#1999 Warrior Cats concept

[imagination-confusion]

I constantly think about the Redwall animated series (1999) and Watership animated series (1999)

When I re-watch those I wonder what Warrior Cats would've been like if they had an animated series in that similar style and vain. How much would actually changed?

Watership Down the series added a lot of newer conflicts, characters, pretty much this series exclusive things and their own twists to the story. Follows the story in the beginning and then it gets wild!

I should make a retrospective on these two series.

Redwall animated series pretty much follows the story where season 1 follows Matthias, Season 2 follows Mattimeo, and Season 3 follows Martin the Warrior.

But I was an idiot and I watched the series backwards from Martin, to Matthias, to Mattimeo. Still got the same enjoyment either way.

It'd make a fun exercise. Creating short animations of canon Warriors in similar style of these two already pretty fun to watch animated series of great books.

Might be actually pretty heckin' fun! I can feel the gears in my mind turning just trying to create this and make it come to life!

So which one of you guys read and watched The Silver Brumby on YouTube? I never got far but what are your thoughts? I never actually well.. fully finished but, as far as I seen it's pretty nice lol

#kit makes text posts #ramblings #redwall the animated series #watership down the animated series #watership down #redwall #short retrospective #warrior cats #warrior cats the animated series would be cool #1999 Warrior Cats concept

[t4twnyclaw]

30?! 6? sorry i will hear you out but the years being so short surprised me, esp considering all the shit with past talk in the early arcs where they made everything sound really ancient and the mentions of Great Cats like a lion, tiger, etc. i know it's probably been retconned in canon since but still, only 30 years was quite shocking and 6 as a lifespan. that's only abt 5 generations of cats give or take that's lived at the arc 1 territories

I can't do math, I might change it to 40 years. To be fair Rusty would've joined around 2003. And TRUE, the clans being created and the dawn of the clans and creation of the warrior code and what not do sound ancient however you also have to remember DOTC canonically still had cars, and cats in collars and silver trash cans, I think. So, I don't know... also I'm only referring to the actual migration of the Mountain cats to the Forest, not how the mountain cats came to be or anything.

As for the life expectancy, I think it's somewhat fair considering the period.

Grey Wing canonically was only 2 years old when he died. TWO YEARS. He had full grown children at this time too, so having an average lifespan being 6 is in my opinion, is generous.

Here's my rough idea/timeline of events;

ANCIENT ERA (1970-1975)

-> Great migration (Mountain cats go to the Forest) -> Early Wars (No one really likes the Mountain cats. Clear Sky attempts to make his own group and is beat up by One-Eye.) -> Ends with the Blood Bath of Five Trees. (And the death of a god.)

NEW ERA / DISCOVERY ERA (1975-1986)

-> Clans are 'created' and the first warrior code is implemented. -> Moth Flight born + Religious beliefs solidified. -> Moth Flight creates the Healer Vow. No family allowed. -> Era ends with the destruction of Skyclan

SKYCLAN PERISHS (1987)

-> Their old camp/territory gets turned into a dog park. Most cats relocate but some join the other clans. -> The event was foretold by Moth Flight, thus giving more believability to Starclan and Healers.

THE "GOLDEN" ERA (1987-1999)

-> Somewhat peaceful, since the clans have more territory and resources without Skyclan. -> Other warrior code changes are made and built upon. -> Era ends with Mapleshade's Vegence and the creation of Queen's Vow, literally same concept and idea from bonefall's redux.

MODERN ERA (2000-2003)

-> Fighting between everyone, Riverclan vs Thunderclan, Windclan Vs Shadowclan. -> RUSTY JOINS!

#asks #wc au #wc

[yascaret]

really LONG CHARACTER SURVEY.

(I edited/removed some of the questions to make this more FFXIV-friendly)

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TAGGED BY.  No one, I just wanted to do it lol

TAGGING. @gvnbreaker @wood-warder @necrologos @finishing-touch @glory-bound @vysaldhe @violet-warder @whisperingdawn and anyone else who wants to do it!

BASICS.

FULL  NAME :   Lofn Yascaret

NICKNAME :  None (yet??)

AGE :  Appears around 30 by hyur standards 

BIRTHDAY :   Midwinter 

ETHNIC  GROUP : Viera (Rava)

NATIONALITY :  Ivalician (?)

LANGUAGE / S : Common

SEXUAL  ORIENTATION :  Homosexual

ROMANTIC  ORIENTATION : Homoromantic

RELATIONSHIP  STATUS :  In a relationship with Aja Hyskaris & Pjel Qoet

HOME  TOWN / AREA :  Yascaret, Golmore

CURRENT  HOME :  A small, cluttered house in Shirogane

PROFESSION : Disaster lesbian, whiner

PHYSICAL.

HAIR : White with faint violet undertones. Thick, heavy bangs that partially obscure her eyes. Her hair is very dense and wavy, and it reaches her waist when loose.

EYES :   Violet, but the left is considerably paler than the right

FACE :   Pretty, if melancholy. Pronounced cheeks, prominent nose, striking profile. 

LIPS :  Small, but full. Usually painted a dark brown.

COMPLEXION : A dark, barely warm brown. Mottled with white “freckles” in places (nose, cheeks, shoulders, breasts, lower back)

BLEMISHES : None of note

SCARS :  A few old, faded scars here and there from a life long left behind her

TATTOOS :  None

HEIGHT :   Nearly seven fulms

WEIGHT :   Average

BUILD :   Slim, but more bottom-heavy. Her upper arms are the only indication of muscle left from the Wood.

FEATURES :   Feminine, pleasant (by viera standards, at least). Has a very defined nose and a striking profile. Heavy-lidded eyes that naturally lend to melancholy expressions.

ALLERGIES :   None of note

USUAL  HAIR  STYLE :  High, messy ponytail. Dense, thick bangs that almost completely obscure her eyes

USUAL  FACE  LOOK :  Melancholy, aloof, heavy-lidded eyes and faint, pensive frowns

USUAL  CLOTHING :   Loose, comfortable blouses, leather trousers, tall heeled boots. Browns, whites, silver, violet

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR / S : Abandonment, loss of loved ones, loss of her senses

ASPIRATION / S :  To find some amount of meaning in her life outside the Wood, to find her calling

POSITIVE  TRAITS :  Resourceful, passionate, resilient

NEGATIVE  TRAITS :  Aloof, anxious, self-destructive

MBTI :  ISFP-T (Adventurer)

ZODIAC :  Menphina (Aquarius in real world)

TEMPERAMENT :  Melancholic

SOUL  TYPE / S :   Artisan (I have no idea what this means??? I googled it and took a buzzfeed quiz for her lol)

ANIMALS :   Rabbit

VICE HABIT / S :   Pining, infatuation, brooding, oversleeping, stress eating

FAITH :  Belief, sure--faith, not really

GHOSTS ? :  Why not?

AFTERLIFE ? :  Why not?

REINCARNATION ? :  Why not? But probably more likely than afterlife.

ALIENS ? :   Probably

POLITICAL ALIGNMENT : Zero concept of politics outside the wood and she intends to keep it that way, being a selfish bitch

EDUCATION  LEVEL :  Average education level of the average rava viera

FAMILY.

FATHER :   lmao

MOTHERS :  Dead to her, all four of them 

SIBLINGS :   One older sister (that she knows of)--their relationship was not great

EXTENDED  FAMILY :  Countless cousins and half-sisters, none of which she knows anything about

NAME MEANING / S :  Lofn, from the village Yascaret

HISTORICAL  CONNECTION ? : It matters not

FAVORITES.

BOOK :  She’s the type of freak who reads instruction manuals and spellbooks for fun, so probably one of those

DEITY :  She tries not to think about them

HOLIDAY :  Moonfire Faire (does that count as a holiday?)

MONTH :  The warm ones

SEASON :  Summer

PLACE :  Her bedroom, or the Azim Steppe

WEATHER :  Thunderstorms, though she is growing more fond of snow

SOUND / S:  Rain on the roof, thunder in the distance, the sound of wind through flowers or trees

SCENT / S :  Honeysuckle, cedarwood, leather, girlfriend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

TASTE / S :  Honeysuckle, orchid, girlfriend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

FEEL / S :  Soft moss, clean sheets, sheepskin, girlfriend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

ANIMAL / S :  Cats

NUMBER :  3

COLORS :  Violet, brown

EXTRA.

TALENTS : Picking up new things (especially technical things),  singing (though she doesn’t sing anymore, ever), 

BAD  AT :  Getting her shit together and keeping her shit together

TURN  ONS :  Shitty smirks, sweet smiles, pet names, fleeting touches, romanticism

TURN  OFFS : Men

HOBBIES : Drawing, writing, gardening, tinkering

TROPES :  Lipstick Lesbian, Insecure Love Interest, Marry Them All, One True Threesome, I Have No Son!, Traumatic Superpower Awakening, Mad Whisper, Country Mouse, Affluent Ascetic, Lady and Knight, Eye Colour Change, Sky Pirate, Combat Stilettos, Dark-Skinned Blond, Statuesque Stunner, Wrench Wench, You Can't Go Home Again, The Gift (I have to stop or I will be on TV Tropes all day)

QUOTES : "Oh no”

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1 :   If you could write your character your way in their own movie,  what would it be called,  what style would it be filmed in, and what would it be about?          

A1 :  It would probably just be Mulholland Drive but everyone has rabbit ears

Q2 :   What would their soundtrack/score sound like?          

A2 :  Dreamy and melanchol, like The Duke of Burgundy’s OST if it sounded less sinister

Q3 :   Why did you start writing this character?          

A3 :   Because when viera came out I knew exactly what I wanted my viera to be--a physically strong, emotionally stable badass warrior lady who doesn’t afraid of anything--so naturally she became the exact opposite of that because at all times my subconscious is trying to sabotage me 

Q4 :   What first attracted you to this character?          

A4 :   My grubby little gay hands wrapping around Final Fantasy Tactics Advance in 2003 and seeing a viera for the first time. Also, my grubby little 1999 gay brain struggling to comprehend why I thought Ultimecia was so hot

Q5 :   Describe the biggest thing you dislike about your muse.

A5 :   Sometimes writing her is stressful because I channel my own past experiences with depression and anxiety a little too hard I think. Also her overarching themes I want to eventually bring out via RP storylines are so ambitious and complicated that I feel entirely too stupid to write it well so I’m always at least a little bit stressed about that

Q6 :   What do you have in common with your muse?          

A6 :   Crippling depression lmao

Q7 :   How does  your muse feel about  you?          

A7 :   She’d probably not even acknowledge my existence because I’m a human and what good is that

Q8 :   What characters does your muse have interesting interactions with ?        

A8 :   I feel like Pjel and Aja are the obvious choice so I feel a little shitty saying Pjel and Aja, but...I really love playing Lofn off both of them, I feel like they perfectly compliment different parts of her personality that I really enjoy writing (mainly her pettiness and her gayness) and I feel like Lofn also prods at both of their insecurities just by being her terrible self, and it’s fun for me to watch them squirm lol

Q9 :   What gives  you inspiration  to write  your muse ?        

A9 :    Um, premenstrual syndrome?? Lmao but for real if I’m struggling I’ll just go watch some Gentleman Jack (Lofn is literally Ann Walker, sorry) or listen to some FF8/FF9 music, or dick around in FF12 for a bit. Basically I identify a handful of loose inspirational touchstones for a character and fuck around with all of them until inspiration strikes

Q10 :  How long did this take you to complete ?          

A10 :  About a week, off and on...

#character building #this took entirely too much of my time

[bifacialler]

theskoomacat replied to your post “Why I have a dubious opinion about Baba Yaga in contemporary media”

as a slavic person: she literally eats babies in many tales. not to diminish the narrative and historical complexity of her character but was always used as a forest bogeyman for kids. she is never presented as a noble wise woman she is a half dead cannibal prone to cursing people. i mean if you really want to get inspired by the real version go for it but what you are saying is in the same vein as "medusa's curse is for her protection" it's just not correct

As a slavic person to another slavic person: I understand where you are coming from, and if you don’t mind, I shall expand on some points that you made, and explain why I approach her whole “cannibalism” part in the way that I do. 

Disclaimer: I am more familiar with the mythos around Baba Yaga within the confines of Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian folklore. If you have information regarding the Baba Yaga mythos from other Slavic cultures (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and so on), feel free to share, I would love to learn more. [Like I recently learned about the concept of powerful human souls called Zduhači within Montenegro/Herzegovinian/Serbian folklore who would epicly battle each other with storms and stuff and if that is not amazing, I don’t know what is.]

Yes, in the post-christianisation revamps of the tales Baba Yaga is diminished to the boogeyman to fend kids away from the forest under the reasoning that she will eat them, and has multiple hand visual cues of being cannibalistic, most importantly a fence out of human bones. (Not surprising, since the only form of paganism that was accepted with introduction of uniformed religion was through elimination of major pagan deities [destruction of places of worship, throwing their totems into the river and so on] and demonisation of the lesser vedic creatures). More so, in majority of tales the woman starts off her meeting with a person by saying “go away or I will eat you”. I spend couple of hours this fine morning searching for a single tale where she actually does - there are multiple where attempts are made, always failing due to ingenuity and expression of kindness of the protagonist towards other characters present: for example, in Afanasiev’s Baba Yaga, the girl feeds the cat and the dog, gives a girl a kerchief so she won’t stoke the fire, oils the gates and so on. and they help her escape. I found one (1) story in which Baba Yaga manages to actually eat someone - it was mentioned in Encyclopedia of Russian Mythology by Eriashvili/Madlenskay/Pavlovskii - and it was her daughters (which are a pretty rare occurence in the collective of the Baba Yaga tales), but since being eaten by Baba Yaga was another way to get to Nav’ (one-way trip, so to say), and they were already of the mythical kind thus belonging to the Nav’, being shape-shifters and such, it really has no weight. 

Baba Yaga is not nice, never was, because she is indeed half-dead, and presented as such. [She is also heavily implied to be blind, but that’s a separate topic.] She literally exists in two planes simultaneously: in Yav’ and in Nav’. Being tightly associated with both cult of Mara/Mora and cult of Makosh (there is a pretty fascinating dissertation published in 1999 covering Yaga/Makosh juxtaposition called “The ambivalent images of Slavic Panteon”), it is her primary duty to conduct the rites of transformation and passage (mostly similar to burial rites), which didn’t mean she had to be hospitable about it - would be surprising, considering the character coming to her is either seeking the entrance to the underworld which is Not For Mortals (if we are talking heroic tales), or are send to her to die (most of women/children characters). [Also, I read a theory that she does the Russian version “Fe, fi, fo, I smell the Englishman’s blood” because as the smell of the dead is unpleasant to the living, the smell of living is unsavory to the dead aka those from the Nav’. Which is hilarious, since not only someone barges into her house demanding things, they also reek to kingdom come, possibly of black tar, so I’m inclined to say #same.]

To say that she is not noble is true - she has a right to, she is a nasty old woman who honestly doesn’t want to deal with all that - but to say that she is not wise is to omit one of her 4 archetypes, Yaga the Giver, who is a literal keeper of magical knowledge (props to Propp, once again). This is particularly interesting when taken in juxtaposition with her Yaga the Kidnapper archetype, because within those tales we can she that she is duped EXTREMELY easily. To the extend that it might be suggested that there is no possible way that she couldn’t see all of that coming. More so, it turns to pretty much comical to me, because whenever a child/young girl would be demanded to do something, in came in a form of “Do this, or I will eat you”. If she truly wanted to eat them she wouldn’t go through all that. This is a character, in her Yaga the Warrior archetype, who was able to beat the person half to death for breaking in her house. Yaga helps those she deems worthy of her help. There are tales in which Yaga is antagonistic, but these are later tales, featuring creatures like Koshei, a post-13th century character. 

Baba Yaga to me is absolutely fascinating in her complexity, so yes, I prefer to take her through the prism of 200 years worth of folkloristic and mythological study, rather than solemnly through later itinerations where most of the complexities are reduced to superstition and concepts like holy/unholy and good/evil, which are not really that interesting to me, and I genuinely think she deserves better.

#theskoomacat #slavic mythology #baba yaga #longpost