Taggerung

[Taggerung The Otter]

would it not be cool if he had actually taken over Redwall

[Captain Tammo]

I agree! I wanted him to stay bad and take over the abbey! Then the next book would be about fighting to take it back and him starting to turn good and a bunch of internal conflict. What'd make it that much better: Russano the Wise and the long patrol trying to take over redwall from the Taggerung!

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

I don't get where the notion Deyna was ever bad comes from. I don't think he suddenly turns good at his departure from the tribe of Sawney Rath. Every action he did before then was in obedience to the point of not slaying, and a 'vermin-action' is never acted out.
His influences were never particularly good, but he is a hero character in the series, and is not meant to be a force of evil.

[Muse]

I think it would have been cool if he had been good, but a spoiled bratty savage.

[Skipper]

i think that would have spoiled it, after all he may have been brought up by vermin but he had good kind parents and he is an otter, i dont think their are any bad or "grey" otters in the series

[Taggerung The Otter]

i think that would have spoiled it, after all he may have been brought up by vermin but he had good kind parents and he is an otter, i dont think their are any bad or "grey" otters in the series

wasn't the Mask gray

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

I believe he was in color yes, his fur was gray.
The term 'grey' or 'gray' normally follows a definiton of 'a character who shows both good and evil qualities', or more readily palatable to the series, 'someone who is agaisnt their species' normal alignment. e.g. a mouse that is evil, or a ferret that is good'

[Taggerung The Otter]

I believe he was in color yes, his fur was gray.
The term 'grey' or 'gray' normally follows a definiton of 'a character who shows both good and evil qualities', or more readily palatable to the series, 'someone who is agaisnt their species' normal alignment. e.g. a mouse that is evil, or a ferret that is good'

I get it

[Romsca]

I think it is unrealistic for Taggerung to be good even though the book says he was. Although his mother was kind to him, he was kidnapped when he was probably about two weeks old. If Brian Jacques had made him like two or three or something like that it would have made more sense for him to slightly remember his mother like he did.

[Tam and Martin]

That may be good but I'm not sure.

[Redwaller]

It was against hia nature to be bad.

[Tiria Wildlough]

What nature? He was raised by vermin. Who remembers what happened when they were a newborn baby?

[Redwaller]

He did! 

[Romsca]

If it was in his nature to be good, in his mind "good" would be what Sawney Rath told him since he was kidnapped as a newborn. It would have made more sense if he had just had dreams of Martin telling him to leave the Juska and find Redwall and that's why he would have ran away and the story would still have happened

[MatthiasMan]

I want Deyna to be EVIL!!

Every
Villein
Is
Lemons!!!

Heheh. For my book report I'm gonna carve his knife out and present it too the class and explain how it connects to the book.