Drawing Every Warrior Cat

He/they, I'm trying to draw every warrior cat. #1 Nightcloud defender on all accounts :)

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Please Ivystar Please Ivystar Please let us get Ivystar someday please it would be so fucking funny if she becomes leader and kills Tigerheartstar in a war she created and as his blood seeps from her claws she realizes that maybe she's gone too far and become just like the cat who groomed her into the dark forest

[transsexualhollyleaf]

everyday i mourn the fact that breezepelt decided to kill fucking lionblaze of all people during the dark forest battle and not crowfeather

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Hey btw you can dislike a female character and not make it about her having feminine traits. Just a thought.

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thinks about the wasted sparkpelt potential in avos cries turns into a wolf runs. like what the hell was that "spark that remains" plot about? why make her xenophobic against skyclan if that doesnt contribute to the plot at all?????? like if it was gonna go somewhere itd be one thing but having her oppose skyclan staying for absolutely no reason is just so odd like you went on a quest to find them.....

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like look i know this ship has long since sailed but like. picture it with me. instead of tigerheart coming back at the end of river of fire, instead of sleekwhisker doing an evil thing and fucking off forever, she restarts shadowclan. sleekwhisker (unlike tigerheart who seems SUPER ooc in raging storm based on how he is in the books leading up to it) is pre established as being cruel and self serving and wants to push skyclan off their territory to prove shadowclan is strong and a force to be feared, which is what the apprentices wanted when they defected to darktail in the first place.

she goes to sparkpelt, using the fact that theyre kin to persuade her that this is for the best. sparkpelt, who cares for her family and is anxious about the tension this is creating around the lake, agrees that yeah, skyclans old territory was pretty good! she's seen it! they could go back there and everyone could get along again! so she starts working within thunderclan to get them to support shadowclan.

then sleekwhisker starts to get unstable. she hasnt been able to get her lives (rowanstar is still alive and picked someone who was NOT her to be his deputy), and being a very young cat managing a clan that is at war is very stressful. darktail's teachings start getting in her head more and she settles on a new plan; if she cant get her lives because of rowanstar, get rid of rowanstar. if she cant make leafstar leave, get rid of leafstar. any skyclan cat who won't get off her territory? kill them too.

she confides in sparkpelt about this plan, tells her to gather all her allies to stage a raid on skyclan and it's enough for sparkpelt's cognitive dissonance to break and for to realize oh, im on the bad side, and start working against her

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Gods yes, and while we're at it- give Nightheart's plot to her. Make her struggle with living up to her bloodline, being the child of the deputy and leader. Make Sleekwhisker prey on that side, convincing her she's doing the best thing for her clan, finally living up to her full potential as a warrior. Make her realize she's on the bad side and also realize she never needed to live up to anything, that she was just fine being herself, and not a copy of someone else.

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So many male characters in warrior cats just. Blatantly hate women.

Crowfeather and Bramblestar are blatant examples, both having little regard for their wives and daughters, but can we talk about how many male characters hold resentment for their mothers...?

Tigerheart blatantly dismisses his mother all the time, even though she's a proven senior warrior, his former deputy, was considered to lead ShadowClan, and is extremely capable!

As much as we love Jayfeather, he also resents both of his mothers to the point of recognizing signs of abuse in both of them and... not caring. He dismisses both a starclan chosen medicine cat and an incredible senior warrior. At least he eventually works past this, somewhat...

Don't get me started on Nightheart. He needs a separate post. But even characters like Tallstar resents his mother, although his reasons are more valid? I guess? Tree too, but his resentment never leaves as long as his mother lives.

God knows we'll have Starlingpaw soon and I know he's going to resent Needleclaw with all he has because his dad is gone.

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hey gang i think we can talk about the misogyny in warrior cats without defending a character whos ONLY personality trait is "abuses disabled children"

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Defending Rainflower: 👎

Acknowledging Lizardstripe as an outlier, as the text states she became a mother against her will, was forced into taking in Brokenkit, and clearly never wanted children, but the writers decided these traits made her horrible and irredeemable: 👍

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notice how he doesn't refer to deadfoot as "my father" but simply as "our old deputy." you would think that someone like crowpaw would use his father being an important figure to his advantage but he doesn't. almost like it wasn't canon when they wrote this and you can't seriously attribute that to him acting the way he does in this book or something

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There will be Three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws.

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FallenHolly ily

[schwipschwap123]

Honestly, my current favorite idea for the Windclan coup attempt by Mudclaw in my rewrite, is that it would have almost certainly worked if it wasn't for plain opportunism.

Like, Mudclaw's followers were loyal to him, he was a spry aggressive deputy to contrast Tallstar's more passive nature, and that earned him plenty of loyalty, particularly when he was fighting against Shadowclan tooth and claw when Windclan was getting expelled.

So by all right, the announcement that Tall changed his mind last second and made Onewhisker deputy (which was his own decision here, not Starclan's) in private and corroborated by only the Thunderclan leader, a coup should have been a cakewalk for Mud.

Walk into the leaders den, make Onewhisker say that he lied, and reclaim leadership. No one actually thinks fucking Onewhisker would be a good leader, so very limited opposition. Hell, Mud may not have even been planning on killing One, just chase him off the territory.

The only problem was, Onewhisker was related to quite a few cats. And those relatives realized that they were now not only related to the leader, but it was timid, yes-man, 'does what you say if you say it firm enough' Onewhisker. So when Mud goes and tries to question the story and intimidate One, he finds voices of opposition, Cats going to Onestar's defense, much firmer ones.

Basically, Mudclaw was defeated by the power of opportunism and promises of Cronyism/nepotism.

And also Thunderclan, no way in hell was Fire going to let this much of an opportunity just slip by.

Suffice to say, that imposter syndrome was hitting Onestar hard due to knowing just how he lived past that night.

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I think this is my tentative top 15...

I love you Ivypool and Nightcloud <3

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Guys was Stormfur named after Crookedstar?

Cause Crookedstar was originally named Stormkit.

So did he name his grandson after himself?

[peterkitts]

ivypool is the most underrated victim of wc fandom misogyny. bc even the ppl who love to talk abt the way fandom treats female characters wont discuss it bc she isnt a Good victim.

leafpool gets propped up a lot for conversation abt fandom misogyny bc shes Easy to talk abt. she gets everything thrown at her and internalizes it instead of externalizing it so shes easier to sympathize with.

ivypool is emotionally and physically abused from childhood into her adulthood bc shes forced to stay training in the dark forest. shes also forced to Kill people. one of these people is an already dead antpelt who is gone forever. and even then ppl were giving her shit for not giving the kindest response about her daughter meeting the same fate to dovewing.

like i cannot grasp the “leafpool should be allowed to kill people” shit when its coming from the same ppl who didnt like ivypool snapping at dovewing over rowankit and bristlefrost. like yeah i wonder why her Erased From Reality daughter might be a topic she cant exactly repress all her emotions on.

ivypool is expected to be a good victim from the fandom for some reason but breezepelt can do whatever he wants and thats notttt a coincidence.

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More Human Longtail!! He's ThunderClan's pretty boy, change my mind.

Darkstripe vs Longtail challenge, Longtail serves more cunt

I like drawing him after Firepaw beats him up. Lmao you got your ass kicked by a 12 year old kid. I'm sorry Longtail ily

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RIP Frostfur you did basically nothing

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Bluestar's gremlin son she found in a trash can

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He looks like such a dad