#tuftear

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wanted to try drawing all of the elders how they would have looked as young adults!

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21!

i was afraid, but you were glowing like the most relieving light you were my revealing light

your song is like slow disappearing by turnover! it's about doing lsd with a lover, so i decided to do something kinda trippy with tuftear and mintmoth. old woman yuri forever <3

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tuftear back when she was younger! wanted to go for an autumnal vibe

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part 3 of the glenclan icons, which finishes off this clan until i go back and draw deceased cats!

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tuftear and mintmoth deserve to get married to each other. their individual families kinda suck so they should just make their own

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and for fun: talk about Tuftear!! She was deputy :0 and mother to Applepatch, mrs grumpy ass kitty

Yeah Tuftear is cool! She's one of the oldest cats in the Clans at this point and everyone has a ton of respect for her. She was a solid deputy to Hickorystar, a really good mentor (she mentored/helped mentor Sparrowscreech, Elkpaw, Timbertail, Elmleaf and Silverbird) and is just straight-up really likeable. She's strong and protective and loves her family to death.

She and Applepatch... do NOT get along. Applepatch has always been really difficult in general, she has a short temper and has always been insecure, as a lot of cats poked at her about both her height and her frankly weird appearance and it drives her nuts. She dove into training herself way too hard to be better than everyone else, and when Tuftear tried to get her to stop, Applepatch just got snappier. Her dad Nightstone facilitated this with private training sessions, working Applepatch as hard as she could bear, and it was the final straw that broke Tuftear and Nightstone's already strained relationship. She and Applepatch became even more distant after he died, and it's just been an ongoing problem.

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You mentioned Tuftear had trained 5 apprentices. Who are they?

Sparrowscreech (temporarily assisting his second mentor Patchfoot), Elkpaw (Thrushfeather’s sister), Timbertail (Oakfire’s brother), Elmleaf, and briefly Silverbird.

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And now for GlenClan’s elders! These four are pretty cool, and each has a unique history. 

- Tuftear was formerly a deputy under Sandstar and stands as one of the clans’ oldest and most highly-respected cats. Her status is helped by the fact that A. she’s massive and B. she’s had five apprentices over the course of her career as a warrior.

- Sparrowscreech is the father of Sandstar, the brother of former leader Hickorystar, and has a (kinda?) tragic backstory involving a terrible mistake and two RiftClan cats, one dead and one alive.

- Badgerface is a kindly elder who served plenty of time as a warrior. His sons (Elmleaf and Wolfshadow) are both very successful, and his grandchildren (yes, even the adopted one!) are even more so.

- And Thrushfeather is.. interesting. She was a warrior for a good time until she had her first two sons, Oakfire and Timbertail, and became a full-time queen from the time her first mate died to when she eloped with the kittypet Todd and had her third son, Foxtuft (the only cats who know about this are Sandstar, Foxtuft, and Oakfire. Oakfire and Foxtuft have a very awkward relationship resulting from this.)

Just one more GlenClan cat (he deserves his own post :3) remains!