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Howdy-Nyall — A case for shame.

Published: 2017-07-18 02:40:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 373; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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Shoot the breeze.
Shake my hand.
Across the fire,
I caught your stare.

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So yeah, this next canon drawing is of Jayfeather! Not really any particular reason, though I do remember liking him when the third arc was getting it's start. I think I was probably at the right age for this type of character, when I finally started to read the third arc I was already starting to get pretty angsty and disillusioned and I related to Jaypaw a lot in middle school.

Could be remembering wrong tbh! Ut's been....so many years. But I'm not really interested in going back and re-reading any of the books.

I decided to go with an oriental design for him, as he is the one with the most personality similarities as his father and I imagine a lot of the WindClan cats as oriental shorthair/longhairs, so it only seemed fitting he look the most like Crowfeather.

The only change I made from his canon description is his blue eyes. Tossed them out and gave him soft green ones which I feel suit him better?? I wasn't really sure what to do with his eyes because very few of the explanations for why he would have been born blind seemed satisfactory from a realistic sense, so I just left them appearing normal. There's all sorts of reasons he may have ended up the way he did.
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Comments: 9

WolfDarkFlame [2017-07-18 09:56:59 +0000 UTC]

Can u draw a thistle claw?

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ChimericMachinations [2017-07-18 02:59:45 +0000 UTC]

The only design of him I like, honestly.

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Howdy-Nyall In reply to ChimericMachinations [2017-07-18 03:32:20 +0000 UTC]

!!!!! ty

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STAR-I0RD [2017-07-18 02:48:05 +0000 UTC]

this looks amazing, I love the oriental idea as well!
As for the being blind thing, I read somewhere, that Leafpool once explained that it was because of genetics, but I don't know how she would know that, 
and there's also no explanation as to how the genetics affected him, like it was just thrown in to have a very slim explanation. 
But this is gorgeous!

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Howdy-Nyall In reply to STAR-I0RD [2017-07-18 02:51:45 +0000 UTC]

lmaooooo, how WOULD she know that, leafpool you wanna explain how genetics farted out a brown cat from two ginger cats? i'll go ten rounds, fite me....

i guess genetics might be a fitting cause if his blindness was a) congenital (like if he were a breed that can have complications in the eye area.
or
b) a mutation??

it's a piss poor explanation either way.

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STAR-I0RD In reply to Howdy-Nyall [2017-07-18 02:55:28 +0000 UTC]

it really is, like I don't understand how a wild cat would even know what genetics are, even if it is a medicine cat rip

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BreezyWillow [2017-07-18 02:43:06 +0000 UTC]

I love the soft green eyes on him!!

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Howdy-Nyall In reply to BreezyWillow [2017-07-18 02:45:53 +0000 UTC]

thank you!!

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BreezyWillow In reply to Howdy-Nyall [2017-07-18 02:47:05 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome!!

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