#whitemaggot

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i still cackle at the potential thought Morelstar couldnt get over Whitekit getting into rotting food and went, thou shall be Whitemaggot bc you are a little garbage worm

It can't be much worse of a reason than half the names in canon have!

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Blueface, deputy: Please let someone other than Cootpath mentor Morelstar: No. We're giving Titbelly's entire litter to them next

I appreciate the return of Morelstar.

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Maybe Morelstar just didn’t like Whitemaggot.

On a more serious note- Since forgotten prefixes are usually forgotten for a notable reason, such as being just a tad too mean, or the skill is no longer necessary, it could mean multiple things perhaps. Might be a long ask, sorry in advance!

On the one really mean end it could mean that this cat is perhaps filthy. Since that’s where maggots are commonly found disgusting places. So Whitemaggot could’ve potentially neglected her own well-being, her fur matted similarly to Murkpelt. Possibly carrying an odor that had anyone not used to it recoiling. This could even go mental perhaps, neglecting her own happiness. Or it could go even meaner since maggots are disgusting little creatures, maybe -maggot was given to a cat that was unattractive by the Clan’s standards. But that would be too mean, ouchies.

On skill the only thing I could think of was handling the dead. I remember in the old redux each Clan had a different way of handling the dead, though I can’t exactly remember who handled it, perhaps -maggot could’ve hinted at that. They knew the proper way to handle the deceased, knew what flowers to place on them if in RiverClan, where to put them, and what prayer (?) to say to help guide the spirit to StarClan. It isn’t exactly a skill, well not one enough to earn a suffix for, but that could be why it was eventually forgotten.

Well, you put way more thought into it than most suspect Morelstar did. I can't say much on the theories, except that hopefully it's not the messy fur one.

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You can't offhandedly mention -maggot as a suffix and then not tell us what it means. Bad Dullard.

Look, I have no idea either. No one knows what that idiot Morelstar was thinking with that. It was a mystery to everyone but him. Poor Whitemaggot had to go around the rest of her life wondering what the hell her name was supposed to represent. Was it supposed to match her prefix? Was it an insult? Did it reference that one thing that happened when she was a kit and she accidentally got into some rotting food? Who knows? No one can find Morelstar in StarClan to ask.