Redesigning Dapplemist's Family pt. 2
According to the poll, next up is Dapplemist's branch of the tree.
I've already gone over Dapplemist herself in part 1. She's a ticked torbie with low white and brown eyes.
Her mate is Swarmfur, a dark grey spotted tabby with green eyes. He doesn't have any white in his original design, but Birchbug has high white on one of their genotypes, so their father has to have at least a little white. That's pretty much it for him, appearance-wise.
For the sake of cats further down the line, he's also carrying for cinnamon, solid, classic, longhair, and colorpoint(aka siamese point, but I hate calling it that).
Dapplemist and Swarmfur have 3 kits. Just like Whiteear, funnily enough.
The most well-known of their kits, by which I mean they have shown up in multiple posts, is Birchbug. They were originally designed as a Dappleswarm hypokit by @lurking-in-windclan-camp. Because the original design was not made by me or the sims game, Birchbug was the only exception to my "no mutations" rule for these redesigns. Birchbug's original design can be completely possible, as long as they are a chimera.
A chimera is the result of two embryos fusing in the womb, the resulting child having two genotypes instead of one, and different areas can express one genotype or the other. This is why I said "one of Birchbug's genotypes" while talking about Swarmfur.
The first genotype gives them black fur and high white, while the second genotype gives them blue fur and low white. Both are solid, Dapplemist is carrying "a" solid from Stumpyripple, and Swarmfur can also be carry "a". Dapplemist has to be carrying "d" dilution from one of her parents(doesn't matter which) in order for one of Birchbug's genotypes to be "d/d" on the dilution allele. Both genotypes are shorthair, which could get the "L" from either parent. one genotype is carrying for classic, and one is carrying Swarmfur's "cs" for colorpoint for future reference.
Next is Paledust, she was from my sims 4 warriors destiny series that never got finished after the third child got taken away due to lag on my old computer. Paledust is a trans girl, as well as a lesbian. The sims 4 character had pale blonde hair and green eyes, so I gave her cat version cream fur. She also has low white, and long fur.
That "d" from Dapplemist makes a return, so even if Birchbug had been a fully black cat, she'd have still needed to carry for dilution to give to Paledust. Since Paledust was born X/Y, she can only receive a single "O" or "o" depending on what Dapplemist can give her, since Swarmfur gave her his "Y". Dapplemist is a tortie, so has a "O" to give her daughter to make her ginger.
She is also a heterozygous ticked tabby, so "Ta" from Dapplemist and "ta" from Swarmfur.
Both parents are carrying "l" for longhair now so that Paledust can be "l/l".
The last child is Blossomwind. Just like Paledust, she's originally from my sims 4 Warriors Destiny series. She was the child that got taken away, I believe. I drew her as a cat awhile back, where I had decided to make her mink and a torbie. I don't think she was ticked at the time, but she is now. This is also where the point genes get to come out.
Just like Dapplemist, she's a chocolate torbie. So she gets her mother's "b" for chocolate and "O" for ginger. Swarmfur can only give his "o", which makes her a tortie. She also gets a "A" from either parent to make her a tabby, and "Ta" from Dapplemist to make her ticked. She's the only Dappleswarm child without white on her, so she gets each parent's "w" instead of either's "S".
For her mink, she gets "cs" from Swarmfur and "cb" from Dapplemist. One colorpoint and one sepia point allele makes mink point, which I personally find really cool.
Hope you enjoyed my redesigns and rambling about genetics. The next part will come after a few polls and random cat designing posts.
picrew by @littlehungrywarriorcats
Anything seen in these cats that's not in the picrew(like Dapplemist's white speckles or Birchbug's whole chimerism thing) are alterations I made in MSpaint and, in my opinion, are relatively easy to replicate yourself in any art program that can paint or copy and paste.
