CW for graphic animal death, blood, minor flash warning, possibly unsetteling themes
It's the biggest project I've ever made, and I'm incredibly happy to finally show it! Thank you so much for watching it ❤
took me five months of everyday work to complete, there's nothing human left in me
It's been really long since I started drawing it, so some shots may vary in render quality; sorry for it!
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Story:
With "Froggyheart's lullaby" showing the reasons and "Bird song" - what follows, "July" is about the results of this part of Birdheart's story.
The opening scene is the death of Froggyheart: Birdheart is determined to move on, as her clan still needs her, and this is what Froggyheart would want her to do. She helps to bury the body. However, after some time, the healer Blacksilk notices that Birdheart started having serious problems with coordination of movement, and finds out that due to the stress caused by the death of her best friend, Birdheart's head trauma made itself known, and Birdheart's eyesight became even worse than before.
Blacksilk asks her to retire, but Birdheart is reluctant to do so. Her whole life has been built on being useful to the clan cats, and Blacksilk's request is perceived by her as an attempt of ShadowClan to get rid of her.
Birdheart becomes increasingly distant from her clanmates and begins to avoid them. One of the apprentices named Padpaw starts mocking her, and seeing this, Birdheart starts to feel like the whole clan is gossiping about her. She compares their voices to the singing of kingfishers.
Birdheart's weird behavior gradually turns her into an outcast. In her dreams, Birdheart is haunted by nightmares of hundreds of kingfishers chasing her away, and when awake, Padpaw taunts her for Froggyheart's death.
Slowly after, Padpaw in Birdheart's eyes begins to acquire bird features; and Birdheart, frightened by her previous nightmare, decides to get rid of her before it's too late. Birdheart stalks and kills the apprentice on the territory border, where Padpaw was waiting for her brother from different clan to arrive.
Padpaw's death only made it worse. Birdheart seemed to get away with murder, but then she notices Blacksilk being suspicious about her. Her mental problems start to develop into physical.
At one moment Birdheart wakes up and sees a kingfisher - not in a dream, but in reality. She flees from ShadowClan territory, where, confronted with her worst nightmares, she dies.
(some events of the video are portrayed via character eyes and might be at odds with what really happened)
More about Birdheart here - toyhou.se/10956795.halcyon
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21 окт 2022
