Galixye

Ok so i tend to treat one color cats as patterned if theres not a lot of white/i dont have a unique fur/body style just because i find it more fun. but i definitely over did it fir this design but oh well ( i was even planning on adding patterns based on paredolia :seeing faces/objects/animals in things like clouds but decided against it only adding a few eye like stripes to the front legs to make a bit more unsettling quality to her as any old spirit should be)

i at first was going to go the bird angle and i still tried but i think i landed more closer to a butterfly/fae theme instead which still fits for a Canary-Clan spirit (also because i was listening to Stranger by rabbitolagy + the way Shatterpatch interacts with the living world feels very fae) id probably change her name if she was in CC though something like Swan-Swirl. id definitely have to tone back the detail if she would be a important character but i also could see me keeping a complex design if she was only going to appear a few times (similar to the actual 'starclan guide' in CCs save file who hasn't appeared yet her names NightBeak and i am going to hate drawing her)

as for a cat to draw ummmmmmmmm idk heres Owl i think she'd be very cute in your style

two cats whose entire clan died a few days ago find eachother. I imagine that CanaryStar in this au wasn't found by Raven or Owl and instead wandered alone after Burrow-Clans collapse before stumbling apon Root. She obviously cant leave this kit unattended so she takes Root with her to find a new home...

but shes just one cat someone needs to watch root when she goes hunting, i think Canary would try to contact a medics spirit to guide her in caring for this kit, and who answers? QuartzDove of course. its awkward and tense but Doves not going to leave his best friend murderer as the sole caretaker of a kid. (also he finally has someone to teach healing too)

I dont know how Roots faith in Starclan will clash with Canary and Doves relationship with The Spirits, if Starclan is similar to how it is in the books (ie: deterministic, ghosts cant change the physical world, ghosts are the same as the person they were in life) then it will definitely not be compatible with The Spirits. Dove especially will be torn between telling Root about the Spirits (he would absolutely believe that Starclan is just a tale that a cat told root so she can handle grief better, so he probably wont tell her about how Spirits are made of memories and are not really the cat who died)

He definitely would push for Canary to find some more cats to help her (mostly to avoid accidently saying something upsetting to Root). whether this leads to her forming Canary-Clan or not im not 100% certain of.