User blog comment:Bluestripe the Wild/Gray Characters In Redwall/@comment-32303-20091029185922

In this essay, you say, and I quote, "I know that it seems evil when some gray characters attempt or threaten to kill another character is bad, but the Grumpy Watervole actually succeeded" and "I think that if you attempt to kill a goodbeast, you are classified as a villain; if you're in a right state of mind, there's no excuse for that." In that case, the shrew Fenno from Marlfox can't be classed as a gray character because he murdered Log-a-Log by throwing his rapier into his back, and he wasn't insane at the time he did it.