#brightfur

Here is the huge year 1 line up for all of SpringClan!

21 kitties is a lot to draw, but I have so much fun, making them all! Unfortunately I have a rule that if a clan gets over 30 alive cats in camp, I’m gonna turn on extinction events to keep populations low.

Pick a character I’ve written and I will explain the top ~three to five ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.

Hilda's stubborn to a fault! If she believes in something she'll go all the way, regardless of any danger or consequences. She summoned the dead for a book. She snuck out to a fairy mound for her dad.

She's got a lot of pride in what she does! Hilda will be genuinely upset if someone makes fun of the work she's doing, even if it's teasingly. A good example is how she takes a lot of Johanna's worrying as an insult when it's a mom trying to keep her daughter safe.

Ride or die but like. Literally. She will ride until she dies. She literally refused to stop a time worm from eating her because it made her neighbor happy. Again; the fucking fairy mound. She'll run with her friends to the end of the earth and then jump off to protect them.

Bad luck haunts this boy so fucking hard, he's just learned to accept it.

David is ride or die but also he's gonna complain about it. He's gonna complain so fucking hard. But he'll be there.

Unironically the brain cell of this group. I know Frida's the book-smart character but David is the one with the common sense and general 'hey let's maybe nooootttt risk our lives?'

The hothead of the trio. Frida likes things to go exactly as she planned and can get legitimately upset when they don't. She's a perfectionist and it shows.

Ride or die but like. In the sense that she doesn't think the dying will actually occur. She's here for the action and she's got this neat spell to try out but she rarely considers it actual, life-threatening danger.

Strong common sense but in the "obviously a cross is not enough to fight a vampire, let's bring garlic" of way instead of the "maybe we just avoid the vampire???" kind of way.

Brightfur tries her best to be a supportive, understanding mentor to Dewpaw because she didn't have one of those growing up. She wants him to love his job! She wants him to love his powers!

No longer goes against Ravenwind in obvious ways but instead in little ones. She teaches the nursery to avoid poisonings. She gets rid of every deathberry in the den. She's systematic in making sure no one is alone with her mentor except herself.

Part 1 of SpringClan refs!

SpringClan allegiances! I will be updating this post with the current allegiances through the years as I go on!

Spottedshade’s vitiligo spreads to her face first, leaving a huge stripe of white. Cats joke it’s because she’s slapped herself so many times out of frustration it’s left a permanent mark.

Spottedshade’s entire apprenticeship is wonky af. She’s a med cat apprentice mostly out of obligation, but is ripped away two or three moons in. Weaselstar takes her to the Moonpool until she gets her name, making her the only ‘paw who gets escorted by her mommy to talk to cat god.

Antpaw was. Not complicated. He tried to tote himself as revolutionary but he only ever really did it to get the girls. He had Fogfur’s loud mouth and Nutstripe’s lack of action.

Spiderstar honestly regarded Weasel as a close confidant and was deeply betrayed when she left. (It didn’t help that she took his son)

Weaselstar is the first leader to ever flat-out ignore her new name and go by her old one for several moons. To this day, most cats just call her Weasel.

Brightfur is ShadowClan’s past- its descent into suspicion and fear. Weaselstar is ShadowClan’s future- moving on and moving up, re-learning to love the night.

Squirrelwhisker will never forgive Weaselstar for the night she lost her apprentice, and will never follow her. But she does believe in ShadowClan.

Arguments are forever ongoing as to whether ShadowClan’s leader should return to its original den or whether the fortified stone should be used for herbs.