Dark Forest Resident: Shortberry
Aliases / Nicknames: Idiot, Coward, Sick-spreader
Gender: tom
Sexuality: bisexual (realized in afterlife)
Family: Sandyfreckle (mother), Fallowmark (father), Warmcreek (sister), Burntthroat (brother)
Other Relations: Gorseflower (mentor)
Clan: ThunderClan
Rank: warrior
Characteristics: incredibly shy, hates bothering others, would rather suffer than risk embarrassment, doubts himself a lot, has severe anxiety
Murder Motive: N/A
Number of Victims: 4+ (unintentional)
Number of Murders: 4 (unintentional)
Murder Method: neglecting own sickness and spreading it to others
Known Victims: Cloudkit, Lakefeather, Stormpeak, his Clanmates
Victim Profile: elders, kits, warriors
Cause of Death: greencough
Cautionary Tale: ??
Story:
He was horrible at expressing his needs or wants, or anything that might bother someone else.
He wanted to confess his feelings to his long-time crush, but he was sure that she would say no and feel awkward and uncomfortable. Eventually she found a mate in someone else, and together they had kits.
It was the future Shortberry could have had....but it was fine. She was happier with the other tom than she would have been with him, surely.
He had wanted to become a medicine cat as a kit, but his parents were clearly hoping he would be a warrior, and he didn't want to let them down...
It is ironic, then, that he and his victims fell to sickness.
It was only a sniffle, he had told himself. The medicine cat had expressed displeasure at cats who visited for minor reasons, especially with it being leaf-bare and herbs being short on stock...
It was nothing.
He was just being dramatic, he always was.
So he continued to sleep in the warriors' den. He continued to go on patrol and catch food that the others would eat, and to share tongues with his Clanmates who, day-by-day, started to notice how tired he looked.
By the time they realized he was sick, it was too late. It had already spread. Many had gotten sick, and the medicine den was becoming increasingly full. There were so little herbs to help them all...
Lakefeather, the oldest elder, fell first.
Then came Cloudkit, merely two moons old.
Stormpeak came last, the only warrior that succumbed to the illness, other than Shortberry.
When he died, Shortberry was one of the few 'lucky' ones to be put on trial. However, he saw no reason to be accepted into a paradise like StarClan. He was an idiot, too cowardly to share his concerns with an irritable medicine cat, and because of that--because of him--three of his Clanmates died, one of them a kit.
He told the cats who faced him that he did not deserve a place among the Stars, and accepted his place in the Dark Forest.
Additional Information:
--One of the song residences! I can't remember the order exactly...I think this was 229 by @wills-woodland-warriors
The song is Sorry To Bother You by Unlike Pluto! Lyrics here
--His nicknames are to himself.
--Base: F2U | Free to use cat lineart // adopt base | PSD by MrsToxicc on DeviantArt
