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Old Hunter (pl: Stary Łowca)

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Sunset over the frozen seas… Us (Prince Arctic and Foeslayer), during the only 5 minutes of our relationship when we weren't toxic to each other.

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I was listening to a podcast, and suddenly felt an immense need to draw an Icewing.

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Dawn Cats!

A feline species I made up, they're the Ancients (ancient tribe) from Jayfeather's time travels!

Big, powerful cats, living around the Lake Territories in three separete grups (tribes). It wasn't clearly stated in the books if the grup Jay meet and traveld with to the Mountains was only one Tribe or all of them (or at least I don't remember that 😅), but I hedcanon that the Dawn Cats were already at the dusk of their society during po3. After a series of epidemies and internal conflicts, their numbers declined drasticly, and their Healers desided to mearge into one grup. The Twolegs showing up at the Lake was only a final nail in the coffin, and made the already existing thoughts about leaving their home more urgent. After that, you know the drill, Jay's Wing/Feather shows up, the Tribe votes go or stay and they travel to the Mountains. Forming the grup known as the Ancient Tribe and later giving rise to Tribe of Rushing Water, ThunderClan, ShadowClan, WindClan, RiverClan and SkyClan.

Geneticly they're sitting somwhere at the base of the F. catus (and cousins) family tree (the wildcats/felis silvestris) Closer to the ancient wildcats then our domestic goofballs, but still able to hybridize and have fertile offspring. They're the resoult of an alternative timline in which the ancient humans who crossed the Bering Strait and later went to become the Native Americans, brought their own primitive wildcats companions with them (assuming they had any). Those kitties later diverged into many other subspecies, but nearly all of them faced extinction, leaving only a couple still standing. The original Dawn Cats went extinct through hybridization with domestic cats, forming the Clans. The closest (geneticly speaking), and the last still alive in the u.s subspieces of the Dawn Cats are the Tribe of Rushing Water (still clasified as critically endangered though). The other desendants of the 'first kitties' are the Sisters (I'll talk about it in another post) also clasified as CR, and the Wildcats, that are still just your typical Felis silvestris grampia, but now living in North America. Becouse Erins writed Ivypool's Heart already after I made the USwarrior catsAU. (well, I have to work with what they gave me 🤣).

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It's more like a guideline I'll loosely base my new batch of designs off on, then anything super serious, I don't like restricting myself too much when drawing XD.

I'm planning on dropping a bigger post where I'll cover Dawn Cats history and culture in greater detail, so stay tuned!

disclaimer: I know that people who crossed the Bering Strait were hunter-gatherers and didn't really needed cats, but this addition would just be cute and help me ground my rewrite a lot :D

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Sora and Icicle, two fascinating cases of child soldiers gone really, really bad…

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Moon and her really helpful, eldritch Friendstalker 🤣

I really liked their dynamic in Moon Rising. I actually think that this might be one of my favourite dynamics/tropes in fiction 🤣. A character haunted/ manipulated by a powerful spirit, that wants to be set free/reclaim their power, but finds an uneasy alliance with them, that ultimately leads to the evil ghost forming some sort of a friendship/attactment with our character, whom he first considerd to be just a ,tool' on their way to *insert whatever's the spirits goal*.

(if u know any other story/fic with this dynamic let me know <3)

I'm pretty sad there's not gonna be any more chapters from Moon's pov, I kinda feel unsatisfied with this book, I'd like to read more about her and Darkstalker (as a mind ghost) and this Jade Mountain Academy highshool musical romance drama thing 🤣🤣🤣

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Sleekwhisker because I'm reading avos now, and she had somehow pushed her way into my brain.

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19. Tall Shadow (pl: Cień Wysoki)

One night I had a dream there was this beautyful Tall Shadow amv on Yt, and it had Dappled Pelt there, and Shaded Moss as well..., it was so amazing! so when I woke up, I searched the whole internet, but I didn't find anything... 😭

I love her, and I think, in the future, I'll might write a whole post about my headcanons and my takes on her 🤭

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I have just bearly bitten into avos (I'm on chapter 8 of Thunder and Shadow), but I'm enjoying it so far 😁!

I love NeedlePaw, she's so sassy and energetic, and yet she also have some real depth to her character (and unfortunetly this type of characters often lack it, on text at least{ everything can be fixed with the power of remembering previous books & character analysis 🤪. ,I say while pointing at Rosetail or; Sunny from wof,). Also her friendship with AlderPaw is so cute <3 (though he can be really annoying sometimes, and pushed into the narrative of a sad good boy, even though some of his actions are rather selfish and acted out of jelousy of his sister Sparkpelt, than purely sympathetic), (but {thx StarClan} his biggest annoying fase was only, at least for now, in the Apprentice Quest. Now in Thunder and Shadow he's much more enjoable!<3)

I also think NeedlePaw being this big sis/bff for Violetkit is an incredibly good plot point! (even though NeedlePaw is a really, really bad role model XD). AlderPaw and Twigkit's interactions are also really sweet!

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I just really don't understand why Jayfeather was made so, so pointlessly mean in this arc 😓, like I know he always was this way, but in po3 and oots it at least was more balanced, now it just seems forced and caricatured. I get him being annoyed and fed up with Sparkpelt and AlderPaw (after all, they are the new "true" children of his parents, and they live the life he once had, but was taken from him), but why is he so mean to everybody else? Why is he so horrible to Twigkit? ( like he is one of my Most Favourite characters, but now it feels like he's kinda boiled down to a stereotypical forced annoying plot device).

I'm probably gonna write a longer and more comprehensive analysis, after I'll finish Thunder and Shadow, because there's just a ton of stuff I wanna talk about! to much to write in one sitting.

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Spring is in the air <3

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18. Dewy Leaf (pl: Liść Zroszony)

"- What are you doing, skulking around over here? I'm going to have your kits! You promised you'd stay with me!"

They can never make me hate a girl abandoned without child support.

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17. Dappled Pelt (pl: Runo Łaciate)

I think that she and Cloud Spots are bff 😁

I used to ship her with Tall Shadow pretty hard, but ever since my perception on Shadow's sexuality had changed (she's aroace to me), I stoped doing it. I still think they're great friends though!!!<3

Her name in Polish roughtly translates to "Speckled Wool/Fleece" so that's why she's so fluffy!

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Those are a couple of characters from a book trilogy I came up with when I was 11/12, but I never really named this series 😅

The main characters are: HoneyShade and WhiteWillow but the books will also sometimes have chapters from the perspective of GoldenEye and a cat named SilverDust, but I havent designed him yet 😅 + one or two chapters from Flowerstar's pov.

The trilogy also have a side series of sorts called: The Adventures of Penguin the Cat and SunnySpots.

I recently rememberd that I made this (it's looong and pretty complicated, since those are my main OC's and I was developing this idea for over 6yrs 🤣 ) and when I was cleaning my cabinet I found some of my old artwork of HoneyShade and some drafts of this story.

There's a chance I'll draw more of them in the future, or mayby even share some of the story on here 😁

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16. Fluttering Bird (pl: Ptaszyna Trzepocząca)

Her death was so sad 😭, I hate it when kits die in Warriors.

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15. Quiet Rain (pl: Mżawka Głucha)

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14. Quick Water (pl: Woda Wartka)

Clear Sky made the scars on her muzzle, when he hit her in the face near the end of the Forest Devided, because she refused to help him save Star Flower and called her a traitor. (a valid reaction imo , considering what happend in the Blazing Star, I too would be hesitant to help her)

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13. Rainswept Flower (pl: Kwiat Słotny)

I really love her supporting Jagged Peak and their almost mother\son relationship ☺️ it was sooo cute.

and I think Bright Stream should'ev dated her insted of Clear Sky, it would'ev been better off for her