The Whale's Heart

A Warrior Cats inspired webcomic following Lambpaw, CoveClan's healer apprentice. 🐋🌟🪼 Updates Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays

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THE WHALE'S HEART

A Warrior Cats OC comic coming Monday, Oct. 30th!

"Healer apprentice Lambpaw is eager to prove himself to his clan, but after going where living paws have never walked, he uncovers the truth about StarClan... and it makes his stomach turn."

Updates will be posted on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays until further notice.

❗️CONTENT WARNINGS: This comic will contain heavy themes of death, morality, regret, and fear; as well as blood, violence, suicide, and major character death. Pages will not be censored, so proceed with caution if any of these topics are upsetting to you. Pages will be tagged appropriately❗️

The Whale's Heart takes place in a fictional location on the Oregon coast, loosely based on the Oregon Dunes and Cape Perpetua.

#pages : all pages

#art : any art involving characters from the comic

#misc : text posts about the characters

each character will also have their own tag, so you can easily go back and find pages with them in it or text posts about them.

(will be updated with allegiances)

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05 : 12

Writing Lamb’s dialogue is challenging sometimes because it can feel very disjointed but… yeah that’s just how he talks. He thinks too hard to respond properly and focuses on questions rather than interacting with the answers to them. Sometimes he comes off as rude.

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05 : 11

Corvidwish’s kithood and yet another piece of Lamb’s early memories.

Do you have any of those fuzzy childhood memories that are awoken by a specific cue? A smell, a word, a place, etc? Like when someone mentions a place you went as a child and the memory of it suddenly comes flooding back… or you catch a scent while walking that teleports you back to age five. That’s what this is meant to be :o)

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05 : 10

idk if a cougar would be particularly interested in befriending a house cat anyway. but a bobcat… maybe?

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05 : 09

Got a little carried away.

Corvidwish is actively trying to figure out the anatomical characteristic that is tied to language (unfortunately, she doesn’t have the internet or textbooks at her disposal)… however, some of you did figure it out! I loved reading your theories, guesses, and all of your reasonings for those theories.

It is based on heart anatomy!

Mammals and extant archosaurs (birds & crocodilians) have four chambered hearts, while reptiles (excluding crocodilians) & amphibians have three chambers and fish have two. Fish lack vocal cords so I think their languages would be built on sounds they produce with their muscles, swim bladders and bones… clicking, vibrations, etc… idk, fishspeak isn’t important to the plot at all but it’s fun to think about!

Four is a good number :o)

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05 : 08

Blood of the covenant or something… yada yada

There aren’t a TON of things that birds and mammals have in common with each other. I’m very curious to see if anyone will figure it out :o)

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05 : 07

biology inspired world building my beloved

finally getting to show off this world’s language system is SO EXCITING!! it’s something I’ve put a lot of thought into and I hope that Corvidwish’s explanation will do it justice <3

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05 : 06

Special interest mentioned; conversation saved!!

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05 : 05

Professional conversation changer

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05 : 04

…oh….

ermmm (tugs my shirt collar) awwkwaaard

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This is my part for a Comic OC MAP hosted by that.green.critter on instagram !

I’m pretty proud of this part, I scrapped my original wip bc I didn’t like it very much AND I managed to make this in a single night 💪 I really love how it turned out!!!

Lambpaw and his new friend having fun!!1!

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05 : 03

🫵 Smelly

CoveClan cats smell like brine and salt. CedarClan smell like moss and pine. Both clans have a subtle smoky scent as well.. CoveClan is like a beach bonfire and CedarClan is like a wood stove to me. Very specific and unimportant factoids (Allen smiling friends voice)

I have a *very* specific goal with Corvidwish’s characterization and building it has proven to be difficult. She is so special to me!!!

Happy Halloween btw!!! I’m dressing up as The Velocipastor (2018) this year. I hope you all have a fun and safe time!!! ❤️❤️ (there may be a spooky post tomorrow…)

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05 : 02

a little helping paw!

and a very sudden tone shift…

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The new cover made me rather curious! In advance I apologise for the long text! So as an avid plant lover I dove into google attempting to find out what new plant this was. I thought I got close a few times (specifically with chokeberries bushes and bearberry cotoneasters!) however the one thing that kept bugging me was the shape of the leaves. So I started looking into trees and I think I've settled on it being some kind of hawthorn tree (white flowers, red berries some have the proper leaf shape) and the meaning of hawthorn trees also interested me. All of this could be a dozen continents away from the actual answer but it was quite fun looking it up and chasing it all through random images!

Hi!!! Your research paid off-- it is indeed hawthorn!! Amazing detective work, you're actually the first person to figure it out!

It is common hawthorn, which is invasive in Oregon (where the comic takes place). The tree that the cats harvest it from was planted on CoveClan territory around the time the Clans formed. It may be well-established, but it's still invasive, just like the domestic cats of the clans.

The medicinal uses for hawthorn are definitely intriguing :3c hehehe....

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05 : 01

… another?!

HELLOOO CHAPTER FIVE!

I will say right away that the title of this chapter has several meanings :o) and I know I say this about every chapter but I’m so excited to get into this one.. heheh.

I went through a mini art block this month, so I don’t have as much backlog as I would have liked… only about two weeks worth :P but I think I’m finally getting out of it now!! Alsooo after a whole chapter of minimal background work, having to draw backgrounds again punched me in the face. I grew weak…💔

Hiiii corvidwishhhh heyyyy hiiii

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Happy (almost) one year to TWH!!!

I made my first post to this account on October 27th, 2023.. It was the original cover, so I decided to redraw it!

Thank you all so much for such an incredible year, I’m so thankful for everyone here, whether you’ve been here since the beginning or you only just found me today— thank you for being here and reading my little cat comic! I still feel baffled when I think about how many people have seen my work and decided to stick around, it’s so unreal!!! I’m forever grateful. You’ve all shown me so much kindness, compassion, and patience— I couldn’t ask for a better audience ❤️

Now, for the cover!

One of the biggest differences is… there are three additional cats in the new one! Wavestrike and Rampaw, of course, but also… Sailor! (who has an updated design) All three are very important characters within the story, and they deserved a place on the cover.

Other differences are Lambpaw’s design— his markings are different and the grays are slightly darker… this is his ‘teenager’ design! A lot of important plot points happen when he’s a teenager, and I wanted the cover to reflect that.

Aaand the last major change is the flower/plant that Lambpaw is holding. In the original cover, he was holding yarrow— which DID have plot significance at the time… but I’ve since changed a couple things and it lost its relevance. The new plant, however, is very very plot relevant. Yay!

Over the past year, I’ve managed to draw ‼️112 PAGES‼️

Here’s to a whole year of TWH, and to hopefully many more !!

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TWH Chapter 5: A Lesson in Communication

Saturday, October 26th

A newcomer tells Lambpaw something he needs (but might not want) to hear.

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