Backle Squirrel

right|300px|link=Special:FilePath/PlaceholderBackle Squirrel is a male juvenile squirrel, a descendent of Sam Squirrel and one of the main characters of Shrew Soldier.
==Biography==
He first appears greeting Tash Stag Otter and Saba after the former was tackled by Tailfight, having noticed they were upset right before this, and learns why. During the night he received a dream about guosim-shrews enslaved by an evil bird, and in the morning finds out his three friends had the exact same dream, and had a good guess as to why.
Several weeks later, the raven Commander Steeltalon attacks. Backle helps an injured Luminara to shelter and later saved Abbess Gussie from a fox named Skinpalm. He also managed to save Tailfight from being shot by Takadox the weasel, unwittingly startling him too, and disarmed him while Tash kills him.
After all but Steeltalon was vanquished (the raven having fled), he helps Iskorol search for the "land of death" in the teenagers' dreams, who deduced it was Terramort. He and his friends later exchange farewells with the abbey before heading out for the mission.
Backle and his friends encountered many things during the trek: an elderly weasel named Parsinkel, a pack of Pelecanimimus hunting horses, and finally a beaten up snake named Bablo. Backle was weary at the snake, even if his assailant was Steeltalon, who made himself known a moment later and got into a brawl. With some help from Bablo, Backle ended Steeltalon with an arrow to the neck, and gained the snake as an ally.
The next day, the five arrive at Salamandastron in the hopes to recruit Brockthorn the Sturdy and the Long Patrol, who agree to help take Steeltalon's ship Steelwing. Naturally Backle was the first to scale up the ship when he reached it, and the woodlanders successfully take the ship, with thirteen hares lead by major Kimiko Thyme Dillworthy joining them.
While in the midst of the voyage, he proposes disguising Bablo and Tash as corsairs while himself, Saba and the hares be their prisoners, and helped in disguising Tash.
Eventually, they reach Terramort, and Backle's plan played out perfectly until a shrew named Yeal recognized Saba and blabbed her name, forcing them to fight. Backle acted as an artillery of sorts, firing volleys of arrows all over the battle, until needing the aid of a hedgehog named Agen, who was busy protecting Yeal. He saves Kimiko from Furyswipes and also helped Tailfight defeat Featherwhip. 
After the battle, he returned to Redwall where he continued to live as the usual.
==Appearance==
He typically wears beige-trousers and a purple-tunic. His weapon was a modified crossbow.
==Personality==
Backle was seen as the brains of his group: he was the one to come with the idea to disguise himself and his friends except Tash and Bablo as prisoners to sneak into Snoke's compound. He was also more cautious than his friends, unwilling to trust friendly vermin (like Parsinkel and Bablo) without suffering the consequences, but when he gets to know them, he treats them like best friends. Despite his cautious nature, he isn't a coward and will purposely dive into danger if someone else is in it.
==Gallery==
Category:Squirrels
Category:Males
Category:Heroes
Category:Shrew Soldier Characters