Irritant

Irritant is the "pet" of Kruss Cragshot. "Pet" is used in this context to denote someone who follows someone else around relentlessly, and aids in the fighting of her enemies by charging forth and latching itself to the adversary's face, before driving its pincers through flesh, into the brain. Perhaps "pet" is the wrong word.
==Background==
Irritant was first encountered by Kruss when she was killing the superbly stubborn Kul'Tiras soldiers of Tiragarde Keep. She noticed, on the shoreline, a fisherman with a large net. It contained a rather resistant crab, doing its best to get out. Determined not to let a human eat from the waters of Durotar, Kruss delivered three shots into the sailor, killing him. She then broke open the net, thus saving the crab. Unfortunately, the crab was Irritant, and was extremely thankful to Kruss for freeing him. He showed this thanks by following her around Azeroth. At the time, Kruss was endeavouring to be a stealthy archer, but Irritant had other ideas. Whenever the huntress would be hiding in woodland, waiting to strike, Irritant would already be charging through the trees to engage her enemies. Whilst Kruss's arrows certainly did damage, and certainly helped in the felling of adversaries, they weren't the silent, bloody, and visually impressive kills she had always wanted. Unable to get Irritant away, she instead decided to change her tactics, and now she too yells battlecries. They've been through hundreds of battles together, and through this they've both developed their skills. Irritant has grown to a worrying size, and, despite her better nature, Kruss has developed an affection for her companion.
==Involvement==
He serves Dagger and Totem along with his mistress. He gets on with all the members. Yes.
==Strategy==
Irritant's main strategy when encountering a foe is to go completely livid, and attempt the aforementioned latching on to the face. Once upon a person's head, he lets his pincers do the dirty work. And it DOES get dirty. If the foe is too tall, or Irritant feels it is too bothersome to attempt this trick, the crab instead tries to swipe the enemy's legs, to make them lose balance, and fall. Once upon the ground, Irritant will then leap upon them, and savage them until there is no blood left to shed. On some occasions, Irritant will Pin the target to their place. No one knows how he does this, but there is something eldritch about this attack that suggests Irritant is more than just a simple crab.
(It has recently been revealed that Irritant is in fact the son of a loa of madness, himself a crab. This explains much.)
==Quotes==
  *tack tack tack tack* - This is Irritant tapping his pincer against the ground. Which ground? Many. He enjoys sampling the surfaces of the places he goes to. Partly, it could be suggested, for research, but mostly to annoy Kruss with a constant... noise.
==Trivia==
Irritant is joined in the stable by two other of Kruss's pets. There is the proud eagle WARBLOODWAR, and the cunning raptor Bolvar (Kruss named him this solely to annoy and upset the Alliance). Irritant does, however, hold absolute dominion over the stable, and it is not uncommon to see his comrades/competitors wearing dreadfully unhappy faces.
Irritant makes an enemy out of any aquatic wildlife he sees. It's not uncommon for him to swim into the sea, murder turtles, murlocs, Naga, and hydras, and drag them back to shore, piling them up in a sick display of crab superiority.
==See also==
  Training With the Chieftain - In this heart warming story, Irritant plays the fool in front of his mistress and her Chieftain.
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