Moving on to Mapleshade's Vengeance, Appledusk! I wanted to make him look strikingly like Crookedstar, and so kept a lot of shapes similar between them. He also shares his grandson's light muzzle dark nose coloration. I then wanted to validate the 'dusk' suffix so gave him the wide band golden trait with blue tipping, since his children are probably black and blue based (pale browns and grey). Then the last thing to note about this design is that I noticed some designs online had appleseed markings on his chest and I played around with that idea for a while before accepting the appleseed superiority. Something something arsenic symbolism. I tried to hunt down the first occurence of that trait since it's pretty unique and common now, and I think it was originated by berrym00n here on tumblr, as they're the first post I can find with the trait. anyway! I listened to mapleshade's vengeance recently using text to speech and the speech reader mangled his name as apple doosk and that is how I will always hear it from now on
