#motherfucker hangs out on inhabited islands with the whole of arc 4 thunderclan at his heels

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linebeck would probably be a cat person and in addition to not really enjoying the company of other people would rather hang out with cats. there’s a whole group of cats that live on mercay, some of them being pets to the people who live there and some of them being strays that hang around the port or wildcats that live in the forest.

linebeck can’t be bothered to learn the names of any of the people on mercay but has gone out of his way to give names to every cat and does his best to individually identify them based on fur and brings little food scraps or leftover fish with him to mercay specifically so he can feed all of the cats because cats are easier to please and understand than people and they purr and rub against his legs and hang out with him and linebeck does not care about anyone on mercay except these cats and has figured out what fish each cat seems to like best.

of course this leads to him getting followed around by this whole clutter of affectionate cats every time he steps foot on the island and he really would not rather divulge that he hangs out at night with these cats and just tries his best to pass it off like he probably smells of fish or that he’s just naturally good with animals or whatever or something while there’s some kitten trying to climb up his leg while another cat keeps head-butting his ankle. at least one cat brings him a dead mouse or something every mercay visit. linebeck misses the cats most of all after he leaves the world of the ocean king.

thankfully it turns out that windfall island also happens to have a bunch of cats living on it and in the roughly two weeks he hangs around there with link he has these cats following him around too and bringing him little gifts. man might as well be made of catnip and he wouldn’t have it any other way.