#spottedstar

1. eepy

2. wtf why is it so cold

art that's supposed to be spottedriver, but without color (which I'm debating to add) it doesn't really look like her

aaarrgghff uhmmm. @ourtalechara @itspetrovichworld and @opexart right. i'm seriously debating finishing this and probably animating it a little bit too. Hehehehe

refs under cut

Sorry that with all the Neath!WACA content I've been a bit quiet these past months!! I made these on Picrew :-)

The four are busy with all their warrior duties to pose for my drawings and I'm also busy with my warrior duties for the drawings ... I promise I'll get to their new sonas soon!! It'll be a Christmas present :-)

Spottedriver also has a new and improved design I'm ready to draw >:)

@ourtalechara @itspetrovichworld cause why not?

There's a lot of them. At the moment, I'm thinking more about Inspector John 'Jack' Newcomen from Sherlock Holmes, but there is also one that I hold dearly to my heart even if my interest in the fandom somewhat died down, which is Spottedstar from Warriors Cats. He's a slim calico cat from ShadowClan, technically half-WindClan but his mother moved to ShadowClan so he isn't a forbidden child, so he looks smaller than his clanmates and it's. Funny. Anyway, he's somewhat of an outcast, partially due to that (since he's naturally weaker than his clanmates, but far faster and more agile; his mentor did not know how to properly teach him due to that) and partially because he's transgender and ShadowClan doesn't really know whether or not that's something to be accepted or bewildered at. There's this tom called Owlfeather that's the greatest example of that latter one, and his parents are the greatest example of the first one: their child is so bad at fighting despite their own abilities, that they keep letting him down and trying to make him into a more ambitious cat than he actually is. It was them who forced him to agree into a 'deputyship' when Redstar's previous deputy, Lynxclaw, decided to retire. He has a good relationship with Redstar despite their personality differences (Spottedpelt has a short temper, cares too much, often loses debates for lacking arguments; while Redstar is usually very aloof, he just pretends he isn't for Spottedpelt's sake because he doesn't want to spook him up with his actual undiagnosed ASPD), and Redstar ends up being more of a mentor to him than his own mentor, though Spottedpelt still doesn't have that much saying in anything and things still need to go Redstar's way (he doesn't really like sharing the leadership with anyone, which is why Lynxclaw decided to retire from his duties early, dude got fed up). It's around this time that he becomes interested in ShadowClan's healer, Honeycomb, a frankly traumatized and imnsoniac beige tabby; she's not interested back, however, since she's not only aromantic she's also not even looking for a qpr at the moment. They become best friends instead, even if Spottedpelt is still interested in her, and serve as support for each other. It's really wholesome actually. And then Redstar dies, and Spottedpelt becomes Spottedstar. He assigns Lionmane as his deputy, which is a big yellow senior warrior; not everyone is happy with the decision, because Lionmane is paraplegic and carries himself around on his front legs, which makes some of the clanmates wonder how he's going to defend ShadowClan "properly". Lionmane is a good deputy, though! He's far more experienced with politics than Spottedstar, so he ends up being his extended braincell, which is nice because Spottedstar can't make ONE decision on his own.

Molt is going to be a shorter piece going over the background and drives of the main antagonist Spottedstar. I'm not going to write the series for a while, so I don't mind talking about the spoilers lol. As a warning it does contain horror elements. 

According to merriam-webster, molt is 'to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer' or to 'cast off (an outer covering)'. I chose this title because it's the main theme of the story. It symbolizes Spottedstar's transformation, as she goes from a proud cat who is willing to do anything for her colony to being an obsessive and blood-thirsty tyrant. Her mentality changes, the way her clanmates' perception of her changes, and at the end, her body changes to that of a beast to show what she's truly become. I thought that it would be appropriate to choose this word because in a sense she's slowly stripping away her humanity until she turns into a monster. She wants her colony to change for the better, to strip away their breezy and submissive lifestyles to change into cats who are powerful and feared. She strips away whose who have influence and authority until she's the one at top. But she keeps on taking and taking, and slowly but surely her clanmates can see her disguise strip away and see the hungry, obsessive monster that she is.