honestly the biggest fumble in broken code was not reworking how getting sorted into starclan and the dark forest works. you spend so much time showing how some cats in starclan shouldnt have been let in (i.e ashfur) and how some cats in the dark forest have reformed (i.e snowtuft, juniperclaw, and even some of the background dark forest cats who are uniting against ashfur) and instead of doing anything interesting with that they just throw that all out and decide that nothing has to change actually, ashfur was just a unique case
This one was so funn it came out p much exactly how I envisioned it!! some fun details below the cut :'']
I have a lot of behind the scenes stuff for this map part so if you'd like to see that you can consider contributing to my ko-fi! (we're 75% of the way there for character designs already!!) thank u thank u 💗💗
commission info || ko-fi (tip jar) (for every $8 I share a BTS!)
the scenes are connected by the branch (the branch bridge in the fire scene vs the gathering tree's branch)
the star frame spins and turns into a square to represent holly's feeling of importance/being one of the three spirals away and she becomes like any other cat but Worse (yew branches grow around her square)
Grid is also meant to show how she wants everything orderly and in place/in her control, but as the gathering scene gets more chaotic despite (and because of) her attempt
from holly's mouth grows yew berries, both to indicate her next actions to confront leafpool with them but also i made one berry 'drip' down like blood to show she's still hiding the secret of killing ashfur
and ofc the paper burning away squirrel in the fire scene to reveal leafpool (in my mind this is leaf when she's in the med den being confronted by holly)
This one was so funn it came out p much exactly how I envisioned it!! some fun details below the cut :'']
I have a lot of behind the scenes stuff for this map part so if you'd like to see that you can consider contributing to my ko-fi! (we're 75% of the way there for character designs already!!) thank u thank u 💗💗
commission info || ko-fi (tip jar) (for every $8 I share a BTS!)
the scenes are connected by the branch (the branch bridge in the fire scene vs the gathering tree's branch)
the star frame spins and turns into a square to represent holly's feeling of importance/being one of the three spirals away and she becomes like any other cat but Worse (yew branches grow around her square)
Grid is also meant to show how she wants everything orderly and in place/in her control, but as the gathering scene gets more chaotic despite (and because of) her attempt
from holly's mouth grows yew berries, both to indicate her next actions to confront leafpool with them but also i made one berry 'drip' down like blood to show she's still hiding the secret of killing ashfur
and ofc the paper burning away squirrel in the fire scene to reveal leafpool (in my mind this is leaf when she's in the med den being confronted by holly)
AH FORGOT TO MENTION: everyone else has yellow teeth except holly: yellow for fire scene = lies, and white for gathering scene = truth, as holly has this very self-righteous perspective that she's doing a good thing speaking the truth and while everyone else has been doing bad.
And! for most of the time holly's eyes have yellow light reflected in them as she's fixated on what was revealed during the fire scene, and only when it starts to sink in the impact her words had on the other cats in the gathering and she starts to panic is when her eyes have white highlights (from the full moon at the gathering)!
Requesting more Ashfur Ferncloud swap au RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really want to know what the swapped fire scene would even be.. maybe Fern found out about Leafs kits and was yowling about how if Leaf just TOLD her that she had kits they could have raised them TOGETHER as a family. and Leaf didn't need her sister to take over or get support from that Moth bitch [I think Leaf probably told Moth about her kits 🤷]. she could have had HER. and she could have done SUCH A BETTER JOB.
I've wanted to draw Scourge for forever but I always had a really hard time getting him to look right! He's had so many iconic looks over the years thanks to the fandom so he was a little daunting, but fun.
AU where Ashfur can’t bear to mentor his ex’s kit, so firestar gives Lionblaze to Brightheart instead!
Always bummed me out that Brightheart never got the chance to have her very own proper apprentice :[ she’d be a way better mentor to Lion than Ashfur could ever be! I’m sure Squirrelflight n Brambleclaw would approve more at least
Here lionpaw overhears Ashfur not wanting to train him and runs off crying LOL
Cats in order are: Lionpaw, Ashfur, Firestar, Cloudtail, Brightheart
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