✦ Stars Catvent 2022

[Arrikanez]

↬ catvent day: nineteen

↬ username & id: Arrikanez 2105
↬ clan archive: The Dark Carnival

↬ word count: 156 words
↬ prompt:

The gift is going to be a little unconventional due to who and what Viperstar is, but Fortune's End has been scrabbling at the last minute to secure enough fur [mouse, weasel, other] to fashion together a somewhat nice-looking set of booties, since he's noticed his leader keeps getting jagged pieces of metal or old glass stuck in-between his paw-pads. Fortune figures that if he had booties, he would not only LOOK stylish, but also be able to avoid those painful tidbits.

Meanwhile, Viperstar has been negotiating with Chroma to get Fortune's End an animal companion. The reason he's taken so much time at the borders is that he's asking Chroma to flip through everywhere he's connected to - like a catalogue, almost - in order to find one where there's a puppy or a lost dog, or something of that nature. He knows Fortune is lonely, and wants to spring it on him as a surprise.

[Deercan]

↬ catvent day: nineteen

↬ username & id: Deercan | 776756
↬ clan archive: the roundtails

↬ word count: 28 words
↬ prompt: Cinnamonswirl got Silvercrown a cozy purple sweater with 'The Nice Twin' embroidered on the front; unknowingly to them, Silvercrown got them the same sweater but in daffodil yellow!

[changeling.]

↬ catvent day: nineteen

↬ username & id: K1NGCL3M3NT1N3 + 756856
↬ clan archive: lily meadow alliance

↬ word count: 147 words
↬ prompt:
coast’pearl is secretly worried xyr gifts won’t be good enough for the cats who took xem into the alliance because they are especially last-minute, since when xe started planning xe had very little information on the likes and interests of the cats xe’s giving gifts to. xe decides to make jewelry from the crystals and bits of gold xe has as part of xyr few belongings from before xe had to run from xyr old group. xe makes a small bracelet for firefly’flitter from the gold bits and a bit of gold ribbon xe finds around from the solstice decorations. for shivering’sea, coast’pearl asks firefly’flitter to carve a stone xe finds into the shape of a lily of the valley flower, and makes a necklace from various colored crystals and stones and a silver ribbon. the lily of the valley-shaped stone charm is put in the middle.

[GrimmRatt]

↬ catvent day: nineteen

↬ username & id: GrimmRatt + 1047885
↬ clan archive: Rushingclan

↬ word count: 098 words
↬ prompt:
Usimg a new cat for this, been feeling a litlle same-y which is why ive been neglecting catvent-
Petalbreeze never gets her gifts in time! She always seems to forget and honestly there have been times she didnt give her clanmates gifts until way after the season. But this year the most important gift they got is for her best friend and twin fkam- Wandering spirit. Because Spirit used to be a pirate Petalbreeze found a bottle with an odd twokeg water vessel. Of course Spirit loved the gift an$ they both had a wonderful holiday together.

[0Zero0]

↬ catvent day: nineteen

↬ username & id: 0Zero0 780482
↬ clan archive: Forum/viewtopic.php?f=103&t=4611568

↬ word count: 30 words
↬ prompt: Jack put the dead mouse at the persons feet, and looked up at his owners face with big soft eyes. "You haven't eaten kitten, so I hunted this for you."


Jack's Oekaki page

[mal du pays]

↬ catvent day: nineteen

↬ username & id: aftonbuilt 186503
↬ clan archive: https://toyhou.se/aftonbuilt/characters/folder:2315966

↬ word count: 20 words
↬ prompt:


Cupid gets Hymnal a poorly disguised threat - a small stabby object in a stuffed animal. Yowch! Watch your back, Hymnal!

[Griff]

↬ catvent day: nineteen

↬ username & id: Griff 254592
↬ clan archive: Clan Ember


↬ word count: 16 words
↬ prompt:
Blossomcrown makes Crowcall his very own flower crown adorned with yellow honeysuckle flowers and crow feathers!

[kyeza]

↬ catvent day: nineteen

↬ username & id: galaxyy. + 803669
↬ clan archive: jadeclan

↬ word count: 20 words
↬ prompt: satinwish makes her girlfriend sagebrush a new, green sweater with a tiny, barely noticeable 'taken <3' embroidered on the back

[Adamented]

↬ catvent day: nineteen

↬ username & id: Adamented + 670829
↬ clan archive: [x] Gladewood

↬ word count: 1,191 words
↬ prompt:


Hiillos can be a bit of a little bugger when he wants to, but in his good intentions to supply everyone a great gift, he left Hiiri for last. Somehow, the time just got away from him and now he's pacing, whiskers a-twitching and ears on the swivel while his head hangs low. He feels terrible, unable to think of something good enough, Hiillos has put so much work into all his other gifts this year. It'd be terribly disappointing if he got Hiiri something he wouldn't like...

Maybe he's overthinking it?

"What's got you so twisted up...?" Tiikeri purrs from atop the hay stack behind Hiillos, long striped tail swaying low against the straw with his amusement. He's never seen Hiillos this way, he was always a very confident tom with a good head on his shoulders but he's clearly very wound up. He even fails to notice Tiikeri watching him- jumping once the tabby speaks up.

Hiillos bristles from embarrassment, dipping his head in a nod to greet his mate. "I'm burnt out on gift ideas-!" He wails, falling over onto his side and turning his head to look up to the roof of the barn stall. Tiikeri carefully picks his way down the hay stack to come to Hiillos' side, nuzzling the tom's belly affectionately and receiving a swat for his cheekiness.

Tiikeri smiles down at him, playful. "Well, who do you have left? Maybe I can help."

Hiillos shakes his head, a deep frown forming as he yowls in frustration. "I only have Hiiri left! I just don't know what to do... I can't think I've been so stuffed with ideas and now that I need to think of something... nothing !" He swats Tiikeri again when the brown tabby begins to laugh at his struggle, well meaning but not understanding the severity of his situation.

"Come on. You know he'll appreciate anything," Tiikeri purrs, putting a paw on Hiillos' head and pushing his nose down into the soft straw-laden floor. "as long as it comes from you."

Hiillos is petulant, he doesn't want to accept what Tiikeri says but... when Hiillos thinks about how he'll feel receiving something from Hiiri, he knows Tiikeri is completely... and utterly right. Instead of making a snarky comment, he nods quietly with his chin resting on the floor, before turning over and surprising Tiikeri and dragging the larger brown striped and white tom into the stray hay with him.

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When Tiikeri gets back to his responsibilities, taking care of the Wanderers and ensuring the festivities are in place, Hiillos gets to work thinking on his gift again. Finally, he thinks he has something in mind for his other partner. It's simple, but he hopes it will be sweet.

Hiillos waits until everyone has shared tongues and padded off to their straw woven nests for the night, piling up together in the different barn stalls to warm one another. He tells Tiikeri he's going to take the watch and asks that the tabby also distract their mate by dragging them to sleep as well, so that Hiiri wont be tempted to stay up with Hiillos. Their relationship is a bit newer still than Tiikeri's with either of them, but their shared love for the big brown striped fluffball was bound to bring them together and eventually it did.

When Tiikeri gives him a last nuzzle goodnight and heads off, practically chasing Hiiri away without much of a goodnight, Hiillos picks his way up the rafters and into the higher area of the barn. Here, he finds stowed away with old boxes of twoleg things a ball of green yarn.

When Hiillos and Hiiri were much younger, both rivals for Tiikeri's love, they'd climbed up here together to talk about how they could prevent their rivalry from hurting Tiikeri. They didn't want to hurt each other, either, of course- but their main concern was their shared passion for the brown tabby. It was a hard conversation and in their venture into the rafters, they'd found these exact boxes. It was here that Hiillos found a new respect for Hiiri, who at the time he thought of as being vain and stuck-up, a stick in the mud. Hiiri had a poise about him, even Hiillos with his disposition to dislike Hiiri had to acknowledge that he was strong and capable. He was an island in a storm, one day though he didn't know it would come, Hiiri would be that island for Hiillos to weather the storm.

When the two toms were up here, Hiillos' white and chestnut sepia coat contrasting the much paler taupe sepia smoke of Hiiri's, the hidden ringlets of rosettes peaking from the silvery-white tufts of belly fur cast in shadow from the lights below, they'd come across this hidden stash of twoleg stuff. They'd found yarn just like this, though a slightly different color of green. They'd agreed, whoever Tiikeri picked, they'd be okay with it. They had to try to be friends and be happy for Tiikeri no matter what, little did they know they'd form a friendlier rivalry that'd later develop into admiration.

With the green ball in his mouth, Hiillos kept an eye out while he crept back down the wood post to the barn floor.

After he'd hidden his gift, he noticed stirring nearby. As Hiillos padded out of the barn stall where he hid his gift, Hiiri popped out of a pile of hay bales that hid where Tiikeri and a few of the others cuddled in their sleep. "Hey," Hiiri spoke softly, voice like silk, but his whiskers trembled with nerves and Hiillos could tell he was down. "Can we... talk?"

The way it sounds, Hiillos' heart just drops. Right into his belly, forming a lump in his throat he tries to swallow to respond. "Sure. Of course," Tentative, afraid of the response, he pressed, "What's wrong...?"

Hiiri looks down at his paws, wrapping his tail over the fluffy white toes and settling into a sitting position. "Hiillos I have to be honest I... I'm really struggling to pick something out for you."

When he hears it, a weight shifts off Hiillos' shoulders and he sighs in relief, "So did I!" He chirps, approaching quickly and rubbing his cheek all over Hiiri's face much to his displeasure. The fluffier tom spent time licking his paw and smoothing the fur Hiillos had ruffled up, groaning in distress. "It's okay. I found something for you, I just want you to know... you're enough. I'll love whatever you give me. Even if it's just your attention, for a little while." Hiillos smiles, pressing his nose to Hiiri's shoulder to comfort him.

Already, he can tell the same weight has shifted off the paler tom's shoulders. There's a sparkle in his eyes when he meets Hiillos' gaze, in that moment all he can feel is light, like he's floating in all the adoration Hiiri holds for him.

"I love you, you know." Hiillos smiles warmly and nods in response, before nodding towards the hidden den when Tiikeri sleeps.

"Let's go get warm, hm...?"

[Archaeopteryx.]

↬ catvent day: nineteen

↬ username & id: Archaeopteryx. || 334452
↬ clan archive: Enurian

↬ word count: 75 words
↬ prompt:

Carrion completely forgot about the solstice until Three made a joke about throwing his gift into the ocean. Which prompted a mad dash to try and find something his brother would enjoy. Luckily, all the winter markets in the mountains are in full swing this time of the year, and it takes little convincing to head in that direction. He manages to find a fancy herb and spice mix his brother is certain to love.