#bb!shredtail

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BB!DF Textposts

Because I get pinged in funny meme posts

[ID: BB!Shredtail holding a spear and asking, "legit question for rural Americans: How do I kill the 30 - 50 feral hods that run into my yard within 3 - 5 mins while my small kids play"]

[ID: BB!Fenneldust and BB!Houndleap. Fenneldust says, "I'm not like other girls. I don't die when I'm killed." Houndleap says "How is '''pretty boy''" supposed to be an insult i'm the prettiest goddamn boy in town]

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Better Bones Profile: Shredtail

[ID: A version of Shredtail from Warriors. He is a thick, spiky-furred, solid brown cat with prickly whiskers, a tattered white tail, and red scars. He is holding a spear with white and yellow twine.]

A guy whose mate and kits got eaten by a pig and he was VERY normal about it. He made a very normal weapon for the occasion. He normally hunted down a gigantic white boar for the rest of his life and revolutionized hog hunting in ThunderClan.

Shredtail didn't only target the grand boar Deadfrost; he aimed for any hog with a fleck of white on its body. If he would have no bloodline, then neither would it.

His obsessive quest for vengeance to kill Deadfrost eventually lead to him using a clanmate as bait to slaughter the beast. He died with his spear snapped and jammed in two places within the hog's hide, taking down his old foe with him.

Alignment: Dark Forest, ex-ThunderClan.

Time Period: Code Era

Relations: Unnamed mate, unnamed kits

His addition to the Dark Forest is Deadfrost's Hollow, a mazelike thicket where a giant white boar gives endless chase. With enough taunting, Deadfrost can break out of the hollow and terrorize the cats in the Dark Forest.

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No more evil brown tabbies. Society has progressed passed the need for evil brown tabbies. Solid brown with white highlights.

Dark Forest cats need more types of motivations and new stories! Canon Shredtail has nothing written about him besides being very old, so I've decided to build something very relevant to Better Bones.

Shredtail was a huge innovator in hog hunting, and his techniques are still used to this day. He's only slightly younger than Cloudberry and Ryewhisker.

Traps, baiting, and spear-craft. Shredtail had a paw in creating or perfecting the creation of these things.

After leading his first successful boar hunt after the death of his family, he earned an Honor Title. His name went from Thornwhisker to Shredtail.

He is a highly valued member of Tigerstar's Dark Forest coalition, because of his innovative mind.

Shredtail was behind the technical plotting of Firestar's murder (but not the idea). It's nothing personal, but he wants Godhood just as much as his cohorts.

He's ruthless and dedicated. He believes strongly in the value of patience. His presence can be intense.

This is a warrior who is both huge and intelligent.

When asked about what he wants to do with godhood, his voice grows soft. "...I want to craft kittens."

The cross below the arrowhead is called a "lug." It's there to stop an impaled boar from pushing further down the shaft to get you. This was one of Shredtail's first improvements.

Yellow twine is for ThunderClan, white twine is for his mate.

The spear is something I'm going to refine the design of over time, this is a first draft.

Shredtail is based a little bit on Captain Ahab because I think that is very funny. The white boar, the obsession, the going down with it. Good stuff.

Today, weapons are typically only used for boars! Blades are considered a highly dishonorable battle tactic, and usually their claws are sharp enough to be as lethal as they want them to be. Shredtail tainted the association of spears forever.

He doesn't really do 'politics,' he just wants results and will work with anyone who can provide them.

So he doesn't care what Tigerstar actually wants or believes, if it means entry into StarClan.

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Shredtail in particular makes me soft because it’s like.. his mate and kits have long since faded. His revenge, and everything he did for them, meant everything to him. In the end, he’ll never see them again, unless there’s a nebula beyond StarClan that allows him to see the love in their eyes in bursts of stardust.

I can only imagine Shredtail, who wants to make kittens if he ascends into godhood, who wants to make little tufts of kitten fluff and sweet, bright faces that are a lot like what he lost.

I mean too bad he used that guy as bait and all but still. Shredtail my beloved perhaps not a great guy

I have a fondness for revenge narratives where a man kills in the name of what he lost, posthumously changing someone into a sacrifice, a martyr, and then facing them... and being told he's tainted their name.

Deadfrost needed to die. He was going to keep killing and keep ripping Clans apart until he was put down. Unlike Moby Dick where the whale wasn't hurting anyone, Shredtail was justified and supported in his quest for revenge.

But he wasn't justified in killing every little piglet he could get his claws on, or in the sadistic and malicious traps he came up with. And that Clanmate that he used as bait-- they had family too, people they loved.

When he got to Silverpelt, he saw everyone for a brief moment. He hunted in their name, and murdered too. They never asked for that. At some point it crossed the line and stopped being about his family, or justice, or protecting his Clan, and started being about victory.

Super fond of this guy, and of building out Dark Forest cats. It's a tragedy at its heart, each cat believing Tigerstar when he offers them the reward of godhood.

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cat moby dick is one of the single funniest things you’ve come up with someone the guy a bloodclan cat who can read so he can kin ahab like he was meant to

Better Bones is 25% story and thematic changes, 25% ecological updates and environmental education, 25% anime battles, 25% gay people, and 100% "Wouldn't it be so fucking funny if one of the cats was Captain Ahab"