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@missingclan-comic
MissingClan Begins!
Hello everyone! After a few years of lurking on clangen tumblr, I decided to try my hand at my own clan run! Hopefully I'll manage to stick with it, I'll probably update infrequently but I'm really enjoying myself so far, and I'm hoping to improve my art as I go! If you've found my blog, feel free to stick around and ask/comment if you like it :) Let's get started!
More info after the cut!
Just checking in! I hope you're well, I love this comic but I don't want you to burn yourself out with it❤️🩹
Could we perhaps hear a bit about Briarpaw/pelt's former mentor?
it's so sweet of you to send an ask in! and yeah, i do plan on continuing this, but i'm currently in finals hell 😅 i hope to get some drawing done before summer is over! it means so, so incredibly much to me to see people going through my blog, and asks like this make me so happy that i started this :))
briarpelt's mentor was an older female warrior named snakejaw. she was heavily respected in the clan, fairly strict, and a gifted fighter. briarpelt was apprenticed to her because he was a troublesome, rowdy kit, and she was an experienced mentor who was more than capable of keeping him in line. since briarpelt was found as an abandoned kit by the clan, he looked up to her like family.
when the sickness hit the clan, snakejaw held out for longer than almost all the other warriors, but she was an older cat. eventually, even she got sick, and briarpelt's training slowed, then stopped. he was left to his own devices, and... well. you all have seen where that got him. when he went missing, snakejaw was feverish in the medicine den. she didn't discover that the kits were gone until someone told her, days later.
snakejaw is still alive in their former clan, though she has a nasty lingering cough from the illness, and can't get around as quickly as she used to. she took it hard when her apprentice went missing, and hasn't taken another since.
(the kits don't know that, of course. as far as briarpelt knows, his mentor died in the medicine den. most likely, they'll never know what happened to their clan.)
Moon 3 - A Warrior's Name
So sorry this is so late! Finals hit me like a bus-- hopefully I can get some drawing done during break!
Moon 3 - Names, Continued Again Again
We have a name! And with that, MissingClan officially begins. We have two kits, a medicine cat apprentice, and a warrior apprentice-- I wonder who will be chosen as the leader...
Moon 3 - Names, Continued Again
Even if they're lost, the kits are managing to keep up morale. It's lucky that they care about each other so much-- they'll need that support. Being a Clan isn't easy, especially if you never finished your training.
will there ever be a small interlude to show the reaction of 4 children going missing
i've thought about it! i was thinking no, but if everyone wants to see one, i wouldn't be opposed 👀 i do think that, as sad as it is, the kits probably won't reunite with their old clan (or if they do, it'll be a long long time from now). but an interlude could be interesting... let's take a vote!
do you want to see an interlude of greenclan reacting to the kits going missing?
yes, i want to see where the kits came from!
no, i'd prefer to continue the kits story/keep the mystery
other/nuance (get in the comments and chat!)
the people have spoken-- we'll have a little interlude of greenclan! thank you all for voting, that was WAY more unanimous than i expected, but i can't believe how many people are this interested. once this moon wraps up, we'll have a little interlude :) thank you anon, i never wouldve known so many of you were curious about where the kits came from!
will there ever be a small interlude to show the reaction of 4 children going missing
i've thought about it! i was thinking no, but if everyone wants to see one, i wouldn't be opposed 👀 i do think that, as sad as it is, the kits probably won't reunite with their old clan (or if they do, it'll be a long long time from now). but an interlude could be interesting... let's take a vote!
do you want to see an interlude of greenclan reacting to the kits going missing?
yes, i want to see where the kits came from!
no, i'd prefer to continue the kits story/keep the mystery
other/nuance (get in the comments and chat!)
just wanted to say that the amount of support on my little cat comic has been so touching to see! i thought i was going to have to take a small hiatus, but after seeing how many people have been enjoying the comic, i managed to squeeze in some drawing time :) there will be a comic next week! everyone's comments and tags have been so encouraging, and i love watching people go through the comic and like the posts as they go. thank you all for being so kind, it's a joy to share my art and my little clan with you.
Moon 3 - Names, Continued
Well... It couldn't go unsaid forever. The kits are smarter than that. Three moons is a long time, and they aren't as little as they used to be. Of course, it's easier for the younger ones to adjust-- after all, they've already been lost for longer than they ever lived in their previous Clan.
(This moon is a long one, it will continue next time!)
Moon 3 - Names
Peachkit finally brings up what they've all been thinking since they got lost.
(Bigger update coming next Monday, stay tuned!)
Moon 2 - Homesick
Burnetkit has been having nightmares about home. Her mama's face is starting to get fuzzy in her memory, and she's awfully homesick, even though she's forgetting it. She was never invited on that first adventure, she just saw the older cats sneaking off and followed along until it was too far to go back, and much too late. She likes Briarpaw, he's always nice and lets her climb into his nest after she has nightmares. (Sometimes, in her dreams, Mama looks more like Briarpaw than herself.)
Moon 2 - Growing Pains
Burnetkit's headache finally faded, and life in this strange little clan goes on. Some of them are taking to new responsibilities more smoothly than others.
(sorry for the late update! completely slipped my mind.)
Moon 1.5 - Lessons
When Hazelpaw was growing up, she spent a lot of time bothering her older sister, Laurelbough, in the medicine den. She thinks about Laurelbough a lot, now that she's running a medicine den all by herself. She wishes more than anything that she could spend just one more afternoon bothering her.
daww poor babies :(
i wanna give briarpaw a hug.. (is that his name..?)
that's his name, yeah! and he would probably appreciate it, as long as none of the younger kits saw. (that would be so embarrassing!) he's really just a little guy himself, and even though he brags a lot, he's really lost without his mentor. i think he adjusted the fastest to the reality that they were lost, but that also meant he felt incredibly guilty for accidentally dragging his friends into the mess with him.
Soooo how did it feel for Briarpaw to have to tell the rest of the kits they're completely lost? How did the kits take it? Also how come the rest of their clanmates couldn't manage to track them down? A group of mostly tiny children couldnt have gone *that* far.... did their scents/prints get covered up by something?
for the first question: i already have a comic in the works about that 👀 watch out for it! it's a few weeks down the drafts but it's coming :) i will say that the kits are young, but very smart-- they knew something had gone wrong pretty quickly, even if none of them said it out loud.
for the second: i actually thought about that a lot! here's the basic gist:
the kits used to live in greenclan, which was nestled in a grove of evergreen trees. it was a sizeable clan of maybe thirty cats. when they left, it was barely spring-- during the previous winter, there had been an outbreak of greencough. a lot of the warriors were sick, and the medicine cats were working overtime-- there was plenty of time for kits to get bored, and for an apprentice whose mentor was sick in the medicine den to start itching to go on patrol again.
they left early-- briarpaw had only really invited hazelkit. peachkit was sleeping next to her and begged to come, and burnetkit snuck after them (she was too little, and really wouldn't have been brought at all if she hadn't been sneaky.)
by the time the older warriors realized what had happened, the kits were long gone. spring rains and other animals had washed their prints away, and even the warriors who had recovered couldn't smell well enough to track them down. no one thought they could've gotten far. they kept looking, but after enough moons, they gave up. their families were heartbroken, but life went on.
they're alive and well, of course. we're watching them! they went far away, down the big river, towards where willows grow instead of pines. we'll get to watch them figure out how to be a clan, not for pretend, but for real this time.
Moon 1 - New Responsibilities!
Hazelpaw is taking to her new duty wonderfully! Peachkit is still putting on a brave face, but poor Burnetkit is all curled up for the nursery. Briarpaw feels guilty whenever he hears her call out for her mama.
just to let everyone know-- now that i've gotten the comic established, i'll be moving to a more weekly upload schedule! i've got the comics for the next four weeks drawn out already, but since my college classes and part-time job are starting back up (along with a host of other responsibilities) i'm working on creating a backlog so that i can keep a semi-consistent upload schedule for as long as it's feasible.
that said, if you like missingclan, please don't feel afraid to send in comments or asks! i absolutely adore seeing them, and if you have any questions about how the kits ended up in this situation, i'd be happy to answer them :) i hope everyone is enjoying it as much as i am!