Anyway Shout Out To The Six Starclan Guys Night Just Fucking Slaughters

staring sulkily into an intense forest fire and the ambient screaming

last thing I promise but this is why I removed the whole fading thing from warrior cats. SO BORING. instead of fading from the dark forest because nobody remembers you what about most people who remember you literally abandoned you? most people who ‘remember you’ genuinely believe you did something that you would never do.

could you do it now though? Maybe you’re now the cat they remember and someone you forgot

sometimes i feel really stuck on how to characterise characters like Night and other starclan cats who have been dead for so long because i cant really comprehend how exactly that would change you. fading isnt a thing in this universe. youve been dead for centuries. tiny little things in life havent been relevant for that long because youve forgotten what being alive was.

while i dont characterise my starclan as god-like figures the oldest of them certainly aren't just little cats. WHAT ARE THEY??

My god, had bad did Night fumble that ball to fuck up this slam dunk of a victory.

Don't the clans skirmish with each other or something like that, or is Starclan basically their direct government and they just hang out

There is something super interesting about the main villain government actually being very easy to overthrow, like they are easy as hell to beat up. But the problem isn't in beating them, it's in legitimacy.

Staran might be corrupt, but they have about a few centuries of good will, achievements, faith, and just plain knowing how to run a clan on their resume. DF is basically a bunch of assholes who came out of left field and know how to kill, that no one knows or likes.

Sure, you might be able to kick Starclan to the curb, but can you actually justify why you should be in charge rather than them?

Lmao yeah

I think the clans probably do have skirmishes, just not often thanks to the sheer size of their territories lol (leads to miscommunication HELL but also less contact with each other or each other’s borders that they could fight over. they don’t have gatherings like in warriors).

The DF’s ‘legitimacy’ is super interesting, since Night’s motivations behind the rebellion are inherently selfish, and arguably taking an approach of getting rid of the whole society instead of trying to fix it is Bad

The main point behind Petalclaw's little resistance group after that is basically ‘we don’t think starclan was great but you didn’t have the right to do that to us’ (+ Night’s motivation behind her involvement in the rebellion was basically ‘StarClan didn’t have the right to do that to me’. I’m sure Night will respond to this parallel very Normally).

tbh I like my moonpaw design better but for warrior cats standards her canon one is pretty cool. I did both side by side :D

does violence have to be the last resort. cant it be like third

have another moonpaw

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

I'm a sucker for hypothetical children, so, what would a NightFinch hypokit potentially look or act like?

oohh ok! :0 i thinkk if its a hypokit, then any design with an incorporation of brown, black and some tabby stripes would be good... maybe ill draw one for fun..

its hard to say what the kit would act like.. because i think Night would absolutely suck at parenting. plus this would have to be a post-civil war situation (if they both didnt die) so Finch would be better off than Night but still a little messed up

if we go with the happiest possible option of alpine sort of communally helping them both and them supporting each other well i think they would grow up to act smart and reserved but absolutely be secretly a menace.. like will do what they're told but will go out of their way to be an inconvenience lmao. nobody wants to complain because they've all seen Finch dismember cats during the war and Night is Night

sorry for being a hater i want to be a lover but everything pisses me off

some dark forest side characters! :] names and a little info on each under the cut.

Clawstripe (top left) - he/him, formerly Snowdrift, banished for murder

Shademask (top right) - he/they, formerly Evergreen, banished for murder

Hollowheart (bottom left) - he/him, formerly Alpine, banished for doubting his role as a Peace-Keeper and refusing to punish his son for breaking the code

Fishleap (middle) - they/them, formerly Snowdrift, banished for starting a conspiracy against their Clan’s leader and Peace-Keeper (and later assassinating both)

Dawnclaw (bottom right) - she/her, formerly Alpine, banished for lying about StarClan’s messages to her, as a Clan medic

+ Finchfeather wasn’t included since I’ve drawn her before, but she is technically a dark forest side character also. She was formerly Alpine and was banished for (mass) murder.