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residences-of-the-darkforest · 10 hours

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I played as a new character

who was also murdered

this time by my parent, who promised my ghost that they'll always remember me

I wasn't paying attention on Lifegen and was just letting the moons pass until a Specific Thing happens but then I realized that the deputy was shunned for murder (exposed by their daughter) and I took his place

sucks to suck

#notdf #lifegen

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 10 hours

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Blackgoat died and her murdering mate became mates with her murdering dad

I wasn't paying attention on Lifegen and was just letting the moons pass until a Specific Thing happens but then I realized that the deputy was shunned for murder (exposed by their daughter) and I took his place

sucks to suck

#notdf #lifegen

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 10 hours

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update:

the daughter (Blackgoat)'s mate also killed someone

so did the medicine cat, who was besties with the old deputy (but the leader hated them)

I was also murdered and am being mourned by the deputy I replaced

I wasn't paying attention on Lifegen and was just letting the moons pass until a Specific Thing happens but then I realized that the deputy was shunned for murder (exposed by their daughter) and I took his place

sucks to suck

#notdf #lifegen

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 10 hours

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I wasn't paying attention on Lifegen and was just letting the moons pass until a Specific Thing happens but then I realized that the deputy was shunned for murder (exposed by their daughter) and I took his place

sucks to suck

#the daughter's name is Blackgoat btw #I just think it's neat #notdf #lifegen

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 14 hours

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Rushtree becomes the golden mentor.

He was incredibly grief-stricken for a long time when his two mentors died close to one another (official and unofficial), mentors who were like big brothers to him.

But after a long time of working through it and accepting it and feeling happy again, he becomes to apprentices what Martenstep and Cricketfur were to him.

He's patient as a saint. He listens to apprentice's questions without judgement or ridicule and responds to what they need or want. At the end of every training session or lesson, he asks them how they are doing, if there's anything they want to keep working on, if there's anything they want to talk about--related to the lesson or not.

He would be a wonderful mentor regardless of his loss, because that's just the kind cat he is, but he also does it to honour Marten and Cricket and their memory.

Sometimes--whenever he can, really, he tells stories of the brothers. He would talk about all the important stuff they taught him, he would make it clear what amazing Clanmates and friends they were, so much so that on more than one occasion a younger cat would say "I wish I could have met them!"

Too, he talks about all the fun stuff--all the times they played together, all the pranks that were pulled, the jokes that were made--all tales that never failed to make the listeners crack up when he told them.

And every time he talks about them, he can't help but feel their presence with him, warm and loving. And he knows that even if he can't see them, even if they are physically gone, the true part of them, the spirit of them both, are still right there with him.

At least, that's what he believed.

#rushtree #cricketfur #martenstep #df #wcoc #warriors oc #warrior cats #warrior cats oc

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 1 day

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Damn. Okay

#My dad btw #Lifegen #notdf

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 1 day

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I'm in that weird limbo where I have more free time and can do the hobbies I enjoyed but I still don't do them because I know that I would enjoy them and it would feel weird to enjoy something after so long of being stressed

#does anyone relate??#notdf #I'm guessing this is like a #depression #thing #mental health

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 1 day

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Gorsedaisy: I know what you are!

Myrtlewing:

Myrtlewing: GAY?!

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@ambitiousauthor

#Gorsedaisy #myrtlewing #eye-out #Eye-out poly #Sprouting thorns

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 1 day

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i am skeptical you could do that actually, tiktok user

#what makes it more annoying is the fact that you KNOW artwork people stand next to to prove a point #100% has a written explanation RIGHT THERE #but they just ignore it #and skip right to making fun of artwork without bothering to learn about it first even when the lesson is right fucking there #notdf

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 1 day

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I am

20 YEARS OLD

and I am just now realizing that all the times I told people "I'm not scared of fish/bugs, I just don't like the feeling of them touching me" and all the times that I freaked out when a fish/bug did touch me when I can observe them up close just fine is definitely most likely because it's a sensory thing, not a fear thing

and yes it feels weird being twenty and weirder to see it typed out but I confirmed with my mom because it was too weird and felt wrong

#sensory issues #notdf #neurodivergent

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 1 day

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I wonder how far a singular family tree could stretch....

FadingFlea's family extends to the Tunnel Family through Proteafang and Tawnytrot's relationship.

The Tunnel family extends to the SmallBasil family because of Lark/Leaf (surrogate) and also because Emberdawn herself was a surrogate for them.

SmallBasil's family also extends to the JackdawFern family because of Tawny/Leaf (surrogate)

JackdawFern's family also extend to the Tunnel Family through Tawny/Lark.

SmallBasil's family also extends to Sparktail's family for the same reason.

SmallBasil ALSO extends to the Gaping Maw family, because of Blood/Leaf (mates).

The Gaping Maw family also also extends to the Eye-Out family because Blackfinch and Falleniris are mates.

JackdawFern would also extend to the Eye-Out family because their kits are mates, and that would also extend to the Aspenroot/Kiteburn/Rookstorm family because those mates are in a poly with the three's own kits.

and those are just the main big families that I could remember on the top of my head!

There are so many more connections with smaller families or individuals

(family trees are now on the pinned post)

#so many connections!#family tree

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 2 days

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Dark Forest Resident: Bluecreek

Aliases / Nicknames: ??

Gender: male (demi)

Sexuality: demi-homosexual, demiromantic

Family: Sparrowsmoke (mother), unnamed ThunderClan father

Other Relations: unnamed mentor, Frogpaw (apprentice)

Clan: RiverClan

Rank: warrior

Characteristics: poor impulse control, cold, grumpy, loves his mom

Murder Motive: vengenace

Number of Victims:

Number of Murders:

Murder Method: leading into traps, feeding to foxes, suffocating, bashing skull, slitting throat

Known Victims: Frogpaw, Brownstar, Mudfoot, Lowstone, Tigerfin

Victim Profile: cats who causes his mother's exile, cats who spoke badly to his mother

Cause of Death: throat slit (executed)

Cautionary Tale: ??

Story:

Bluecreek's earliest memory was his mother's warm embrace, her purrs, and her voice as she told him how much she loved him.

His second earliest memory was when he had to watch, helpless, as his mother was exiled.

No one would listen to him. He protested, tried to cling on to her legs and wailed for her not to leave, for anyone to stop her and make her stay. But despite of his devastation, the Clan would not heed.

No one stood up for her. They merely stood by in silence, letting it happen without so much as twitching their whiskers. Anyone who did speak called Sparrowsmoke a traitor, a disloyal fleabag, and other such words that Bluekit's little mind was utterly distraught to hear.

She had had her son with an enemy warrior, and for that crime of love, she was to be ripped away from him, and Bluekit was to be raised in a Clan that saw his very existence as an insult to StarClan.

Not that most warriors said those thoughts out loud. That was mostly the words of the elders and senior warriors when they didn't think Bluekit was near enough to hear, but that didn't matter.

It wouldn't have mattered if they all treated him like StarClan's prophet.

They tore his mother away from him.

They were all complicit in her exile.

Bluecreek hated them all.

But he kept these thoughts to himself, shimmering anger that he kept under control as he played the role of the perfect little Clanmate.

Then word spread that Sparrowsmoke had died, crushed beneath the massive paws of a monster while wandering Twolegplace.

Anger burst into full out rage.

They took his mother away from him, ripping her from his side while he was still barely weaned. Then she died away from him, away from her home, in a horrible accident that she never would have been in if it weren't for all of them--then they had the audacity to act sad! As if it weren't their fault in the first place!

Bluecreek couldn't take it any longer. He couldn't stand to be Brownstar's perfect, obedient subordinate any longer.

He would hurt him.

He would kill him.

He wasn't sure how to do it at first. He didn't know how many lives Brownstar had left, but surely it would be more than one. Doing the deed was hard enough without getting caught on its own, but when his victim could come back from the dead to tell all what he's done?

He didn't have to think for long. The answer came to him in the form of two trespassing foxes. Bluecreek simply had to race back to camp for Brownstar when the camp was mostly empty--the presence of the canines caused an increase in patrol sizes. Bluecreek feigned panic as he explained that his apprentice, Frogpaw, was trapped and needed help.

Brownstar, as the fittest in camp, was the only one available to run after him.

There was a trap. Bluecreek didn't lie about that part.

Bluecreek only had to step subtly over it, and Brownstar, behind him, raced after-- and screeched in pain as the Foxtrap ensnared his leg in an agonizing grip. Bluecreek was going to finish him off himself, but Brownstar's cries of pain drew the attention of the foxes. Bluecreek simply had to hide in a nearby tree and watch as they ripped that mother-killer alive. No risking second lives, after all!

No one thought that Bluecreek was involved. It was just those horrible foxes that killed their dear leader and the poor apprentice that was so close to earning his warrior name.

Frogpaw hadn't been alive when Sparrowsmoke was exiled, but Bluecreek had no qualms killing him. He was a spoiled brat, and being Bluecreek's apprentice and having to follow his every step, he was also a liability.

Bluecreek had killed the leader. The hard part was over, but he was far from finished.

Next came Mudfoot, the elder who spat at Sparrowsmoke and called her a faithless fox-heart before he went on to call Bluepaw "the very embodiment of StarClan's disgrace." Bluepaw had silently promised then that the old bat would choke on his words, and he did, in a way, with the help of thorns tucked into his food. They stuck into the inside of his throat on one end and held onto the mass of half-eaten fish with the other, blocking his airway--not that anyone noticed. Mudfoot had simply scoffed down a morsel too big, that was all there was too it. There was simply no need to study his insides to confirm a story that everyone already believed to be true.

Then came Lowstone, the easiest. She was the oldest in the Clan, with frail bones and shaky steps. She left the camp for fresh air, but thanks to stones slippery from a recent rainfall, she 'lost her footing' and cracked open her head. At least, that's the conclusion everyone came to.

Funny. She left the camp and never made it back, almost like the same cat that Lowstone had called a frog-lover.

There was another elder that would have died by Bluecreek's claws as well, but he succumbed to last season's bout of greencough. At least Bluecreek could take solace in knowing that he suffered, if the endless coughing fits were any indication.

Bluecreek's final victim was Tigerfin, the one who caught Sparrowsmoke meeting with a ShadowClan tom. It was his fault all of this happened at all!

Bluecreek suggested they patrol together. Tigerfin was obviously put off, but he had no good reason to refuse. Alone and far away from help, Bluecreek confronted him. When Tigerfin snapped and called his mother a selfish betrayer, Bluecreek lost all self-control and tackled him. They moved together in a whirlwind of teeth and claws until finally the sound of tearing skin cut through their yowls.

Bluecreek broke away and watched, chin raised and eyes narrowed to slits, as Tigerfin wriggled on the ground, desperately trying in vain to stop the blood from pouring out of his throat.

Tigerfin begged Bluecreek to help him, pointing out that Bluecreek wouldn't want to be responsible for the death of a Clanmate. Bluecreek had laughed back at him and stated that he already was.

Bluecreek stood triumphantly over his body. He would have yowled out his victory if he wasn't shoved to the ground by Reedheart, Frogpaw's littermate.

The younger tom had disliked Bluecreek even before his brother's death, thanks to Bluecreek's inability to protect the apprentice that had been put under his care. But now that Bluecreek had all but confessed outright that he had killed Frogpaw deliberately, Reedheart now glared at him with a burning hatred.

Reedheart shouted at his face, calling him a traitor and a murderer.

Bluecreek had sneered in response, and sarcastically asked him what he would do. Kill him and become the same?

Reedheart responded that he wasn't like Bluecreek. Instead, he dragged him back to the camp. Already bloodied and exhausted, Bluecreek wasn't able to put up a strong enough fight.

In the centre of the camp with a hissing crowd around him, Bluecreek refused to show any signs that he was sorry. He looked them all in the eye and told them that if he could kill every last one of them, he would, and to not think for a second that any of them were safe just because he was exiled--just like they exiled his mother!

Needlestar responded that he didn't have to worry about meeting the same fate as Sparrowsmoke.

Additional Information:

--It's possible that Tigerfin wanted to be with Sparrowsmoke, and was furious when she had kits with someone else (someone dead, otherwise they would have spoken up during her exile), and lied about her having a mate from ShadowClan.

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residences-of-the-darkforest · 2 days

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WAIT

HEAR ME OUT

AMPHIBIAN FAMILY

Newt

Frog

Salamander

Tadpole

Toad