#frondecho

Aliases / Nicknames: Stumpy, Stumps, Little One, Loudmouth

Gender: tom

Sexuality: asexual

Family: Lilywater (mother), Redears (adopted mother)

Other Relations: Frondecho (mentor)

Clan: Shadowclan

Rank: apprentice

Characteristics: small, autistic, special interest in herbs, frequently gets bullied, very loud when excited

Number of Victims: 4

Number of Murders: 4

Murder Method: poisoning, deathberries

Known Victims: Foxpaw, Elderpaw, Doepaw, Fernpaw

Victim Profile: bullies, apprentices

Cause of Death: neck broken by Frondecho

Cautionary Tale: mentors should check in on the mental health of their apprentices

Story:

Stumppaw was found when his mother, Lilywater the Riverclan warrior, dumped him on Shadowclan territory next to the Carrionplace after he was born a moon too soon.

He wouldn’t have been found at all, but, as the whole Clan was about to find out, Stumppaw was very loud when he wanted something. A patrol found him and took him in, where Redears, his foster mother, took care of him.

When he reached apprentice age, he begged and begged Fennelstar to let him be the medicine cat apprentice, but to his dismay, he was made Frondecho’s apprentice instead.

The other apprentices of the time-- all from one litter-- made fun of him for wanting to be the medicine cat, bullying him every day until he had enough.

Foxpaw always left a nice large meal outside the apprentice den for breakfast-- to share with his littermates-- so Stumppaw filled the rabbit with deathberries and waited.

One after the other, they died painfully, and Stumppaw thought he had created the perfect crime. Until Frondecho grabbed him by the neck and shook him until his vision went black.

Additional Information:

--Submitted by @ambitiousauthor​ 

--Frondecho found out because Stumppaw talks very loudly in his sleep.

--Frondecho was also the dad of Stumppaw’s victims.

cause I think she’d get along with Frondecho, aka the dad who killed a kit because they had killed his kits (only his kits were the bullies and her son was a bully victim)

Frondecho: y’know, every day I pray to Starclan that Aloemist finishes what she started.

Moonshadow: why do I hear boss music?

Mouseshell, who heard him talking shit about one of her babies:

Bristleblaze: named bc of his fluffy fur, and because he gets pretty intense (like a fire)

Cryfeather: cries a lot and is very delicate (by Shoreclan standards)

Stumppaw: has a stumpy lil tail

Hawkwhistle: She’s very regal, but also has a touch of asthma so she ‘whistles’ sometimes

Mousespot: small and has spots of white

Frondecho: when he was born, he was curled up like a fern frond, and when he grew up, he followed his mate around like an echo

Heronclaw: seen as imposing and has anger issues (hence the claw prefix)

Ivyspots: named bc she clings to other cats like ivy, and she also has white spots