Sunbeam!

Every time I look up an ASC character for reference while drawing I find out they're not in the Clan I expected. This arc truly has everybody playing musical chairs with their Clans huh.

Noticing a trend among recent male protagonists and their sisters lol

A new set of siblings!

Firestar is such a fascinating figure because he really wasn't that much more impressive than any other leader in hindsight. He did great things, but he had a lot of flaws and he made a lot of mistakes too. And while he was respected during life, he's really become something of a mythic figure in ThunderClan after his death, and his legendary status seems to grow with each passing year and each new litter of kittens born who never met him. It's something that we've seen time and again with historical figures in real life too. And I find that so interesting.

On the one hand, it feels a bit late to be doing an "I'm so insecure because I'm a descendant of Firestar" plotline. You'd think if anyone was gonna deal with that it'd have been Firestar's grandchildren — especially Sparkpelt, since she looks like him — and not one of his great grandchildren born so long after he died.

On the other hand, though, I don't think Flamepaw's insecurities come from nowhere exactly. It would make sense if all of Firestar's descendants had some feeling of pressure sometimes to live up to their ancestry, and if Flamepaw is just feeling it more because he keeps messing up and taking it really hard. He wants his Clanmates to be proud of him and he's failed multiple warrior assessments because he keeps getting too caught up in his own head about it. And because he's obsessed with being descended from two leaders and the deputy, he keeps projecting onto everyone else and assuming they're always thinking about that fact too.

He actually reminds me a lot of his grandpa Bramblestar (back in TNP) in that regard. He's so fixated on his family line and the expectations that come from it that whenever he thinks someone is being unfair towards him, he shifts the blame to his ancestry and to his Clanmates.

Is Flamepaw overreacting? Yes. Is he being kind of ridiculous and unfair? Yes. But I can see how it all makes sense in his little brain.

A Troutfur for @troutfur! Super fun to draw!

River Ripple probably trying to teach Gray Wing to meditate. I liked what little of their friendship we got to see~

I'm starting to think SkyClan getting their home destroyed before anyone else was just karma at this point. Skystar did nothing with his life (lives?) but cause problems and issues huh.

Riverstar! He's a nice guy

Night: dude please stop trying to create a gang

River Ripple: I wanna be in a gang so badly 🥺

Juniperkit and Dandelionkit, aged up a bit

fire cats

Flywhisker and Snaptooth

my Lionblaze mini arrived today! thought it'd be fun to draw this design, hehe~

being fixated on something else while thinking about warrior cats will have you imagining the wildest AUs

yeah. these two again