Purebreds - Mousefur

Lol now look at that Firestar isn't special anylonger~

... You can't possibly have any idea how badly I wanted to say that. xD

But it's true though - lo and behold, I went and did Mousefur an Abyssinian, juuuust like Firestar. Why? I didn't want mister Rusty to be overly speciuul- no of course not, I just wanted some diversion in designs hehe. Mousefur was solid brown for books on end as far as I was aware, and suddenly she went all tabby; so then I decided to make a little twist of it all. 

Mousefur's genetics are fairly simple. Both her parents are black-based, so she gets a black gene from each, and then the ticking comes from Halftail's side of the family (and as he has no other relations nothing can puncture the idea so far~) - notice however that unlike Firestar, Mousefur is a heterozygous ticked tabby. What the crick's that? Easy - a cat has a set of two alleles per gene, so this means Mousefur only has ticked tabby on one allele, while the other is anything else, most likely mackerel tabby considering her brother Runningwind. This is more likely since One-eye has no immediate ticked tabbies in her family and makes her unlikely to be a carrier of it. :3

The one thing about Mousefur that kinda confused me a lil' was the description of her eyes. "Eyes the colour of sunlit ice" - okaaaay. Well for me that meant pale, sharp yellow, so that's the colour she got eitherhow derp.  

Just a mention of her character itself... well, Mousefur was nice enough. She was good enough as a supporting character, but I didn't care about her overmuch, and her death didn't really rankle me either - she was old besides. There however, I have a slight issue. Mousefur retired already in the second series, complaining about oh-how old she felt and all. And while that might be acceptable, it does make one wonder - Mistystar hasn't yet shown ANY such weakness, and she isn't more than three months younger than Mousefur... -.-'

(c) Dearly disliked Erin Hunter
Art: Me

EDIT: Watermarked because I am goddamn tired of finding these all over the internet without so much as a puny link back to me.