#beetail

Beetail was the deputy before Doestar, and is only seen in goosefeathers curse and mapleshade’s vengeance. He didn’t do much in either. He was awkward around mapleshade when she said she was preggo with no dad around, although he gave her his good wishes, and was dead by the time he interacts with Goosekit. All he did was tell goosey where Swiftbreeze(swiftpaw at the time) was.

Beetail

NGL tho, i think it works perfectly for the story, especially if he's Oakstrike/Oakstar's apprentice

Here's how i see the events playing out....

Oakstrike is a very young deputy to Seedstar, and mentoring Beepaw when a skirmish breaks out at Sunningrocks, costing Seedstar her 9th life

Beepaw is a very agreeable apprentice who listens to everything Oakstrike says, always obeys him, and idolizes him

Oakstrike is promoted to Oakstar, and he immediately does the following:

Makes Beepaw a warrior

Makes Beetail deputy

gives Beetail an apprentice, Fallowpaw (AKA Fallowsong) to so he teeechnically meets the requirement for deputies mentoring an apprentice. (This happens with Raggedpelt in canon! he hasnt mentored an apprentice yet when he replaces Stonetooth, instead Cedarstar promises him an apprentice once Cloudkit is 6 moons. He's deputy for a few moons without having an apprentice!)

also I love love Petalkit's Shadow I read it instead of doing my work

I've considered him being related to Doefeather & Deerpaw since he and Doe have pretty similar builds. However I'm determined to not have Doefeather related to any leaders, deputies, or medicine cats (a tall task considering how small these groups are) since in FwL, Frecklewish looks down on Doepaw for "Only carrying the blood of ordinary warriors".