#burrowsand

There is a lot!

If I had to go by recent residences, then definitely Burrowsand. The boy never killed anyone and only inadvertently hurt his Clanmates because he was being manipulated by someone he trusted. Being killed by that same cat should have been punishment enough.

Of all my ocs in total…it’s tough to say. Even tougher when you include other people’s OCs.

Kits and apprentices I think are an obvious one, so if we have to stick with warriors, here are some that could be considered:

—Shadewillow

—Snowfringe

—Stonesun

--Sunchive

Didn’t realize how many of them start with S lol

OOH WHAT IF IDEA:

Burrowsand is delirious because of the illness and thinks that Rose is his dead baby.

Maybe he starts to walk away to get Tooth and he goes

“no…don’t leave…they’ll kill you”

I think even then Burrowsand wouldn’t trust him, so in this case Toothwort would TRY to help, and Burrowsand would lash out and hurt him.

No, absolutely not, he was never going to trust anyone ever again enough to even consider it.

After he poisoned his group (which was probably 4-6 cats tops), he just headed in a straight direction away.

That direction happened to be The Torrid, where he would make his home in the desert mountains similarly to the Gaping Maws Family, only on the complete opposite end of the map.*

He makes his home there for a few reasons:

-It’s secluded

-The caves within the mountains provides shelter from the heat

-It’s a maze that, though was tough for him at first and took a long time to fully remember, would keep him safe from potential intruders (he knows where to go, they don’t)

Some images:

((I tried to find mountains during a storm because in the Dark Forest they wouldn’t look like they do here in the daytime, but the only photos I found were ai so I’m not touching them))

It’s mostly dark but he does get occasional light from mushrooms here and there. Some places, they grow in the water which makes the whole pool/puddle glow, providing more light!

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*In my mind’s eye, the mountains in the Dark Forest stretch endlessly. It feels odd to think that there are “borders” within an afterlife, so in this case once you get to a certain point, you only see the same thing. You keep walking, keep climbing, but over and over you come across the same of the last mountains on repeat, and that’s what the Dark Forest borders are like.

Burrowsand was a sweetheart all his life, but what if, unlike others in the Dark Forest, he gets corrupted?

It’s a situation I want to explore. We’ve had the bad guys who were always bad, the good guys who are still good, the ones who did bad but are now good.

What about the ones who were pushed too far after they became a resident?

What if the dark, kill-or-be-killed life of the Dark Forest broke someone?

Burrowsand doesn’t fully realize until after he’s dead that he has been manipulated by the cat he trusted the most for most of his life (and then killed by him). He feels betrayed—by him and by StarClan for condemning him for something he was tricked into doing.

He’s sad and lost and scared and frustrated, but at this point he’s still Burrowsand.

The Kit

At this point I don’t know how long it takes or what exactly happens to make him change, but I have mentioned before that he adopts a kit. I’m thinking that kit dies somehow (most likely murdered, as that would cause Burrow to be more violent to other cats. He’s already been manipulated, abandoned, and now his child has been killed, at this point he believes no one else can be trusted, no one else matters).

The Group

In addition to that, I have this thought of Burrowsand being part of a small group, one who sticks together for safety but who don’t care for each other.

Burrowsand was allowed to join only because they saw him as a pushover—a lackey to do things for them. But they acted nice for the most part, keeping him on a leash just loose enough for him to believe he was safe with them, that they cared for him.

Then he finds the kit and knows that even with the group it won’t be safe (or maybe they refuse to help it?) and takes it to the Daycare before later adopting it.

He bonds with the kit, it becomes his child. He becomes a father.

Then the kit is killed, and that makes Burrowsand crawl back to his group, which he soon finds out through overhearing two cats talking that it was the plan—THEY had done it.

Burrowsand

completely

breaks

He was bullied by his peers and mentor, manipulated by someone he loved, murdered by someone he loved, damned to suffer in hell for things he was tricked into doing, was manipulated again by different cats pretending to be his friends, and then his baby was murdered by them just so that he could keep being their servant.

What does he do?

He goes and gets minnows, just as he always does for them. He gets lots, plenty for everyone. And he sits from the shadows and watch as they eat.