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saw this blog show up in my recommended and went "hey wait a minute... i recognize that artstyle..."
anyways. woe lionstar fanart be upon ye
AHHH HEY THERE fancy seeing you around!! Thank you so much for the art of Lionstar, she looks so so amazing in your style! My GIRL <3
The next moon is in progress! It's a testament to how new comic making is to me, I think, that I fooled myself into thinking I could continue doing moons on a single page. Moon 2 will probably end up being four. live and learn!
Because I don't want to release moons piecemeal, but also don't want to go too long between posts, I'm going to be tidying up an extra little comic I sketched out and posting that as a between-moon update. That should be finished and posted within the next day or two!
"I don't want to release moons piecemeal," I said, like a liar. Moon 3 will probably end up being 3 or 4 parts- splitting things up like this will make it more manageable and hopefully allow for somewhat more frequent updates, versus me pushing myself to get all the story beats for one moon out at once.
Chivekit
joined CliffClan moon 0, aged 2 moons
Chivekit learned from an early age that ThornClan did not trust in the stars. But the vision they received before the flood was so strong, so vivid- how could they not do what it said? Nimblepaw found them, Thrushdawn found them- and the rest of their Clan was swallowed by the floods.
They did not know ThornClan well enough to despise it as the others do, and feel guilty for running off by themself. Maybe the others could have been saved as well... but, again, ThornClan did not trust in the stars.
Riverpaw
joined CliffClan moon 0, aged 7 moons
mentored by UNKNOWN of RushClan, Lionstar of CliffClan
To her former home, the water-dwelling RushClan, Riverpaw's name was supposed to be a blessing of fortune. She is not sure to think, then, of the fact that only she and the stray kit she managed to hold onto have somehow survived.
Nimbletooth
joined CliffClan moon 0, aged 11 moons
mentored by UNKNOWN of ThornClan, Vinedusk of CliffClan
The first new warrior of the remnant Clan, Nimbletooth possesses a remarkable level of energy that she happily puts toward being the absolute best she can be. Questions about how she is feeling about the flood or loss of her former Clan are more often than not staunchly avoided.
(ThornClan was not kind to her, but it was the only home she knew. She did not like many of those cats, but she craved their approval all the same. She wonders if they are watching from the stars. She wonders if they hate her for leaving. She wonders if any of them would have listened, if she and Chivekit had told them. She wonders if telling them about Chivekit's vision would have changed anything at all.)
Scorchberry
joined CliffClan moon 0, aged 121 moons
A former elder of JayClan who, despite being retired in name, still actively inserted herself into clan affairs whenever possible. She was not especially close with Vinedusk prior to the disaster- though they were warriors together for a long time, she always rather disliked the now-deputy.
Scorchberry insists her survival was an act of the stars' providence, that it must have been because CliffClan needed her experience- though her eagerness to venture out of camp seems to have been somewhat dampened as of late. She has not yet adjusted to the new setting, and finds herself frequently cross with her new campmates.
Thrushdawn
joined CliffClan moon 0, aged 55 moons
Thrushdawn was not considered a very valuable warrior by his former Clan. It is for this reason that they sent him out in the middle of a storm, to track down a wayward kitten and apprentice. If not for his being out of camp on this errand, he would never have found Chivekit and Nimblepaw, and would have drowned along with the rest of ThornClan.
Thrushdawn does not delight in the deaths of his birth Clan, but his gentler, more soft-spoken personality found him ill-suited to ThornClan's spartan, militaristic ways. He does not celebrate his people's deaths, yet finds it hard to miss them. CliffClan suits him much better, so far.
Oakstripe
joined Cliffclan moon 0, aged 33 moons
A young healer who had only recently joined the ranks of HillClan, Oakstripe was horrified by the mass casualties of the flooding, but not quite as personally tied to it as some other members of CliffClan were.
His ability to compartmentalize his grief to care for the cats in front of him has made him invaluable as the new clan recovers from the calamity, though his lack of visible grief is considered to border on unnerving by a few.
Vinedusk
joined CliffClan moon 0, aged 102 moons
notable former apprentices: Bearpaw, Nimbletooth
While Lionflicker had no special standing prior to the flood, her new second in command certainly did- among the flashy cats of the now-gone JayClan, Vinedusk was a cat whose bold exploits inspired no small amount of awe. Though Vinedusk fancied the prestige that came with responsibility, she never was quite ready for a position of more power in JayClan- and now finds herself named deputy under much less ideal circumstances.
Vinedusk, used to doing largely as she pleased, chafes against the tighter rein that the more fretful Lionstar keeps her on- nothing like her previous, more permissive, leader. She is both emotionally volatile after the flood, and one of the most competent cats the fledgeling clan has left, simply by default. It is a burden she is still learning to bear well.
Lionstar
joined/formed Cliffclan moon 0, at age 75 moons.
lives remaining: 9
Prior to the flood, Lionflicker was a warrior of no special prominence from the deeply spiritual HillClan. She grew up both surrounded by the spirituality of her clanmates and somewhat detached from it, preferring to prioritize tasks that would help the physical wellbeing of the clan over listening to the ramblings of the cleric.
It came as some surprise to her that she was the one chosen to receive nine lives in the wake of the flood, but she has vowed to do her best to protect these new cats in her charge. Not an unkind cat by any means, she has grown to care deeply for this motley new group of clanmates, but sometimes struggles to verbalize such sentiments.
I have come to realize that in my excitement to start drawing pages for this, I failed to properly settle on designs for a lot of my starting cats that I was truly happy with, resulting in a lot of tweaking and a bit of frustration as I've gone along.
To remedy that, I've been working on proper references for all of my starting cats (and then some)- and thought it might be nice to post them here, as reference for myself/anyone who might be interested, as well as character introductions for our starting cast! I'll post Lionstar today, and work through the rest of the cats in the upcoming week or so.
my favorite part of moon 3 so far: this sketch of Nimbletooth.
Moon 2 is here! Apologies once again for the wait, I got interrupted many many times while working on it and am so stoked it's finally done ^^
For the first few moons it is my intention to try and show all of the cats at least once, while the clan is at a manageable size, to both get myself used to drawing them and to acquaint everyone with at least a bit of their character.
This moon wound up featuring Vinedusk quite heavily- but we also got some snippets of information from Thrushdawn! And a namedrop of his clan from before the flood- ThornClan! I might be a bit cagey with certain details about the pre-flood clans for story reasons but will do my best to answer any asks about them in a non-spoilery fashion.
quick post to confirm that though it has been a month, this has not been abandoned! I've had little time to draw in between working but I've been plugging away at things behind the scenes! I hope to have the next moon posted within the week.
Oof, Vinedusk is sure lashing out at poor Lionstar! (Lionstar you are doing great!! ✨)
Did Vinedusk have a mate and/or kits before the flood? Who is missing the most out of all her clan mates that were lost?
Lionstar is doing her best!!
Vinedusk was an only child and had very few living family in her former clan- save for perhaps a few aunts or uncles she wasn't particularly close to. No mate or kits, either. The closest relationship she had at the time of the flood was with the apprentice she was mentoring, Bearpaw. The two were deeply fond of each other, with Vine considering Bearpaw essentially like a son to her. Unfortunately, along with most of the rest of their clan, Bearpaw died in the flood. He was about Nimbletooth's age.
So while her lashing out at Lionstar like that definitely wasn't justified- it's certainly understandable that she'd have some complicated emotions about being given another apprentice (one who she's convinced didn't need anything from her, not really) so soon after that.
A bit of conversation that took place following moon 1.
If you'll recall, Vinedusk said some cruel things to Nimbletooth at her naming ceremony. they were paired as mentor and apprentice for only a moon, since Nimble was for all intents and purposes a fully fledged warrior at Cliffclan's formation. Vinedusk's remarks still stung, though- as the deputy and most senior warrior of the new clan, Nimble did look up to her a bit. She hadn't exactly had an abundance of good examples in her old clan prior to the flood- but more on that in future updates ;)
The next moon is in progress! It's a testament to how new comic making is to me, I think, that I fooled myself into thinking I could continue doing moons on a single page. Moon 2 will probably end up being four. live and learn!
Because I don't want to release moons piecemeal, but also don't want to go too long between posts, I'm going to be tidying up an extra little comic I sketched out and posting that as a between-moon update. That should be finished and posted within the next day or two!