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[ it's all good! i don't mind :>
also is it bad that im kinda wanting to make a kit from one of cotton's litters |D ]

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[ thanks! i guess the only question i have right now is did you have a particular design/pelt color for a potential father to any of her litters? ]

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[ hey guys i'm so terribly sorry to just disappear like that ;~;

frankly, something came up irl that i wasn't expecting and i'm not sure that i'm going to be able to remain active now... obviously y'all can keep rping here as you are! alternatively, i'm happy for someone to use this idea and make a thread of your own so that people will be able to edit the front page. i don't mind if you use the code/formatting i've got there either!

again, i'm really sorry >.< i totally thought i was going to be good being active but sometimes life is unpredictable i guess lol ]

Man that sucks, Aether. I hope everything is okay though! ;v;

Would anybody be interested in still continuing with this? I’m down if anybody else is!
If so I’ll get to my replies soon hopefully. I’m trying to finish these last few assignments for my summer class that ends in like two days oops

( ik i was not originally apart of this but i looked yesterday and i would be interested in joining y’all as well :3)

ofc! i'm almost done with school for the day so i may be back a little later with some characters/drafts

( aww thank you🥹 working on my characters now! i saw y’all were talking about Cotton’s litter, has she only had one? I was thinking of adding a child of my own as well if accepting )

my character(quinn) that I have as one of her children is tabby, she is a housecat, and around 4 years old. she's an outspoken, impulsive, adventurous molly that suffers from intense emotions at times(my take on an oc with depression) maybe this is rooted to her strained relationship with her mother?

(Nice. Looking good.

Ooh, that sounds cool. :3 We can build onto the backstory more in time if we ever feel like it. Feathertalon was thinking of making a child of Cotton as well, so Quinn might have a sibling. ^^ Would Quinn have had an old name before she became a pet? (Cotton is very traditional ;p)

Cotton has lived in an abandoned den on the moor for years. That’s where she would have raised all or most of her children. She defends that place like her life depends on it. She rarely leaves the moor. Mostly only if her prey leads her on other trails.)

i'll make a littermate for Quinn if that's alright!
I'm thinking his name will be Solomon, but was called Thorn when he was younger and living with Cotton. i'm getting the vibe that he's grown bitter toward Cotton, but it's a somewhat newer development - perhaps he got into a group of cats for some time and saw how other mothers treated their kits and how they never once thought of chasing off their offspring and that's made him rethink his kithood and how he grew up with Cotton. o;

Also, i'll for sure be able to start working on a new page for us on Friday! and im down to figure stuff out character/plot wise :>

(Feathertalon - let me know if you ever need any help with the page making.)

(Awesome! Loving the ideas! :3 Look out Cotton. Angsty mother vs angsty children.

As for the father(/s?), maybe none of them stuck around partly because of how difficult it was to deal with Cotton, and partly because Cotton wouldn’t trust any old tom enough to bring him into her home.

Background ideas incase you want to know what dear old mommy was like:
She had one “true” love back when she was a young cat, but he died in an attack. She had the idea that she must raise her kittens to be tough, strong, and able to take on anything that the cruel world throws at them. While they are young and under her protection, she will risk life and limb for them and ensure their survival to the best of her ability. But she will test their limits and give them increasingly tough lessons as they grow. She puts on a tough facade, and can be very cruel and harsh at times~ kind of like a drill seargant. She won’t physically harm her kits, other than a cuff on the ears or perhaps some sore spots from fighting lessons. All to prepare them for what’s ahead. When they are full grown and able to look after themselves, she goes by the only rules she’s ever known. That each cat must go out and test out the world for themselves. To find a good life for themselves. And Cotton refuses to let them believe that life is with her. She will tell them to go and find their place in life. If they refuse to listen, she will drive them out personally. In this case, she may fight them enough to draw blood, but not enough to permanently harm them in any way. It is kind of like a final trial before she sends them off- fighting with claws instead of the clawless training sessions she’d have given them when they were younger.

Maybe the story will go something like that. Still up for any additional ideas. We can fill in the gaps as we go. ;3

In her old age, crusted over by pain, loneliness, and declining health, her facade is crumbling a little. But she is still a stubborn old molly at heart. Will she be better with Creamsicle, or fall into her old habits? Will her kits help or deter this development? Find out next time on... I’m excited to see what happens too. :3)

(She didn’t share much personal information directly with her kits (maybe some indirectly through kit stories). She is gentler when they are young, but her expectations grow as they get older. She doesn’t give her kits more than they can physically handle (though her attitude doesn’t always make it seem that way). With her older children, she would show a sort of rigid kindness sometimes, a sort of respect like a soldier gives to another.)

(Short version- she is a drill sergeant mother who feels she has to be stronger and tougher than anyone else to provide her children with the best lives possible and prepare them for the world. Now she is an echo of what she once was. She’s strong and able for now, but not as strong as she used to be. She will only decline from here (over time). At this point she’s waiting for her time to come, but will fight tooth and nail for the little she has left.)

(What if... Creamsicle happened to be Cotton’s grandkit..? Haha. Or not. There doesn’t have to be a connection. :3)

(Hope this wasn’t too much info.)

This is all so interesting, I love it! I’m always down to hear about characters

I like how Quinn probably left her siblings and mother earlier than usual, whereas with Solomon I think he had to be chased off by Cotton (maybe they even had a physical fight over it as well). Solomon wanted to stay with Cotton and form a little mother-son pair, especially after watching all of his littermates take their own leave. I feel like after he was physically chased off he was pretty upset, but the bitterness didn’t start until he ran into a group of cats where a few queens and their grown kits were still really close and fond of one another. He started comparing his relationship with Cotton to the relationship those families had and began to question if Cotton ever truly loved him. He fell deeper and deeper into the dark thoughts and now resentment toward his mother has grown inside him - this is why he changed his name from Thorn to Solomon, to strip himself away from Cotton.

He’s still friendly toward his siblings, but if he ever runs into Cotton he’ll be cold and distant and even hostile. And I can guarantee that if he finds out about her and Creamsicle he’s going to try and warn Creamsicle about Cotton’s ways and get her to turn away from Cotton, but I think it’ll take a lot for Creamsicle to leave Cotton - and it’s very unlikely that she will.

Also I’d totally be down for it to be revealed that Cotton and Creamsicle are grandma and granddaughter o:

(Ooh. Awesome! That sounds like that’d work. :3 Poor Thorn- I mean- Solomon. ;3

I look forward to seeing how these tensions unfold. Aw. Creamsicle is so precious. <3 <3

Dun dun dunn! That would be cool. ^^)