Dark Forest Resident: Laughingmoss
Aliases / Nicknames: Fae Cat
Gender: tom
Sexuality: pansexual
Family: Buzzardsnap (mother), unnamed father, Mallardkit, Wheatkit, FidgetGuts (brothers), Bearkit (younger sister), Shrewfur (adoptive father)
Other Relations: Shrewfur (mentor)
Clan: Briarclan
Rank: apprentice
Characteristics: snarky, kills to prove a point, crazy stealthy, very soft and soothing voice
Number of Victims: 4+ (2 deliberately)
Number of Murders: 4+ (2 deliberately)
Murder Method: blunt force, tricking into fox dens, sending into cardiac arrest, accidentally pushing into ravine
Known Victims: Wolfsmane, Sara, unnamed medicine cat, Mudpaw, unborn kits
Victim Profile: those he accidently startles, those he is jealous of
Cause of Death: strangulation, killed by Wolfsmane
Cautionary Tale: N/A
Story:
Laughingkit was left by the ravine by his mother when he was under a day old.
A duo of hungry rogues were circling him, tossing the kit back and forth to see who would drop it first, or really, who would get to eat it first.
The laughter was what drew the Briarclan patrol in, and after the rogues were killed, they took in the kit.
He learned moons later that his mother was actually Buzzardsnap, who abandoned him in the forest because his black pelt would mean they didn’t have a reason for the Clan to thikg her son was a freak.
Laughingpaw was a good apprentice, if a bit unsettling. He had a tendency to appear randomly, and he always spoke of hearing whispers. Some of it was true, and some of it wasn’t.
The Clan called him a changeling, the kittypets called him a fae. He didn’t think he was either of those, he was just stealthy!
He never meant to startle his kittypet friend, Sara, into a heart attack.
It devastated him to know that she had been pregnant, but there was nothing he could do now.
He sobbed and sobbed, and eventually he passed out.
Found by her Twolegs, they took him in for a week or so and put a small bell on his new collar. He liked the sound, so he didn’t chew it off when he escaped from the den.
Laughingpaw decided he deserved to be a warrior after his grand escape through a window, and he asked the medicine cat if she could persuade the leader when he returned home.
It wasn’t his fault that she didn’t notice him creeping up behind her, and that she fell into the ravine while gathering moss.
Seeing her limp body impaled in the stones, he rushed back to camp begging someone to help.
With no medicine cat, his mentor lured him into the forest and told him it would be best if he left the Clan. His mentor, the deputy, was exiling him!
He begged to stay, but Shrewfur wasn’t swayed, and he lashed out at Laughingpaw, scratching across his eye and leaving him with blood pouring down his face, blinking desperately to see.
He felt betrayed that the cat who had been his adoptive father would do this to him.
So, he left. But even in exile he cared for his Clan, and he would send whispers to patrols on where to find the best prey.
He named himself Laughingmoss, and he became a bit of a legend in the short moon he was in exile.
Eventually, Pineclan even contributed the story of Fidgetfreak, who was apparently a ‘zombie’.. and Laughingmoss’s brother.
Even if his Clan didn’t deserve it, he grew bitter when Shrewfur was given another apprentice. Stupid Mudpaw was clumsy, and was easy to trick into entering a fox den.
He had always been good at manipulation, and he kind of hoped Mudpaw wouldn’t be too upset with him when they got to Starclan.
On a rainy night, he was patrolling the edges of Briarclan territory, staying out of sight from any passing patrols. He spotted a cat that looked like its patchy grey fur was falling off, and its fangs were far too long.
It was stalking a small Kittypet.
Laughingmoss threw himself at the cat, after all a warrior should be able to take down one mangy rogue!
But the cat, Wolfsmane, was stronger than he thought, and they fought for what felt like forever before the collar tightened around Laughingmoss’ throat.
Additional information:
--Submission by @wills-woodland-warriors
--Wolfsmane was a lykoi cat.
--The two rogues who attacked him as a kit will eventually be residents, alongside Buzzardsnap, aka Bitchsnap.
--He was 8 moons old.
--He becomes mates with Gremlinpaw!
--He has a pink collar with a small gold bell.