his warrior name, and moved on with a life that was now freely and completely his.

But not this day, because this day a fox had made its home on the moors.

Additional Information: 

--Talonpaw CAN feel emotions, but due to it not mattering what he felt or did for the longest time, he has trouble identifying what emotions he's feeling and how he can control them, which leads him to being impulsive a lot.

--This wasn't just want he thought! Greystrike DID ignore him because all he saw was Ferretkit, and Sorrelhare DID only see her other son in him.

--I'm pretty sure this was inspired by another story? But for the life of me I cannot find it, and it's been forever since I've seen it so I'm not even sure if it's actually based on anything. So if you find a story that seems similar, let me know so I can check! maybe it'll jog my memory lol.

[transmoonpaw]

Lykoi Antpelt lykoi antpelt lykoi Antpelt

[grumpytoby]

tiger dark headshots just for fun

[murkshade]

can this dude get a break

[endlesscats]

"No longer will we wait for the approval of dead cats to do what we know needs to be done. We will do whatever it takes to make RiverClan the strongest Clan, the richest in prey and territory, and the more influential...We will enjoy our living seasons to the fullest, and not worry about what lies beyond. And I will take you there!" — Splashtail