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Gnarlstar (Ref subject to remake)

NAMES: Gnarlkit, Gnarlpaw, Gnarlpelt, Gnarlstar GENDER: Cis Female GROUP: MossClan ROLE: Leader BIRTH MOON: - 101 BAFE (8.5 years BAFE) DEATH MOON: N/A PERSONALITY: Gnarlstar is a gloomy and clever teacher. She can be quite strict and brush off feelings as something that can be ignored in face of greater good. She is quite pessimistic when it comes to cats, but trusts her clanmates enough. Gnarlstar is not kind to those disabled by life, as once her deputy lost a leg she began to look for replacement, believing him to be incapable of being leader. But at the same time, as she aged, she grew distrustful and spiteful, feeling jelous of her once-candidate for new deputy. As an elderly leader, she sits mostly in her den, giving orders and watching her clanmates. She wasn't very loving mother, but was attentive and raised her daughter to be a clever and useful warrior. There was no need for love. They are all only leaves and branches in this large tree of life, and individual will is meaningless in the large scheme of things. Still, it is no excuse to slack off.

HISTORY: Gnarlkit, along with her littermate Dogkit were born in MossClan. While Dogkit was exiteable, Gnarlstar was more withdrawn and rational. They both were excellent and talented apprentices who never got in trouble.

Gnarlpelt was an excellent teacher, she kept discipline tight and taught her apprentices the skills they needed to survive as well as often quizzing them to make sure their minds stayed sharp. She was strict, but mostly fair.

As leader, she was strict and closed off to other clans, even LindenClan who often offered aid. She wanted her clan to be independent and didn't trust Lindens generosity, believing there is a hidden motive behind their good mask. Her attitude lead to increased conflicts with MossClan's longtime rival, FalconClan.

One of those wars took place after the clans setteled in new territories. Gnarlstar grew paranoid by careless actions taken by warriors of FalconClan. She decided to attack first, constantly bickered with Miststar and even spat in the young leader's face. Gnarlstar only ceased her open antagonism once a former house cat turned warrior Gravelgrain died in a battle, crushed by tree. It was a clear sing StarClan was displeased.

Right after, a young warrior named Ridgecrest, whom Gnarlstar trusted more than other cats had kits with FalconClan's healer, Paleswan. Instead of keeping the kits, she gave them to their father, which enraged Gnarlstar. She felt betrayed by a warrior who had so much potential. She exiled the molly.

After the war ended, Gnarlstar ordered her cats to look for a certain molly, who left her kit several moons ago in MossClan, because she couldn't take care of it. The cat named Rose was found and invited to the clan. There, she was renamed Rosestripe. Gnarlstar grew to like and respect the molly at first, but grew jelous of the popularity Rosestripe had. She was not only pretty, but also loyal and unafraid. On impulse, Gnarlstar tried to make her relationship worse with other cats, but this failed. Not only she was liked, but also several cats, including Gnarlstar's own grandson had romatic feelings for the ginger molly.

Gnarlstar withdrew into her den, unsure what to do. The only cat she found comfort was Newtburn, in her mind the only cat who stayed loyal to her…. Whom she grew to love romantically. Another cat she grew to trust was Storkmeadow, an orphan found with her siblings by their dead mother and adopted by the Clan. This young molly took her duties seriously and always helped other cats out, impressing Gnarlstar. She only hopes that Storkmeadow will be able to train up a good warrior before Gnarlstar herself looses her last life. Thankfully, a warrior named Bullfinchwing had kits around the time, which gives the leader perfect oppurtunity to test the molly. When Sunstar, new leader of LindenClan, accidentally tresspassed onto MossClan territory, Gnarlstar threw a fit and refused to back down from antagonizing LindenClan because of this. It did not matter that LindenClan has been recently shaken by a boar attack that killed two warriors and two kits, and it did not matter that LindenClan was not in any way antagonistic in past years. As if sent by StarClan, Gnarlstar got a heatstroke around the time, which allowed Spiderweb, MossClan's healer, to handle the situation. Thankfully, LindenClan understood and held no major grudge.

Sorry the pages are taking so long, had and still have several things on my head (finished second year of uni, had to find a work place for practice in which I have to spend 8 hours a day, entered artfight and broke my glasses, without which I cannot even see my laptop).

But I will start working on the page today the moment I will be done with work.

Gonna retcon some ages. I made cats too old for what I had in mind, because I applied (probably misunderstood) house cat ageing to them.

While not fully wrong, I still think I overshoot it. Hopefully I won't undershoot as well.

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Page 1 is done! I hate buildings lol. Next time Im using blender or minecraft. Idk why but nature comes more easily. Maybe because its more chaotic.

Was busy with Uni, but now I can go back to working on pages, so here is another preview (from the same page). I also need to redo lineart for some panels in page 2, because they just look bad.

Valleystar of CaveClan

Second leader of my main Clangen file, Valleystar. An abandoned kitten who held onto her loose bow as the only good memory of her childhood. Childhood that she now barely remembers. She still holds onto it however and doesn't let anyone, even her supposed mate mess with it. Personally trained by previous leader and founder, Earthstar, Valleyriver inherited his self-assurance. She never explains her plans, feeling no need to and expects others to listen. Failure is not an option for her, though she so far has not been an aggresor in any war. (That last one may change, because I decided to reset other clans cuz their story files were... a failure beside very few instances.)

This is a test drawing made a while ago in krita only (Im more used to using Paint Tool SAI)

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Page 2! I hope to get out page 3 sooner than this one. This page would have actually be done ealier, but I couldn't decide on color scheme for the next scene for a while.

If anyone is wondering, this takes place around late 1800s to early 1900s in Poland. I haven't decided on exact date and it's not overly important, but it does play a role in why ShadowClan wants to move from the city.

Anybody has their brain so rotted by Warrior Cats that every time they see a full moon they are like "Ah yes, tonight is The Gathering."

Because I sure do...

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Sorry it took so long to finish this. I was honestly surprised how I managed to do the rest of the page in one day.

In the background we can see bunch of other ShadowClan cats, specifically two young warriors named Tallcloud and Viperleap (white cat and orange cat that were sleeping) and two mature/ageing warriors, Tigerbelly (the one on top of the wall) and Morningbird (the ginger one guarding). I will upload one of these guys refs during the time between this page and the next one. Likely Viperleap and Tallcloud will be first. I also should probs do some kind of alleginces in form of headshots, but the problem with ShadowClan is that they currently have very loose membership requirements, so many cats don't even live in the camp. Maybe I'll just do the ones that will follow Spottedstar to the forest, dunno.

I decided ''fuck it, we ball'' and started making Warriors comic.

Have a preview. I hate buildings lol, thankfully they will have limited apperances.

Very loose style, cuz I just find it fun when doing it on krita.