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Currently Open for asks: Keahi, Finn, Adrienne and Journey

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Hey, welcome to neontiger! A story focused on a teenage Torracat and the 'mons she's close to! Updates are posted every other Friday!

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This blog will contain swearing and in the future, mild gore as well as some heavier topics. The swearing won't be tagged, but everythin else will! (i.e. they'll be tagged like "tw gore" "tw transphobia")

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I will take any excuse to draw the girls all cutesies 🥺🥺

Fun Fact: I've said before that Addy went through a lot of labels to figure herself out, before settling on these ones, but I like to think it was Journey in specific who helped Adrienne figure out she was a girl

I missed him </3

Fun Fact: I haven't 100% decided on it, especially since this is like...posthumously giving him more flags, but tbh Noa feels like he may also be somewhere on the aromantic spectrum. Maybe even he didn't have time to figure that out about himself 😔

Pride requests kicking off with popular guy, Yarrow!! :3c

Fun Fact: the OGverse version of Yarrow is genderfluid + bisexual. I considered changing this version of him to match, but ultimately the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I think the subtle differences in these two AUs of him would result in him having different views of himself and his sexuality.

In preparation, I'd been trying to decide which of my askblog OCs I was going to draw with their respective flags. But decisions are hard and I have so many beloved kiddos- that's where you all come in! I'm going to keep my askboxes open on all my blogs and y'all can request which of my OCs you want to see pride art of :3 I'm going to reblog this to each blog, but for the sake of easy finding your options, I'll link everyone below:

For this blog, @ask-neontiger , you can request anyone from these folders!

On @questingfever you can request anyone from these folders!

And lastly on @thelotuslava you can request anyone from these folders!

"I mean, yeah." Keahi says, continuing to knead her claws into the soft grass beneath her, "That's why I haven't said anything. 'S just...weird to think about it whenever I see her, ya know?"

"Heh, I get it. How about this: if Addy personally asks either of you if I have a crush, you're both more than welcome to tell her. Just don't bring it up yourselves, okay?" The Furret pauses long enough to watch Finn and Keahi mull this proposition over, before the both of them gave her serious nods of acceptance, "Alright! Now that the big stuff is out of the way, let's go find something to eat before bed."

It didn't take a lot of searching for them to discover some ripe berry bushes- a Furret's nose was too good for Journey to return to camp empty-handed, after all. Finn and Keahi helped her collect the best berries for a few minutes, before some comment or another sent the Torracat tackling her friend. All thoughts of helping were pushed to the wayside as the two of them went crashing through the clearing, sending clouds of fireflies fleeing up into the sky. Still, Journey couldn't find it in herself to be annoyed at them for the lack of focus. Things had been tough lately and she certainly wasn't going to begrudge Finn and Keahi their moments of fun and freedom. It was better than the alternative. And besides- Journey could carry enough berries for the whole group.

"You're still trying to process the fact that I have a crush on Addy, aren't you?" The Furret said, although it was more of a statement than a question.

She hadn't intended for the two teens to overhear that particular piece of information and as mortifying as it was to have to rehash it, Journey knew that there was no burying her head in the sand over this. If Finn and Keahi were upset by the news, they were only going to keep discussing it with one another- and every time they did was another chance for Adrienne to overhear too. She needed to nip this in the bud.

"I hope that eases your fears at least a little bit." Adrienne said with a weak smile, "We don't have to be on edge non-stop. Hell, we could probably stop and rest for the night too. We've had a long day, huh?"

This seemed to perk Finn and Keahi up some, but as Addy turned away, she failed to see the exchange another glance as soon as she wasn't looking. Perhaps the two of them were not being entirely truthful with the Pikund.

Journey forcefully clapped her paws together and smiled, "You know what? I think you're on to something there, Addy. Why don't you take first watch, while I take the kids to gather some supplies to make camp?"