#ripred the rat

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FINAL MATCH

It’s time for the end, my dear comrats. So let’s end this with a bang! It’s Ripred, the rat who dwells underneath NYC from TUC vs. Kugrash, the rat who…..dwells underneath NYC from TUC! I guess we just rename this whole thing to the TUC battle now? Someone get me some white-out and a sharpie…

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ripred the rat for my sister's birthday :)

[shriikey]

Compilation of the ripred fanart I completed for the rat bracket!!! Glad I was able to do my part in support of the RAT VICTOR... This really took me out of my comfort zone and forced me to practice drawing animal characters, which was much needed!

I love Mr. Rat Man so much

[cutter-kirby]

gregor and ripred GREGOR AND RIPRED!!!!!!!

obviously ripred protects gregor. not in the same way he does lizzie or even luxa, but i'd say from the moment ripred saw gregor's horrified expression when henry was about to run a sword through him, he knew gregor was special. he told twitchtip to not judge gregor like she would other humans. he speaks softly when gregor is mourning. he teaches him life-or-death echolocation. he can't even tell gregor that the kid's gonna die in the prophecy of time. the "oh, tell me you didn't" to solovet after she locks gregor away. he promises to keep gregor's family safe, from one rager to another. he sees so much of himself in that kid and it's awful. the scene in cotw where ripred talks to gregor about being a rager (right after the frogs) will forever stick out to me. just. his peptalk to gregor before the final battle. ripred cares.

and so does gregor! gregor has so much respect for ripred, the rat, what has been the enemy for nearly his entire first journey in the underland, because he notices the pain in his eyes. he tells him "fly you high" when they first part ways, which is echoed by ripred when they last see each other. just the immediate relief that gregor feels any time ripred steps in. the way gregor messes with ripred, popping bubble gum after ripred insults him, joking about the prophecy at the end of book 5 ("time is turning back!" ripred - "shut up!"). in book 4, gregor sends the questers to busy themselves so ripred doesn't have to be vulnerable in front of so many. when gregor's in trouble, it's ripred's advice ("what's your plan?") that he thinks of. the section in book 5 where they all think ripred is dead and gregor is as upset by it as he is ares, that he "maybe even loved him." gregor looks up to him. just. the mentor/protege duo ever

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He’s pointing at gregor’s swordsmanship

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Finally doodled my husband again

[unorthodoxiguana]

Y'all ever think about how fucked up it was that Nevee was executed, but Solovet was put under house arrest?

It's fucked up, but it fits in with the repeated theme of scapegoats in TUC. Gregor, Nevee, and even the Bane are all arguably scapegoats and political pawns for the people pulling the strings (Sandwich, Solovet, Twirltounge), who are used and thrown under the bus when no longer of any use or when they need a scapegoat. None of them really seemed to understand what they were doing or who they were fighting for. Gregor didn't know about the whole "killer" thing until book 4, Nevee was just following orders, and the Bane was basically an insane 1 year old. Sure, some people might care about these guys, but at the end of the day, they're just tools to the people in charge. Even Luxa and Ripred aren't above just assuming Gregor will side with them because "they're right and the other guys are wrong". And I've probably missed half of the pawns in this series.

[just-a-jackalope]

RATSCALING: Could Ripred beat prime Bane in a fight?

[rynulle]

i was doodling that comfort character su bandwagon and i started giggling the second i thought of these two interacting

[haveihitanerve]

Ok so we all know the headcannon of Gregor calling ripred dad at some moment and it’s all like sweet and everything 

But imagine they’re having like game night or smth or ripred just cut a rat in half with his tail and Gregor stops, looks him dead in the eye and goes

"what the fuck [ripreds name but in rat]”

and ripred fucking loses it.

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SEMIFINALS!

Here’s our first two semifinalists! The scrappy underdog (and canon dilf) who’s beat the odds to be here, Ripred, VS. the queer icon math teacher from our childhood, Mr. Ratburn!

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For my fans thank you for helping us let ripred win I thank you… if your curious I greatly recommend Gregor the overlander of you want to know more about him!

But as celebration of his winning… you all get a sneak leak of the next chapter!!!

THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING HIM TO WIN

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Your favorites out of my favorites

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Put all my favorite literary characters in a room and what do you get?

A six(?) foot rat, an alcoholic, and a werewolf.

And then there's Luna Lovegood.

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Rat uncle rat uncle rat uncle