#sootkit s

[redux-iterum]

If Goldenflower was your one cryptic tortie, what’s the explanation for Russetfur and Sootkit?

- 🌌 anon

Black ticked tabby with very high roufusing, similar tactic that can be used for Fireboi. Sootkit is solid black.

[redux-iterum]

So did Poppytail register Sootkit as something unusual (since a solid red molly wouldn’t produce a solid black kit, and the characters seem to consider Russetfur ginger based on the allegiances?) Related: would ShadowClan’s seers (as the most superstitious clan) consider an ‘impossibly’ colored kit (especially one born to someone as high-ranking as Russetfur) an omen of some sort?

He was a weird one for her, and a subconscious reminder that she is not a matriarch with the highest experience and knowledge, because surely there was a reasonable explanation that she didn't have on lock in her mind. She eventually waved it off as maybe Russetfur having some black spot somewhere they couldn't see easily, and they all left it there for everyone's peace of mind.

As for the second question: I could absolutely imagine a seer declaring that this kitten is going to be important in some massive way, not that they could say exactly what that is. Pure white kits are almost always considered unfortunate, especially if they're the only one in their litter, but those at least can be explained by their parents having some white on them. A kitten whose colors shouldn't be? That's more interesting than scary.