Okay so it's April fools but this is not a joke. I think I may have inserted my childhood cat into warriors canon.
Back a couple years ago when there was the open submission on the official warriorcats instagram I made a comment about my childhood cat molly. I didn't think anything of it at the time and figured it would just get lost in the stack of one thousand comments forever. then a couple weeks later came the official poll with the story teams choices of kittypet name options, and lo and behold there was Mollypaw, at the bottom of the list. I picked her name and saw it was in the lower percentile of choices and figured that would be that. THEN came the official release of Thunder and in the park cats was Molly! Mentioned right alongside the other submission cats Waffle and Wasp. I cannot prove it, and don't know how I would contact Kate to even ask, but I am pretty sure that Molly has been immortalized in warriorcats forever. So I figured I should give her the design she deserves! This is a bit more complex than my average because I just can't help it and also can't imagine anyone will animate her ever except for me. Also the book describes her with amber eyes but I retconned them to her beautiful green as they should be.
just for those who can't log in to instagram to see the comment section here's the screenshot from the mentioned posts:
Here is a collage of pictures I dug up to reference with some of my dumb baby face as well! Rest in peace forever Molly, 1995-2010.
Shrewfoot! First appeared in the allegiances in Eclipse, her Mentor was listed as Ratscar. She has a little bit of characterization in Night whispers, during Flametails chapters, where she asks flametail to check her paw which is sprained. He goes to get her some poppy seed and Littlecloud intervenes and tells him how to wrap it in comfrey instead, since Shrewfoot sleeps too heavily on poppy seed. This is the first time I think I've seen something like a medication sensitivity in warriorcats, and think it would be pretty cool if investigated further. I think it's probably just that, but there is a possibility that Shrewfoot had some medical peculiarities that under certain circumstances were a limitation, and I wish (as a nerd) that there was more instances of either sensitivity or resistance covered in the training of medicine cats, and how often that may cause difficult illness or complicated recovery strategies. Perhaps it is why as such a young warrior she didn't survive the Great Battle, not as a primariy trauma but a battle and failure with illness due to drug resistance. But that is just speculation and I digress!
She is seen in the background of a few scenes in Night Whispers and doesn't appear on page again until the Last Hope. She is among the cats named as having perished in the battle with the Dark Forest, yet accidentally appears alive talking to Tigerheart in Dovewing's silence. The only speaking lines she has that are memorable happen in battles of the clans in a scene where Tigerheart is teaching shadowclan apprentices how to ambush patrols for battle. She's not a confirmed member of starclan in that we have seen her on page there but we can presume so since she fought on the side of the clans and was never seen in the dark forest.
Spottedleaf?
Number twenty-six, spottedleaf
She was done so dirty, could’ve been a great character but instead she’s :/
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"I know what it's like to lose kits, Oakheart. I wouldn't wish that kind of grief on any cat." — Graypool
Design note- Graypool has the Riverclan built while her sister has the Windclan built
Dawnpelt! She is a fave. Dawnpelt is the daughter of Rowanclaw and Tawnypelt, she was mentored by Ivytail, and temporarily by Spiderleg when Blackstar was having his faith crisis with Sol. She is the mentor to Beenose and Voletshine. in the Power of Three she is mostly just a cute kit and then 'paw, and she helps do the whole fake starclan sign thing with the three and Flamepaw. She is significant in the Omen of the Stars after Flametail dies in that she becomes convinced Jayfeather killed her brother and wants to see her cousin punished. When Flametail exonerates Jay the topic is just kind of dropped.
She takes Crowfrost as a mate and has Juniperkit Strikekit and Sleekkit in the Vision of Shadows arc. When Rowanstar is exiled Dawnpelt tries to convince her son Strikestone to come with them but instead Dawn stays behind with her kits in Shadowclan because Sleekwhisker says after Crowfrost's death She's all the kin they have left. When Darktail and the Kin are obviously bad she starts to organize Shadowclan member's escapes including Juniperclaw and Strikestone the day before the battle against Riverclan, and she tries to convince Violetpaw but she refuses. It's because of their conversation that Darktail catches Dawnpelt before she can leave unnoticed. She is murdered in the lake by Darktail alone and is considered missing, until she gives her brother Tigerstar a life for Hope.