My previous tablet broke just after I started taking longer breaks between drawing, and genuinely just. Stopped working

and probably non-warriors but still cat,, stuff. bc my interests have shifted moderately from JUST warriors(cough, i havent fucking read the latest books yet)

truthfully they DID die, of sickness, a mixture of starvation and dehydration, sickness sapping away any strength to eat or drink, making it impossible to keep anything down. He died, for a full night he was dead, and the next morning was awake again

There’s no nine lives system in my Courts, Leaders dont get any extra lives, if they die, they’re dead. And the funny thing is, Rime is part of a cult that worships death and its cycle in life. Cats are ceremoniously eaten by their group-mates, with both consent from the deceased and their closest family member. If their family member refuses, the cat is buried instead.

My favorite thing is detailing the changes that happened to Rime after coming back.

Rime basically dies and comes back very, very different. Personality wise, they’re the same. But he doesn’t have a scent anymore, no eyeshine, he rarely has to eat or drink water. A workaround, and a fav design note to him, is that Opal, his life partner, helps the insecurity of not having a scent(or at least, only having a faint scent of death) by tying a mixture of heather and lavender into his fur.

More context: Opal and Rime have been life partners for longer than they’ve been in the cult together. They met while young, and the bond between them was solidified when Opal picked a fight with a cat way bigger than both of them. Rime immediately threw himself in between them, and defended her. They got two scars on the bridge of their nose, between their eyes, for the trouble, and both of them ended up hightailing it out of there to avoid getting hurt more.

The relationship between them is currently the only one in my Courts - it's completely platonic, they’re dedicated life partners, call each other mates occasionally, and while Opal is pregnant, her kits aren’t Rime’s and Rime’s intention is only to help her raise the kits and act as an uncle rather than a parent. They’re both dedicated to each other and closely bonded. Opal and Rime’s designs are some of my favorites, alongside Puffin and Finch, two others in the cult, though Finch was born into it and Puffin was adopted as a kit.

in birth of an echo, two apprentices(Mushroom and Cobweb) are together. both nonbinary, Mushroom is masc leaning and uses it/they and Cobweb is fem leaning and uses he/they, he/him primarily.

Neither of them would inherently get in trouble for dating, neither of them want nor can have kits, Cobweb is content to be a warrior someday, Mushroom is an herbalist apprentice. cobweb’s outlook on it is ‘its not a big deal if we’re gay’ and Mushrooms in a nice closet paradox, it’s scared that if their relationship is more public, it might be forced to step down and become a warrior.

Cobweb is certain it won’t happen because Bug Pollen is Mushroom’s older brother and wouldn’t do that to it.

they eventually do make their relationship more public, and the entire apprentice group theyre from (Larch, Muddy, and Sweet) are very unsurprised because after the fifteenth time that they woke up to Mushroom, who’s supposed to sleep in the herbalist den with Fidgetspeckles, in Cobweb’s nest, it was kiiinda obvious.

anyways this is Literally All i have to offer rn & its an oc lmao

This is Marigold, from my own cat groups. They’re nonbinary, and also possessed by their dead siblings :)

I want to do them with a higher canvas and thus higher resolution but I'm struggling with fitting it properly and still making it look. Good.

I'd also like it known the other times I did pride icons: I forgot that I could've just. Made transparent versions for my own use to speed it up. Instead, I was just. Consistently drawing every icon by hand. Which I might still do!! It was really fun.

but its specifically only for meeting with other courts/court members

my favorite thus far is Pollen Courts current leader, Bug Pollen, also known as in Pollen Court, Bugstalker.

For reference: Outside of the Court, leaders suffix is replaced with their court title, currently theres Blossom Court, Night Court, Dawn Court and Pollen Court. HOWEVER, they keep their warrior title, even after ascending to leadership. They never get more lives, theyre just like. There? Its just a title and a role really. They keep their warrior titles, though, in Court.

While the other courts mmmay remember their previous title when they ascend, it’s not really used when theyre around other court members.