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Sapphire the Cat

I forgot how much I love doing pet portraits!

Below the cut is the sketch and my first attempt that was an absolute fail!

^^^Everything went wrong I stg

ashfur goes yandere

so I've been thinking about it

and I think

DotC would've been more interesting if it explored more on the family aspect of things

Clear Sky, Jagged Peak, and Gray Wing are brothers who fall apart

Thunder is rejected by his biological father

it would be so cool to see DotC being about found family and what cats defined as family, for cats to choose who they belonged with and the Clans not forming from petty grudges and teaming up against Clear Sky

but by realizing that these were the cats that made them happy to be around

we get so many little tidbits of this, but that's not the overarching theme of the story and I think it'd be so much more fun if it was

Wind Runner, famously abandoned, learning that she's allowed to trust cats again and make her own family with Gorse Fur by her side. That she's allowed to have a family that won't hurt her.

Tall Shadow losing loved ones - namely her brother Moon Shadow - and making her family something safe that she could protect and that could, in turn, learn to protect each other

River Ripple having once known a proper family, but losing and and turning his group into a loving home, one where cats are welcome no matter how their paws brought them there and turning it into a community like that he grew up with

and then getting to the biggest missed opportunities;

Thunder, being torn so many ways, learning that family isn't always blood. Family is who you want to be around, those you want to protect, but also laugh with, learn from, and teach in turn. That just because Clear Sky sired him doesn't mean that he has to be loyal to his father.

And a Clear Sky redemption arc where Clear Sky learns that family isn't something you control. That family doesn't mean you can hurt those you care about, even if you believe it's for the 'greater good'. That all cats are their own person and trying to strip them of that doesn't make you good family and that you can lose the ones you love.

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or at least

those are my feelings

just started reading the second arc… this shits pretty goooood

Let damian be more cringe

potentially unpopular opinion but it would've been nice to have thunder and star flower actually get together and have a DEVELOPED relationship as opposed to shoving in the weird love triangle with clear sky and giving thunder a LITERAL last minute love interest just because clear sky needed a third and final girlfriend after he indirectly got the last two he knocked up killed and because thunder needed a girlfriend

like we could have had two young characters at odds after star flower's betrayal learning to open up to each other and gain each other's trust once more and bonding over the fact that they both had shitty dads who did shitty things and creating a group for themselves away from clear sky

like i have never felt closer to vomiting than reading through the clear sky/star flower romance chapters it made me so uncomfortable

WillowClan

RIP Riverdusk, Wingpaw still hasn't recovered.

Moon 1 & Moon 0

River Ripple had a crush on Gray Wing and no one can convince me otherwise

WHAT FIRST ARC CAT OR SCENE SHOULD I DRAW!? It can be canon or headcacon

it is your sworn duty, as a warrior cat artist, to draw your favorite characters as warrior cats. you must. you vowed to.