local Dawnpelt defender

I have requests open for background or obscure cats. Generally avoiding pov characters, but I'll make an exception for field guide ones as not many ppl have read those.

the request list so far:

Flywhisker

Dawnstripe

Toadfoot

Runningnose (not a request, just a cat i wanna design)

Houndleap (same as Runningwind)

And here's my list of cats i plan to redesign/touch up at some point:

Hollytuft

i generally agree she should've been given Nightheart's whole "stop comparing me to a dead cat" deal tbh

also, she def seems more conservative. especially w the sisters and her siblings becoming kittypets

Goldenflower

a Goldenflower that isn't big and bulky is like an angel without it's wings <33

Shrewclaw

b-but, i thought you loved my constant bullying, Talltail??

Sunstrike

i was heavily inspired by keblestone and costalracoons designs for her! i mean seriously, they're just so so pretty!

i love Sunstrike. she's just got a fun name n design! i wish we'd gotten to see more of her! relationships between the df trainee's was criminally unexplored.

Ivypool thinks it's a shame she's in the df since she seems so nice. after that Sunstrike dies in the great battle. i wonder what she though was going on or what her motivations were. i like to think she was mostly there to make friends lol.

Olivenose

she's from the young generation of shadowclan in oots that basically got wiped out. it's a shame too, i would've like having those guys around tbh.

olive was actually one of the cats on the ice when Flametail died. that's def gotta be rough.

Larkwing

she takes after her mom Sedgewhisker :]

kind of wild that she trained in the df. two of her aunts died in the great battle, and not to mention Antpelt's death, and the fact one of said aunts was close to Antpelt. litterally what a time to be a windclan cat

in Crowfeather's trial, her parents glare at her, but she's seen working with her grandma Gorsetail a few times. Gorse doesn't like the df trainees, so i wonder what they're relationship was like. she was still an apprentice in the last hope, so she would have been made a warrior right after. so she's was pretty young for all that. it's a shame we'll never get to know more about her family's dynamic

Kestrelflight

i know he's supposed to have white spots, but i wanted him to look like a kestrel, so he has black spots now. his flowers are Lungworts, since that's the plant Puddleshine needed from windclan in avos.

Jayfeather

taking a quick break from request cats, surprisingly to do a main character. i just got an idea for a Jayfeather design based on a Steller's jay and wanted to try it. i figure i can tweak or redo this design later if i want to.

overall i think it's pretty good! he has a dandelion for Lionblaze and a holly for Hollyleaf.

Mistpaw and Graypaw

i feel like when it comes to siblings of protags, their dynamic is either a main focal point, or the books forget the siblings even exist. Mistpaw and Graypaw fall into the latter category lol.

the bit in the first asc book, when they Cuddle Frostpaw after their mom's death was cute, but they haven't done much since. i really feel for them though. they're also going through a lot.

also, given Curlfeather's scheming, it is absolutely hilarious that she has a kid called Mistpaw. i wonder how intentional that was. if she gets named Mistfoot i'm gonna lose my shit

for Mistpaw, i was originally gonna make her more of a tortie, but the calico look ended up really cute. she's also probably the biggest of the siblings, and the only one w coloring from her mom.

Graypaw gets more of his shape from Curl, and some of his light markings match hers (i'm gonna be basing her off a shiba inu). his flower is a pink carnation, which according to my very brief google search, means mother's love.

both of them (and Frostpaw) get the curly tail from their mom lol. under the cut is them + my wip Frostpaw design. i think they at least somewhat look like siblings. i hope it came across

Oscar

he was so real for that (mocking cats starting a clan)

Batear and Fenneldust

i swear they used to have pages on the american wc wiki, since that's where i got the prefix bat for one of my ocs. as it stands, i got my info for them by google translating a dif wiki page lmao.

i've decided they're divorced, cause that's an extremely funny dynamic for df cats to have, and anyway, they're barely cannon as is. basically ocs to me <33. i do wish they still had pages on the american wiki tho, i mean, there's some other Su cats that still have one