#on to mariel of redwall

[pitviperofdoom]

Mattimeo is just full of ineffectual main villains, it's great. I've already done my rant on how stupid Ironbeak is but honestly? Nadaz?? Spends the entire final battle yelling at mooks before hiding in a statue and dying. Malkariss?? The text literally describes him as "gross" and he's stoned to death by angry slaves about ten seconds after he appears. Slagar?? The actual main villain of the book?? Yeah remember his hyped-up deadly skill with the bolas? He uses them one time in the entire novel, and it's to kill the most pathetic and combat-useless member of the villain squad for basically no reason. He climbs out of a well, spots the angry protagonists gunning for him, then turns to run and falls down the same well he just climbed out of.

This isn't a complaint, I just think it's hilarious that this book builds up these menacing villains only for them to do nothing at the end and then die. It almost makes Ironbeak look cool just by comparison, but then I remember that several of his soldiers told him hey boss you know how basically our only advantage against these people is the fact that we can fly and they can't? well they just took in a big raptor, yeah a big fuckoff bird of prey with talons and everything, they have one of those now

To which he responds with "No they don't, shut up" and then the big raptor kills him.

Absolute morons. I love this book.

[incorrectredwallquotes]

Tarquin, to Rosie: I don’t know how to flirt but I can make things awkward if you're into that

[spanakorizzo]

More redwall doodles

[its-to-the-death]

Fictional Weapon War Preliminary Round #38 - Favorites Round

Some of my favorite weapons. Choose one to make it into the bracket!

I just want to say that I have never read Mariel of Redwall but the explanation the submission was really good. Take a look at this:

That's badass

[inu-jiru]

"The Mousemaid From the Sea"

Something not-Vivziepop related, wow, lol, but I've been getting back into the Redwall series, and Mariel is absolutely iconic, so I decided to try drawing her and her trusty Gullwhacker ^^

[matt0044]

Any Redwall Artists out there?

I'm enjoy Mariel of Redwall and curious if there are any artists who'd be able to capture the art style of the 1999 animated adaptation. I'm curious to see what other scenes from the books would look like if adapted in its art style.

[lostmidnightwriter]

[mice-rats-daily]

Today’s mouse is Mariel from Redwall!

[jenster21]

Mariel x Dandin is also a top ship

[redwalltournaments]

This is now my blog for any Redwall themed tournaments I feel like doing or that anyone else may suggest. Best Villain and Most Tragic Death have been done elsewhere but anything else is fair game.

Same mod as @incorrectredwallquotes

Starting out simple with best Redwall book. In order to make the math pretty I’ve included The Great Redwall Feast and A Redwall Winters Tale, additionally the semi-finals will feature triple contestants. Polls will last a week to get some traction.

Match Ups Round 1:

Redwall vs. Eualia Winner: Redwall

Lord Brocktree vs. Marlfox Winner: Marlfox

The Long Patrol vs. Mariel of Redwall Winner: Mariel of Redwall

Rakkety Tam vs. Martin the Warrior Winner: Martin the Warrior

Triss vs. A Redwall Winters Tale Winner: Triss

Mattimeo vs. Outcast of Redwall Winner: Mattimeo

Salamandastron vs. High Rhulain Winner: Salamandastron

Pearls of Lutra vs. Doomwyte Winner: Pearls of Lutra

The Bellmaker vs. Mossflower Winner: Mossflower

The Great Redwall Feast vs. The Sable Quean Winner: The Sable Quean

Loamhedge vs. The Taggerung Winner: The Taggerung

Legend of Luke vs. The Rogue Crew Winner: Legend of Luke

Match Ups Round 2:

Redwall vs. Marlfox Winner: Redwall

Mariel of Redwall vs. Martin the Warrior Winner: Martin the Warrior

Triss vs. Mattimeo Winner: Mattimeo

Salamandastron vs. Pearls of Lutra Winner: Pearls of Lutra

Mossflower vs. The Sable Quean Winner: Mossflower

The Taggerung vs. Legend of Luke Winner: The Taggerung

Match Ups Round 3:

For this round only one contestant will be eliminated, the remaining two contestants will swap competitors and move onto the semi-finals.

Redwall vs. Martin the Warrior vs. Mattimeo Eliminated: Mattimeo

Pearls of Lutra vs. Mossflower vs. The Taggerung Eliminated: Pearls of Lutra

Match Ups Semi-Finals

Contestants have swapped competitors to avoid going against the same book as the previous round.

Martin the Warrior vs. The Taggerung

Redwall vs. Mossflower

Finals

Martin the Warrior vs. Mossflower

[rose-of-redwall]

Speaking of Cluny's characterization, did you know that four out of the twenty-two books have rats as their main villain?

Mariel of Redwall with Gabool the Wild, a searat

Redwall (of course) with Cluny the Scourge, a bilge rat

The Long Patrol with Damug Warfang, a greatrat (apparently)

and Loamhedge with Raga Bol, written in the wiki just as "rat."

Interesting, huh? That's 18%

Ooooooo do I have the mind to bring an old project backkkk!!

[son-of-drogo]

Most Redwall warriors: Martin came to me in my dreams and now I will protect my Abby with his sword.

Mariel Gullwacker: I'm going to beat you to death with a rope.

[incorrectredwallquotes]

Mariel: You know, I blame Gabool for this. And Tarquin, I blame him too. Tarquin: What did I do? Mariel: I’m sure you did something.

[pitviperofdoom]

I'm sure this has been discussed before, in years past when Redwall was a more active fandom, but. Man Brian Jacques really just flat out forgot what Rufe Brush's personality was supposed to be between Mariel of Redwall and The Bellmaker, didn't he.

I was all for giving him the benefit of the doubt, like maybe since Rufe gets more spotlight in Bellmaker we're just seeing a new side to him or realizing that his "strong, silent" persona was actually just shyness.

But no, Rufe straight up goes from stoically helping lead the Abbey's defenses against Graypatch in one book, to cringing and flinching at the thought of stealing the Pearl Queen in the next. The shrews lend him a rapier and he barely knows which end he's supposed to point. Like buddy why are you shivering in your boots at the thought of facing down a searat crew when you were literally chucking javelins at a different searat crew in the last book you were in.

I'm just going to pretend that Rufe Brush post-Mariel left the abbey to go keep watch for bandits in the woods and left his bellringer duties to his younger and more timid brother, also named Rufe Brush.

[moonybadger]

🐭♥️ Redwall Couples... TWO ♥️🐰

Presenting Gonff and Columbine (Mossflower, Legend of Luke), Hon Rosie and Tarquin (Mariel of Redwall, The Bellmaker), and Tammo and Pasque (The Long Patrol)!

I probably should have found a third hare couple to include in this one to make it more appropriately hare themed... but I really wanted to draw Gonff and Columbine V_V

[taleweaver-ramblings]

In the tags on the Mossflower post you reblogged you said that it wasn't your favorite (like it seemed to be op's). Which would you say Is your favorite 👀

This is a very hard question, and my Great Redwall Reread of a few years ago actually made it harder. It is, to be frank, easier to tell you my least favorite than my favorite. But if I must make some choice, it's a five-way tie between Lord Brocktree, High Rhulain, Rakkety Tam, Pearls of Lutra, and Mattimeo.

Lord Brocktree has the fabulous dynamic between the main characters (especially Brocktree and Dotti), Bucko's challenges, pretty much EVERYTHING with the hares, a stellar example of rivals-to-friends, and a pretty epic ending.

High Rhulain, Pearls of Lutra, and Mattimeo all have the riddles/treasure hunt thing going on, which I will never not love. As far as I was concerned, that was a plotline Jacques could repeat as many times as he wanted and I'd be happy.

High Rhulain is probably also a major source of my love of the "young person has nobility unexpectedly thrust upon them; must figure out How Does One Royal?" trope. And it has both hares and otters (my two favorite Redwall races) in major roles! This makes me happy.

Pearls of Lutra is actually my favorite of the treasure-hunt plots, and I think it's the best of the seafaring Redwall books. It's still in the era where we're seeing the overlap of different generations, and we see the young characters from past books grown up, and I really enjoyed that while it lasted. It also has one of the best sympathetic villain characters in the series . . . and I just like Grath Longfletch as a character, what can I say?

Rakkety Tam is Scottish squirrels. Enough said.

(Ok, but actually you have Scottish squirrels, plus the Long Patrol, plus Tergen (who is Excellent), plus a really cute romance? I also love the poems that bracket the different sections. And can we TALK about the final battle? It is arguably the MOST impressive fight, at least in terms of power imbalance, since Martin vs. Tsarmina in Mossflower. Rakkety Tam takes on the evil equivalent of a badger. And WINS. Literally the only reason this is not hands-down my favorite book is the existence of Yoofus, who annoys me so much.)

Finally, Mattimeo really just has almost everything I love about the Redwall series, both the A and B plots are excellent, and it's another one of the stories where you get to see some of the next generation. And it has the Sparra in it — I was so sad when Jacques dropped them from the narrative.

So, yes. Those are probably my favorites. I do love a lot of the series, though, so it's very hard to choose! And I recognize that not all of these have the Significance or Weight of Mossflower, and some of them may be technically weaker books . . . but they're the ones I've loved since the first time I read the series, and that I've only come to love more in the times I've reread them.