Badgerstrike

>  "I trust you. Not because of whatever decisions you'll make or not make, but because you're you. Your heart and head guide you just fine, and you'll do great. Always. And I won't leave you till you're ready." Badgerstar to Blazingwing
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### Aliases

Badgie, Badgie-boi, Badgie-boy, Badger, BigBadBadgerstar, Bagelstar, Waddlestar, Boomerstar, Barbiestar

## Heritage

### Family

Fearless (mate), Brightblaze (daughter), Bravepaw (son), Aspenkit (daughter), Minnowpaw (daughter), Pebblestrike (son), Hawkstorm (son)

## Physical Description

Badgerstrike is a large, muscular tom with shining jet black fur. He has a splotch of white fur above his nose, and a long white stripe that runs along his spine. His eyes are a shining amber, and they have specks of green in them if the light is right. His tail is noticeably long. His left hind leg is crippled from a branch in the huge fire and is missing a chunk in the back. He has burn marks on his rump. There is a scar on his right shoulder matching Dapple's, and a faint scar over his right eye given to him by Natasha. He has a long scar on his underbelly.

## Personality

When first meeting him, Badgerstar comes off as a light-hearted, chill, humorous cat, who is welcoming and warm to all cats. Upon getting to know him better, he is very stubborn and determined, and often lets emotion cloud his judgement (though he did his best to amend this during leadership). He'll always want a snooze, which leaves him prone to attacks from the vicious monsters known as Riverclan kits.

## Skills and Weaknesses

Badgerstar is a skilled fighter, and has learned to accommodate for his crippled leg (partially with his size) He is not good at scenting or long, draining exercises, due to his lung and throat irritations from the fire. He has very much improved in hunting since his earlier days. Badgerstar is very able to tell how those close to him are feeling, though not so well for other cats. He is always at first what some may call "too trusting" of non-Clan cats, because his mate Fearless was a rogue.

## Life

### Adult Life

Badgerstrike led an extremely ordinary life as a warrior until he was about 32 moons old. That was when he started to develop feelings for his then Clan deputy Brightstep. He began to admire what he saw as her drive, her passion to serve her Clan, her care as a mother, and her overall joy to be around.

These feelings led him to soon ask Brightstep to be his mate, to which she responded that she needed time to think about it. Later, Pebblestorm (then Pebble-eyes), found out, and the three engaged in a blown up argument. Although Badgerstrike tried harder than his patience would usually allow him to stay calm, his anger and impatience won over, and he shouted at Pebble-eyes that he hated her. Brightstep, being the motherly, family-loving cat she was, defended Pebble-eyes fiercely, and Badgerstrike was left by himself to cry.

Later, after the effects of the fight had more or less healed, Badgerstrike hinted that he still wanted Brightstep as his mate, and she accepted. Little did he know, she was pressured to accept him and never actually loved him.

Heatherpaw, one of Brightstar's daughters, died, leaving her family grief-stricken. Badgerstrike comforted one of her sisters, Mosspaw, and thus bloomed the beginning of a beautiful father-daughter relationship.

Upon announcing their new relationship to Pebblestorm (who had been renamed from Pebble-eyes), Badgerstrike witnessed a huge argument between Pebblestorm and his mate, which he later, unknown to anyone, felt extremely guilty for causing. After awhile of officially being mates, Brightstar broke off the relationship with him, after such stressful events in her life in the Clan. He sadly agreed, knowing that if he truly did love her, he could not confine her within a relationship.

After their peaceful breakup, they became amiable friends, laughing and spending time together like any other Clan cats would on a friend to friend relationship. One day, Brightstar confessed to Badgerstrike that she was in love with a ShadowClan she-cat named Blazingivy, and she was torn between serving her Clan or following her heart. Badgerstrike solemnly convinced her that she had done so much for the Clan, it was time she did something for herself. When Brightstar decided that she might leave, like Badgerstrike encouraged her to, to follow her heart, Badgerstrike offered to cover up her leave from the Clan with a death story, a decision he would regret a bit later.

When a time came for Brightstar to leave, Badgerstrike managed a last goodbye, and though he yearned to show affection one last time, he never got the chance, and Brightstar disappeared into the night. The morning after, Badgerstrike did as he promised, agonizingly lying to the Clan that Brightstar had fallen into the gorge while trying to rescue a kittypet. Her family members, especially Pebblestorm, were distraught.

Drizzleshine, Brightstar's deputy, became Drizzlestar, and appointed Orchid as her deputy. Unknown to anyone else, Badgerstrike was extremely jealous on the inside, wanting to be deputy to serve his Clan more than anything in his life at the time. Soon after the new appointment, Badgerstrike went to the wise elder Poppyflower for advice, asking if ambition was bad, and if it was wrong to be so jealous of Orchid. Poppyflower told him that ambition just had to be kept in check, and too much could be dangerous. He wasn't really convinced, but promised Poppyflower that he would be patient, which she had suggested.

One full moon night, Badgerstrike attended the gathering with his Clan. During this, he got into a bit of a quarrel with the ShadowClan apprentice Leafpaw (which he would later realize was rather frivolous). But later, fighting broke out between the Clans, so severe that StarClan was absolutely furious. Lightning struck the Great Oaks and an uncontrollable wildfire broke loose. All the cats, naturally, tried to escape at once, creating a huge stampede of terrified creatures. Badgerstrike was caught in the fray, until a charred branch fell on him from one of the burning trees. He was stuck.

Barely soon enough, Mosslight, Rippleheart, and Pebblestorm came searching for him. By that time, the branch pinning him down had caught fire, but he had managed to pull himself far enough away to avoid any more burns. His left hind leg was crippled and severely burnt, he had several large burns on his rump, and he could barely breathe. Pebblestorm pushed them away from another falling, burning branch, and Mosslight and Rippleheart carried him to No Clan's Land, where the Clans were sheltering.

After a partial recovery, Badgerstrike learned that Brightstep was dead, killed by the fire whilst returning to camp to help her Clanmates. He was understandably devastated and confessed to Pebblestorm that he had lied about Brightstar's death before, and really tried to apologize. However, Pebblestorm was understandably too angry to forgive him, and left him to be guilty.

After the fire marked a whole new chapter in Badgerstrike's life--arguably a whole new Badgerstrike overall. Before, he had been rather proud and cold towards other Clan cats, and sometimes quick to get into fights and very ambitious. Afterwards, he became much more sedate, preferred to stay out of the fight, grieved quite a lot, and became much more accepting of non-Clan cats.

He met Fearless, a scarred, but still beautiful rogue cat from No Clan's Land. In his eyes, she was a heroic, helpful cat with the biggest heart he could imagine (other than his lost love Brightstep, of course). They became fast friends, knowing their time together would most likely be short. But they soon became much more than friends, and so, knowing they were meant for each other, asked Drizzlestar if Fearless could become RiverClan. After plenty of convincing, she agreed.

Rose the precious lil' pet bunny owo (I'll think of something to write soon XD)

The Clans had found their new territories, and RiverClan was moving into theirs. Upon doing so, they met Scout, a kit who's family had lived in that territory for many, many moons. She was enraged that the Clan cats were invading, and, at the beginning while Hawkfire and Scout quarreled, Badgerstrike kept his private feelings to himself. But then the tiny kit lost her temper and launched herself at Hawkfire, and was stopped by Rippleheart. Then Badgerstrike and his mate Fearless decided to protect Scout, protesting that she was just a kit.

With all the strenuous preparations for the new camp, Badgerstrike was strained and tired, leading him to one day be completely swallowed by his postponed grief for Brightstar. Fearless noticed this and comforted him. He then resolved to keep Brightstar's memory as one of happiness rather than one of overwhelming grief, and so carried on with renewed strength.

Fearless finds Angel, Badgerstrike's new adopted daughter, and literally just brings her to him to say AYYY U HV A DAUGHTER NOWWWW

Badgerstrike and Fearless promised Angel to always love her, and to be the best mother and father they could be to her. Badgerstrike promised that he would always be the knight in Angel's princess stories, and would save her from anything (foreshadowing??? owo)

Badgerstrike and Fearless decided that, for the best, they would have to keep Angel away from the Clans for at least a moon or two. Badgerstrike had already made a risk asking to have Fearless in the Clan, and he couldn't bring another non-Clan cat into the Clan so soon after that. So they kept little Angel in a secret little place not too far from camp, near the river.

Not too long after, Fearless announced to Badgerstrike that she was going to have their kits. To keep it short bcos I'm getting a bit lazy, he was overjoyed.

One day, Badgerstrike went to visit Angel, having quite a fun time giving her a badger ride (Ha. *Badger*strike gave a *badger* ride XD). They strayed close to the river, and Badgerstrike put Angel down. Being the irresponsible new father he was, he took his eyes off her for a couple heartbeats, and she fell into the river, easily being swept away. Badgerstrike, against all his instincts of swimming for the first time with his physical disability, launched himself in after her and managed to pull her out. She had swallowed too much water, and he did not know what to do, so was forced to bring her to the RiverClan camp. Hawkfire saved the little kit by pumping the water out of her chest, and Badgerstrike was wracked with guilt for letting it happen. But Angel recovered, and Badgerstrike vowed to himself never to allow it again.

Badgerstrike was hunting with Havenbriar when she fell in and hit her head on a rock. Thankfully she was fine after Fogbright's care, but Badgerstrike was understandably a bit traumatized, that having been his second witnessing of an adopted-daughter's near-drowning.

Soon after, he awoke one night to strange sounds in the medicine den. He went to investigate, and found Snake, a rogue, destroying the herb supplies. Naturally, he confronted him, and got into a fight. He let the rogue escape, but Snake tried to stay back and wait for them to leave. Thankfully, Badgerstrike followed him, and so attacked him again, enraged. He was so worried for Fearless and her greencough, and keeping the kits healthy, and so was horrified that any cat could do such wrong. Snake underestimated him due to his crippled leg, but Badgerstrike soon sent him off. Afterwards, he was standing in the river to relieve his shoulder wound, and Mosslight joined him. He recalled the time before the fire, when everything was easier. Mosslight encouraged him that the fire had made them stronger, and that good things had happened from it as well (such as him finding his youngest, precious adopted daughter, Angel). She reminded him that the cats they lost were still watching over them, at which he remembered Brightstar and had a moment of reopened grief, telling Mosslight that she never loved him, which was true. Mosslight insisted that she saw him as a great friend, but in the time they were together, she realized that she did know her father, and that he was Badgerstrike. This meant so much to Badgerstrike, to have her finally say it openly, as he had always loved Mosslight like a daughter.

Then, Fearless and his adopted granddaughter Hawkfire both gave birth (the rp's happened at the same time, so don't ask which litter is older owo imma just say hawk's is older bcos it makes more sense with what badgie was doing the whole time -\_-)

Hawkfire's kitting was *very* convenient. It was in the middle of a fox attack. Hawkfire ran, birth contractions running through her body, while Badgerstrike held off the fox. After Hawkfire gave birth, the fox returned to snatch up her still born, Torrentkit. Badgerstrike raced after the fox, but his crippled leg was caught in a root, ruining his chances of catching up. He returned guiltily to Hawkfire. Later, in camp, Hawkfire called him over to examine Leafkit, because she seemed to sense something different. Badgerstrike complied, but was horrified to discover that Leafkit, like his little adopted daughter Angel, had been born with a blind eye. He broke the news to Hawkfire, who sadly accepted it. Badgerstrike, wanting to lift her spirits, described how beautiful the kit was, to which Hawkfire purred, as, unknown to Badgerstrike, Leafkit reminded her of Ravengale, her mate. Badgerstrike didn't smile, like he would have forced himself to do otherwise, knowing that Hawkfire was blind. She told him not to "beat...[him]self about it", to which he responded that he had "just been so tired recently..." He explained that he couldn't handle all the stress he had in his life recently, what with being a new father, Fearless still being sick with greencough, fending of the fox he had just fought, tussling with Snake, and recently wallowing in thoughts of Brightstar.

Fearless was still ridden by greencough, so her body was much weaker than it would have optimally been. But, after the struggle was over (and so that i can spare you from the cringey details) they had three kits: Bravekit, a black tom with green eyes; Brightkit, a russet she-kit; and Aspenkit, a black she-kit with white toes. Because of the greencough, they had been born early, and so were much smaller than average, had coughs, and weren't as developed as they should have been. They went with it, though.

Of course, like all kits, Badgerstrike's got into trouble. A week or so after the kitting, he was supervising Brightkit when he looked away for *five goshdarn seconds* to groom himself. When he looked back, Brightkit had gotten into the leader's den, and practically demolished Drizzlestar's moss nest...

In the duration of a day or two, Badgerstrike had tussled with a rogue in the middle of the night, fought off a fox and chased after it, dealt with worry of having a sick mate he loved very much, become a new father, and worked his paws off like the stubborn bean he was. Naturally, he caught some of the greencough circulating around camp. Originally, he stubbornly refused to let anyone know, still working his paws off weaving leaves into dens, hunting, training, and whatnot. His sickness got worse, and Mosslight and Paleheart noticed. They convinced him to visit the medicine den and see Fogbright, and so he stumbled there, collapsing once or twice along the way.

## Deputyship

After a partial recovery, Mosslight revealed to him that he had been made deputy. At the time, he didn't really think much of it, only fretting for her to stay away from him, to not catch any sickness. He asked if anyone else had caught the greencough, and when Mosslight responded that Hawkfire *might* have, he insisted that whatever herbs would be used to treat her first, if she did have it. Then, to take the edge of his bluntness, he and Mosslight exchanged "I love you"'s, and she left so that he could continue resting.

Soon after, Badgerstrike had dragged himself out of the den to get some fresh air. Fearless saw him, and was going to make her way over, but Badgerstrike stopped her by snapping at her, telling her that he didn't want her getting sick again. She took it to the extreme, privately trying to convince herself that this wasn't a sign that he didn't love her anymore (which was very, very not true). Meanwhile, Badgerstrike was in an emotional battle with himself, wanting to be near Fearless, but not wanting her to be sick again. He decided to go apologize to her, and followed her out of the camp. Fearless was determinedly trying to wade in the river to catch him a trout, but she can't catch a fish to save her life, and, furthermore, chose a spot in the river that was particularly raging. The current pulled her under. Badgerstrike, who was getting an ominous sense of deja vu, was frantically searching the waters for her. Her paw shot up, and he immediately dove in after her, scanning underwater for her. She had gone limp and her paw had caught on a root, leaving her floating at the river bottom. With Pebblestorm's help, he yanked Fearless's paw free and dragged her onto the bank. She wasn't breathing, and appeared to him to be dead, and so he promptly began screaming her name, wracked with guilt and pain (he wouldn't know what to do even if she seemed alive). Pebblestorm pumped her chest, ultimately saving her life. When Fearless woke, she lapsed into a continuous mumbling of “ineedtocatchatroutforbadgie. ineedtocatchatroutforbadgie. they'rehisfavorite... maybemaybemaybe hewilllikemeagain....” Badgerstrike was distraught, and insisted repeatedly to her that he loved her so much. Pebblestorm, standing by, asked Badgerstrike what he did, to which he snapped back the response that he didn't do anything. A mini conflict followed, with plenty of Badgie-screaming. Pebblestorm, being focused and practical, fashioned a convincing explanation for Fearless, who was in shock, that she had managed to catch the trout, and Badgerstrike had already eaten it and thought it was delicious. Fearless was still uncertainly stuck on the thought that Badgerstrike didn't love her, which only took a bit more convincing to tell her otherwise. Badgerstrike supported her back to camp, where he got her prey and his warm nest, and willed her to sleep with his reassuring words.

The next morning when they woke together, Badgerstrike was relieved to discover that she still loved him, after everything, and knew that he loved her. He got her the *fattest mouse in the world* to show his care, and tried to furtively assess her memory of the previous day. She didn't remember much, other than catching a fish, lots of water, and an argument. So he nervously explained yesterday's events to her, including that Pebblestorm had saved her life.

A day or so later, Badgerstrike was feeling much better, though he was still sick. Mosslight and Pebblestorm came to visit him, and Pebblestorm gave him a fish and the message "Eat it and don't die." He did so, and then Pebblestorm suggested they took a walk, as it would be beneficial for his leg and his lungs. They agreed, and followed Pebblestorm into the forest. This turned out to be a dreadful idea, as they encountered two fox parents and their kit. A fight ensued, and when Pebblestorm made the mistake of hitting the fox-kit, the two parents charged at her, tumbling her down a hill. Badgerstrike leaped after them, snatching the fox-kit to lead them away, but not before they inflicted heavy injuries on Pebblestorm, including knocking her out. The foxes raced after him to get their kit back. He flung the kit against a rock to stun it, then turned on the foxes, fighting alongside Mosslight. They ran off, and he frantically returned to Pebblestorm, who had stained the stream crimson with her blood. He got help to bring her back to camp, and indirectly apologized for everything that he had ever done to her, on purpose or by accident.

After his little talk with Pebblestorm, Mosslight softly asked him about her dead sister, Heatherpaw's name. When she had gone to Starclan, she had been deserving of her warrior name, yet didn't receive it. Badgerstrike used the formal ceremony to give her the name Heatherspirit. Pebblestorm and Mosslight agreed that the name fit her.

Badgerstrike, out for a walk, discovered Hawkfire's dead body near the river. Pebblestorm was there as well, and the both sobbed over her death. Badgerstrike, for Pebblestorm's sake, recollected himself, and suggested they bring her back to camp. Pebblestorm carried Hawkfire, against Badgerstrike's urging to let him do so, and they returned to camp. Badgerstrike tried to comfort Pebblestorm, Oakpaw, and Fearless, and pretty much failed. He instead made himself focus on adjusting Hawkfire's body, and laying out the flowers Mosslight had gotten for her.

He was more or less rid of greencough when he had a conversation with Paleheart. It began as a cheerful banter, with Badgerstrike teasing Paleheart about Mosslight. He got him to admit to him that he might have a crush on her, and he asked when he would say it to her. When Paleheart insisted it would never happen, Badgerstrike encouraged him by telling him that saying it openly was how he became mates Fearless. Paleheart retorted that he had never had a mate die, not aware of Badgerstrike's past. Badgerstrike spat back that Brightstar had died saving cats from the fire, and that Fearless had come close multiple times. After his little break, he was calming down, even apologizing, when Paleheart suddenly snapped that he would become Mosslight's friend, perhaps even mate, and give her the love that Badgerstrike never had. For a moment he just reared up in shock, yelling at Paleheart, but when Paleheart fled in guilt, the words really sunk in, and Badgerstrike collapsed to the ground in one of his particularly severe asthma attacks. He was really struggling to breathe when Mosslight came over, begging him not to die. After struggling through it, his asthma subsided enough for him to ask if she thought he loved her. She, a bit confused, assured her that she *knew* he did. When Paleheart tried to apologize, Badgerstrike snapped at him, not willing to accept his apology.

Pebblestorm suggests that Mosslight and him take a *peaceful* walk with her. It turns out to be anything but that. They ran into a pair of foxes. Badgerstrike, amidst the fighting, was stunned when he was thrown against a rock. Pebblestorm, seeing that the foxes were now in the perfect position to kill Badgerstrike and Mosslight, rammed into them, tumbling over into the gorge with them. Badgerstrike and Mosslight were distraught, and went down the gorge to her. She was almost dead, but regained a bit of consciousness, saying things like, "Badgerstrike... Mosslight... safe..." After a bit, Badgerstrike sadly realized that nothing could be done against death anymore, and broke the news to Mosslight. In the moments before she died, Pebblestorm revealed something to Badgerstrike that he had always wanted her to- that she thought of him at least somewhat as a father. She never told him that before because she didn't want to lose him just as she had lost her other fathers. Then she left them to go to Starclan. Disobeying all laws of the universe, the three talked even after she had died, Pebble's spirit comforting her sister and kinda-father. Badgerstrike and Mosslight carried her body back to camp, meeting Birdrunner, Pebblestorm's son in Windclan, on the way back.

He was out hunting, stalking a mouse, when Paleheart ran by in chase of his own prey and scared his mouse away. Overwhelmed by frustration that the cat he was pretty much hella mad at at the moment, he didn't notice the badger in the bushes behind him. When he backed up, the badger grabbed his crippled leg and threw him around like Hulk threw around Loki in Avengers. He landed half-conscious, a chunk ripped out of his leg, and Paleheart fought off the badger, getting a broken paw. Mosslight found them both blacked out, and Paleheart woke up to go get help and bring Badgie-boi back to camp. He later recovered, and admitted that Paleheart was not as bad a cat as he thought before.

Badgerstrike was watching his daughter Brightkit fishing when a conversation began between them. In it, Badgerstrike told Brightkit that the world was a lot bigger than she thought, and that she had to be patient until she grew.

Ravengale of Windclan came to visit one of Hawkfire's kits, Swiftkit. Unknown to Badgerstrike, Ravengale was the father of Hawkfire's kits. Naturally, he refused, when asked, to let Ivykit and Leafkit go to Windclan as well. Later, though, Hawkfire came to visit him from Starclan, asking him to let the kits be with their father. He stubbornly agreed, and had a bit of a wistful parting with the kits he had adopted for a moon.

One day, a loner brought his sister Twig to the Riverclan camp. Twig had been trying to save another rogue from, guess what, more rogues, in Shadowclan territory. Since she and her brother were still kits, she was injured, and her brother and some Riverclan cats brought her to the camp. Badgerstrike willingly helped with cobweb and marigold, but Falcon insisted they didn't need help. After a bit of a quarrel, Badgerstrike stepped away, not willing to argue.

Badgerstrike realized he had been neglecting his training duties, with all that had been going on in his life. He took Willowpaw out to training. When Willowpaw meant to make a joke about not having trained in a while, Badgerstrike took it seriously and apologized. Willowpaw quickly told him it was a joke, but he told her to just accept the apology, which she did, to take a bit of a load off his shoulders. They continued with the training session, Badgerstrike teaching her how to counter an enemy running straight at her.

Mosslight, Duskfall, and Badgerstrike came upon Daisycloud of Windclan in their territory. She had brought Ivykit back from Windclan. At first he hesitated, wanting to remain composed, but when Ivykit ran to him, he let his tender happiness take over. He was happy that at least one of Hawkfire's kits was back in Riverclan.

By this point, Angel had become Angelpaw, apprenticed to Ashfern. She was still a tiny innocent bean, though, and thus one day came running to Badgerstrike, pleading for him to come help the injured animal she found. This animal turned out to be a beaver, probably severely injured by the foxes that had been in the territory recently. Badgerstrike knew there was nothing he could do, and pretended to do his best to heal the beaver when in fact he was waiting for the torturous experience of seeing Angelpaw so sad to be over. He tried comforting Angelpaw, when she brought up that it might have kits somewhere. He insisted the mother would take care of her, and she replied mournfully if he would ever want Fearless to raise them all alone, which struck him close to the heart. It ended when Mister Beaver (as Angelpaw called him) died. They arranged a sweet funeral in which Badgerstrike respectfully buried the beaver, and Angelpaw made him a flower crown.

Aaaaaannnd something bad is bound to happen in this poor boy's life, eh? Well of course it had to happen because his apprentice and mate wanted to play a stupid prank on him. So doo-doo-doo-da-da and BOOM. Willowpaw and Fearless decide to prank Badgerstrike into thinking that something happened to Fearless because of dogs. This turns out to be a very bad choice, for Badgerstrike got hella pissed when he found out it was a prank (for good reason) after being absolutely terrified that something had happened to his love. One of his angry asthma attacks followed. He and Fearless made up after they rested together, because SLEEP IS THE ANSWER TO ALL THEIR PROBLEMS. After they woke up, Fearless promised to never do such a thing again, and then Badgie went to go scold Willowpaw.

Soooooo then Beech and Brightkit decided to prank him, with a ball of wet butterfly wings. He was sleeping and they stuffed them into his mouth, and tried to look innocent untiil he saw right through their act, and got them to admit it. He then, as a playful revenge, sent them to go play the prank on Fearless.

Badgerstrike stumbled upon his little innocent daughter crying, huddled up in a ball with her bunny Rose. Angelpaw told him that Scout had left, that she had tried to stop her, but Scout had said something about being betrayed and whatnot. Badgerstrike comforted her, then resolved to go and retrieve Scout.

Scout had made her way to the edge of the forest. Badgerstrike only made it there after a whole day of scouring the entire Riverclan territory. He was exhausted and his voice was dying as he called for her. She revealed herself, and he begged for her to come back. She refused, saying that Riverclan had betrayed her one too many times, and that she would not go back. He returned back to Riverclan, defeated.

One day, Angelpaw went missing from camp. Badgerstrike, with Fearless traced her tacks to the Edge of the Forest, where she had been captured by Dapple and tortured by Dapple and Natasha. Dapple had scratched her and carved a "bee memorial" on her forehead. Badgerstrike leaped at Natasha while Fearless took on Dapple. Natash'a first move was to scratch him with a wet hollowed snake tooth, but more on that later. In the fight, Badgerstrike was given three new scars: a shoulder scratch, a very faint scratch on his eyelid, and the underbelly scratch. Angelpaw was only rescued because her adopted sister Scout pulled her aside while her parents fought. Dapple and Natasha ended up losing the fight, and Badgerstrike and Fearless returned home with Angelpaw, with Oakpaw's help. (Note: Badgerstrike had to yank a sharp stick outta Fearless's leg, but more on that in the next paragraph)

Angelpaw had lost a lot of blood from her scratches, and now had a bee-shaped scar on her forehead. While Oakpaw and the others took care of her, Badgerstrike's poison began to sink in. He became disoriented and hostile, and had something that resembled a seizure but wasn't... Fearless and Mosslight magically cured him, since his poisoned wound wasn't very deep. Then Fearless's leg started hurting and turning black (rmbr the sharp stick? wELL tHaT wAs PoiSoNeD tOo!). Hers was much, much more serious, because the stick had pierced a hole through her leg and punctured a nerve, leaving it as a deadweight. The poison began to creep up her leg in black veins, while Badgie and Mosslight freaked out (dang this reminds me of Clay's viper bite in Wings of Fire). It was going too quickly to stop, and so, without thinking, Badgerstrike carved her leg at the joint and amputated it (so OP for a cat, but meh, this is warriors). She passed out, and so she wouldn't bleed out, he stuffed it with cobwebs, dunked her in the river, and elevated her butt (this whole thing shouldn't be funny, but it is XD).

When Fearless woke, soon after, she was silly from light-headedness, and was being quite amusing. But then Badgerstrike brought her to the nest and she had a mental breakdown, not recognizing Badgerstrike and attacking him. He had to stuff poppy seeds in her mouth and she fell asleep. When she woke up, she was distraught that she had attacked him, but he said that everything would be fine, and that she would be *fine*.

After this whole fiasco, Badgerstrike made two apprentices warriors (let's assume it's because Drizzle was busy or somethin') One of them was Mosslight's apprentice Pearpaw, and the other was his own apprentice, Willowpaw. Pearpaw received the name Pearstream, and Willowpaw became Willowcloud.

Earlier, Badgerstrike had patiently taught Falcon how to fish. Because the young tom learnt how to do so from him, Falcon came to thank Badgerstrike, and asked him to teach him more. Badgerstrike gladly did, teaching Falcon how to ram into an enemy's stomach to counter a leap.

Fearless has arguably been suffering since the encounter with the sTiCk Of StAbBiNeSs, what with her amputation and whatnot. So she was feeling out of sorts when she started talking hilarious things about the sky, the splotch of white fur on Badgie's face, etc. After going with it for awhile, Badgerstrike made her snap out of it by spitting a mouthful of water at her face. Fearless then had a full-blown mental breakdown, and Badgerstrike comforted her by reminding her that in his life's worst point, she brought him back, and he would do the same.

Fearless found Raven, a lost little loner kit, and brought her back to be adopted by her and Badgerstrike as Ravenkit. Fearless and Badgerstrike also adopted a four-moon kit named Silverkit.

Duskfall, a Thunderclan cat, brought back Ravenkit from escaping and finding Thunderclan territory. When Ravenkit asked Badgerstrike if she was in trouble, he said it was up to her mother, and Fearless made Ravenkit take a nap as punishment. Then Duskfall asked Badgerstrike if he knew a cat names Snake, the one who had tried to destroy their medicine supplies a couple moons ago. Badgerstrike growled that he did, and Duskfall told them that Snake had become part of Thunderclan. Badgerstrike questioned if he was a prisoner or just a crazy rogue on their territory, and Duskfall nervously told him that he was Snake*paw* now. Badgerstrike fought to stay calm, and thankfully was able to. Duskfall, for some reason, mentioned that she was Snakepaw's mate, and he said that it was her problem, and dismissed her.

Badgerstrike trained Falcon again :D We've got the start of a sweet father-son relationship here, fellas! Falcon-boi calls him Badgie now!

So remember the butterfly wings prank a little while ago? Well Badgerstrike, with his stoopid memory, totally forgot about it, otherwise he would have remembered to call it off, since Fearless wasn't having the best time of her life at the moment. So Beechpaw and Brightkit pulled the prank on Fearless, and she became a mad girl, understandably getting mad at Badgerstrike, although he told the truth that he had simply forgotten about it. So she stormed off into the territory, and Badgerstrike's paws took him to the haven he took Fearless to after Hawfire's death. Then he did something Fearless thought was stinkin' adorable: get her some pretty wildflowers, and ran through the territory to find her. Sadly, this got all the flowers muddy and tattered, although its the thought that counts ;3. So he finally found her, in the one place he couldn't get to her: a tree. So they exchanged some conversation, sorry blah blah blah i'm mad at ya blah blah blah have some flowers blah blah blah stop it I'm supposed to be mad blah blah blah until Badgerstrike admitted the prank was stupid and apologized one last time.

Aspenkit was taken by the inactivity fox somewhere around here qwq

Haha remember Dapple? Yes, the murderous, psychopathic rogue who scarred Badgerstrike's beloved innocent daughter Angelpaw. Well, Fearless found out that Dapple's kits were in need of a mother, because their mother had committed suicide, and so brought them to Riverclan camp for Badgerstrike and Fearless to adopt them. Badgerstrike, knowing that the kits could not possibly be raised by their violent, crazy mother, agreed to take them in. Their names were Tempest and Forgotten. Already Tempest was showing that she was a stubborn, feisty little bean.

(Let's all just pretend that JadeNight being inactive is not the reason Badgerstrike is the one doing all the ceremonies) The six moon mark had come- it was time for Badgerstrike's kits to be made apprentices. So he gave them all mentors, changing their names to Silverpaw, Brightpaw, and Bravepaw. Silverpaw was apprenticed to Vixencloud, Brightpaw to Willowcloud, Aspenpaw to Finchclaw, and Bravepaw to Pondflurry. Then he formally welcomed Twig and Falcon into the clan. He renamed Falcon as Falconpaw, and decided to mentor the young tom himself, and they had been growing closer. Twig became Hopefire's apprentice.

Badgerstrike had another training session with Falcon. In this training session, he taught Falcon the half-turn belly rake.

Badgerstrike and his patrol was doing a sweep along the Windclan border when they encountered Dreamshine and Marshstep. To keep things short bcos I'm getting lazy AGAIN, Marshstep and Falconpaw took turns aggressively stepping over the border for no reason, and a fight ensued. Falconpaw and Marshstep were both injured, enough to stop the fight to bring them back to their respective camps. But Dreamshine and Badgerstrike swore that this was not all over.

Badgerstrike took a patrol of cats including Scout and Mosslight to the Windclan border to discuss what had happened. He was passively aggressive. Earlier, Scout had advised him to give them a "rogue's hello", which he kind of interpreted was to assert authority. But turns out Scout meant actually do something, and so she stepped right on over the border in a challenge to the Windclan cats. They had another fight, which ended in both sides kinda tiring themselves out and leaving.

In the midst of all this drama and misery something happy actually happened! Fearless announced to Badgerstrike that she was expecting another litter of kits, and he was once again, obviously, happy happy happy. And because Fearless is mother extraordinaire, and this is warriors TFCRP, she predicted that they would have three kits, and they planned some possible names for them... which I shall reveal later muahahaha. (Note: Fearless's pregnancy was put on pause because @-averagepotato-'s cat, Princess Floofers, passed away. :'( Rest in Peace, Princess Floofers)

Fearless bumped into a young apprentice-aged rogue named Blossom, who she immediately grew fond of. She brought her to Badgerstrike, who recognized her from a small meeting they had before. The two kinda unofficially adopted the little she-cat, admiring her innocence and sweetness.

Then again, the minuscule positive events are no match for the bad, and so Badgerstrike was patrolling the Windclan border in what I like to call his crazy snappy grumpy mood. He encountered Ravengale and just got angry really quickly, getting in a fight. They separated with nothing but scratches, and Badgerstrike decided to finish his patrol. That was when he bumped into Poppyblaze and proceeded to let out the raging ball of fire known as his temper. This proved to be a stoopid thing for him to do, because Emberheart arrived, and he ended up blacking out from injuries. The Windclan cats had to bring him to their camp to be treated, and when he woke, he resembled Fearless after her amputation: dazed, woozy, light-headed, hilarious, delirious, and the sort. He was brought back to Riverclan territory, where Mosslight took him out of the exasperated Windclan cats' paws and back to camp.

After he recovered, which didn't take too long, he got into an argument with Scout, newly named Scoutspark. They shot back and forth about suffering and Windclan and fighting and such, to the point where Mosslight had to intervene. They fell into a tense truce for the time being.

Falconpaw died of a parasite :'(. Badgerstrike was heckin' sad.

Then came the final Windclan battle. It consisted mainly of Badgerstrike, Mosslight, Scoutspark, Oakpaw, Beechpaw, Emberheart, Dreamshine, Poppyblaze, Wasptoes, little Coalkit, and some other Riverclan and Windclan cats. Prior to it's start, Badgerstrike cockily waited for more Windclan cats to arrive, rather than just attacking peace-loving Emberheart. After more cats arrived, the fight started. Badgerstrike fought all the Windclan cats I mentioned in the first sentence, except little dummy Coalkit. His fighting basically went as follows: (1) He goes head-to-head with Emberheart, because he immediately thought deputy-against-deputy rather than oh no I'm gonna squish her she's so tiny. Then, after a vicious scruff shake that was very effective against the much tinier cat, (2) Poppyblaze tore him away from her deputy, making the fight so much more fair: giant-against-giant. Meanwhile, (3) adorable but so stupid little Coalkit was trying his very best to help with the fight, so basically charged in between them, and Badgerstrike quickly turned to bring him far into the bushes. Emberheart and Poppyblaze chased after him, not knowing what he was going to do with the kit. They were relieved when they realized he was keeping him safe, but this left Badgerstrike facing two cats. They fought for a bit, then Badgerstrike sprinted away to Windclan camp, leaving the two in the main battle.

He arrived to camp to find Dreamshine guarding the nursery. His fight was with Dreamshine, not the kits, so they kinda had a back-and-forth with each other and stubborn little Gorsekit to get away from the kits before the real fight began. Eventually, Dreamshine led Badgerstrike to a spot near the river, where they fully began their fight. They fought until Wasptoes, Dreamshine's sister, arrived. At this point Badgerstrike kinda started to grow more desperate, because Wasptoes and Dreamshine were both giants like him. He ended up kicking Dreamshine as he clawed Wasptoes, accidentally sending Dreamshine falling backwards into the river. Now, Dreamshine could swim, but the back of her head hit a large, sharp piece of rock in the river, immediately knocking her out. Wasptoes leaped in right after her, forgetting the fact that she couldn't swim. Badgerstrike chose to save Wasptoes before Dreamshine, because there was a much, much higher chance than Wasptoes would live. Upon bringing Wasptoes to shore, very much alive, furious, and desperate to save Dreamshine, Lakestar arrived. He left Lakestar to watch Wasptoes and dived back in, paddling swiftly to retrieve Dreamshine. She was dead by the time he reached her, and he solemnly brought her body back to shore, where Wasptoes grieved and got understandably furious at him. They brought Dreamshine's body back to Windclan's camp, where Badgerstrike was shot with rage from those Dreamshine knew. He sadly apologized, but went back to the main battle.

Badgerstrike arrived back and continued fighting. This next thing has nothing to do with what Badgerstrike was doing, but I think it's hilarious so in it goes. Coalkit was still valiantly trying to help his cause, so began to dig holes in the ground, hoping the Riverclan cats would trip in them. He forgot to consider that Windclan cats might trip too. This wonderful idea ended up in him getting stuck in one of his own traps. Kay, back to the real fight. Badgerstrike found that Poppyblaze had been fighting Oakpaw, and immediately barreled in. He began fighting Poppyblaze while Oakpaw faced off with Emberheart, much more even fights. Little did he know, Scoutspark, Beechpaw, and Oakpaw had stopped to talk to Emberheart as Badgerstrike and the others fought. They all wanted peace, and needed Badgerstrike to call off the Riverclan attack. The fight finally ended when Poppyblaze pinned Badgerstrike and wrenched his front right shoulder, leaving him on two and a half legs and rendering him useless in a fight. He couldn't even stand. Everyone stopped fighting as they all talked it out, with plenty of Scoutspark begging and Oakpaw fending off Poppyblaze from hurting Badgerstrike's leg further. The Riverclna cats all ended up leaving, with Oakpaw and Mosslight supporting Badgerstrike away from the battlefield.

They arrived back to camp in defeat, and Badgerstrike retreated to his nest. He snapped at anyone who tried talking to him, but usually only to tell them to treat the others first. He was guilty and angry at himself. Scoutspark came in to comfort him, and Oakpaw spied from outside. Scoutspark and Badgerstrike went back and forth about war, conflict, pride, wounds, etc. Then Drizzlestar came in to tell Badgerstrike to not be disappointed or guilty, which he secretly disobeyed. (Scoutspark also asked to return to being called Scout, and Drizzlestar agreed).

At this point, Badgerstrike had a kill count of two cats: Kestrelsong and Dreamshine (additionally, Kestrelsong was a medicine cat). This attracted the attention of a Dark Forest cat named Rabbitspring, and he met with Badgerstrike in his sleep to "try out" if he would be a good Dark Forest cat himself. After some exchange I'm pretty sure he decided Badgerstrike was a bit too clueless in his dreams.

In a sleep soon after, Badgerstrike awoke in Starclan. Dreamshine was already there, and the conversation they had basically was him saying sorry over and over again and her saying chill out it's fine and them discussing Wasptoes really wanting to murder him. That's that.

The next day, he was surprised by some awesome news!!! Mosslight was expecting kits! He was extremely happy, especially because it felt like real biological grandchildren now, since he had practically raised Mosslight as his biological daughter.

Drizzlestar, Badgerstrike, Ravenpaw, and Oakstrike (newly named from Oakpaw) went on patrol together. They encountered a dog, which led to something terrible: Drizzlestar lost her first life. The dog slashed her throat, and yEeTeD Oakstrike into a tree, knocking him out. After the dog had been chased away, Badgerstrike was left with a freaking out Ravenpaw, a Drizzlestar losing a life, and a knocked-out Oakstrike. He ended up having to carry Drizzlestar and Oakstrike both back to camp, one on his back and the other by their scruff.

Yes, another patrol, definitely nothing bad will happen. This time, Badgerstrike was on patrol with Goldenflower and Mintrose. Mintrose was leaping from tree to tree, much to the frustration of Badgerstrike, who (a) couldn't climb (b) was getting rather worried and terrified and (c) kept telling her to GET DOWN. He had to veer into a separate direction to avoid a huge spiky branch, and it was then when Mintrose spotted a faint image of Pebblestorm, her mother, in front of her. She leaped for her, only to find that it was an illusion and she crashed to the ground, sending her into a coma. Badgerstrike tried to save her but was blocked by the very branch he had avoided before. He carried her back to camp.

So remember the little she-cat he and Fearless talked to a while ago? The little one named Blossom? Well she got lost again and Badgerstrike ran into her in the territory again. They had a friendly chat about how she had moved to Shadowclan with her father, and then talked about prey and the weather and such.

Badgerstrike and Fearless's second litter was born: Pebblekit, Hawkkit, and Minnowkit. <3

Well in the universe of TFCRP, things always either go horribly wrong or dazzlingly right on *walks*. And here's a walk, just Mosslight, Paleheart, and Oakstrike. Well, Paleheart walked right off the gorge (I'm exaggerating because I kinda forgot what happened) and only just managed to grab onto a branch. Mosslight stayed to try and help him while Oakstrike went to Badgerstrike for help. They arrived only in time to help a little bit, but see Paleheart crash down into the gorge. He was put into a coma, and Mosslight was devastated.

Rainkit, the daughter of the Windclan Poppyblaze, crossed into Riverclan territory with the very clear intent of finding and meeting Lakestar of Shadowclan. She had cleverly covered herself in mud, hiding any clan scent, and so Badgerstrike and his tiny patrol stopped asking if he was Windclan, since the only evidence they had was that he had come from the direction of their territory. Once that was resolved, they asked Rainkit's name, which she refused to reveal and insisted they call her 'Mystery'. They did, and 'Mystery' tried continuing on her grand quest, but they stopped her and convinced her to come to Riverclan camp with them, to rest. She left a few days after and they never found out she was of Windclan.

A day or so after, Badgerstrike was solo patrolling when he met Burrpath and Redkit from across the Adder River/the Shadowclan-Riverclan border. They needed to cross, to get back to Windclan, but couldn’t because hAh WiNdClAn CaN’t SwIm. So Badgerstrike had to help them, and oF cOuRsE he helped Redkit first, because he’s the kit. But then Redkit decided to be a total genius and sLiP off the bank after Badgerstrike had put him down. He nearly drowned, and Badgerstrike had to pull him out while Burrpath got across himself. Badgerstrike managed to pump the water out of Redkit’s chest, and he convinced Burrpath to stop by Riverclan so his clan’s medicine cats could take a look at him. They left shortly after the checkup.

Mosslight gave birth to four kits! Their names were Blazingkit, Poolkit, Adderkit, and Dewkit. They felt to Badgerstrike like the first biological grandkits he ever had, since he had raised Mosslight as a daughter since she was an apprentice.

Then, Drizzlestar got into trouble with a dog. The dog knocked her out of consciousness, and, unknown to the clan, knocked out most of her memory. Badgerstrike had to become acting leader while Drizzlestar recovered.

Mintrose awoke from her coma one day when Badgerstrike was visiting the medicine den. The she-cat was distraught to hear that her friend Drizzlestar had been hurt, and Badgerstrike had to comfort her.

Astrid, the medicine cat apprentice, had a grave moment with Badgerstrike, in which she regretfully diagnosed that Drizzlestar wouldn't be able to regain her memory for some time. This was worrying for Badgerstrike, as the clan was being left without a leader. Thus, as deputy, he took up leadership responsibilities, hopefully temporarily, while Drizzlestar recovered.

Brokenpaw, one from the other half of Dapple's litter, living as a Shadowclan apprentice, came to him with a plead. She had discovered that Dapple was her biological mother, and thus she had kin in Riverclan, Forgotten and Tempest. She wanted to tell this information to her siblings, that they were the kits of a rogue. Badgerstrike disallowed this, to protect his adopted children from the past of their murderous, psychotic mother, but let Brokenpaw tell them that they were siblings, with unknown parents.

Soon, it became clear that Drizzlestar would not be able to return to her leadership duties, so Badgerstrike was chosen to become Riverclan's new leader. He was unsure of taking this position, mostly because he wanted to believe that Drizzlestar would return, but was convinced to go take his nine lives. So he did so, nervous for the coming experiences.

Badgerstrike arrived at the Moonstone afraid for what was going to happen. He had never been there before, but touched his nose to the stone fearfully. He was shocked when he felt suddenly nothing beneath him, then jolted awake in Starclan. The first cat to greet him was Dreamshine, the very Windclan cat he had knocked into the river and killed. As the other cats assembled, she stepped forward to give him his first life: the life of forgiveness. As the pain ran through him he said "After all I did to you?". Dreamshine stepped back to let the meaning of the life she had given him sink in, rather than responding. Next was Falcon, the former-rogue apprentice he had trained and grew close to. As Falcon gave him the life of bravery, Badgerstrike emotionally asked why he had to die... Falcon then responded that, up in Starclan, he was happy to be with his sister and mother again. Then Hawkfire stepped forward, giving Badgerstrike the life of care. He had a similar reaction/question for her as he did for Falcon, but Hawkfire just walked away. As she retreated, Badgerstrike told her that Ivypaw, one of her kits, was in Riverclan. Before he could see her reaction, Rippleheart approached him for his fourth life. He gave Badgerstrike the life of loyalty. Then Badgerstrike asked him if he had any message for his mate, Drizzleshine, and he said (I'm quoting, I swear) "if she dies before she can regain all her memories an live a nice, long life, I'm going to send Furstars army of flying hedgehogs after her" The next cat to give Badgerstrike a life was Leafstar, leader of Riverclan before Brightstar. She gave him the life of courage, mentioning that she was glad to have seen him grow from a warrior, to a deputy, to a leader. Next was Berrysky, Badgerstrike's step-son and apprentice. From him Badgerstrike received the life of patience. This life felt so peaceful that he didn't dare break the silence; he only nodded his thanks. Nutmegseed of Windclan then gave him the life of confidence, saying that Badgerstrike would need it in his coming leadership lives. He said to her as she was going back into the circle of Starclan cats that he was sorry that he had waged war on her former clan. She replied that as long as he was regretful, that was alright. But she trusted him to be the one to end it. For his eighth life, Pebblestorm came from the circle of cats. He started towards her, choked with emotion, but she stopped him. She gave him the life of empathy, which flowed through him like fire, but then eased to a soothing feeling that reminded him of being at his mother's flank as a kit. Once he recovered he started towards Pebblestorm again, and she cat-hugged him before Brightstep came forward to give him his final life. This was again emotional for Badgerstrike. Brightstep gave him the life of love, and told him to let it guide and heal every cat. With this life he felt a strange happiness, and he received it and the pain that came with it, willingly.

Pebblestorm then named him Badgerstar. He felt still shocked, but pleased, and he promised to the assembled Starclan cats that he would make them proud.

In that moment after his naming, he had a reunion moment with Pebblestorm. Pebblestorm urged him to not have her sacrifice be for nothing, told him to tell her kits that she loved them (particularly Mosslight), and to tell Oakstrike that she was watching him o.o The newly named Badgerstar then admitted that he would have traded spots with her in an instant, and said that he had named her daughter Beechstorm after her. Pebblestorm was pleased about this, but went on to say that she would not have traded at all, because she knew she made the right choice. By then the moon would have been slipping away in the living world, so Badgerstar and Pebblestorm said their hasty goodbye's, Pebblestorm parting with him by saying that she loved and missed him, "old furball".

## Leadership

Literally don't remember anything while I update this but I will try to piece things together here's what I have now:

Brightblaze death, Fearless catnapped, Raven had several litters, Mosslight sickness. Hickoryfrost mwahh, Hickory sickness (rip), Blazingwing dep

tysm Raven for helping me remember pffft

Then he retires after the collapsed den incident lol

## Retirement

Otterchase appointed dep, Chilling in the elder's den, Cardinalkit visits, Ravenflight death (in progress)

## Friends and Family

Fearless- unknown, she-cat, ex-mate but <3333333

Angelpaw- Starclan, she-cat, adopted daughter

Bravepaw- Starclan, tom, son

Brightblaze- Starclan, she-cat, daughter

Aspenkit- Starclan, she-cat, daughter

Mosslight- Starclan, she-cat, adopted daughter, deputy

Tempest- Starclan, she-cat, adopted daughter

Forgotten- Starclan, tom, adopted son

Silverstem- Starclan, she-cat, adopted daughter

Ravenflight- Riverclan, she-cat, adopted daughter

Scout- deceased, she-cat, adopted daughter???

Oakstrike- Starclan, tom, adopted grandson, friend

Beechstorm- Starclan, she-cat, adopted granddaughter, friend

Fallenblaze- unknown, tom, adopted grandson, friend

Mistyrain- Starclan, she-cat, adopted sister

Brightstep- Starclan, she-cat, friend, ex-mate

Hawkfire- Starclan, she-cat, step-granddaughter

Pebblestorm- Starclan, she-cat, step-daughter, adopted daughter

Rippleheart- Starclan, tom, friend

Fawnshine- Riverclan, tom, friend

Havenbriar- Riverclan, she-cat, step-daughter

Berrysky- Starclan, tom, step-son, apprentice

Leafwhisper- Starclan, she-cat, apprentice

Willowcloud- Starclan, she-cat, apprentice, friend

Paleheart- Starclan, tom, son in law

Poolheart, Starclan, tom, adopted grandson, apprentice

Blazingstar- Riverclan, tom, adopted grandson/son

Adderpounce- Starclan, tom, adopted grandson

Dewpaw- Starclan, tom, adopted grandson

Twigpaw- Starclan, she-cat, adopted great granddaughter, apprentice,

Birchpaw- Starclan, tom, adopted great grandson

Juniperpaw- Starclan, she-cat, adopted great granddaughter

Pinepaw- Starclan, tom, adopted great grandson

Hickoryfrost- unknown, she-cat, sHiP???, deputy

Pouncepaw, Starclan, tom, apprentice

(notice: there is a difference between adopted and step)

## Notable Quotes

“I know. And i want you to be happy.” He turned back to her, having successfully pushed down his tears. “You know, I never stopped loving you, Brightstar.” - To Brghtstar, on the topic of her leaving the clan.

“Goodbye, Brightstar; go follow your heart. I’ll never tell anyone what really happened, I promise." - To Brightstar on the night she left

Her pelt was as bright orange as a flame. Her eyes were as blue as the clearest river, and her white fur was as white as snow. And her fur was as soft as duck’s down.” He shook his head, blinking away the threatening tears. “She was fair, and compassionate, and noble.” -To Lynxkit about Brightstar

"Bird poop yourself." - To Pebblestorm on the topic of drinking out of a pond.

“I’ve spent my whole life in the clans,” Badgerstrike murmured. “But recently... with the fire... the chaos... /everything/, it’s been feeling...” he searched for a word, “different,” was all he could come up with. Then he added, “restricting. It’s been making me feel so trapped and... put down.” His eyes clouded. “Then there’s Fearless. She’s been a ray of light in my life at this time. And with this stupid thing,” he gestured miserably at his leg, “she /sympathizes/. I’ve never felt so much like I actually /belong/. But I don’t want to give up the clan or Fearless. This... feels like the perfect solution.” -To Drizzlestar when asked why he wanted Fearless to join Riverclan

“Funny what you call it. We’ve got trout, carp, minnow, bass, and FAT FISH.” -To Pebblestorm about a goldfish

”Fine, Palebutt.” -To Paleheart in a friendly conversation

“You- you’re carrying kits? Like, right now?” - Badgerstrike to Fearless

"The world's a lot bigger than you think, Brightkit." -To Brightkit about the world

"And every cat has their own mouth," he retorted swiftly. "Starclan gave every cat /one/ mouth for a reason. /One/ mouth to speak for /one/ cat." -To Falcon in a bit of a quarrel about Twig

"Overconfidence can be your downfall," -To Falcon in a training session

"Don't mind me, I'm fine. Just an old cat. But there's still fire burning inside me!" -To Willowpaw in a training session

"'Scooch over,' he laughed as he plopped his rump next to hers on the rock. 'Make way for the fat old cat!'" -To Willowcloud on a sunny day

"'Welcome to a whole new world. One where others know you fight twice and hard, and have talent, skill, perseverance, and *fashion*.' He struck a pose with his crippled leg, puckering his lips comically." -To Twig about the world of crippled limbs

"I love you, Fearless. You're my world, my queen, my everything. Please come back..." -To Fearless after she was poisoned

"'He will never be away from you,' he insisted, voice cracking. 'He'll be in your heart, in your dreams, and in your memory.'" -To Beechstorm before Oakstrike's burial.

## Gallery

Badgerstrike and Fearless being cute, what more could you need??Badgerstrike and an unusually calm BrightkitHe in the bottom, second from the rightThis is why we don't prank BadgieAren't they just the cutest thoughGIRAFFESTAR IN ALL HIS GLORY (this is literally my laptop avatar- 2/16/22)Popsicle Badgie woah time to partayyBadgie and his adopted (and first) daughter MosslightI think we can all agree he would be a bulldog. A sleepy one.Ah, yes, the lopsided grinBadgie and Mosslight again <3Yesss more Badgie artOld man fanartHe sitSanta as an old man but BadgieWoooooohooo bday!!fam out to dinnerCrispy leg