Made The Mistake Of Pulling Out Long Patrol To Look Something Up Real Quick, Ended Up Getting Absorbed

Made the mistake of pulling out Long Patrol to look something up real quick, ended up getting absorbed in just reading the first few chapters because even all these years later it's still very well written.

Bragoon: Plan F. We follow Plan F, right now.

Horty: Is that the one where we run away?

Saro: Not at all. It’s the one where we beat a dignified emergency retreat.

Bragoon: You’re thinking of Plan G, Horty. They’re similar.

Joseph: [to Mariel] We need to go over the ground rules for tonight.

Joseph: No boys, no parties, no summoning spirits or switching bodies, and no filling the house with soap bubbles.

“Martin needs an afterlife hobby”

Martin needs an afterlife hobby. I'm beginning to remember why I've always preferred him alive despite that only being three books.

Actually I know it's a lil weird but I wanna ramble about Redwall for a bit

(cut so this ain't a long post)

It's really fitting how both Martin and Matthais were both just random kids in the eyes of Redwall. (Well, Mossflower in Martin's case.) Like we know Martin's origins and where he came from and even who his dad is, but to those who live in the Mossflower area he's just a plucky kid who shows up out of nowhere, gets jailed by Queen Tsarmina, then fights himself nearly to death in order to overthrow her. Meanwhile, Matthais is a kid who grew up at Redwall with uncertain origins and ends up being Martin's ancestor / reincarnation?? This kid outta nowhere really got a whole plot puzzle dumped on him and then ended up a hero hahaha.

On that note, I don't think I'll ever forget Matthais' name or call him that because of those puzzles. In my head he is always first and foremost "I, am that is". (Which is followed always by "My sword will wield for me" that part stuck in my head it lives there thanks Brian Jacques)

I have forgotten a lot though, like I don't remember a lot of other notable character names unfortunately. I remember Chickenhound, Cluny the Scourge, and that's about it. Is there a notable Mole character? The moles have always been my favourite, I love their chill and soft cadences while also possessing their big ol' claws, but they all had the same voice in my head so telling them apart was hard. (For that matter, their accent was hard to interpret at times, but that's a dyslexic thing.)

The Hares and Squirrels gotta be my second favourites, though it is a little strange that both were warrior races. Squirrels always being ready to throw down while Hares are master tacticians (and big eaters) is a lot of fun, though. It just makes sense. And I think the one hare and the mom squirrel became good friends in one book? (Can't remember if Mossflower or Redwall) and I adored that.

Hey actual Badgers are not that peaceful. It's weird that all male badgers were lords of the forge and fighters while the females were usually matriarchal and capable of fighting, but usually super nurturing. If one of the later books had a female lord of the forge that's sick as hell but where is my male badger wetnurse. (Sunstripe is another name I will remember forever. I think he was the son of the Redwall mother? And they found that out in Mattimeo?? I really have to reread these books.)

Yo shoutout to my girl Mariel for getting blasted onto the scene by choosing violence as her answer to most things. Girl woke up on a beach with amnesia, found a rope with a knot at the end, and scared off the seagulls looking to eat her with only that and then screamed into the ocean that she was gonna fuck shit up. We stan a legend I love her forever.

That's all the memories I got. I love this series it carried me through middle school ;w;

Those annotations I did to Martin’s I-Am That Is poem!

I’m not gonna write them all out now but it’s good stuff