#warriors
Name That Apprentice: Firepaw
(I haven’t done one of these in a while. Figured I would come back with it.)
Appearance: Orange Tom with sparkling green eyes.
Personality: Fierce, passionate, loyal, bold, skilled, brave.
Whistlepaw, she has a gap in her front teeth! Closely inspired by Blaze-draws-cats’s design! Such a good design, please check their blog out!
A drawing of Whistlepaw, she is a short haired silver tabby she-cat. She has a silvery blue base coat with long horizontal broken medium blue-gray stripes down her flanks. Her legs, underbelly, and underside of her face are cream. Her tail has a dark ring around a white tip. All her paws, her throat, and her eyelids are white. She has dark ears, a stripe on her forehead, and a dark nose bridge. She has worried dark eyebrows above almond shaped, heather purple eyes, under her eyes are two silver stripes on the cream. She has a gap in her incisors that causes her to speak with a whistle. She has a thistle tucked behind her ear.
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Spireclaw. My first design with sectoral heterochromia! I KEEP LETTING DESIGNS SLIP OUT OF MY QUEUE WITHOUT ALL THE INFO AARG. Sorry I’m usually just too tired after I draw them to write the alt text for them.
A drawing of Spireclaw, he is a long haired tuxedo tom. He has a fluffy mane, tufted ears, and fur that sticks up at the base of his tail. His front paws, his back legs, the underside of his tail, his underbelly, his mane, and a mask shaped marking on his face are all white. The rest of him his black. He has a black, heart shaped spot on the left side of his nose. He has almond shaped golden eyes, his left eye has a brown spot in the top right side.
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Finchlight, girl just trying to put up with her emo brother. Inspired by nifty’s design!
A drawing of Finchlight, she is a short haired tortoiseshell shecat with longer spiky fur on her chest, the nape of her neck, and the tip of her tail. She is mostly black with a few patches of orange tabby scattered across her back. Her tail is orange with a black tip. Her left front paw is orange. She has an orange patch over her left eye. She has a long dark orange hair tuft that covers her right eye. She has tufted ears and round light green eyes.
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Pouncestep! OOH I love her interactions with her siblings so much. Inspired by Songstep’s design.
A drawing of Pouncestep, she is a curly, medium-haired, warm gray tabby she-cat. Her base color is a light warm toned gray. Her neck, underbelly, underside of her tail, and most of her legs are cream. She has long vertical medium gray stripes along her body and three rings on her tail. Two of the rings are medium gray and one is a dark gray. Her tail tip is white. The underside of her paws and her muzzle are also white. She has a medium gray mask marking, a dark gray nose bridge, and a white muzzle. Her ears are dark with a white spot on the back of each, her right ear is floppy. She has a curly medium gray hair tuft and almond shaped orange eyes.
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Lightleap! Messy girl. I kinda love this bimbo. Inspired by Berrym00n’s design pretty damn closely, thats just WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE!!
A drawing of Lightleap, she is a medium haired, brown classic tabby. Her base color is a medium dusty brown, she has a lighter gray-brown color on her hind legs that comes up across her flank and ends under her armpit, under that is a stripe of cream separating the gray-brown color from her white underbelly. She has white paws, chest, muzzle, and tail tip. Her throat is cream. She has thick, wavy dark, almost black-brown stripes swirling across her body. Her cheeks have 2 stripes each and the bridge of her nose is gray-brown. She has dark eyebrow dots and dark ears with white tufts inside. She has wide almond shaped amber eyes.
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Graypaw of Riverclan, Frostpaw’s brother! I hope he gets more screen time with his sister too!
A drawing of Graypaw, he is a medium haired silver tabby with black stripes. He as a white underbelly, white paws, and white under his nose, on his scruffy chin and on the underside of his jaw. He has white eyelids. He has swirly classic tabby markings. The tip of his tail is black, his ears are black and he has black stripes under his eyes the travel outward to the sides of his head, he has black spots on either side of his face under this stripe at the corner of his eyes. He has almond shaped light green eyes.
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Mistpaw of Riverclan, Frostpaw’s cute sister. I hope they get more screen time together.
A drawing of Mistpaw, she is a longhaired dilute tortoiseshell she-cat. Most of her body is a light stone gray tabby, while her shoulders and head are ginger. She has a fluffy white mane, underbelly, front paws, and back legs. Her tail is solid gray. She has curled ears like her mother that are the darker ginger color of her stripes. She has heart shaped eyebrow markings, a white under side to her face and big dark blue eyes with long lashes.
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Myrtlebloom, what a cute name she got! UGH I live for unique cannon names.
A drawing of Myrtlebloom, she is a warm light brown, short haired she cat. She is sleek with a broad flat head and a slender frame. She has a light tan underbelly and a cream throat. Her muzzle, under eyes, and paws are also cream. Half way up her front legs and half way down her tail and down her forehead is a slightly darker tan color. Her tail has an even darker brown tip and a ring near the end. She has a darker ring right above her front paws. She has dark eyebrow spots and a heart shaped marking on her forehead, her ears are also dark brown. She has wise hazel green eyes and notable lower lashes.
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So like I was saying about A Starless Clan, I’m obsessed with the mother dynamics. So here I present you the 3 merry* milfs of the lake territories.
*nothing is merry about any of these situations.
A drawing of Curlfeather, Sparkpelt, and Berryheart. Curlfeather is front and center, smiling at the viewer warmly. Sparkpelt is above, behind, and to the left, she is glancing away, and holding back tears. She looks tired. Berryheart is next to Sparkpelt on the right, she is looking down her nose at the viewer in distain. She is frowning and thoroughly unimpressed with your Skyclan girlfriend.
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Nightheart: I am being held up to unreasonable standard and the stress of it is affecting my performance. Everyone tells me I’m supposed to be great, and yet every time I have an idea it is shot down and rejected. They want me to be like someone I never met and don’t care about my personality or interests. My mother abandoned me at an early age and - while I understand that she had no choice - I am having trouble forming a relationship with her because she still barely shows interest in me, which is causing me (a teenager) to harbor resentment towards her.
Y'all: OH MY GOD WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE WHAT A TERRIBLE SHIT PERSON FUCK YOU LITTLE CHILD STOP BLAMING THE WOMEN IN YOUR LIFE FOR EVERYTHING !!!
Breezepelt: Dad was mean to me because I was starting unnecessary arguments and taking risks I shouldn’t have been taking, now I (an adult) will try to murder a pregnant woman and a nun. Also he had other kids before he was with my mother, so I (an adult) will try to murder them.
Y'all: Omg poor baby……. He has suffered so much……… He was …. Abused……….
Naw, Warrior Cats definitely is extremely misogynistic.
Now does the Warrior Cats /fandom/ have a misandry problem? You tell me, Tumblr user @euthanize-graystripe , you tell me
Anyway if Nightheart was a she-cat and Sparkpelt was a tom y'all would be tripping over yourselves to talk about how abusive and awful Sparkpelt is lol
The thing about the Nightcloud/Crowfeather/Breezepelt dynamic is that all of it is told from other characters’ perspectives, which means we really can’t get an accurate read on each characters’ true emotions.
Which is really a shame because the whole thing really IS difficult to interpret.
But let’s try to analyze the scenes that we do get and try to come to a reasonable conclusion, shall we?
Breezepelt Thinks: That Crowfeather hates him.
This idea is backed up in universe by:
- The three repeatedly noting that Crowfeather seems to dislike him - These scenes are in the book to serve as an ironic foreshadowing to Crowfeather being their father, and while they do show that he’s an /emotionally unavailable/ father, the worst thing he does in these scenes is scold Breezepelt when he misbehaves and not compliment his catch. That is hardly abusive.
- The Dark Forest Cats literally lying to actively Manipulate Breezepelt, and then Breezepelt parroting back the words that they fed him - These scenes are unreliable because these are DARK FOREST CATS and they are LYING and Breezepelt is BUYING THE LIE. These things didn’t HAPPEN, and Brokenstar of all cats should NOT be the paragon by which we judge anyone’s parenting skills.
- And a collection of other scenes where Breezepelt is scolded for misbehaving by Crowfeather - Which are in the book to establish Breezepelt as a Problem. Also, scolding your child does not mean you hate them or that you are abusive
Nightcloud Thinks: That Crowfeather doesn’t love either of them
- It is, explicitly, true that Crowfeather doesn’t love her. There’s no arguments there. And while that sucks, and Crowfeather is in the wrong for taking her as a mate, he also doesn’t owe it to her to love her. You can’t owe romantic feelings to anyone.
- But there’s really nothing to back up the idea that Crowfeather doesn’t love Breezepelt in Nightcloud’s eyes. The only scene I can think of is one where Breeze(paw) runs around to check the borders, and when he gets back Crowfeather double checks to make sure he checked the entire perimeter, at which point Nightcloud severely overreacts and accuses him of not trusting Breeze(paw). To my eyes this speaks more to Nightcloud’s extreme protectiveness than to Crowfeather’s abuse - literally all he did was double check that his son completed a task at a time of great importance.
Crowfeather Things: That Nightcloud is overprotective and that she is encouraging his son to hate him
This idea is backed up in universe by:
- Several scenes of Nightcloud separating him from Breezepelt - Including the aforementioned border checking, and the Daylight Gathering incident, where he actively tries to help carry and tend to his injured son, and is not allowed to do so by Nightcloud. This scene serves no other purpose than to show Crowfeather’s care for his son and Nightcloud’s refusal to let him.
- Nightcloud’s repeatedly demonstrated jealousy for Leafpool which - while justified on paper - literally leads to her clawing and Crowfeather and yelling at him in front of clanmates the moment he so much as glances as her. ~Which actually IS abuse~ ! Physical and Emotional ! And while these scenes are there to show that Leafpool and Crowfeather are still in love (which is awful for Nightcloud but does NOT justify her being abusive in turn), Nightcloud’s reaction is only there to show her character.
Breezepelt’s view is manipulated by the Dark Forest Cats.
Nightcloud’s view is clouded by her jealousy, which (again, justified on paper) leads her to literally abusing Crowfeather.
Crowfeather’s view is the only one which is backed up by scenes not serving an alternate purpose and is not clouded by an external motivation.
So the dynamic is:
- Breezepelt hates his dad because his mother didn’t let them bond, because he scolds him when he misbehaves, and because literal cats from hell told him to
- Nightcloud hates Crowfeather because he doesn’t love her (fair), so she resolves to set Breezepelt against him and physically and emotionally abuse him (unfair)
- Crowfeather doesn’t love Nightcloud (which sucks), but he does at least try to be a parent to Breezepelt (he isn’t especially good at it) only to have every attempt thwarted by either Nightcloud or Breezepelt, only for the latter to turn around and tell him he was never trying because of the hell cats mentioned above
There is really no reason for us to believe that Crowfeather was abusive and didn’t love his son. What he /was/ is strict and snappy - which is and has always been his personality. What he /was/ is emotionally distant - which is awful, sure, but it isn’t abuse. He wasn’t a good father, but there’s nothing to suggest that he was an abusive father either.
What we can believe is that Breezepelt’s hatred of Crowfeather wasn’t justified (HIS IDEAS CAME FROM CAT HELL) and that Nightcloud was overprotective of Breezepelt and abusive towards Crowfeather.
Simple as.
Y'all need to stop drawing Nightheart with orange patches my man LITERALLY had a mental breakdown about being a pure black cat lmfao
The Battle of Cantigas de Santa María this depiction is from 1280 describing the battle between Nasrid Emirate of Granada and the Kingdom of Castile-Leon.
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Klay Thompson - athlete
Golden State Warriors. Athlete series. Face looks like a Greek sculpture.
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Every time I draw a cat on stream I throw it into a document I call the Cat Vault and its getting a little crowded in here. If you wanna watch my streams you can follow me on twitch! I won’t be streaming this week as I’ll be away from home, but we’re almost to 100 followers!
