Welcoming Fall With Applepaw

Welcoming fall with Applepaw

I wanted to make the Kazuha drawing from my previous post its own thing bc I really liked it

I really went from having no opinion on this man to making fun of him to adoring him and assigning him the role of Heizou's far mellower counterpart

bc Heizou is a bottom and he needs his top lol

[Sorry for weird format/quality, these are very long image files]

Since these are so old and I'm likely not actually going to pick up on the story for these I'm just going to throw them out into the void of Warriors tumblr. I just wanted to make a bunch of cats with very out-there or incredibly bland but potentially valid names and give them wacky designs.

Rundown of the story: Main character is Hollyberry, she's best friends with Whisperwhisker and the medicine cat Sunmoon, the latter of which she has a mutual crush with. The clan leader Allstar's son Shootingshine likes Hollyberry too. Everybody in the clan is having some sort of relationship drama and there are no new apprentices or kits so tensions are high. This issue is partly resolved when Sunmoon and Hollyberry have kits (Turkey/Wolf/Ice/Coal), but because Sunmoon is the medcat this is considered A Crime. Allstar dies at some point and his son (who was the deputy bc nepotism yay) becomes leader. Jealous about Holly rejecting him, he decides to exile the two lovers and keep their kits in the clan, but Holly and Sun are able to sneak away with at least Icekit and create their own little clan.

More details about these guys:

Eclipseheart is Hollyberry's mom. She is killed after trying to steal kits from Morassclan to increase Woodclan numbers.

Snakeleg and Fangtooth are mates and at the beginning are the only functionally normal couple but they're not interested in kits. Everyone thought Snakeleg and Wormfang were going to be a couple but they're just very good friends. Everyone is surprised when Wormfang ends up with Whisperwhisker and they have two litters.

Swallowseed is desperate for a girlfriend. His parents Nutface (who was the previous deputy) and Milkpuddle died in a fight with rogues before the story's start.

Sassafrassshadow and Cloverfield both are kinda awkward and bond over it, eventually having feelings for each other.

Sassafrassshadow and Rootbeer are siblings. Rivercry is Whisperwhisker's younger half-sister. Fangtooth and Talonclaw are twin brothers.

Sunmoon is a chimera and uses they/he pronouns. Cloverfield doesn't mind what anybody uses. Beetroot has no gender, only bloodlust.

Shortsight ends up being made temporary medicine cat when Sunmoon is exiled. She hates this job. She hates this clan. Especially Rootbeer. He's always coming in with a hangover.

Allstar and Rockstar are secretly brothers. Nickelpaw is Rockstar's son.

Baybee is the daughter of Beeleaf and Baywatch. Baywatch named her after himself bc he's vain. Beeleaf died and Baywatch requested her warrior name. Baybee hates her dad. Baywatch is also Swallowseed's brother but left Woodclan because he wanted a hot girlfriend.

Splashpad and Flashfire are sisters. Splashpad and Steppestep are Marshpaw and Smokepaw's parents. Olivebranch is Birdwing, Earthstone, and Steppestep's dad. Batear and Steppestep used to be mates but split after their kits died.

Goldeneye, Batear, and Beeleaf are siblings.

Flashfire and Goldeneye are mates and parents to Lightning/Flame/Amber.

Mountaindew and Chickenwing's hellspawn are the four on the bottom.

There was another clan, Plainclan, that was destroyed by Morassclan and had some of their cats taken. These include Olivebranch's mate and Mudmask's parents.

I've been having a hell of a time with cat genetics lately. I had previously mentioned how much Emberdusk annoyed me (he didn't even have the full set of colorpoint markings) so I modified him a little. The one on the left will be his new design going forward.

I also tried my hand at figuring out how close I could get to his design in a more realistic cat. I had to figure out what his parents were first. So I messed with this generator and had to figure those out first. His sister having flame/cream points and him having seal and a darker main body color than white/cream was most of what I had to work with and I tried to get something for him as close as possible to a color that could look red, even if only by sunlight. Ended up with seal sepia and decided it was good enough.

Then I spent the next several hours determining Whitefern's genes so I could figure out what their kids would look like so I can design them. Oh boy. And I probably still got some stuff wrong I bet.

Redrew my Squirrelflight design a little bc I didn't like it too much and she wasn't fluffy enough

Not to be concerning but this idea has been floating in my head for a bit and I'll probably abandon it after this so here: Rootspring and Shadowsight are still hurt from the trauma of what happened in the Dark Forest and the loss of Bristlefrost, and sort of tumble into a relationship to cope with it. Root is an emotional wreck and Shadow is uncertain as to his worth as a healer so it's not exactly the healthiest. They have shit to work on.

I'm sure it's obvious that flowers aren't really something I draw a lot, but the ones shown are gladiolus, hyacinth (which are my two favorite of the more "flowery" flowers), calendula, and peace lilies.