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nightly-ruse · 1 year

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I’m sorry @spottyissleepwalking bc I know ur on a lil hiatus and this is out of nowhere and in top of that unreasonably long but I wrote PolyPO3 thing lol. It was actually just a test writing I started for my own au with Moth after Hawk’s death bc Leafpool leaves to go with Crow which hurts her a ton. But then I just started with a few cats as maybe a poly situation till I realized this is straight up ur au. Um so here sorry if it’s poorly written I’ve never posted any real writing things I’ve done:

A Dream Dappled in Light ; PolyPO3 Story Snippet

It was such a calm day, the air cool and breeze soft. The lulling sounds of the river a song to her ears. And yet a tension built in her chest like she’d scented a fox near camp. As she tilted her head up Mothwing saw the sky, bright but clouds dotted around, waiting for their chance to swoop in and cover the sun’s warm rays. These kind of days were as slippery as a pike. While they could taste great and feed everyone they could also turn and deal devastating damage to anyone around. She used to love days this nice but every sound made her mind turn and heart flutter. A belly of butterflies.

Saying that just made her taste bile. Butterflies could never be beautiful to her eyes. Not after she’d stumbled upon her brot- Hawkfrost’s corpse devoid of life covered in them. She remembered with a shudder running up and watching them all fly away to show her the stake through his chest. Ever since that day at the lake she couldn’t stomach seeing one without envisioning him.

He couldn’t hurt her anymore or anyone else. But it still stung without him. All her memories felt tainted, poison to think about. Moth just willed one day they’d go back to the nostalgia they used to be. But today wasn’t about butterflies or hawks. It was about Leafpool.

It was the dark moon. Where no light could shine through and peak at them. Leafpool told her she’d chose this night because she couldn’t stomach her ancestors watching her break the code in so many ways. Though Moth didn’t really get it she didn’t mess with it. It wasn’t her place to prod someone else for their beliefs just as it wasn’t theirs to ridicule her for not having any. Still she did find some annoyance at having to trek through the pitch black to try and find the blasted island where they’d planned to meet.

The island was rather bright with flickering fireflies across it lighting up the place. What could have been if he’d had his way, making this Riverclan’s. Her home. But that didn’t happen and it was now where all the clans would meet to share news and tales with each other.

Her pelt was dripping so she decided to sit and groom as she waited. It was only a bit before another cat pushed through the thick ferns across from her. A pure white cat with feathery fur and eyes like hail. Snowbird.

The Shadowclan molly came through and quickly met her own eyes, giving a regal nod before flicking her back foot to get a spot of mud off. Between the cats who’d all come close over a shared love for Leafpool Snowbird was her favorite. She was always very open, clear as glass, and knew how tell a snappy joke to keep the conversation smooth. While the two didn’t consider eachother mates they did have a friendly bond over the fact both held the normal Star based beliefs. And having come from outside the clans.

“Hello Mothwing. When did you get here?” The molly asked as she padded closer.

“Oh just a few minutes. It seems we’re both early as usual.” Mothwing said with a small chuckle.

“I don’t know why you ever dry your fur. It looks beautiful with water sparkling off it. Like dew in the early morning grass. Though being damp all day would be quite a pain especially with your long fur.” Snowbird said as she admired her friends golden fur. A bashful thanks was shared before they shared some small talk. Hearing the molly speak always calmed Moth down, her slightly different accent that was smooth as the calm waters was almost a lullaby to listen to. Her voice reminded Mothwing almost of her mothers though far more washed down.

The two were just talking about some feathers they’d found when the final cats pushed through the fern gate where the other three clans crossed through. A beautiful black molly with eyes like perennial blooms and crow feathers in her fluffy mane. “Nightcloud” Mothwing breathed out with a slightly flutter in her chest. While they were all close, she’d always had a small aesthetic crush on the beautiful cat. I mean how could you not? She was both sleek and fluffy with fur so dark it could blend into the night sky and eyes that blossomed from her black pelt. And her attitude definitely led to the great admiration she held for the cat, she was sassy and tough with a rough tongue and fight like a roar in her throat always there to startle those who only saw her as a pretty kitty.

Just behind her was the less favored Crowfeather. While he was quite the perfect Windclan cat with his build and looks he always was incredibly unbearable. No fancy words or much good will he always killed the feel with some ruse words. She never got what Leafpool saw in him, especially not enough to consider being real mates with. Not even friends could seem to bare his rudeness as his few ones were pretty distant from him and always finding excuses to get away from him.

At last the cat of the night pushed through. Immediately setting her heart alive. She was pretty clearly nervous as her eyes looked to the ground instead of at the cats around. It took every ounce of energy in Mothwing not to go up and comfort her but she knew this wasn’t the time. And apparently some pretty big news was to be said tonight to the cats gathered.

At last she started, though as she spoke her paws rubbed her belly softly. “Umm so hi uh all my ma-mates. I just um have some pretty big things to uh share tonight that I can’t wait to say any longer. Um uh I’m, um I’m expecting.” The last words were much quieter but still everyone heard. Mothwing didn’t even think about the cats around her as her eyes widened. Barley noticing as she got up and walked forward to hug her true love. She felt a rumble in her chest as she purred. Visions of little paws trampoline her side, claws clinging on as she ran around with the kits on her back, small fangs chomping on her tail as they grew. It was like she transferred the dreams in her head to Leaf when she looked into her green eyes as the same light she felt inside shined back. Two other cats, Snowbird and Nightcloud came and and cuddled beside them as well as all the cats discussed the idea of kits to share. That was until a rough voice called from a bit behind Mothwing.

“But who gets them? I mean they can’t just be shared equally between four clans that’s a dung lucked dream. You can’t just rotate them across borders or else they’ll never find loyalty with a group.” Crowfeather scoffed as he stared at the clump of cats, the light she felt in her heart dimming like a crushed firefly. “And Leafpool you can’t believe everyone will just agree to such a idea especially as their atleast healer born on one side, not including Mothwing. Unless you want to be scratched down to a heartthrob healer I don’t know if you can even keep them.”

Those last words felt like a scratch to her own cheek and Moth held back from leaping straight at the feather brained tom. The cat beside her didn’t have as much strength as Nightcloud jumped over her and pushed him back a bit. Clear anger in her magenta eyes. “You vulture tongued, fox hearted, half rotted corpse of a cat take that back!” She screeched with rage, like a shadow had come to life to get the cat for being so stupid with his words. And from Crow’s sharp bristling pelt she knew he’d gotten a real shake.

“Night calm down! He’s right. We can’t have the kits be lost without any loyalty and you all could loose so much from this. I know we all want them, atleast most of us-“ she whispered with a hurt look to Crowfeather “But they can’t just live their lives between all of the clans. We need to figure out how to work this out before I start showing and how we’ll explain it.”

The island was silent as they all thought but the quick scratching of claws in the dirt made head turns to the quickly moving white molly. Snowbird was scratching some idea she’d had into the dirt and they all watched with curious eyes. As she sat back and looked down at her work, clear thoughts behind her eye, she looked up at them all. “We don’t know how many will be born or the real consequences of this whole relationship will be but I personally don’t care about any issues unlike some rubbish pelt. But we could rotate the kits across the clans until they themselves choose where they’d most like to be, or if they can’t choose one find a way to have them move between clans. That way no parent is cut from the kits and they have full choice on how this works.”

As she finished the light in all their eyes form before brightened back, almost brighter then before. Hope for them all to have a paw in their first litters setting the whole cats heart ablaze. All for one. Crowfeather still sat back as if his spirit was made of ice. They all rolled their eyes as he opened his mouth to speak once again.

“Your all blind! What mole minded plan this is! Psh and having worries about any consequences isn’t gross or whatever ‘rubbish’ means Snowbird that’s just having ambition unlike the rest of you. Personally I would trade my whole future for some kits between a ton of cats who clearly care about eachother more then they do me.” He said with a icy tone, bringing his paw up to lick at the end to show he isn’t bothered by any comments. While he may not know what rubbish is both her and Snow did and it described him quite well, stinky trash he was.

“Alright Crow you can back out no one minds. The kits don’t ever have to see you as any father and none of us will mention your barley there paw in all of this. Go back to Windclan and cry about how Onestar keeps passing you up for deputy none of us like the sound of a screeching bird anyway.” Mothwing sliced with a look back at Leafpool. While she never saw what the molly ever could see in him she knew now that she definitely lost that love when he said he’d trade their kits for a higher role in the clans. None batted a eye as he puffed up his chest and walked back through the fern gate to go to Windclan. All the cats turning back to eachother to discuss any names or ideas of how to break the news, what clan they’d go to first, if they’ll come by Thunderclan to help with their litter’s birth. Talk of seeing them grow made all the cats giggle and laugh.

Mothwing hated to turn around as she saw the pinpricks of early early dawn. She felt such a push to stay beside her mates side. And she could see the same power struggle in Snow and Nights eyes. Leafpool seemed to be having a hard time pushing herself out of the cuddle pile they’d made for the night around each other. But all the cats had to go back to their clans. With licks on the ears and soft touches of the nose Mothwing turned around to swim back to camp. The whole paddle and trek back thinking of soft bundles beside her many mates bellies, kittens protected by her fur from the cold, teaching them to fish and catch fish or identify herbs. The butterflies in her belly weren’t so vile as she realized they weren’t to make her reminisce on the past but to expect the future and what it could hold. Smiling she pushed into camp as kitten played around her mind.

#polypo3 au #I’m sorry it’s so long I got so carried away lol #also snow and moth are like a qpr while mothleafnight are romantic #also sorry for the crow slander I just do not care for him one bit and imagining all the cats being so annoyed by him makes me laugh #I have a shitpost in mind I kinda want to draw for it but I did make him pretty volutile. or atleast real unlikeable #snow and moth both know outside clan words from their bacgkunds so they use a lot more creative insults and phrases #night cusses a ton. she’s just always cussing and once moth teaches her the word fuck she can’t stop saying it #the three will be named the same but Jay after snowbird. Holly as a nod to both moth and leaf as healers. and lion bc of his similarity to-#nights uproarious anger and general lion-like appearance #ruse writes #snow has ocd as well sorry I just have to make her ocd city cat. her and moth also both collect feathers #after this night changed her feathers for like jay feathers or some to represent her mates #nightcloud #leafpool #mothwing #snowbird #crowfeather

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disordersgirl · 2 years

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i think designing warrior cats are one of my favorite things to make because i can sillyify them as much as i want and make their designs only make sense to me

#like giving hollyleaf lots fur and neck fluff to make her look similar to leafpool #they r so silly i like to draw little kitties with unrealistic colors and patterns

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angstywildcats · 5 months

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🍂 Disgruntled Leafpool sketchpage 🍂

While Leafpool has a gentle personality, I have a lot of memories of how she develops a lot of sassier moments in later TNP (and probably onwards). I don't think it's ever touched on enough, and this poor girl goes through quite a bit. So here's some exploration for it!

If you like what I do, please consider supporting me! My laptop I use to draw has been in a bad state and I'm saving for a replacement. https://ko-fi.com/rookruff

#my art #warrior cats #leafpool #jayfeather #squirrelflight #sorreltail

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cryptidclaw · 4 months

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Star Firesight!

Bonus! Healer/Second Firesight:

And Outsider/Apprentice Rusty/Fire:

Design Notes:

I redesigned him again despite saying I would stop doing that... Prev design and old bio here.

He still has a lot of the same features as my previous design, i mostly just changed his pattern and coloring! I wanted him to be a rustier color!

I also changed his cheek fluff to be round, mostly just for an interesting face shape! his cheek fluff hangs a little more flat when he's older just to give him a more matured look (hes been thru some shit, his cheeks hath deflated)

Character Bio:

Star Firesight

(Fireheart/star)

Bisexual & Polyamorous; Trans Tom; he/him

Age as of 1st arc's beginning: 7 moons; 11 Hyrs

Age as of 1st arc's end: 2 cycles, 5 moons; ~26 Hyrs

Title meaning: -sight = this cat can spot things that others cannot; a cat with a close connection to the Stars; this healer receives many signs from the Stars; the healer may also be very good at spotting illnesses or injuries.

Outsider -> Healer -> Second -> Leader of Thunder Order

Mentor: Redtail (died) -> Spottedleaf

Mother: Nutmeg

Father: Jake

Sibling: Sapheart (Princess)

Half Siblings: Socks; Ruby: Tinyclaw

Mates: Sandstorm; Shriketail

Kits: Squirrelflight (sire: Sand); Leafpool (sire: Shrike); Foxleap (sire: Sand); Icecloud (sire: Shrike)

Grandkits: Star Hollyleaf; Falconstrike; Jaywing; Alderheart; Sparkfire

Other notable kin: Cloudtail (nephew); Snowshoe (nephew); Mistletoe (niece); Spiderleg (nephew); Shrew (nephew)

Notes:

Firesight has chronic pain (and mobility issues later in life):

Fire has the Scottish Fold breed's mutation which effects cartilage in the body, this causes his ears to fold, but it also causes chronic joint pain and can progress into swollen and inflexible joints.

For Fire, he is has the heterozygous version of this mutation, which means that his disability progresses more slowly, as a young cat he does experience some joint pain, with some days being worse than others. He is able to medicate with his own chronic pain herbal mix he created as a Healer. However as Fire grows older his joints will worsen, and by the time of his old age he will be unable to jump and some days is unable to walk.

He is able to still use his medication to aid him and is able to lead a happy life, but he is disabled and I didnt want to leave that out of his character! It's important to have disability rep (and spread awareness of the issues with the Scottish Fold breed) and I hope I serve him justice!

Character Summary:

In Progress (to be added later)

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[Image 1 ID: a digital drawing of Star Firesight, an AU version of Firestar from Warrior Cats. He is standing with his left side showing and has a proud and happy expression with a smile. He is a short, chubby and round shaped rusty orange and red tabby tom with small folded ears and green eyes. his chest, underbelly and paws are all a lighter shade of orange, and he has a red stripe down his back as well as a single red swoop shaped stripe on his side. He has red to orange striping on his face and red freckles on his cheeks. His right ear is brownish-black, he also has a small black spot above his nose and a black stripe on his back. He has a white flame shaped spot on his chest, a white muzzle, white paws and a white tail tip. He wears yellow flowers and green leaves in his pelt and a simple crown rests on his forehead made up of a diamond shaped red stone and a small teardrop shaped white stone below it./End ID]

[Image 2 ID: a digital drawing of Firesight, an AU version of Fireheart from Warrior Cats. this drawing is almost the exact same as the first image, but in this he has no crown./End ID]

[Image 3 ID: a digital drawing of Fire, an AU version of Firepaw from Warrior Cats. this drawing is almost the exact same as the first image, but in this he has no crown, or flowers and leaves adorning his pelt. his face also seems younger and he has a brighter happy expression on his face with his mouth open in a smile like he is talking./End ID]

#millionth redesign lol #cryptidclaw's warriors au #rise of change #firesight #firestar #fireheart #firepaw #firestar design #fireheart design #firepaw design #firestar au #warrior cats au #warrior cats design #warrior cats #warriors

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winepaw · 5 months

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thanks for so much love on my last post! i’ve been wanting to design warriors as horses for a while so it’s really cool to see how many people liked it :)) been thinking lots about leafpool so i thought i would try and draw her next <33

#warrior cats #erin hunter warriors #warriors fanart #leafpool #digital art #horse drawing #horse art #warriors #drawing

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timlets · 6 months

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a starless clan summarized

nightheart: my mother is so abusive and horrible so i'm making it my whole personality >:(

sunbeam and frostpaw(both with actual abusive mothers): dude that's so crazy

but in short it seems this arc has a lot to do with mothers and its hard to not draw parallels with how leafpool and squirrelflight were recieved by the fanbase as abusive and manipulative and it seems like the authors were like "You guys thought that was bad... I'll give you something to actually cry about," and looking back now i think its so curious to make sparkpelt out as a bad guy from nightheart's pov and then sunbeam and frostpaw's mothers turn out to be a million times worse so im wondering if this is gonna backfire on nightheart and make him be like Wow..my mom is actualy.. not insane thank you starclan amen.. or maybe nightheart will be like fuck mothers i hate mothers all of them suck idk lol

also i really like how sparkpelt and finchlight are besties with sunbeam now it's so cute...i don't think sunbeam and nightheart are gonna get along so well once nightheart comes back but maybe that's wishful thinking. also cherryfall was an ASSHOLE what the hell girl shut up

also im excited for frostpaw to meet sunbeam because in the excerpt i read it seemed she was curious about her which makes me like omg

but guys im not dunking on nightheart or anyone who thinks leafpool and squirrelflight are bad characters im just talking about this crazy narrative really.. don't argue witj me in the comments its annoying

#a starless clan #warrior cats #timlet talks #nightheart #sunbeam #frostpaw #curlfeather #berryheart #sparkpelt

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silverstellatus · 6 months

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Realized I haven't drawn The Siblings all together since... middle school? Middle school. Anyway Behold Them.

Bonus flat color version and me babbling nonsense about designs below

Ok I had a lot of fun designing all three of these fellas together... I don't have any decent pics of their designs, but I tried to include a lot of elements of Squirrelflight, Leafpool, and Crowfeather's designs in them. I'm going to list some of the features of family relatives that I included for each character because I just think it's fun.

Lionblaze:

Main fur color is from Leafpool's orange spots, and darker orange and brown markings are the same color as Squirrelflight

Classic tabby markings are from Sandstorm and Leafpool

Eyes color (green/yellow) is from Sandstorm

Eye markings are same as Sandstorm, similar to Leafpool (but do not extend to bottom of face)

Same tail pattern as Squirrelflight

Angry eyebrows from Crowfeather (matching Jayfeather)

Cheek fur shape from Crowfeather

Neck fluff from Squirrelflight

Ear shape from Leafpool

Jayfeather:

Eye color from Crowfeather

Similar fur color to Crowfeather (Jayfeather has slightly lighter fur)

Ear shape from Sandstorm

Classic tabby markings from Sandstorm and Leafpool

Body markings from Crowfeather

Heart shaped chest pattern from Leafpool and Firestar

Face markings from Leafpool

Neck band from Leafpool and Sandstorm

Angry eyebrows from Crowfeather (matching Lionblaze)

Cheek fur shape and face shape from Crowfeather

Hollyleaf:

Face markings from Firestar

Freckles from Leafpool and Sandstorm

Neck band from Leafpool and Sandstorm

Back stripe from Squirrelflight and Firestar

Ear shape from Sandstorm

Ear/eyelash/nose color from Leafpool

Same tail pattern as Squirrelflight

Cheek fur shape from Sandstorm

I'll have to make some drawings showing off all the connections between their designs at some point because incorporating details from the designs of relatives is one of my favorite parts of making warrior cats designs akshfdklsadfh

#warrior cats #warriors #not oc #hollyleaf #jayfeather #lionblaze #I just love how these guys look together #Even if they don't look super similar in terms of designs they still look very complimentary to eachother I think #What can i say. yellow green blue color trio good.

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rookflower · 10 months

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just like heaven

#warrior cats #warriors #wc #mothwing #leafpool #blood #animal death #ask to tag #have had this lyric comic idea for YEARS. round about since leafpool's death!! and finally decided to draw it lol #apologies if this is off canon bc i cant remember if we ever see the circumstances where mothwing learns about leaf's death #i think her angrier characterisation post-SqH and the revelation she believes in starclan now but distrusts them would be like #a lot more impactful if the erins remembered about this and that they were at least friends lol. but alas #willowshine

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kinda-daily-warriorcat · 11 months

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#Day 157 #Warrior Cats #Leafpool #Spottedleaf #A sketch I did using my fav Clip Studio Paint painting brush #This is a concept for a future drawing of Leafpool (black) and Spottedleaf (red - she's floating because she's a spirit)#Didn't have time to color this but I should try to use this sketch style for something colored in to see how it would turn out #It's a lot of fun #2023 Daily Drawing Challenge

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warrior-cats-rewritten · 16 days

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So I have a LOT of AUs, not all of them get talked about! A little list if some of the ones I like.

Cloud!Three - Leafpool and Crowfeather leave permanently, having their children in Skyclan. Cloudtail and Brightheart have their second litter earlier, Ambermoon, Snowbush and the renamed Dewrush as the Kin of Firestar's Kin.

Prophecy!Scourge/Tiny!Fire - Bluefur takes Tiny into Thunderclan, only to realize he is the subject of a Prophecy: The Night Alone will save our Clan.

Anthro AU - Exactly what it sounds like but every character exists all at once, mostly just for fun.

Power of Stars - Rather than being Firestar's Kin, there are multiple sets of Prophecy Cats, all related to the OG founders. Lionblaze, Hollyleaf and Jayfeather for Windstar. Heathertail, Galeshine (Galekit), and Harespring for Shadowstar (through Sun Shadow). Minnowtail, Willowshine, and Cloudsnap for Skystar (through Blackclaw, Primroseheart and Reedwhisker's dad). Flametail, Tigerheart and Dawnpelt for Thunderstar. Things get complicated when Skyclan shows up early for OOTS, bringing along Firefern, Harrybrook and Stormheart for Riverstar.

Warriorclan joins the Clans - Very self-explanatory. They come with Graystripe in the end, settling in a more remote spot in-between Sanctuary Lake and The City.

50% left version 1 - Great Battle was far more disastrous, every cat barring few has a 50/50 chance of getting killed.

50% left version 2 - Post-Avos. Darktail's massive fire along with a horrific storm puts all cats barring few on the chopping block.

Lakeclan - As The Great Journey comes to an end, the majority of Clan cats cannot bare to be rigid, separated groups once more. The Lake is governed by the 4 Leaders at respective camps, but borders are a thing of the past, cats are completely free to go where they please and get close to who they want. Of course, not everyone agrees with the new arrangement...

My Clangen AU - If I could draw, I would have made a comic series for these guys. A newly formed Clan, Moonclan, fights for its place to survive amongst the already pre-established Songclan, Leafclan, Moleclan, and Weevilclan. (Each Clan is tracked through alternate Clangen files, each with a different biome. Leafclan is Classic Forest, Moleclan is Tunnels, Weevilclan is Shipwreck, Songclan is Wasteland, and Moonclan is Crystal River)

Feel free to send asks about any of these AUs!

#warrior cats #warriors #warriors au #cloud!three #tiny!fire #prophecy!scourge #anthro au #power of stars #lake!warriorclan #50% left oots #50% left avos #lakeclan #clangen #leafclan #moleclan #moonclan #songclan #weevilclan

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