#Rose of redwall

[rose-of-redwall]

I crocheted a portrait of Martin the Warrior!

A part of the Redwall tapestry based on its depiction in the Nelvana show! It's based on my own pattern of that image. If anyone remembers the necklace I cross-stitched, it's an adaptation of that same home-made pattern.

Do you think anyone would be interested in purchasing one of these tapestries?

[oldfashionedbooklove]

I honestly don’t think there’s a single character death in all the thousands of books I’ve read that affects me as much as Rose. I want to cry every time. It just shreds me 💔 poor Martin. Every time I hear this song, every time I think of her death or read about it, it breaks me all over again and I feel as sad as if she was someone real…

You will find me at Noonvale on the side of a hill When the summer is peaceful and high, There where streamlets meander the valley is still, ‘Neath the blue of a calm cloudless sky …

Look for me at the dawning when the earth is asleep. Till each dewdrop is kissing by the day, ‘Neath the rowan and alder a vigil I’ll keep, Every moment that you are away …

The old earth gently turns as the seasons change slowly. All the flowers and leaves born to wane. Hear my song o’er the lea, like the wind soft and lowly. Oh, please come back to Noonvale again.

—Martin the Warrior

[rose-of-redwall]

Me ☺️

Louis Sargent, Wild Beasts of the World, 1909

[eleanorose123]

who says i am dead, knows not at all i am that is two mice within redwall

(redbubble - matthias - martin - warrior) (ko-fi)

[rose-of-redwall]

I got a Redwall tattoo for my 20th birthday ♥️🛡️🐁♥️

I wanted to share with all of you. This was my first tattoo! I'm so excited! I'll try to share again when the tattoo is healed.

[rose-of-redwall]

I LOVE THEMMMMMMM aghrahhgahghggg. You know he was trying out "yo" because he heard it somewhere.

Tarquin: Yo Rosie: Adress me properly Tarquin: Good evening my queen

[stearleart]

Brome's pirate disguise

Digital illustration Brome in his his pirate persona, Bucktail! This is an interoperation of a scene from Brian Jacque's classic, Martin the Warrior. I've adopted a spanking new style when it comes to the shading.

[incorrectredwallquotes]

Rose: I’m not being too intense. Martin: When you’re talking about Christmas caroling, you shouldn’t have to use the term “flanking maneuver”.

[stainlesssteellocust]

I remembered Cregga was crazy but wow this girl is crazy crazy

[eleanorose123]

a little Redwall Reanimated for funsies lol

[rose-of-redwall]

I found a very old drawing of my hare character in my dad's filing cabinet ☺️

Her name is Luanyn and she carries a longbow ☺️😇🐇

[afriendofmara]

Was discussing anthropomorphic animals with a friend and I mentioned I would fuck Martin the Warrior so fast bc he's like if a butch lesbian were a mouse. And my friends giggled and went "oh ok, sure. Lol" I said nono, let me show you. Pulled up the character reference for the show. They all said "wow ok you are right thats a butch lesbian mouse. Alright pop off." YEAH THATS WHY I SAID IT.

Anyway. Guys I'd give anything to mouse lesbian date Martin the warrior. She's so beautiful and cool and smart and queer

[stearleart]

Heh, Butt mole!

[awesomebutunpractical]

I remember once I was on a Redwall forum and this poor kid was insisting that Rose's death was stupid because who'd die from hitting their head and I was just kind of... I could say something but I don't think I want to traumatize anyone today.

[rose-of-redwall]

Incredibly written, both of you, friends. I love all of Martin's story; his patronage toward all abbeydwellers and even goodbeasts beyond Mosslfower, and especially the tragedy and unfinishedness of his earlier life. I don't know why, but I find safety in the things that Martin lost and the way that is accepted and respected in the story. I think Jacques writes very good characters.

Also, I find it symbolically interesting that Gonff went on to father many children, while his best friend's life ended with no offspring but generations of Redwallers to call family. Their paths are both opposites and parallel. And Jacques always said that Gonff was inspired by himself.

I remember the thing that most struck me in Redwall as a kid was that I expected Martin to have a wife and kids. He’s the spiritual father of the abbey with Germaine as its mother, he’s a mentor/father figure to the various orphan protagonists even if he is a ghost. The ultimate unattainable dad.

But, hopping back to Mossflower, he’s a virginal hero-knight, kindly but aloof compared to the more involved Gonff. Back further to Martin the Warrior, his relationship with Rose is beyond kids’-book chaste. I can’t even remember if it’s canonically a romance or just by implication.

Some of that may be the Christian influence, Martin as Galahad or a Christ-figure, unsullied by earthly desires. Kid me remembered it more as an abortion or stunting of his role in the story. He’s the hero. He’s supposed to win the day, get the girl, settle down, have a brood. Instead, Jacques takes care to show him as a person missing something. He’s incomplete.

From the earliest point in his chronology, he’s lost away from home. We never see him in his natural habitat. He loses the girl who was supposed to be his great love. He can’t even have Timballisto, who seems like one bright spot and then gets gently referred to in the past tense in Legend of Luke. Martin’s defining characteristic is that he’s an outsider, he’s too late, he’s stopped short, he’s unable to achieve his destiny as the hero, he has to instead become the mentor

[zeron1nezero]

I’ve been reading through Redwall books again and the Badger Lords always go so hard imo. Cregga Rose Eyes is one of THE characters of all time and I will not hear any slander towards my berserker queen.