QuietClan

Side blog for Clangen! Main is @moonlessdusk Moony || she/her || adult

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About

Hey I'm Moony (she/her) and this is my Clangen side blog for the all kit/youth challenge. Main is @moonlessdusk, you can find all my other side blogs from there. I try to post as often as I can but it might get patchier towards Spring.

Run Rules:

As part of the challenge, we've started the run with Greenpaw, Elmpaw, Limekit, and Pondkit. The goal is for the Clan to survive to 100 moons. The only real rule I impose outside of the settings is that we must proceed during every patrol.

Settings:

Mass extinctions are turned on to try to limit the amount of cats to one page, also for the story potential. Same sex breeding is turned off also to reduce growth rate but they can still adopt. Allowing cats to have kits with cats that aren't their mate is turned on for storytelling.

*Allowing cats to have kits with an unknown second parent will be toggled on and off. My rule with this setting is that it will be on until a cat is pregnant or brings their litter to the Clan. The setting will be turned off until the kits either all die or are apprenticed.

Asks:

Asks are open! You can direct an ask to me about the creation of the Clan or ask a question for one of the QuietClan cats. Asks for the cats are only open to the living as of the most recent posting, so get your burning questions out there quickly, just in case...

Allegiances:

TDP

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Aaaand I'm back! On a different blog with a different clan! Y'all can check out @quillclan-gen if you want to see what story I'm trying to cook over there.

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What happened to QuietClan

Soooo it's been a while and like I've mentioned before, I haven't been posting because I've been busy, I figured I'd give a run down of what happened in QuietClan when I had all this free time. I did play well in to the 100's and my sketches go to about moon 102. Read under the cut, if you're curious but I also came on here to mention that I will be making a new Clangen blog. This time, I have a semi-planned story instead of just letting the RNG tell it. Not sure when I'll start it but I'll post a link when I do. So on to QuietClan:

Picking up where we left off, Rainbowpelt is pregnant, her partner was some random loner. The same moon, Nutella and Elmhare bring home an orphaned litter of kit. Rainbow gives birth to three kits and the same moon, a former kittypet named Luci Purr, renamed Purrpounce (remember her), joins the Clan with her five newborn kits. A two moons later, a rabid group of rogues bursts in to the nursery in the middle of the night. Rainbowpelt and most of the kits died in the ensuing fight. The nursery survivors are two of her kits, Hazelkit and Firkit (remember him), Purrpounce, and two of her kits: Kinkkit and Eggkit. Immediately after, a loner named Oriole joins with her three sons: Lizardkit, Firekit, and Sunkit.

After that kit boom, Hazelpaw is apprenticed to her aunt Minkeye, cheering Minkeye up quite a bit. Firpaw is apprenticed to grandpaw Nutella and Elmhare. Sunpaw falls out of a tree on his first day out and has an extremely delayed warrior ceremony but in the meantime, grows a close bond with Pondfox (also injured at the time), Elmhare, and Greenstar. Purrpounce broaches the idea of stricter patrols to Greenstar and the same moon, Minkeye, Bogtwist, and Hazelpaw are taken by twolegs. They all die outside the Clan.

Elmhare and Pondfox grow some impressively high romantic like for each other. Elmhare finds some more orphaned kits on patrol: Stormkit, Heartkit, and Acronkit. Soon after, Bitterkit and Bitekit are found by Nutella. Berrykit is also found by Purrpounce. Eggfeather, now a warrior, is very bubbly and air-headed and is the girl every cat around her age is attracted to. A couple moons later, Oriole and Greenstar become mates, just very randomly.

At moon 38, Elmhare and Stormpaw died in a timeskip, which I drew as a human with a crossbow. A few moons later, Greenstar and Lizardshimmer are taken by twolegs. Her extra lives are taken since she is no longer under StarClan's skies. Pondstar becomes leader, making Purrpounce her deputy on account of wanting a deputy that will question her. When Pondstar comes back, Purrpounce announces she's expecting kits with her friend, Sunlion. But only a few moons later, a pack of dogs attack the Clan. Pondstar loses all her lives protecting Sprigkit and Featherkit.

Purrstar names her son Kinkjump deputy, despite his nervous nature and not finishing Heartpaw's training, due to her getting taken by twolegs at 9 moons old. Sunlion stays in camp to watch over Featherkit as he fights yellowcough, but the kit succumbs to his illness at 5 moons old. Heartbounce finds their way back to camp but the moment of joy doesn't last, as Nutella is found dead by the FrondClan border later that moon. Sunlion dies of an infected dog bite the next moon. Purrstar is... unwell.

Purrstar declares war moon 54. Eggfeather has been dating Acronbreak but they disagree on when they would want kits now with this war. Of all Eggfeather's many romantic prospects, Acornbreak is the most likely at this point. On the same moon, Greenholly returns, glad to be home and reunite with Oriole but devastated to learn what happened to her friends and fellow founders. The same moon, she and Oriole adopt their daughters Hootkit, Claykit, and Russetkit. The war fizzles out only a few moons later with both Clans concerned for their own young kits.

A fire breaks out moon 59 and during it, Acornbreak dies shoving Purrstar out of the way of a large burning branch. Purrstar is devastated, she knew about how her daughter felt about Acornbreak, who was a strong, upstanding young warrior. The next moon, Bitterfur, a good friend of Purrstar's, and Sprigfang, her youngest son, die of yellowcough. Firjay was unable to treat them due to the fire burning away his herb stores and being too injured himself from a dog attack too look for more.

The clan notices that Greenholly gives more attention to Hootkit than her other kits after saving her from a hawk. All the clan either has a strong opinion or is desperate to get away from the gossip. A apprentice from FrondClan joined after the fire but Purrstar is always hostile to him and his mentor (a former kittypet named Flameblink) has to constantly interrupt. Flameblink was Sprigfang's former mentor though, and part of her hates him, trying to associate him with her son's death.

A loner named Dori joins with Agavekit, Ryekit, and Quickkit. On moon 63, Russetpaw died sneaking out of camp and stepping on an adder. Rubbing salt in Greenholly, Purrstar names Ficklepaw Ficklenudge. A few moons later, she and Oriole rescue the orphaned Waspkit and Oakkit from a fox, adopting the kits as their own.

Moon 71 is when Purrstar suddenly dips in to full dictator mode and every other moon, she'd snap at someone questioning her leadership. Purrstar would order someone to help her punish the questioning cat, either through coercion or getting someone in her inner circle to do it. Despite getting in to all these fights, Purrstar never lost a life from the ensuing injuries.

Among the injured parties is Purrstar's mate Stream, who dies from her claw wounds. Oriole dies of infection. Heartbounce continually challenged Purrstar. At one point, Purrstar tried to get Eggfeather to punish them, but she was easily defeated. While still injured, Purrstar ordered Eggfeather to attack Hoottiger (formerly in Purrstar's circle). Eggfeather becomes Firjay's mate after he defends her. Hoottiger is punished by Purrstar herself and dies of her wounds.

At this point, Greenholly looks to the stars, completely despondent. She's taken by twolegs the next moon and dies soon after. She resides in the outsider residence, having lost her faith in her ancestors. She finds other clanmates that died under Purrstar's rule here.

From this point on, QuietClan cats proceed to die constantly, among them being Firjay, Ficklenudge, Heartbounce, Firenettle, Kinkjump, and many, may others. The Clan is always at war, cats always choose violence on border patrols, there's not enough hunting patrols. Eggfeather has lost her bubbly personality. There's no medicine cat, her mate is gone, her friends are gone, the Clan is ruled by fear. Even when Purrstar appoints her deputy, Eggfeather doesn't find the strength to assassinate her mother. When Eggfeather retires, there are no young, able bodied cats to take her place. No one can hunt, everyone is injured. Slowly, the clan starves to death.

In the end, the only survivors are an ancient Flameblink and his three sons. Then, he too dies, leaving a newly named medicine cat and two apprentices. And this is the cyclical story of QuietClan: left on the brink of extinction by war, famine, and disease due to a bloodthirsty leader. The youngest are left to pick of the pieces. No one in any clan lives long enough to remember that this has happened before. New StarClan makes old StarClan's mistakes. They don't trust themselves, thus, the previous generation goes silent.

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So it’s been a while and I think I’ve decided I won’t be continuing QuietClan. This was kinda an exercise in character design and making a comic for me and I didn’t really have a story in mind while making this, plus the generator ruined any plans for a story I tried to build. So I’ll be starting over with a new clan eventually. I have a few on hand so we’ll see how that goes.

I attentively played ahead to moon 100 and have sketches into moon 104 so if you have any questions on what happened, I’ll try to answer them, if I have it documented.

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Welp, I just finished the last sketch for QuietClan and I'm wondering what I should do after it's all posted. I was thinking maybe a new playthough that's a lighter tone and I just draw more important events and relationship developments that happen every handful of moons. Not sure if I want to have it be another youth challenge. I'm pretty open to suggestions.

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As I play far ahead of what I’ve posted, I’m adding an addendum that my exception to the always proceed rule is the medicine cat finding a litter of kits, if there are already kits in the Clan. You’ll understand why very shortly, even though I didn’t give myself this rule until like moon 33.

Second addendum is that while the goal is to reach moon 100, I might stop before that if all the founders die. In part because this is basically the story of Greenstar and co. stepping out of their old clan’s reputation but also year 3 made me wary because basically none of new young adults think much of anything about anyone.

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Apparently I didn't document it in my sketches going forward but let it be known that even this early on, Minkeye borderline hates Greenstar and basically every other moon Minkeye has the "doesn't think Greenstar is very helpful" note in the relationship tag.

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//don’t know if you saw, but I made fanart and @‘d the blog in it :]

I didn't see! I don't have any notifs of an @ but would love to see the art if you sent me the post directly!

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Wait! Fanart found and it is lovely tysm <333

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//don’t know if you saw, but I made fanart and @‘d the blog in it :]

I didn't see! I don't have any notifs of an @ but would love to see the art if you sent me the post directly!

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MOON 13:

Not much going on this moon except the start of a reoccurring gag.

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MOON 12 (2/2)

MOON 14

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Pondfox— do you think you’ll be a good deputy? Do you think you’re ready?

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Greenstar, is Egretclan the only other clan or just the only one bothering Quietclan right now?

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MOON 12 (2/2):

Elm and Bog is the friendship I didn't realize I wanted to see out of this. I'm on moon 26 and their platonic love is so high for each other. They both have the insecure personality trait and I like to think that while Elm is just insecure but coming to terms with his lack of spiritual connection, Bog has generalized anxiety but she finds a lot of comfort in his company. Elm likes having a friend he can be emotionally honest with.

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MOON 12 (1/2)

MOON 13

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Update coming out some time today or tomorrow, I think. I'll then proceed to not stop talking about the relationship in it and become unbearable

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MOON 12 (1/2):

Full disclosure, the generator tried to make Minkeye the new deputy but I changed that for narrative purposes. Minkeye has her own little story that is better off not being made more complicated by that role and Pondfox's attitude and history makes more sense for it. Hopefully this is the only time I'll have to change something myself.

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MOON 11 (part 3/3)

MOON 12 (2/2)

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oh my god how long have the links been broken

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Okay I think I fixed it now

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Uhhh... I'm procrastinating on making moon 12 sooo I guess this is my reminder that the ask box is open