Episode 10: Pride Law

Episode 10: Pride Law is the tenth episode of My Pride, and the last episode of Season 1.

The episode premiered worldwide on YouTube on February 28th, 2021.

Characters

 * Nothing
 * Feather
 * Fire
 * Moonstrike
 * Quill
 * Streambabble
 * Sidewinder
 * Moondust
 * Ghost
 * Tangle (Flashback and through Ghost)
 * Proudmane (mentioned by Fire)
 * Starmane (mentioned by Fire)

Content Warning

 * Violence
 * Trauma
 * Gore
 * Starvation
 * Ableism
 * Jump Scares
 * Suicidal Ideation

Deaths

 * Tangle

Summary
Fire talks with Nothing about how he has always helped her after their father died. Then, he says that now, he needs her help. Nothing realizes that Fire means that he needs her to let him kill Feather so he can become the new mane of the new pride. Nothing yells at Feather to run, but Fire attacks him and bites down his neck, and Feather goes limb. Nothing is devastated and asks Fire how could he do such a thing, considering that Feather had saved his life that day. Fire replies that he's sorry, but that this was what Pride Law demanded. Nothing roars at Fire. Streambabble, a huntress from the pride, recognizes it as a No-Mane's challenge roar. Fire tells Nothing to stop, but she roars again, saying that she's challenging Fire for his pride. They start fighting and Fire starts arguing on how he was the only one who cared about her in their old pride. Fire pins Nothing to the ground and says that he told her to back down when she had the chance. Then, the screen goes black. When it comes back, Nothing is laying on the ground, covered in claw marks, and bleeding from her mouth and nose.

Fire then starts to beg her to join his pride, promising he that she'll be safe and he'll look after his mates and give them all a happy life. Nothing refuses, however, claiming that her destiny is to fight him. They growl at each other, but before another fight can happen, Ghost appears between them, informing Nothing that the Shifting Place is near and that they must hurry. Both are surprised and Fire snarls at Ghost to leave, threatening him by saying that he's the pride's mane. In response, Ghost uses his power to let Tangle speak through him, and reveals how he died. Him and Fire were starving on the prideless stretch and, wanting to find some food, Tangle left and managed to catch prey for the both of them. However, Fire had believed that he was going to take it all for himself, and killed him for it. The vision ends with Tangle repeating in a broken tone on how he was going to share it over and over again until Fire begs Ghost to stop. He tries one more time to convince Nothing to stay with him, but she refuses, following Ghost and leaving Fire with the pride. When they reach the Shifting Place, Nothing admits that she was serious when she told Fire to kill her and how she can't see how she can go on anymore with all the pain she's gone through. Ghost comforts her, saying that even though she has suffered greatly throughout her life, she never let it affect how she treats others and still wants to do good for this world, as does he. The episode ends with Nothing stepping through the foggy Shifting Place just before it vanishes.

After the credits scene, Feather is running after her paw tracks, yelling her name desperately and saying that he was only faking his death, and that he managed to get away. He halts as he comes to the end of her tracks, looking out at the stretch as he calls out his cousin's name before it cuts to black.

Trivia

 * Episode 10's cover was released to the public on February 7th, 21 days before its air date.
 * Episode 10 was the first episode to have an after credits scene.
 * The line "get over here, Feather!" said by Fire, was actually never in the script. It was improvised by his voice actor, Caleb Calderon. Tribbleofdoom just so happened to love that take on the scene, and so she kept it in the final product.
 * It was revealed by Tribble in a Discord call that Nothing was supposed to get knocked down by Fire during his attack on Feather. But, because of not having enough funds, the creators had to leave her standing, in the final scene.