#bb!shredtail

Because I get pinged in funny meme posts

[ID: BB!Shredtail holding a spear and asking, "legit question for rural Americans: How do I kill the 30 - 50 feral hods that run into my yard within 3 - 5 mins while my small kids play"]

[ID: A version of Shredtail from Warriors. He is a thick, spiky-furred, solid brown cat with prickly whiskers, a tattered white tail, and red scars. He is holding a spear with white and yellow twine.]

A guy whose mate and kits got eaten by a pig and he was VERY normal about it. He made a very normal weapon for the occasion. He normally hunted down a gigantic white boar for the rest of his life and revolutionized hog hunting in ThunderClan.

Shredtail didn't only target the grand boar Deadfrost; he aimed for any hog with a fleck of white on its body. If he would have no bloodline, then neither would it.

His obsessive quest for vengeance to kill Deadfrost eventually lead to him using a clanmate as bait to slaughter the beast. He died with his spear snapped and jammed in two places within the hog's hide, taking down his old foe with him.

Alignment: Dark Forest, ex-ThunderClan.

Time Period: Code Era

Relations: Unnamed mate, unnamed kits

His addition to the Dark Forest is Deadfrost's Hollow, a mazelike thicket where a giant white boar gives endless chase. With enough taunting, Deadfrost can break out of the hollow and terrorize the cats in the Dark Forest.

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I can only imagine Shredtail, who wants to make kittens if he ascends into godhood, who wants to make little tufts of kitten fluff and sweet, bright faces that are a lot like what he lost.

I mean too bad he used that guy as bait and all but still. Shredtail my beloved perhaps not a great guy

I have a fondness for revenge narratives where a man kills in the name of what he lost, posthumously changing someone into a sacrifice, a martyr, and then facing them... and being told he's tainted their name.

Deadfrost needed to die. He was going to keep killing and keep ripping Clans apart until he was put down. Unlike Moby Dick where the whale wasn't hurting anyone, Shredtail was justified and supported in his quest for revenge.

But he wasn't justified in killing every little piglet he could get his claws on, or in the sadistic and malicious traps he came up with. And that Clanmate that he used as bait-- they had family too, people they loved.

When he got to Silverpelt, he saw everyone for a brief moment. He hunted in their name, and murdered too. They never asked for that. At some point it crossed the line and stopped being about his family, or justice, or protecting his Clan, and started being about victory.