#redsong

here's a moodboard i made for

this fic, my heaviest fic to date, but hey, the thunderbolts do christmas in this one!! :)

:) *pulls out book of shadowstar's info*

I am the genie and you are the fool who dared make a vague wish tumblr user @spookyghoulz

In 2016 I created shadowclaw, a bright orange cat with an eyepatch, a weird shadowy claw thing (her namesake) and a clan name, phantomclan

Pre-hawkfrost (2016-2017):

I don't remember much about the pre-hawkfrost era other than the fact that I changed her name to shadowstar, got rid of the eyepatch and shadowy claw and gave her a purple star on the tip of her tail

Her backstory was that she was a kit from a group of rouges who called themselves scarclan (ow the edge) and her father was the leader of that rouge group. But one day he killed her mother and her two brothers but she and her sister escaped, shadowpaw with a blinded eye and her sister with a fucked up leg

Her sister ran away to the mountains while shadowpaw escaped to phantomclan

Hawkfrost (2017-2019)

Her backstory in the hawkfrost era was diffirent. Instead of being an outsider, she was born in phantomclan along with her two sisters (redkit and eaglekit). She also had some friends as an apprentice, maggotpaw (he's probably my second most developed warriors oc), foxpaw (important later), dovepaw, crowpaw, flamepaw, beepaw and spottedpaw

Beepaw fucking died and spottedpaw broke her leg so that sucked

Also flamepaw ran away to lightningclan (another clan in this mess of a story) and dovepaw and crowpaw ran away to the mountains

I'm not sure how she lost sight in one of her eyes but I know it was an injury. Anyway she started training in the dark forest (for some reason) and that's where she met hawkfrost :)

They fell in love because reasons, also shadowstar (shadowstorm at the time) murdered her mentor who was also the deputy, owlheart

And foxtail also liked shadowstorm there was a love triangle and shadowstar chose hawkfrost so foxtail did an ashfur except he didn't die and got a redemption

She and hawkfrost also had kits because I'm like that, their kits names were. Eaglekit, blackkit, moonkit and lionkit(RIP)

I'm skipping over a lot of details (like maggotpelt going from a generic villan with a tragic backstory to a very sad boi who the universe loves to use as a punching bag) because that would take hours to explain

Post-hawkfrost (2019-present)

After I realized that maybe having a living person's love interest be a dead guy wasn't a good idea I made foxtail her love interest instead because he's honestly just a chill dude

Beepaw still fucking dies, spottedpaw becomes a medicine cat willingly, flamepaw, dovepaw and crowpaw don't run away anymore, I got rid of her purple tail star in favor of the black and orange that is her current design, I actually have a reason for her eye injury (dawnstar)

and also maggotpelt gets to have nice things (a family that dosen't die)

Her backstory is basically the same (minus the dark forest and hawkfrost) but she doesn't murder her mentor (he gets murdered by dawnstar)

Also when dawnstar becomes a problem she actually helps the cats trying to murder dawnstar because that's the only way to make sure dawnstar won't murder anyone else

Irrelevant but still something

I gave her an evil edgy alter ego that lasted all of seven minutes

I broke off shadowclaw into an entirely different character in a non-warriors story

There was a time when she was a normal orange tabby (with the purple star marking)

When hawkfrost was his father eagle kit just looked like hawkfrost with green eyes but now that his father is foxtail, he's a torbie