#wc hawk

[d3adfishstudios]

Evil twink who got his top surgery recently. I liked him, but I wish he did more; it feels like he had a lot more potential than the Erin’s could ever hope to tap into.

Design Notes:

- He has a slightly faint red glint in his eyes, because he’s evil and dead

- Has the same ear and tail patterns as his mom, along with having the same eye colouring, cheek fur & colours as her (The creamish-white is her belly fur colour). He also has her darker chin, and his face very faintly resembles a colourpoint.

- Apart from what I listed, he is just like his father. He has his build, stripes, fur texture and everything in between.

- Nothing hawk-like about him, but he still one the designs I’m more proud of ^^

Headcannons:

• Note, I haven’t read Sasha’s graphic novel in a while, and even with that I also haven’t read part two of said manga. So I apologize in advance if I say something that’s either wrong or doesn’t make much sense.

• Despite Sasha’s efforts, he didn’t really feel seen by her. Loved? Absolutely, and he’s very grateful for all the care he received before he joined RiverClan. But seen, for his own cat, for his own achievements? Not really. He looked and acted like Tigerstar, and it was painfully obvious to him that every time his mother looked at him, all she saw was this tom that he didn’t even know

• So? He sought him out. He would talk to Moth about who their father could be, and what the clans were like, and why his mom didn’t talk about him, yet thought of him so much. When he joined the clans, Hawkpaw would ask RiverClan about what kind of cat he was. All they would say was that he was a strong yet ambitious cat, and it would only make him want to learn more about him! What were his motives, can he be like him? He’s an ambitious cat too, they could’ve bonded over that together!

• Mothpaw would tell him to drop it, that their dad didn’t matter since their mom was already good enough. And some of his more blunt clanmates would mutter about what a bad cat he was. But all of that flew over his head; he would tell Mothpaw that she should be more concerned about who their dad was, and he would challenge his other clanmates to elaborate, only for them to say that he was too young, or that he wouldn’t understand

• It got to the point that his fascination over his dad would become obsessive, and despite wanting to seem charismatic and cool to his clanmates, he would literally cry himself to sleep, begging for his dad to send him a sign. Any sign.

• One day? It came. In the form of his father using the same technique as Hawk himself would eventually use on Ivypool: By showing him a beautiful place, as he talked about how he missed his precious son, and how he would love to get to know him more. Hawkpaw was entranced, and he would spend the rest of his life all the way down to both his physical, and spiritual death trying his absolute best to impress his dad and make him proud; believing that his father was the absolute pinnacle of masculinity and what a real clancat should be like.

• On a slightly related note, he likes his brother Bramble, but he doesn’t like the fact that he isn’t an absolute Tigerstar glazer like him. He also shows the fact that he is Tigerstar’s in Darkstripe’s face, cuz whenever Dark did something that Hawk didn’t like, he would tell Tiger but reword it in such a way that Dark did was worst than he actually did. Yeah, bro was competing with Dark AND snitching on him. The beef between the two was real

• Mudclaw killed him during the great battle (with Bramble’s help). He NEVER let go of the fact he betrayed and manipulated him during the coup, even if he moved on. So yeah, that was him, not Brambleclaw again.

• I yapped wayyy too much abt him I should tone it down for the others.

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Crowsage and Hawk have an interesting dynamic

When Hawk arrived at the Dark Forest, he found that he didn’t like his father but did like Ratbirch, so hung around him a lot. So Rat and Lovage technically unofficially adopted him, making him and Crowsage cousins and adoptive siblings at the same time, just not officially, and Hawk was an adult when he was ‘adopted’ + when Crow was born

so he’s probably more of an uncle to her and his uncle is more of a father to him

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Dark Forest Resident: Hawk

Aliases / Nicknames: Big Bro, Chicky

Gender: tom

Sexuality: homosexual

Family: Doveflame (mother), Batroot (father), Owl (brother), Colten, Oliver (adoptive fathers)

Other Relations: N/A

Clan: none

Rank: loner, barn-cat

Characteristics: kills in revenge, kills to torment Windclan

Number of Victims: 3

Number of Murders: 3

Murder Method: slitting throat, biting, clawing

Known Victims: Doveflame, unnamed warriors

Victim Profile: his mother who abandoned him, random Windclan warriors

Cause of Death: killed by a Windclan patrol

Cautionary Tale: ??

Story:

He was raised alongside his brother, Owl, as barn cats under the care of Oliver and Colten. 

Once they were old enough, and after much hesitation, the pair explained to them how they were found, that they witnessed a silver-and-white she-cat leaving two bundles. They had watched over them for some time, expecting the she-cat to return, and when she didn’t, they took them in and cared for them themselves.

The brothers were horrified. They had wondered about their mother, of course, but they hadn’t thought that she had so blatantly and intentionally left them to die!

Oliver and Colten were kind cats, but they understood the rage. Coming to care for the toms so much, they held the anger as well. In addition to that, they knew that living so close to Clan cats could cause trouble, so they trained with the kits. Perhaps not as well as Clan cats, but certainly enough to get by.

He was hunting with Owl when they came close to the border. He wasn’t sure why, the barn had plenty of mice. 

That was a lie. He did know why.

He wanted to see her. Wanted to see the warrior that had left them to die when they were nothing but helpless scraps of fur. He wanted to see if she regretted it. And miraculously, she showed up. Hawk wasted no time in leaping at her, and it seemed that Owl had been holding on to resentment as well, for he was just as eager.

The she-cat was dead before they processed what they had done. Bloodied, they padded in a daze back to their fathers and confessed in shock what they had done. Oliver and Colten embraced them.

That should have been the end of that, but then Oliver got sick. Hawk and Colten travelled to the closest Clan--Windclan--to ask for herbs. But the Clan cats turned them away without so much as an excuse.

Later, he and Colten snuck back, hoping to steal some in the night, but they were caught and Colten was horribly injured. Without medicine to heal either, Colten died within the next couple of days, and Oliver followed shortly after.

Hawk’s anger was immeasurable. 

Two cats dead because Windclan couldn’t bother to help them. Why? Because they were loners? Because they lived nearby twolegs? How many times had the barn cats helped the Clan, for nothing in return? Hawk had heard plenty of stories!

While Owl mourned, he snuck out and waited by the borders, but they were always together in patrols. So he began killing prey and dragging them just far enough to ensure they caught the scent and separated. 

He killed anyone who came close to him, then went home and comforted his brother.

He continued to act, spreading his murders between moons as to not provoke them too much.

A new loner moved in and soon became mates with Owl, expecting his kits. It was then that Owl discovered what his brother had been doing, and begged him to stop, to let his anger go. He needed to move on and live his own life, as their fathers would have wanted. Besides, if he kept going, the Clan cats would find them soon enough, and what would that mean for Owl’s kits?

Hawk knew that he was right. 

But Windclan had already decided on vengeance. 

So he ran, ran and jeered them on, leading them far away from the barn, far away from his brother and his kits and his brother’s mate. No more blood would be shed on their home.

Additonal Information:

--Yeah he couldn’t ‘lead them away’ since they have a set home, but with his being the only scent and appearing to live away from the barn, they would suspect only him and not the others.

--Decided on only one joining the Dark Forest instead of both.

--Brown is dominant over white, so he looks more like Batroot.

--If he had just killed Doveflame like Owl, he would not have gone to the Dark Forest.

--I can’t remember who suggested it, but hawks and owls are both birds of prey that target doves!

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

Thinking about it, not sure Doveflame would abandon her new kits, but not out of the goodness of her heart.

In the Dark Forest, she's still very dependent on her beauty, using it as a way to survive and get cats to give her resources.

Now, having kits? There's one type of cat more likely to get things than her and that's poor single mothers.

So she would keep them for as long as they were cute, maybe until they reached apprentice-age. Then she told them to stay put and she would be right back...she always came back before, so they wouldn't expect a thing.

But this was witnessed by Crowsage, who told Hawk. He tracked down the kits and got them to his fathers so they could be watched, then went to pay his mother a visit...

When he was done, he returned to the kits. His adoptive fathers asked him what his plan was and offered to take them in themselves, but, even with never knowing these kits before today, Hawk feels very protective over them. He won't be their father, but he is their brother, and he will watch over them

@starfalcon555

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Why does Hawk choose Ratbirch over Batroot?

Hawk would soon know that his father not only had nothing to do with abandoning him, but really looked forward to being a father.

He would want to get to know him, and no doubt spent a lot of time with Batroot.

The novelty would wear off, and Batroot became more uneasy to be around. He wasn’t annoying or mean, just... their personalities didn’t click.

What really did it in was when he learned of Batroot’s cruelty to Ratbirch, his own brother. Hawk would have killed anyone who dared lay a claw on Owl, he couldn’t imagine the horridness of someone who could be so cruel to their own littermate.

So he spent time with Ratbirch as well, and the pair clicked right away. Ratbirch was a little afraid of Hawk at first, perhaps because of his similarity to Batroot or perhaps he thought Batroot had taught him to hurt his brother, but they both eventually learned to trust each other.