blog dedicated to a childhood obsession over angry, fighting cats who yell at stars, still somehow sustaining (actually i quite dislike this book series and do not recommend it)
Still alive probably, posting infrequently
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Warrior cats sketch book sideblog. Most sketches, scrappy other content will be here. Good art goes to @nestwrought but will be reblogged here if relevant
This blog fluctuates heavily in activity, depending on motivation/availability/interest! I really post what I want. I don’t think of the canon book series very fondly anymore, but I’m still finding my fun and joy here so I’m sticking around however I like.
A lot of content I create is canon-adjacent but sometimes adjusted for my own preferences, comforts, interests. etc. Please don’t use my work as proof to dislike/like the canon characters, and especially please don’t force my takes on characters on other people!
I am down to talk about thoughts on things, feel free to shoot an ask but if I never reply don’t take it personally!
I think I owe ya’ll a bit of postings for the meanwhile I get my bearings (the brightheart + fernpaw comic is definitely being finished.) so have an anim wip
A user on here callled cocolunaxd reposted some of your firestar art
ngl i saw that being mentioned on searches of my username but never knew who exactly the reposter was LOL
that’s kinda funny especially since its their only post. I’m not exactly sure what i can do about it- i’ve had friends try DMCA-ing reposts that end up with tumblr deleting their own posts as well, so the best anybody can really do is just add my credit in the replies. I appreciate those who’ve done that already, and have been polite about it. Seems like the person who reposted it just isn’t familiar with art etiquette
it’s been a hot minute since ive read warrior cats so i just wanted to ask what the relationship between ferncloud and brightheart is? and in turn the general premise of your coming surrounding them? im really interested!!
It has been a hot minute since i’ve touched a book too, anybody is free to correct me but. In canon, they really just were apprentices at the same time.
If you wana pepe silvia it up, it should be noted that the books however included that:
Fernpaw and Ashpaw’s mother is killed by the dogs
Swiftpaw would invite Fernpaw (and Ashpaw) to find out what’s been out there hunting down Thunderclanners (It should be stated that Swiftpaw, I think, did this for his Warrior name and wanted support. I don’t know if there was ever any mentioned other noble cause on saving his Clan or specifically his apprentice denmates)
Brightpaw and Swiftpaw leave, that whole tragedy happens.
Fernpaw is the one to confess to Fireheart (and Cloudtail, I think?) about where the missing Swiftpaw and Brightpaw’s whereabouts are. Which, theoretically helps Brightpaw be found in time.
The book never really shows them interacting otherwise, as far as I can remember, but Ferncloud and Brightheart also most likely shared time in the nursery together since they have kittens around the same era… which you never see because that’s in between The Prophecies Begin and The New Prophecy, and Whitepaw is an apprentice by then.
Basically I’m making mountains over underdeveloped molehills over side characters, but I think with what’s given, there’s a lot of emotional exploration to be had over it, while still feeling in-line with canon!
I should say as well, I was all particularly inspired by this because a couple of Warriors videos (‘Danse Macabre’, ’No one, Everyone, Your mama’) both included a shot of Fernpaw watching them leave in the night. It’s such a simple thing to include, but there’s a lot of weight to seeing your friends the very moment they leave to go on a suicide mission and one of them never coming back! What would have happened if you broke their trust and just told on them to not leave! Is it your fault they died!?
Soooo with all that being said, and my absolute hunger for just… more interpersonal relationships between characters in Warriors (which they fail me for even the main characters), there’s a lot of strong potential in this.
With my take on Brightheart and Ferncloud, I just see them as really good or bonded friends who grew up together. They go through a lot through shared trauma, and based on the tidbits of personality given for both of them, I think they also would get along. Fernpaw being timid, Brightpaw being caring for others. In my comic I’ve added a bit to also imply Brightheart agreed to go with Swiftpaw not only to support him but to do it for Fernpaw/Ashpaw as well. I hesitate to put any further label on it since… well, their children get together romantically so it would add to the tangle of bloodlines, but I def can see it as how some childhood friends have sibling bonds.
For the comic… you will have to see exactly what happens! It’s short, chill. Mostly conversational, just like the Shrewpaw/Ferncloud one but i hope it still hits emotional beats. I think something just fun to chew on while I make it is… How would it feel to watch your friends try hunt something that killed your mother, and only one survives, coming out of it extremely shaken. What would seeing her again feel like.
Perhaps I have talked to much, but I actually planned to do an extension of this comic where it timeskips further on where all the apprentices, grown up, visit Swiftpaw’s grave…. but I decided against this because. 1. This is already a lot of work to do this many pages. 2. It’s gonna be pretty long already, and I do not like making extremely long posts on tumblr. 3. I found a different way to end the comic I preferred.
Here’s the script. Perhaps maybe I’ll touch on it another while but admittedly after this I may be tired of exploring the Dog Incident for a bit.
ALT
Thank you for being so kind and inquiring! It’s very fun, I enjoyed explaining this.
Well! Good to know and also good to know nature is healing so much I didn’t remember this til you said so lmaooo
Kinda boring that they killed Brindleface after that, I might just ignore sequence of the events since everyone remembers broader strokes anyway, and it just overall feels more… narratively better for me? I knew about the Fernpaw telling Dustpelt thing though, which the whole thing squicks me for obvious reasons so I only put it in vague words
it’s been a hot minute since ive read warrior cats so i just wanted to ask what the relationship between ferncloud and brightheart is? and in turn the general premise of your coming surrounding them? im really interested!!
It has been a hot minute since i’ve touched a book too, anybody is free to correct me but. In canon, they really just were apprentices at the same time.
If you wana pepe silvia it up, it should be noted that the books however included that:
Fernpaw and Ashpaw’s mother is killed by the dogs
Swiftpaw would invite Fernpaw (and Ashpaw) to find out what’s been out there hunting down Thunderclanners (It should be stated that Swiftpaw, I think, did this for his Warrior name and wanted support. I don’t know if there was ever any mentioned other noble cause on saving his Clan or specifically his apprentice denmates)
Brightpaw and Swiftpaw leave, that whole tragedy happens.
Fernpaw is the one to confess to Fireheart (and Cloudtail, I think?) about where the missing Swiftpaw and Brightpaw’s whereabouts are. Which, theoretically helps Brightpaw be found in time.
The book never really shows them interacting otherwise, as far as I can remember, but Ferncloud and Brightheart also most likely shared time in the nursery together since they have kittens around the same era… which you never see because that’s in between The Prophecies Begin and The New Prophecy, and Whitepaw is an apprentice by then.
Basically I’m making mountains over underdeveloped molehills over side characters, but I think with what’s given, there’s a lot of emotional exploration to be had over it, while still feeling in-line with canon!
I should say as well, I was all particularly inspired by this because a couple of Warriors videos (‘Danse Macabre’, ’No one, Everyone, Your mama’) both included a shot of Fernpaw watching them leave in the night. It’s such a simple thing to include, but there’s a lot of weight to seeing your friends the very moment they leave to go on a suicide mission and one of them never coming back! What would have happened if you broke their trust and just told on them to not leave! Is it your fault they died!?
Soooo with all that being said, and my absolute hunger for just… more interpersonal relationships between characters in Warriors (which they fail me for even the main characters), there’s a lot of strong potential in this.
With my take on Brightheart and Ferncloud, I just see them as really good or bonded friends who grew up together. They go through a lot through shared trauma, and based on the tidbits of personality given for both of them, I think they also would get along. Fernpaw being timid, Brightpaw being caring for others. In my comic I’ve added a bit to also imply Brightheart agreed to go with Swiftpaw not only to support him but to do it for Fernpaw/Ashpaw as well. I hesitate to put any further label on it since… well, their children get together romantically so it would add to the tangle of bloodlines, but I def can see it as how some childhood friends have sibling bonds.
For the comic… you will have to see exactly what happens! It’s short, chill. Mostly conversational, just like the Shrewpaw/Ferncloud one but i hope it still hits emotional beats. I think something just fun to chew on while I make it is… How would it feel to watch your friends try hunt something that killed your mother, and only one survives, coming out of it extremely shaken. What would seeing her again feel like.
Perhaps I have talked to much, but I actually planned to do an extension of this comic where it timeskips further on where all the apprentices, grown up, visit Swiftpaw’s grave…. but I decided against this because. 1. This is already a lot of work to do this many pages. 2. It’s gonna be pretty long already, and I do not like making extremely long posts on tumblr. 3. I found a different way to end the comic I preferred.
Here’s the script. Perhaps maybe I’ll touch on it another while but admittedly after this I may be tired of exploring the Dog Incident for a bit.
ALT
Thank you for being so kind and inquiring! It’s very fun, I enjoyed explaining this.
ALT
