#vanisart

height chart!!

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We just see it shining

It's traveled very far, I'll

Keep a leftover light burning

So you can keep looking up

Isn't that worth holding on?"

- star, mitski

loved this thumbnail sm i just had to share it here,,,,, purelily my parents i love them sm

also, tysm for 100 reblogs! your support of this AU is making 14-year-old arti very happy :')

fun fact: shimmers pelt is dyed and covered in glitter from her twolegs!

i gotta put them behind a spoiler because i ended up drawing TEN LEGENDARIES 😭😭😭 this post is frying my phone!!

anyways, enjoy!! (my favorite from this batch is treeleaf :'))

edit: i did draw sugar swan as well, but i hit the limit on images 😭😭 she'll be in the super epic post

since technically all my headcanons are canon to the au, here's some fun facts about the boy :)

shadowstar currently has the most children out of all of the cats in this au, having a total of SEVEN biological kits and one step-son. he has two baby mommas, sugarstar and silentstar. his kits are swanfeather, cottontail, pruneseed, crowberry, ravenfur, spiderfoot, and blackthorn. (in order, those are sugar swan, cotton candy, prune juice, crowberry, witchberry, truffle, and black sapphire)

windrunner (wind archer) is actually his grandson! he's the son of swanfeather. by extension, since windrunner and herbpelt are mates, he is technically purestars in-law, which makes him wanting to drive purestar insane all the more ironic

shadowstar and elderstar were once very close friends, but elderstar started to see visions of who shadowstar would become and severed their friendship, which indirectly accelerated shadowstar's descent into madness. shadowstar was also the one to take elderstar's first life!

shadowstar's old concept design had him as an all-black tom with white spots. this design was scrapped while i was developing the AU in favor of his current design

if shadowstar had a chance to go back in time, he wouldn't, because he truly believes he is irredeemable and is content with his situation, when in actuality, he is not

shadowstar was a loner before he founded shadowclan

shadowstar was also the very first dark forest cat

plans to reincarnate shadowstar as sage of truth are in the works!

shadowstar and his fellow beasts did not have warrior names

shadowstar developed the current in-universe warrior code before his descent into insanity

shadowstar haunts purestar when he is an apprentice up until he becomes leader and figures out the voice in his head is actually shadowstar

shadowstar is based on oriental shorthairs!

in his early days, shadowstar was idealistic and loyal

in development, shadowstar was originally only meant to be mates with silentstar, but plans changed in favor of his relationship with sugarstar being a point of focus for her own downfall

shadowstar is fascinated by adderwhisper (affogato) and sees her as a potential ally. the feeling is not mutual

appletail (candy apple) carries her obsession with him in CRK to this au, much to his ire

shadowstar genuinely enjoyed his time with truthless recluse

shadowstar is on very tense terms with silentstar and sugarstar, but mysticstar and burningstar see him as a worthy ally

aaaand that's everything i can think of! do with this information what you will. here's a doodle of the boy as thanks!!

shadow milk the biggest purelily truther and the biggest hater

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