Rhyolite

Rhyolite is the first main antagonist in Ode to Epilogue, and he seems set on getting his way at any cost. He is first seen as very charming by most of his crew, and even sometimes people outside of that group - but once you get to know him, he is seen to be misguided at best, and downright tyrannical at worst. With a fierce need to control his ever shrinking group, Rhyolite makes mistake after mistake that eventually leads to his own downfall.

### A Fear of Heights

Rhyolite was the only surviving kitten in his litter and much to his mothers disappointment is overwhelmingly undertalented. Lacking many talents Calabar would have wanted, Rhyolite grows up in the shadow of a mother who resents him. After the sudden and alarming death of Goathead, Rhyolite develops a extreme fear of heights that makes him even more timid, even more unable to stand up to his mothers expectations. This enrages Calabar, who then threatens to throw him over the edge to join his father very literally. She hangs him over, and only changes her mind at the last minute when his soul song appears, and shakes her back to herself.

Even after his paws reconnect with the ground, he cannot shake his fear, and grows up around the fear of the edge he was always walking.

### Irredeemable Calls

His early childhood friends include Sumac, Ametrine, Cherry, and his first crush Cinnamon. Cinnamon and him bond deeply for a time, and he seems almost happy in this stage in his life. He finds value in the found family he grew up around, and wants to protect his life now. In an effort to keep Cinnamon in his good favor, he shows her his soul song proudly, thinking only he was the only one able to create it. To his distain, Cinnamon is also able to do this, and shows him immediately that she can.

Upon seeing her soul song to be beautiful, rage captures the young man and he strikes her repeatedly until she is visibly marked. He batters one eye, and manages to remove most of her ear on the same side in his anger. Either unable or unwilling to see himself as in the wrong for this, he is horrified when she later goes missing, leaving no signs of where she went.

She departs with her brother Cherry, leaving rhyolite behind with his grudge.

### Settling the Score

Rhyolite tracks Cinnamon down to bring her back, and when confronting her, is attacked by her brother Cherry. He earns his scar along his side this way, and is fended off immediately by the stronger cat. Cherry chases him off, and Rhyolite is once again left with bitter anger. He then redirects this anger onto Foxglove, who he has raised and tricked into doing his bidding. Bidding that includes taking care of outskirts, as well as Cherry, and eventually Cinnamon.

### Unwanted Memory

When Rhyolite found out about his blood child Apple, he once again becomes consumed with regret and bitter rage. He doesn't want to look at her, doesn't want her to exist at all. Despite his best efforts, Foxglove comes to his senses and refuses to throw her to the other side. His raised child turns on him at that time, and at that time the two of them tumble over the edge he so desperately feared.

He was taken to the other side after his fall, unable to continue living after being impaled on  several rocks below him during the fall.