Title: The Sun Trail

I completely forgot Wind Runner even though WindClan is one of my faves. Regardless here is a quick sketch/WIP for the DOTC series. Hopefully Ill be able to come back to this and flesh it out later.

I feel like all my cats have same face syndrome and I'm not the biggest fan of this Rinver Ripple design but that's what WIP means right? Right guys? :,)

Moon 1

The rest of Moon 1 & Moon 0

And while there may be no justice for these men on land, the sea is unforgiving.

potentially unpopular opinion but it would've been nice to have thunder and star flower actually get together and have a DEVELOPED relationship as opposed to shoving in the weird love triangle with clear sky and giving thunder a LITERAL last minute love interest just because clear sky needed a third and final girlfriend after he indirectly got the last two he knocked up killed and because thunder needed a girlfriend

like we could have had two young characters at odds after star flower's betrayal learning to open up to each other and gain each other's trust once more and bonding over the fact that they both had shitty dads who did shitty things and creating a group for themselves away from clear sky

like i have never felt closer to vomiting than reading through the clear sky/star flower romance chapters it made me so uncomfortable

Some B&W cats!

For how much (rightful) criticism Dawn Of The Clans gets I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention the inaccurate characterizations that happen from The First Battle to The Blazing Star.

The First Battle ends with relegations of how bad Clear Sky is, how mislead he was, how much hes hurt everyone around him and then all the characters become aware of why he was acting the way he was and Thunder opens his heart to Clear Sky. He’s like ‘oh that’s why my dads like that. He’ll have to work hard to right the wrongs he’s done but I believe he can do it. It’ll take me a while to forgive him though’. But then The Blazing Star begins with them forgetting how they all were feeling about Clear Sky and creating conflict because they go back to being unsympathetic and that he’ll never change again.

I read these books back to back so it might be more noticeable just because there wasn’t a year between me reading the two (also I swear you can tell when a new Erin begins writing in the series), but my point still stands.

I think people hate Clear Sky because the books themselves didn’t properly justify his redemption. They needed conflict, they had understanding and acceptance of him too early and then they back tracked to prolong it. It’s like whiplash the way Thunder goes from hating his father to understanding him and having hope for him back to hating if him and then liking him at the end of the series.

That’s one thing that sucks about this Warrior Cat series (and i wouldn’t be surprised about the others once I get to them), the Erins don’t always create coherent stories and characters. And maybe it’s just this book but all the characters are very static as well and when they try to have dynamic characters it just seems forced for plot. Which really sucks because this is a great concept for a series and it wasn’t all terrible.

Dawn of the Clans was such a cool concept for a wc book series! It’s so sad that female characters and certain plot points were just so weak; idk if it’s just that arc but it seems like later arcs just don’t have the best writing :,( like so much could have been done with family dynamics and everything but they were so determined to get from point A (no clans) to point B (the beginning of clans) they forgot characters are more than plot devices. Reading The Prophecies Begin after DOTC causes whiplash LIKEYOURE TRYING TO TELL ME ITS THE SAME SERIES?!!! there is so much fan made content i’ve read and seen that just blow DOTC out of the water with quality. Wish it could have a do over

This is all to say you should read DOTC if you haven’t

Warrior cats born in the first arc:

Hi! Totally didn't forget to post on monday, anyway, here is a submission I made for AbsoluteCreatureVibes's DTIYS