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-Hey guys, my name is Deadfish Studio! (I am NOT an actual studio, I’m a single person; I just liked the name and the design I made for it). This is my art blog, where I will probably be posting mostly (if not all) my personal Warrior Cats designs

-This design blog is basically my way of journaling and putting down ideas/designs so that I can remember them. And sharing them with you guys reminds me that my art is Infact peak & ai free.

My personal/casual blog is @tetristhedutchie , though its just art/things I like and reblog that isn’t always warriors related.

• If you’ve read below and you understand what I said, then go ham & enjoy my art ^^

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Important boundaries and things to know before requesting/commenting:

•All designs are all free to use/edit/ be inspired with credit; you can either @ me, or just reblog the post you used. Anyway that I can know that you used my design ^^

• You can request/ask me anything related to Warrior Cats, from my opinions abt a certain character, to drawing a certain character so long as it states that I’m open.

•If you ask/request something while it states that I’m closed, then I will ignore it even when I reopen.

• If you requested something like a day or 2 before I closed however, I will still do it, albeit a bit slowly

• I WILL draw: any canon wc characters, no matter how obscure. You can request multiple at a time, and I can draw them interacting rather then my usual format if u ask

hypokits between canon characters

appropriate ships between canon characters (doesn’t matter how crazy, or the gender, so long as it’s not kit x warrior, littermates, or something along those lines)That’s abt it rly

I WILL NOT draw: Ocs, anything that is not in the ‘Will Draw’ category, though this could always be subject to change

•If I’m am uncomfortable/confused abt an ask/request, I might reply with a question asking for details, but don’t be too surprised if I just Ignore it

• Most if not all of my posts will have my personal headcannons/opinions on the character. I am open to discussion, comments and constructive criticisms about my hcs/art, so long as it’s respectful. If we cannot have a peaceful or respectful conversation, you insult my art, or you align with beliefs that I personally believe are harmful, then I will block you without warning.

Just a little guy. He’s not my particular fav, but I really liked his character, and the fact that he’s living his best life with his husband ^^

Design Notes:

- He’s kinda just his own thing, but he’s the reason why Spiderleg has black fur & is lanky

- As mentioned in Dustpelts post, he has a (mostly) triangular design but squared patterns. Not to mention they have lighter colors in the same place (mouth, paws, chest and tail tip)

- I’m really proud of how I drew his expression. I know he’s not a scaredy cat anymore, but I found him rly cute back then.

Headcannons:

• Not sure if this was stated already, but Raven was much better of as a loner. Back when he was in the clans, everyone had high expectations of him because he was Tigerclaw’s apprentice. Not to mention his brother disowned him in place of Tiger’s group and Sandpaw, so he was sorta left on his own (Grey and Fire were chill but the set up was against him from the start). Now that he’s at the barn however, tensions aren’t as high, he doesn’t have to worry abt food or leafbare, and he has a loving mate & some supportive friends.

• He and Barley always seemed trauma-bonded to me; Barley dealt with Bloodclan, and Ravenpaw dealt with Tigerclaw & isolation from his clan. They obv are quite the cute couple, but to me their relationship felt kinda random back when I first read through warriors.

• Due to the last point, they didn’t really have the best communication skills. I mean, remember when Raven would do something for the clans (Wether it be in Ravenpaw’s graphic novel or his novella), Barley would sorta go like ‘So you’re choosing the clans over me???’ Always made me feel off, but unlike most couples they talked over it and actually bettered their talking skills. So I found that kinda nice

Sorry for not posting guys, schools been pretty rough (cuz why did my math & social studies teacher team up to give me 5 test/exams in a WEEK 😭). Anyways I’m doing well, and although posting will be a bit slow, I’ll hopefully be back

Design Notes:

- Very dust colored, who would’ve guessed

- Overall sturdy build, but not quite as much as Tigerclaw or other

- He has the same lighter markings (Paws, tail tip, chest) as Ravenpaw, and his squared build with triangle/ sharp patterns contrast Raven’s triangle/sharp build and squared pattern

Headcannons:

• He and Ravenpaw were close as kits, but as Dustpaw wanted more to be like the strong warriors around camp, he didn’t want to be associated with his wimp of a brother. So he basically disowned him/wouldn’t talk or be with him unless necessary.

• Dust wanted to be a strong, hard working warrior. Not exactly the kind that hunts the most prey of wins the most battles, but the kind that provided and showed his loyalty to the clan over & over, unwavering and brave. That why he gravitated to Tigerclaw, because he admired his strength & nonchalantly(?). Like how highschool boys would watch those alpha male podcasts, yk?

• Post-Tigerclaw, his friends were Brackenfur, Thornclaw, Cloudtail & Ashfur pre-Squirrelflight. The first two cuz they were the busy bodies of the clan (especially liked Thorn due to similar values). Honestly didn’t like Cloud at first, but begrudgingly got along with him after their kids married each other. Ash was his brother in law & apprentice, so they had similar values and would just talk with eachother. Dust was actually a fairly decent influence on Ash and he gave him advice often, but after Squirrelflight, they didn’t talk nearly as much.

• He and Ferncloud had that traditional sense of life, and though he was still a bit stoic, he was still head over heels for her. He showed his love by fixing her stuff unprompted; her nest, the nursery, the toys the kits would play with. He was the kind that wouldn’t outwardly show any affection, but would still do absolutely anything for. Even if he didn’t understand or care for something, he would do it with all his effort cause Ferncloud did.

• Just a middle aged man who would otherwise be living the traditional suburban lifestyle with his wife and kids in a cat’s body. And he was alr in canon, so nothing much to say

My baby. I love how soft yet confident she was. And her relationship with Birchfall is actually the best thing that happened to me. Such a cutie

Design Notes:

- She’s basically a taller, leggier version of her dad. However, she also has: her mom’s nose/color, ear tufts, eyes, and height. Kinda? Shes taller than her dad(who’s quite short), but not as tall as her mom (who’s an absolute beast in terms of height). So it evens out and makes her slightly shorted than average.

- She has a folded dog-like ear (from Brightheart kinda), that she passed on to Dovewing.

- Her tail, ear tufts, chest fur and cheek fur are wing-shaped

- Slightly on par with the last note, I was originally gonna make the tips of her hair & her lower mouth be reddish orange in color, so that she would look like a (mother) hen as she grew older, but I really like the soft monochrome look she has now so I kept it. Will def draw an alr design later

Headcannons:

• Cares deeply for both of her kits, and when she discovered that Dovewing had these powers that overstimulated her, and that Ivypool was groomed into the dark forest, she was devastated. She did all that she can to comfort and support the two, and she felt like it was her fault that she didn’t notice anything was wrong. This was strengthened much further when Dovewing left for ShadowClan, and she felt like she was responsible for driving her family away.

• On that same note, that was the time where White’s & Birch’s relationship was at its worst, because she felt like Birch didn’t do enough to protect Ivy, and she was just absolutely inconsolable during the aftermath of the great battle due to all the death & Dove leaving.

It was her parents who helped console & support her during this, and seeing the forest recover and grow after all the damage. She figured that if all the prey and plants can come back and heal then so could she. So she and Birch had a long conversation abt how she felt & abt the great battle and all about what’s been going on these past few moons. Eventually, Birch apologizes for not being truthful & protecting Ivy, and White acknowledges she could’ve went abt things a little better. So they see what they did wrong & right and they learn from it, promising to come to one another whenever they doubt each other so that they can talk their way through it, just like now.

From there they have mostly no problems (Though White still grieves for Dove & sometimes Ivy, but Birch and her parent help), and they remain the second cutest & most healthiest couple behind SorrelBracken. The end

• When Dove & Ivy were young, she would reward them by decorating their nests with matching flowers (I’ll think of the specific kind later). It cringed them out when they were young, yet later on in life Dove and Ivy would still wear them once in a while, if only to remember their mama.

Silly lil goober. While I don’t really like him as much, he’s a silly dude who cares deeply for his wife. And who could dislike that?

Design Notes:

- if you look closely enough, you can see how just like Frost, he has some secondary colors the same shade as his eyebrow so that he can look soft

-For the sake of design variation, he looks nothing like Firestar or Princess.

- I know he was named Cloudtail, but he’s just a very fluffy guy.

Headcannons:

• He is Odysseus levels dedicated to his wife. That weird thing that happened between him and Daisy in TNP? never happened, period. If you remember what I’m talking about, then no you don’t (jk).

• Is canonically one of the best trackers in the clan, something that he boasted about to everyone, and even to cats wayyy younger than him. This cause to to like hunting significantly more than he did during his apprentice days, and most times he would catch the most prey out of everyone (something he also boasted about).

•On that last note, Dovewing inherits this, and combined with her powers caused her to get easily overwhelmed. Cloud would give her tips on how to deal with it so that it wouldn’t get her too overstimulated. Examples include: Naming what you smell to be more grounded in the present, putting your muzzle closer to the ground so that it would tone down the other scents, etc.

The warrior cat of all time. I’m glad the Erin’s didn’t send her to the elders den or kill her, and that she was able to shine beyond her arc. Bit sad she didn’t get an apprentice tho, even in the newer arcs

Design Notes:

- Actually looks a lot like her mom? I was tryna make her look like both, but the only thing she gets from her dad are his body patterns & his nose/ear color.

- Her face & body patterns would be symmetrical, except for the heart freckles on the side of her face.

- Tried making her look genuinely gnarly. She was torn apart by a pack of dogs & nearly died from them, so I don’t think her face would be the only scarred thing.

- When I was drawing her, I wanted to make her eyes a bit more greener, but I forgot too. Made an alt version below tho ^^

Headcannons:

• Bright was quite involved in Whitewing’s life, and would cuddle and talk with her long after she became a warrior. On that note, she was also a little bit involved with Dovewing & Ivypool, and she would give White advice & tips on what to do whenever she asked for it.

• Even though she didn’t get an official apprentice, I like to think that from po3 onwards she became a respectable enough warrior that if she popped in to give mentors advice, they wouldn’t mind. Like remember how Lionheart & Tigerclaw helped train Firepaw even though neither were his mentor? Bright was kinds like that, watching over training sessions and giving tips & advice to both mentor & apprentice

• Something I forgot to add in Cinderpelt’s hc, but happens to Bright as well; is that during leaf-bare, her face and scars start to ache quite a lot. To help with this, her clanmates have a nest specifically saved for her in the middle, so that their warmth would relieve her aches. When she becomes elder aged, Cloud would come too because ‘The elders den is too cold without you’. He would grumble all about how it’s too crowded, but he just wants to be with his mate. Cinder would snuggle up with Leafpaw so that she wouldn’t be left alone.

• was the kind of elder to still hunt & take on patrols every once in a while even though she didn’t really have too.

• Just like her sister, there’s nothing more I really wanna add. She cool in her own right ^^

I need to redesign Brackenfur and Cinderheart so bad. They don’t look like her at ALL 😔

Design Notes:

- Has her dad’s height, tail, face fluff and eyebrows. Meanwhile she has her mom’s eye color/shape and color point pattern. Her build is a mix of both parents, and overall she looks like her own cat.

- She is holding Yarrow flowers in her mouth. While they enable puking in the books, in flower language they mean ‘Strength & healing’, and honestly that’s just her.

- Second cat to not look like her name. According to Google, “Cinder” is ‘A small piece of partly burned material, such as coal or wood, that is no longer flaming but may still be hot’…. Cinderpelt is dark grey with blue eyes, meaning that said grey is a bit blue to match her eyes. And while I don’t really have an excuse for this, any designs that would match her name wouldn’t match her (in my opinion). Maybe someday I’ll do an alternate design where her pelt matches her name, but for now she just looks like her parents.

Nothing else to say rly, but I’m proud of the way I did her leg ^^

Headcannons:

• if she grew to be old, she would’ve looked and acted like Yellowfang; messy grey pelt covered in herbs & leaves, small snaggletooth and bushy eyebrows, and we can’t forget her attitude. She wouldn’t be as grouchy, but the resemblance would’ve been crazy.

• Shes one of the few(?) medicine cats to know battle moves. I imagine that Yellowfang thought her some, along with the occasional Deadfoot helping out at gatherings. It would explain how she was able to defend Sorreltail from the badgers, and help out in the Great Battle.

• Was close with all her littermates when she was little, but especially bonded with Brightheart as an apprentice. Especially considering both their injuries, and the fact that Bright helped out in the medicine den sometimes. They also helped each other heal, and they would do and reference things only they would understand

• Stayed friends with Littlecloud, and the latter really looked up to and admired her. He was shaken when Cinder died, especially considering he couldn’t see her in StarClan for some time. But when she came back, he would see her during his moonpool visits until he died.

He’s literally just a guy to me. While his sisters are out here being goated, and his brother has the most healthiest relationship in warriors, he’s literally just there doing his own thing & going on patrols. Good for him tho. Also minor spoilers for TBC and what he does/says, but nothing major.

Design Notes:

- Is basically a clone of his dad. The only things he got from Frost was her face fur shape, her eye color, her face expressions, and her ear tufts. Everything is from his pops

- I tried putting a bit of space between his stripes, so that they can look a bit more like thorns. But to be honest, I lost the plot midway and just started slapping triangles together until it made sense

- is the second shortest out of his littermates

Headcannons:

• Thornclaw acts just like his mother & lives by her expectations, and it annoys all his littermates to no end. He does because he genuinely loves her and thinks that her line of thinking is logical. Not quite a mamas boy (at least, not in the way Ashfur is), but he really does look up to her & think that she’s right in everything

• Goes on all these patrols & does all his duties because he wants to be noticed and picked as deputy for his hard work. Obv as moons and arcs pass by, he’s not chosen, and it turns him into an angry bitter man. It’s the reason he trains in the Dark Forest, the reason he calls out Squirrelflight for picking Lionblaze as temp deputy in TBC, and the reason he briefly leaves the clan.

• On that last note, he’s just really resentful of the clans for being so biased/ emotional in their thinking, and how it’s affected his life. He doesn’t like that they keep choosing their relatives to lead, even when theirs better choices. He doesn’t like that the clans now prioritize peace & friendship with one another, thinking that they should keep more to themselves. He doesn’t like the fact that cats would hesitate to solve a problem, or not talk about a problem, if it thinks it’ll affect a cat negatively.

• In short, he doesn’t like how soft the clans are becoming. He hates that cats hesitate too much, and that they put their own blood and emotions over what’s logical and right. He thinks that of theres a problem, you tackle it as soon as possible. A traitor, or some cat causing trouble? You teach them a lesson, or exile them. He thinks that all this mercy, second chances, and lack of discipline is why theres so many evil cats popping up, and it pisses him off to no end.

• He thinks that if he were deputy, and he was allowed to rule his clan, they would be much better off. But of course, no matter what he says or does, he will never be chosen. Because what should matters, doesn’t matter. And what really doesn’t, always will. Because that’s how it works, and there’s nothing he can do about it

This women actually needs a break. First her kits get stolen, then her mate dies. Then after she gets her kits back, two of then receive life-altering injuries, along with one of those kits being renamed to something terrible, even if it was for a brief time. Finally, after everything that happens, she stays behind to watch her former home get destroyed as she slowly starves to death. She better be getting premium mice up there in StarClan cuz what??? 😭

Design Notes:

-If you zoom in or look closely, you can see that I added some shine to her fur so that she can look more frosty.

- although you can barely see it, shes a colorpoint because I refuse to draw a cat that’s plain white.

- Tired white gal

Headcannons:

• Despite stating in Brindleface’s hcs that’s shes kind and elegant, I like to imagine that as she gets older, she stays elegant but becomes less kind & more strict. I can’t think of any particular character, but you know those older ladies from the past that have that cold detached elegance radiating off of them? They always have the meanest glares too, and they look like they would poison their husband if they got the chance?? Yeah that’s the energy Frostfur kinda gives me.

• She had high expectations of everyone, and expected her family to do the best in everything they’re good at. When she was younger, these expectations were there because she wanted her friends and family to not just be good, but better. It wasn’t necessarily in a mean way, she just wanted to best for those she loved. Now as shes older, she views it less as a goal and more of a standard for those to achieve. She gets really annoyed if you didn’t abide by her expectations.

• This strictness extended to her kits, who she was very protective of. She genuinely cared though, and was a bit more lenient on all of them after her two daughters got their injuries. Was also really angry with Bluestar’s treatment of Brightpaw, and made it a point to disobey her orders, yet listen to Fireheart’s as a sort of rebellion.

• younger she-cats flocked to her for life advice and wisdom, but the more practical kind? Like not the kinda advice that a mother would give to you softly, but those kinda harsh truths that snap you back to reality. Kinda cat you’d go to if you needed to be snapped out your delusion.

Some Brindle family art for the wait ^^

(Zoom in to get a clearer look)

And some sketches of Fern & Ash

As a kid, I liked him cuz he was the only cat to be described with dark blue eyes, so I found his design to be very pleasing. He also lowk reminds of a yandere (which I really liked back then), and maybe that’s part of why I find him interesting (he still sucks tho, just to be clear)

Design Notes:

- He looks like a snow leopard, because I wanted him to contrast Brambleclaw looking like a tiger. He’s also tinted blue for that same reason

- His patterns are the opposite of Ferncloud; His muzzle pattern is at his right (our left), and his eye bag patterns face down to make him look tired (and also like eye bags but, yk)

- He’s has his mother’s patterns, but his dads build, height and fur, although he’s built up some muscle & fat despite his mostly lean build.

- Has a broken heart fleck on his chest. Fern was supposed to have a full heart but I forgot to add it…. Sighhhh

Headcannons: (Content warning for nasty and perverted behaviour ig) this is a long one I fear-

• Technically canon, but he and Bramble were good friends at some point; though Ash was always wary of bramble because his father killed his mother (something he would later use as an excuse as to why Squirrelflight shouldn’t choose Bramble instead of him)

• While I don’t want Whitestorm to be Ash and Fern’s father, Ash having Thistleclaw as a grandfather, and looking identical to Goosefeather apart from his build is an Interesting concept to me.

• Ashfur was a yandere, period point blank. He didn’t love Squirrel, he was obsessed with her. The way she looked, acted and spoke was something he ‘loved’ about her, and the concept of owning her and having her to himself was something that made him happy to think about no matter what. While he didn’t have the guts to kill Brambleclaw and other ‘competitors’ (they weren’t competitors, Ash was just deluding himself), it was something he would fantasize about to himself everyday.

• He was the kinda guy that was attracted to his own misery. If you ask me, I think that if he truly put his mind to it, then with the help of Brindleface’s spirit along with his littermates and their kits, he could’ve moved on to be a sorta normal-ish dude. But no. He had to be the victim, something had to be happening to him. He was the one who was truly hurt, not Squirrelflight. That’s why Squirrel has to make it up to him by being his mate and having kits with him, you see! (Yeahhh no-)

• When Squirrel and Bramble went on patrol together, Ash would sneak into her nest and lay there pretending that he and Squirrel shared a nest together, and that Bramble doesn’t exist. Then he would scent Bramble’s nest nearby and would b all pissy again

• Truly and genuinely believed that because he did everything he did, his love was more pure than Brambleclaw’s. He took the love that Brindleface thought him; her motherly love that ignored potential wrongdoing, and twisted it into an excuse to treat Squirrel the way he did. He thought that if he loved Squirrel enough, then she would realize that she was wrong (about Bramble and more), and she would come around to loving him back. As if he could love for both of them, do things for the both of them, talk for the both of them because they’re one. What a control freak

• Moving on from his delusions, this dude had TERRIBLE anger issues. Like bro led those dogs away to avenge his mother, and thought that was something you could apply to a day to day basis. (Cough cough everything he did to Squirrel).

• He was also a mamas boy to the end (even if said mama died), and used her as his ‘standard’ for a mate. Even though he ‘loved’ Squirrel, he also wanted her to slowly become a housewife with age: someone who stays securely in the nursery watching their kits, and waiting on him while he’s fighting their battles (both in theory and literally) and cuddle up to him when he gets back. Would compare Squirrel to Fern, saying he would love both the cats he loved to be in one place, and wondering why Squirrel was ‘so insistent’ on doing things he could easily do.

She represents everything bad abt how the Erin’s treat their she-cats. I love her so much, but I also feel bad for her

Design Notes:

- Her chest fur/mane, and tail represent ferns. I wasn’t looking at a particular picture/species, but you know the ones? The obit ones that people keep in their houses? I’ll find a picture

- Has a green tint to look more fern

- She and As*fur are twins. She’s the shorter chubbier one, and Ash is the skinny tall one; despite this, Fern is older than Ash.

- Ferncloud has her mom’s ‘eye bags’, but there’re facing up so it looks like she has faint mascara on. She also has an uneven muzzle pattern, with more facing her left, our right. Ashfur has the opposite of both of these, but I’ll go over that in his post.

- Overall she looks like her mom. The only thing she got from her dad were his tufts and eye shape.

Headcannons:

• She, Ashfur and Cloudtail stayed close after Brindleface’s death, and Fern’s kits would often have playdates with Cloud’s kits. And when Cloud and Fern were busy, Ashfur would babysit them, playfighting with them and telling stories about his mother among other things

• She and Dustpelt were friends during her apprenticeship, but became mates around 3 moons after she got her name, and had their first litter just as Firestar left for Skyclan (So around a year after they first became mates I think). This makes their relationship slightly less weird, considering that warriors still get together young.

• As Ferncloud grew with age, she became respected among the other queen at gatherings, and they would come to her for help & questions about anything kit-related. Kinda like a mother’s Facebook group, where Ferncloud is the eldest one with all the tips and tricks? Idk

• She (along with Daisy but especially her), was the clans shoulder to cry on. The mother of the clan if you would. She would comfort you & cuddle with you despite age or rank, because she simply cared for ThunderClan as if it was her own kit. When asked why she does this, or when she’s asked if she’s okay, all she’ll do is smile and nod before changing the subject.

• When she wasn’t watching kits or caring for someone, she would take long walks with just about anyone (but especially with Dustpelt, Cloudtail, and Ashfur before Squirrelflight), and she would go around collecting accessories and trinkets for the clan/kits to use. Something she inherited from her mother, that Frostfur and any cat that knew her would point out often.

A character I (yes me) made up for the sole purpose of being the father to Ash and Fern, cuz it’s not Whitestorm, Runningwind or Darkstripe (in my opinion, at least). He’s a pathetic loser, but he’s not evil ig. He doesn’t have any effect on the actual story (not too much anyway), so reading this is optional. This post is just the story of how him and brindle met and had kittens. If you feel inspired, it’s free to use with credits ^^

Design/Character Notes:

- He’s tall and skinny. He may look big, but it’s his fur doing all the work. Can’t see cuz he’s sitting down so just trust me bro

- He was named Ghost by his owners cause he kinda looks like one. He’s white, tall, and when his owners met him, he was perched on their fence just looking at them in the dead of night.

- He’s a white tom with blue eyes, nothing else to really say abt him

Headcannons/story:

•Note: I’m not a doctor, so please know that I’m know nothing abt Illnesses and how they work. I don’t know if chronic shivers is something someone can have (I don’t doubt it), but if it is, then I apologize if I didn’t present it accurately. Content warning: Manipulation, guilt-tripping, death, bullying, angst?, and just very long. you know the drill

• Ghost was always a weak cat. This was because him mom left him in the rain with no shelter as a kitten for a long while, which caused his body to be constantly cold & victim to these really intense shivers/shudders. They come up at any time of the day with no warning, and it cause him to be a bit weak bc he’s always shaken up by them.

• This disability causes him to be bullied/ forced into situations he’s uncomfortable with by the neighborhood house cats, and he can’t do anything because it’s always so exhausting. One of these dares was to trespass into clan territory, and when he protests cuz ‘They pick their teeth with kittypet bones!’, they grabbed him by the scruff and pushed him deeper into clan territory, calling him a coward and making fun of him.

• Eventually, a patrol including Brindleface comes up to the scene, and tells all of them to leave. Ghost goes ‘Yeah we heard you we’ll go’, but these idiot Kittypets go ‘What are you talking abt? We’re not going anywhere!’. The biggest one (a tabby and white tom), tries to show off thinking he can beat up a clan cat, and takes a swipe at the nearest one. Spoiler alert: he and his goons get their buts kicked. All the while, Brindleface was crouching near Ghost and asking if everything was okay, and all he could think about is how a pretty she-cat was checking up on him. (And if she could hear his heartbeat, and why he had to look so stupid in front of such a pretty cat.

• Ghost is somehow able to mutter something along the lines of ‘I’m fine’, and feeling pity, Brindle volunteers to escort him out of the territory. The patrol leader agrees, and she and Ghost get to know each other more while she walks him back. The pair talk about mundane things, and they enjoy eachothers company so much, that they didn’t even notice that they’ve arrived to Ghost’s place until it’s suddenly in front of them. Ghost asked if they could meet again, and Brindle tries to disagree when Ghost blurts out some flirty comment (maybe something like ‘I’d like to talk with a cute cat like you a lil more’), flustering the both of them. Brindle promises to come back to the same place, both because she feels bad but also cuz she’s kinda wooed.

• This happens for 4-5 moons, when Brindle has to hang out less because ThunderClan is decreasing in numbers. Not even stop hanging out as a whole, just not as much. Ghost doesn’t like this, and makes Brindle feel guilty by using his sickness (But Brindle, who’s gonna warm me up when I’m freezing? You know I can die soon right?). He feels bad, because he doesn’t like seeing her face all scrunched up in worry and guilt. But he doesn’t want her to leave, and he justifies it by saying it’s worth Brindle sticking around more.

• One day, Brindle confronts him (with Frostfur’s encouragement), telling him that although she was sorry for him, that it wasn’t her responsibility to ‘cure’ him, and that her responsibility belonged to her clan. He crashes out, and he goes back to his home saying stuff like ‘You don’t care about me!’ And ‘I’m gonna die alone because of you!’ He stomped back home, and Frost & Brindle went home thinking it was just one of his tantrums. But when Brindle went to visit him at the normal stop, he wasn’t there; and she started getting the worst thoughts as she ran to his home; praying to StarClan that it wasn’t what she thought. It was

• Ghost was laying in his cat bed by the window, happy to see Brindle despite their fights. He apologizes for not telling her he was actually dying, and promises that he will always haunt her and be with her. The former was supposed to be a silly reference to his name, but Brindle felt nothing but dread as he closed his eyes for the final time. She tried brushing it apart as she came home, but as time passed and she showed signs of pregnancy, she knew that somehow, this is what he meant.

Soon after she gave birth to her litter; she named her first 3 kits after plants, to remind her of what she called home. But as she looked at her 4th kit, with his features and long wispy fur, and as he looked up at her with his eyes. She felt it. As if the storm or fire that ruined her life ended, but the fallen branches and ash it left behind stayed. Ash…. When questioned why her fourth kit was named differently, she would say it’s because his flecks and pelt colour looked like ash. A lame excuse, but with Whitestorm’s support cats moved on from it quickly.

Honestly, I don’t have too much of an opinion on her when she was alive. Everything I have to say abt her also has to do with her kids (or when she died), which is a shame because she seems so nice

Design Notes:

- The first character in which I don’t base a design of their name. You see, “Brindle” is a ‘tiger striped coat pattern consisting of browns, red and tans’. And brindle is simply none of those, so I based her design of her canon one

- On that note, I had snow leopard’s in mind when I was doing her pattern, a choice I will elaborate on in her incel of a son’s post.

Headcannons:

• According to the books (Bluestar’s Prophecy), Brindleface is said to be Frostfur’s littermate???For the sake of the family tree, and the fact that we never see them interact like that (at least not in a major way), imma say, no they aren’t. Instead, they are best friends that are close like sisters.

•For that same reason, they are NOT Fuzzypelt & Robinwing’s kits. It makes Dust/Fern weirder than it was already, and messes up the family tree. They could be the relatives of the elders in Bluestars SE (Mumblefoot, Larksong, and/or Weedwhisker), or some other clan cat. Either way, both her and Frost are fully clanborn, they’re just don’t belong to Fuzzy and Robin. Now onto actually headcannons abt Brindle herself

• Brindle was the quiet and kinda awkward one, while Frost was the elegant yet kind one, making her popular among the other apprentices/young warriors doing their time. Brindle never envied her friend for this, but she did wish she was able to talk to other cats better.

• Bluestar (her mentor), helped boost her confidence a little bit, and they talked with eachother even after she got her warrior name. She and Golden were good acquaintances due to this, but they grew closer after Tigerclaw got exiled (Even if it was for a short time).

• As mentioned in Whitestorm’s post, he was not the father of Brindle’s litter. Instead, the sire was a white Tom named Ghost, who Brindle met between the latter half of Bluestar’s SE, and the beginning of Into The Wild. They met during a border skirmish in which Brindle spared him, and he admired her for mercy and kindness. I’ll go over him in his own post.

• Related to the last point, she adopted Cloud because she reminded her of Ghost (Edit: after actually working on Ghost’s story, imma say no she didn’t- sorry for the abrupt edit)

• Brindle liked to collect feathers, pretty stones, and pretty much anything that either looks cool or shiny. She would decorate camp with them, along with her best friend & Runningwind, and give the parts that weren’t used to the kits to play with.