[Archaeopteryx.]

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Eolwyn x The Stranger

Name:
Gender:
Rank: Gladekit
Clan: [x] Gladewood
Description: black-based bimetallic
braided tabby with low white
Age: 1 moon
Edits: [nr] accessories, expression
[c] teeth, sclera color, ear placement
[uc] muzzle edits, round ears, short ears, long tail
Owner: Adamented

Name: gabriel
Gender: male
Rank: glitch
Clan: https://toyhou.se/viviane/characters/folder:2511351
Description: black smoke ghost
rosette tabby with low white
Age: kit
Edits: [nr] missing eyes, broken leg, scars,
expression, accessory
[c] whiskers, sclera color, ear placement, pointed ears
[uc] short ears, heterochromia
[r] max fur

Owner: vivika

These kittens may grow on March 23rd.
Eye colors may change as they grow.

These kits are an orphan litter and up for adoption!! You can find the prompts and other info in the post below.

Name: Optimus
Gender: Tom
Rank: Young One, future tbd
Clan: Wanderers of the Bay
Description: blue-based caramel-apricot golden
classic torbie
Age: 4 moons
Edits: [nr] accessory, expression, claws
[c] whiskers, teeth, sclera color, ear placement
[uc] round ears, long tail
[r] tall ears
Owner: Beezhivez

Name: Daykit -> Daypaw -> Daybreak
Gender: molly
Rank: kit -> apprentice -> warrior (planned to be adult member of StarClan)
Clan: HollowClan
Description: blue-based bimetalic salmon torbie
(genetically blue-cream bimetallic) with low white
Age: 5 moons
Edits: [nr] expression, accessory
[c] whiskers, teeth, sclera color, ear placement,
pointed ears
[uc] short ears, unnatural eye color
[r] max fur, folded ears, unnatural fur coloring
Owner: KittyandCat

[Archaeopteryx.]

In another world, another time, perhaps these kittens would be direct children of deities. Maybe that isn't true for them now, but remnants of what they could have been still remain.

Taking after their (non-canon) parents, each kit has been designed after an abstract concept! Their adult references have accessories corresponding to their theme.

Each kit has their own prompt. Make sure you're answering the right one!

Euphoria (top left) -- Raffle! To enter, tell me about something that brings you joy.
Liminality (top right) -- This kitten stands at the threshold for something. What is it?
Optimism (bottom left) -- What brings this kitten hope?
Deceit (bottom right) What is a lie this kitten has experienced?

There's no word limit for any of the prompts, and art is okay too!

Ends February 23rd at rollover (23rd to 24th)
You may enter for as many kits as you want, but you can only win a max of one.

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[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Cat Name:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Rank:[/b]
[b]Clan:[/b] (Please link)
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Which kit?:[/b]
[b]Prompt:[/b]

[Owl-Paints]

Username: Owl-Paints
Cat Name: tbd
Gender: tbd
Rank: kit
Clan: CometClan
Age: 3 moons
Which kit?: 1 / euphoria / top left
Prompt: my two dogs!! one of them is a 13-year-old bichon frise named Princess and the other is a 6-year-old husky named Sky. I love both of them so much!!

[.sins.]

Username:
Cat Name:
Gender:
Rank:
Clan: (Please link)
Age:
Which kit?:
Prompt: marking

[Adamented]

Username: Adamented
Cat Name: undecided (I get attached if I name them ;w;)
Gender: genderfluid (they/them primarily)
Rank: Gladekit
Clan: [x] Gladewood
Age: 1 moon
Which kit?: Euphoria
Prompt:

Nothing brings me more joy in this world than animals. I love them, I love learning about them- their genetics, their lifestyles- I love taking care of animals if I had the space I'd rescue as many as I could, birds are my favorite but I've recently taken up feeding an abandoned rabbit that hangs out by my work and they make me very happy when they come running to me without hesitation to nibble carrot bits from my hand! If I weren't so hopelessly squeamish, I would love to be a veterinarian!

[jay.]

,,,marking

[Beezhivez]

Username: Beezhivez
Cat Name: Euphoria
Gender: She-Cat
Rank: Young One; future tbd
Clan: Wanderers of the Bay
Age: 4 moons
Which kit?: Top Left; Euphoria
Prompt: My online friends give me much joy, I love them. I have an especially close friend named Liz whom I've been friends with for the past 3 or 4 years!

Username: Beezhivez
Cat Name: Liminal
Gender: Jack (they/them)
Rank: Young One; future tbd
Clan: Wanderers of the Bay
Age: 4 moons
Which kit?: Top Right; Liminality
Prompt:

The young kit sits in front of a stone den, the structure like those of a twoleg's. Around him is cold, grey stones sticking up from churned dirt, their top is rounded, and they are stuck into the ground. They line up side by side, symmetrical, and while the place is strange, dissonant, and almost.. fear-enticing.. The kit feels strangely at home.

Something catches their attention, and they look up at the twoleg den. On what they think is called.. a porch, is a tall cat. She feels.. familiar. Her pelt is grey and black.. her face is obscure, like they can't really focus on it. She almost looks as if she's glowing, her fur— long and flowing— almost seems to float as if in water. The aura around her is warm, and they feel comforted just by looking at her. They jolt when she turns away from them, walking into the den. They get to their paws, ears turning back. They have the feeling that if she leaves them behind, there would be no getting out. An inexplicable fear, but they couldn't shake it, racing after her.

Even though she was walking, the faster they ran, they couldn't catch up. The fear they were feeling earlier was stabbing right into their heart with another.. rejection? Grief? It was.. unfamiliar. But they feel abandoned as they try to catch up to whoever this was.. She was important! To them! She meant something to them! She can't just leave! They belong with her! She needs to stay with them, please, she's their—

They wake up.

Username: Beezhivez
Cat Name: Optimus
Gender: Tom
Rank: Young One; future tbd
Clan: Wanderers of the Bay
Age: 4 moons
Which kit?: Bottom Left; Optimism
Prompt:

Looking up, he finds himself looking towards the sun. Something inanimate, something without feelings— not even the ones he holds for it. The star is bright, relentless, and yet.. it was something that made his heart lighter, made his shoulders feel weightless. Things could get worse, it did get worse, before it got better. He felt plenty helpless at many points, but you know what happened?

The sun never stopped rising.

Even when trapped under rocks and within never-ending darkness, those streams of golden color always made its way to him. Little ropes throwing a line of hope for a brighter day. The sun oversaw everything, it saw his troubles, what he went through, and it never stopped working. So, neither did he.

Because if time still moved along, so would he, no matter his troubles.

Username: Beezhives
Cat Name: Decevoir
Gender: Omnigender (any pronouns)
Rank: Young One; future tbd
Clan: Wanderers of the Bay
Age: 4 moons
Which kit?: Bottom Right; Deceit
Prompt:

His life.

Her whole life she was lied to. Abandoned. She knows this, she's smart, she's handy, she understands things quicker than most, it didn't take long to figure out she wasn't what she thought she was. Everyone around her had pelts less vibrant than she, without markings that glowed and trailed, no one had an understanding of spirits more than her. No one had told her the truth, told her one story or another about how her parents had passed. This was untrue, she knows this.

They're not angry.. they've really never felt anything. But with the knowledge they know now, they throw themself into looking into what exactly they are. Their paws perk up plants and prey-animals are much more curious of them than other cats. Fish don't flit away in their presence and once they awoke to a rabbit snuggled up to them. They have an understanding of those beyond than most. They see things others don't. Their dreams are filled of a place filled with dangerous creatures, a land with translucent fish that fly along their side within air currents, of goliaths with a multitude of eyes that study them curiously.

Xe don't really mind that they were lied to for xer whole life. Sure, it hurts, but it helped lead xem to find xer true purpose. For now, xe are studious, taking everything in around xem. Xe will wait until xe know who or what they are. Xer patient.

[fruitbat]

Username: fruitbat
Cat Name: Remmington
Gender: Male
Rank: Village cat
Clan: Cattiopeia
Age: 3 months
Which kit?: TL
Prompt: My education! I am so grateful for the opportunity to continuously learn from industry professionals and my peers. I am so honored to be the first in my family to graduate from university. There's no feeling like learning about something you love.

WIP!

[Thani]

Username: Thani
Cat Name:
Gender:
Rank:
Clan: (Please link)
Age:
Which kit?: Top Right- Liminality
Prompt:

[KittyandCat]

Username: KittyandCat
Cat Name: Daykit -> Daypaw -> Daybreak
Gender: molly
Rank: kit -> apprentice -> warrior (planned to be adult member of StarClan)
Clan: HollowClan
Age: 5 moons
Which kit?: bottom right // deceit
Prompt:

xxx“Snakeeye! Snakeeye!” The kitten yowled as she burst into the medicine den, tripping over the vines that covered the entrance. “Snakeeye is out speaking with the elders right now,” Mintpaw, the medicine cat’s apprentice murmured, glancing over from where she was sorting the herb stores. Daykit quickly sat up, and licked the dirt out of her chest fur embarrassedly. Mintpaw had begun her training only a moon ago- it was still strange, adjusting to her not being in the nursery. “I need to talk to her”, she meowed between licks. Mintpaw remained silent. Whether she was absorbed in her work, or ignoring the kit, was unclear. Daykit sat there for what felt like an eternity, until the entrance to the den rustled.
xxxShe spun around just as Snakeeye stepped inside. The medicine cat was a large, stocky she-cat with long, mottled tortoiseshell fur, greying with old age. Her eyes were a striking green, and a few fangs stuck out if her muzzle. “Oh! Daykit, dear, what are you doing here? You aren’t hurt, are you?” The she-cat purred, smiling down at Daykit. All at once her excitement returned. “No, I’m fine, but I saw a StarClan cat!” Mintpaw stiffened from the other side of the den. “Oh really?” Snakeeye asked. “Yes! He told me part of the forest would catch fire this leaffall, and we should be prepared.”
xxxAfter a moment of silence, Snakeeye murmured, “What was his name?” Daykit cocked her head. “I don’t remember.” “What did he look like?” The kit didn’t understand why it mattered, but she replied, “He was brown, with white paws.” “Just brown?” “Yes?” “Then you’ve no need to worry about his message.”

- - -

xxxDaypaw groggily stretched in her nest. That had been an odd dream- a nearly forgotten memory, something unimportant pushed to the back of her mind. Back then she hadn’t understood why she shouldn’t worry about the brown cat’s warning, but now she knew. The only cats of StarClan the clan listened too were those with unnaturally colored pelts- these cats had done something remarkable enough in their life that the stars rewarded them in death. Why listen to “ordinary” dead cats?
xxxShe stood, lazily shaking moss from her pelt, before noticing the den was empty. She started. What time was it? Had she overslept? Why hadn’t her mentor woken her up? She quickly groomed her pelt, before stepping into the clearing. It was a sunny leaffall morning, a cool breeze rustled the trees and sent leaves floating lazily toward the ground. Kits played outside the nursery, leaping at the leaves in excitement. The elders sunned themselves outside their den. A few warriors shared fresh-kill at the edge of the clearing. Everything seemed perfect.
xxxSuddenly her mentor, Willowstep, burst into the clearing, his ginger and black mottled fur standing on end. All heads seemed to turn towards him at once. “The forest- across the river… it’s caught fire!” he panted, and Daypaw’s blood turned to ice. “Two hunting patrols- there are two hunting patrols out there!” he yowled as loud as he could muster. “We need warriors to help carry the injured! Where is Snakeeye?” The medicine cat seemed to appear out of thin air. “I’m here,” she said grimly, then looked around the faces in the clearing. “Gingersplash, Sunshadows, and Clearwater, come with us. Willowstep, lead the way.”
xxxAnd with that, all five cats whisked out of the hollow.

- - -

xxx “Are you mouse-brained?” a voice said harshly. Sunpaw groggily blinked open her eyes. Her body ached. “Why in StarClan would you follow us?” Slowly, Sunpaw’s memories flooded back. The prophecy. The fire. The patrol. She’d followed the cats into the fire. She wanted to help. She had crept behind her mentor, watching him desperately search for his clanmates, and she’d done so unspotted. Until a branch from one of the burning trees had begun crashing down, toward her. She remembered screeching, and seeing Willowstep whip around, before the memory cut out. “Where- where is Willowstep?” she asked, and was surprised when her voice came out hoarse.
xxx “He’s… he’s been fatally injured, Daypaw.” Snakeeye’s voice said. Daypaw’s eyes were open, but everything was blurry. Noise was slowly coming back- the crackle of flames, orders barked from cat to cat, panic and sorrow and fear, a million emotions that sent a chill down Daypaw’s spine. “When he saved you, the branch fell directly on him. The weight alone was bad enough, but the fact it was on fire, as well…” Daypaw knew the medicine cat’s next words before she spoke them. “He probably won’t make it.”
xxxAt first, Daypaw was silent, processing the fact that she may have just lost her mentor. And it was her fault. But quickly she became angry. It wasn’t her fault. “It’s yours,” she hissed. “Pardon?” Snakeeye asked. “You told me not to listen to the warning I got from StarClan about this. You told me the cat who delivered it wasn’t worthy.” Daypaw’s voice began to raise. “You made me believe it was a lie! This could have all been prevented if you’d listened to me- to StarClan! Willowstep could’ve been-” she broke off and began coughing. Snakeeye was silent for a moment, before murmuring, “I told you what I was taught. I did not mean to lie. You’re right to be angry.”

- - -

xxxWillowstep died that night, succumbing to the broken bones and burns the tree branch had left him with. He died with his apprentice by his side, whispering apology after apology, regretting every time she had given him trouble. While many cats were injured, a few severely so, he was the only cat to die from the forest fire.
xxxLess than a moon later he visited Daypaw, promising her he was happy, that StarClan was a lovely place and she had been an amazing apprentice. The ginger spots in his fur now donned a purple color, and his eyes seemed to be filled stars. It seemed saving his apprentice had been enough to give him “higher status” in StarClan. Daypaw silently resented that. This whole separation of StarClan into “ordinary” and “holy” had been what killed Willowstep to begin with. She knew it meant nothing, absolutely nothing, if a dead cat’s fur magically changed color. It was a cruel lie, one she was sure was bound to get more cats hurt in the future.