#ferretrunner

Aliases / Nicknames: Asshole, Meanie, Coward

Gender: tom

Sexuality: asexual, heteromantic

Family: unnamed mother, unnamed father, Fadingstar (biological son)

Other Relations: Fadingstar (apprentice), several unnamed apprentices

Clan: Skyclan

Rank: leader

Characteristics: mutilation, abuse of power

Number of Victims: 5+

Number of Murders: 2 (known)

Murder Method: decapitation

Known Victims: Hollyfallow (indirectly), Sweetbreeze, Fadingstar

Victim Profile: those who were in his way or threatened his reputation and position

Cause of Death: internal heart damage, injured neck, accidently killed by Fadingstar

Cautionary Tale: N/A

Story:

Ferretrunner had no tragedy that set him on his path. 

He had a good kithood, and he faced no hardships. Perhaps that is why he was so ruthless. Ferretrunner wanted to be leader. He was, at first, steadily climbing the ranks in his Clan. There was nothing significant about him other than his arrogance and revulsion toward anyone who ‘opposed’ him. 

He was furious when he wasn’t chosen to be deputy, openly chastising the choice in front of his peers. 

His charismatic nature lent itself in helping him convince his Clanmates that the murders were done by some rogue. And it worked. All went well until his two friends approached him to ask him to be a donor for their kits. Of course he agreed. 

It would improve his reputation in the Clan, after all. He acted overjoyed for the two mollies, making sure that the pregnancy went well. And all went well, at first.

 One night, he was visited by a Starclan cat.

"The territory will be bathed in blood when the faded one ascends. Crush the light of the son born with death." He didn't know what that meant until he woke up to a warrior coming to get him. Hollyfallow was kitting! At first, and for the first time in a while, he was genuinely ecstatic. Until he saw the only surviving kit. 

It clicked. This kit would be the undoing of all his hard work. The first thing he did as leader was to make Fadingkit his apprentice. He yelled at and beat the young kit. He would make sure that Fadingpaw would never get the chance to ruin everything he’d worked so hard to achieve. But all that got him was a stabbing pain in his chest and an eternal afterlife of trying to hide from his new ‘Clanmates.’

Additional Information:

--Submission by @liberhoe

--Connected to this previous post

CW: Brief SH, Panic attack

His heart aches. It always does; Fadingstar will forever carry the weight of his past for the rest of his time as a spirit. But this isn’t his usual ache, it’s a stab of jagged claws that twist in his skin and leaves an ugly, open wound.

  He fights the whine that crawls up his throat at the sight of Fleathistle with his new ‘friend’, Isopodbrain. His skin crawls and his lungs constrict. If he didn’t know any better, he’d think that he was fading. The only other time he’d felt this horrid pain was when Starclan had rejected his leadership. This feeling that wracks his body with tremors as he lies in their shared nest, their second litter at his belly, is dread. Dread with a hint of anger. 

  Harlequinkit squeaks, unable to suckle due to his shaking. She baps at his tummy, earning a strained chuckle from the tom above her. He does his best to still himself so that the little ones can eat.

  A laugh sounds from outside the den, making tears cloud his vision. He looks out again to see Isopodbrain joking with Fleathistle in the garden. In their garden. His lip quivers as he fights his emotions. ‘What a stupid crybaby,’ he hears Ferretrunner in his head. He can practically smell his mentor’s rotten breath as his ghost lingers long after he’d been slaughtered by Jackdaw, Alder, and Myrtle. ‘Get it together. You should have known this would happen.’ The voice continues even as Fadingstar tries to tune it out. Just like in life, it doesn’t work. 

  His claws unsheathe and dig into the dusty ground, his brain reeling and shooting into overdrive. Fadingstar isn’t aware of how he grabs at his ears, creating shredded bits in the cartilage. He breathes heavily, trying desperately to regain control. ‘Pathetic. You know you’ll end up all alone’ The words make his claws flex, twisting the fur between his toes and pulling. 

  “Honeybee?” The words snap him out of his crazed state. His eyes shoot open --when had he even closed them?-- and his vision blurs from how tightly they were squeezed shut. He knows that voice. Fleathistle.

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Fadingstar isn’t going to let Ferretrunner even get the chance to hurt their kids

YES

MURDER

Frostswan: Teaches poison and how to lie to authorities

Fadingstar: Does not teach. somehow both protective and terrified. Got beat up by Breezepelt and now has marks across his face. Now he always chickens over Fleathistle when the apprentices come. Tries to find Ferndoe

Ferretrunner: he doesn’t teach he just likes to beat the shit out of the small ones

Copperpurr: Where arteries are

Foxflake is all of us

Brokenkit has nightmares about Gorseheart and Emberdawn leaving her. It always ends with her hiding from them somewhere in the den*.

Fadingstar worries about Fleathistle’s exes so much because he ‘knows he can do so much better than him’.

Foxflake used to get made fun of for being lanky. Because of this she tried several things* to shorten her legs.

Ferretrunner: lol none this guy is just an asshole

Frostswan: They sometimes thing that they’re still in starclan due to being yanked out of the moonpool mid-ceremony.

B-nut: He’s seeks warmth when he’s sleeping. But he only wants him mom’s warmth. Shame he’ll never get that again :)

* = I can elaborate if prompted

THESE ARE ALL SO SAD AND GOOD

Shiverrose loves her lanky girlfriend

Ferretrunner - Jason

Songseeker - Melody

I’m sorry I can’t seem to find an emoji for HEARTBREAK