Muddyfang

**Muddyfang** is owned by **Whiskers**

**Muddyfang** is a dusty snow mink rosetted tom with seafoam eyes.

## Description

### Physical

In short, Muddyfang is a *beast*. The tom is built like a tank on long leg, with muscular limbs hardened from training and combat, in addition to good genetics. As an adolescent and kitten, the tom appeared awkward, with huge paws he was yet to grow into. Nonetheless, he has become charming as an adult, and intimidating to anyone who might think of him as an opponent. In addition to his brawny physique, Muddyfang has a square-shaped head and impressive lower jaw. His eyes are a unique shade, almost a seafoam color.

However, the most unique feature of Muddyfang has to be his chocolaty mink coat. The tom's back is a dusty chocolate shade, with his fur lightening to a mocha cream near his underbelly. In addition, the feline is dappled with darker chocolate rosettes. Overtime, he has participated in numerous scuffles, earning him a handful of scars. Most notable is the v-shaped cut in his left ear.

### Personality

The tom was a cat on the run, one attempting to escape his dark roots before eventually succumbing to what he was bred to be. Muddyfang entered WillowClan as somewhat of a coward before rediscovering his brave half, eventually growing into a solemn and respectable personality. Nonetheless, he was always armored with a sharp and defensive tongue, frequently wielding satirical comments at anyone he felt threatened by. As an apprentice and young warrior, that happened to be just about everyone.

Yet, the cat continued to change. Eventually, his personality took a turn for the worse, but oh was he tempting. The warrior boasted a sickening charm, one that was as irresistible as sins. Instead of running from his roots, he began to embrace them, taking up a shady and untrustworthy demeanor. Before, he worked for his clan and for honor, but in his later years, he began to work for himself. Nobody could be trusted.

## History

### Background

Muddyfang was born into a tough life as a kit of ScarClan, one slated for a great trial in life. Growing up in his clan was harsh and ruthless, where kittens had to fight to survive. Siblings were turned against one and other, and in the end, he survived. After a while, he was considered an asset, a perfect assassin, until he decided that he wanted that life no more. There were simply too many risks.

So, he fled to WillowClan, where he was discovered at the border. Out of desperation to cover up his rough past, he falsely claimed to have come from SeaClan.

### Roleplay

The tom doesn't do much around camp out of paranoia that ScarClan might be outside to hunt him down. However, he eventually leaves to go hunting before he crashes into Morningpaw, and isn't too pleased. He continues on and catches a robin before receiving an earful from Maplepaw, who he immediately decides that he strongly dislikes. He talks to her sister more at camp, who puts in a mentor request for him with Skystar. Obviously, the request is never filled, and he grows up training himself rather than ever being assigned to a mentor by the leader.

Several moons later, Muddyfang is finally made a warrior after working hard on improving his own skills. He seems to brighten up for a short period of time, until WillowClan floods. He saves Ashpaw from drowning, but falls into the river himself. When the tom tries to exit the gushing water, he is blocked by Smokestorm. The ScarClan assassin threatens him, but admits that he won't kill him: only make him suffer.

The young warrior learns that his rival's mother, Sigma, has risen to power into ScarClan. His encounter with Smokestorm makes him bitter and makes him begin to plot, and seek out answers for himself. He hunts with Morningglade in the meantime, before ultimately seeking out another spy to get his answers.

He questions Chevy at the BreezeClan border, and demands to know how he can get the respect of the older assassins of his birthclan. He also mentions that Ashbreeze's coat looks familiar. Nervous, Chevy finally answers his long-since-brewing questions. It is in those moments that he learned that Ashbreeze is from the all-powerful Elite lineage, cats with bloodties to the Dark Forest.

Muddyfang receives Wolfpaw as an apprentice, and seems to take most of his rage out on the tom. Whenever Wolfpaw tries to follow Muddyfang over the border, he blows the apprentice off, not wanting him to see his plans. This makes a sort of rage brew in Wolfpaw's gut, causing him to hate his mentor.

In order to exact his plan, Muddyfang needs to lineage of the Elites on his side to convince the ScarClan seniors to join his side. He lies to Ashbreeze about them having a romantic relationship as apprentices, back from the memories that she could not recall. Not wanting to hurt his feelings, Ashbreeze agrees to have a relationship.

After Ashbreeze is expecting kits, Muddyfang explodes in camp about being a spy from ScarClan. He flees, and is forever exiled, leaving his kits as scandals of the clan. While he is gone, Ashbreeze has their duo of kittens: Cinderkit & Leopardkit.

A few moons later, he steals Leopardkit from camp during The Pack and ScarClan's attack, which is partially lead by his former apprentice, Wolfshade. Muddyfang murders Sigma and takes over ScarClan by explaining his plan to turn his Elite-blooded son, Leopardpaw, into an unstoppable killer. For the first time ever, ScarClan goes to the Gathering to strike fear into the clans. After this, he exiles and nearly kills Smokestorm to finally exact his revenge.

Leopardkit manages to flee under the nose of the Guards after he receives a few moons of brutal beatings, in hopes of turning him into the monster he's meant to be. Deep down, Muddyfang feels a pit of guilt in his stomach. After Moonshadow dies from poisoning, he picks Petra as deputy. Still feeling off, the tom leaves camp to go for a walk without his guards, and finds that another cat is out there.

## Lineage

**Daughter:**

Cinderpaw: Living
**Son:**

Leopardpaw: Living
## Relationships

### Family

**Leopardpaw:**

The tom sees far too much of himself in his son, but fortunately, he has the good heart of his mother (at least so it seems). At first, Muddyfang regarded his son with nothing but a numb coldness. He did his best to ignore his existence as a being, to regard him as nothing more than a tool so that he would- *couldn't*- feel sorry for him. But Morningglade taught Muddyfang that he, like all others, is a cat. And like all others...he has a heart.
**Cinderpaw:**

Muddyfang has never met his only daughter.
### Friends

**Morningglade:**

*See "Love Interests".*
### Love Interests

**Morningglade:**

At first, the red she-cat got underneath Muddyfang's fur, similar to his sister. He ran into her while hunting by accident, and so, she irritated him. Yet, he found Morningglade to be kind, with a contagious air of happiness. She seemed to want him to change. And he liked that. They hung out mostly as friends, with Muddyfang's mood occasionally being bitter. Even as he began to down spiral, she seemed set on making him smile. Muddyfang did his best to deny it for several moons, but he eventually found himself falling in love with the cat that he considered to be his first ever true friend.
### Other

**Wolfshade:**

Like it or not, the apprentice turned into nothing more than a scratching post for the warrior. He saw potential in the young tom, and hoped to use it to turn himself into a better cat once more, but...instead, he only took his rage out on Wolfshade. In the end, this anger fed into Wolfshade and turned him into a monster.
**Ashbreeze:**

The tom always found enjoyment in the she-cat's company, until he realized the bloodline she carried. As one of the last links to the Elites and therefore the Dark Forest as well, the she-cat was something to be reckoned with. He feels guilty for using her, truthfully, and hopes that all will understand...in the very end.
**Moonshadow:**

WIP
### Enemies

**Smokestorm:**

The blind tom makes Muddyfang's blood boil. When he attempted to flee to WillowClan to find his peace and make himself change, the tom trailed him and made his life nothing but insufferable. It was Smokestorm who unlocked the monster that lived within Muddyfang. When he tried to settle and become a good cat, Smokestorm made it his duty to torment the tom at the border- never did he try to kill him, only make him feel insecure. And so, Muddyfang made it his life-long goal to exact his revenge. And so he did...
**Mapleblaze:**

While Muddyfang knows little to nothing about the warrior, he knows one thing for sure: he doesn't like her. He finds the she-cat to be far too controlling and paranoid, and frankly, he wouldn't be surprised if he ended up "accidentally" putting a thorn in her nest some day. Sure, he saved her at one point, but only because he was trying to become a good cat. Since then, he found his random interactions to be coincidental and always frustrating.
**Sigma:**

The insensitive she-cat was part of the reason as to why he left. It was the leader who pressured him into fighting against his own littermates in order to survive, and in the end, he was just that: the only survivor. He has never forgiven the leader since, and it appeared that her son inherited that rage in twofold.
## Images

### Art

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## Trivia

* He may or may not end up playing a major role in the upcoming site-wide plot. Still undecided on that much.
* When he dies, it'll likely be alongside Morningglade.