warrior cats thing

In celebration for my post about cat eye colors getting 500+ notes, I made this!

Know several things:

In the process of simplifying and explaining things, I likely made some mistakes. Fellow genetics fans, correct me on anything I did wrong, just don’t be an ass about it.

This doesn’t cover everything about cat genetics because I like my sanity. I left out the silver series, agouti patterns, albinism, and the thousand oddities that break the base rules that are normally confined to specific breeds. This just covered the most common/basic of cat genetics. I probably won’t make any more of these since this is just a masterpost of sorts for basic cat genetics for those who can’t stomach the boring crap.

You can definitely take artistic liberties with the exact hues and shades of colors! I do it myself, so it’d be hypocritical of me to say otherwise. You can totally have a “gray” cat be bluish-gray or greenish-gray or purplish-gray - whatever helps make characters look distinct! Reds themselves can range from a deep rust to a light ginger, and don’t be afraid to throw in hints of other colors into your blacks and whites.

my au in which oakheart joins bluefur in thunderclan. they raise their kits there and mosskit lives, sunstar still chooses bluefur as deputy (tawnyspots holds on a bit longer because he also realizes thistleclaw’s ambition), and rusty still joins as prophecized.

redtail still dies because tigerclaw still murders him. thistleclaw is alive at this time, as in my head he wasn’t killed by an enemy patrol but by tigerclaw. (or that cool au idea where redtail and whitestorm kill thistleclaw because of spottedleaf!)