#dunerush

[runaway-art]

[skyyclan]

Ok but I adore your OCs so Pudding will send in an ask for both Dunerush and Catchingbird: Does their name have a meaning? I've always found Dunerush and Catchingbird's names to be wonderfully chosen, especially Dune's, since I was present when you talked about Catching's warrior name a while back.

Thank you Pudding!! I appreciate it, and I'm glad you like them so much! Your characters are great too <3

For Catchingbird, aside from just wanting an action prefix with -ing, I wanted something that would make her stand out and be different from everyone else. When she was living in Windclan, she already felt like an outcast with her sensitivities and Redflower distancing Catch from the clan, but her strange name only added to that. For the -bird suffix, I originally was gonna go with -fire to show that she had grown to burn bright on her own, though it felt too aggressive for her, so I went with bird instead to better reflect her gentle nature!

For Dunerush, a big part of his name was that I wanted something that sounded cool but not intimidating. His prefix reflects a lot of things about him specifically! Sand dunes are known for being large and in harsh environments, somewhere hard to live, but they're made of millions of tiny grains of sand. What happens when you remove enough of that sand? It just isn't a sand dune anymore, and all that's left is flat land that has nothing special to it, an empty area devoid of what made it special in the first palce. For his suffix, -rush, I wanted something that added a lot of emotion to him. When you rush into something, you aren't thinking, you're just doing what your instincts tell you to do. Of course, it isnt always very emotional, it could just be quick and hurried, but there is always that underlying desperation and fear.