Gerill

[Ferdy]

Name: Gerill
Gender: Male
Age: 5
Species: Squirrel
Occupation: Resident Terror at Redwall

Physical Appearance:
Gerill is slightly short of his age and species. He has light red fur with a white underbelly. He is usually clad in a brown homespun smock with a pocket on it, tied with a small rope belt. He has amber colored eyes which are slightly too far apart. He is thin like most squirrels.


Possessions:
Gerill is fond of carrying sticks and pretending to fight villainous vermin.

Personality:
Gerill is very active. He likes to be doing things. He is very talkative and asks questions all the time. He resents authority a lot of the time, and thinks his ways are best. He seldom listens to his elders, unless he wants to. This has gotten him in trouble a few times. He mostly does naughty things to get attention. He loves to be the center of attention, even if that means he is in some kind of trouble. He loves to be around others, but can also be at home in a tree by himself.

Strengths:
Climbing- He is a squirrel and climbing comes as easily to him as breathing

Weaknesses:
Arrogance- He thinks he knows better than his elders most of the time and does what he wants no matter what the consequences. Reading- Gerill gets the letters mixed up in his head. They just don't make sense to him.

History:
Gerill was born to a squirrel couple in the western part of Mossflower wood. They lived about halfway between Salamandastron and the abbey. His father was a retired squirrel captain for the Squirrel king and queen. He and his bride moved out to focus on raising their three children. Gerill was the youngest. He had an older brother and sister.

The small squirrel family was doing well until the last winter. It was the harshest winter on record. The family did not have enough food to support all five of them. By this time the eldest child was old enough for service in the squirrel king's court so he left for a life of adventure and service. This left the parents with the decision of how to feed their family. They had family to the east, but they probably did not have enough food to host all four of the squirrels. They packed a haversack with their only daughter with half of the meager food they had. She made the journey alone. The parents knew their last remaining child would die if they did not do something. They decided one night that the abbey could take their child and raise him to be a gentlesquirrel and maybe even learn letters and become a scribe in the land someday. They packed up the rest of their possessions and left for the abbey. They knew this would be their last trip. They reached the abbey on the coldest day of the winter. They put their baby down on the path next to the main gate and banged a stick against the gate and retreated into the trees and were off, hoping they had made the right decision. They had determined they would come back for him when things got better.

Gerill was found by the badgermum and taken in out of the cold. He was cared for and fed. He grew and became a part of the family of abbey dwellers. He did not know what his parents did for him or even who they were. The abbey is only life he has ever known.

Relationships:
(Relatives or friends?)

Other:
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[Tracy]

Accepted.