what remains of whiteclan

A ClanGen challenge blog, following the cats of WightClan in the wake of tragedy. CW for animal violence/death. DISCONTINUED

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(Backstage pass to my notes: X • X • X )

Just another ClanGen challenge comic, ran by @collabwithmyself. Tragedy strikes in WhiteClan during the new leader's ceremony of lives, and now the only survivors have to try and rebuild, haunted by ghosts both metaphorical and literal.

Updates will be infrequent! This is a side project I'm doing for fun, and I can't say how long the project will be. I'm still scripting everything out, and I'm unsure which direction the story will go in! I also plan to have drama unfold in the afterlife, so things might diverge somewhat from a regular scripted ClanGen.

The comic has been discontinued- I hope you were entertained by what little I managed for the audience!

[ START 》 ] (CW: mass cat death)

Characters

Meadowstar

Leader

She/her

Senior adult

Playful

Unusually strong

Fighter

Lives left: 9

Greenneedle

Medic

He/him

Senior adult

Gloomy

Fantastic healer

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I think that's about everything I had plans for! While I'm sad to let the project go, it's for the best I don't leave my audience in suspense, and I hope you can appreciate the hint of a story lying underneath my notes. Maybe someday I'll learn to look before I leap and have a plan before I start a story on impulse...

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Some other planned characters were Patchouli's kits (Who's Patchouli?). Moonkit is reserved and somewhat attuned to the supernatural, Snailkit is rather defeatist due to being so sickly all the time, and Skipkit is extremely ambitious and loves the stories of past WhiteClan.

There was gonna be a running gag of sorts with Dashpaw (Who's Dashpaw?) trying to convince one of them to listen to him and eradicate the rest of WightClan, but. He's just not that good a manipulator. He's still a teenager.

There was also Stagpaw from another Clan, meant to showcase that it wasn't just WhiteClan with issues, but the whole damn Clan system. He fled to WightClan after being shown kindness by them and being rejected by his home clan over his trans identity. Stag and Skip were likely gonna be an item.

And with Stagpaw joining the clan, Moonpaw was going to apprentice under Greenneedle!

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A very important player in WightClan's future was going to be Patchouli, a rogue queen in need of assistance from Meadowstar and Greenneedle. She was led onto WightClan territory by Dashpaw in the hopes he could manipulate one of her kits-to-be. (Who's Dashpaw?)

You know the classic ClanGen tale- mother shows up, dies, free kits to raise. That's how it went in my generator, but fuck that. Patch was not going to be a disposable plot device, Meadowstar literally wouldn't let her.

She winds up staying with Meadowstar and Greenneedle, and being an important outside perspective for whether or not something they learned from Clan culture is actually kinda fucked up. She's skeptical of a lot of things and a very awkward first-time mother, so it helps to have a community to raise her kits with.

I think in the finale, when WightClan turned their backs on StarClan, Patchouli would have lost her StarClan-granted life, only for Dashpaw to grant her one at the price of being stuck with her and thus the rest of WightClan, unable to return to the Dark Forest or ascend to StarClan (not that he'd want to do either of those things, anyway).

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While the project will likely never be finished since I got too ambitious, I do have some notes and doodles about plans for the future, if there's anyone still following this blog that would like to see them?

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For starters, the main theme of this comic was going to be about cycles of revenge and abuse, and how turning a blind eye can just make everything worse, personified by Dashpaw- one of the clan apprentices, who was pushed far too hard by his mentor Icemask, and had his plight ignored by Flowerstar.

While Dashpaw is being led astray by an anonymous Dark Forest cat, the start of the cycle is intentionally ambiguous- but harsh training has been present in WhiteClan (and the other clans) for a long time, because that's just how things are, and even StarClan won't help because it's comprised of proud warriors that never realized the existence of the cycle.

Dashpaw was the one to initially kill Flowerstar, with help from his Dark Forest mentor, and they planned ahead so the leader ceremony would take place on a lunar eclipse- a night when cats from the Dark Forest could walk the earth. Dashpaw and the Dark Forest cat aimed to work together with the element of surprise to wipe out the entirety of WhiteClan and root out their cruel practices altogether, but Icemask recognized Dashpaw's guilt in the midst of the confusion and took Dash down with him.

Now a Dark Forest cat himself, Dashpaw changes tactics to convincing one of the newer clan members Meadowstar and Greenneedle took in, hoping to persuade them to finish what he started with some urging from his DF mentor. He has some troubles, because Meadow and Green are keeping a closer eye on and actually taking care of the new clan members- he's so blinded by his rage and determination to finish the job, he doesn't realize the cycle is already being broken by those left behind.

There was probably gonna be some scenes with Icemask's ghost trying to warn Greenneedle about stuff in dreams, but Green slowly becoming kinda wary of him and StarClan in general as he and Meadow unravel the clans' senseless violence, and eventually deciding with her to turn their backs on StarClan altogether. Again, not very well thought out before I jumped right in (Would Not Recommend)

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While the project will likely never be finished since I got too ambitious, I do have some notes and doodles about plans for the future, if there's anyone still following this blog that would like to see them?

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Some concept art I've had laying around, including coming up with designs, and the characters' canon palettes from the generator!

[leohnoz]

Leaders 3

More murder cats! All leaders or adjacent!

Part 1 and 2

Tw for flashing/flickering in the video, eyestrain, and blood. Close-ups, @'s, and timestamps below!

0:00 - Ravenstar

@fallenclan

0:28 - Iciclestar

@drizzlingclan-gen

0:50 - Fawnstar

@tangleclan

1:13 - Owlstar

@loudclan-clangen

1:37 - Meadowstar

@wightclan

2:00 - Fawnstar

@cutieclangen

2:03 - Tulipstar

@passing-moments

2:27 - Mudstar

@r00tclan

2:33 - Frostpaw

@mouseclangen

3:01 - Cliffstripe

@fernclans

3:28 - Twilight

@foreverialmorning

3:52 - Glowstar

@in-memoriam-tgwk

4:19 - Ringstar

@circus-clangen

5:44 - Sharpstar

@clangenthriftclan

5:58 - Greenstar & Rattlestar

@shrikeclangen

6:45 - Bugstar

@cricketclangen

7:44 - Sootsnow [+ a taker]

@chasing-faith-and-fate

?:?? - Riftstar (lost footage)

@wyrm-clangen

?:?? - Scarletstar (lost footage)

@seaclangen

8:14 - Messing with backgrouds/finalizing

8:33 - Ravenstar (bonus cat!)

@featherclan

9:00 - Sunstar (bonus cat!)

@skuaclan

Notes:

Decided to do it on a smaller canvas and not the big collage so we could see them better

Fawnstar's pose is one i wanted to do for a while, as i refrence cat poses for these. you can see me try to do it for Fogstar in the first timelapse

Went offscreen to get Fawnstar's pose right. proceeds to not record me drawing Fawnstar

Mudstar, Riftstar and Scarletstar's footage missing, probably just forgot to record

Drew this before Loudclans lore that Owlstar doesnt like wearing the pawprint, so just kept it

Had extra room on the canvas, so 2 bonus cats! (Meaning 22 cats instead of 20)

Chopped up version to see them together better, rip to those meows in peices

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Have NOT forgotten about WightClan, just got hit by a truck with real life, and other projects, including Mamma Mia with cats,

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Hey Meadow, here's a Meadow Buttercup flower :]

-🌑🐮 [MoonCow]

Meadow: That's very gracious of you!

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The more I come up with lore, the more I diverge from what the "canon" series of events (the RNG) is. And you know what! That's fine! It's my story and I choose how it goes, not some computer process! I dearly appreciate the characters it's handed me and the initial building blocks for the story, but I can and will make this my own.

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Maybe the cats aren't feeling so great, but we're off to a surprisingly optimistic start!

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I'm very interested in this story so far, but I'm also fairly unfamiliar with Warrior Cats/the fandom (found this blog from your main art one), so: what is a ClanGen challenge? :0

It's using the Clan Generator game to randomly generate a clan of cats you can watch over and interact with, and then document their adventures in text or comic format. Some people choose to purposely kill off some or most of the clan to make things more difficult and interesting, which is what I've done.

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hihi, so excited to see where this blog goes!!! do other clans exist in this universe, or is it just wightclan?

So far the game has given me a "LittleClan" who has a border near a river, but I haven't seen any cats yet. Might have to make some up if they get involved!

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Wanted to do some fanart for the blogs that inspired my own ClanGen! In order:

Nettleiris @moons-of-dewclan

Flowerpaw @brightclan

Slickpaw @juniper-clan

Auburnpaw @echoes-in-echoclan

Badgerpaw @marshclangen

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This looks so cool! Hope ur having fun with it!

Thank you kindly! I am absolutely having a blast so far!

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:O!! Did Meadowstar only get 8 lives??

Meadow: At least one thing went right that evening. Your concern is very sweet, though!