Redesigning Dapplemist's Family pt. 1
As part of my love of cat genetics, I have been trying to challenge myself to recreate the cats of my favorite oc family tree using more realistic genetics than what Sims 3 uses without using certain mutations to just explain away just how many male torties are in the sims 3 made cats. There's also some newer characters I apparently made last time I attempted to map out genes. So you all will get to see them further down the line(might decide to make a new series involving some of those characters, but no guarantee.
Anyway, first up is Stumpyripple.
He looks a bit different from his original design. That's because the Sims 3 Japanese bobtail preset defaults to a calico. Since his mate is black-based, and both his daughters are torties, I decided to get rid of his black patches and make him red-based. He's still mostly white, giving him S/S homozygosity, and he's genetically solid since his patches were soild in the original sims 3 design. Red-based cats, even when genetically solid, always display stripes. I gave him spotted tabby markings on his ginger spots, mostly because I was debating if I wanted to make Dapplemist ticked like her sims 3 design or spotted. For the sake of later down the line, he's also carrying for sepia point, so keep that in mind.
Next is his lovely mate Fawnpond.
This is as red as I can get her in the picrew rn. She's a ruddy(black based with high rufousing that makes her look more red) abyssinian. I have to look up breed standards for her to see how close to purebred I could make her. I think the only part of her genetics that's outside of the standard for Abyssinian was her agouti locus. Abyssinians tend to always be ticked tabbies from what I found, and Fawnpond has to carry an allele for solid in order for Whiteear to be solid like her father.
She is homozygous for everything else, except her white spotting(S/w for low white) and where there are gaps because breed standards and future generations haven't filled them in yet. She could be "b/b,D/D" or "b/bl,D/d", but we don't have to know unless a recessive is need further down the line. Which is the perks of leaving these gaps to slot recessives in when needed.
Now, time for the only children this couple had. Personally, I would love to make a third child just to see if we can fill Fawnpond's blanks or not, but I will probably leave that to a poll.
Anyway...
Dapplemist is a mostly ruddy tortie. In the end, I decided to make her ticked so her mother could stay homozygous ticked. The picrew doesn't have an option for the little white speckles, so I drew them on myself. There will be moments where I alter the final picture from the picrew to better fit the design of the character. Now, the white speckles could be vitiligo, but I know nothing about how that inherits, so I'm just gonna say these are a part of her white spotting. Also, for future reference, she's carrying that allele for sepia point from Stumpyripple.
The picrew didn't have big asymmetrical white patches on the face, so I made a separate version where all the black patches were white and just added the white by her ear that way. I don't know if this is a possible white spotting option, but it gives her her namesake. Just like with Stumpyripple, she's genetically solid because her original design was, and her ginger fur displays tabby markings despite that.
I fear when I get to her children... two male torties and a black and white molly... the daughter is the most genetically possible due to her mother being a tortie and her father being a black and white tom.
Hope you guys enjoy these designs.
picrew by @littlehungrywarriorcats
