Fearless/Relationships

This Tab contains Fearless' relationship with other characters.

## Relationships

### Thorn

Thorn and Fearless were excellent friends, but this all changed at the end of *Code of Honor,* when Stinger issues vile slanders against Thorn that convinced several animals, including Fearless, that the latter is responsible for breaking the code. This causes Fearless to end his friendship with Thorn, considering the baboon an enemy instead. In *Blood and Bone*, he eventually realizes that Thorn is innocent and apologizes to him for attempting to kill him, along with falsely accusing him of being a traitor, thus rekindling their friendship. When Fearless attends Thorn's Greatfather coronation, he is embarrassed when Thorn reminds him of Fearless's assassination attempt under Stinger's orders. When Titan kills Fearless, Thorn is saddened to witness the death of his friend.

### Ruthless

Even though he's Titan's son, Ruthless liked Fearless and considered him a friend, much to his parents' heavy disapproval. When Titanpride fought Dauntlesspride, Ruthless lied to his father to protect Fearless. Ruthless also choose to betray Titanpride on order to assist Fearlesspride. Ruthless also aided Fearless in hunting down the former's father numerous times.

### Titan

Titan is Fearless's mortal enemy due to the former killing his foster father and driving him out of his pride. Titan hated him and his family due to Gallant driving out his father. Fearless vows to avenge his parents and foster parent by killing Titan. Titan ended up killing Fearless, but his life was lost as well.

### Keen

Fearless and Keen first met during Titanpride's battle against Dauntlesspride in *Code of Honor*. After Fearless leaves Titanpride, he seeks to form his own pride using former Dauntlesspride lions. Keen follows Fearless and befriends him. Their bond is seen to be strong and Keen's wise, calm demeanor meshes with Fearless's stubborn confidence. Keen often gives advice to Fearless and prevents him from getting into dangerous situations. Later, Keen leaves to join Mightypride because of his disapproval of Fearless' vendetta.

### Sky Strider

Fearless first meets Sky when he goes with Thorn to ask The Great Mother for help when Ruthless is stolen by Cheetahs in Broken Pride.

### Stinger

After being taken in by Stinger and finding a home within the Brightforest Troop, Fearless looks up to the baboon as a mentor and a sort of father figure. He is devoted to pleasing Stinger and finds it easy to share his opinions with him. Stinger wins him over by making Fearless feel like he has a place in the pride and is always the first to aid him with support whenever other baboons believe he should be exiled. When stepping up as a candidate for the next Crownleaf, Fearless is very supportive of Stinger and believes that if Grub were to take the rank instead, his life in Brightforest would be over. After feeling like he has no one to turn to after the death of his mother, Swift, Fearless seeks out Stinger in ***Code of Honor,*** where he is advised to start his own pride. Fearless is so convinced with Stinger's act that when he tells him of Thorn's false treachery, he stands above his friend to kill him with little hesitation, but not before being stopped by Sky. He finally takes up Stinger's advice in ***Blood And Bone*** in his plight to avenge Titan and forms Fearlesspride. When a disobedient young male, Snarl, challenges Fearless's orders and acts in disregards to his new pride, Fearless seeks out Stinger again, where he suggests he channel Snarl's boredom by sending him out on patrol. When Fearless finds him dead he is devastated. Fearless hears word about Stinger's treachery, but believes none of it, always jumping to his defense even at the paws of Loyal and Sky, both of whom he looks up to and trusts. When Fearless goes to Baboon Island and sees the belied order of Stinger's troop when his daughter, Berry, had been snatched, Stinger descends into a raw, honest rage, bashing Fearless and explaining how he had only used him. Fearless, finally getting the message, finally accepts Stinger's true fate and vows to help Bravelands bring him down. Even after the death of Stinger, it is still clear that Fearless found him wise and clever, thinking back to his time within the troop, and wonders aloud what Stinger would do when he dismisses the advice of Keen.

### Loyal

After being cast out of Brightforest Troop by Grub Crownleaf, Fearless meets Loyal for the first time. Unbeknownst to him, Loyal is his biological father, attempting to grow closer to him without revealing his true identity. Fearless stays with Loyal at his kopje, where the two share many hunts together. Loyal often advises Fearless, finding his plans idiotic and unplanned at times, but he always shows his support in order to appease his son. When Fearless finds out that Loyal was an oathbreaker, he is upset and distances himself from his mentor after Swift told him to do so in her dying moment. Fearless comes across Loyal again in ***Blood And Bone,*** but he makes it known that he wants nothing to do with him and that the kill he had been chasing was rightfully his. Loyal has enough respect for him to surrender the kill without a fight. When Loyal is murdered at the paws of Titan, Fearless is distraught with fury and raging sorrow. When Sky reveals that Loyal was his true father, and had been meaning to tell him for some time, he is shocked, but has all the more respect for Loyal. In Shifting Shadows, Fearless still grieves heavily for Loyal, longing for revenge against his killer and realizing how unconditionally Loyal loved him. In ***Oathkeeper***, he has a dream where he is a cub again, bounding after Loyal and Gallant, who leave him behind as they fade into the distance. He tells Mighty of his dream, and he explains how he used to hunt with Loyal for a season, telling the story of how he received the crook in his tail and Fearless listens longingly.