Moon 16? After abandoning this project for a while, I went back to it a year and a month ago to sketch out moon 16. I never finished it, so I've just touched it up with nice colors and left it at that. It doesn't look too bad, honestly.
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Under the cut is a scene that I cut from this moon because in hindsight it has.. weird implications. (The monarch saves a kit from drowning and immediately decides that she'll be the mate of her apprentice-aged daughter when she grows up)
There's more explanation under the pages.
First of all, I wrote these pages really weirdly, and the dialogue is confusing.
Second of all, the idea that Dewstar looked at a small child and thought 'that would make a great babymaker for my daughter's heirs' is... really fucking messed up. And I don't want to include that.
Icy and Stem do end up getting together, and have a very loving kinda qpr relationship as a bit more than friends. Since SparkyClan doesn't exactly have a 'camp', and kits are raised entirely by their parents, with occasional checkups from the doctors, most other clanmates don't meet kits until they're squires, but even then, squires don't really get 'mentors' in SparkyClan, just assigned a cat to teach them how to hunt for a few moons, before they're left to do what they like.
I would much rather that Icy and Stem meet when they're both squires, instead of Dewstar deciding before Stem's even a full squire that Icy's going to be his mate.
I kept forgetting to post this update so I'm just going to post it now, so I don't forget again.
This is the end of the pages I made two years ago! Moon 16 consists a sketch I drew a year ago, which I'm not going to redraw, and once we reach moon 17, it'll be all new art :O
