mini au where bluefur tells sunstar and about thistleclaw and tigerpaw's brutal attack on tiny and he reassigns bluefur as tigerpaw's mentor
i've always really liked this idea due to how it could sew those extra seeds of resentment for thistleclaw and make tigerclaw's eventual betrayal of bluestar all the more hard-hitting. i'd like to think that despite tigerpaw being a huge pain in the ass at first - having very little respect for bluefur (and it basically being the wc equivalent of a female teacher being assigned to privately tutor a misoginistic teenage boy obsessed with redpill content) - but she eventually begins to break down his walls a little with some tough love and positive reinforcement - something that thistleclaw mostly denied him
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.
I wanted to draw babies so brackenfur cinderpelt brightheart and thornclaw were the obvious choice
i wish the erins had expored dustpelt and squirrelflights mentor-apprentice relationship more
your favorite trans girl, squirrelflight!! for pride month. tho it is posting a bit late, on july 1st… but heY every month is pride month, right? ;D
edit: changed up the shading a bit
....may a littol itty bitty shinepaw and goldenpaw... maybe..?
If you’re still taking requests, may I request Bluestar and Oakheart? Those two are my favorite canon forbidden romance and I always imagine those dramatic 2008 Warrior Cats slideshow videos when I think about them.
Bluefur x Oakheart
Whorlpelt! He is Grassheart and Stonewing's son, sibling to Snaketooth and Flowerstem. He is an average kit and apprentice, born shortly before the Kin take over Shadowclan and apprenticed on Rowanstar's last day before the takeover. It's not revealed who his first mentor is, but it becomes Juniperclaw when Tigerheart returns from the city. I think Whorlpelt is a very interesting guy, because he tends to be opinionated for a background cat, eventually strongly opposing clan swappers in the Starless Clan arc despite having been an apprentice in the same den as Fringewhisker who is the cat he's trying to get to leave Shadowclan. Maybe it's because of the time spent in Skyclan not despite it, or the fact that Juniperclaw was his mentor, but I think it's just kind of fun. He has things to say and most of the time is blunt and direct about his thoughts and loyalties.
may i humbly request sunfish? (i’m #1 sunfish fan)
me too
finally finished my hollyleaf pmv 🙏 go watch it here on youtube!
cinderheart design by the beautiful @greenewidow and song is Mg1 by Machine Girl!
SQUIRRELFLIGHT DESIGN WOOO!!!
Leafpool will be done...! Eventually...!!
squirrelflight doesn’t look forward to visiting the medicine den anymore
that’s what sisters are for, right?
(ok to tag kin/me/etc)