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haven’t had a lot of time to do any personal art stuff, but happy pride month!!

#all my current lgbt characters on this blog! #everyone else is either currently undecided or cishet #but if they don't already have straight on their character profiles they'll probably turn out lgbt in some way lol #Blackleaf #lilyclaw #beetlecrawl #Finchstep #briarchirp #nightshine #fernwillow #specklefern #echoleap #most of these are just reused from their refs oop #like i said i haven't had a lot of time lol

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Bramblethorn

he/him | straight

Resilient | Cautious | Quick-Tempered

Mother: Emberfoot

Father: Brackenthorn

Siblings: Specklefern, Blackleaf(½-sister)

#the amount of re-designs this guy has gone through OOF #Character Design #oc design #warrior cats #warrior cats oc #character ref #Bramblethorn #thunderclan #redesign number uhhhh 200 #will i ever be satisfied with his design for more than a year #who knows

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:0 are you still down for hearing character stories? i have tons of others like toyontufts that id love to share

yeah go for it!! I can’t say how quickly I’ll get a response out but feel free to send as much as you want c:

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i'm upset that tumblr won't let me send an ask from my side blog lmao. I'm currently reworking my warriors oc story. The basic concept is that a kittypet (Wolfsong/Wolf) was travelling by boat with its owner, they had to stop cause they narly crashed on an island/town that doesn't seem to be on any maps. The humans leave wolfsong on the boat to try and find people as the bay/dock seems abandoned, after not returning for hours, wolfsong goes looking (1/?)

I don’t think part 3/4 went through ‘cause i can’t find it asdgskfh but holy crap this sounds awesome 👀

I definitely have an appreciation for stories with some kind of “horror” element in them and this definitely delivers on that !!! Also the name Abyssclan is literally the coolest fanclan name I’ve heard like, ever lol

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This is my girl, petalshadow. She basically pulled a mapleshade after she lost 5 of her 6 kits to green cough since their father (the medicine cat) was reluctant to be near them since he didn't want others to know they were his. She was stewing in sadness and anger through her remaining kit's apprenticeship (hoppaw). She snapped when she died in a battle that her father was present for. In her blind rage, she pushed him off a ledge into camp, where he fell to his death; at which she fled when she realized what she had done.

OHHHHH this looks so neat!!! I really love the use of the fire as a frame around her, and the contrast of bright green eyes against brown fur!!

the fact that she lost most of the litter before they even got to be apprentices is just SO incredibly sad, and them dying because he didn't want to be near them? Just to save himself from being found out?? INFURIATING I’m mad at him myself >:O

And then to lose her last kit as an apprentice is heart breaking ahh

If you have it planned out I’d love to know what happens after-- like does she stay around the clan territories or does she just leave? 

#sorry it took so long to answer aaa #OC share

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thunderclan deputy baybee

just a concept page this time, no official ref yet

obtained from TaeTea-SS, designed by spunn

#warrior cats oc #oc art #deadjay #thunderclan

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My main warrior OC is a riverclan medcat named Bluefeather. Their main story is that they accepted a kit from the Shadowclan medcat who wanted his kits to be part of the clans (Mom was a kittypet). The thing is Bluefeather was worried about their sister's kitting so couldn't remember whether they'd grabbed Mintkit or Rosekit. Cut to six moons later when Silverstar announces 'Mintpaw of Riverclan' not even 5 minutes after Webstar announced 'Mintpaw of Thunderclan'. Blue never lives it down.

AJDHHDFK OH GEEZ I love that lmaoo

I like the name bluefeather too! it’s simple but it’s got a nice ring to it!

I’m wondering, tho, why wouldn’t the shadowclan med cat want to keep his kit in his own clan? 🤔 Was it just to keep suspicion off him? did he not want to take care of them? Regardless, it’s interesting!

#sorry it took so long to reply I was trying to multitask and kept forgetting #oc share

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sorry for submitting a post instead of an ask but i thought it might be easier to read since the asks would’ve broken everything all up and it’s kind of a lot! feel free to ask questions too, i… reaaaaally love talking about my characters haha

i think one of my favorite warrior cat ocs would have to be my gal, toyontuft! she was originally just supposed to be a background character for another one of my ocs, trillium, but quickly grew into a full-fledged character with one of the strongest developmental arcs within her story!

she was the product of what was supposed to be a one-night-stand between wildclan warriors, cottoncall and poppyjaw. they’d been friends as kits but had grown distant during training. they started talking again at the behest of their parents; poppyjaw’s wanting her to get out more and cottoncall’s being sympathetic to the cause. 

poppyjaw hadn’t wanted to keep the litter and only went through with the pregnancy because cottoncall had essentially begged her to. while at first he’d been excited at the prospect of kits, being around poppyjaw quickly began taking a toll on him, and by the time she’d finally given birth to toyonkit he’d already began distancing himself.

cottoncall’s negligence continued until eventually he stopped showing up at the nursery at all. any attempt made by poppyjaw to discuss his absence was brushed off and, in turn, the queen was left worn-down and ornery which she took out on her daughter.

things came to a head when, some time during the end of toyontuft’s kithood, cottoncall showed up to camp with a pretty little kittypet in tow– heavily pregnant and sickeningly sweet, it didn’t take a genius to figure out what happened. poppyjaw’d had been livid, calling the tom out on his deadbeat nature, and nearly took his new mate’s eye out when she went to defend him. this was the beginning of the end of toyontuft’s relationship with her mother.

after receiving toyontuft had received her apprentice name, poppyjaw had began withdrawing from her daughter. the apprentice tried multiple times to reach out to the queen, still needing her mother, but eventually gave up when it resulted in her getting swiped at one too many times. she looked to her father’s side of the family for support.

the kittypet cottoncall had brought home, mollie, had taken on the name hollypaw then hollynose and had birthed a single kit similar to poppyjaw. when toyonpaw had approached them, cottoncall had initially been hesitant about her presence in his life but reluctantly accepted it at hollynose’s insistence. he still went to great lengths to avoid beng alone with her and the apprentice quickly recognized that, while allowed close, neither of the cats truly regarded her as part of the family.

her half-brother, marshkit, had been a sickly child; his head always tilted, his steps lacking finesse, and his body often seizing. he was suffering greatly and the medicine cat, even with the assistance of the other clans, couldn’t seem to get the kit to pull through. still, blinded by their love for their kit, they wouldn’t let him go. toyonpaw eventually took matters into her own paws and to this day she wonders if it was he right thing or if, perhaps, she’d been fueled by her own jealousy.

time passed, toyonpaw giving the couple space to grieve, and the apprentice quickly found herself isolated without the social crutch of her so-called ‘family’. her upbringing had left her bitter, blunt, and a bit of a downer but things changed when she officially met her first mate, mosquitobite.

mosquitobite, mosquitopaw at the time, was tom just as jaded as she. having been blamed for his mother’s passing by his father and named accordingly. they festered together, forming an unhealthy codependency, that would eventually grow into full-blown abusive relationship by the end of their apprenticeship.

while toyontuft was one to give as good as she got at this point, her desire to be wanted by someone often clouded her judgement and kept her from leaving, and they’d often fight on the outskirts of wildclan territory where unbeknownst to them they were being watched (this will become important later).

still, the two had their moments. they understood one another better than anyone else and there was genuine love there, buried beneath the misery, which is how toyontuft ended up expecting kits.

while both of them had been unsure about the pregnancy, they also believed (at first, anyways) that it might save their relationship. the world will never know, though, because mosquitobite ended up dying before the kits even arrived. 

she gave birth, alone, to a litter of three with no other queens in the nursery at the time; one passed shortly after and the other two faded a week or so later. her post-partum and grief made it hard for her to care and when she realized she even felt a little relieved she quickly grew angry with herself.

this was around the time that trillium came into the picture. palefang, trillium’s bio-mother and toyontuft’s fraternal cousin, had moved into the nursery sometime before the passing of toyontuft’s other two kits but after the births themselves. palefang was a restless young queen, who seemed excited but also unsure about having a litter, toyontuft kept their conversations brief like she did with most of cottoncall’s family.

when palefang gave birth to trillium, a kit with only three legs (not that that ever ended up holding back trillium in any way, shape, or form), she called her too much responsibility for a young inexperienced queen such as herself and seemed to struggle when it came to taking care of the kit. 

eventually, she conned toyontuft into taking trillium on as a surrogate so that palefang could return to her duties. using their family’s approval and, unknowingly, toyontuft’s guilt over her own kits’ deaths to get the queen to wetnurse the child. this, obviously, wasn’t the greatest foundation to build a relationship on in regards to toyontuft and trillium.

toyontuft did the bare minimum when it came to mothering the young kit and made it abundantly clear to trillium that she was not her child. while, to most, it would seem as if the she-cat resented the kit because she ended up saddled with her it was more so a result of the queen’s insecurities when it came to parenting; she’d let her first litter die, after all, and with mosquitobite gone she’d been essentially abandoned by all her remaining family. she just didn’t feel fit to take care of a kitten beyond going through the motions.

trillium was a difficult kit; adventurous by nature and rather reckless to boot, she’d often sneak her way out of the nursery while toyontuft slept in order to observe nature. this casted a poor light on the queen in the clan’s eyes but, at this point, she couldn’t care less what wildclan thought of her. especially given the fact she had to slip past most of the other warriors, too.

enter dan, a loveable loner with a heart of gold, whom trillium came across during one of her many outings. the loner, aware of the clans, had looked after the kit until two wildclan warriors had come to retrieve her. it was too late though, trillium was already attached and every time she got a chance she’d run off to see him.

wildclan quickly grew fed up with this and, in an attempt to keep the child in camp, allowed dan visitation which is when toyontuft and him met… officially. you see, the spot where toyontuft and mosquitobite would often have their disputes was in spitting distance of dan’s territory. he was privy to some of their worst fights, purely due to proximity, and while toyontuft didn’t know him; he certainly knew her.

the tom felt for the queen and could see she was suffering so while he didn’t agree with her treatment of trillium, who at this point he saw as his adoptive daughter, he wanted to help her. thus began the long, tumultuous journey, of toyontuft’s recovery. 

at first the queen was frustrated by the tom’s behavior, uneased by his continued support especially given his fondness for trillium who she knew at this point had to hate her (she didn’t, she was saddened by toyontuft’s treatment but still loved her like a mother), and would often lash out in an attempt to ward him off.

this didn’t work, of course, and she ended up losing steam after the third or fourth time. she was still skeptical but if he wants to stick around that bad that's his problem, right? moons passed and soon she’d grown accustomed to dan’s presence which was… scary but also nice. they were tentatively friends and with his assistance he began taking better care of trillium and leaving the nursery more.

toyontuft began opening up, bit by bit, and while it was like pulling teeth when she did… it was good to get it off her chest. she’d been afraid, the first time, that he’d turn his back on her– or worse coddle her –but their relationship remained the same and with time it got easier.

weeks for trillium’s apprenticeship began STORY THINGS HAPPEN involving an outside group of wandering rogues who end up manipulating the young she-cat into joining them cause they ‘need her’ for some made-up prophecy.

this is a huge blow to toyontuft’s psyche, for obvious reasons, but she teams up with dan and a friend of trillium’s named brackenpaw (who they didn’t really want to come with but he seemed set on taking off after her… so they thought it best if they just let him joining them so there wasn’t TWO adolescent cats off on their own) to retrieve her.

it takes months to find trillium who, luckily, isn’t… too much worse for wear…? there’s definite trauma due to being basically kitnapped but a lot of the cats in the group were on trillium’s side when what happened came out and had left with her when she stated she was going back to the clans.

during that time, toyontuft starts working out her emotional hang-ups when it comes to her relationship with trillium because she does see trillium as her own she just… didn’t want to get hurt again. once again, dan (and even brackenpaw, in some ways) offers unwavering support throughout their journey.

when the three reunite with trillium, the she-cat embraces her friend then her father but hesitates when it comes to toyontuft. but, as soon as her body language opens up, trillium practically tackles her into a loving cuddle.

toyontuft is shocked at trillium’s receptiveness but chocks it up to dan’s influence on her; she knows she’s probably not forgiven fully for her behavior but she does have a chance to make it up to trillium which is all toyontuft could ask.

oooOOOOOO I LOVE THAT DEVELOPMENT !!

I’ve always really loved stories that portray healing as something a character has to work at over a period of time, and characters learning to repair the things they’ve done wrong– especially to others– so Trillium and Toyontuft’s reunion at the end there made me super happy! 

and her design is so pretty!!! the little muzzle markings are my favorite

also i love the name toyontuft, I’ve never heard that prefix used before so that’s rad as hell!

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Heres a OC for ya! Her name is shinningsky and shes an asshole.

She was blessed by the stars when she was born and because of that believes herself to be above all other cats, she forced the clans to pay her for her "blessings" through blood sacrifices on a lake inside a destroyed church that reflects the sky perfectly, turning the stars red in her name.

The 3 gods that live in that area, (sun the godess of golden runes, moon the godess of eternal winter and star the godess of many eyes) saw the pain and sadness that she brought and banished her from the living world, forcing her to forever wander alone, with no one to praise her.

But she has ways of getting what she wants.

Her path of destruction is far from over.

ngl i read “and she’s an asshole” and immediately fell in love lmaooo

I LOVE HER and I absolutely ADORE the concept of a blessed character turning into a villain !!! especially if it’s the being blessed that caused it! Like i said before too i’m always down for a good corruption arc

And the gods isolating her so there’s no one to give her praise? BEAUTIFUL i love this so much holy crap

let me know if you ever write it or turn it into a comic👀

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(Part 1) A brief synopsis of my OC Elkthorn before I go on too much details: 1. Was born in a royal family with 3 parents (2 Dads & 1 mum) who are in a healthy poly relationship. 2. His biological dad, Neopolitan, is king, which makes him next for the throne 3. He's entire childhood was cater towards on him being king and his dad promising he will make him king engraved his mind. This defines his overall goal and desire in life

BREEEE I LOVE THESE GUYS SO MUCH holy shit 

character who was promised power, willing and able to do anything they can to secure said power? fantastic i love it

driving Wolf and Sun apart so he could have her to himself? manipulating their feelings and then being rejected & losing everything he thought he was entitled to? DEMON DEALS? YES PLS i wanna read it all !!

corruption arcs are my favorite thing they’re so interesting!!!

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I'm kinda feeling anxious about communicating right now, but if you're interested in other OCs and stories, I'm currently working on a comic (that will probably end up being several hundred pages long, but is currently only 44) that I'm really passionate about. On my tumblr you can find out more facts and stuff about the main characters or other characters I have in the comic universe!

HELL YEAH I’m definitely checking that out !!

I'm really liking this nine lives scene :0 And that page where he’s receiving his first life and his fur starts turning completely white is SUCH a good transition I’m loving it!!

I’ve always thought it was interesting that receiving those extra lives came at the cost of some amount of pain, so I really like that you included that! And the inclusion of Mallowstar having to live through the starclan cats’ deaths from their perspective as well! I can’t wait to see more about Gorseheart’s death 👀

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I want to interact more so I wanna ask y’all to show and tell me about YOUR oc’s

I always like seeing and reading about other people’s characters and their stories so even if all you have is a name and design consider sending an ask my way? :0

and i’ll share it here! so like a lil promo if anyone wants :>

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i don’t draw these two often enough

#warrior cats oc #oc art #nightshine #briarchirp #windclan

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I tend to use beetlecrawl as a default warm-up/sketch character so if anyone wants to see any of the others lmk👀

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big sketch page to get back into the swing of things!

#warrior cats oc #oc art #beetlecrawl #windclan #he is baby

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got some new content coming soon👀

I literally haven’t drawn any of my oc’s in months but now I’m in a warriors mood so let’s see how long it lasts lmao

#other than the one drawing before this post obv

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a little Beetlekit questioning his mom about Starclan

#while his other mom sits with them #warrior cats oc #oc art #warrior cats #briarchirp #beetlecrawl #beetlekit #nightshine #windclan