momma’s boy

holds out darktail on the palm of my hand, or smoke

oh mother of mine, did I get my anger from you?

An AU where the father of Darktail is Ashfur, who had a brief relationship with Smoke due to him believing she looked like Squirrelflight.

Smoke/Ruby AU... Yeah (its a banger tho)

every day I thank @skinwretch for her

1. Jayfeather is what's called a blue-ginger point which basically means that a ginger cat only produces eumelanin or gray/black/brown fur on their points. I moddled him after an eurasian jay.

2. Hollyleaf is shorthaired and albinistic.

3. Tried to give sol solar eclipse colors, like a tortoiseshell cat but up and to the left. Also his pupils are dark purple-ish.

4. Firestar is a golden burmese cinnamon ticked tabby with lots of rufousing.

5. I changed her eye color to be brighter and added a name tag to her collar.

6. Idk if it's canon or fanon but moonlight being a main coon is pretty popular. And if you've never seen a main coon compared to a normal short/long-haired domestic cat, well tigerstar would probably only reach her shoulder if that. Wouldn't surprise me if main coons were bigger then some foxes. (Anyways all this to say tree/rootspring/needleclaw should all also be BIG)

[Image ID: The first photo is a digital drawing of head+neckshots of (from left to right in the top row) jayfeather, hollyleaf, sol, and (from left to right in the bottom row) firestar, smoke, moonlight from warrior cats. Jayfeather is a shorthaired light silver cat with cream markings that turn gray around his face, with light aqua eyes. Hollyleaf is a shorthaired albino cat, with pale blue-lilac eyes. Sol is a shorthaired dark black-brown cat with bright long orangey-yellow fur on his chest and top of head like a lions mane, he also has a white star on his forehead and faint freckles. His eyes are bright golden. Firestar is a shorthaired pale orange ticked tabby with a slightly darker face and bright yellow-green eyes. Smoke is a gray slightly longfurred gray solid cat with a purple collar and pale sea-green eyes. Moonlight is a longfurred pale solid gray burmese patterned maincoon cat with white spotting around the right side of her muzzle and her right eye. Her eyes themselves are a pale icy blue. The background is gray with a darker center.

The second photo is a list of cat design. prompts written by Andy/Vanillaleap. The first one is personal interpretation. The second is opposite of canon. The third is realistic, the fourth is sparklecat. The fifth is official art design and the sixth is based on a breed.

The third photo is a picture of an average cat lying next to a main coon, which is about twice it's size, on a bed./ End.]

RUBY IS SMOKE SO BASED HOLY SHIT. thoughts on that?

I'm absolutely a Ruby is Smoke truther.

She is Firestar's half-sister, and Scourge boots her and Socks off of Bloodclan turf without a meal. He wants nothing to do with his siblings. He won't forgive them until later in his life.

Ruby and Socks wander the area, but sadly, Socks passes from starvation. Ruby's loud crying attracts the attention of a kind elderly woman who just lost a cat herself. She takes Socks' body and buries him in her backyard, while taking Ruby in to care for her. Not knowing Ruby's name, she names her Smoke.

Smoke takes to it well, the old woman is nice! She's got great food, and when Smoke is good, she gets chicken off the woman's plate!

But... It's scary. What if she's abandoned again?

When the old woman's mind begins to fail, feeding times get inconsistent, and Smoke panics. It's going to happen again. Maybe being a housecat isn't so great, maybe being wild would be nicer. Her new friend Onewhisker's always going on about how great and heroic Windclan are... How everyone is so wonderful and always takes care of each other... It must be perfect!

She has no idea Onewhisker is lying, making up hero stories not only to look better but to feel better. He hates being in Windclan, and longs for the safety and security that being a kittypet would bring.

They clung to each other, they were never in love, they loved what the other one would bring.

When Smoke gave birth, she only had a single kitten, Darkkit. She brought him to the Windclan border, and Onewhisker, thinner than usual, told her no. That she and Darkkit couldn't join Windclan, not now, not ever.

She didn't understand, and Onewhisker didn't admit why. Rabbits were sick, the moor was being destroyed, she would be safer away from the moor, and he wanted to go with her but... Tallstar was so sick, so weak, he couldn't handle Onewhisker leaving, he was still strong enough to keep helping, keep hunting... And the political atmosphere in Windclan at the time was very unaccepting of outsiders. Onewhisker's father Mudclaw was deputy.

He needed to be mean enough that Smoke wouldn't come back.

Smoke raised Darktail with love, and hate. She was always telling him he was better than other cats, that one day he would destroy the Clans and make them pay for their unfairness... But to also be a good boy, be kind to others, help others out. Everyone is as important as Kin.

He would twist these words.

Smoke dies around the time of late OOTS, her age catching up with her. Darktail's heart was broken, the only cat he ever loved was his Mama, and he would destroy his father in her name.

Her spirit resides in the same realm all Kittypets get to go to, she hangs out with Socks, Quince, and Scourge, as well as the kind elderly woman. She is sad her son turned out the way he did, and wishes to see him again one day.

OH OH…. for the pride icons nonbinary ruby or smoke pls thank youuuu….

happier times

biblically accurate ruby designs:

chimera ruby

albino ruby (fight my ass on this on)

vitiligo ruby (trust me on this one guys just. trust. me.)

vibrant fur to dull fur ( depressed cool gal who can mask really good gal to depressed 50 year old)

gray to dark fur

"Killing Needletail is a better punishment than if I killed you. You're so attached to this treacherous cat, you're more afraid of her death than your own. I want you to know what it's like to live with the pain and grief of losing the one cat who befriended you and took care of you."

Darktail said this to Violetshine as if he knew what that was like, too.

Smoke. That was Smoke, his mother. Smoke loved him and cared for him, when his own father wouldn’t. Smoke, I think, was the only cat Darktail ever truly cared for.

My headcanon is that she drowned.

For the song thing... Ruby/Smoke (aka Smuby), Pinestar, and/or Quince

CHOOSE YOUR DEPRESSED PARENT(S)

dear GOD for PINESTAR:

read the lyrics im not sure if anyone else sees it but i do and i feel very strongly about it and for smuby teehee

listen to the whole thing i promise. and its arguably... a lot more of a feeling rather than matching the lyrics perfectly. ive had an animatic with her in my head for this song specifically

some nextgen doodles because i’m attached :3 pool and grammy on the top left, timber and his very patient moms on the top right, and pandora rocking a bloodclan jacket on the bottom

"Good-bye, then! But if you change your mind, don't even think about sneaking back!"

Smoke is a gray she-cat with soft fur and blue eyes.

Notes:

- Ex-spouse of Onestar, mother of Darktail

uhh

darktail and/or smoke? ive been thinking abt them a bit lately

SMOKE

hate when ppl make her a villain who manipulates darktail tbh. she is well within her right to hate the clans and onestar if she wants to

i think she was likely a very good mom :>

very serious, doesnt smile much

cis molly, demiromantic pan

redesign!!!! also gonna add a poll

I think the fact that Heathertail named one of her first kits Smokekit should be thought about more