Dark Forest Residences: Roseclaw & Coyotetuft
Roseclaw
Aliases / Nicknames: The Cursed Kit
Gender: trans molly
Sexuality: homosexual
Family: Strikespeck (mother), unnamed father, Coyotetuft (mate), Sundewtwine, Hopewater (daughters), 280 other cats in QuickStar’s family
Other Relations: Quietrunner (mentor), Thornpelt, Clawspring, Pikeheart (apprentices)
Clan: WolfsfootClan
Rank: warrior
Characteristics: sadistic, kinda cursed, manipulative, believes the Clan will suffer if there’s too many kits, good teacher
Number of Victims: 20
Number of Murders: 18
Murder Method: dropping in rivers, crushing lungs, slitting throat, leaving in active fox dens, breaking neck, luring them to dogs
Known Victims: Garlickit, BayouKit, Milkweedkit, Skykit, Bloomkit, Twigkit, Webkit, Bramblekit, Kinkkit, Whisperkit, Prancekit, Kalekit, Cicadatail, Ferngaze, Ospreyfur, Gravelheart, Harebracken, Sloefreckle, Hoprose, Coyotetuft
Victim Profile: kits, warriors she disliked
Cause of Death: killed by Coyotetuft
Cautionary Tale: ??
Story:
Roseclaw always thought that she was destined for more. As a kit, she could hear the voices of Starclan kits. But eventually, over time, they stopped speaking to her.
She hated herbs, and she wasn’t made a medicine apprentice.
Life went along somewhat normally, but she hated her Clanmates. All except one, who she fell in love with: Coyotetuft.
Or at least, that’s what she told Coyotetuft.
She vented to her a lot growing up, and Coyotetuft vented to her in turn. Roseclaw knew that if she was planning to kill someone, which she had planned since she was a kit, she would need an ally. Someone to vouch for her.
Coyotetuft did vouch for her, and Roseclaw killed the Clanmates she deemed lazy to satisy her urges. Over time, it wasn’t enough.
Coyotetuft never got over the death of her littermates, and so she was easy to manipulate. Her siblings had died of kittencough. Roseclaw used this to her benefit.
She slowly fed Coyotetuft lies about how if there were too many kits, and how they would all die from kittencough.
That is why when Darkwhisker had five kits who she didn’t want anything to do with, and wouldn’t even acknowledge, Coyotetuft started getting worried. Then Pouncetalon had four kits. Birdfoot had six.
Two moons later, under the cover of night, they lured Milkweedkit, Garlickit, Bayoukit out into the forest. Roseclaw threw them into a fox den, and held her mate while she cried, listening to the pleasant sounds of the kits’ wails.
Four days later, they lured Skykit, Bloomkit, Twigkit into the forest and killed them as well. Roseclaw drowned Skykit, making the other two watch as she revived and killed him over and over again.
She slit Bloomkit’s throat, and made Twigkit try to stop the bleeding while he sobbed over his friend’s body. She crushed his lungs shortly after.
Coyotetuft grew quieter over the next few moons, flinching away from Roseclaw.
In the next three moons, ten more kits were born. She killed four, carrying the small newborn kits and tossing them to dogs.
But then seven more kits were born! Coyotetuft and Roseclaw argued more and more, and Coyotetuft started begging her not to kill. So, Roseclaw slashed at her with unsheathed claws whenever she spoke about it.
Coyotetuft went completely quiet from then on, barely speaking to her. After she killed Prancekit and Kalekit, having torn their ears, tongues, and noses off before killing them, she asked Coyotetuft to go grab the smallest of the litter, Cicadakit.
Coyotetuft shook, terrified, but she stood over the small shaking kit, and killed Roseclaw, praying that Cicadakit was too young to remember.
Coyotetuft
Aliases / Nicknames: N/A
Gender: molly
Sexuality: bisexual
Family: unnamed mother, unnamed father, Sundewtwine, Hopewater (daughters), 280 other cats in QuickStar’s family
Other Relations: Quietrunner (mentor)
Clan: WolfsfootClan
Rank: elder
Characteristics: wants to prevent kittencough, confident, great kitsitter, used to be very very insecure, loving grandma
Number of Victims: 20
Number of Murders: 13 (12 indirectly)
Murder Method: bashing skull
Known Victims: Garlickit, Bayoukit, Milkweedkit, Skykit, Bloomkit, Twigkit, Webkit, BrambleKkt, Kinkkit, Whisperkit, Prancekit, Kalekit, Roseclaw
Victim Profile: those Roseclaw manipulates her into killing, kills to protect kits
Cause of Death: age-related complications
Cautionary Tale: N/A
Story:
After killing Roseclaw, she found out that she was expecting kits. She had two kits, and supported her Clan as best as she could, hoping to repent for what happened.
Her family grew, and she got even closer to her brother, Rookstar, who became her best friend. Their kits, too, became best friends, as did their kits.
She even ended up with more littermates! She supported her family, and never told a soul what she did.
Her heart was starting to fail, and not long before she passed, Cicadakit, now Cicadatail, came to her on her deathbed and thanked her for saving them. They cried, and he stayed with her and her family when she passed. She just hoped Starclan would accept her.
Additional information:
--Submission by @wills-woodland-warriors
--To the Death Ring with Rose!
--Her family has to be restrained from joining her in the Dark Forest.
--Little does she know thirteen-ish moons after her death, her brother Rookstar joins Starclan and throws a fucking riot about her being sent to the Dark Forest.
--Cicadatail was also made leader after this! What a good Boi.