Stinger/Relationships

This Tab contains Stinger Crownleaf's relationship with other characters.

### Berry (Daughter)

After smuggling her from her mother and discovering Brightforest Troop, Stinger seems to have made an effort to have wholeheartedly gained his daughter's trust. She often accompanies him to small gatherings within the troop and occasionally they exchange small talk. Stinger is very admirable in the eyes of Berry, who encourages him to run for Crownleaf during both elections after the deaths of Bark and Grub. Their relationship is seemingly healthy until Berry finds out about Stinger's true colors. After moving to Baboon Island, Stinger has Strongbranches posted to keep an eye on Berry at all times, showing no concern for her personal space or desires. Upon discovering she was taken by Thorn, Stinger is thrown into a fit of rage, depicting him as overly possessive and unable to control himself when his daughter went missing.

## Allies

### The Strongbranches

The Strongbranches were loyal to Stinger and did all the dirty work he told them to do, including killing Starleaf and Frog.

## Enemies

### Sun Strider

It's unknown If Sun ever met Stinger but the latter become her primary enemy when he sent Stronghide and his herd (Excluding some of his detractors) after the former in order to usurp her.

### Stronghide

Stronghide was originally allied with Stinger. Stinger manipulated the Bull Rhinoceros and his herd (Not counting those who've fled) into assassinating Sun Strider claiming that Stronghide would be avenging the death of his daughter and that he'll become the next Great-Parent by getting rid of Sun Strider. This was of course a ruse Stinger himself made up to get Stronghide to due his bidding. After Stronghide and his crash succeeded in killing Great Mother, Stinger allowed him to usurp the role of Great-Parent. However this was short lived as Stinger never intended to make Stronhide's Illegal leadership permanent. He eventually double-crossed Stronghide once the latter found no more use for him by revealing to several animals at the Watering Hole about Stronghide's role in the Great Mother's death but left out his (Stinger's) own involvement to make it look like that Stronhide acted on his own when he led his crash after Sun Strider. Stronghide subsequently fled the Bravelands as a result were he eventually collapsed and died; but not before informing Thorn Strongbranch that Stinger was the mastermind behind the Great-Parent's assassination.

### Snarl

Snarl didn't have a past history with Stinger but when Fearless informed Stinger about the problems Snarl was causing Fearlesspirde, Stinger agreed to "help" Fearless by tricking the latter into sending Snarl towards his death.

Stinger had Fearless send Snarl on a sole patrol claiming it what stop Snarl from causing Fearless or his newfound pride any trouble. However Stinger leaves out the part that he [Stinger] will "Take care of Snarl" by ending the latter's life knowing full well that Fearless would be against needless bloodshed. However he is still shocked when he learns that his scheme caused even more problems for Fearlesspride. After Fearless returns in attempt to warn him about Sky and Loyal, Stinger confesses his true indifference towards Fearless admitting that their friendship was indeed one-sided (On Fearless side) and revealed that he [Stinger] was at fault for Snarl's death due to the fact that Fearless out lived his usefulness to Stinger so the latter saw no reason to feign their "friendship". Stinger's role in Snarle's death is part of the reason why Fearless ended his one-sided friendship with Stinger.

### Marula Crownleaf

Stinger presumably had a healthy relationship with Marula before he backstabbed her in attempted to Usurp her as Crownleaf of Crookedtree Troop. Stinger apparent wasn't secretive about his ambitious nature as a Crookedtree member the same way he was as a member of Brightforest Troop as Crookedtree Troop was well aware that Stinger wanted to become Crownleaf; However, they didn't think Stinger would use underhanded tactics to achieve his political goals as they were quite shocked when they learned that Stinger assassinated Marula in order to usurp her.

### Thorn

Thorn used to be a longtime friend of Stinger's however this changed when Thorn realized that Stinger was behind the assassination of Bark and Grub. This causes Thorn to develop a newfound hatred towards his former friend. Thorn attempts to infiltrate the Strongbranches in order to expose Stinger's treachery but Stinger catches on and stops Thorn by turning public opinion against the latter by claiming Thorn was the traitor and the Baboon who plotted Great-Mother's death. Stinger was even able to sell his deception to Fearless. This prompted Fearless to end his friendship with Thorn as well and attempted to murder him for the latter's supposed betrayal. Fourtantley for Thorn, Sky Strider was able to intervene when she caught Fearless on the verge of delivering Thorn a fatal blow. Sky was able to knock Fearless out before he could kill Thorn.

### Fearless

Fearless and Stinger became friends when the latter rescued the former from an eagle's nest. Unbeknown to Fearlesss however,
the firendship was only onesided as Stinger saw the lion as a mere pawn for his schemes. Stinger convinced Fearless that Thorn was responsible for the former's horrendous acts and suggested Fearless to form his own pride in order to turn them into Titan. However, When Stinger reveals that he was responsbile for Snarl's death, Fearless realizes that he'd been tricked and disowns Stinger.