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I finished a scene! I finished a scene!! Yesssss!

Fox: Voyageclan does not take place specifically anywhere, though I think of the settings similar to the Caribbean due to its rich history of piracy. The game generated this prompt with a coyote in the role of the fox. However, coyotes do not appear in the Caribbean islands, just along the mainland. I wanted something to fit the setting better, so I looked for another canid that could take its place. In my research I found that foxes are largely not present in the Caribbean, though there is a subspecies of grey fox present in Cozumel. I may not perfectly stick to things native to the Carribean, but I will try to commit to at least featuring South American wildlife and justify any non-native species as I can 💜

So if you look up a cat years/human years chart, most look something a bit like this:

3 month old cat = 4 year old human

6 month old cat = 10 year old human

9 month old cat = 12 year old human

12 month old cat = 15 year old human

18 month old cat clan that= 21 year old human

2 year old cat = 24 year old human

This is useful for real life but not so much for warrior cats 😅 My biggest issue is that a new apprentice should not be comparable to a 10 year old child, they’re getting trained for war and might DIE but they should be in elementary school at that age! Brokenstar was literally a villain for having child soldiers, but the standard age isn’t great as is. Then at 1 year, the cat would be compared to a 15 year old? That’s a full warrior or med cat being younger than a high school graduate! So I started to think about how I wanted to portray cat ages in my comic and I came up with a new metric based more around life stages.

1 month=toddler (2 year old)

2 month= kindergartener (5 year old)

3 month = early elementary school (8 year old)

4 month= late elementary school (10 year old)

5 month = 6th grade (preteen)

6 month (apprenticeship starts) = 7th grade

7 month = 8th grade

8 month = HS freshman

9 month = HS sophomore

10 month = HS junior

11 month = HS senior

12 month = graduate (young adult)

This makes apprentices and warriors a bit more mature than real life cat age charts would. Young teens seems like a better age to be training for battle than CHILD. Plus this time scale puts recently graduated warriors at the same age as recently graduated students! I kinda wish that apprenticeships lasted longer, more like 15 moons or so, to cover some young adult years but alas. The only thing I don’t like is the rapid growth into slower growth. Anyone have any thoughts on my cat to human age scale?

And then of course I had to practice some designs to see how I would draw cats at various ages. When I initially did my cat designs, I wasn’t thinking too hard about it but now I realize I have cats that are about to start growing up moon by moon. To practice, I went with my favorite girl, Moreldapple! Since she’s old at the start of the comic, it would be the most spoiler-free character to pick.

How did I do? Any thoughts on my cat age charts? Since the comic goes month by month this will be important as kits grow up so I want to make sure I like it!