WeaselShell is a Warriors OC of mine that initially came about from playing clangen, and he has quite the story.
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Weaselpaw, Pebblepaw, and Heatherpaw were among the first apprentices of Meadowclan. With not many other young cats around, they spent most of their time together.
The moons pass quickly, and soon enough they earn their warrior names; Weaselshell, Pebblelake, and Heatherstripe. Ecstatic, the trio are eager to prove themselves as capable warriors, and strive to make the clan proud. Their very first patrol together as true warriors very nearly ends in disaster. A fox ambushes them, giving Weaselshell a nasty wound. Fortunately, the trio are able to drive it back without any major injuries, though they still bring Weaselshell to the medicine den for his wound. Pebblelake jokes that a cool scar meant he was a real warrior. Weaselshell isn’t so sure, he doesn’t feel much like a warrior in that moment.
Seasons pass, and the trio finds their footing as warriors. They still stick together, and prefer to do their patrols together too. One fateful day, Heatherstripe hears a strange sound coming from the bushes. And despite Weaselshell’s warnings, he rushes in to investigate. Pebblelake and Weaselshell follow, and they find two kits curled up next to their dead mother. A rouge, by the scent, but they can’t very well leave two helpless kits alone to die. Ultimately it’s Pebblelake that makes the call to bring the kits back to camp. And when they do, it’s Pebblelake that volunteers to take care of them. Weaselshell and Heatherstripe of course back him up, and the trio are appointed as the kits primary caretakers. They decide to name them Pearkit and Brownkit.
Brownkit is sickly, and weak. The poor kit dies just days after being brought to camp. Pebblelake is devastated. The trio then do their best to raise Pearkit, who was stronger than her brother from the start. They start taking turns staying behind to watch Pearkit while the other two patrol.
On one such patrol, Heatherstripe and Pebblelake go out together, leaving Weaselshell the watch over Pearkit. Pebblelake returns alone, yowling frantically about a dog. The warriors of the clan rush to deal with the threat, and return with Heatherstripe’s mangled corpse.
Pebblelake and Weaselshell mourn Heatherstripe for a long time. Moons pass, and the ache of loss slowly dulls. Weaselshell and Pebblelake push onwards, raising their kit as well as they can. Pearkit grows up strong and healthy. She’s named Pearpaw before they know it.
The clan’s medicine cat, Sunpetal, dies mysteriously. Most of the clan chalks it up to old age getting to her. The clan mourns, but thankfully they have two more medicine cats, Ridgelotus and Deadpaw. It isn’t until Adderclaw, a previously healthy warrior, very suddenly grows frail and dies, that cats start suspecting that something is wrong. It’s hushed rumours, and unease, but no one can prove that it was murder, and so no one outright accuses. Still, the idea that one of their own might just be plotting to kill them is enough to sow distrust among the clan.
Pebblelake and Weaselfur stick together still, and try to focus on being there for Pearpaw They’re good parents, all things considered, and soon enough Pearpaw is named Pearfur, a full warrior herself now.
Then, one day Ridgelotus gets into a verbal spat with Pebblelake. Weaselshell is horrified to hear the medicine cat slandering Heatherstripe, and even more horrified when the argument takes an awful turn. Ridgelotus kills Pebblelake right in front of him, in cold blood. The crazed medicine cat had been the killer all along, and now she’s taken Pebblelake from him.
Pearfur stumbles in on the scene, one of her dads is dead and Ridgelotus’s claws are stained in blood. She launches herself at Ridgelotus, and returns the favour, killing the medicine cat.
Meadowstar, the clan leader, calls a clan meeting to sort the situation out. Deadhollow, the former medicine cat apprentice, comes forward to tell the clan about the deathberry stock his former mentor had kept, of her negligence in keeping the herbs stocked up, and of her complete lack of empathy for the injured and sick. It turns out, Ridgelotus is the killer behind both Sunpetal and Adderclaw’s deaths.
Weaselshell is utterly wracked with grief. Pebblelake and Heatherstripe are gone. He feels alone. Pearfur tries to console him, but as the moons drag on, he starts to think that maybe they were cursed. Neither Heatherstripe, nor Pebblelake were very old, and they were gone now. Killed. He hopes they are at peace up in starclan.
Pearfur becomes mates with Frogwater, another young warrior. Weaselshell tries to function through the grief, and keeps up with his warrior duties. He isn’t the best father these days, he knows, but he tries. It’s a surprise to everyone when Pearfur returns from patrol with a kit. She and Frogwater adopt the kit, and name him Rookkit. Weaselshell keeps his distance. Rookkit reminds him too much of what he lost.
Unfortunately, Weaselshell can’t avoid Rookkit forever. Pearfur grows sick one bareleaf, and never recovers. Deadhollow does his best, but she doesn’t pull through. Frogwater asks Weaselshell to help raise Rookkit. And then, shortly after Pearfur’s death, Frogwater is killed by a dog while out on patrol. Weaselshell is left to raise Rookkit alone.
He is a distant father figure to Rookkit. He knows he should do better for the poor kit, but he’s lost everyone, his whole family, and he is consumed by his grief. Rookkit grows up into a fine warrior named Rookspeck and the distance between them grows with him.
Weaselshell never makes it to being an elder. He lives many more moons, and then gets greencough, dying alone in the medicine den. Finally reunited with the ones that he lost.
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I’m still trying to figure out how I like to draw cats, so bear with me. This was fun though! I was pleasantly surprised by just how much drama happens in clangen! Poor Weaselshell got hit with hella lotta tragedy.
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