User:Redfur the Herbalist

Redfur has been a creation of my mind since 2004, back when the Redwall book series was what I breathed and ate. She has been my fond tool in many a Redwall roleplay, and the unspoken mascot for a Redwall world I once created, digitally, in the MMO Furcadia (this world has since been discontinued, as I grew older and obtained many more responsibilities). Only lately has my interested in Redwall been rekindled, thanks to a sudden decision to obtain a library card and finding a nice collection of Redwall audiobooks within those sacred walls.

Redfur is a vixen, a female fox. Despite her name, her fur is more brown in coloration, with a lighter tinge on her underside. Her eyes are a common gold. What's not common, however, is her disposition. In the years before, I actually played her as a "goodbeast," the Healer of Redwall Abbey with a fondness for the Dibbuns that ran about her footpaws. Though she lived peacefully within the sandstone walls of the abbey, she was prone to anger and quick, snippy outbursts. If ever she found herself in battle, a sort of wrath overcame her and all sense of benevolence was lost. This was due in part to her vermin past, as brief as it may have been. She was, of course, born to foxes of dark countenance, members of a small vermin horde of no renown. While she was just a babe, her older brother, Blackfur (yeah, I was creative...) betrayed his own family, slaughtering their mother and father and leaving helpless Redfur to perish. She was instead found and brought up by a rat, whose name escapes me. This part of her past was never really formed in my mind, but somehow she wound up in Redwall thanks to aid of a mouse warrior that she precariously befriended.

I've rewritten Redfur a bit lately, in honor of Brian Jacques' "a vermin will never be a goodbeast, and a Redwaller will never be a foebeast," and to make her a little less cliche and a little less important in the Redwall world. Currently I have her in a more neutral status, a sort of solitary wanderer throughout the Mossflower countryside with excellent knowledge of the local flora--particularly the kind that can heal, or harm. Though she does not truly align herself with anybeast, she is much more inclined to help those that mean her no harm.

I have yet to roleplay Redfur in her newly written role.