If It Seems Illogical It's Because It's A Plot Device. It Is Meant To Further The Story.

The second I even so much as glanced at the sonas on WC JPN twitter, I realized I could get as "out there" with my designs as I wanted to and that I wasn't limited to "natural designs".

Don't know why it happened that way, but here's my new sona. I guess. Pyramidhead JK. Sandwind.

So, anyway, lesson learned, your WC sona can be whatever you want it to be design-wise. Go nuts guys.

There's something so special about Mapleshade's Vengeance that I don't see in the other books, namely, the attention to detail in the names of the characters.

Mapleshade's name, of course, is meant to be conceptually similar to Reedshine, and Appledusk. But, the names of Mapleshade's three kits also have similarities to the cats around her.

Petalkit shares a similar name scheme to Mapleshade's mentor, Bloomheart, and more importantly, Flowerpaw.

And ironically, Mapleshade foreshadows her own future here when she and Frecklewish reflect on Birchface, and Flowerpaw's deaths— Symbolizing the cyclical nature of vegeance.

Larchkit, obviously, is named after a tree, as is Birchface and Oakstar. Of note, however, is that a birch tree, and an oak tree are both hardwood trees, while a larch is a softwood tree, bearing needles rather than leaves.

Symbolizing, of course, that he is not a "true" ThunderClan cat.

Patchkit might seem to initially bear similarities to Frecklewish, namely that he has a 'patched' coat, and hers is 'freckled'—

But, you'd be mistaken, because Patchkit is both the last kit Mapleshade rescues, by killing their father, Appledusk.

Is the least resemblant of his father, Appledusk.

—And is the kit that most closely resembles Mapleshade.

Patchkit, unlike the other two kits, symbolizes Mapleshade, herself.

I just learned that Nene's voicebank has no oto and somehow sings just fine. So, I put her raw samples onto a secondary track in audacity with my mic input on the first track and recorded while using her as a guide.

The bank is missing quite a few phonemes and is choppy because I left in all my mistakes and because I only recorded what was listed under the Monographs and Digraphs section of Hiragana for testing purposes.

Here's the finished result (my bank ALSO lacks an oto!)

Will be exciting when I finish the bank (and re-record all the ones I messed up on!) Anyway, just thought this might be a fun experiment.

Maybe it's a carry over from my time on Deviantart, but it stresses me out to not be able to sort my blog. Wdym I have to have my posts and reblogged posts in the same place?! That's absurd.

reblogging my own post to tack on this "additional" commentary.

whenever questions of the worst wc character come up, i can't really understand the fact that darkstripe has genuine vitriolic haters that think he's one of the worst characters in the series. like obviously morality holds some stake in character preference, and i can also understand why people hate on him in a jokey way because canon keeps putting him in a position where he's easy to point and laugh at and he's given very little on-page sympathy or reasoning unlike other antagonists, but, like. darkstripe? he serves his narrative role well, he's got room for intrigue and headcanons, he can be at least funny or endearingly pathetic if you don't want to do that, and he's still not nearly the most morally reprehensible character in the series even though he tries to poison a child/potentially his little sister depending on how much parentage retcons you buy into, so like idk what you people even want from him

What if one of the cats was a magical girl and went through the sparkly transformation and had a cat costume and everything— and that would change nothing about warriors, but it would be so fun.

Anyone can look like Arthur Lester if i look at them for long enough

I still can't believe that Warrior Cats get so old, so fast. You're telling me you're already at retiring age at 8 years old? That's absurd.

Out of everything in Warrior Cats that I suspend my disbelief for, this particular choice always makes me laugh. Like, look guys, it's an old man.

The results are in! Bramble x Squilf sweep!

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