Talon

Note: Talon is only important in Myrtlepelt's backstory.

Name- Talon

Gender- Tom

Clan- None

Rank- Rogue (but he's irrelevant)

Family- Flora (ex-mate thing, kinda???), Myrtlepelt (daughter), Fang (son), another unnamed daughter, probably a million more children

Friends- hahaHAhA. no.

Enemies- literally everyone he's ever met

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Talon was a tall, muscular silver-and-white tabby with dark green eyes. There were scars snaking all over his body, his tail was torn to a stub, and his ears were almost entirely shredded. The left half of his nose had been bitten off, leaving only the nostril, and it was pretty gross-looking. He was just gross in general. Most of the body scars and ear notches were given to him by his brothers during practice-fights. The tail wound and the nose thing were from his mother when he was challenged to kill her. His right eye had a diagonal scar slashed across it, but he'd avoided being blinded and the scar only ran across the lid. It also came from one of his brothers.

## Story

Oh boy. Talon. Where do I begin? He was raised in an environment very similar to Myrtlepelt's, although his was even harsher. He killed his two brothers as well as his mother. He never knew his father, because he'd taken off immediately after impregnating his mother - and it was Talon's mother who inflicted all of the severe punishments and fighting activities - called "practice-fights" - on him.

Once he was five moons old, his mother told him and his brothers to fight each other until only one was left alive, wanting only her strongest kit to move on. They all fought, and Talon came out on top, having always been the most brutal and powerful of his siblings. His mother then told him that his final test was to kill her, and it wouldn't be difficult, as she was getting old. They fought, and Talon was pretty badly injured, but he managed it. He killed his mom and was satisfied with himself. Good job, Talon, you're a psychopath.

Whatever the case, after burying all of the family members he'd murdered, he left the area and went on to find a mate of his own. He eventually ran into Flora, an escaped kittypet who was several moons older than him. Talon was ten moons old by this point, so he pretty much just nabbed her and yeeted her down to an abandoned badger set, essentially against her will, and forced her to live there with him until they were old enough to have kits.

Just as soon as they were fertile, they did that. Talon knew he should've left the way his father did, to go find more mates and carry his bloodline further, but Flora was a bleeding heart. He knew she wouldn't raise the kits the way they were *supposed* to be raised. He knew that she would be soft on them. So he stuck around. Once they were born, one of the she-kits was terribly weak, so he killed her, believing that he was sparing her from more difficulties later in life. Flora was mopey about that, though, and became even more uncooperative, so as soon as the other two kits were weaned off of milk, Talon killed her, too.

Anyways, once his remaining two kits were three moons old, he named them Myrtle and Fang. He'd have them practice-fight, the same way his mother had made him practice-fight with his brothers. It was harsh, and he had them get more serious each time, drawing blood and practicing for fights to the death once they were grown. He left the badger set and instead travelled with them as they strengthened, wanting them to get a feel for the savage world around them. He explained why he'd killed their mother, and he told them about their sister. They weren't upset at all. They completely understood. They'd been brought up to think the same way as their father.

When his kits were five moons old, he sat them down and ordered them to fight to the death, the same way he had been. He knew that if they continued training, they would soon turn their bitterness on him- and, like his mother, he only wanted his strongest kit to survive and reproduce. So he had them fight it out. Myrtle ended up winning, and she killed Fang. Talon was proud of her, impressed by her strength and glad that her weak mother hadn't tainted her at all. For the next moon, *he* practice-fought with her. It was violent and frightening for both of them at times, but exhilarating all the same. Once Myrtle was six moons old, Talon instructed her to leave him and make something of herself, and she did so.

Talon left in search of another mate. Where did he go? Where is he now? No one knows, and no one ever will. But that's Talon for ya, folks.

## Other

#### Trivia

* Bruh. His headcanon voice is Scar from the Lion King. Very much so.
* Not to be confused with Talonfrost, Lavenderstar's old mentor and an OrchidClan warrior who was also a murderer, but probably less... y'know... insane.