Post by EthanTheAnnus on Nov 6, 2018 1:16:54 GMT -5
So uh, if anyone here remembers my old, old fic Darkness Shrouds (which I cringed upon skimming over today lol) this is about my character from that fic, X. I'm selling him here and I kinda needed to sum up his story.
I was too young to remember anything about how Mist came to take care of me, and being so young I believed her every word.
Listened intently as she told me she had rescued me from feral scum that wanted me to hunt and patrol and work and terrorise the forest.
Promised to never talk to, never even go near or look at, a Clan cat.
Then, when I reached six moons of age, Mist took me to the rogue group, overruled by the cruel tom Claws.
She warned me not to give them my true name; if things went wrong, it would make me harder to track.
So I chose to be known as X by the rogues, and, despite my age, rose fairly swiftly in the ranks.
By the age of 11 moons, I was one of Claws' inner guard.
That was when Claws and Mist set me on the mission to infiltrate WindClan.
Before I met any Clan cats, however, I drew the strength to leave Mist behind me for good; I'd begun to notice how twisted and dark her ideals and general view of the world were.
Gaining access to WindClan was easy enough; I found a lone tom on patrol, who I'd later learn was named Crowfeather, and I attacked him, then carried him back to camp- it was easy enough to claim to have saved him from another rogue.
What I didn't expect was that while I was gathering information on WindClan, I'd fall for a someone.
A she-cat, in fact, named Fernpaw when I met her, but soon given her warrior name of Fernstalk.
I was offered a place in WindClan, and I very nearly took it, before an opportunity arose to remind me of why I was there in the first place.
I discovered Needletail was my mother, and that I had once bore the name Thunderkit.
For some reason, I hated the thought of having ShadowClan origins.
Claws led an attack on the Clans at the Gathering, and I found a way to regain the rogue leader's favour.
I leapt in, and killed the ShadowClan leader, Rowanstar.
This led to immediate exile from WindClan, and as I returned with the rogues, I realised I'd chosen the wrong side.
I challenged Claws, managing to kill him by luring him up into a dead tree and biting through a thin rotting branch that he was standing on.
I then took his body to the WindClan border, and tried to apologise.
Onestar believed that I was trying to change, but wouldn't allow me to return to WindClan.
I wasn't even allowed to see Fernstalk.
Upset, I stumbled blindly through the forest and ended up in ShadowClan territory.
I was escorted back to the ShadowClan Camp, where Needletail immediately vouched for me.
To my surprise, Tigerstar wanted me to stay, too.
I was offered an apprentice's name, but I requested to keep my name as X.
After a few moons, Tigerstar promoted me to be amongst the other ShadowClan warriors.
It was a moon or so later that the leader began to be around me more and more.
It was shortly later that I realised I'd fallen for him, and it wasn't long before the two of us were mates.
Our first Gathering as mates unearthed something, however.
Fernstalk had given birth to kits.
My kits.
I refused to let this come between me and Tigerstar, however, and trusted him with my real name that night, as well as informing him that I was Needletail's son.
Neither of these seemed to surprise him.
Time continued on with Tigerstar and me as happy mates, much to Fernstalk's obvious dismay, but I did my best to be in the lives of our kits.
To this day, the only cat to know my true name is Tigerstar.
And what is my true name, you may ask?
My name is Tyler.
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I was too young to remember anything about how Mist came to take care of me, and being so young I believed her every word.
Listened intently as she told me she had rescued me from feral scum that wanted me to hunt and patrol and work and terrorise the forest.
Promised to never talk to, never even go near or look at, a Clan cat.
Then, when I reached six moons of age, Mist took me to the rogue group, overruled by the cruel tom Claws.
She warned me not to give them my true name; if things went wrong, it would make me harder to track.
So I chose to be known as X by the rogues, and, despite my age, rose fairly swiftly in the ranks.
By the age of 11 moons, I was one of Claws' inner guard.
That was when Claws and Mist set me on the mission to infiltrate WindClan.
Before I met any Clan cats, however, I drew the strength to leave Mist behind me for good; I'd begun to notice how twisted and dark her ideals and general view of the world were.
Gaining access to WindClan was easy enough; I found a lone tom on patrol, who I'd later learn was named Crowfeather, and I attacked him, then carried him back to camp- it was easy enough to claim to have saved him from another rogue.
What I didn't expect was that while I was gathering information on WindClan, I'd fall for a someone.
A she-cat, in fact, named Fernpaw when I met her, but soon given her warrior name of Fernstalk.
I was offered a place in WindClan, and I very nearly took it, before an opportunity arose to remind me of why I was there in the first place.
I discovered Needletail was my mother, and that I had once bore the name Thunderkit.
For some reason, I hated the thought of having ShadowClan origins.
Claws led an attack on the Clans at the Gathering, and I found a way to regain the rogue leader's favour.
I leapt in, and killed the ShadowClan leader, Rowanstar.
This led to immediate exile from WindClan, and as I returned with the rogues, I realised I'd chosen the wrong side.
I challenged Claws, managing to kill him by luring him up into a dead tree and biting through a thin rotting branch that he was standing on.
I then took his body to the WindClan border, and tried to apologise.
Onestar believed that I was trying to change, but wouldn't allow me to return to WindClan.
I wasn't even allowed to see Fernstalk.
Upset, I stumbled blindly through the forest and ended up in ShadowClan territory.
I was escorted back to the ShadowClan Camp, where Needletail immediately vouched for me.
To my surprise, Tigerstar wanted me to stay, too.
I was offered an apprentice's name, but I requested to keep my name as X.
After a few moons, Tigerstar promoted me to be amongst the other ShadowClan warriors.
It was a moon or so later that the leader began to be around me more and more.
It was shortly later that I realised I'd fallen for him, and it wasn't long before the two of us were mates.
Our first Gathering as mates unearthed something, however.
Fernstalk had given birth to kits.
My kits.
I refused to let this come between me and Tigerstar, however, and trusted him with my real name that night, as well as informing him that I was Needletail's son.
Neither of these seemed to surprise him.
Time continued on with Tigerstar and me as happy mates, much to Fernstalk's obvious dismay, but I did my best to be in the lives of our kits.
To this day, the only cat to know my true name is Tigerstar.
And what is my true name, you may ask?
My name is Tyler.