#residences of the darkforest

[everybody-loves-purdy]

This for sure has been thought of before but the Great Journey would have been better if Hawkfrost was on it so that he and Bramble could have more moments together that will make Hawk's downfall and death that much more impactful to him and to the audience.

They could have heart-to-hearts about Tigerstar, making the Dark Forest training more interesting....they could talk about Bramble's bond with Tawny, who's on the journey, and how it kinda matches Hawk and Moth (which is another thing that makes future events sadder) (and maybe he and Squirrel could bond here, with both their sisters being back home and being med cats).

Maybe the reason Hawk joins is because Tiger visits him in a dream to tell him to see what's up at fourtrees and he sees the cats meeting. Later he begins to think that maybe he should be leader of one of the Clans. He did help find the new territories, after all, and how bad can Tigerstar be if his father was the one to help him begin the journey to find it? (and maybe whispered advice throughout the journey).

(side note--maybe Tiger 'helping' the cats on the journey by speaking with Hawk and Bramble helps to convince him more realistically that Tiger wants to train them not for nefarious reasons, because Bramble believed him far too easily let's be honest).

I just think it was a missed opportunity. Instead of introducing him as a kinda obvious "this guy is gonna be a problem later" thing, he's introduced like a non-pov (or maybe pov) protagonist that is at first seen like a kind if not peculiar guy who falls lower and lower until he's killed by Brambleclaw.

And before this, Brambleclaw thought that he's not just his brother--he's like him, someone whose loyalties were doubted because of Tigerstar. He has a sister he cares about, a mother who, when he talks about her, reminds Bramble of Goldenflower.

And he thinks "he's like me."

And Squirrelpaw talks to him and learns that they have the same sense of humour, they both like bugging Bramble, they both have a sister med cat who they love and is back home worrying about them, they both live in the shadow of their father--good or bad. Squirrelpaw confesses that she's such a nuisance because she doesn't want to be compared to the great Firestar. Hawk tells her that he feels trapped by his parentage as well.

And she thinks "he's just like me."

That's what makes it so impactful in the end, because not only is he corrupted, not only is Bramble forced to kill him, but his evil isn't just a sign of his own downfall, but of how close it could have been Brambleclaw himself, or Squirrelpaw, or someone else who saw Hawkfrost in themself and who now has to wonder "will that be me?"

This is so good, I love this AU.

Hawkfrost is just a bundle of missed potential honestly. There’s so much more that could have been done with his character than what we got.

#residences of the darkforest #au #Hawkfrost

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

Dark Forest Resident: Geckopad

Aliases / Nicknames: Dumbass, Gecko

Gender: female

Sexuality: aromantic asexual

Family: Whimbreltuft (mother), Frigatefeather (father), Morphostar, Ratnose (older sisters) Vipertooth, Orioleshatter, Juncochatter, Termiteflicker (younger brothers), three unnamed and unborn nieces/nephews

Other Relations: Palmsap (Mentor), Toucanstep (brother-in-law)

Clan: Warm-Shore Clowder

Rank: deputy

Characteristics: ‘inventive,' adventurous, secretly ambitious, did not think her murder plot through

Number of Victims: 4

Number of Murders: 1

Murder Method: luring caiman

Known Victims: Morphostar, Morphostar’s unborn kits

Victim Profile: cats who were interested in her ‘ideas’

Cause of Death: caiman

Cautionary Tale: think before you act

Story:

Morphostar clung to the branch with all their might, holding Geckopad’s tail between their teeth.

“Geckopad, this isn’t a good plan.”

Geckopad’s latest plan was to ‘communicate’ with a caiman, and she had somehow talked her sister into spotting her while she did so.

“This is a great plan!” Geckopad leaned down off the branch, pressing her paw to the back of the sleeping caimen.

“See? Friendly!”

As far as last words went, they would prove ironic.

Additional Information:

--Submission by @ambitiousauthor

#secretly ambitious....she wanted to take her sister's place didn't she #*Lion King opening starts playing in the background* #dark forest #dark forest oc #dark forest warrior #dark forest deputy #dark forest resident #resident #profile #darkforest profile #resident profile #submission #dark submission #dark forest submission

[stupidwarriorkitties]

c0ntinueing on the darkforest au uhh what if they were silly (aka working on their designs and making them more spooky)

uhhh tag i'm this one (his name is steve)

#stupidwarriorkitties #darkforest au #darkforest #dark forest residents #warriors #warrior cats #warriors au #warrior cats au

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Dark Forest Resident: Crispblue

Aliases / Nicknames: The Cleanser (by self), Bitch, Starclan Hating Monster

Gender: she-cat

Sexuality: ??

Family: Blueflower (mother), Applestrike (father), Mossshriek (mate), Duskit Birdkit Dirtkit (kits)

Other Relations: unnamed mentor, unamed apprentice

Clan: shadowclan

Rank: warrior

Characteristics: ableist, hates "useless" cats, just horrendous

Number of Victims: 30

Number of Murders: 26

Murder Method: clawing, asphyxiation

Known Victims: Brownfoot, Dirtkit, various unamed elders, warriors, and apprentices

Victim Profile: deformed cats, and cats she considered ugly

Cause of Death: mauled and eaten by a wolf

Cautionary Tale: ??

Story:

Disgusting. 

All of them. 

There were so many revolting cats in the Clans, even polluting her own camp with their hideous bodies and horrible stench.

She couldn't stand it. By the fresh kill pile, sharing the nursery with her as she nursed, healing her of her wounds.

Those creatures were everywhere.

The first one she got rid of was easy to kill. Brownfoot was slow and feeble.

She took him outside "to get you some fresh air." She unsheathed her claws as she saw him limp out of the elders’ den. "Pathetic" elders didn't do shit for the Clan and they did even less when they were injured.

She clawed in the neck and held him down and watched him choke on his own blood.

She’d pick off a lot of them since then. Several medicine cats, some elders, lots of apprentices. They had always had an accident of some kind and as far as she was concerned, she was saving the leader the ordeal of having to tell them they couldn't be warriors.

The Clan was small and scared. Most cats assumed some badger or fox had been strong enough to overpower all the disabled cats, but this still didn't explain how some merely disfigured cats were dying in the same fashion. 

She was saving the Clans in her own warped mind. "Only the strong will survive and we need to hunt to live, so if you can’t hunt, you shouldn't be, here, right?"

One day she was out hunting and she chased a vole into some trees she was faced with a hungry wolf. Her shrieks had practically echoed within the wolf’s mouth as its teeth cracked her skull, stench choking her, but not before the beast took its time playing, tearing her, breaking her. And when it was all over, the clearing was a canvas of blood.

Additional Information:

--Submission by @purplegr33n​ Hope you don’t mind I made the death part longer. She deserves it.

--She has a mutation that makes her stripes not match.

--She killed one of her own kits for being “ugly.”

--She is just the worst.

--After avoiding her forth fight in the Death Ring she ran away and met Crowheart in the bog they are good friends

-Once she hanged on the starclan barrier for hours one starclan cat saw her dark red eyes and left.

#wc #albeist #albeist mention #albeist tw #abliesm #discrimination #wcoc #warriorsoc #warriorcatsoc #crispblue #darkforest #dark forest resident #place of no stars #dark forest warrior

[ghostwoodsketches]

Pouncer from httyd, Shallowfig and JackdawFoot who belong to @residents-of-the-darkforest, Clementine and Malo from Stray, Tallulah from the QSMP, Pavitr from spiderverse, and finally Stardust and Darklight are from the dragonfire minecraft series on YouTube. I used to watch it all the time when I was kid, and decided to draw them after I was finally able to download the bedrock version of the mod after waiting five years!

#digital art #artists on tumblr #art #tallulah fanart #qsmp fanart #qsmp tallulah #tallulah the egg #tallulah soot #pavitr prabhakar #spiderman across the spiderverse #spider man india #clementine stray #stray #stray 2022 #stray ps4 #stray ps5 #stray game #dragonfire Minecraft #how to train your dragon #httyd fanart #httyd #httyd night light #httyd pouncer #dark forest resident #warrior cats #I love how Shallowfig turned out

[wills-woodland-warriors]

Weird clangen names pt 1! I know Alec seems like a normal name, but it’s my irl name so it creeped me out.

@cryptidclaw @residents-of-the-darkforest @chaos-n-bees

Part two: https://at.tumblr.com/wills-woodland-warriors/clangen-names-pt-2/cqxieh3ccgbi

#clangen game #clangen

[frightnightindustries]

@residents-of-the-darkforest

A story in three pictures

#clangen #lifegen

[emotional-damage-book-series]

Jewels!

@wills-woodland-warriors, @residents-of-the-darkforest, @starfalcon555, @elementaldeityoffood, @basil-writes-legends-of-tomorrow

#clangen #warriors oc #shoreclan #shoreclan references

[lilyclan]

LilyClan

Warning, this blog may contain blood, unsettling themes and gore.

“Moons ago, disaster struck leaving only three cats to tend for themselves. But none of them expected that it might be not the best idea to live in wetlands near tides..”

This is clangen blog, but I decided to make a challenge for it to make it less boring.

Gameplay rules:

When cat reaches 6 moons or earns their full name, they will be sent on solo patrol, and which you should proceed no matter what. Only possible exceptions from this rule can be medicine cats and mediators.

All StarClan-related traits immediately switch to DarkForest. (Ex: deep StarClan bond -> deep DarkForest bond)

Same thing with thoughts (ex. Examplemed has been hearing voices lately.. perhaps from StarClan? -> Examplemed has been hearing voices lately.. perhaps from DarkForest?)

You should start your clan with maximum 4 cats.

DarkForest spirits cannot be guided into StarClan, only StarClan cats can be exiled in DarkForest.

Lore rules:

Unknown residence and DarkForest are only afterlives which matter throughout the gameplay. That means to either ignore visions or make them from either of those afterlives.

You can change how cat got some injury for lore purposes.

Leaf-falls and leaf-bares are harsher.

Tag guide:

#refs - this post contains reference sheet(s) for characters, or just their fullbody version

#lore - contains lore. Nothing to explain.

#answered asks - also self-explanatory

#weekly fanart - fanart for other clangen blogs

Now, there will be list of events in chronological order:

Prologue: 1 / 2

Moon1

Moon2

Moon3

Moon4: 1 / 2 / 3

Moon5

Moon6 1 / 2 / 3

Moon7

Moon8 (and second part of it)

Moon9 1 / 2 / 3

Moon10 1 / 2 / 3

[i-turn-characters-2-warrior-cats]

Ok so I have some questions regarding the how the dsmp lore would fit into the worrier cats universe

Like ig it would be pretty straight forward at the beginning

Will and Tommy’s make a country

There is a war

Bla bla bla

But what abo things like the exile arc? Or the eggpire? Or the prison???

I’m just really curious about how this events would fit here

For the Exile arc, I think that WC Dream has friends on the other side, adding a bit of a connection to the Dreamon Hunter thing. It's probably those connections that enable him to travel to and from where WC Tommy is with ease. Otherwise, since exile is a canon thing in warriors, I don't need to change it around as much as I might.

For the Eggpire, I'm going to lean into my supernatural things that aren't present in canon warrior cats, the egg will stay the egg.

When it comes to the prison....there are two options I'm playing with.

A: Have Sam be a half dark forest cat/medicine cat, and imprison Dream in the Dark Forest.

B: Have something akin to @residents-of-the-darkforest death ring, but it's Dream's prison.

I'm leaning towards option A, because of the coolness factor it gives to most events related to the prison.

Plus it would give opportunities for cameos!

#dsmp #characters to warrior cats #warrior cats

[indigo-flightly-falls]

Hey everybody have some evil cats (lie, they are not evil they just have made mistakes)

@10piecechickenmcnugget, @kamishirosss here's one of the rare digital art things I've finished :D

Characters from left to right: Spiritstring, Springsoul, Goldenstar

@residents-of-the-darkforest here's some olden golden days poly art :D (ft me forgetting their designs as I drew lol. It's okay they look close enough)

#lostclan #warrior cats #warrior cats oc #springsoul #spiritstring #goldenstar #olden golden days poly #indi's art

[everybody-loves-purdy]

I'm sure it happens with other living things as well, but as far as videos and such shows, fish are the most common moving meat after death.

So now I'm imagining it as something common in RiverClan. Sometimes the fresh-kill just. Moves. It moves the same way a fish would if it were trying to escape. The ones that had been there for most of the day more than likely stopped, but the fresh ones are gonna flop and wriggle, especially when touched.

I don't know how the RiverClan cats would see it before they got used to it after generations (maybe kits practise on them), but what I really like to think about is how cats from other Clans react when they visit the camp and see the dead food trying to get away.

Or they're hungry enough for a bite of RiverClan's unusual food and the RiverClan cats are like "oh yeah have a fish we don't mind, nothing wrong with it at all" and so the visitor bites into the very-obviously-dead-fish only for it to smack them with its tail.

I'm sure there would also be some sacred things relating to it that would be interesting to explore in a more serious sense as well, such as RiverClan seeing the water as a gift coming down from StarClan, or believing the river has healing properties that will grant them good lives if they swim in it, which is how the fish managed to "live" (as they would see it) even when they should have died (which in itself could explain in greater depths why they and other Clans fight so hard to keep their land. The water is a gift to RiverClan, the moors are closest to their ancestors to WindClan, etc, etc.)

Going further with the sacred aspect (sorry my mind's really going rn), I think it would also be an interesting way of looking at food. RiverClan sees fish as a gift to them, and anyone outside of RiverClan eating fish is seen as an act against StarClan's will to them (like when that one warrior tried to attack Ivypaw in OfTS when she was inspecting a fish at the dried lake--a part that isn't in RC territory).

It would also put words like 'fish-breath' and 'squirrel-muncher' in different lights.

This would of course mean that we wouldn't get that "slapped in the face by a dead fish" thing but I think both aspects are fun to think about

I had never considered this, this is such a fun thing that the Erins could play with, I absolutely love your take, it would make so much sense for RiverClan to revere this phenomenon as something supernatural.

I really hope if Nightheart does join RiverClan or even visits RiverClan, he gets slapped in the face by a dead fish. He keeps having loser moments (eg bitten by a squirrel, smacked with a tree branch)this would be a perfect addition to the collection.

#residences of the darkforest

[ambitiousauthor]

Kasha and Delaney: Chapter 1

I am for sure going to lose my job over this.

Let’s go over some quick facts, shall we?

Fact number one: My name is Delaney Rodriguez.

Fact number two: I work at an ‘Aquatic resort’ called Sea Friends.

Fact number three, I am about to do something illegal. Like, felony-level illegal.

A dark fin as tall as I am slices through the water like a knife. There’s a weight behind my throat when it vanishes.

Let’s go over some more facts, shall we?

Fact number three, the illegal thing I am about to do involves smuggling a four ton cetacean out of the front gates.

How am I doing this?

Magic.

Specifically, a spell I found while doing some wikipedia deep dives last week.

The Orca- Kasha- spyhops the best she can in the too shallow pool, looking at me as though she knows why I’m here.

I take a deep breath, and start reciting the words.

It feels like ants start crawling under my skin, biting and tearing, but I keep going, clouds parting in the dark sky until the moon shines into the water like a spotlight.

When the last words leave my throat, Kasha the orca is gone. No more orca. I fold up the Wikipedia printout and shove it in my pocket.

If I did that right, she’ll be in the ocean by now.

I’ve done a good-

Something just moved. A massive, pale hand- easily the size of my head- gripping the barrier between me and the pool.

One solid, fluid movement later, and a massive, soaking wet, wall of muscle tenses in front of me, staring at me like she’s guessing how I’ll taste.

“Soft-tooth.” That voice is haunting, like the old myths of sirens off the coast of Greece, luring sailors aplenty to their deaths. It reaches into my bones, pulling out fear.

She whistles, a high pitched, shrill noise of irritation, which finally gets the point across that she is talking to me.

“Yeah?” My throat is dry, voice scratchy from nerves and adrenaline.

“Soft-tooth is..” She pauses, tugging back a hank of kelp-dark hair from her face.

“Scared?” I manage to squeak.

She raises an eyebrow. “Not right noise.”

“Are you.. Kasha?” I ask.

A whistle of irritation. “Kash-aa?”

“Yeah, there was a killer whale-“ a shower of water hits my face. She’s holding another handful, black eyes narrow. “Not whale”

“Ok.. does orca sound better?”

Her head tilts, sending muscle rippling down her neck.

“Better.”

“Are you an orca?” I ask. I have to know. Did that stupid Wikipedia article actually work?

She reaches up, scowling at her hands, then pushes long, dark fingernails past her lips. “Yesh” she says around them. “No shoft-teef.” She takes her finger out of her mouth and smiles.

Oh god, that’s an orca, I just turned four tons of dolphin into a 6 foot something wall of muscle with opposable thumbs, I am SO going to lose my job.

She vanishes under the water, then reappears on the other side of the pool a minute later, right next to the beaching slab used in the orca shows.

She pulls herself out of the water.

Oh shit. Oh shit.

She’s out of the water, she can walk, what have I done?

What will I do?

I can’t exactly put her in my Prius..

Notes:

- Kasha’s exact height is 6 feet and 7.6 inches!

- this chapter hasn’t been edited yet :,)

Taglist:

@thestuffedalligator, @residents-of-the-darkforest, @salty-squid223

#ocs #my writing #unedited #Delaney and Kasha

[starfalcon555]

I wrote a new oneshot guys!

Title: ANOTHER US Fandom: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Genres: Horror/Romance/Adventure Word Count: 10,147

Summary: Renowned planetary explorer Cetus Empoleon touches down with his crew onto the unexplored alien planet of Gaia Centauri, hoping to find a new place for Pokemon to live. However, he will soon come to reckon with many revelations over the course of his time there, as Gaia Centauri isn't as peaceful as it looks...

I REALLY hope you guys check this one out. It's very weird and experimental, but I had a lot of fun writing it and I'm VERY proud of the end result!

Tagging @residents-of-the-darkforest @ambitiousauthor @wills-woodland-warriors (bc ik you all love horror) @turkeyuwu @shannadreamgoddess @cometchasr @kitsus-daily-life

#fanfiction #oneshot #ao3 fanfic #horror fanfiction #romance fanfiction #pokemon mystery dungeon fanfiction

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Base used: F2U Cat Head Base by googaoo on DeviantArt

I was planning this for a while, and have several drawings of some (4?) characters, because I wanted it to be my own. But I'm just too busy for it right now, and really wanted this out. Hopefully I will one day have a version of this where they're all my own art! Until then, I hope you like it!

And if you're new to the blog and wonder why I have dead af cats have kits, here you go: https://www.tumblr.com/residents-of-the-darkforest/717800073334079488/ok-so-i-came-across-this-blog-and-im-super?source=share

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Tags (forgot): @ambitiousauthor @starfalcon555 @liberhoe @wills-woodland-warriors @frightnightindustries @indigo-flightly-falls @elementaldeityoffood @umbranoxs

#semi-long post #ferndoe #jackdawfoot #myrtlewing #alderstar #mudpatch #mudpaw #mudkit #stormflare #harriernose #martenstep #shellgrass #horsejaw #sootcloud #avery #wc avery #dark forest #dark forest au #dark forest headcanon #kinda both I guess? #dark kits #grand dark kits #place of no stars #dark forest oc #dark forest resident #place of no stars oc #place of no stars resident #wc au #warriors au #warrior cats au

[ghostwoodsketches]

Nine of my OC’s! I had a lot of fun drawing them all and enjoyed playing around with their designs. 

Very basic character info: 

Tate: my dnd tabaxi rogue gardener who has nearly died to several gelatinous cubes, and has adopted many children—including a talking borzoi named Anthony who is a dog-war veteran who loves cupcakes. Tate has been married twice, and can be described as a middle aged Goblincore clown dad with too many kids. His grandfather is also a chicken named Albert! 

Socks: another dnd tabaxi rogue, because that’s all I can play. She’s tates older sister who grew up on a ship at sea after she left the tabaxi kingdom because, well, why not? She’s my asexual sapphic pirate who has committed multiple war crimes and currently has her own tiny “kingdom” (a town) all consisting of sentient, life-sized ants. Don’t ask… 

Faenala: one of my dragons from the now deactivated game School Of Dragons, based off of the httyd universe where you play a side character who spends their time collecting items and eggs, following the occasional dramatic storyline. I made stories about the characters i made in the game. So Faenala is a Silver Fury who grew up on a small island called Valhallas Hollow, which is inhabited by a shitton of terrible terrors. She’s very sneaky, and grew up around these terrible terrors who she would hunt for and protect. 

NightCanvas: I made his design in a random nightlight dragon batch I was drawing towards the end of July, and liked how he turned out so much that he’s turned into one of my OC’s! He and his sister Pearl tend to travel from seastack to seastack in search of a place to call home. He’s very protective, playful, and has a tendency to dive head first into danger. 

Oscar: is one of the OC’s I’ve drawn the most lately! He’s part of my continued Nightlight Family AU for httyd, and is Toothless’s grandson. He was seperated from his dad, Pouncer, at a young age and has spent most of his time trying to teach himself to live on his own. He’s terrified of everything,  is very skittish and sweet. 

Miks: I’ve been a huge fan of the ps4/5 game Stray since it came out a year ago, and recently decided to make my own StraySona character! I’ve created what his side quest, dialogue, and minor interactions would be like! 

Kallias: She’s one of the main characters in a novel I’ve been writing, which sounds absolutely batshit and weird if I try to explain it. In summary, she’s a genderqueer sapphic whos obsessed with Cryptids.She’s in love with her friend, Daisy. Kallias works at an arcade and has a problem of waking up in different short horror stories every night, only to wake up covered in blood. As you can guess, this makes a relationship difficult. 

CreatureFall: one of my dark forest warrior cat OC’s from clangen, he’s in a bunch of stories that take place after they’ve gone to the DarkForest. He’s the definition of a himbo, and spends his time giving out therapy sessions to the murderers of cat hell.

FennelBones: born in cat hell, he’s a very charismatic disaster who is constantly trying to make friends with the wrong people, which lands him in a lot of trouble. He’s the son of my favourite warriors oc, FleaThistle, and his cottagecore husband FadingStar (who belongs to @liberhoe) 

taglist: @residents-of-the-darkforest @ambitiousauthor @chaos-n-bees @starfalcon555 @elementaldeityoffood)

#nightlight oc #httyd oc #stray sona #clangen #httyd #school of dragons #httyd night light #httyd fanart #warrior cats oc #warriors oc #warrior cats #dark forest resident #original character #dnd #dnd oc #art #artists on tumblr #Digital art #oc’s #my oc’s