Skyfire

Skyfire started out as a subcaptain in a vermin horde known as the Nighthunt in the epic Redwall fanfic Vengeance Quest (rated R for violence and sexual references, NSFW). Agents Laburnum and Foxglove, sent to investigate the potential Sue qualities of the heroine Riala Goldentail, found to their pleasant surprise that it was actually rather good, having slipped through the net when an Intelligence agent was ill.

-SPOILERS FOR VQ AHEAD.-

Unfortunately, they also discovered the fic was rather violent and prone to featuring characters being killed in creative ways. Two of said characters were Skyfire and a fellow Nighthunt member named Stormsong. Laburnum and Foxglove, despite their love for a good splatter scene, finally discovered their consciences, or possibly just wanted to do SOMETHING since they were already wasting time being in the fic without being allowed to kill anything, and saved these two characters from gruesome ends, though it's debateable as to whether their new life in Bad Slash is preferable to said gruesome ends. Skyfire at least does seem to be coping fairly well, and bears the Bad Slash rubber ducky with pride.

Skyfire is unusually sweet-natured for a Mossflower stoat, and her combat skills translated quite well into exorcism techniques (she’s strong enough to pin down just about any possessed victim, and swordplay strengthens one’s paws nicely for bell-work). She considers humans to be extremely weird, and considering the humans she knows is probably entirely correct in this assessment, but she gets on quite well with them. She seems to be the only comparatively emotionally-healthy member of the little group (at least by PPC standards), and is generally the one who drags her friends to their group therapy sessions and shouts at the assassins when they do something particularly grotesque to a Sue, mostly out of worry that one day they’ll slip up and try it on a real person. Bets are being placed on when she’s going to snap – as they say, it’s always the quiet ones. Alternate rumour has it that she actually enjoys the job, but that can’t possibly be true. If it was fun, it wouldn’t be Bad Slash work.

Currently she and her room-mate are fostering Molly Rath and Moses Taggson. The official story is that the kids would settle in better if they were allowed to be around their own kind, but most people are convinced it was entirely because the Sunflower Official hates them after the chaos caused by their recruitment. Skyfire remains oblivious to Molly’s psychotic tendencies, writing them off as perfectly normal for a ferret kit. Skyfire is trying hard to be a textbook “good mommy”, but somehow remains oblivious to Molly’s violent tendencies, writing them off with “Well, who can blame her with a backstory like that?” This can probably be blamed on the Laws of Comedy, since Skyfire is of perfectly normal intelligence in all other areas. Or possibly it’s just Molly’s disarming cuteness. It takes a very well-prepared mind to resist a small fluffy ferret kit who’s looking up at you and calling you “New Mama”.