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I was looking for Cornish Rex cat pictures for a drawing of my own and I think I found the reference image you used for Spindlestare lol

Axgvhjk fun fact before I saw this image I almost made her a Persian but I saw this spooky beast and knew this was what she was destined to be .

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I know this blog is on hiatus rn but I wanted to share my fun idea

Imma make up a pelt mutation for the Hawthorns inspired by the donskoy. They have patchy pelts which are more hairless in the warm seasons. Some have more fur than others as well!

The reason this mutation is in the kinship is bec some cats with the mutation joined the kinship due to them living in caves and under thick forests which block out a lot of light. These cats are sensitive to sunlight so this kind of territory helps protect them from it! Though the bad side to this is that the caves and forests are colder so they often have to wear coats even during warmer weather.

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hi

The Hawthorns and Spindlestare (pretty girl❤️❤️) really inspired me to try making my own warriors spin-off. Is it alright if I use the ‘Monarch’ title as well? I found it off google, not your blog, but I still felt uncomfortable just posting it, when someone did it before me🥺. I pinky promise I’m not trying to copy your stuff.

Thank u! And I love your posts on this and RoC!

Thank you!!

Ya go ahead use the Monarch title! I think I've seen some other ppl use it before me as well. It's such a fun title <3

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hiii hellooo i’m literally obsessed with these kitties….any trivia on trainee wasp :3

Thank you!!!

Wasp trivia: she really wants to be a Guard once she graduates but she is super worried Bone and Ash will be picked for the position over her.

I want to give her a gf named Yosemite who used to be a wanderer (equivalent of loner) but joined a different Kinship!

No matter how much she is groomed her fur will NOT stay flat, it is eternally spikey.

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Yeah!! I did get into Warriors first but I think during like. mid-late 2021 I had a good few months where all I read was Guardian's of Ga'Hoole. Took me months to track down the 4-6th books, so my reading was halted. But I now own the first 6 and a few of the later ones!!

Question, who's your favorite character? I have literally never met another person who likes the series before

yussss fellow Guardians loverrrr

HMMMM favorite character? I haven't read the books in a long time so my opinions would probably be different these days but I remember really loving Glyfie and Coryn/Nyroc I also love Nyra... she is my true fave because I love women villains (she's a terrible person a hate her and therefore she is great)

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I fucking knew the Kinship system of training sounded familler!

I also love the Guardians of Ga'Hoole books and you are so right for making a similar system because it's so cool!!

Yessssss

Fun fact I got into warriors more as a teen... Guardians of Ga'Hoole was the murder animal book series of my childhood. I love those fawkin owls <333

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how does your creative process work? i always struggle to have ideas and create worlds that still have cats but are unique with unique roles. any advice?

Ok so the biggest piece of advice I can give is don't get caught up worrying about if your story/world is unique enough! Everyone gets inspiration from somewhere, especially in fandom spaces! Plus with so many of us making silly little cat worlds, our ideas are bound to overlap!

Tbh I think some of the best ways to make your world come across as unique is to take inspo from lots of different sources and just mix them together in your own fun ways! Just think about different things that you like the world building for and make a world building soup out of them!

For the Kinship world I took a lot of inspo from The Guardians of Ga'hoole, I love the owl society in those books, I liked the idea of multiple roles that one could train to become a part of, I liked the more advanced tools, materials and weapons, I liked that the world took place in a post human extinction that is just never explained. I took all of these things and made them my own for the Kinships! I mixed together ideas from Warriors with TGoG and then customized it to fit the vibes and setting/environment of the Kinships!

Also speaking of environment, the setting of your story can really help make your world your own. Coming up with a cool place or just a place that you like a lot can really help in giving you ideas for your world and story! I love Yosemite National Park and California's Pacific Northwest in general so I decided to set the Kinships in a territory that is very similar to that area! Deciding this really helped me come up with more ideas, how would this society interact with the environment? How would they need to adapt to the seasons and world around them? What sorts of things would they eat? Ehat plants could they use for healing? What objects from their territory would they use as names? Idk.. it just really helps get the creativity flowing!

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Soothsayer Spindle'stare

MY ABSOLUTE FAVE OC EVER! MY SKRUNKLY!!!!

Character Bio:

Kinship: The Hawthorns

Queer (loves wife <3); what's a gender? (agender); it/she

Age: 3 cycles, 11 moons; ~31 Hyrs

Voice Headcanon: Entrapta - She-Ra - And The Princesses of Power (but like if she smoked a pack-o-sigs a day???)

Title meaning: -stare = uhh stares, like a lot, its weird, does it blink???; Soothsayer specific -> this cat can see into your soul and across the vail of death and see what your future holds

Role: Soothsayer

Mother: River'riddle

Father: Monarch Bat'flight

Siblings: Monarch Light'fall

Mate: Worm'soil

Other notable kin: Heir Night (nephew)

Extra Notes: her name was originally Garlicnose but after a series of polls I have decided on Spindle'stare as it's new name! Hooray!

Character Summary:

this ones long bec she's my blorbo, sorry not sorry :P

Soothsayers are born absolute weirdos, that's actually how a Kinship can tell that a cat is probably a Soothsayer. They are all not entirely there, because they walk the line between the living and the dead, this gives them the gift of foresight into the future and the ability to commune with the dead, but it also makes them distant, odd, they act like their minds are often in a whole other plane from regular cats.

In Spindle'stare's case, its just really kooky, an absolute creature. Though she is also very traumatized, which is kinda a given for Soothsayers... but it's even worse for her. As a kit her connection to the Stars was almost entirely cut off, and was instead taken over by the Dark Maw... The Maw wanted control over the Hawthorns, and becoming their future Soothsayer's spiritual source was one of the best ways to do this.

Deep deep down I think that Spindle knows there is something off about her spiritual connection, but she doesn't really process this at all. She pretty much believes that she has a normal connection and is totally talking to the Stars and not the Dark Maw. Sometimes she gets a random breakthrough connection to the Stars and is bombarded by so many messages and warnings from the ancestors she is pretty much unable to process it and just becomes even more confused and overwhelmed, acting even more strange than normal.

As a result of the Dark Maw's hold on Spindle, the Soothsayer has not been able to aid the kinship in ways it should be able to. During Spindle's training and apprenticeship the Kinship went through a horrible illness that killed many many cats, everyone questioned why Spindle was unable to receive prophecies foretelling these deaths, or guiding them to a cure... Spindle was simply helpless and useless in a time what the kinship needed a spiritual guide the most... This event has left the Kinship not all too trusting of Spindle's guidance, and has left Spindle lost and confused as to why the Stars do not with to help her.

Though Spindle seems like an old kooky lady she is actually only around 4 cycles old aka. in her early 30s in human years. Spindle was littermates with Monarch Light'fall, they were extremally close, and Light was often the only one who could keep her stable, in the present, and more herself. Spindle was devastated at Light'fall's death and she fell deeper into the spiritual plane as a result, only Spinde'stare's mate Worm'soil is able to bring Spindle into clarity these days, and it is far more difficult to do so.

Spindle spends much of it's time with her mate Worm'soil, they are one of the few cats who are not creeped out by her, they understand her and love it deeply despite it's strangeness. They were childhood friends, and grew even closer during the era of illness in their youth... both of them bonded over the extreme pressure on them at the time, Spindle with the expectation of life saving prophecies and omens, and Worm with the health of the Kinship as a Healer apprentice.

The two of them are now two fucked up middle aged women(ish) who are just trying to survive their high stress roles in their very problematic kinship... They can often be found hanging out on their lonesome together, with Spindle buried in Worm's fluff <3

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do you have any links to the clangen cat creator? i can’t have discord and was curious if there’s a possibility to do it w/o discord? sorry for bothering i didn’t know where else to ask

I do! Here is the link to the Github; and here is the link to the download page!

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so for the hawthorns story are you planning to write it? if so, what format? like comic, writing? sorry to bother you!

I have no plans to write anything big or doable comic /yet/ I would LOVE to do a comic at some point in the far future but for now the story and world is very bare bones and I am just posting as I figure things out!

Maybe when I feel like RoC has been completed (TPB-OotS) I will switch more focus to Hawthorns and my other personal stories! Tho for now RoC is my main project so thats what I'm spending most of my time on!

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Is it okay to show a characters age the same way you do for my own projects? eg. 2 cycles, 9 moons.

you’re the only person i’ve seen who does it tbh and it’s very inspiring!!

Ya go ahead!

Also thank you!! I always thought it would be easier if there was an equivalent to a year in cat world

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i apologise if this has been answered further back on your blog, i am new!

are any roles in kinships not allowed to take mates? like, how in warriors, a medicine cat can’t take a mate or family because it would “distract them from their duties”.

is it the same for soothsayers, herbalists or any other role?

There are no laws that dictate if a cat in any role can have a mate or kits, there is also no law against being mates with an outsider or other Kinship cat!

However! With Soothsayers it can be a bit more complicated...

Some believe that a Soothsayer will be closer to the stars if they do not take a mate or have kits. Because of this, many Soothsayers choose to never take a mate or have a family, however there are plenty who choose to do so anyways!

That being said... Soothsayers almost never have kits, this isn't just bec of the whole spiritual thing, its more so to do with how unstable Soothsayers are. They r not all there, and kinda live with half their mind in the Stars and bec of this they wouldn't be great parents...

I love Soothsayers they so fucked up, but they would probably accidentally traumatize their children 💀

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As far as I've heard the ' in between the two names came from WC roleplay on roblox, they did it so it wouldn't get turned into ####### in the chat.

I guess ppl just adopted it elsewhere. I heard someone say they found it easier to read.

HMMM interesting, this is what others are saying as well, though I wish I could find the original post that its from? that may be very difficult tho.

Also I understand the worry about it being appropriative, but it sounds like the community came up with it on our own, we didn't steal it from any cultures as far as I can tell. I will change it if it is decided to be a real issue, but currently I really like it, and it makes it MUCH easier for me to read

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Bonus already designed character sprites i made for funsies

Monarch Spider'web & Vice Moth'heart

Trainee Aphid + adult sprite

Trainee Wasp + adult sprite

Heir Night + Adult sprite! This has made me want to make his white spots vitiligo... I think it would be neat...

Clangen sprites !!

I made all the Hawthorns characters using the Clangen cat creator! it was actually really useful bec it helped me visualize them, and I have now added the sprites to the family tree! so now all characters have pictures!

Imma share the characters I haven't posted designs for below since its taking me forever to design them all lol

Soothsayer Spindle'stare (she missing her colored hears but I couldnt find an option for that); Warden Wax'hide (note: he's hairless)

Head Herbalist Worm'soil; Herbalist Apprentice Weevil

Head Guard Mantis'snare; Guard Owl'face

Guard Fungus'claw; Guard; Soot'storm; Guard Apprentice Geranium

Head Hunter Pine'fang; Hunter Poison'oak

Hunter Termite'tooth; Hunter Shadow'whisker (son and father, they both got neked tails and feet)

Head Keeper Plum'pelt; Keeper Grub'belly

Keeper Salamander'mud; Keeper Starling'song

Head Crafter Stag'beetle; Crafter Asphodel'weaver

Crafter Possom'tail (naked feet and tail); Crafter Apprentice Gnat

Trainee Ash; Trainee Bone (hairless)

Elder Apple'tree; Elder Boa'bite; Elder Bee'briar

Bonus dead ppl: Warden Lily'mist (Aphid and Wasp's mom); Herbalist Sheep'puddle (Lily's brother)

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Aren’t the names with the ‘ between not very good? I believe on wc-confessions someone brought up the issue of these being far closer to native names then the canon wc names already are. Sorry if I’m wrong just want to check!

I haven't heard of that? From looking up native names i haven't seen an apostrophe used? I could be wrong tho!

I use it bec its easier for my Dyslexic brain to read plus I just think it looks nicer! I can change it if its an issue tho!

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Clangen sprites !!

I made all the Hawthorns characters using the Clangen cat creator! it was actually really useful bec it helped me visualize them, and I have now added the sprites to the family tree! so now all characters have pictures!

Imma share the characters I haven't posted designs for below since its taking me forever to design them all lol

Soothsayer Spindle'stare (she missing her colored hears but I couldnt find an option for that); Warden Wax'hide (note: he's hairless)

Head Herbalist Worm'soil; Herbalist Apprentice Weevil

Head Guard Mantis'snare; Guard Owl'face

Guard Fungus'claw; Guard; Soot'storm; Guard Apprentice Geranium

Head Hunter Pine'fang; Hunter Poison'oak

Hunter Termite'tooth; Hunter Shadow'whisker (son and father, they both got neked tails and feet)

Head Keeper Plum'pelt; Keeper Grub'belly

Keeper Salamander'mud; Keeper Starling'song

Head Crafter Stag'beetle; Crafter Asphodel'weaver

Crafter Possom'tail (naked feet and tail); Crafter Apprentice Gnat

Trainee Ash; Trainee Bone (hairless)

Elder Apple'tree; Elder Boa'bite; Elder Bee'briar

Bonus dead ppl: Warden Lily'mist (Aphid and Wasp's mom); Herbalist Sheep'puddle (Lily's brother)