tall shadow's genetic warrior designs

Genes I am using for this project:

AGOUTI:

A - tabby, dominant to...

a - solid (think black cat)

EUMELANIN

affects the black melanin of the cat, most obvious on the color of a solid cat or the stripes of a tabby cat, does not affect red melanin, so orange cats won't change, and neither will orange parts of tortoiseshells

B - black, dominant to...

b - chocolate, dominant to...

b1 - cinnamon

COLORPOINT ALBINISM

cs and cb are temperature sensitive, the mutations weaken a protein that is used during melanin production, so it denatures (which impairs function) at warmer temperatures, basically creating a heat map of the cats body based on where melanin can and can't be produced

C - regular melanin production, dominant to...

cs - siamese color restriction, incomplete dominant (meaning the two traits blend when both are present, creating the "mink" phenotype) with...

cb - burmese color restriction

c - total albinism (not temperature sensitive like the above traits)

DILUTION

D - regular melanin concentration, dominant to...

d - dilution, basically creates a "pastel" phenotype of the cats base color. think black -> grey

DOMINANT BLUE EYES

DBE - dominant blue eyes, allows the cat to have blue eyes with minimal white spotting elsewhere on the body. however, when homozygous, this trait can be lethal or cause birth defects. expression is variable, often cats heterozygous for DBE will be "latent," meaning they have the allele, and can pass it down, but do not express blue eyes or white spotting.

N - no dominant blue eyes.

EXTENSION

I am only using one of the discovered MC1R variants, because I don't know what russet would look like in a non-pointed cat, and I can't think of any cats amber would work for.

E - regular, dominant to...

ec - carnelian extension, basically recessive red, with juveniles maintaining some dark pigment. irl, it's exclusive to Kurlian Bobtails.

INHIBITOR

Inhibitor, well, inhibits melanin on the base of the hair, or the light parts of agouti bands.

I - silver/smoke, dominant to...

i - no silver/smoke

CLASSIC TABBY

cats must be agouti to express these traits

Mc - mackerel tabby (tiger stripes), dominant to...

mc - classic tabby (swirly stripes)

ORANGE

The locus for this trait is located on the X chromosome, meaning in females, it is affected by X inactivation, creating the tortoiseshell pattern. Males can only appear entirely orange or wildtype, and inherit the color solely from their mother.

Because cats cannot express both at the same time in the same cell, who knows what the dominance order is!

O - orange

o - no orange

TICKING

cats must be agouti to express this trait

Ta - ticked pattern, stripeless on body. polygenes and homozygousity of this trait determine how many stripes are present on the tail and legs. dominant to...

ta - not ticked.

CORIN

widens the bands of yellowish pheomelanin on the bands of hair, creating a golden look. I've only used sunshine so far, but there are others.

U - regular corin, dominant to...

us - sunshine (exclusive to Siberians irl)

WHITE SPOTTING

different from albinism because it inhibits the movement of melanocytes (pigment cells) rather than directly disrupting the synthesis of melanin. expression is quite variable, shape of white is unique between individuals.

W - total white, dominant to...

w - no white. codominant (expresses alongside) with...

ws - white spotting.

1. Blackstar's family and some early ShadowClan

2. Hailstar's kits and Sunfish's kits

3. Windstar's family

4. Early Thunderclan other guys (Thistleclaw will be here)

5. Heatherstar Era WindClan pt. I 

6. Yellowfang's family and even more early ShadowClan

7. Bluestar's family

8. Some extra Riverclan people

9. Firestar's ancestors

10. Heatherstar era WindClan pt. II

Until every individual from this list is finished, I won't be drawing any more characters born during the main series (or SkyClan), and I don't really know when I'm going to get to individuals from that time, since I haven't outlined it yet.

To me, now that say it, your Longtail design looks something like this:

A black mackerel tabby w/ low contrast stripes.

And sleekclaw is also a black mackerel tabby, but a bit darker and higher contrast, like this:

Brindlefrost would be something like this, a blue mackerel tabby with a very white chest.

And I love charcoal, so if you're fine giving someone bengal ancestry somewhere up the line, you could say leopardface is a charcoal, like so:

However, since neither parent exhibits the inhibitor trait, which turns a brown tabby cat to "silver," what you've drawn Swiftfoot as, he doesn't really work.

(this is what you're picturing him as, right?)

So here I would either give him burmese color restriction, so he can keep the dark face stripes and his eye color, or give one of his parents the inhibitor trait, preferably Longtail cuz I don't think it messes with his design all that much, he'd just look like this:

and that would solve that whole issue, and give you an alternate path for Leopardface, that doesn't use rare, breed exclusive genes, which is making her smoke, like this:

These are just two of many different ways that you could interpret this family tree. For writing out a genotype, this is probably how I would do it, but I like rare exotic genes ahaha:

Sleekclaw: A/Apb, B/B, C/cb, D/d, Mc/mc

Longtail: A/a, B/B, C/cb, D/d, Mc/mc

Brindlefrost: A/-, B/B, C/-, d/d, Mc/-

Leopardface: a/Apb, B/B, C/-, D/-, mc/mc