The FIRST Heterochromia Cat in Warrior Cats

The next Warrior Cats protagonist character Moonpaw has a surprising trait!
WORKS CITED
Changing Skies 1 reveal: warriorcats.co...
Moonpaw details reveal: warriorcats.co...
Virginia Papaioannou interview: newrepublic.co...
Chimera cat diagram: www.geeksforge...
Cat art is by Miss Dako: / miss_dakoart
Intro by Lady Luzifer: / @lady_luzifer

[@Hailpaws]

She hasn’t even had her first line and we already have a MAP of Moonpaw LOL

[@strikermystic]

WAIT REALLY???? Damn people are really excited for Moonpaw huh (I mean I don't blame them Moonpaw seems like an interesting character)

[@Shreck-t3f]

So ture lol

[@axtxmn563]

What’s it called?

[@YuffieChen-q7w]

Link it

[@NYXER.DRAGONS]

LOLL

[@moona_rue]

I hope Moonpaw’s personality is a cocky,charismatic one. Because her face resembles a half moon,she’s hyped up by pretty much everyone in the nursery and her peers. Everyone believes she’s destined to be a medicine cat. And she’s fully on board with that,anything to look awsome! I want to see her end up a medicine cat apprentice and then,as time goes by she starts showing how much she SUCKS at the job.Because of the confidence boost in her youth,she believes she can get anywhere with her « importance » and we see that she’s acctually not putting much effort in training. But everyone’s expectations lay on her mind and because she’s also a tad pretentious,she keep training to be a medicine cat for the sake of status and power that comes with the job. Her arc could focus around her learning that the path you take has to be one you’re PASSIONATE about. Or else,you won’t go far. She can also learn that no matter how special everyone says you are,no matter how much support everyone gives you,you still have to put in work on your own to get where you want to.

[@lj2659]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT. I want her to be self righteous and Prideful and spoiled. But then realizing just because she might be special, doesn't mean she can get away with anything

[@Shiningclaw6161]

YES! This needs to be her arc.

[@toxiccatron867]

Im so tired of main characters with the shy quiet personality bro

[@randompeanut1156]

By the looks of the blurb they released about Moonpaw, I'm sadly thinking she's going to be a "I can't do this!" medicine cat 😔

[@kairhys124]

That would actually make for a really interesting protagonist! Which is exactly why it won't happen lmao. Pretty sure we'll never get a protagonist with any kind of attitude or flaws. Jay truly one of a kind. Can't speak for Night I've only loosely followed this arc at best but he seemed to have gotten over it almost immediately after finding a love interest

[@SavouryGalette]

Moonpaw's design is interesting, but the choice of parents is just... Weird.

[@sweetwolfsteve5583]

Exactly why pick two background characters that no one even remembers i had to look up her parents bc i didnt remember who they were

[@groudonvert7286]

@@sweetwolfsteve5583 Background characters ? Thriftear is Bristlefrost's sister and Bayshine is Nightheart's best friend.

[@randompeanut1156]

​@@groudonvert7286 And Bayshine has been relevant with Nightheart and Sunbeam's stories. He's not a background character by any means.

[@serfuzzypushover1160]

​@@sweetwolfsteve5583 the problem is that they are both grandkids of lionblaze lol

[@goldenretrieversarethebest8119]

should of gone with Sunbeam and Nightheart. Night, sun and moon? I mean come on.

[@breadzlover]

Changing skies seems pretty interesting so far 1. Not a single gray cat POV 2. All female POVs Also I find it funny how the fandom all collectively assumed Moonpaw would be another gray cat(me included)

[@disassemblyfactory]

I was thinking she was either going to be white or cream colored considering the moon from on the ground looks white. It'd be neat if she was also a russet color considering the blood moon.

[@LocalLazyStove]

Same, I was relived when her design was revealed. FINALLY, A NON GRAY CAT. And I think it also might have happen because the other cat who has Moon as their name is Moonflower, a gray tabby She-Cat. Also the fact that when people think of moon they think of a gray sphere or a white glowing sphere.

[@warriorcatkitty]

I actually didn't think she would be grey. but that was based on the assumption she'd be a night x sun kit; I thought she'd be black.

[@confuseddragonedits2294]

"She's the first cat to have heterochromia." Dovewing designers: "That's what you think." Edit: oh what to the heck, this can't be that funny, right?

[@thedubas2677]

Dovewing’s eyes were confirmed as green. Also, remember how heterochromia is two eye colors? Well, they are changing dovewing’s eye colors and there are three eye colors that the Erin’s have mentioned, not two. And only one of the eye colors are blue.

[@PebbleTheSeaWing]

@@thedubas2677 it’s just a joke lol

[@Artz_within_the_mist]

FRRR

[@falcon_arkaig]

​@@thedubas2677Plenty of WC designers (which includes myself) make her have Heterochromia!

[@lj2659]

LMAO

[@fireflystudios123]

I feel like the people complaining about moonpaw’s parents, while they are correct, have completely forgotten about all the other protagonists that have this problem. I know we like Bristlefrost and we like Ivypool and Fernsong but they have the same problem. The warriors writers wrote themselves into a corner by not making an easilly navigated family tree and refusing to use their own wiki

[@snakesareamazing]

Ivypool and Fernsong are related but they aren't first cousins. Incest is pretty much inevitable at this point, but first cousins? Really?

[@catfan7220]

It's pretty clear they just decided her parents by flinging darts on a board

[@captaincanterberrystudios6920]

Ivypool and Fernsong are cousins, sure . . . Third cousins. That's actually really impressive with how many Firestar descendants are running around, and in real life, in some countries, people marry their third cousins without even knowing it. I don't know who my third cousins are.

[@IJustAnimateThatsTheJist]

Yeah Warriors has always had an incest problem, even during the early days. I guess that's what happens when your clans only desire "pure blooded warriors".

[@RAR_RAR_CPR]

She is actually the second warrior cat with Heterochromia! There is a rouge with it on page 43 of “The rise of scourge” Erm, guys how did I get 140 likes from saying there’s a rouge with heterochromia-

[@TheSilliestGoof]

@@Rai-heri RoS got a color reprint

[@Bluestarlover1100]

@@Rai-heri They recently re-released The Rise of Scourge in color.

[@MrScaryPasta]

@@Rai-heri It was recolored a while back. You have to do research bud.

[@RAR_RAR_CPR]

@@Rai-heri dawg yes it does

[@Rai-heri]

⁠@@RAR_RAR_CPR I only have the un colored sorry, I’ll just delete the other comment because I was so damn wrong.

[@Jason_grace_former_praetor]

At least her parents aren’t siblings IM LOOKING AT YOU GRAYSTRIPE

[@Murder_dronesForLife1]

Help at least my oc world has more cats then modern thunderclan and theres 0 incest

[@Nanook32]

How is that even possible 😦​@@Murder_dronesForLife1

[@HeatherThecat123]

Cousins? And also same thing @wavewcue,I have like bajillon cats in four clans and there’s no incest,They even know who’s their cousin and who’s not related

[@Murder_dronesForLife1]

@@HeatherThecat123 yeah erins JUST LET NON INCEST MATES HAVE A NEW CAT THERE U HAVE A NEW CAT

[@ncduskrose]

they really said "Who are the most irrelevant cats we could make her parents" and didn't even think about how related they were Edit: Didn't know Bayshine was relevant, Am not fully caught up at all. Also just remembered that Thriftear's related to a main character, but then again, ThunderClan is a giant circle of a family tree

[@snakesareamazing]

Well Bayshine is somewhat relevant. He actually has a consistent personality and is friends with two main characters

[@catfan7220]

​@@snakesareamazingNot relevant. RELATED Bayshine is a first cousin to Thriftear

[@snakesareamazing]

@catfan7220 I know that. I'm just saying that I wouldn't call Bayshine an irrelevant character

[@catfan7220]

@@snakesareamazing Oh I know. I don’t disagree with you there. It’s nice to see people playing attention to the lesser known characters. I thought you'd misread the top comment. My bad

[@TheRibottoStudios]

Honestly who cares at this point. Every cat in TC is related in some way. The fandom constantly pointing it out isn't going to change that.

[@Third7Plays]

MOONPAW Edit: if Moonpaw is a Chimera, she shouldn’t have any siblings. I don’t WANT her to have siblings

[@Wolfie54545]

That would make her name make much more sense. If she’s the only in her litter and she looked this special, it makes more sense why her parents would name her such a special thing.

[@MadilynMeiFan]

@@Wolfie54545 but they could also do that by having a few older kits (by about a moon) in the nursery at the same time maybe? I’m not sure though- 😭👍

[@fauxclaws]

Not true, she would just have one less sibling. I'm fine with her being an only child though I hope the voice she hears IS the spirit of the sibling she absorbed. that would be awesome

[@Jayfeather123]

@@fauxclaws NO SIBLINGS!!

[@loppie_445]

Cats can have up to 8 kittens per litter, realistically it’s more likely for her to still have at least 1-2 siblings even if they don’t make it

[@CorvidFanatic1]

The main theory of the mysterious voice that I’ve seen is Mapleshade, but I’m hoping it’s Juniperclaw because he has a lot of set up and deserves more screen time

[@RosieLittlekiity]

Hmm, maybe, although wouldn’t Juniperclaw be busy guarding the DF and all that? It would be pretty cool though.

[@goldenretrieversarethebest8119]

its disappointing how horribly Juniperclaw was treated by Starclan

[@RosieLittlekiity]

@@goldenretrieversarethebest8119 yeah, Starclans logic is that if your actions are for the best of your clan, then you join them, but if not then DF. What Juniperclaw did was for his clans best interest, (even though it was a bit dramatic) and even saved Shadowsight, but got thrown in the DF anyways. Starclan confuses me sometimes

[@Kumonekowo]

@@RosieLittlekiityyep, he’s not allowed to leave. and he chose this willingly, so it wouldn’t make sense for him to leave.

[@Ice_cl0ud.]

I hope it’s sleekwhisker somehow! As much as I love Juniperclaw, I think he’s too nice to be a dark spirit talking to Moonpaw. Maybe I just love Sleekwhisker for being so mean and evil

[@FallenRain59]

Idrc if some people hate her design and say that its "too much like an oc. It isn't. And I'm really excited!

[@natureanimallover5983]

Me too!!

[@catpool36]

while it does sound like somebodys oc from 2016, that's not a bad thing, and I'm hyped for what they'll do to her too.

[@gracekim25]

People do realise OC is original character right 😅 it’s not a bad thing

[@silvcyllanjomena2478]

​@@gracekim25it means Own Character

[@iscoolerthenU]

​@@silvcyllanjomena2478 I think it's original character

[@Fluffmellow]

Im just so happy shes not a grey cat but im so gutted about her parents *I MEAN FIRST COUSINS CMON ERINS!?*

[@caracalls]

its happened a lot too 😭😭

[@disassemblyfactory]

I mean, we've seen Dustpelt and Ferncloud. Uncle and niece....

[@caracalls]

@@disassemblyfactoryyeah.. and ivypool and fernsong, cousins, etc...

[@ifixtrees]

graystripes parents: *siblings*

[@LocalLazyStove]

Let’s also not forget that time the Erins somehow made Graystripe’s parents be Patchpelt and Willowpelt, WHO ARE SIBLINGS. But thank god they at least de-canonized that Patchpelt was Graystripe’s dad and Willowpelt’s mate.

[@falcon_arkaig]

Idk if the Erins would actually do this, but i personally think the "voice" in her head is actually just Moonpaw's intrusive thoughts. But since they tell her to do bad things she doesn't want to believe it's actually her thinking those things, which makes her think it's another cat telling her these things.

[@Steamedcatfish]

I actually love that, her navigating her own thoughts and even causing herself issues because she thinks it isn't her.

[@georgerafa5041]

That would be funny and interesting

[@warriorcatkitty]

omg i'd love that a whole lot,

[@finnsnow2495]

Yeah, the warriors team would never write anything that complex. It's a great idea but it's going to be something really simple like evil spirit cat. Unfortunatly....also why is every single cat having voices in their heads recently? Did they forget they wrote entire series with the characters barely interacting with spirits? Like in the first series it wasn't even fully clear Starclan was real until they definitively gave Firestar nine lives. I'm not saying they have to go back to that just that they can do a story without it being revolved around evil spirits. Like Darktail's plot was like that aswell. They gotta choose a new plot device

[@falcon_arkaig]

@@finnsnow2495 Didn't we all think Moonpaw was going to be a gray cat with Blue eyes, yet that didn't happen. We were wrong, so I hope that we're wrong about how the plot is going to be.

[@No0neSpec1al]

All I want is for Moonpaw to not be another anxious medicine cat- And also, though it's a very slim chance, for her parents to be changed 😭

[@goldenretrieversarethebest8119]

keep pressuring them. we'll eventually convince them to make their parents sunbeam and nightheart unless they're deliberately pulling a Squirrelflight and doing the forbidden parents thing, which I don't see why they would.

[@Steamedcatfish]

@@goldenretrieversarethebest8119 The only reason I want them to go that route is so we get it to be their kit. It makes no sense for that route to happen.

[@Loosing-hope-the-series]

Omg I love how dako designed her

[@ZekeTheFur]

I read that as Dawko and i was like “WHAT” 😭💀

[@moonstar_draws6283]

I think she probably would be a chimera because of her unique eyes - like you said, heterochromia is almost always a blue eye and a different color. If it was two sets of genes, the green and yellow eyes make more sense

[@Blossomie4]

Warrior cat fan with Heterochromia here! I have brown and blue eyes, and it’s really awesome to feel represented like this in a book like warrior cats! I’m happy to see that people are responding positively to the design instead of boiling it down to cringe culture, as it used to happen a lot around a decade ago on the internet. Great video!

[@CottonCandy_11]

That’s cool! :)

[@FreyaGrasteit]

It would be SO COOL if Moonpaw ended up being ThunderClan's first mediator! I've been really excited to see if any other Clans take on the 'new' tradition, and making a new character would give them new opportunities! It would be interesting if Moonpaw began training as a warrior apprentice, but then became a medicine cat apprentice due to not 'fitting in'. And then becoming a mediator, being 'long distance' trained by Tree due to being horrible at medicine.

[@dietaryanomoly]

she will be good at medicine

[@ST4RBURZT]

Why can’t moonpaw be the child of nightheart and sunbeam😭😭 SHE EVEN LOOKS LIKE SHE COULD

[@goldenretrieversarethebest8119]

never place your faith in the writing team and their decision making skills

[@CatPandaDragonSisters]

I really want Moonpaw being the new Jayfeather. The article mentioned that she values others opinions, and I might be stretching, but if she was just a bit sassy with everyone and everything(especially the voice in her head) she would easily be the most entertaining character since Jayfeather, at least for me.

[@Fallen_WillowWC]

I love how Dako drew her! I am extremely exited for Changing Skies, even though I am really new to the fandom. (I haven’t even read The Last Hope)

[@Rainsdragons22]

CLICKED FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT! Keep up the good work Akira!

[@bethanythefrenchonelol]

They're not only first cousins. Look at her grandparents: Ivypool x Fernsong and Sorrelstripe x Dewnose. Ivypool is Dewnose's niece as well.

[@betafurret1503]

If I had a nickel for every character in a children’s fantasy novel named moon____ who starts hearing weird voices in their head and having visions, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s wierd that it happened twice.

[@brambleheart]

Sorry to burst bubbles but Moonpaw isn’t the first heterochromia cat. The actual first one was a rogue from the new Rise of Scourge 🤓☝️

[@Jynx_Is_Freaky]

I think Akira meant the first *main* character. I mean, that's what I picked up at least.

[@warriorcatkitty]

LOL

[@dovewingseyesaregreen5664]

Thank you for explaining what a chimera is. I've been struggling with some people I chat with regularly about Warriors trying to explain the split face isn't what makes a cat a chimera nor is it a sign of one. I gave examples and... then one said they made Mapleshade a chimera since she's a black cat on one side and a ginger and white cat on the other... I never wanted to shake someone through my screen so badly. Also, while yes it'd be cool if Nightheart and Sunbeam were the parents, I do like her parents are not previous protags (even if still closely related, being sister to Bristlefrost and stepbrother/BFF to Nightheart). I wish she were the kit of Shellfur and Fernstripe, making her the first "halfclan" kit to be born under the new code allowing for the switching of clans AND has the benefit that ThriftBay has where they're unrelated to previous protags (most I got for them is son of friend(?) of Ivypool/Dark Forest trainee and Crowfeather's apprentice). Plus the benefit of them being completely unrelated and keeping ThriftBay from needing to happen so we can return to shipping PlumThrift and headcanoning Gayshine.

[@cornfederatee]

what the- how did that person think that mapleshade was a chimera?? she was literally just a regular tortie-

[@dovewingseyesaregreen5664]

@@cornfederatee A regular looking tortoiseshell cat can be a chimera. It’s hard to tell if a cat is a chimera just by looking at it sometimes. If both zygotes were going to be short furred black cats, then a normal looking black cat could be a chimera and no one would know. Mapleshade (and any other cat for that matter) could easily be a chimera but the point of the comment was that the people I was explaining it to refused to see the word chimera and not associate it with a fur pattern. I’m mostly confused by you now and your understanding of chimeras if you think it’s impossible for Mapleshade to be one since she’s tortoiseshell. Quick edit to clarify more, there are a lot of headcanons people have and this person, like most artistic warriors fans, has a few designs. I was complaining about them saying “chimera design go brrrr” over them making a cat labeled as chimera be just a cat split down the middle by two different designs, not the fact Mapleshade was made a chimera. Also the fact they said this while I was trying to explain the fact chimeras aren’t a fur pattern (someone said “that’s not what Google Images says” for crying out loud it felt like talking to a wall!)

[@cornfederatee]

@@dovewingseyesaregreen5664 who the heck uses google images as a source + sorry, i'm pretty tired right now and i don't understand genetics well. somehow i forgor how chimera cats 'worked'

[@alexismyers6053]

There are a lot of spiritual things they can do with Moonpaw. But I absolutely ADORE her design! So much so, I made an OC that’s her descendent. A ginger-and-black tom with a half ginger, half black face. His name is Halfwing. He was named for his half-and-half face and his ability to make really big jumps, described “as if he had wings.” He isn’t a POV MC but he is a good friend of the ThunderClan POV MC. He becomes mates with a feisty she-cat named Gooseberry.

[@cornfederatee]

if he's a tortoiseshell/calico that's gotta be one of the rarest cats ever (if he was real)

[@alexismyers6053]

@cornfederatee he isn't tortoiseshell, he's just orange with black patches, more on the side of the black half of his face.

[@Kethrylstar]

I THINK THE VOICE IS BRISTLEFROST TRYING TO BE HEARD BY SOMEONE

[@georgerafa5041]

There is a video about a theory where bristlefrost comes back, this might be how it happens!

[@cornfederatee]

i really want this to happen, but i also want the voice being the other kit she absorbed-

[@Kethrylstar]

Thank you peeps for replying NOW I WONT SEND YOU TO STARCLAN

[@cookie856]

Making her a chimera while keeping her as a calico would have been easy: just make the ginger or the black (not both) dilute!

[@Wolfie54545]

I think she is. The official art of her design has the orange much lighter.

[@R4B13SZDOQQ]

She reminds me just a little bit of Moonwatcher from Wings of Fire. And i know Tui T Sutherland, the author of WoF, also worked on the Warrior Cats books. I'm eyeballing. I am oogling.

[@ZekeTheFur]

Thats what i thought. Maybe shes based off of her, because she seems too much like moonwatcher imo…

[@Wolfie54545]

Who?

[@R4B13SZDOQQ]

@@ZekeTheFur it's weird to the point where it's almost carbon copied. I love the character don't get me wrong but ???? And as I said, I know Tui works/worked on warrior cats before so this might just be an inspiration type scenario but it's too much to the point where it's copied or can be seen as such

[@ZekeTheFur]

@@R4B13SZDOQQ yeah

[@vegafantmaier1792]

I like the concept of Moonpaw but I hope that the writing team does her justice…even though we barley know anything about her

[@pereqryne1]

Moonpaw is a really pretty cat, but it's a shame the erins characterize her being a chimera cat solely for her perfectly split face.

[@Jayfeather123]

When I heard the names moonkit and moonpaw, I immediately thought of moonkitti. Then I found out she was a calico. Couldn’t get lucky enough to have moon in the books. XD

[@fluffernal]

"First cat with heterochromia." Dovewing:

[@Rai-heri]

Dovewing dose not have hetrocromia, her eyes have been confirmed as green

[@benashe4821]

@@Rai-heri Its a joke cause the authors made the mistake of changing her eye colour in multiple books lol

[@warriorcatkitty]

Dovewing's eyes being heterochromia is just a fun headcanon, they are confirmed green in the series (it does retcon most of OOTS tho).

[@clarehidalgo]

@@warriorcatkitty Imagine her with central heterochromia, blue with a green ring around the irises

[@qibli-and-roses]

she is SCRUMPTIOUS i looove her design! also ooh earliness is delicious

[@Antler07]

THEIR SO PRETTY OMG, ONE OF MY FAVORITE DESIGNS!

[@TheRibottoStudios]

I'm just SO glad that we don't have ANOTHER gray protagonist.

[@sweetwolfsteve5583]

I was hoping moonpaw would be sunbeam and nighthearts kit not more background charaters kits i actually had to look up her parents bc i didnt remember who her parents were 😅

[@goldenretrieversarethebest8119]

worst part is they're related. should have just made nightheart and sunbeam her parents. sometimes i don't understand the writing team and their decision making skills.

[@thesaltyeevee1459]

Bayshine is fairly relevant in the most recent arc being a best friend of Nightheart. Sunbeam was a background character prior to this arc… I think it’s good that other families get to be explored. Also Sunbeam literally told Nightheart she didn’t want kits yet, when they spoke about it, so having moonpaw be her kit would require a large time gap to make any sense… and with how much is going on right now, that would gloss over some interesting stuff.

[@faunxwonders]

Moon paws eye combo is real btw! There’s a white cat in a nursing home that has one green and one amber eye, exact same way too

[@Steamedcatfish]

If they screw her up I will throw the book across the room. It's not that hard to make Firestar lined cats and NOT make them related? Right??? Also the naming would have worked so well with Sunbeam and Nightheart, if they do not give me a solid reason for this, like Sunbeam no longer wants kit, I will be screaming internally.

[@goldenretrieversarethebest8119]

same

[@thesaltyeevee1459]

Sunbeam told Nightheart “yes, but not yet” when they asked about future kits in the current series because she wanted to know him better before making that commitment. Sunbeam isn’t ready to have kittens, it wouldn’t have made sense for Moonpaw to be her kit.

[@Steamedcatfish]

@@thesaltyeevee1459 I do clearly remember I thunder Sunbeam wanted kits I do not remember not yet, but even then I feel like it’s really easy to rush that since they rush everything else.

[@itsfishi9229]

Isnt there a random cat in bloodclan that is confirmed to have heterochromia Anyway i love her and have drawn her several times lol

[@Nezukoscat]

Yes and yes

[@dinolil1474]

I am so thankful you explained what a chimera is and that it's nothing to do with a split-face marking - Sincerely, as someone with a hyperfixation on kitty genetics

[@warriorcatkitty]

3:29 yeah, that picture is undoubtedly 100% fake lol the eye colors actually are a very good sign she's a chimera cat! while it does bother me they mistook a common tortoiseshell pattern for chimerism; it's a mistake a LOT of people make. so I can't blame them too much when they never cared about genetics in the first place. and whether they knew it or not, the eye colors they chose is a perfect example of a chimera cat! there are very few other reasons a cat would be born with heterochromia and not have one eye be blue.

[@kickingitwithlondyn9901]

It was all ready a cat with two eye colors in rise of scourge

[@v8nya]

the thumbnail scares me

[@LionessWhite-ig3hk]

I'm exited to see her future fanart, I highly believe she'll get that later in the future

[@Fluffy_Fox_Wearing_Socks]

Ok, I generally do not know if anyone else has said anything about this, but… Moonpaw would not be the very first cats to have heterochromia. Though it’s never mentioned in the books, if you go onto the warriors wiki and search up Reedclaw (she’s a SkyClan warrior) she appears to have one blue and one yellow eye.

[@warriorcatkitty]

If eye color is not specified in the books, then it is up to the designer's interpretation/artistic choice. the wiki is not officially run by the warrior cats writing team or anything like that. so it's just something a fan decided to do since the eye color in the books is never stated.

[@skelly_universe7215]

We will never escape Firestar's kin as protagonists, huh?

[@coyotemoonc3258]

Fire alone will save our clan. ..

[@ZekeTheFur]

Read the rise of scourge colored version, theres a heterochromia cat there

[@Splashthecatbird]

I definitely think Moonpaw is a chimera cat (I head cannon that she is actually a black and white that fused with a ginger and golden torbie), and I think the writing team could actually know what chimera is, but they could have used it because it’s the most common interpretation of the word.

[@lilythearcticfox]

Fun fact: The reason the face is so often half and half, is because of bilateral symmetry, which iirc all mammals have. Btw, that picture of the green and yellow cat is almost definitely photoshopped, just draw over one of the eyes a little with green and boom I was so ready to talk about how I doubt she's a you chimera (cause so just watched a series on this) just for you to do it all for me. I'm surprised it took them 70+ books to make a canon heterochromia cat. Maybe it's because Douwing and Brightheart have been drawn like that for a while.

[@pyritenightmare]

Actually, she could be a chimera, but not for the half and half face. While tortoisehells and calicos are the result of the same genetics, the white that calicos have causes the splotching to merge into larger sections, thus their very different appearances. Moonpaw, however, is shown to have a more tortoiseshell-like pattern, despite her white throat and underbelly. It's possible that she could be a chimera of a tortoiseshell (with no white) and a bicolor/high white cat.

[@DragonArbock]

The thing is, split face can both be a trait of chimerism and not- the authors picked the worst cat to try and convey this idea with, because she's a female tortie. A grey and black patched cat could have been more easily identified as one- or a male tortie. Or she could still be a tortie, but have some solid black, and some brown tabby- which maybe she is but they don't describe that. I think my bigger issue is that the clan cats definitely don't have a concept of what a chimera even is. But yeah regardless, you /can/ have a form of microchimerism, where only a small part of the body has different cells, which would form a single patch of different colors. That can also cause the face thing, but again, you'd not readily be able to tell with a tortie.

[@rookidae]

EXACTLY! this is spreading misinformation on chimera cats and only spreads the idea that all, and only split-faced cats are chimera

[@Wolfy_11]

I love her design. It‘s so unique and pretty. But I hope she does not become a medicine cat..

[@goldenretrieversarethebest8119]

Bayshine and Thriftear are both related. Should have made her Nightheart and Sunbeams daughter. I mean come on, night, sun, moon. Its a little obvious don't you think?

[@Poorly-drawn-Fox]

Yeah and she even looks like their kid

[@thesaltyeevee1459]

Sunbeam did literally tell Nightheart she wasn’t ready for kits… I don’t think the timing makes sense.

[@AazingTheIdiot]

Since no one commented this yet.. A cat with homophobia in her eyes❤ (Btw her design is so cute aa!)

[@Tamarisoysauce]

Ok but like. Plural moonpaw sounds awesome

[@Cosmo_Waltz]

The cat on the news kinda looks like my cousins cat Jasmine lol

[@georgerafa5041]

Ok,what I think will happen: 1:voice is bristlefrost, and bristlefrost comes back to life becuase moonpaw free's her, but other cats who also died in the dark forest came back, then the clans immediately k!ll ashfur and the other bad cats 2.Rootspring changes to thunderclan for Bristlefrost 3.Storyteam relize who moonpaw's parents are and try to change them 4.they go to the new territory and Tawnypelt finds the clans their new home 5. All clans merge together, maybe called Moonclan? (After moonpaw, who might be the 1st lead) 6.Leafstar retires 7.Tawnypelt becomes deputy 8.New rules 9.Oh yeah, moonpaw becomes leader becuase clans are named after the first leader 10.(this might happen after) Bristlefrost becomes leader!(I just like her) 11.NEW SERIES!!!

[@pretzelcat581]

If I had a nickel for every time a children’s book series I like had a protagonist with “moon” in their name who’s struggling to comprehend a mysterious voice in their head I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happens twice.

[@wonderspark.1804]

I have an au for Moonpaw already, but it’s more of what I hope happens (lol).

[@376silly]

That’s what she gets because her parents are related. (everyone in ThunderClan is related to Firestar at this point lol)

[@Poorly-drawn-Fox]

Not just ThunderClan everyone is related to Firestar because Jake is his father and Jake is everybody's father. Jake is your father

[@376silly]

@@Poorly-drawn-Fox 😧😧😧😧

[@Moseka43]

hmmm voice in her head? i know it's SUPER unlikely and probably not gonna happen but imagine if it is bristlefrost

[@icecreamthemaltese2202]

I feel the authors really want to bring Bristlefrost back in some way. It's unlikely, but possible.

[@Dawnpool_TwT]

I'm working on a fanfic and the main character has the exact same eye colors as Moonpaw😭 As soon as I saw the post with some of her character info I almost screamed.

[@CrowInAHoodie]

Dude why not NightHeart and sunbeam SHE ALREADY LOOKS LKKE THEM

[@thesaltyeevee1459]

Sunbeam told Nightheart she wasn’t ready for kits yet and wants to wait, the timing for them to be parents and the plot of the next arc doesn’t line up.

[@CrowInAHoodie]

@@thesaltyeevee1459 I see no problems with a timeskip, unless the ending of a starless clan would make that awkward

[@prcervi]

little hungry warrior has a good video series on cat genetics, but short version of what i learned from that series: moonpaw's pelt doesn't require her to be chimera her eyes don't require her to be chimera but i guess she's a chimera since the writing team said so also if you screw around enough you can have about 5 generations of firestar's family tree look how they've been said to look (unlikely percentage rolls but still 100% viable!)

[@warriorcatkitty]

there are very few other reasons for her to have a green eye and yellow eye. regular heterochromia always has one blue eye. but yeah her coat color is possible on cats without chimerism lol

[@prcervi]

@@warriorcatkitty cat eye colors are a bit confusing but to the best of my understanding green and yellow exist on the same gradient so having both doesn't strictly mean it's a chimera, a spot of random cell mutation but with how inbred thunder clan has gotten that's hardly a surprise

[@Wolfie54545]

Ya know, since chimeras (as stated in the video) can look exactly like normal cats, if the Erins say someone is a chimera, then they are a chimera.

[@Ocean3457]

I would rlly love if somehow, idk how cus I haven’t kept up on warriors besides reading the new books that come out, is if Moonpaw ends up a mediator. I think it would be a good shift from constantly having med apps without being too generic

[@jenniferarel9778]

The drawing of moon paw is so cute and derpy :3

[@paws94]

AWAWAWWAWAWA THATS SO CUTE AND I THINK 3:30 IS FAKE AND EDITED TBH, ITS WAY TOO BRIGHT TO BE NATURAL AND ALSO MOONPAW GIVES ME KINDA MARY SUE OC VIBES XD

[@retnoartanti1976]

I covered this with my perchance buddies probably yesterday.

[@_BubbleCatz525]

i just realized how much moonpaw looks like my wcue sona, named moonspice

[@shadeypipxd6677]

I agree with these points but I don’t see why people care that much about the accuracy of her genetic coloration when warriors has never been accurate about genes anyway. The whole thing with her parents being cousins thing though is very uncomfortable. But hey if there are people out there who don’t really care for this character there’s always dove wing. I mean she basically has heterochromia due to the whole green and blue eyes debate.

[@Starburst_Studio]

Wasp: guess i don’t exist then

[@ottrdash]

Also btw, she's Ivpool's granddaughter, aka another Firestar descendant, specifically his great-great-grat-grand-niece.

[@YourfavBrooklynn-S]

OMG I LOVE YOU AKIRA

[@PersonThePerson-vy5zf]

Imagine if she IS Sunbeam’s and Nightheart’s kit, BUT she was swapped at birth somehow

[@FunDipOneDip]

Aaaaa Im on a vision of shadows and I desperately want to catch up so I can get Moonpaw for myself with NO SPOILERS ON KZbin 😡😡😡

[@fivepebbles876]

chimerism isn't just an animals thing humans can be chimeras too which is why i think they should have done more research on this topic

[@TheCatFamilyIsHere]

humans technically are animals

[@Wolfie54545]

That’s because humans are animals smart guy.

[@fivepebbles876]

@@Wolfie54545 "That’s because humans are animals smart guy" 🤓

[@TheCatFamilyIsHere]

first confirmed chimera in warriors

[@Anonymous-fp3br]

Considering who her great aunt is, I'm not surprised by the eye thing (yes I'm talking about the dovewing eye debate)

[@mooshroom_yt1]

the fact I have an OC who looks the exactly like moon paw, who was inspired by Venus as well, is ALSO fluffy- it's just WOW.

[@RosieLittlekiity]

I mean, really Erin’s, her parents are BAYSHINE AND THRIFTEAR?! She looks so much more like a kit Nightheart and Sunbeam would have, not THEM! They definitely screwed up on the whole first cousin thing too, like, seriously? At least her design is cool, and the eyes thing too.

[@Steamedcatfish]

I'm just gonna pray its secretly their kit. And they for some god knows reason gave the child to Thriftear and Bayshine. It makes no sense but I will headcannon this for as long as I live.

[@RosieLittlekiity]

@@Steamedcatfish oooo, I actually like that idea, hope the Erin’s do that

[@thesaltyeevee1459]

Sunbeam said “I want kits but not yet” when Nightheart discussed it with her not that long ago, I’m sorry but it makes zero sense for Nightheart and Sunbeam to have kittens not long after she told him she wanted to wait.

[@thesaltyeevee1459]

@@SteamedcatfishSunbeam told Nightheart she wasn’t ready for kits when he asked her not that long ago. Moon being their kit is a cute idea on paper but it makes zero sense for her to be pregnant like a moon after telling him she needs to get to know him and his family for longer first before considering kits.

[@Steamedcatfish]

@@thesaltyeevee1459 Word of advice, do not reply to someone with the same thing you already said. I get the notification all the same and it’s a little annoying to read the same thing twice. :)

[@letslovegumi]

YOU MADE ME REALIZE MY OLD CAT IS LITERALLY MOON PAW BC SHE HAD HALF BLACK AMD ORANGE FACE THAT WAS A CALICO

[@rat_in_a_bucket]

She might have been a tortie, not a calico. When a tortie has high white spotting, it results in the brindle-like markings, to turn into patches. torties can still have white on them, though it's typically low white spotting.

[@letslovegumi]

@@rat_in_a_bucket She definitely could’ve been! I just always called her a calico since her fur was darker than most tortoiseshells and she had white fur still.

[@beckykaiser8647]

When you said voice in her head I IMMEDIATELY thought of moon and darkstalker 😅

[@Amethystglare_wc]

My friend has a theory that the voice in Moonpaw's head is Sol

[@eternaldaydreamer7617]

Moonpaw looks really cool despite all the confusion on if she's ACTUALLY a chimera cat or not. also my WC OC technically has Heterochromia, at first her eyes were green and blue like what we usually see, then i decided to change it to a more subtle technically maybe Heterochromia of darkish green and yellow-green, IDK if those similar colors REALLY count as Heterochromia though.

[@Wolfie54545]

The hell is the confusion? They said she is a chimera therefore she is a chimera.

[@pyritenightmare]

I saw the provided silhouette while you were talking and was like "that's just a regular tortie/calico," glad you addressed that. Her eye colors aren't caused by white spotting at least, that only produces blue eyes. I'm a bit disappointed that she isn't more uniquely designed for it, honestly. Reasonably, a cat like Blackstar is more likely to be a chimera than she is. Though if her chimerism is the tortoiseshell and a bicolor or high white cat, that's neat. Especially because her fur pattern is as spread out as a tortoiseshell but she has a white underbelly (the color splotches on torties/calicos merge more the more white they have).

[@Pripachu_Crying]

I'm so happy that you acknowledged Venus! I am also glad you checked genetics. MoonPaw is such a confusing cat genetic wise and like StormCloud would of worked MUCH better as a father because COUSINS 😭, but, since the writing team REALLY wants her to be a calico cat they resorted to cousins (Like the chimera thing would be way more real in my opinion if they made her half grey half black. Then StormCloud could work as well)

[@tiffanysuarez5639]

Just wait her full name will be Moonwatcher ERINS YOU BETTER ANSWER US

[@havefun8607]

I wish that Moon’Paw would not be ANOTHER troubled med but it looks like we might get that. 😢 “yay StarClan manipulation” Why do the cats blindly follow StarClan like if StarClan told u to kill ur mom would u do it?

[@kristinleola5022]

"A speacial name"*me having an OC with the name moon pelt that i made before this*

[@Bellaisch.d]

When I heard about the elder’s quest I was like “I swear if moonpaw is another ThunderClan cat-“ then it turns out that not only is she a TC cat, moonpaw was a last ditch effort for the Erin’s to give background kitties some spotlight ngl. But yeah, it’s the way of warriors; ThunderClan somehow must be involved in everything. So I don’t mind. I just hope it’s not as crappy as OotS was. Sorry if this was harsh… I’ve been holding that thought for 1 whole year lol.

[@gapagapa2362]

Yay! I love moonpaw!

[@mysryuza]

I find it funny how a character that people usually associate with stereotypical OCs is made canon now.

[@SplashWarrior_Edits]

Moonpaw being the kit of sunbeam and nightheart would’ve been cool but there have been many other cases where the protagonist is the child of the previous arc’s protagonist. First arc is firestar second one is his daughters third arc is leafpools kits.

[@thedubas2677]

My friend has made a oc named moon paw before this was created And same with sunbeam

[@jjduo622]

4:04 imPAWsible

[@waveeyes]

Wait, Bayshine and Thriftear? Have Thriftear even said a single word for all of Starless Clan? Let alone had any scene with Bayshine? Not a big fan of that matchup.

[@sweetwolfsteve5583]

I dont think so I think they just picked two random background characters and made them mates

[@rumpeltyltskyn]

If you look at a family tree for Moonpaw, she’s actually the result of *four generations* of inbreeding. Her parents are first cousins, her grandparents are related, their parents are related, etc.

[@Yin_Yang_WCUE]

HOW HAD I NOT THINK OF MAKING MOONPAW IN WCUE YET😭😭 also rlly exicted for moonpaw