#fuzzypaw

First, you can see that I've picked out a family for him in his bio. I wanted to make Hollypelt his mother since she's the only plain black cat in TC at the time, but she died during the sickness in GC, and no other kits were mentioned to be born at that time, so I scrapped that. I really love the idea of Mumblefoot being his dad for some reason, so I decided to have Larksong take him as her second mate after Flamenose died somehow, since she has black fur in her tortoiseshell pelt and could pass it on to him. He was the only kit in his litter.

For his physical description, Fuzzypelt is described as a tom with fur that stands on end and a thick-furred tail. Now for some context - growing up, I had a pet cat named Fuzzy. He was born before I was, and he was a big, fluffy black cat. He was my mom's baby and was the sort of cat who just wanted to be loved on and pet and admired all the time, and didn't really care about chasing mice like his brothers, or doing anything other than looking beautiful and being pet. He died when I was in high school.

Ever since Bluestar's Prophecy came out, I've always pictured Fuzzypelt as looking exactly like Fuzzy. They're both fluffy plain black cats, and the names are so similar, so it fit pretty perfectly. So I recently decided to make a ref sheet for Fuzzypelt using an old photo of Fuzzy as the reference. I went poring through some old photo albums and finally found a couple of photos of Fuzzy to work off of. this is the main one I used, but there's also this, and this one to give you an idea of Fuzzy's size (the cat next to him, Shadow, was pretty average in size). I had to wing the body a bit since I couldn't find one of Fuzzy standing perfectly to the side like that, but I think it turned out pretty well. I only gave him a few scars, since it felt kind of weird scarring up a picture of such a softie of a cat as the real Fuzzy was.

For his pattern, he's described as a black cat with yellow eyes. I went on the greener side of yellow for his eyes, since Fuzzy had green eyes.