If I Believe You - Mothwing PMV

09/01/20 EDIT: I've decided to set the muted and cover versions of this video to private. Since the original is watchable again, I wanted to ensure it is the only one available on my channel. It dismays me that this version only has 63 thousand views while the cover version I scrapped together in a three-day panic has over 600 thousand views. Hopefully, this version can reach that many views someday, however unlikely that seems now. If you liked the cover version better or had it saved to a playlist, I'm sorry, but please understand I never would have made that video if not for the copyright block. Here, the intro and outro were spared, the lipsync matches the audio, and I'm proud of it. And that matters to me more than views.

*in Mushu’s voice* I LIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!! Am I cool enough to join MAPs yet?

Making this PMV has been a journey. All 18 months of it. That’s right, this took me a year and a half to complete. (Note to self: never do that again.) Just kidding! I’ll definitely have more big projects like this in the future! Just…not for a good long while. I’ve felt pretty terrible about my lack of activity on YouTube, and working on (and off) this video has been a pretty big part of that. Therefore, I plan to work on a lot of smaller projects, which equals more uploads for you guys! (Hopefully. Don’t quote me on that.) In the near future, you can expect to see speedpaints, personal art, smaller animations, storyboards and animatics, edits, and hey(!) maybe even some MAP parts! :) I hope you guys will stick with me until then! And here’s a big shoutout to the 1,521 subscribers who’ve stuck with me this long, lol. You guys are awesome! Until next time!

Programs Used: Photoshop CC with a Wacom tablet and After Effects
Time taken: a year and half with some breaks in-between
Song Used: If I Believe You by The 1975 (great band, look ‘em up!)
Bonus Information of and my thoughts about the video can be found here: https://cranberrythecat.deviantart.com/art/If-I-Believe-You-Mothwing-PMV-725138594
(Be Ye Warned! I have a lot to say!)

If you don’t like reading long posts but still want to know what's going on, here’s the short version of the story, Moonkitti style!

Scenes from the city to the forest represent the rogue Sasha’s journey to the clans, where she dumps her two kits, Mothwing and Hawkfrost, in Riverclan and then takes off.
“What now?” asks Mothwing.
“Blackmail, of course!” answers Hawkfrost.

Hawfrost sneaks out past his bedtime to trick Riverclan’s local old guy into making his sister the medicine cat apprentice, and the old guy buys it.

“You need a teacher. I can show you the ways of the Force,” the old guys says to Mothwing.
“Um…okay,” Mothwing agrees. “As long as you don’t abandon me like my mom did, that sounds fine!”
“All according to plan,” Hawkfrost says, while smiling evilly in public. For some reason, nobody finds this strange.

Literally one second later the old guy ascends to heaven on the fifty yard line, leaving Mothwing all alone.
“What now?” she asks.
“Blackmail, of course!” answers Hawkfrost, emerging dramatically from the fog machines he set up beforehand.

Mothwing becomes an atheist, deciding that if Starclan existed they wouldn’t let her brother pick on her all the time.

In the next scene, Tigestar Clone #2 is now dead, thanks to the efforts of Tigerstar Clone #1. But this is warrior cats, and people die every day, so everyone pretty much goes right back to normal.

With her brother gone, things are going great for Mothwing! She gets to keep her job + a new apprentice! :O Mistyfoot smiles trustingly at her. “Isn’t it so great that we have a God-fearing medicine cat?” :) Mothwing does the anime sweat droop thing before leaving to pretend to speak to dead cats she doesn’t believe exist.

At the Moonpool, Jayfeather calls her bluff using his physic powers, but luckily Leafpool, who’s in on the whole thing, convinces him not to tell anyone.

Later, Mistystar gets her extra lives and discovers that Mothwing does NOT believe in Starclan when she doesn’t show up for her promotion party. She fires Mothwing immediately.

…And then changes her mind a day later after her son accidentally becomes a chew toy for one of the neighborhood dogs. Mistystar realizes that getting rid of their best doctor was a bad idea, and lets Mothwing have her job again.

Mothwing literally watches ghost cats fight each other, but decides to remain an atheist and insists to everyone else that the fourth series was just a mass hallucination.

Her clan still likes her, but she feels out of place among the other medicine cats because she’s an Omen-of-the-Stars denier. She walks off to ask the sky what’s the matter with her, and the sky answers by briefly showing her a constellation of a moth. “This doesn’t help,” says Mothwing.
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