Toadcrawl

Art by dew(toadcrawl as old man consequences)

### Aliases

'grayish tom''Froggy' by Emberslash and Whitetalon'Uncle Froggy' -Puddlenose 'Frogface, Frogfart', etc...' Dark Forest Residents and Recruits

### Affiliation

Dark Forest Inhabitant(Current)Skyclan(Past)

## Physical Description:

Toadcrawl is a grayish tom with a snub nose, dull yellow eyes and a stub tail.

## History/Affiliations:

The Place of No Stars/The Dark Forest [current]

SkyClan [formerly]

A VERY VERY VERY LONG TIME prior to the events of Hivemind, Toadcrawl was born to two unknown cats with no siblings. Shortly after he became a warrior, his parents had another litter of which the only surviving kit was Splashwhisker, Toadcrawl's younger sister. Toadcrawl's mother also died in the birthing process, and he and his father became incredibly protective of Splashwhisker as a result. Sometime later, Skyclan's leader was replaced with a weaker, incompetent leader in the middle of leafbare and Thunderclan's stronger, more ruthless leader claimed much of Skyclan's territory, causing a famine that along with greencough killed Splashwhisker. Toadcrawl and his father, bent on revenge, arranged a skirmish to kill Skyclan's leader, collaborating with the deputy of Thunderclan at the time who wanted a convenient excuse to get rid of her own leader. The plan would set Toadcrawl's uncle in the leadership position and begin an alliance with Thunderclan, ending the famine and acquiring revenge. But at the last moment Toadcrawl's father got cold feet and very nearly stopped the entire operation, but was killed by Toadcrawl's co-conspirators. Upon realizing this Toadcrawl attacked them in a fit of rage and was also killed.

## Relationships:

**Puddlenose**

Toadcrawl is quite protective of Puddlenose and does his best to look out for him, although he hides his inner conflicts from Puddlenose because he doesn't think anyone can fix them.

**Hollowstar**

Toadcrawl was fond of Hollowstar when he was younger and thought him to be a promising cat. However, as he grew more corrupt and eventually died Toadcrawl resolved to stop his plans. He now wonders if there might have been more he could have done for him to protect him from the influence of the Dark Forest.

**Whitetalon**

Toadcrawl takes great pleasure in annoying Whitetalon. However, the two have been seeming somewhat unified in their tormenting of the other Dark Forest ghosts despite him not hesitating to oppose her in her manipulation of Puddlepaw. After the invasion, he somewhat misses her presence in the Dark Forest in an odd sort of way, if only because it means he's more bored.

**Specterpaw & Raptorpaw**

Toadcrawl finds great joy in annoying the younger Dark Forest residents and frequently insists that Specterpaw has a crush on Whitetalon.

**Pebbleshade**

Toadcrawl enjoys annoying Pebbleshade greatly, although sometimes thinks she makes it too easy.

**Emberslash**

Emberslash is the only Dark Forest ghost that Toadcrawl considers truly his friend, and worries about what she thinks about him and misses her when she vanishes for long periods of time, (Especially since one such time led him to believe she had faded) although he would never tell that to her face.

## Personality:

Toadcrawl is a very chaotic cat who deeply enjoys teasing and annoying others. He cares deeply about those close to him, but often prefers to hide behind humor instead of showing it.

## Trivia:

-Toadcrawl is currently the first character to exist in the continuities of both Shaded Secrets and HiveMind [the former of which takes place 20 real-life years after the latter]

-Toadcrawl pretends not to remember what he did to end up in the Dark Forest so he doesn't have to talk about it.

-Toadcrawl has a southern accent that comes and goes depending on how fast Floofpaw has to type. It is unclear how this is possible outside of the unlikely possibility that the Hivemind/Shaded Secrets universe is an AU that takes place in the southern United States.

-Toadcrawl is based off of Keefe Sencen and Ro from Keeper of the Lost Cities fused into a grumpy old man.

## Quotes:

- "I am Toadcrawl, the great maggot master himself!" (Toadcrawl to Ripplewind shortly before the invasion.)

- "Ohh, this is a party now? What're we celebrating? Y'all's astounding idiocy?" (Toadcrawl to the other Dark Forest ghosts & Whitetalon during his debut.)

- "HEYYY EVIL GHOSTIES COME ON OUT SO I CAN DROWN YOU IN MAGGOTS!" (Toadcrawl to the Dark Forest ghosts and recruits during the invasion.)