#ruse’s warrior cats

[nightly-ruse]

Hollyleaf is Shadowsight’s mom au is one of my favorites and one I thought about a lot this last hour. I have a lot of thoughts I kinda want to actually do something with. Mocked up their designs, Hollyleaf is really like but little Shadow I’m still a little iffy about. I might take another pass off in a bit. (ID- Hollyleaf is on the left and is much taller than little Shadow, she is skinny and scars cover her pelt. Jagged tufts of her she is pretty messy and sharp. Mostly dark gray with black on her tail, nose, and ears with light gray on her front paw and tail tip. She has sharp vibrant green eyes and a defensive/aggressive expression, with her left ear half of what it used to be. Much shorter than her is Shadow who is mostly the same color as his momma but with a slightly lighter brownish gray down the side of him, on his nose, chest, and inner ear tips. A even lighter color is on his toes and the corners of his eyes. His eyes are a pinky red with a purple shadow over them. He is looking forward with his paws tucked together and tail bushed up and a expression of nativity and happiness. End ID)

#shadowsight #shadowpaw #shadowkit #hollyleaf #Hollyshadow au #night knacks #ruse’s warrior cats #warrior cats #warrior cats au #might make a comic or story with little art things in it #The broken code

[pdqsketch]

I read this fic done by @tallstars-rewrite and was overcome by emotion and blacked out. When I came to a week later, this was in my files.

The link to the fic is HERE. Please read it it’s so good.

#tallstar #Tallstar’ s revenge #warrior cats #jake #warriors #talljake #pdqsketch #This was an elaborate ruse to take off time from working on my map LOL #which is going to come out eventually #soonish

[cat-alyzing]

The Sisters

The sisters are the split of group of the first known group of wild cats at the lake called the Archaic Lake Cats. After being given a sign of a horrible wildfire that would destroy their summer site the cats leader Half Moon let the cats decide where they would be moving, to the mountains or far away into unknown land. When counted there was a tie and it was decided that they’d split apart, the cats heading to the mountains becoming the Tribe of Rushing Water and the ones going farther becoming the Sisters.

The Sisters run a matriarchal, crepuscular, and wandering group. They wake up in the early dawn and start traveling, or hunting if their settled, stopping midday to sleep and then doing more at dusk before sleeping in and out during the night. They have a democratic system where the cats choose the next pathfinder or on vote on any decision often with a special stone or object given to them when their fully grown.

Traits include long thin fur, larger bodies, big maws, flecked pelts and strange eye colors, wide thick paw pads for traveling. They have two specific bloodlines from the first Sister’s Stone and Sun. Stone’s descendants have thick gray fur and purple eyes with a white spot on their face and back while Sun’s descendants have warm coats with wavy fur, a darker spot on their chest, and banded stripes.

First Pathfinder was Stone (prev. Smooth Stone) and the Current Pathfinder is Moonlight one of her descendants

The Sister’s Ceremonies

The Shift Ceremony is done under the full moon a year and a half after a kitten is consider a adolescent. At this ceremony the cat is tested on their connection to their afterlife in various ways.

Calling is when a cat calls upon to create a connection to a spirit but not necessarily summon them rather to create a voice to talk to the cat. This is the easiest skill for a Sister to learn but only available to them as no one else can hear the whisperer. A cat practices this by opening up their vessel for a spirit to attach to but not enough to attempt a full summoning often learners figure this out by doing it again and again on their own since it is so particular to the cat themselves.

Pulling is a more specific and done after something has gone may it be a plant or creature to pull a last memory or sliver from the dead. Mostly used to bring back special herbs that have died away. This is done by tracking the site of where the thing passed and fueling it through the cat themselves, this can cause exhaustion if used on larger or long dead things. Practiced by rooting up the dirt under a dead flower and fueling it, once revived the cat has passed the test.

Summoning is easy once mastered but hard to figure out as it pulls the full ghostly form of a spirit and makes them visible to anything watching. It requires to call out and open up the cats spirit themselves for a ghost to latch onto as a anchor, and then the cat will pull them to the living plane. This is easy to hold and maintain but hard to figure out and a little dangerous to do if a spirit is particularly hostile, powerful, or wanting to steal the living cats spirit themselves. Most often done in cases of needing to speak to a lost one, wanting guidance, or advice though a spirit cannot just tell a cat all the truth just what they can process. (So if a cat was found dead a Sister couldn’t just summon the spirit and be told what killed them. The spirit would only be able to speak in already known truths, recall shared memories, or hopes instead of facts)

Singing is a very commonly done practice by the Sisters. They sing to build bonds, pass time, share stories, raise hope, and even to heal. To better connect to those not on the living plane they have sing. The stronger the voices and the more there are the stronger their connection will be.

New life celebrations are held after a cat announces new life and throughout the settling moon. After a cat says their expecting they are flowered with special items like pregnancy related herbs, flowers, stones, and prey to the cat and they are immediately nestled into the center of the sleeping pile. As they find a suitable place to settle the Sisters will create the safety den for them which is very protective most often in bramble bushes, caves, strong burrows, or under thorn bushes. The sisters will stay at this den until the kittens are able to properly travel with them most often around 3-4 moons. If a cat decides to stay with their kittens they are given a goodbye ceremony just like any cat would.

Goodbye gifting is the ceremony done when a cat chooses to travel away. The cats closest to the traveler will give them a special gift that they’ll take with them on their journeys as a connection back to their birth group. The night usually consists of group singing, getting the cat ready for travel, and hunting so they have some prey to set off with. Just before they leave they are touched by the pathfinder and looked upon as a official wayfarer wandering the land for whatever they want, or just to explore.

Life in the Sister’s

The Sisters are a very close group and see each other as all being connecting may that be by blood, friendship, spirituality or love. They often sleep in open areas so they have a habit of sleeping all together in a big pile of cats with certain cats on the inside circle like those expecting, injured, shorter furred, or the pathfinder.

Gender in the Sisters is very self respected. While the pathfinder is matriarchal it depends on the cat themselves, i they see themselves as being able to be the pathfinder by the groups standards then they are. They do not differentiate by the gender of a cat and the only difference being that one cat can carry kits and the other sires them. Nothing more then that. Stone herself was a trans molly and the tradition of looking past many built up ideas is close to their culture. Sexuality isn’t really a idea to the cats since it’s just what a cats like, similar to how one cat prefers birds to mice or fish to bugs.

Their also avid storyteller singing great tales they’ve picked up and grown over time. Their main ones are of the four gods that control aspects of life like life, death, peace chaos. A changed version is seen in the Tribe in their own culture. They also have a story about the “stuck sister” which has ties back to the ancient Fallen Leaves.

The story of the Stuck Sister is a old tale stemming from the loss of Stone and Shadow’s only child at the time Fallen Leaves during is coming of age ceremony. It is sung in parts, the initial loss and the restless grief most often by the lead singer being the loudest and the rest humming along.

(Think the kind of tempo in “Enchanters - Dragon Age: Inquisition”)

“Oh Fallen Leaves oh Fallen Leaves with your fur of red and white. How much you’ve grown and still so small always in a fright. You went inside where there was no light. Lost forever from my sight. Oh Fallen Leaves oh Fallen Leaves how you’ve stuck to my mind. I sing to you in hopes to see you in the stars once more. Oh Fallen Leaves oh Fallen Leaves where could you be? I should’ve known when the air got cold a thief would steal my shine. My little light oh my little light so bright with heart and mind. Trapped in the stone, no way home. As I grow old and you stay cold I hope to see you then. While I am gone, your song lives on, forever should they know. My Fallen Leaves my Fallen Leaves with a pelt of red and white.”

The tale of trickster refers to the autumnal god known for his many seeds of chaos sprouted across history. A warning tale about the signs if he is near. Said over and over to ward away the beast in its story this tale is most often spoke around prey during autumn.

Autumn Glee forever be a trick of the eye. For fear the changing shadows and darkness soon to blight. He is of chaos and pain always feasting for more. Do not feed the restless Sol or you may be his final feast. Always hungry ready to leap. Stay away from the dying leaves. He will rot your belly and steal your soul. Take your body for a stroll. Then when you get free, he will finally finish the feast. Do not fall for the leaves. Or you will be his next treat.

The Spirituality of The Sister’s

The Sister’s are polytheistic worshipping the gods of each seasons who control the different aspects of life though they don’t heavily worship them. More so showing their belief in tales or comments. They do believe in the planes of existence though. The idea of the living being on one plane, the ghosts, and the passed over. Spirits who are ghosts can be easily called upon and are still trapped on the living plane either by choice or not. The passed over cats are the spirits who have moved on and gone back into the world their energy giving life to new creatures like birds, kittens, mice whatever. They have a code of giving what they take and helping those in need, very often healing those who need it or providing protections.

Their specific connection to the dead is stronger because of their consistent belief in the practice and learning over generations how to best use their powers.

#also I am remaking the Tribe post I hate it now #I have boosted fallen leaves so much more and I love him. my sad trapped girlie #the sisters #the ruse rewrite #cat cultures #stone (sisters) #moonlight (sisters) #fallen leaves #tales #cat tales #songs #traveling songs #the autumn god #warrior cats rewrite #wc rewrite #WC au #warrior cats au #long post #warrior cats #wc #moonlight wc

[sapphic-catz]

Warrior cats AU idea I had while looking at some art and want some thoughts on it.

Redtail and Tigerclaw as mates, with their kids being Sand and Long. Firepaw having the dynamic (ofc before Tiger officially betrays them) of trying to be friends with his girlfriends rough and tough dad lol

Also. GoldenSpotted. Idk how Bramble or Tawny would work but Swift is just Golden’s adopted son she found in the woods lol

#redtiger #tigerred #I’m just saying the angst #and I mean they’re dynamic would be that of very loyal lovers that have fallen out of love but won’t let go #give all of tawny’s arc to Sand and all of bramble’s arc to Long #except I think only Sand would rise farther in power. give us a good sandstar #wc au #warrior cats au #Tigerclaw #redtail #sandstorm #longtail #ruse au’s

[wc-confessions]

No I am going to die on the hill of Aromantic Bluestar she’s just so aromantic-

She doesn’t understand her mother and father’s love, she adores her family and wants them to always stay close and then her mom dies and her sister starts hanging out with Thistle. She’s angry her sister isn’t with her anymore and tries to find other friends but it doesn’t really work out only really hanging out with Rosetail every now and then. She’s told specifically that Thrushpelt is crushing on her but she doesn’t see it, she didn’t even realize it until she was specifically told about it. Kinda shares a few moments with Crooked and I get the vibe they connected through their rather similar personalities/pasts/goals. Immediately thinks Oakheart is annoying and stupid which is hilarious. He is interested in her a tad and they end up meeting, she feels free at that place with no cats around to judge or look at her every action. But she doesn’t love Oakheart, she likes the freedom she associates with him. Then she has her kits and feels trapped. Between these Snowfur died, Thistleclaw started blaming her making her push even more cats away. She doesn’t want to be a mother she doesn’t like it very much. So she gives them away, losing Mosskit on the way. After this she never reciprocates any feelings to any cat she doesn’t think about Oakheart or what her life could be as a mother bc that’s not what she wanted.

Maybe I’m just a traumatized, not always sweet and obedient clearly queer women lover but I love her and she’s so AroAce to me :)

I think CrookedBlue is cool and wayyyy better then OakBlue but I like it in the specific context of Bluestar being aromantic and them both bonding over their similarities instead of their love for each other. Just some Aro Blue propaganda to spread

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#confession #text #faves #nightly-ruse #warriors #warriorcats #warrior cats #wc #bluestar

[cicadagaze]

the chaos sibling duo, Sparklepaw and Shinypaw! (thanks to @nightly-ruse for the name insp <3)

#warriors #warrior cats #warrior cat oc #wc oc #my art #my ocs #oc #fan clan #bellclan #oc: sparklepaw #oc: shinypaw #they were meant to be warriors but as i was drawing them i realized how young i was making them look #and rather than redraw them to look older i just decided to make them apprentices lol #but their warrior names will be sparkleskip and shinystep as suggested by ruse :] #tho i am also really liking sparklefang just because of her big ol fangs #sparklepaw is wafflestar's apprentice and shinypaw is myrtlebloom's apprentice! #also shinypaw is partially deaf! #felt like that was worth mentioning #and also they aren't technically siblings #their owner just adopted them together bc they were bonded #and they see each other as siblings #annnyway i still have some more names i'd like to use so these two won't be the only ones #but i don't think i'll design any others today

[thetrailofflames]

Okay some Darkstripe rename ideas.

Rotbite (edgy as hell but funny), Wetstripe (sopping wet beast), Murkystripe (similar to Wet), Shadestreak (similar to canon name), Hollowtooth (edgy but fitting), Muddygrowl (fitting)

I have no idea what the naming scheme in this is but he does also have Sun Bear vibes. Idk I see her and think of them but Bear doesn’t really suit him :/

All these names are so good and definitely fit this pathetic meow meow.

Did a combo name: Murkystreak.

I do like Hollowstreak or Wetstripe as nicknames and digs at her assumed mixed blood. Totally no internalized issues with this one, totally not.

I do have the image of her just looking like this sooping beast who also looks like she's in a crisis no matter what, She always find herself covered in mud somehow. Gonna redesign her with that sun bear marking some how.

I was half tempted to give her a divine brand but decided against it. Doesn't stop her from trying through.

#nightly-ruse #fallingstarsau #warriors rewrite #warrior cats rewrite #trail of flames rewrite #xenomoggy #asked and answered #tof: murkystreak

[oldfacesnewdawnoffical]

Sandstorm and Moccasinheart for ofnd ship bingo?

Women<3

#old faces new dawn #ask #warrior cats rewrite #warriors rewrite #ship bingo #nightly-ruse #ofnd: sand #ofnd: moccasinheart #russetfur #sandstorm

[doritoabyss]

The big baddie Tigerstar for a request?

Sorry for taking a long time to get this

#tigerstar #tigerclaw #warrior cats #warriors #warriors designs #nightly-ruse

[doritopaw101]

Aropoly Firestar will always been true to my heart. He just wants a group of queerplatonic mates purr can always trust and lean on. He’s also such a he/purr cat to me like this guy is so connected to love in such a queer unexplainable way I love it. Got all the love purr can get and in every type

Oooo aropoly that’s a new one. I like it.

This is so sweet and fits so well. Fire definitely seems like a he/purr to me

This kitty can fit so much love in any type of way possible.

#warrior cats #warriors #firestar #firestar headcanons #aro fire is slowly consuming me #nightly-ruse

[spottyissleepwalking]

*Hands u this* a ginsengflight for you day

(He is very fun to draw so i gave him a little book some cat gave him)

MY BOY MY BOYYY MY BOYYYYYYY AHHHHHH SHHDHFJFNG

He’s readin so well, YOU GO BBY AAAHH

#warrior cats #warriors #spottys ocs #ginsengflight #ask #RUSE HYPHEN BELOVED AHHH #the way you do lighting is just. immaculate #the whole piece looks so soft and relaxed #raditiating a sense of unnerved gentleness #I want to hold it in my hands v gently

[nightly-ruse]

Demon inspired Mapleshade for @bonefall ‘s “Better Call Mapleshade” au that I adore. She’d definitely stand out in Starclan and everyone pretty much on sight would know she’s from the DF. I think her hooves would make that clop clop clop noise as she walks and as she strolls up to the her council all the cats who don’t like her (mostly Moth Flight) all they hear is her hooves and know exactly who’s about to show up. She’s amazing and I love this design so much.

(ID- Mapleshade is standing to the left with her head slightly turned to the right and back legs sprawled out to give her a wider stance, her back front paw raised up and her tail twisting upwards. She is a cherry red kind of color with dark almost black back legs, streaks down her eyes, and on her ears. Over her face is a mask shape in a darker red that also goes down her back, and dripping down her front leg. Her fur has a very wavy almost weightless feel especially on her face and on her ears twirls in a cyclone like shape, the same as inside her ears and on her tail. Her chest, paws, tail, ear tufts, and inner ear tufts are mixes of a pink and pale almost white pink color. Her white mane twisted to make a sort of cravat shape. The end of her tail is twisted to make a spade referring back to devil tail imagery and her back paws are replaces with hooves. Her sclera are black with a flame for her pupil and the same flamey colors on her eyelashes. On the corner of her lip is a little heart beauty mark in black. Her lineart has a bright magenta over it giving into the evil feel. End ID)

Also just for Refrence Maple is HUGE especially compared to Moth Flight who is pretty short lol. She’s massive and I love her.

#mapleshade #night knacks #better call mapleshade au #I love how she came out #I messaged bonefall while making her and it was so fun! She looks so cool and is one of my favorite designs I’ve ever made #Night knacks #ruse’s warrior cats #warrior cats au #btw in the au she’s a voice on the starclan council and stops their horrible decisions it’s greta #warrior cats

[strelles-universe]

@nightly-ruse

Lol, glad you like these entries. I'll probably leave the old version of Asisahala up because of this.

And btw for a more basic language, you should take a series of concepts that they would certainly understand and make those set words since many creatures irl have designated alarm calls for different creatures. Certain ground squirrels for example can call out the different between a dog, a human and a coyote - with the human, they'll even specify different colors if they wear certain shirts.

An example would be something like;

Kar = cub, child

Suk = feed, eat

Ga = come, follow

And have the creatures make very simple sentences in this vein. So;

Kar-ga suk -> Cub, follow me to food

#not quite strelles #conlangs #nightly ruse #strelles au #I do read these tags #also just DM me if you want some of the sites I use #I mostly stick to wikipedia but the Language Construction Kit (beginner's version) is free and can be found on the internet #warrior cats #erin hunter #fanfiction #warrior cats fanfic #fanfic #erin hunter warriors #also I think it makes sense for all of them to have a language but for them to simply be developed in different directions #like cats and dogs are more colorblind than humans but I think bears see similarly to us #bears have fewer predators compared to foxes so their words for danger relate to their cubs or more likely other bears #bears would have more words for berries than cats and dogs on the grounds of being omnivores #they would also have a specific word for hibernation themselves and the time it takes for them to prepare

[cat-alyzing]

Whenever I get into RR!Ashface please know I am basing him off this little rat right here

I love the Ashfur mini so much I have to. This is my handsome obsessive little bastard. That’s him police go get his cute face and lock him up on multiple charges

#ashface #ashfur #I don’t know if I want to tag characters as RR! or jsut their names #I think I like just the names #wc minis #warrior cats minis #ruse rambles

[spottyissleepy]

I have only drawn Gray once but here ya go-

It’s super old but I always thought of him with lots of leg fluff, round boi, and sort of stubby yet fluffy tail like a pinecone sorta

B l e s s you 🙏🙏 I love this version of Gray!! Mr Goose man

I keep trying to base my gray off of like,, a red panda. But gray. Because Bear-. But literally I cannot come up with a solid design for the life of meeeee

#ofnd #Graystripe #nightly ruse #other’s art #warrior cats #warriors #spotty speaks #ask

[bi-hans]

au where bi-han's "betrayal" was just a ruse to escape and kuai and tomas never leave the lin kuei. shang tsung loses evrything, his soul stealers, dragon army + allies so he just walks into the lin kuei one day and says he wants to join up. bi-han scoffs, cause the lin kuei "breed the best warriors in earthrealm with absolute loyalty to the clan" basically from infancy, you don't just waltz in and sign up like it's a gym membership! but shang says smth like "you'll find me quite breedable." bi-han goes silent, gives him that little eyebrow raise and just like that shang's in. everyone instantly loathes him esp kuai but ironically, bi-han who is the biggest hater (besides frost) is the only one who can seem to tolerate shang cause they're constantly validating each other's delusions of grandeur. kuai's almost always outraged at everything shang proposes cause his plans sound completely unhinged and lowkey sinister so he immediately denounces it like "father would not approve." and shang smirks and purrs "your father is not here and i do not need his approval nor yours~only that of our grandmaster~" and from then on in clan meetings he's just sitting in bi-han's lap preening while bi-han strokes him like a cat. all the lower lin kuei are confused af at this turn of events and meanwhile kuai, tomas, sektor and cyrax are all plotting several different ways to murder shang and undo whatever brainwashing he did to bi-han without lobotimizing him.

#meg and pouncy the cat dynamic #mk1 #mk #mortal kombat 1 #mortal kombat #bi-han #sub-zero #shang tsung #kuai liang #scorpion #bishang #coldsoul