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"Read them, eat them, whatever mood strikes me."- Ripred

Ripred is a rebellious gnawer, and many of his species agree that he is a traitor to his kind, because of his alliance and aid to humans. He is an intelligent, strategic, and deadly rager, and is also very wise and knowledgable about the Underland's many species and locations. Marked 'the peacemaker,' with two scars on his face that make an X, his goal has been indeed to restore peace to the Underland--for everyone, not just the humans or only the rats.

Ripred and Gregor have a strong bond as ragers and fighters for the peace. Working together they have completed several quests/missions striving toward that goal. Ripred is a wise but not always kind or patient teacher, but he did succeed in teaching Gregor to use echolocation, which let him see and fight in complete darkness using sound. He has also helped to improve Gregor and Ares' battle skills in many ways.

Appearance[]

Ripred is a six foot tall rat. He slouches, except when fighting. He has a diagonal scar on his face.

Personality[]

Ripred is Luxa's bond, a way to ensure peace between the humans and the gnawers. He is also a friend to Lizzie, Gregor's little sister, who loves him very much as a fatherly figure. This is because of the food Lizzie forced Gregor to bring to him. Ripred, Solovet, and Vikus work together in various combinations for battle strategy and command, discussing the issue of peace, the prophecies, and over Gregor's role as a warrior. Ripred is bossy and disagreeable and thinks his plans are always best (which usually they are) and uses Sandwich's Prophecies to manipulate the humans into doing what he wants or needs them to, though not believing in them himself. Ripred overall is a humorous, trustworthy, stubborn, fierce, intelligent, and mysterious character who plays an important and intriguing part in the intricate story of good in evil in the Underland Chronicles.

History[]

Ripred's mate and pups died about 10 years before the series is set. This is the reason Ripred treats Lizzie better than he treated Boots, as Lizzie reminded Ripred of his deceased daughter, Silksharp. His family drowned when the dike was opened in the battle of Garden of Hesperides.

Biography[]

Gregor the Overlander[]

Ripred joins the quest. He was planning to take down King Gorger.

Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane[]

Ripred delivers Twitchtip, a scent seer, and leaves for the dead land. Later, he takes in the Bane.

Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods[]

Ripred represents the gnawers along with Mange and Lapblood. Once they leave the party finds Hamnet, who is suposed to be their guide for the journey to the vineyard of eyes. Ripred and Hamnet are the unofficial leaders of the journey, being the most capable and strong. Mange, Lapblood, and Gregor go out to find some food, but instead encounter a venus fly trap- like creature, which Ripred admonishes them for. The group eventually finds the cure, but are attacked by Cutters. Hamnet and Frill are killed. Ripred and Lapblood leave for the deadland while the rest of their party proceed to Regalia.

Gregor and the Marks of Secret[]

Ripred helps on the quest to save the nibblers, providing much-needed plans using his incredible sense of smell. He was tracking the Bane, but he was outfought by the gnawer armies.

Gregor and the Code of Claw[]

Ripred goes to save Boots and Lizzie from the battle. Ripred is thought to be dead after a rat skeleton is discovered at the battlefield. It is later revealed he is not dead when he speaks for the rats at the surrender for the war. He survived by hiding under another's body, a rat named Cleaver. He is proclaimed the "peacemaker" and bonds with Luxa to end the war at the end of the book. Ripred also assumes the position of leading the rats as well as 'the peacemaker'.

Skills and Abilities[]

  • Advanced Sense of Smell: As a gnawer, he can smell things better than most creatures of the Underland.
  • Echolocation: Like the vast majority of the creatures in the Underland, he can locate objects by determining the time for an echo to return and the direction from which it returns.
  • Rager: As a rager, he is a natural-born fighter and killer. Due to years of practicing this skill, he is able to turn it on and off at will and control himself expertly during battle. He only begins to falter at four hundred to one. This skill is proven and tested a countless number of times.

Relationships[]

Luxa[]

Luxa is Ripred's bond. They bonded together at the end of The Code of Claw to stop a second human-gnawer war, this bond was made so Luxa and Ripred would trust each other.

Trivia[]

  1. If Suzanne Collins could invite any of the characters to have dinner with her family, she would invite Ripred, because he would have the most interesting stories.
    1. To irritate him, she says she would make him use a napkin in order to get dessert. Ripred would, since he loves food, but would glare at her the whole time.
    2. She would then ask all kinds of questions about being a rat and living alone in the Dead Lands and his family. She says she would also ask him about his opinion of New York City too.
    3. After dinner, they'd play Scrabble.
  2. Ripred bears some similarity to Haymitch Abernathy from Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy.
    1. Both are highly intelligent and cynical, and have an aversion to getting attached to people after those that they loved were murdered.
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