Feather

"'All of this is wrong. I hate Pride Law. My family should still be alive, and we never should've had to leave.' [...] 'It shouldn't be. When I'm big, I'm gonna fix it. All of it! We won't ever be scared or sad or hungry ever again.' —Feather to Nothing in Episode 6: Prideless."

Feather is Nothing's cousin, as well as the deuteragonist of My Pride.

He was born to Quickmane and Waterhunter at the Sisters Steppe, alongside his two nameless sisters, Sister 1 and Sister 2.

After a No-Mane, Proud, killed his father and sisters, Nothing was exiled from the Pride, and Feather unknowingly followed her into exile. He and Nothing became Prideless to find Fire on The Prideless Stretch.

When his other cousin, Fire, tried to kill him in order to claim a Pride, Feather faked his death and got away during Nothing and Fire's fight. He got a scar on his neck and an injured foreleg from when Fire attacked him.

Personality

 * Feather is very cheerful, educated, energetic, and likes all the stories his grandmother, Sharptongue told him. He likes the story of when Nothing clawed out Quickmane's eye. He seems to like things he finds brave, such as Nothing ripping out his father's eye, disregarding the strange looks he gets from his sisters. However, Feather is a bit naive as he gave out the information of Quickmane being half-blind which gave Proud an advantage to kill Quickmane. He also glared at Farleap alongside his mother when she made fun of Nothing during her assessment. He dreamed of being a great lion, very strong, muscular, and a great warrior. He thinks of becoming a great Mane and having many members in his Pride. He comes from a lineage of great Manes, and dreams of being equal to his ancestors.


 * Feather is also shown to be smart as he realized that the only reason why Nothing was keeping him away from the Pride was because Quickmane and his sisters were killed. In Episode 9, he is shown to know where he and Nothing were and thought of an idea as to how to kill the animal they were trying to hunt, and Nothing notes that he has a “great mind for strategy.” His cleverness was also shown when he faked his death in Episode 10. He has also shown a deep hatred towards Proud when he got to know that he was the murderer, and despises Pride Law to the point that he vowed to fix it once he was fully grown. He was close with his cousin, Fire, until the latter betrayed and almost killed him. However, it's later revealed that he had faked his death.

Color Palette

 * Coming Soon

Cub

 * As a cub, Feather had a reddish-beige pelt and a lighter shade on his underbelly, paws, muzzle, inner-ears, lower eye rim, and the feather-shaped marking on his forehead. He has bright blue eyes, similar to his mother, Waterhunter, his mane and tail tip are brownish-red, like his father and his grandfather. His eyelids are the same color. He is very similar in appearence to his maternal grandfather, Embermane, and his father, Quickmane.

Teen

 * In his early teens, his mane started growing more around his neck and cheeks, with his top part of the mane growing longer. After getting attacked by Fire, he receive a bite mark on both sides of his neck, along with his left foreleg injured.

Voice Actor

 * Raven Amato

Quickmane

 * Feather seemed to love his father, always acting like him and looking up to him. He thought he could talk to Quickmane, thinking he won't get mad at him. He was deeply heartbroken after learning about his father's death.

Waterhunter

 * Feather loved his mother and misses her dearly, so it can be assumed they had a good relationship.

Sister 1 and Sister 2

 * Feather and his sisters genuinely care about each other, but Feather's sisters sometimes finds him strange for liking the stories of Nothing, where she blinded Quickmane in one eye years ago. Feather was heartbroken after learning about their deaths.

Fire

 * Feather seemed to look up to Fire, thinking his cousin is cool when he was a cub. In his teens, Feather seemed to strongly dislike Fire for trying to change Nothing's name and wanting to kill someone. He then saves Fire, but not for Fire himself, as he said he attacked Barkmane to save Nothing. However, this changes when Fire betrays his cousin and almost murders him in order to be accepted as Mane.

Nothing

 * Feather loves Nothing to the point where he travels with her, away from the Sisters Steppe. He thinks it's cool that his cousin ripped out his father's eye. He likes her personality, and, unlike many others, he doesn't mind the fact that she's injured, and can't properly walk or run. He states that her name has become who she is, and that it no longer represents her mother's ableist intentions. Feather states that her name is what she's afraid of, nothing. Nothing was devastated when Feather was presumably by her brother.

Farleap and Silentstalk

 * Feather used to dislike Farleap, as he was seen sticking his tongue out at her when she was making fun of Nothing. However, as he got older, he seemed look up to both of his half-sisters, and the two lionesses look after him. Silentstalk also said to have taught Feather how to track.

Proudmane

 * Feather and Proud were on good terms when they first met at The Prideless Stretch, but after learning that Proud used him for information and was the murderer of his father and sisters, he developed a lot of hatred against him and swears that he'll change it once he becomes a Mane.

Family Members

 * Father: Quickmane †
 * Mother: Waterhunter
 * Sisters: Sister 1 †, Sister 2 †
 * Aunt: Powerstrike
 * Half-sisters: Silentstalk, Farleap, Nameless half-sister
 * Half-brother: Unnamed half-brother
 * Cousins: Nothing, Fire, Spark †
 * Grandfather: Embermane †
 * Grandmother: Sharptongue †

Episode Two: Nothing

 * As Nothing's naming ceremony was about to begin, Feather can be seen near the bottom right of the screen, sticking his tongue out at Farleap for being mean to Nothing.


 * He is seen after the naming ceremony, sitting next to his mother and sisters and telling Fire "Cansu light your path."

Episode Three: The Calling



 * Feather is seen sitting with his sisters and asks Nothing to tell how she scratched up his father's face again. Nothing refuses, so Sharptongue starts to tell about Sunce's great fires in the Emerald Valley instead. He witnesses Sharptongue coughing and wheezing before she dies. He is later seen at his grandmother's funeral next to his father while all the lionesses start to roar. He tries to imitate his father's serious posture but ends up looking goofy in the end.

Episode Four: Outsider

 * Feather is seen being taken by his mother, Waterhunter, to Nothing. He stays with his sisters, sleeping while Nothing watches them, as ordered by Quickmane. When Nothing goes to see her brother, Fire, he wakes up and follows her. He ends up scaring her and Fire as he goes through the bushes. When Nothing asks him how he managed to find her, he replies that Silentstalk had taught him to track, and Nothing picks him up and says she's taking him back to the Sisters Steppe.

Fire interrupts her and says that he wanted her to meet his friends, and she asks if it's safe for Feather, which he assures it is. A while later, they get there, and Fire introduces his friends; Proud, Root, Meadow, Scruffy, Stub, and Tangle. Feather gets excited and they then meet Proud and Tangle and Nothing talks with Fire talk until he tells Proud and Tangle about what Nothing did to his father's face, Proud and Tangle are surprised about what she did, when they say that nobody would ever have the courage to do that to a No-Mane, Nothing realizes the time and then goes out with Feather to the Pride, when they were already in the group's territory, a white lion comes out of the tall grass, Feather is scared because he never has have seen a No-Mane. Nothing protects him, and he sees Nothing fight with the lion until the Ghost gets angry and gets up scaring Nothing and Feather.

Episode Five: Escape



 * Feather was seen at first behind Nothing scared of Ghost, when Quickmane appears and jumps at the No-Mane. After the whole Pride appears, Waterhunter grabbed Feather by the scruff and took him to the Pride with his sisters. In the end of the episode, he was seen running over to Nothing, telling her they should go back and talk things over with his dad. Nothing saves Feather from a huge tree branch that almost falls on him. He is then seen walking over a hill in The Prideless Stretch in search of Fire.

Episode Six: Prideless



 * During their journey through The Prideless Stretch, Nothing and Feather were barely able to walk as they lost Fire's trail the previous night. When Nothing kills a bird and Feather moves towards it to eat, Nothing snarls at him. However, she quickly apologizes and lets him eat. During the night, Feather asks her to tell him a story and Nothing ends up telling her the story about Asra and her mortal mate. When Nothing is done with the story, he reveals that he knows that his father, and his sisters are all dead. When Nothing tells him that Proud was the one who killed them, Feather shows a deep hatred towards him and for Pride Law and swears that he will change it when he becomes a Mane. When they wake up the next morning, Nothing and Feather see a Prideless lioness to whom Nothing mistook for Hover. However, she was someone else. The Prideless lioness, called Rain takes Nothing and Feather to a nearby watering hole. When Nothing was called to talk to Rain in private, she offered Nothing to teach her how to survive if she left Feather. Nothing ended up refusing. When Rain revealed about The Shifting Place, Feather was excited to know about it. As the lioness leaves, she ended up revealing her name to be Rain. Nothing later tells Feather that he needs to learn how to hunt as it is becoming hard for her to hunt for both of them. Feather says with a smile that she can count on him.

Episode Seven: Hover

 * Feather was briefly and indirectly mentioned by Rain when she told Hover and Farleap that Nothing was also taking care of a cub. Farleap responds, saying that Nothing doesn't have any cubs.

Episode Eight: Rain

 * Feather was seen sleeping, getting disturbed by Nothing telling him that it's raining. He was seen sleeping in the end of the episode as well.

Episode Nine: Fire

 * Feather was shown hunting with Nothing on The Stretch at the start of the episode. After Feather had frightened the gazelle and Nothing was about to attack, Fire came and killed the gazelle. After Nothing and Fire were finished talking, Feather was seen to be suspicious of Fire, as Feather didn’t seem to really like Fire and his plans and came with constant comments about his ideas. He told Nothing to come with him so that he could discuss what he was worried about including the murder attack on Barkmane. When Nothing froze during the battle between Fire and Barkmane, Feather ran up and jumped on Barkmane’s face, scratching him which gave Fire the advantage, which also resulted in Feather assisting Fire in killing Barkmane. Feather was later seen in the episode standing beside Nothing being worried after Moonstrike had told Fire to kill Feather.

Episode Ten: Pride Law

 * Feather was seen hiding behind Nothing, and is told to run when she realizes that Fire is going to kill him. Feather runs as fast as he can, but Fire catches up to him quickly and supposedly kills him. Nothing yells how about Fire could kill him after he saved his life, to which the latter defends himself stating that they need a Pride to live in.


 * We see Feather again in a post-end credits scene, running after Nothing's paw tracks, calling out her name and saying that he was only faking his death. He halts as he comes towards the end of her tracks, looking around and calling out her name a few more times.

Quotes

 * Coming Soon

Trivia



 * Originally, Feather was a very small, fat cub, his fur was a stronger red, his eyes were light blue and he had two small dots on the side of his eyes. He also had a smaller mane.
 * In Episode 2, Feather's fur tuft on his head was much smaller than now. But later on in Episode 5 and 6, his design slowly progresses, and the fur tuft on his head starts to turn into an actual mane. Maddi also released a preview for Episode 8 in which we see that Feather is now a teen, and he's starting to grow a mane on his neck and cheeks.