Turning dark forest characters into HORRYFYING MONSTERS (Warrior cats speedpaint+commentary)

[@Pigeocore]

Make sure to check out part 2 right here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/i36vpH6vm9B6nq8

[@mewowcue]

How has NO ONE likes this comment? I'm shocked-

[@Completelycrackers-zg5kk]

Already checked it out! Great drawings btw!.

[@Ant0nymphss]

one of my favorite concepts for dark forest mapleshade is that she's forever pregnant, which makes her seem like a simple mother, easy for cats to think less of her and be tricked because how could a pregnant she-cat be THAT bad?

[@Pigeocore]

I've actually seen this idea be used in a different dark forest Mapleshade design before, I wish remembered who the artist behind it was. It has some very horrifying impications

[@Ant0nymphss]

@@Pigeocore I saw it in a Halloween dark forest MAP and was immediately like “that is so creepy and also so cool”

[@KILLV0ID]

@@Ant0nymphss ooh, do you remember the name?

[@Maria_x04]

@@Ant0nymphss oh where can i find that?!!

[@Maria_x04]

@@Ant0nymphss tysm!

[@shelbcake]

Mapleshade's hidden part of her face honestly reminds me a bit of the split-mouthed woman. She was a woman in Japanese mythology who had her mouth split from ear to ear for cheating on her lover. Kind of reminds me of how Appledusk cheated on Mapleshade and, as a result of this, he caused for her to become an evil spirit after she lost her mind. All of these drawing are amazing!

[@jacquelinihehehe5873]

Brokenstar’s final design threw me out the window! His first concept had me thinking; “Ooh, an eerie, unsettling threat. Pretty dang spooky” And that final design made me think: “Holy hell what unimaginable horrors will this monstrous creature unleash upon me and anyone unfortunate enough to encounter it!”

[@Izzie_0]

It’s fine. I didn’t want to go to bed to night :’) she did so great imma have nightmares now

[@a-total-fool-]

ngl, same braincell, brokenstars design was the bees knees.

[@EllabuggyArts]

SAMETHAT WAS FREAKY

[@lycancthrophy2279]

THESE ARE FANTASITC!!! im obsessed with the idea of dark forest cats being a bit monstrous or even cryptid-esque. i esp love brokenstars design- the itty pitty paws pressing on his belly is such a haunting and cool detail

[@Djiceee]

I actually had an idea about hawkfrost thanks to this, his dark forest form has beautiful hawk wings that he’s able to fly with but he’s always attached to a fox trap that is secured to his neck with brambles that rips his throat open every time he tries to fly, his fur is soaked wet due to his dead body being soaked in the river, also due to this his blood is basically water that if touched turns to Frost. ice surrounds his eyes forcing them always open leaving them looking bloodshot but still an ice blue, he has a shorter “teeth crown” in his head (similar to his father) and is always followed by a gold moth as his only companionship. Edit: He also possibility has some leaches hanging on his body (reference to tadpole) but i thought it was a little too much.

[@luxiivy492]

ooooooo Very interesting. Definitely gonna draw this when i get the spare time. Thanks for the idea!

[@floofycreaturesgalore1564]

That sounds absolutely incredible

[@spicy_meatball862]

hi there, do you mind if I draw this and post it on my DeviantArt account? full credits would be given to you and link to your channel here or other social media if desired. 😉 I can also provide my DeviantArt link/name

[@Djiceee]

@@spicy_meatball862 anyone is allowed to use it! It’s just an idea I’m not planning to use it for anything, though thank you for checking in before drawing it.

[@nb_26xd]

I like it, bravo to you. If you ever draw this I will be one of the viewers. I’m probalbly gonna make darkforest cats have the chance to escape but can’t, love the idea!

[@Alex2_113]

You dont even KNOW how much id wanna see the "bad star clan cats" become corrupted! Great art!

[@sp1resong]

the whole 'dark forest cats become more monstrous over time' thing actually kind of reminds me of one of my own hcs/rewrite-lore-bits! basically, fading in dark forest cats tends to make them appear less... cat-like, and often monstrous, as time goes on. in the rewrite, fading is based on how strong a cat's grip on their personhood is, so even cats from the same time period fade to different extents. so like. snowtuft is made of fog bc he's forgotten who he is, he's nothing and no one and so very alone and his foggy-ness reflects that. mapleshade always appears to be soaking wet, as though she just clawed herself out of the river, and has three maple leaves... somewhere on her design, although i haven't actually. designed her yet. ik i'll incorporate them somehow though. maggottail has a colony of worms in him because he's horrible and unpleasant. houndleap appears oddly doglike, etc. fading also appears in cats who have largely held onto themselves; some loss of identity is just going to happen when you've been in hell for decades. they appear less noticeably different, though--willowsong (oc) doesn't need to blink, sparrowfeather doesn't appear to breathe, lynxheart (oc) has unusually sharp teeth, etc. ...sorry for infodumping lmao

[@LittleLion420]

Reminds me of the book series Everlost by Neal Shusterman. The longer someone has passed the more they forget, and start to look less like themselves when they were alive, and more monstrous in appearance

[@catbatrat1760]

@@LittleLion420 Thank you for introducing me to this book! I just looked it up, and the official description, along with the one you just gave, sound very interesting!

[@mossyy1805]

The info dump is really cool actually, I’d love to hear more!

[@Pigeocore]

PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING!!! Yes, I know the quality of the speedpaints is very low. They got messed up during rendering but due to not having much time, I wasn't able to fix it. Same with the saturation. I know Brokenstar especially surffered from it, if you saw my twitter post of all the drawings side by side you can see he looks fine and not too dark

[@ZekeTheFur]

IM SORRY BUT- The**

[@thisisastrobbery363]

Definitely do a part 2 with other Dark Forest cats. If you do Starclan the Founders can be biblically accurate angels as well as Rock and Midnight. Cats like Thistleclaw and Ashfur who left or got chased out of Starclan can be fallen angels.

[@evietron5000]

awe im sorry about that :(

[@thisisastrobbery363]

Listen I just realized this. You can literally make Fluttering Bird and One Eye godlike figures in the clans.

[@Green_Aster]

Mapleshades really went from not rlly tryna be a killing machine to someone who blends kits into potions

[@gab3963]

With Tigerstar it’s mentioned in the first arch that his claws are “unusually long.” I could imagine them curling into his paws and back out, growing longer and more deadly.

[@punkbeluga5091]

*seeing Brokenstar's final form* EEEEW DUDE, oh my 🤮🤮😰😰..... ...I LOVE it, that's so grotesque, well done!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@sunteeththegenderpunk6414]

when you mentioned angler fish in relation to brokenstar and "luring kittens" my brain immediately jumped to the idea of a kitten carcass on the end of a rod on the top of its head which he bounces around to mimic life and get kits to come closer to play before lunging out of the undergrowth to swallow them whole

[@kitzani750]

I really loved the Broken'Star concept. Although I'm a fan of mapleshade, broken star's idea of "eating kits" stood out as the creepiest. Sure having your fur hanging on her back when your just skin and muscles is scary, and putting reeds on your back to remind you of your doom is horrifying, but since I am terrified of anglerfish, Broken Star really captivated me. Also since I am scared of children, imagining them melt in acid is beautiful. Awesome job Pigeocore!

[@kuuttituutti]

Omg I love this!! The designs are very creative, and I would absolutely love to see corrupted angels, or even "biblically accurate" angels. Also I just have to say, your voice is very nice to listen to !! I'd love to see more voiceover videos from you!!

[@phantomcat7990]

Gosh this has given me so many ideas! I adore this concept of dark forest cats turning monstrous to fit the stories being told and the legacies they left behind. I’m not a fan of horror for horror’s sake but this concept has reeled me in like a kit drawn to gleaming red deathberries. And so many people have shared their awesome ideas in the comments, so I thought I might too! Snowtuft could be fading away, parts of his pelt and body becoming translucent, allowing Rootspring to see all sorts of dead and waterlogged orgins sloshing around within his body. Or his iconic scar could have claws growing out of it, or even full flesh like thousands of claws reaching desperately for the surface. Or he could have no face, being unable to remember who he is and begging Shadowsight to tell him what his name is. His brain perhaps spiralling out too, looking for something or someone to connect to. Juniperclaw could be constantly sick and look horribly emaciated, juniper branches growing out of his skin but gleaming red deathberries replacing the harmless berries. Perhaps there are millions of mouths growing all over his skin, so starved they snap up the deathberries without a thought, causing him to violently wretch up bloody bile, nothing sustainable left in his stomach. One-eye could have multiple eye sockets along his pelt, his one eye able to roll around within him and choose a socket to look out from. The veins and organs pooling out of his ripped open throat dangle limply, others dragging behind him. Perhaps they connect to little puppets, the veins acting as their strings where he can put on a show, able to connect new puppets and make them dance to his will. Darkstripe could have layers upon layers of paws covering his mouth, the red juice of deathberries dribbling beyond his lips. Perhaps his eyes are buttons, himself turned into some sort of doll that’s attached to Tigerstar’s ripped pelt. But Darkstripe doesn’t mind one but, eyes gleaming, more than happy to be a subject, used by the king. It would be horrifying if the least monstrous looking cat were Thistleclaw. His seemingly normal look lulling cats into a false sense of security, bringing them closer and closer. But once he would be able to reach out a paw and touch them, the illusion would be shattered. The monster underneath his serene smile making itself known but it’s too late. Tendrils of thistles peeling out from under his pelt have already secured themselves around you, you’re his now Or even the spirits who were trapped in the dark forest. Perhaps they started to shift too, little by little.

[@tigerelly6778]

Poor Beetlewhisker lol

[@eebijeebi6885]

This is so cool! If you plan on doing a part two, could you do FreckleWish? I'd be pretty interesting to see your take on a cat who clearly doesn't deserve the treatment she got.

[@grimm6176]

my favourite headcanons are very similar to other ones spoken about in the comments - with mapleshade being eternally pregnant looking (but in a way that is a combination of all the horrible things that can happen during pregnancy and stuff) and a hole in her throat (death wounds, all dark forest cats have them in my little stories i write with my OCs 😅). my other personal favourite is that hawkfrost has a wooden spike through his throat that makes talking hard and he is eternally sopping wet with blood from the wound and water from the lake; tigerstar being gutted like a fish and walking around eternally struggling to LITERALLY keep himself together is another personal favourite. brokenstar i never really thought of but i'd like to think he is constantly foaming at the mouth and hacking up blood and death berries, that his eyes look mauled but he has eyes growing on the rest of his head instead (OR multiple bulging eyes squished into both sockets) and that his tail is almost grotesque in how bent and broken it is.

[@PixylMawthz]

I AM SCREAMING AND SHAKING THESE ARE SO GOOD!! I love body horror elements and your featherkit concept was actually how I found your art, so this was such a treat. I really love the idea behind all of them, but brokenstar miiight be my fave just because of the little pawprints. I would absolutely love to see corrupted/fallen angels or more dark forest cats from you!!

[@apricxty]

i love the eyes on brokenstar!! it reminds me of when yellowfang was talking abt him and one of the queens said “Dont let brokenstar hear you say that…” like he sees everything in the clan if that makes sense. kinda like darktail!

[@tundrakitty]

I'm in love with Mapleshade's concept honestly. I love the idea of her appearing soft, innocent, and seemingly misunderstood on the outside only to be gruesome, terrifying, and quite literally venomous upon further inspection. It really faithfully reflects how unreliable of a narrator she is in her book. She inadvertently tries to convince the audience that every cat around her is wrong, she is right, and every action that has a negative impact on her is done purely out of spite for her. The cats around her are purposeful and calculating in her eyes. They hurt her on purpose. She only ever wanted to have a family and be the best- not just for herself, but for every cat around her. When she acted in an unfriendly manner, it was because the world forced her claws not because she chose to, and if she did choose to, it was because they deserved it. When she made a mistake it was actually the fault of other cats. They did things that led to her mistake therefore she was cleansed of any fault and they deserved to be punished, not her. The reader ends up caught up in an unreliable telling of the events of her life due to her inability to accept responsibility for her own actions to her own self. The soft sad look of her reed-covered face and hunched position reflects the hurt, beaten cat that she wants to believe she is. The sorrowful cat that the world had taken everything from and had been unfairly forced into committing actions that would lead her to the Dark Forest. When the reeds are lifted, the truth that Mapleshade herself refuses to acknowledge is left visible to all; the evidence of the choices that Mapleshade made of her own accord and the deaths and harm she has and may willingly cause.

[@amber-3111]

OMG you need to turn Ashfur into a corrupted angel because for some reason he went to starclan

[@nb_26xd]

A concept I think would be good for sol is this: To start, his eyes are just black, blank eyes staring into nothing. Since their is no proof of how he died I thought it would fit him to die by being lured into a trap. So I imagine his body controlling itself as he tries to run, but instead he walks into an endless loop of bear traps being guided by an shadow. Of course I had to make a reference to his iconic action, the eclipse. So, he’d be walking into a circle trailing it with oddly colored, reddish-orange blood. (In the middle will be a black void). Just to tease the poor guy I decided that every once a moon he would choose a cat to be distraught by him, but when he sees that cat in dreams his mouth would be forced shut by thorns. (I also thought about half of his body being a lying, guilty shadow. But I thought that just wouldn’t fit him as he was almost never the’shadow of anybody, also, it would just be too far) P.S. the reason I let him go once a moon is because he only deceived everybody. Never physically harming them.

[@nb_26xd]

Just so you know, you can take this idea (just try to give some credit for me) the only reason, I can’t draw. :’)

[@RioBlitzle]

God this is so cool!! I love horror-themed Dark Forest designs and these are so creative and creepy, was fascinating to hear about all the ideas/symbolism going into them!! Anglerfish/gulper eel inspiration with brokenstar stuck out to me because I absolutely remember being freaked out and awed by deep sea fish in animal books as a kid. (Also, I nearly choked on my hot chocolate at the spy kids trailer joke lmao)

[@grimmcorvid5713]

I adore these ideas and the art! I love the idea that kits creating stories that describe dark forest cats as more teeryfying physicly actually makes them a little like that in real life. And oh dear Mapeshade looks fantastic. I interpret it as Ravenwing feeling genuely sorry for what he did and trying to make it up to her not knowing that while she was wronged by many cats shes now too far gone to bring back.

[@Ebie_]

I would LOVE to see Starclan cat be turned into corrupt angels.

[@chaosgremlin5883]

Corrupted angels, Corrupted Angels, CORRUPTED ANGELS! Yes i must have my starclan corrupted angel children!

[@sheepleweeple9822]

I haven’t payed attention to the series in a while, but I love the idea of dark forest cats retaining their wounds from when they died and forever suffering from them.

[@MadameVillinsky]

You're description of them dragging them into a hut and then brewing them in a potion shot me to memories of Hocus Pocus (the 1st) when they lure Emily into their cottage. Also broken star might be my favorite he's really creepy and I love the paws it looks like theirs a kitten trying to paw their way out. (Maple shade is my second fav) And you should definitely do part 2 and I would love the corrupted angels I think crooked star would probably be one of them.

[@venturacogrown6140]

10:02 lol I love the fat cat image that she used to draw a fat cat 🤣

[@stormcrest]

I LOVE long speedpaint videos with voiceovers. Just seeing the test sketches compared to the final product is really satisfying! Also I love horror and these designs are phenomenal:D

[@arachnits]

commenting for engagement this is so stupid cool thank you for including me in the script :,)))

[@catbatrat1760]

7:38 I definitely do remember a mention in the books of mothers telling their kits that Brokenstar would come and get them if they were naughty! Or maybe that was Tigerstar...

[@radiiclaws8068]

One of my headcanons is that the df cats carry the wounds from their death with them permanently. Hawkfrost has the steak in his neck, Brokenstar is foaming at the mouth, Tigerstar’s stomach is OOZING with blood

[@princeramblerose]

these designs are really cool! i love the anglerfish/berry theme with brokenstar and maple being covered in reeds, it almost gives the idea that the dark forest itself is sort of assimilated into them, rooting into their bodies and keeping them trapped there. i would love to see more of this idea!

[@rosepelt_warriors]

They are sooo beautiful 💕 I love the designs! I've always imagined Dark Forest cats with wounds that killed them. Like, Tigerstar haveing his wounds still bleeding. Idk

[@trillberd]

that final brokenstar is so genuinely HAUNTING!! it reminds me of the servant grunts from the horror game amnesia! i love it!!

[@fluffyfloppastudios]

Holy shit, this is definitely very scary!! Good job :) Honestly, I’ve never tried watching this in a dark room, because it’d be much worse😅 I already have to scoot away from the screen while watching it in natural light because it genuinely sends chills down my spine. AMAZING JOB, I was so freaked out

[@patricetierney4909]

I've written an OC based on horror dark forest cats and i love him so much lol. This is amazing!

[@patricetierney4909]

Side note, my favourite was Brokenstar's design because it scares me lol

[@khaotickiri8223]

I absolutely LOVE designing ghost cats! I always make Starclan cats look "holy", like biblically accurate angels, but I always add a little bit of discomfort to them. Not enough to be scary but just enough to.... Not deny their prophecy or "wisdom". I also love designing dark forest cats! My favorite thing to do is to design them like distorted animals, or like "scary" mythological creatures! For example, my oc Maggotmoth has a lot of maggots and moths (duh) crawling and fluttering around his corpse, spooky

[@mooneatsworms]

LITERALLY ARORE THE IDEAS UR THROWING DOWN HERE@@!!!!?!? SO SURPRUSED AT THE FACT THAT ULL LITERALLY SAY SOME INCREDIBLE IDEA OR MAKE A FANTASTIC SKETCH AND GO, "yeah its not the best,, " DUDE YOURE KILLING IT!!!

[@TigerStride_wcue]

I like how broken star had death berries (I think those are death berries) for eyes, and the kits paw prints pushing through his belly just adds so much effect! You are amazing at drawing and these are magnificent!

[@RoxyTBDW]

I really love your art style! It's realistic yet cartoony in just the perfect way. It's calming to watch you draw, especially when you draw the head! I love how much you put into the designs to make them just right. The reasoning behind all your design choices, the unique parts to their body and their appearance telling their story. Brokenstar's design was just wow. The deathberry motif was really really genius, the eyes were terrifying. The first concept was very intimidating, I'm glad you had the confidence to still add it to the video, and the final drawing made me awestruck.

[@allieclarno1081]

I love this idea, ESPECIALLY brokenstar. I absolutely LOVE the idea of a real cat being someone queens told their kits as a horror story. The gaping mouth just DOES IT FOR ME. I also love love love the concept of tiger star. Another idea I would have had for him was to make him frail and skinny, because he was famous for having huge paws and a huge build. So he’s the opposite. Anyways, awesome video. Love brokenstar

[@IncBot]

This is such a fantastic video. Gorgeous art, engaging commentary, delightfully spooky! I would be so glad to see a sequel. Or sequels! The twisted angels idea is so intriguing!!!!!

[@claywingate7010]

This is the only video that made me jump around for 15 minutes thinking about cat with eye wings

[@scaredstiff7176]

Wow. I'm entranced by these designs and the amount of thought you put into them. Especially Brokenstar's, closely followed by Tigerstars (That skin idea was amazing). Mapleshade's design as a swampy river witch that has an appealing side and a disgusting side would fit so well into cannon as to why Crookedstar trusted Mapleshade (also because maybe the cats expect them to be extremely gorey and monstrous). I could imagine these all as cannon (if only the original characters had mentioned how grotesque they looked in the dark forest). I feel like if Mapleshade had a familiar it would be a snake rather than a raven. It's portrayed in a lot of maps that she has a certain level of control over the snakes that killed frecklewish (despite this never appearing in the books). It would also fit her character well (harking back to the fact that snakes are known for being sly and cunning). Snakes go with the river theme too. But I really like the idea of Ravenwing being trapped as her familiar (and it would be so cool if he showed up in the books to do her bidding and potentially warn Crookedstar at the end about trusting her). If it was a snake maybe it would be Frecklewish after she died? Anyways, I hope you do more of these. They are so neat and make the cannon series a lot more interesting to think about. It's always the fans that make the series better.

[@asleepyb0i400]

I love these designs! One thing I would have changed, however, were the clusters of berries on Brokenstar’s face. I think to further bring out the terrifying detail of his mouth, making the berries glow the same way the ones on the end of his tail did would illuminate his gaping maw. Keep pushing forward on your channel! Hopefully, it will become popular with time, and as your concepts reach other channels!

[@mochi_aster]

There's a KZbinr called PetitPoisson who makes absolutely horrifying Warrior Cats lost footage videos and I will be having nightmares for the next 10 years or so 💀

[@octaviasarts1674]

I love maple shade! She reminds me of the witch in the woods with the candy house luring kids in to cook them it's a great design! Sweet an nice till they even realize

[@melodiofvide4463]

Love this so much! The very idea that the dark forest cats are morphed the longer they’re in cat hell is just spooky in itself, and I think you perfectly represented the horrors that each cat here faced!! Just- amazing ✨

[@sillybilly0908]

If you do hawkfrowt you should definitely incorporate him dying by having a metal rod being forced through his neck into his design! Like he could have metal spikes sticking out of his neck and back like a lions mane to symbolise his relation to tigerstar. You could also use how is eyes are described to look like ice in the design!! But these are just thoughts u don't have to use them lol :))

[@GrandmotherToez]

You should do part 2! This time you should do scourge, hawk frost, and ash fur

[@TopsyTriceratops]

I am fascinated by stuff like this. Super creepy, but just that one step out of reality to keep it creative and foreboding. What I can't tolerate funnily enough is realistic depiction of death, like an animal hit by a car. But a creepy zombie cat that wears his decaying skin kind of like a loose coat with stray eyes and teeth on his head, that's my bizarre bullseye!

[@ПолинаРоссоха]

My favorite MAPs are You can't hide and It's me. They show what is really happening in the Dark Forest. I recommend)

[@okamicreates9460]

Prolly won't sleep tonight but thats ok it's worth watching this video. The designs are awesome and very well designed

[@kringlez7340]

Personal idea I've always loved:That when the dark forest cats transform and become more monstrous that its extremely painful almost unbearable and starclan cats that were victims of these evil cats can visit or even see it from above and laugh at there agony as revenge for there deaths or horrible life's caused by this cat. I also like the idea where if the trainees stay in the dark forest for too long they begin to transform too and if they transform completely they won't be able to leave and are stuck in the dark forest forever. I also believe the evil cats mates and family can visit them but if they stay too long they'll be stuck there too. I also believe that walking or moving would be extremely painful for them too making it feel like there walking on knives or needles.

[@Maria_x04]

This was a great video!! I loved the designs and they were genuinely creepy too (brokenstars “eyes” especially gave me the shivers haha)

[@WitchyStitchesStudios]

I absolutely love your art style, you’re a super underrated channel and I’ve been meaning to watch this video for a while now. So glad I finally did!!

[@opal6318]

Omg brokenstars design is both the coolest and scariest thing ever

[@ChoccoGlx]

I’ve always imagined Tigerstar with severe g0r3 around his wound from scourge and Ivypool and some other trainees are just trying not to throw up

[@bellaferraiolo7794]

PLEASE DO MORE OMG YOUR STYLE AND THE WAY YOU DRAW FHEM IS JUST MWAH CHEFS KISS PERFEXT THIS IDEA IS GOATED BRO OMFG

[@MalloryGrizzell]

I love seeing the whole thought process behind your art pieces

[@echoedstars807]

Brokenstar's design is absolutely terrifying, i love it and it's going to haunt my dreams forever

[@UhmAnywayMeBored]

You art has always inspired me I wish you posted more... These sketch's were not shameful, there gold in the eyes of a aspireing wc horror artist, a maze of wonder as being try there hardest to be half as good as you, your amazing.. :c Hope your okay.

[@Robinpoxx]

"Don't look it up if you have trypophobia." *I don't think I'll follow that advice.* EDIT: I SHOULD'VE FOLLOWED THE ADVICE.

[@awkwardtaylor4725]

I appreciate that you put both rough concept sketches that were drawn first and the final art in your video! Really shows how you can’t always have your perfect results at first try and it’s completely fine. Awesome designs❤️ I’m also a huge horror fan, lol

[@GUTZ--666]

I LOVE horror and weirdcore videos like this with warrior cats its so good!

[@avacadotoast5571]

My favorite is definitely Brokenstar! I love the idea of him being a gluttonous predator of sorts.

[@Calypso-da-therian]

the moment i saw your final brokenstar art i went: "thats what i want my art to look like."

[@dragonmoonwave]

Honestly I like how we have collectively agreed that tigerstar has a bone crown.

[@Newtid]

i absolutely adore body horror in art and i've had a headcanon of spooky monstrous versions of dark forest cats for a while, so i absolutely love these designs!

[@alkrinal2440]

Oh my goodness these are just so MKADNIDDN I physically cannot express my adoration for these designs, they’re just so pretty and so horrendously mutilated and they scratch my brain just right 😩 You’re such a talented artist, I’m so stoked I found you and your channel!

[@nyx6360]

I have a little idea for brokenstar! Vines growing out of his fur with the skulls and bones tied to them. I can imagine mothers telling their kits that everytime he kills a kit, he attaches their skull to the vines that grow on him.

[@Fluffythewolf-pe5kc]

I recently drew some of my villain ocs as dark forest monster one named "maggotpelt" was a cream-ish tabby she-cat with blank, glowing white eyes and the back half of her body is like a maggot, centipede thing 💀 I love the characters btw❤

[@mark9960]

Yea these all fit into the dark forest I like the idea of the forest corrupting the cats in it.

[@Newtid]

brokenstar gives me big 'i'm sorry jon' vibes and i think that's perfect

[@edsweet2858]

I know this almost certainly wasn’t intentional but your Brokenstar design keeps reminding me of the character Grizraz Hearteater from Tailchaser’s song (if you recognize the name but can’t place it, it’s the book that some people think at least inspired the names of warriors), probably doesn’t help that my personal interpretation of that character has the same weird mouth but still, I just find it cool

[@foxdogwolfbird]

These are so good omg.. The character designs are just the right amount of terrifying, the character design is BEAUTIFUL, I love your art style, and overall, this was just great. Happy Halloween!

[@NeoMagicStar]

As someone who loves to draw stuff like this but is stopped by either art block or "what if mom sees this", this just gives me so much hope to go draw some creepy stuff when I can. The one that comes close is a personal design for dark forest Freaklewish where she has snakes crawling around her flesh. But then, me being me, all her snakes are her friends and she's loved in the dark forest for being able to care for the others and somehow being able to turn deathberries into a drinkable drink. Man I can't stick with complete creepy

[@styxgxy]

I watch this every time I'm in a halloween mood. thank you for this.

[@MossyGeckoYourLocalWeirdo]

Bro, it’s incredible. I can’t draw a quarter as good.

[@Ghostpawspatrol]

I love the starclan idea…PLEASE YOUR ART IS AMAZING 🙏

[@cascadedeclipse8240]

Those designs are eerily amazing! I love how you incorporated symbolism into each grotesque character design! Especially Mapleshade with the Reeds dangling off of her indicating Reedshine and the vision Ravenwing had. The raven that Ravenwing could have embodied, forced to reluctantly follow Mapleshade around. Love that idea btw. Brokenstars design heavily reminds me of the Garfield creepy pasta. With those uncanny large wide jaws and incredibly large body. The death berries tactic to lure kits from the comfort of their own home only to confront a terrifying creature is honestly genius. The thought and effort you put into these designs is outstanding. I love your drawing style. It’s so realistic and it really fits with the whole creepy concept art! If you decide to do more I will be enthusiastically waiting!

[@Mellaya_Creations]

This video inspired me to draw all of my dark forest cat OCs as monsters and then proceed to just make horror movie scenes for all my Warrior Cat OCs, Poor Darkenedsight.

[@MOUSEBRAINED_MUSHR00M]

We NEED a part 2!!! (And the starclan thing is AWESOME!)

[@CH0C0L4T3._.K1T]

BrokenStar over here preparing to give me nightmares. thanks.

[@demoniccat1609]

the end though im SOBBING that art is absolutely immaculate. it's AMAZING. pls don't live in my walls

[@Tries_To_Draw]

If you make a sequil, there may be a cool idea to come with hawkfrost and the fox trap

[@ForgottenPie]

Now i wonder what some cats who aren't in the dark forest would look like as dark forest monsters...

[@vengeance4927]

* makes grabby hands at the maple design *

[@TherioKatio]

This is so interesting! I like to draw dark forest warriors and even starclan warriors being haunted by their past so no wonder I like this

[@sworishina]

My favorite headcanon for DF cats is that they keep their wounds completely open after death--for Tigerstar, that would of course mean all of his innards dragging on the ground :D

[@a_man540]

I love this video, the creepy aura, the art, the voice over, overall amazing.

[@wrynnryder]

Ah!! These designs were literally so interesting and unique, especially the Mapleshade concept!! I love the idea behind both afterlives within Warriors having designs that make them more cryptic/monstrous and you absolutely pulled it off. The horror aspect with each design is so diverse from a literal two-faced manipulator to a luring baby eater- they all have such awesome details and I loved the process work!!

[@Liadowexists]

I'm so glad I found ur channel again! This headcannon is one of the most interesting ones I've ever came across. Heck I've even taken inspiration to make my own designs for a fan series (Galaxy clan by nyoko arts)I've been watching.

[@lightwisp2135]

You should do the corrupted starclan. Bur also maybe a horror version of the three? That would be very interesting.

[@lubieszafki6313]

These are truly amazing ❤ I really hope that you make more, cause your ideas are awesome (your art skills too of course)

[@LeopardStep_Loves_Bloodface]

My favorite was tiger star amazing chefs 😘 kiss

[@FallenButWontGetUp666]

If brokenstar later appeared like that in yellowfangs dreams, she would be terrified- 😨