Dark Forest Resident: Owlshine
Aliases / Nicknames: Dark Feeder, Feeder of The Dark, Traitor, Vile She-cat
Gender: she-cat
Sexuality: homosexual
Family: unnamed mother, unnamed father, unnamed sister, unnamed brother
Other Relations: unnamed mentor, unnamed apprentice
Clan: Riverclan, rogue
Rank: rogue
Characteristics: observes others to see their weaknesses and strengths
Number of Victims: 17 (indirectly)
Number of Murders: 12 (indirectly)
Murder Method: giving information about them to Dark Forest cats who then killed them
Known Victims: unnamed Clanmates, unnamed Clan cats
Victim Profile: elderly, sickly, young and healthy cats, the ‘ungrateful’
Cause of Death: drowned
Cautionary Tale: ??
Story:
It was a deal made to keep her alive, promising to those Dark Forest cats that she will bring them food if they spared her, but at the same time she wanted to do it.
Born in the Place of No Stars! Forced to eat other cats just to survive! What kind of reality was that? Such a life when living cats get to go on normally, go to gatherings, learn to hunt, enjoy actual sunlight and warmth.
Why should one get such privilege for no reason other than they were born into it? And then to see them complain about the most mundane things!
She couldn’t exactly bring them to the Dark cats. It wasn’t like she could walk in her Clanmates’ dreams like they could, but she would talk to them whenever they visited her in her sleep, telling them who would be a good target, what their weaknesses and strengths were.
She started with the elderly and sick--those close to the end anyway, but as she grew used to it, she decided younger, healthier meat would be better. Sure, she leaned a little on sending them to all those who never appreciated their life, but that just allowed them to see true desperation when they were feasted on by those poor, Dark Kits.
She herself still couldn’t believe the state of them anytime she saw them.
And it wasn’t like her Clanmates always died. Sometimes they only lost an ear, or tail, or paw, or sometimes small chunks. Well, they were targeted several times in that case and often died after the third or fourth time, but again that allowed them to see true desperation! Surely in the end, they appreciated their life.
Not that that really mattered.
All that mattered was justifying a wrong. If those Dark cats had to exist, no matter the cost of survival, then she would help them.
But of course the Clans were catching on.
That is actually an understatement. They definitely noticed what was happening to their cats. But for a long time, they didn’t know why or how to make it stop.
Not until Shadestream, Riverclan’s medicine cat, was guided by some Starclan cat into the Dark Forest to witness Owlshine giving them information.
Confronted by the Clan, Owlshine confessed everything, and explained why they must die in order for others to survive, explained how unfair it all was. But they didn’t listen, only sent her into exile.
Owlshine stayed close, however, moving along the borders of each Clan, observing, giving what information she could.
Few moons of this life passed before a patrol caught her, and wouldn’t let her leave. They held onto her, saying how they knew what she had done and needed to bring her to their leader.
Clawing and shaking, she at last managed to break free, running straight for the icy lake--the only spot furthest from them.
Skidding far on the ice, she yowled at them that none of them deserve to live, that she will continue to send them to the Dark Forest, no matter what they or Starclan try to do to stop her.
Then the ice broke.
Additional Information:
--Vibe of a series villain! I imagine if this were in the actual series, it would be a whole plot in the newest one, and Owlshine would be the bad guy (though I don’t think the problem would 100% go away when she died).
--None of the designs of the four upcoming characters, none of them fit the energy of the character here.
--Before she became a villain she probably seemed like one of those kind, almost motherly she-cats.
