drew some of my favorite cats (and my less favored cats that are in high positions) across 5 years / 60 moons of my clangen clan (mostly cats related to allergenstar...)! all of the cat's information are as of moon 60. going to do cat roundups like these every year in my clan because i don't have enough time (management) to do an actual clangen comic
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useful explanation and useless rambling below the cut
exhibit A: why are the cats' names so weird???
I'm doing some kind of theming challenge where cats of one generation all have to have names that start with one letter e.g. all the clan founders' names start with A, and all their kittens have to have names that start with the next letter. so the clan founders are going to have names like Applestar and Apricotfur and their kittens will have names like Baytail and Birdstripe, and their kittens will have names like Coyotetuft and Cherryspot and so on and so forth and cats can't repeat prefixes either
HOWEVER. i want cats with goofy names so instead of taking the clangen prefixes I'm taking the prefixes directly from my Random House Webster's Concise Dictionary I found lying around in my house with the help of a random string generator. i also took the "challenge" out of the theming challenge by just inserting cats who join the clan into the generation they'd fit the most without it looking off based on their age so gameplay isn't that much more difficult than a normal run besides the editing i have to do 💀 well i can't repeat prefixes but it's a lot easier than just using the built-in prefixes
Also the cats here are "genetically accurate" because i think having genetically accurate inheritance for a very generation-focused clan theming would just be fitting. genetically accurate in quotes because I take a bunch of creative liberties with the designs and also I'm just straight up guessing on the inheritance of some of the traits ESPECIALLY white spotting and eye color. then why am I not using genemod built specifically for this purpose? mainly because i don't feel like it.
exhibit B: Shenanigans
Apiaryswirl died the month before Allergenstar was going to have their babies, Alexa play Despacito. He died following the scent of a trespassing cat of a rival clan. Allergenstar still has beef with that rival clan to this day.
Argotmane initially retired on moon 41 at the age of 124 moons but then a whole 2 months later he had a thought wishing that elders should be able to patrol. So I took that as that he wanted to be deputy again so I made him deputy again.
Before his first retirement Argotmane would just get condition after condition. as soon as he gets better from one condition he just gets another one within the next 1-2 months and has to go back into the medicine den 💀 no wonder he retired.
another cat not in the roundup named Articleash was also constantly getting injured till he one moon he died of one of the injuries
between Argotmane retiring and Argotmane going back to being deputy another cat named Aden (not pictured above) was deputy. But he's not important rn.
if I do another alphabet themed clan I am NOT naming another cat with the "Another" prefix. Anothermimic gets to have his fun once and never again.
Cynicalpaw and Curbpaw have a third littermate who should hopefully appear on my year 6 update as a warrior
as of JANUARY 1 2026 (new years heck yeah) asks are open!! in case you want?? more shenanigans??? idk
exhibit C: extra art of Allergenstar and her babies
A small family tree for deerstar’s lineage. Perhaps more shall be revealed about the unknown cats later..
Note-
I really like the idea that Deer’star named his son in relation to him because he believed he would follow in his paw steps as the successor he wanted, whereas Elk’branch rejected this, eventually growing to like his name not because of its origin but because of what he made it to be. Stronger, and more meaningful. He named his daughter Caribou as a way to show that she would grow to be whatever she made it, that she would not be held down by a name or her grandfathers expectations, after all- while Caribou and deer have the same origin, a deer cannot compare to the greater, stronger, and unwavering stride of the caribou.
I also like the parallel that male caribou shed their antlers by winter, where the female caribou keep theirs through the cruel season. Similar to how Caribou’whisker doesn’t waver when faced with exhaustion or hunger in hard times, but remains steadfast and refuses to lose her edge, her spirit, her determination.
Damn you, WC fandom! Have I really been thinking about the realistic genetics of my characters, especially when Max and his parents already have set designs? I don’t think I needed this. But here we are. It was fun. I also have another cat in my comic, so maybe later I’ll do something similar with Ari.
Calculating what Keeston’s parents might’ve looked like using genetics
Ok so I did do something like this with Conn a while ago so I figured I might as well do it with characters whose parents we don’t really know about. So let’s start
For eyes, I will be using this chart
Since Keeston has dark blue eyes, the combination of his parents eye colors would most likely have to be blue and blue.
For hair, I will be using this chart
Since Keeston has blonde hair, the most likely combinations would be blond + blonde or blond + ginger. Just as my choice, his mom will be a red head and his dad will be blond. For hair texture, Keeston has wavy hair. So that means that there are two most possible combinations for his parents hair (straight + curly or wavy + wavy.) Again, just as my choice, they will both have wavy hair.
For heights, I remember Keeston was described as a little taller. However, he could’ve just looked tall since the description came from Conn, who is quite short compared to most characters. So I’ll just make them both average height. I looked up average height for a man and a woman in 1910s England (Wellmet’s inspiration). His dad is likely to be around 5’7 and his mom is around 5’0+. However, after some more digging she might have been taller since she was probably wealthy and could afford good food. So I decided to make her 5’4.
Now for weight, Keeston is probably average weight since he’s rich. Therefore we will apply this to his parents.
1.) The top if the family tree are the only cats that will have their canon designs, given they are genetically possible. (ex: there were two ginger she-cats with blue eyes, and both ginger she cats and gingers with blue eyes are extremely rare, so i traded one or another out so they wouldn't have both.)
2.) I will try to maintain the cat's appearances to be as close to the books as possible.
3.) If I don't care enough, I don't care enough. If a character isn't major or a parent to a major character, I wont put any effort into making them as accurate to the books as possible. (Or make them at all.) This also goes for if it makes more sense or if im bored with a constant color palette as the generations go (and its within genetic accuracy)
Note: I could use my own bases, but I didnt feel like it, so i used bases made by the lovely spade craft instead :)
Note 2: I used generators, genetics calculators, as well as my own knowledge for this. For the generators and calculators I used, I used multiple of them to fact check. However, if any of my facts are still wrong, do let me know. I'm less confident in the eye colors, but those are less important to me.
Up to Bluestar:
Rooktail and Daisytoe are at the top of the family tree, so their colors remain the same.
Flashnose is Daisytoe's sister, and due to the issue I mentioned above, she was changed. Flashnose was originally described as a soft she-cat with ginger fur, a white muzzle, and blue eyes. This is near genetically impossible, so I made her eyes amber, the most realistic eye color for an orange tabby.
Flashnose is the mother of Swiftbreeze, who we'll get to in Greystripe's family tree, so she wasn't included here.
While Daisytoe has grey spots, her base pelt is actually black. (Yes, black. It's not white, because she simply has large amounts of white spotting rather than a white base coat. White base coats are an extremely dominant gene and she would not have any spots if this were the case.) This is because grey (or rather, blue) cats are simply dilute black cats, and dilute is a recessive gene Rooktail doesn't have. Since Rooktail is also black, their kits, Goosefeather and Moonflower, were also black.
Since Daisytoe has a large amount of white spotting, this was also given to Goosefeather and Moonflower to a certain degree.
Stormtail is the top of his family tree, so he remains the same.
Moonflower, while not being visibly dilute, still has the dilute gene. Stormtail is grey/blue, which, as i mentioned earlier, means he's a diluted black cat. This means both of his kits can be diluted, and grey.
This is good for Bluestar, because she still looks accurate to her canon appearance, and is genetically accurate. However, Snowfur is not. She does not have enough white spotting to classify as white, and is diluted, so the black on her ears also couldn't be achieved.
Bluestar's kits
As you can see, Oakheart looks VERY different, and I'll tell you why in a different post when I cover Crookedstar's family. They're finished already, I'm just waiting to post them.
Mistystar and Stonefur look more or less the same, but Mosskit looks different due to both Oakheart and Bluestar being blue cats. This left no room for any differing cats, meaning all of their kits look the same.
Spoilers for A Starless Clan under this !!
I don't feel like doing Mistystar's kits because they arent important enough for me to care about. Yes, this includes Reedwhisker. All of his importance reside in his death, he did nothing imporant while alive other than shout a couple of times, and the rest of Mistystar's kits are dead, anyways.
Blackclaw also isnt that important from my memory, so I don't care enough to go all the way back to Shimmerpelt and Piketooth just to make 3 dead kids and a smelly middle aged also dead man genetically accurate. Maybe I'll come back to them at some point (mostly for Reedwhisker) but that's only if I decide to do a lineup of all the gentically accurate RiverClan deputies, which is unlikely.
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