#possumpuddle

There’s an unspoken pact amonst all residents not to attack Possumpuddle bc she’s super nice, and the kits love her

So you just have this lovely lil lady strutting around the DF, walking like a bad bitch, knowing full well that if anyone attacks her, that cat will have every parent in cat hell on their ass

Aliases / Ncknames: The Nicest Cat Ever, Dark Forest Sympathizer, Aunty Possum, Mama, Darling, Savior, Helper, Guide of The Starless, Granny Anarchy

Gender: female

Sexuality: pansexual

Family: unnamed mother, unnamed father, Fawnbreeze (mate), Coyotecry (son), Mangleface (adopted daughter)

Other Relations: Mintecho (mentor), Badgershine, Jetfoot, Tanagersong (former apprentices)

Clan: Plainclan

Rank: elder

Characteristics: kind, rescued kits from the Dark Forest without permission from Starclan, took prey from Starclan to Dark forest cats, reunited family in Starclan with their Dark Forest kin

Number of Victims: N/A

Number of Murders: N/A

Murder Method: N/A

Method of Harm: acting against the border, allowing Starclan and Dark Forest cats to cross to the wrong sides

Known Victims: N/A

Victim Profile: N/A

Cause of Death: old age

Cautionary Tale: let those who walk without stars find their own path. Don’t try to help them.

Story:

Possumpuddle was-- quite possibly-- the nicest cat ever to draw breath. 

She lived by her own code of kindness, and that didn’t change when she arrived Starclan after an exceptionally long lifetime of almost two-hundred-thirty moons.

However, Starclan was not what she thought it would be. Kits were discouraged from asking questions about what their lives would’ve been like, and-- despite the plentiful prey-- Possumpuddle couldn’t sleep knowing that the cats suffering in the Dark Forest had none.

One day, while hunting near the border, Possumpuddle saw a painfully thin calico she-cat with a mutilated face standing just beyond the border, staring at her meal hungrily.

Possumpuddle had offered the she-cat her meal, and been stunned when the she-cat asked her why she was offering.

“Because you shouldn’t need to go hungry for your sins.” She had said. “Now eat up.”

Over the moons, Possumpuddle became the one to go to for smuggling kits over the Starclan border. Cherrykit, Stagkit, Rainkit, all of them now rested at the bellies of deserving mothers.

Until one day, she was brought to trial.

On the grounds of taking cats from hell, of siding with the Dark forest.

Possumpuddle stood her ground.

“If you’re so terrified of an old she-cat, then send me to the Dark forest.” She had said. “And if you won’t send me there, then I’ll send myself. I’m tired of your better-than-thou attitude towards cats we could help.”

They sent her without another word.

Additional Information

--Submission by @ambitiousauthor​

--Mangleface is the first DF cat she helped

--She has a den near the Starclan border

--She’s just a nice old lady

Possumpuddle: oh no! There’s the monster! Attack it to save the princess!

Bristleblaze: how did I get roped into this?

*Possumpuddle glares at him*

Bristleblaze: I mean, uh, Roar, you shall never defeat me. Muahahahaha

Aliases / Nicknames: Mangoface, Firekit, Hothead, Anger Issues

Gender: queer (she/her pronouns)

Sexuality: queer

Family: Rosedapple (mother) Driftstar (father), Stagbranch (brother) Possumpuddle (adoptive mother)

Other Relations: unnamed mentor

Clan: Shadowclan

Rank: warrior

Characteristics: anger issues, kills in a fit of rage, doesn’t like to be compared to her brother

Number of Victims: 4

Number of Murders: 3

Murder Method: snapping necks, shaking

Known Victims: Tawnynose, Rosedapple, Driftstar, Olivestar

Victim Profile: elders, her brother

Cause of Death: hit by monster (car)

Cautionary Tale: ??

Story:

She wasn’t always called ‘Mangleface’. At one point, she was Firekit.

But that was changed when an her brother, Stagkit, got hungry during Leafbare, and decided that she looked like a nice snack.

She had screamed bloody murder, and Rosedapple had shoved the other kit away, but the damage was done.

The leader--her father--Driftstar took one look at her face and renamed her Manglekit.

What a cruel joke.

When they went to gatherings, rumors spread like wildfire. She was shunned. Pregnant queens avoided her, for fear that her condition was contagious.  

By the time she was a warrior, however, all the focus was on Stagbranch, her older brother. “Oh why can’t you be more like your brother?” Elders would sigh at her. She would bite her tongue, but one day, an elder went too far. “Stagbranch is so pretty!” Tawnynose had chirped. Then she had looked at Mangleface and made a face. “A shame how you turned out.”

That did it. When she came to her senses, Tawnynose was laying at her feet, face torn off. Rosedapple, an elder now, had entered the den and paused, long enough for Mangleface to ambush her mother, snapping Rosedapple’s neck like a dry twig.

Then she moved onto her father.

Then her brother, chasing him down while yelling that he ruined her life. He feigned confusion, and she gestured to her face. So out of control, that she didn’t pay attention to what was around her.

The monster hit her so hard that she was out before her body hit the ground.

Additional Information:

--Submission by @ambitiousauthor​

--She looks worse than her ref photo.

--Possumpuddle calls her Mangoface instead of Mangleface.

--She will fight you.

Possum! Possum!!

- Bella-May (reason: Alder likes her and would be sad if something happened)

- Possumpuddle (reason: probably too short for him to see, let alone fight)