#discopaw

pics of the lady herself for reference :) (she cannot keep still and i cannot take good photos of her i apologize)

reworked Yellowfang family tree!

as always, lots of inspiration taken from bonefall's trees, however his shadowclan tree hasn't yet been finished. I took bits and peices from scattered posts haha

i use bone's 3 strict rules for fixing trees, with the tweak that characters must be more distant than second cousins to be compatible, rather than first. most important to know is the Queen's Rights.

I don't consider Stumptail's decendants as YellowKin, as their connection to Yellowfang isn't relevant anymore. They were included here for the sake of showing the whole tree.

See Also: AppleKin, BlueKin, FernKin, FireKin, GrayKin, SandKin, ScourgeKin, TallKin, TigerKin

Renamings:

Silverflame's unnamed kits (TR) > Darkbark & Dimleaf

Stumpytail > Stumptail

Mintkit (ShC) > Mintpool

Rubblekit > Rubbleflower

Turtlekit (ShC) > Turtlebelly

Quietkit > Quietnose

'Pretty black-and-white she-cat' (TPB) > Discostep

Tigerstar (AVoS) > Heartstar (her warrior name is the same)

Changes made:

Discopaw is coming easy to me! She does fit the personality of the kitten quite a bit, with a few differences.

I want to make sure Discopaw doesn't take up too much "screentime" that other characters could get, so I plan for her to consistently be in the background of conflicts

A voice shouted in a Gathering argument, one of Deerfoot's rebels, seen tangling ferociously with a bigger warrior in battle, etc!

In every way, she's perpetually sanguine. She has a zest for life. Discopaw loves to dance, join chants, sing loudly and play games.

That's based on her canonical appearance, shouting for Ravenpaw to tell his battle story. She's definitely a Gathering friend of his.

(Thinking about it, I should give her a line where she asks Fire about where Ravenpaw is at a Gathering. Good way to sneak in exposition/recap in book 2, that he feels sad that he needs to lie to her about his death to keep his friend safe. Especially when she takes the news pretty rough.)

So being "unable to sit still" is very fitting. Background character who would casually be changing places, vanishing from crowd shots in between camera pans.

Since I need to pad out some mass death events in ShadowClan, she's going to go down in one. She's a "high priority" kill since she's a Glitch Warrior, but I am hoping to get her to survive TPB at least.

So probably Yellowcough at the latest.

Also, I'm unsure who her mentor is. Deerfoot is an obvious choice, though I'm unsure if Brokenstar would want to reward him as one of his major critics. Russetfur is who I'm leaning towards right now.

Hmmm... if Disco swaps over to that spot, I'm unsure if Silver Tabby will remain there. Might push him up to be Disco's parent instead, since I could actually use some older cats named by Brokenstar.

I have no name for him yet, but I DO know Silver Tabby's personality.

He's from a BOTC story about ThunderClan using hit-and-run tactics by leaping out of trees to convince an invading ShadowClan Patrol that there's more attackers than there actually are. This works, and the patrol is spooked enough to run.

So Silver Tabby is a bit of a nervous nelly. He's easily unsettled, and prone to making bad choices when panicked. Poor guy is easily pranked by his clanmates, he's the sort of cat who would launch 10 feet into the air if you put a cucumber behind him.

If he's Disco's father, it would be neat for her to have that association as a legacy. That her dad is the coward during an extremely violent period in ShadowClan history. I'd want to make her mother someone especially brave and "honorable" during the time period, though, to give Disco "privilege" which she uses to reduce suspicion on herself during TigerClan's Tyranny.

Part of me thinks Discodance makes for a SUPER satisfying name with the alliteration, and I love the mental image of disco mushrooms "dancing" out of a rotten nut. On the other hand, Discostep feels like it's a little more "fitting" of the time and era, more mild. The mental image there is nice too, as if disco sprouts after her pawsteps.

I probably won't use -Wing because I'm leaning pretty heavily towards "Discostep," but hmmm. I think that's super cute. I kinda want to work a little bit of a Robin/Nightwing vibe into her.

Made a couple of cute mask sketches for funsies. Leaning towards the first one.

I tossed her into the Dawnkin family for this draft, but maybe I'll try and move her over into Nightwing's area instead. That would make her the grandmother of Smokefall, and very influential to the tree going forward.