Ok! Hi! So! I was going to drop this on the finder, but then y'all let me into your little chat group thingy so I figured I'd pop it here instead!
Shrew's been around for multiple IRL years with one missing spell, and I feel like his history could tie in pretty interestingly to your plot? Up to y'all obviously, but I'm just going to.....barf all my words out there.
He was still an apprentice when Dawnstar came to power, and was close to her former apprentice Blackhaze who turned against her, and in conjunction with a few other cats tried to start a rebellion. Shrew was part of this and was sort of dating Black's sister Foggybrook, who wasn't aware of what was going on. When the rebellion got squashed & Black was killed he kept his mouth shut, but having been generally cheerful before became much more serious and solemn and snappish as he was rather paranoid that he wouldn't be able to protect Foggy and himself.
Around the time he got his warrior name he also became big rivals with two brothers Frogfang and Fiercefire, which led to him being even more paranoid about general life and extra grumpy, plus doing a lot of battle training/fighting with them. He eventually found a new mate, Lilyheart, and had kits and sort of forced himself into being more friendly for their sake, but was definitely a very vigilant fellow still.
Now that they're all missing and he's been out of the clan for a while and thinks that the rebellion thing is largely forgotten, Shrew is back to more easygoing seeing as its only himself he has to keep safe. He's always been a bit of a flirter/charmer but I'm letting that have more airtime, and he's generally more of an earlier version of himself who didn't have rivals plotting on his downfall and a bunch of cats to protect. That being said he'll always be suspicious of Dawnstar despite being an enforcer, though he's smart enough to keep it under wraps.
I'm not sure what you'd want to do with him, whether he simply be Shadepaw's mentor who enables in any way you would like me to or whether he tries to chat up Clove (he's about 40 moons) or she tries to manipulate him in any way or some combination of the above. We can just spitball for the moment? @
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