#dapplemist

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Redesigning Dapplemist's Family pt. 2

According to the poll, next up is Dapplemist's branch of the tree.

I've already gone over Dapplemist herself in part 1. She's a ticked torbie with low white and brown eyes.

Her mate is Swarmfur, a dark grey spotted tabby with green eyes. He doesn't have any white in his original design, but Birchbug has high white on one of their genotypes, so their father has to have at least a little white. That's pretty much it for him, appearance-wise.

For the sake of cats further down the line, he's also carrying for cinnamon, solid, classic, longhair, and colorpoint(aka siamese point, but I hate calling it that).

Dapplemist and Swarmfur have 3 kits. Just like Whiteear, funnily enough.

The most well-known of their kits, by which I mean they have shown up in multiple posts, is Birchbug. They were originally designed as a Dappleswarm hypokit by @lurking-in-windclan-camp. Because the original design was not made by me or the sims game, Birchbug was the only exception to my "no mutations" rule for these redesigns. Birchbug's original design can be completely possible, as long as they are a chimera.

A chimera is the result of two embryos fusing in the womb, the resulting child having two genotypes instead of one, and different areas can express one genotype or the other. This is why I said "one of Birchbug's genotypes" while talking about Swarmfur.

The first genotype gives them black fur and high white, while the second genotype gives them blue fur and low white. Both are solid, Dapplemist is carrying "a" solid from Stumpyripple, and Swarmfur can also be carry "a". Dapplemist has to be carrying "d" dilution from one of her parents(doesn't matter which) in order for one of Birchbug's genotypes to be "d/d" on the dilution allele. Both genotypes are shorthair, which could get the "L" from either parent. one genotype is carrying for classic, and one is carrying Swarmfur's "cs" for colorpoint for future reference.

Next is Paledust, she was from my sims 4 warriors destiny series that never got finished after the third child got taken away due to lag on my old computer. Paledust is a trans girl, as well as a lesbian. The sims 4 character had pale blonde hair and green eyes, so I gave her cat version cream fur. She also has low white, and long fur.

That "d" from Dapplemist makes a return, so even if Birchbug had been a fully black cat, she'd have still needed to carry for dilution to give to Paledust. Since Paledust was born X/Y, she can only receive a single "O" or "o" depending on what Dapplemist can give her, since Swarmfur gave her his "Y". Dapplemist is a tortie, so has a "O" to give her daughter to make her ginger.

She is also a heterozygous ticked tabby, so "Ta" from Dapplemist and "ta" from Swarmfur.

Both parents are carrying "l" for longhair now so that Paledust can be "l/l".

The last child is Blossomwind. Just like Paledust, she's originally from my sims 4 Warriors Destiny series. She was the child that got taken away, I believe. I drew her as a cat awhile back, where I had decided to make her mink and a torbie. I don't think she was ticked at the time, but she is now. This is also where the point genes get to come out.

Just like Dapplemist, she's a chocolate torbie. So she gets her mother's "b" for chocolate and "O" for ginger. Swarmfur can only give his "o", which makes her a tortie. She also gets a "A" from either parent to make her a tabby, and "Ta" from Dapplemist to make her ticked. She's the only Dappleswarm child without white on her, so she gets each parent's "w" instead of either's "S".

For her mink, she gets "cs" from Swarmfur and "cb" from Dapplemist. One colorpoint and one sepia point allele makes mink point, which I personally find really cool.

Hope you enjoyed my redesigns and rambling about genetics. The next part will come after a few polls and random cat designing posts.

picrew by @littlehungrywarriorcats

Anything seen in these cats that's not in the picrew(like Dapplemist's white speckles or Birchbug's whole chimerism thing) are alterations I made in MSpaint and, in my opinion, are relatively easy to replicate yourself in any art program that can paint or copy and paste.

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Redesigning Dapplemist's Family pt. 1

As part of my love of cat genetics, I have been trying to challenge myself to recreate the cats of my favorite oc family tree using more realistic genetics than what Sims 3 uses without using certain mutations to just explain away just how many male torties are in the sims 3 made cats. There's also some newer characters I apparently made last time I attempted to map out genes. So you all will get to see them further down the line(might decide to make a new series involving some of those characters, but no guarantee.

Anyway, first up is Stumpyripple.

He looks a bit different from his original design. That's because the Sims 3 Japanese bobtail preset defaults to a calico. Since his mate is black-based, and both his daughters are torties, I decided to get rid of his black patches and make him red-based. He's still mostly white, giving him S/S homozygosity, and he's genetically solid since his patches were soild in the original sims 3 design. Red-based cats, even when genetically solid, always display stripes. I gave him spotted tabby markings on his ginger spots, mostly because I was debating if I wanted to make Dapplemist ticked like her sims 3 design or spotted. For the sake of later down the line, he's also carrying for sepia point, so keep that in mind.

Next is his lovely mate Fawnpond.

This is as red as I can get her in the picrew rn. She's a ruddy(black based with high rufousing that makes her look more red) abyssinian. I have to look up breed standards for her to see how close to purebred I could make her. I think the only part of her genetics that's outside of the standard for Abyssinian was her agouti locus. Abyssinians tend to always be ticked tabbies from what I found, and Fawnpond has to carry an allele for solid in order for Whiteear to be solid like her father.

She is homozygous for everything else, except her white spotting(S/w for low white) and where there are gaps because breed standards and future generations haven't filled them in yet. She could be "b/b,D/D" or "b/bl,D/d", but we don't have to know unless a recessive is need further down the line. Which is the perks of leaving these gaps to slot recessives in when needed.

Now, time for the only children this couple had. Personally, I would love to make a third child just to see if we can fill Fawnpond's blanks or not, but I will probably leave that to a poll.

Anyway...

Dapplemist is a mostly ruddy tortie. In the end, I decided to make her ticked so her mother could stay homozygous ticked. The picrew doesn't have an option for the little white speckles, so I drew them on myself. There will be moments where I alter the final picture from the picrew to better fit the design of the character. Now, the white speckles could be vitiligo, but I know nothing about how that inherits, so I'm just gonna say these are a part of her white spotting. Also, for future reference, she's carrying that allele for sepia point from Stumpyripple.

The picrew didn't have big asymmetrical white patches on the face, so I made a separate version where all the black patches were white and just added the white by her ear that way. I don't know if this is a possible white spotting option, but it gives her her namesake. Just like with Stumpyripple, she's genetically solid because her original design was, and her ginger fur displays tabby markings despite that.

I fear when I get to her children... two male torties and a black and white molly... the daughter is the most genetically possible due to her mother being a tortie and her father being a black and white tom.

Hope you guys enjoy these designs.

picrew by @littlehungrywarriorcats