#dbd ooc

🩸 A thousand teeth, and yours among them, I know 🩸

Welcome to Darkest Before Dawn, a Clangen comic by @needlepine!

How it works:

Like the game Werewolf, a cat in one of the clans is actually a were-beast in disguise! It is up to the chosen ten cats to discover the identity of the beast (based on the random relationship values/events in Clangen).

Unlike Werewolf, the chosen cats must also figure out a way to stop or kill the beast before it kills them.

This comic also incorporates the random events present in Clangen. The cats can still be killed by injury, illness, and random chance, along with the monthly attacks by the beast.

One moon in-game represents one week in the comic. Every fourth comic is the new moon, which is when the beast appears and has a chance to kill.

I won’t be confirming or denying any plot-related questions about the beast, but feel free to send in mechanical questions and theories!

This probably goes without saying, but this comic will contain blood and animal death. Please steer clear if this will bother you.

🩸 Wish our cats luck on their journey! They'll certainly need it. 🩸

-> BEGIN THE GAME (Week 0) <-

All comics and asks linked in order under the cut.

Today is my (and I suppose also Fossilpaw's) birthday! DBD will be taking a break for the weekend, and comic releases will also slow down for the duration of July with the arrival of Art Fight 2024. I will be participating on Team Stardust!

ClawClan's territory is a shady forest with dense underbrush, FinClan's territory is a boggy area beside a large pond, and WingClan's territory is a couple rolling hills that drop off into steep cliffs. ClawClan's camp is in a completely camouflaged hollow in the forest, FinClan's is a set of shallow caves formed by old sinkholes, and WingClan's is a smattering of weathered alcoves along one of their cliffs.

Before the beast appeared, the clans were fairly peaceful with each other. The leaders are still trying to maintain that peace and work together to stop the beast, but the damage is done. Everyone is insanely suspicious of one another. Though the beast has killed cats from every clan, there's still a lot of pointing paws and saying things like, "only WingClan could twist someone's moral compass like that!" "You're one to talk, it's ClawClan that would train a cat to be that sneaky!"

We'll meet her in the comic! I wanna get rolling on DBD again, so hopefully you'll get to know her soon

In the meantime, sneak peek of her ref!

Half of them:

-Poppypaw and Fossilpaw have lost both of their parents

-Mistypaw has lost both of his parents

-Coldpaw has lost her mom and two littermates

-Murkpaw has lost one of her dads

Thornpaw, Rustypaw, Honeypaw, Sunpaw, and Smallpaw haven't lost any family to the beast so far*, though everyone has lost friends and mentors

So long as it's not like erasing any canon queer identities shown in the comics, idm! I draw my cats fairly androgynous, so I def don't mind ppl interpreting them as they see fit. You can do whatever you want forever :)