Thundergang & Co.

i understand your concerns and will be doing what i can to write out any stereotypes that i’ve included due to any unconscious associations or lack of awareness with informed consultation. all of these characters are fully fleshed out and i have put a lot of research into making them feel real and accurate. nothing i include is ever intended to be a two dimensional trope slapped on for a certain effect.

who does and doesn’t have a head covering so far is mostly due to order of posting designs. there are designs on my main blog of other windclan characters with head coverings (tallstar and tornear for example), as well as other antagonistic characters who don’t have it (crowfeather and onewhisker himself). i feel that comparing mudclaw to onewhisker in terms of morality is tricky in itself as both are antagonistic, and mudclaw has far more redeeming traits.

genuinely was not aware of the gambling thing being a stereotype, thank you for the heads up. my intention there was to highlight his maths/statistics skills but that was clearly the wrong way to do that.

as for flying a plane, this was intended to be a common windclan trait as wind=sky and them having connections to the airport and being able to block flights could be analogous to windclan restricting bluestar from visiting the moonstone in books.

Mudclaw - Mahmud Khan

The love of my life Mudclaw is finally done. I’ve been putting him off for so long because I wanted to make sure he was perfect. Admittedly, he’s two or three different existing characters’ designs combined into one. Choosing his name was a fun coincidence of me already knowing what name I wanted for him but looking at spelling variations and stumbling across one with ‘mud’ in it. This man is not photogenic as he’s always scowling some way or another.

Mahmud is very quick to pick skills up but because of this gets bored extremely easily. He’s dropped out of at least two university degrees (history and psychology) due to deciding preemptively he’s learnt all there is to know and is smarter than the professors. He can do statistics and probabilities in his head. Just like his degrees, he picks up and abandons hobbies quickly. Even though he prefers hands on hobbies, the only one that’s managed to stick is the less hands on collecting of memorabilia and artifacts. He also loves classic rock.

Close up below for details.

Long time no design but I was in the mood for one so here’s Barley! Human name is just Barley still, unsure about surname. Those rustic clothes are more of a fashion statement than a career based one. Since Highstones is actually just some snowy mountains that the clans go on trips to, and Barley needed to be a character they encountered on the way there, he works there! Another character who’s greying early due to the many stressors in his life.

Bonus cursed alternate version under cut

Probably not part of the official set of designs by any stretch but I had a strong vision of what he’d look like and needed to get him out of my brain.

Shirtless version under cut

duo of human warriors designs i attempted to do today but are completely unusable for their original intended purpose.

two mini sketch comics based off of year-long inside jokes about this old image of kuwat catching the snake 

1. kuwats pockets are full of dirt and/or loose trail mix that sud packed him