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Life of a Whis

Four years... Daily Whis has been running for four years now and I genuinely can't thank all of you enough!

I know this endeavor started as a silly thing I wanted to do because I was inspired by daily-squilf, but I never expected this blog to grow so much and become such an important part of my life. Whistlepaw, no. Whistlebreeze has grown so much in the past four years and so have I alongside whis. This blog genuinely means so much to me. It's gotten me through horrendous times and I also got to bring my joy to it too. Whis means so much to me, I draw her all the time in class or when I lack inspiration. I can draw that face with those fluffs anywhere.

And none of this would've happened without your support either. All the loving comments and reactions to my drawings is what kept me motivated to draw for so long, and today you all proved again why Daily Whis couldn't be a solo mission. Thanks to you I still got to do the yearly celebration of posting one drawing per hour every hour ignoring the fact that this post gets 20 drawings technically, I'll share all the separate frames in a reblog. Thank you so much to every single one of you for participating in this, or supporting this blog for the past four years, you are all so incredibly amazing

Whistlepaw’s lil bro, 12 moons old currently

So we have the following characters here:

Oatclaw: pale brown tabby

Featherpelt: gray tabby

Whistlebreeze: gray tabby

Flutterfoot: brown-and-white

Songleap: tortoiseshell

Grassfur: auburn

Branchleap: white

Leafcurl: mostly white with some dark gray spots on her flank and on one ear

Neither parent has any white, which would mean the kits shouldn't have it either; but since Flutterfoot seems to pass his to his daughter Stretchkit i decided to gave Oatclaw white paws. The younger two, Branchleap and Leafcurl will be points, to be at least whitish.

Other problem: Songleap got a red allele from nowhere, so either i had to make her non-tortie, make Featherpelt tortie, or make Oatclaw red-based. I chose the last, because Featherpelt's family is pure black-based for generations, and if you squint pale brown can be interpreted as cream. However this makes all the other girls torties as well, and Featherpelt has to be dark to have brown Flutterfoot. Oh well, black tabbies can be gray looking.

Auburn is a mysterious description; i decided to make Grassfur a simple black tortie tabby. Songleap will be solid blue tortie for contrast.

Oatclaw: cream with white

Featherpelt: black mackerel tabby

Whistlebreeze: blue tortoiseshell blotched tabby

Flutterfoot: black mackerel tabby with white

Songleap: blue tortoiseshell

Grassfur: black tortoiseshell mackerel tabby

Branchleap: black tabby point

Leafcurl: blue tortoiseshell point with white

(The tabby patterns are pretty arbritary, i decided to make Whistlebreeze blotched and everyone else mackerel mostly just based on the vibes of the names (and because i want mackerel to be more common).)

Oatclaw and Feathertail

First litter: Whistlebreeze, Flutterfoot and Songleap

Second litter: Grassfur, Branchleap and Leafcurl

Bonus, because i know you like Stretchkit:

Flutterfoot's family: Appleshine, Rustlekit and Stretchkit