hi ok hear me out. new design/story challenge.
Step one:
Find four to five clan generators on perchance (or you can use clangen’s randomizer if you don’t want to do designs).
Step two:
Using the first generator, generate your clan’s name and any other details the generator has aside from connected characters.
Step three:
Using the other three or four generators, pick five of the list of cats you get from them and add them to the clan you generated in the previous step. You can use any method to pick them, it doesn’t have to be random so long as they’re randomly generated. This will get you 15-20 cats to mess with, and you can change their roles and ages to better suit whatever idea you have in mind for them.
Step four:
Design a story and/or look for the cats you picked. This can happen however you want it to, at this point you get 100% free reign over the challenge!
*Note: for cats outside the clan, add an extra clan or cat generator and pick any number of cats given between 1 and 5!
By the end, you should have an interesting group of characters with varied descriptions or even similar descriptions if you picked them meticulously! Here is my attempt under the cut:
Generator 1: Detailed Clan Generator by Raggedflight
Name: Harryclan
Territory: A large island covered in grassy hills with a river that runs through it, far from any other group.
Camp: Surrounded by tall grass and wheat, which makes up their dens. There is a large herb patch in the grass.
Landmarks: Abandoned Quarry (A huge, abandoned quarry filled with water. it is excellent for hunting and herb gathering.), The Blackbird Tree (An ancient cottonwood tree where many blackbirds live.), The Fallen Birch (An ancient birch that is entirely hollowed out, where many lapwings live.), and Tall Hickories (A large grove of very tall hickory trees that twolegs planted, where many smaller rodents and some foxes live.)
Common herbs: Borage, Dock, Lavender, Marigold
Rare herbs: Burdock root, Rosemary, Coltsfoot
Climate: Cool and rainy in newleaf, hot and sunny in greenleaf, warm and rainy in leaf-fall, and freezing in leaf-bare.
Ancestor meeting place: The Moonpool (A small pool surrounded by boulders, with a small river running into it)
Clan call: “Let all cats in Harryclan gather beneath the tallpile!”
Special traits: Good night vision, and can fall from heights with little injury
Notes from the rest of the info: A clan leader was recently struck down for disobeying the code, and there was a pair of old unsolved murders before that. The murders were of a leader and a warrior; the leader happened before the war and the warrior after.
Generator 2: The clan generator we’re all used to
Ravenpaw, Rookpaw, Thriftstar, Beefoot, Waxtail
Generator 3: A pretty one with neat names that provides a little depth.
Antflower— beige and creamy-white molly with odd slightly darker-colored spotting. Educated and compassionate, keeps her den clean.
Patchpoppy— Tawny sphynx tom. Balanced and quiet.
Furledbrook— Warm brown cat with a jagged scar across their face. Disciplined and critical, the healers like them.
Twistblossom— Creamy white ticked tabby tom. Irresponsible and cheerful, wants to help everyone.
Sniffpaw— flea-ridden, creamish-orange cat with half-lidded gray and hazel eyes, a burn scar on their throat and a very short plumy tail. Wants to be named Sniffleaves; talented and easily annoyed, loves to decorate the camp with seashells.
Generator 4: A generator that provides kits and cat ages. Note: the leader it generated’s warrior name was fishfish and i love them for that.
Goldeyes: Aggressive, dull, swift tabby blue-grey tom, with a blue muzzle, and light green eyes. 59 moons old.
Thundersky: Stubborn, irritable swift grey molly with a blue-grey paw, and kind orange eyes. 56 moons.
Brokenbreeze: Caring, lean white she-cat with dull blue eyes. 39 moons old.
Larkkit (dust): Nice, affectionate, and diligent lean orange molly with green eyes. 5 moons.
Snowkit (flame): Brave, caring, and malicious small gold tom with kind blue eyes. 2 moons.
Generator 5: another with cool names, and also options for what generates!
Sparrowwish: Spotted golden molly.
Minnowthistle: greenish-brown tabby jack.
Morningwing: Black-and-white tom with a crooked jaw.
Risingstripe: Solid grey molly with pretty hazel eyes.
Downswan: yellow molly.
MY INTERPRETATION OF THIS:
Our main character, Patchpoppy, is a former kittypet once named Patches who was brought to the island by twolegs exploring, and ran off thinking they would look for him. They did, but he didn’t know that because he was never found. He wears a tattered shirt that helps him insulate and keep from getting melanomas, as he is a sphynx. He is trying to figure out who killed the leader and deputy before Poppystar, Thriftstar’s predecessor who was struck down for encouraging kits to fight and train before their 6th moon. He’s already asked Thriftstar many times about the incidents he keeps hearing about from the elder Risingstripe and her recently retired mate Downswan. His best friend is Morningwing, and multiple cats in the clan make fun of him for his lack of noticeable fur and his dirty green sweater, though Morningwing says it looks nice on him.
Thriftstar is always shutting down questions about Poppystar and whether or not she was the murderer, usually saying something like Poppystar could not have killed the leader before her, Muckstar, or his deputy Rootslash, as the events happened while she was on a moon-trip to the quarry for resource gathering. And no, it wasn’t the foxes they were at war with at the time, either, because the bodies held the scent of cat.
Patchpoppy eventually finds something important at the old crime scene, which has been abandoned for a few years because the cats are afraid to go to the spot they found both leader and deputy violently dead at. It’s an old, worn collar, something the cats of the clan shrugged off because it didn’t register as something other than a scrap of cloth to them. Patchpoppy used to have one, though, so he immediately recognized it, and brought it to the camp, declaring that there must be a murderer somewhere on the island who would have had the collar as theirs.
The cats all brush off his theory, as no one has seen a kittypet other than him in moons…
… Downswan and Risingstripe seem wary, however. Maybe they know something?
Character notes:
Ravenpaw is Morningjaw’s apprentice and why morning is not as present in the story as the best friend usually would be.
Rookpaw is Thundersky’s apprentice.
Sniffpaw is almost a warrior and is Sparrowwish’s apprentice.
Antflower is their healer/religious leader, Thriftstar is the anxious leader that Poppystar manipulated into being her little puppet, and Brokenbreeze is the deputy.
Minnowthistle, Downswan, and Risingstripe are all dating and retired.
Goldeyes wants Larkkit to be his apprentice.
Furledbrook got their scar in a fight with a fox.
Snowkit is not really malicious in a grown way, more like he just constantly plots to annoy and pester the warriors because he thinks it’s funny.
Beefoot and Waxtail are mates and the token straight couple. Larkkit is their kit.
Snowkit is Waxtail’s younger half-brother (They are Thriftstars’s kits, and his partner died recently of an illness) so the nursery is a little awkward right now because Snowkit is growing up with a niece older than him.
the remaining family trees are ambiguous rn because i dont wanna think about making an isolated clan on an island work
Thriftstar’s mother was a LaPerm that left him with the clan.
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