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  • Accidental Aesop: A subtle one in chapter 13. Don't give in to peer pressure. You may end up becoming a criminal who's forced to kill people for a living, and you may end up getting killed yourself right after you realize all the horrible things you've done in life.
  • Alas, Poor Scrappy: She may have been a foul-mouthed Jerkass who only cared about herself, but Ozgin didn't deserve to die like that. It really didn't help that her death was clearly written to make it seem like she was being raped, especially considering that she was a recovering rape victim.
  • Alternative Character Interpretation: Several, given how gray the fanfic is.
    • Is Urthquake a warrior who truly wants to bring peace to Mossflower and isn't afraid to do the extreme in order to reach his goal, or is he a sadistic racist who will do whatever he can to rid the world of all vermin, no matter how many lines he must cross, and how many of his own troops he must sacrifice?
    • Is Kurwin the Flayer your typical Redwall villain who wants to rule the world and will kill anybeast who stands in his way, or is he a frustrated pirate who's tired of the way society treats his kind and is simply trying to change the world into a place more tolerant of vermin?
    • Is Dead-Eye a friendly Punch-Clock Villain, or a Faux Affably Evil villain who likes to brag about all the beasts he's raped/sexually assaulted in the past? Was his death fitting, considering it happened shortly after he bragged about a recent rape incident, or was it a waste of a background character who was finally starting to develop?
    • Tike Bonson. Wide-Eyed Idealist who's trying to do the right thing in a world filled with morally gray characters, or a whiny Hypocrite who sees everything in black and white and complains whenever someone does something "wrong," even though Tike himself has done some questionable actions as well and never admits it?
    • Fenson Pickett. A very loyal Lancer and close friend of Urthquake who's concerned about his well-being, or a cowardly lackey who's afraid of speaking up and doing the right thing for fear of what Urthquake might do to him?
    • Dirtfoot. Does he truly believe that Kurwin needs to be stopped, and that his quest to take over Mossflower will result in his crew's death, or is he merely using recent events as an excuse to conspire with Glud and Muslar to plan a mutiny so he'll be the new captain?
    • Glud, as of the end of chapter 38. Is he a Dirty Coward who sold out Muslar and Dirtfoot to try and get on Kurwin's good side, or did he suddenly have a change of heart and realized that Kurwin needed to know about their planned mutiny before anyone else got hurt? Or was he The Mole all along who simply went along with Dirtfoot's plan and panicked when Dirtfoot threatened to kill him if he didn't kill Traegar and Kurwin?
    • Is Stinkfoot really a Token Good Teammate who's conflicted between doing what's right and doing what his "family" wants, or is he a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who uses his tragic backstory to try and get sympathy from others?
  • Anti-Climax Boss:
    • Blackheart doesn't even try to fight Urthquake and the Long Patrol. He hides in his longhouse until the fighting is over, fails to escape his fortress, and is promptly thrown from his fortress walls by Urthquake without even raising a weapon against him.
    • Jurlick. For all the time and effort he spent getting revenge on Benrath, he's quickly dispatched in the very next chapter after Benrath walks up to him and starts torturing him.
    • To some extent, Angus Renhym. For such a renowned Hero Killer, one would suspect the fight against him to last a while. He does get into a swordfight with Colonel Clannin and Sanjoy, but due to the arrow he took to his gut, it didn't last very long, and he's subdued not long afterwards.
  • Author's Saving Throw: After the first chunk of Book II, which featured at least three explicit rape scenes, a backstory dealing with parental abuse and incest, and the death of Tike Bonson, amongst other things, the author admitted that even he thought he went too far and was making the story too dark. The author then said he planned on toning down the characters deaths and darkness, and backed up his statement with two Breather Episodes that don't even so much as kill off a Red Shirt.
  • Base-Breaking Character:
  • Catharsis Factor:
    • It's impossible not to feel satisfied when Benrath tortured Jurlick, and then stabbed him in the eye in chapter 32, especially after Jurlick got Benrath gang-raped in the previous chapter.
    • Chapter 36 finally sees the brutal, over-the-top, well-deserved death of Angus Renhym, who had just finished torturing Tike Bonson to death in front of Honward.
  • Crosses the Line Twice:
    • When Blowhorn is hugging Slivik after he breaks down crying over his brother's death, Blowhorn tries to comfort him by thoroughly explaining how crying is like taking a shit.
    • In chapter 20, Jamey and Eve explain where babes come from by telling several young ones that their fathers shoved their long sticks into their mothers' cherry-flavored cakes.
  • Designated Hero: The Long Patrol doesn't exactly rub off as being "heroic," even for the story's grim setting.
    • Urthquake is blatantly racist against vermin, and he has no problem with brutally murdering anybeast who's even associated with their kind. He kills a defenseless, pregnant ferret in the first scene he shows up in without batting an eye, and he even goes as far as killing a slave simply because she had been (unwillingly) impregnated by one of Blackheart's soldiers. Urthquake doesn't care who he has to kill, or how many of his hares he must sacrifice in order to slay as many vermin as possible.
    • Some of the hares also qualify. Like Urthquake, some of them gleefully enjoy killing vermin just because of their species. They all willingly participate in slaughtering Tegast's tribe, and although a few hares call out Morson when he snaps Danik's neck, they just shrug it off a few minutes later when Urthquake brings up that they're going to meet the Guosim tribe for some R&R.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Jurlick jokes more than once that Benrath enjoys having sex with his father. We later find out that Log-a-Log has been raping Benrath for several years, which make all his slanderous comments that much crueler.
    • In chapter 19, Ozgin bluntly tells Tike Bonson that bringing about peace by shedding blood is hypocritical, and that fighting believing that ideal will work is gonna get him killed. He ends up getting killed by Angus Renhym, shortly after telling the weasel that creatures like him deserve to die.
    • Chapter 19 also has Ozgin telling Tike that she could leave the Long Patrol and no one would care the next day. She dies in chapter 20, and when Fenson and Frenquil find her body, Fenson points out that no one liked her.
  • Iron Woobie: Tegast. His entire family is slaughtered by the Long Patrol in the first chapter he appears in and he frequently runs into danger. But instead of spending all his time mourning their deaths or moping around, he continues to press on, hoping to find a safe haven sooner or later.
  • Jerkass Woobie:
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    • If Urthquake didn't cross it when he killed the pregnant ferret in the first chapter, he definitely crossed it when he killed the pregnant slave in chapter nine. Keep in mind, this was a slave who was raped repeatedly by Blackheart's soldiers.
    • Jurlick crosses it when he kills Lugo and manipulates Rowgat into gathering up several lizards so they can gang-rape Benrath.
    • Log-a-Log Brugo crossed it before the story even started. It turns out that he murdered Benrath's parents when he was only a child and adopted him. After that, he developed an incestuous relationship with his son when he wasn't even two years old and proceeded to rape him multiple times as he grew older.
  • Narm:
    • As mentioned below, the lizard orgy from Chapter 18 is quite disgusting. But it's also so over-the-top that some readers found it more funny than gross.
    • Many moments where it seems like the author is trying a little too hard to be dark. See the entries for Squick.
  • Nausea Fuel:
  • Padding: Occurs every so often, especially when it comes to the major battle scenes, some of which could put a Transformers Film Series movie to shame.
  • Squick:
    • Some of the deaths are too detailed, the most notable example being Nelldyne, who's punched so hard by Urthquake that his rotten teeth fly out his mouth and his left eye is pushed out of its socket and left dangling by its optic nerve.
    • Blackheart sticking his penis into a dehydrated hedgehog's mouth and then forcing him to drink his piss in chapter 7.
    • Blowhorn shitting himself in chapter 12. Twice. Not only did he do so on purpose both times, but it's implied that he thoroughly enjoyed it.
    • Benrath having a few shrews hold Jurlick down and pry his mouth open so he can take a shit inside his mouth.
    • Chapter 17 reveals that Stink Mouth got his nickname because he's fond of eating pellets. The same chapter also depicts Lakler digging through a compost heap and gleefully eating a rotten tomato and carrot.
    • The infamous lizard orgy from Chapter 18, which depicted (in full detail) Luggrar and Emarsk having sex on top of a shrew's mutilated corpse, and Gila the Putrid throwing up all over a monitor, and then sodomizing him while they're covered in bile.
    • Chapter 20 shows Lakler gleefully urinating on a hedgehog to arouse her. It works.
    • Chapter 29 implies that Yeller may or may not have mixed urine with the grog he and Ishlin drank.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
    • Or in this case, a perfectly good cast. Chapter 7 was a Villain Episode that mostly focused on Blackheart and several of his minions, all of whom are given names and have personalities that are vastly different from one another. Blackheart and his entire army could've easily been a Disc-One Final Boss for the Long Patrol, spanning the course of several chapters that involved both factions clashing with each other. Instead, chapter 8 killed off every single one of these characters, and Blackheart is reduced to nothing more than a minor Arc Villain.
    • Longfang, to some extent. He's the very first pirate to get an entire chapter that focused on him and how he joined Kurwin's crew. Right when it seemed like he was about to become a major character and play an important role in the story, he gets four arrows to the back.
    • Plaskin. Got no Character Development, got very little backstory, only appeared in a few chapters, and his Foreshadowing that there might be wolverines lurking about ends up being scrapped. His death seemed to hold no meaning other than to traumatize Razzik even further.
    • Corporal Ozgin. Chapter 18 and 19 spend loads of time developing her character, and it's revealed that she's not so different from Tike, despite being a huge Jerkass. While Tike remained optimistic after joining the Long Patrol, Ozgin turned into a pessimist and hated everyone and everything around her. When she started to open up to Tike at the end of chapter 19, she very easily could've become a Foil for Tike and developed even further later on. Instead, she's brutally killed off in the next chapter.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: At the end of chapter 19, Ozgin planned on leaving the Long Patrol and asked Tike to come join her. Had either of them gone through with it, it could've led to an interesting subplot of the two trying to survive on their own, delving into each other's backstories, etc. This subplot is thrown out the door when Ozgin and Tike are killed off, thus eradicating the chance of either of them leaving.
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The story's in danger of becoming this.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Stinkfoot comes off as this in chapter 12. His backstory is clearly made to make him very sympathetic, but the fact that he told Pillard about his past almost immediately before demanding the location of the Mossflower Squirrel Brigade's campsite makes it seem like he was using his tragic backstory as an excuse to get Pillard to lower his guard. The fact that he never stops members of Kurwin's crew from raping or killing innocent beasts (which he shamelessly confesses) makes him come off more as a Hypocrite and borderline Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
  • The Woobie: Benrath Brugo. His parents were murdered when he was a babe, his adoptive father abused and raped him constantly throughout his life, and some members of the Guosim bullied him for being gay. Just when things start looking up for him, he's brutally gang-raped by Rowgat and several monitors.

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