═════════════════════════════════ ೃ⁀➷⠀Aʀᴛɪsᴛ's Cᴏʀɴᴇʀ ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ [ !! I originally planned to do more for this, but stuff and things happened this month so I ran out of time and energy. Auth’d people on th know lol (maybe). I planned to create more art and create a mini-animatic (it would’ve been like 40 seconds long or something,, I have the storyboard sketched) but. well. that obviously didn’t happen. But this is still 3 pieces of art that took like 3-4 hours combined so I figured I’d post this anyways. Everything written below this point was written three weeks ago. Likewise, the art is also about 2-3 weeks old. !! ] - - - Oh boy. Another one. Congrats on 5+ years btw!! ┈┈➢ Art: ➵ 1. Ref refy ref ref. ➵ 2. Family picture wowww I sure hope three of them don’t die in horrible tragic deaths. :) ⠀↳ From viewer’s left to right: Cougarflare, Wolfpaw, Swallowpaw, Coyotepaw, and Orewhisker. ➵ 3-4. I don’t remember drawing this and I forgot her stripes. ┈┈➢ About: ➵ Name: Swallowpaw > Swallowtail ➵ Gender: Bigenderflux ⠀↳ Meaning that she’s bigender, but it fluctuates in intensity. ➵ Pronouns: She/they/he ➵ Orientation: Panromantic pomosexual ➵ Alignment: Neutral good ⠀↳ My personal definition of neutral good to avoid confusion: May go out of their way to help others, although not always. However, she will absolutely not tolerate injustice and feels very strongly about the rights of others. Will not intentionally harm others unless *absolutely* necessary. ➵ Personality blurb: ⠀↳ Swallowpaw is known for being slightly dramatic and over-the-top. He’s pretty sarcastic and apathetic. However, after the loss of their father and sister, she started opening up more emotionally and became more amiable and protective. ➵ Occupation: Apprentice > warrior (+ gatherer) > SnowClan deputy ➵ Other: ⠀↳ Swallowpaw is named after cave swallows, his father’s favorite animal. ⠀↳ Swallowpaw’s mother, Cougarflare, was close with Whiteheart, so they’d occasionally go to the dump site together. This is how Swallowpaw got their ribbons; her mother found them, cleaned them off, then gifted them to her. She values them dearly, especially after Cougarflare’s death. ⠀↳ They love decorating, planting, and caring for plants. He often brings plants in from outdoors to cultivate them. Thanks to her, CaveClan had many different types of plants scattered around. Later, in SnowClan, Swallowtail was the main cat who made sure all the plants were pruned and taken care of. She also helped Snowshadow grow and collect herbs, especially during the rabies outbreak. ┈┈➢ Continued below. ═════════════════════════════════
═════════════════════════════════ ┈┈➢ Continued from above. ┈┈➢ Summarized backstory: ┈➢ Note: Yes this takes place in Snowpaw/shadow’s story, in case you aren’t sure yet lol. (I won’t be explaining the story here, so for the vast majority of people who aren’t aware, sorry.) ➵ Swallowkit loved her family dearly, and they were all very close. She was always very extroverted, so she interacted with pretty much everyone her age in the Clan… except Snowkit. Weirded out by Snowkit’s unusual behavior and strange pelt, she distanced herself from the quiet kit. However, her brother, Wolfkit, hung out a lot with Snowkit, which Swallowkit didn’t understand. Who’d want to hang out with a near-mute kit who did nothing but sit around and watch people all day? Weirdo… ➵ Swallowkit grew up, soon becoming Swallowpaw. She was apprenticed under the deputy of CaveClan, Swiftletbreeze, which delighted her, as she’d always wanted to be leader eventually, and she firmly believed she was capable of leadership in the future. When she was around 8 moons old, she began questioning her identity, and later figured out he was bigenderflux, panromantic, and pomosexual. ➵ Not much happened during the remainder of their apprenticeship, other than the occasional bout of drama or bad news. However, being one of the closer cats to Voidstar due to being her deputy’s apprentice, Swallowpaw noticed Voidstar’s increasingly odd behavior. He didn’t dwell too much on this, though. ➵ Sometime after her warrior ceremony, becoming Swallowtail, the CaveClan tunnel incident happened. Both their father, Orewhisker, and their sister, Coyotepelt, were apart of the tunneling team, and two of the cats to be crushed in the collapse. Swallowtail was one of the warriors to help dig through the rubble to rescue the trapped cats, so they were one of the first to find their father and sister dead. This devastated Swallowtail and his family, being as tight-knit as they were. At first, Swallowtail didn’t fully blame Voidstar for the incident, unlike the rest of their family. However, the leader’s suspicious silence enraged Swallowtail, and she became firmly anti-Voidstar, turning instead to the now-medicine cat Snowshadow for leadership, who’d forcibly taken charge after Voidstar’s refusal to act. And he was also one of the many cats to be infuriated after Snowshadow gave Voidstar her authority back, although her brother was quick to calm her down. ➵ So, when the time came for CaveClan to split, Swallowtail went with ‘New CaveClan / SnowClan,’ leaving his former home behind. Their remaining family came with them, although her ex-mentor stayed behind, which was a sorrowful goodbye. ┈➢ [Everything after this point is not 100% set in stone, so things may change down the line.] ➵ (Skipping the details of the journey to the Clan’s new home to keep things brief…) Shortly after the Clan settled down and started getting used to their new life, his mother, Cougarflare, got very sick, at first behaving very strangely but soon after regularly vomiting and refusing to drink water. Swallowtail and Wolfclaw (… I couldn’t help myself the opportunity for his name was too good-) were very confused and startled at first, quick to report the situation to Snowstar. The medicine cat/temporary leader immediately isolated Swallowtail’s mother in quarantine, but unfortunately she wasn’t the only cat to be infected. This resulted in the plague where the majority of the Clan passed away over the course of a few months. Snowstar, back to Snowshadow after retiring as leader to return to their full-time medicinal duties, even sacrificed two of their four StarClan-granted lives trying to save everyone, but massively failed due to being totally overworked and underprepared. Cougarflare ended up dying, which really just rubbed salt in the wound after the still-fairly recent deaths of Orewhisker and Coyotepelt. ➵ After every infected cat either died or managed to recover, the Clan was down to dangerously low numbers. A deputy had not been selected during the pandemic, but once the epidemic was over, the leader (Snowstar’s formerly deputy / the currently unnamed dude previously from BrushClan) and Snowshadow chose Swallowtail as deputy. Then, shortly afterwards, it was announced that the leader and Snowshadow were going to travel back to the four wooded Clans for some time to discuss the tragedy and warn them to be prepared, just in case. This left Swallowtail in charge of SnowClan for some time. ┈➢ [Everything after this point is a WIP.] I never thought I’d be one of those people who enters a DTA and puts the character in a warrior cats story… __________________________________________ ೃ⁀➷⠀Cʀᴇᴅɪᴛs ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ ➵ Aʀᴛ: @TheLonelyDorito ➵ Dᴇsɪɢɴ: @Wolf-Drawz ➵ Qᴜᴀʟɪᴛʏ ʀᴜɪɴᴇᴅ ʙʏ: Scratch. :'] ═════════════════════════════════ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀© @TheLonelyDorito 2025 ═════════════════════════════════
