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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 9:06:58 GMT -5
By the term "Yellow cats" Technically, they are cream cats, but there are varying shades of cream cats, and some of them do actually look yellow. I think it's cool, that they came up with a way to describe cream cats, who might not be the same shade as another cream cat. It gives each cream cat their own uniqueness, instead of making it seem like Tree and Daisy share the same exact pelt color.
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Post by mizzoctavia on Feb 27, 2020 9:24:11 GMT -5
Whenever I am reading the books and theres a part with Daisy in it I always imagine her as being black and white lol. Mainly because I have a dog irl named Daisy and shes black and white but yeah I never have thought of her as being a cream color.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 9:27:33 GMT -5
Whenever I am reading the books and theres a part with Daisy in it I always imagine her as being black and white lol. Mainly because I have a dog irl named Daisy and shes black and white but yeah I never have thought of her as being a cream color. Aww, that's cute
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Post by Hollyfall on Feb 27, 2020 12:39:00 GMT -5
While you're certainly right, when does this series ever follow proper genetics?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 12:50:39 GMT -5
While you're certainly true, when does this series ever follow proper genetics? True, there are grey cats, who somehow have a red kitten, two ginger tabbies, who somehow had two solid brown kittens. Also, if the series followed proper genetics, either Firestar wouldn't be ginger, or his mother would be a tortoiseshell, also, Leafpool wouldn't be possible. I'm just talking about how some people think it's the most terrible thing ever, that cats are described as yellow.
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Post by Hollyfall on Feb 27, 2020 12:58:07 GMT -5
While you're certainly true, when does this series ever follow proper genetics? True, there are grey cats, who somehow have a red kitten, two ginger tabbies, who somehow had two solid brown kittens. Also, if the series followed proper genetics, either Firestar wouldn't be ginger, or his mother would be a tortoiseshell, also, Leafpool wouldn't be possible. I'm just talking about how some people think it's the most terrible thing ever, that cats are described as yellow. Do people really complain about that? It's never really struck me as terrible; just odd.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 13:04:28 GMT -5
True, there are grey cats, who somehow have a red kitten, two ginger tabbies, who somehow had two solid brown kittens. Also, if the series followed proper genetics, either Firestar wouldn't be ginger, or his mother would be a tortoiseshell, also, Leafpool wouldn't be possible. I'm just talking about how some people think it's the most terrible thing ever, that cats are described as yellow. Do people really complain about that? It's never really struck me as terrible; just odd. Yeah lol, I never really thought much of it, like, I never imagined them looking like neon yellow, or anything, just a different shade of cream
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Post by platinum blond death on Feb 27, 2020 13:57:09 GMT -5
Really don't care if they're called yellow. I don't imagine them as neon yellow, just slightly more yellow than your average cream cat. Or like. Golden. But honestly Warriors does not care about genetics at all.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 14:10:03 GMT -5
Really don't care if they're called yellow. I don't imagine them as neon yellow, just slightly more yellow than your average cream cat. Or like. Golden. But honestly Warriors does not care about genetics at all. Yeah, same Can you imagine how different all the characters would look if they did? lol
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Post by platinum blond death on Feb 27, 2020 14:11:38 GMT -5
Really don't care if they're called yellow. I don't imagine them as neon yellow, just slightly more yellow than your average cream cat. Or like. Golden. But honestly Warriors does not care about genetics at all. Yeah, same Can you imagine how different all the characters would look if they did? lol I saw this one twitter account that drew the cats based on genetics. It was actually pretty cool!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 14:22:57 GMT -5
Yeah, same Can you imagine how different all the characters would look if they did? lol I saw this one twitter account that drew the cats based on genetics. It was actually pretty cool! That does sound really cool It's a bit funny, how there's more genetically incorrect cats, than there are correct ones lol.
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Post by Fireleap on Feb 27, 2020 19:22:10 GMT -5
I don't mind it at all. I don't really mind unrealistic pelt and eye colors.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 19:26:28 GMT -5
I don't mind it at all. I don't really mind unrealistic pelt and eye colors. Me neither Like, in real life, A LOT of these blue eyed cats wouldn't have blue eyes, but I think some combinations are pretty.
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Post by Jaysnow on Feb 27, 2020 19:35:37 GMT -5
While you're certainly right, when does this series ever follow proper genetics?
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Post by halogen on Feb 27, 2020 21:20:16 GMT -5
I don't mind it at all. I don't really mind unrealistic pelt and eye colors. Me neither Like, in real life, A LOT of these blue eyed cats wouldn't have blue eyes, but I think some combinations are pretty. With regard to all of the blue-eyed cat with no white on them running around, I don't think it's all that unrealistic. Yes, it normally can't happen, but it's not horribly uncommon for blue eye mutations to appear in feral cat populations, and since the Clan cats are really all related to each other, once it shows up somewhere it would spread throughout the Clans. (That is, light blue eyes. Dark blue eyes on non-white cats are only on ojos azules cats, and if a kitten is homozygous for that allele they die). See this messybeast.com/blue-eye-breeds.htm, particularly the end of the article where it talks about blue-eyed feral showing up, complete with a Feathertail lookalike former feral on the bottom. This page also has a blue-eyed munchkin Littlecloud lookalike, and "chipmunk pattern topaz cats" which look a lot like Darktail.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 21:28:55 GMT -5
Me neither Like, in real life, A LOT of these blue eyed cats wouldn't have blue eyes, but I think some combinations are pretty. With regard to all of the blue-eyed cat with no white on them running around, I don't think it's all that unrealistic. Yes, it normally can't happen, but it's not horribly uncommon for blue eye mutations to appear in feral cat populations, and since the Clan cats are really all related to each other, once it shows up somewhere it would spread throughout the Clans. (That is, light blue eyes. Dark blue eyes on non-white cats are only on jjos azules cats, and if a kitten is homozygous for that allele they die). That's really sad that they die. It would make sense, since they are a feral population, and a lot of abnormalities have popped up in feral cats, like, I think the curly haired coats started with feral cats, I know Lykoi cats did, and several other things, that you don't see very often.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Feb 28, 2020 1:41:43 GMT -5
I used to work with this woman who when she saw a picture of my orange tabby INSISTED he was yellow. He's the first cat in my siggie for reference.
I also met this woman at a rest area who saw my cat Keiko (third from left in siggie) that insisted she was pink. Realistically, she was a dilute torbie.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 7:30:50 GMT -5
I used to work with this woman who when she saw a picture of my orange tabby INSISTED he was yellow. He's the first cat in my siggie for reference. I also met this woman at a rest area who saw my cat Keiko (third from left in siggie) that insisted she was pink. Realistically, she was a dilute torbie. That's interesting, now I'm wondering if Heatherstar was a dilute torbie or tortie, since she was described as pinkish lol Your cats are adorable btw
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Post by Turin not Torino on Feb 28, 2020 8:03:08 GMT -5
I used to work with this woman who when she saw a picture of my orange tabby INSISTED he was yellow. He's the first cat in my siggie for reference. I also met this woman at a rest area who saw my cat Keiko (third from left in siggie) that insisted she was pink. Realistically, she was a dilute torbie. That's interesting, now I'm wondering if Heatherstar was a dilute torbie or tortie, since she was described as pinkish lol Your cats are adorable btw Thank you! That's what I picture all cats in the books described as pinkish to be, dilute torbies with the peachy color underneath the gray topcoat. The first 3 are gone now, but I just can't bring myself to take their pictures down.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 8:07:18 GMT -5
That's interesting, now I'm wondering if Heatherstar was a dilute torbie or tortie, since she was described as pinkish lol Your cats are adorable btw Thank you! That's what I picture all cats in the books described as pinkish to be, dilute torbies with the peachy color underneath the gray topcoat. The first 3 are gone now, but I just can't bring myself to take their pictures down. You're welcome Aww, I'm sorry Are there other cats in the books you imagine to look like, that aren't described as that? I imagine Thrushpelt looking like a lilac cat, he's described as sandy grey, and they look a bit sandy grey
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Post by Turin not Torino on Feb 28, 2020 8:20:19 GMT -5
I picture Bluestar to be a Russian Blue, I can't picture her with longer fur I picture Dustpelt as more of a solid chocolate brown than a tabby I picture Darkstripe to be an American Shorthair The top picture in the OP is exactly how I picture Tree
I don't put too much thought into it really, just go with what the story says.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 8:36:42 GMT -5
I picture Bluestar to be a Russian Blue, I can't picture her with longer fur I picture Dustpelt as more of a solid chocolate brown than a tabby I picture Darkstripe to be an American Shorthair The top picture in the OP is exactly how I picture Tree I don't put too much thought into it really, just go with what the story says. I always imagined Bluestar with short fur too, because whenever I started reading the books, I imagined her to look like my cat Astrid.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Feb 28, 2020 11:10:51 GMT -5
I picture Bluestar to be a Russian Blue, I can't picture her with longer fur I picture Dustpelt as more of a solid chocolate brown than a tabby I picture Darkstripe to be an American Shorthair The top picture in the OP is exactly how I picture Tree I don't put too much thought into it really, just go with what the story says. I always imagined Bluestar with short fur too, because whenever I started reading the books, I imagined her to look like my cat Astrid. It's easier to imagine the contrast between Bluestar and Yellowfang when one has long and the other short fur
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 11:36:12 GMT -5
I always imagined Bluestar with short fur too, because whenever I started reading the books, I imagined her to look like my cat Astrid. It's easier to imagine the contrast between Bluestar and Yellowfang when one has long and the other short fur That's true, I've also imagined them having different shades of grey fur, like Yellowfang having dark grey, and Bluestar having blue-grey
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Post by Turin not Torino on Feb 29, 2020 0:39:43 GMT -5
It's easier to imagine the contrast between Bluestar and Yellowfang when one has long and the other short fur That's true, I've also imagined them having different shades of grey fur, like Yellowfang having dark grey, and Bluestar having blue-grey Same, with Bluestar having the shade that Russian Blues are, and Yellowfang looking like an unkempt version of my cat Squirrelflight (2nd from right)
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Post by Brindlefern on Feb 29, 2020 1:14:16 GMT -5
That's interesting, now I'm wondering if Heatherstar was a dilute torbie or tortie, since she was described as pinkish lol To be fair, she could be a solid lilac cat too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 8:39:05 GMT -5
Turin not TorinoAww, she's adorable too, how did you decide her name? BrindlefernI was actually thinking the same thing, but then I saw some that looked grey-brown, so I wasn't exactly sure. The cat in the picture does look pinkish though. Maybe she and Thrushpelt are both technically lilac cats, but different shades
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Post by Turin not Torino on Feb 29, 2020 12:02:26 GMT -5
Turin not Torino Aww, she's adorable too, how did you decide her name? Brindlefern I was actually thinking the same thing, but then I saw some that looked grey-brown, so I wasn't exactly sure. The cat in the picture does look pinkish though. Maybe she and Thrushpelt are both technically lilac cats, but different shades She was a stray that showed up at our door when we rented the old farmhouse. I was pretty deep into Warriors by then, so I knew I wanted her to have a Warriors name, but I wanted my husband to be part of it too, so I took him to my bookshelf, told him to pick a book, then pick a cat, and that's what we'd name her. He intentionally chose the "stupidest" name he could find. The book he picked was either Starlight or Twilight.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 12:42:37 GMT -5
Turin not TorinoLol XD so he thought Squirrelflight was the stupidest name?
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Post by Turin not Torino on Mar 1, 2020 1:21:33 GMT -5
In that book, yes. I don't think he saw Ferncloud.
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