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This is Patsy. The vet asked what colour(s) she was before her first appointment, and all I could think to say was, "most of them?"

ANOTHER SMOKE TORTOISESHELL HAS HIT THE INBOX!!!!! Patsy is such a darling black smoke tortoiseshell with low white! I absolutely adore looking at these cats, the mixture of smoke ghost patterning and cameo tortoiseshell stripes is just, MWAH chefs kiss.

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No one: …

Absolutely no one at all: …

My cat Alma: DON’T SPEAK TO ME OR MY LARGE ADULT BROTHER EVER AGAIN

[mossbriar]

Warriors design #1: Hollyleaf

I know it's tradition to start with Firestar but I like fucked up women more unfortunately.

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I have never come across a cat with a coat like my girl's. What would you call it

Dilute tortoiseshell with low white (bicolor pattern: tuxedo)! [g 09]

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hi everyonee back at it again with phenotyping my own ocs! this time i've got a couple parents and their kid, which lets me get into the nitty gritty of how i make my ocs genetically accurate heheh in order these are hazelstar, jinglehop, and bells!

hazelstar is a shorthair cinnamon classic tabby with high white! her being cinnamon is a bit iffy, the stripes are a little dark for cinnamon, but i don't car 💖

jinglehop is a shorthair cinnamon spotted tabby with low white! his stripes are a... bit hard to see, but this was the intent. the spotted tabby gene is a modifier to mackerel, and results in a sort of gradient from full stripes to full spots!

bells is a shorthair fawn/cream classic tabby tortioiseshell with low white! fawn is the dilute of cinnamon, making bells a dilute tortie! i still classify her as shorthair despite looking kind of longhair since that was my intention, i just tend to draw cats pretty fluffy

now... below the cut, i will discuss how i reverse-engineered hazelstar to make her parents as genetically accurate as possible!

first off, all cats are shorthair, so we can ignore that gene, assuming nobody carries longhair.

for color, i was sort of forced into making jingle and bells both cinnamon-- black-base colors are on sort of a dominance scale, which is hard to explain? but in essence, black is dominant to all, chocolate is dominant to cinnamon, and cinnamon is recessive to all. [BB -> bb -> blbl; B is black, b is choco, bl is cinnamon]

so, if either of them were black or chocolate, hazel would be too. full red is out of the question for bells, since that would make hazel a tortie! so, jingle got just regular cinnamon, and bells got to be a tortie to make things a little more visually interesting. being fawn/cream, she could pass either red or cinnamon onto hazelstar, and just happened to pass cinnamon.

the tabby patterns are where it got interesting for me: i didn't want everyone to be classic, but classic is recessive to mackerel, so both parents had to at the least carry classic. my decision was to make one parent [bells] present classic, while the other [jingle] carried it, but i got a teensy bit carried away while drawing jingle, and he ended up spotted, which... makes the genes pretty interesting!

you see, spotted tabby [Sp] is a modifier as stated above, but it only works on mackerel. the classic tabby gene doesn't have the right proteins to present it. this makes the problem of spotted being dominant to non-spotted kind of a non-issue, but means that hazelstar is a spotted tabby under her classic. which i don't mind, that's fun! [jinglehop is SpSp, fully spotted. bells can be anything, but i'm calling her spsp, non-spotted. hazelstar thus ends up as Spsp, spotted and carrying non-spotted!]

white spotting is also pretty curious with these guys. the parents are both low white, but their kit is high white! how is this possible? well, the white gene works in interesting ways; low white is coded as Wsw [white + non-white, i believe], but if you combine two dominant white genes, you get high white [WsWs]! so, jingle and bells simply both passed their Ws genes and had a half-white kitten. [ww is full non-white, if you were wondering]

now, if anyone was interested in the letter vomit that is their resulting genetic strings [unimportant genes excluded] here ya go: hazelstar: XoXoLLblblDdmcmcSpspWsWs jinglehop: XoYLLblblDDMcmcSpSpWsw bells: XOXoLLblblddmcmcspspWsw reminder that these are completely amateur and likely inaccurate ^^ i'm just havin fun

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i saw this little guy while i was out and about!

GORGEOUS black tortie sepia point with low white!

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this is my sister's cat toby :) absolute sweetheart of a boy

seal point with low white!! he is soooooo prettyyyyy

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these are my kitties, Marmalade (tortie?) and Markl (the gray one) :3

blue mackerel tabby with low white and black self tortoiseshell with low white!

very very very cute!!