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All I can ascertain is my cat Omega will not have a soul by the end, but all the other elements I suggest are not essential. I have a few ideas on how to get the ball rolling, but I'm open to anyone who helps me plot this out.
Just a little background on Omega:
Born/raised in Toxicity. Later lived in Absum Lux, now lives in PI
He is the last Stratego (leader) of Toxicity before it became Absum Lux under his successor.
Left both Toxicity and Absum Lux due to his respective mates at the times.
Currently has five lives remaining from his leadership.
My current thoughts:
Whatever/whoever separates his soul from his body will augment the "darkness" in his soul so it becomes the dominant factor in its existence.
Whoever rips his soul out must have some sort of connection to the DF and something/someone else that wants him to suffer.
When he loses his soul, his five lives will be what powers him. After each life he'll become progressively weaker until he completely disappears upon losing his last life, leaving only his stripped soul as his twisted legacy.
So, this sounds fun, and I have a few ideas of my own for how to do this, with various characters.
Senescence
Now, I know you wanted a cat with a connection to the Dark Forest, but Sen really isn't that. In fact, she has no belief system that she's put her faith in, and has even gone so far as to believe there is no SC/DF or any other religion that the clans' believe in, thanks to her past. HOWEVER, the connection in this more has to do with her father, Rake. More than that, Rake was Rane, kinda sorta (I'd have to ask faith the details on how all that worked exactly. Rake was mortal, Rane was a demon, something like that.). This is relevant because Rane was a Toxicity deity, once upon a time, before Omega was alive. One of Rane's abilities was to steal souls (per looking back at the old Tox pages.), so Senescence accidentally ripping Omega's soul from his body could theoretically happen. (At least, that's how I rationalize it, she could simply do it on accident with no known cause as well.) Sen is also someone who I image having a shattered soul, if she has one at all at this point.
She doesn't have a motive to want to rid him of his soul, but I think we can come up with a reason for her to attack him and for that attack to remain secret (perhaps he thought to leave PI, or they were sparring, idk exactly). Anyway, how I see this working is that Sen probably tries to kill Omega. Instead, she manages to strip him of his soul (which likely gets swiped by a DF cat, is otherwise sent to the DF, or is just forced to wander the world endlessly, something of that sort.) and he lives. At that point then, Sen doesn't realize what's happened, but she does notice a change in Omega and decides not to kill him after all, telling him that it would have been better for him to die that day than be spared by her. Without a soul, he has only lives left to carry him forward.
Without a soul, I don't imagine him as too much different from Sen herself in some ways. I imagine he can't get pleasure from life, from death, and all morality and kindness he may have had is stripped from him with the loss of his soul, leaving only his worst parts to fester in his body, with what little energy they have left through his five lives. While it's not augmenting the darkness in his heart, it is instead leaving him with only darkness to consume him.
Arden
Again, we'd need to figure out the motive a bit, but this would also fit with soul stripping, as he's PI's Assassin, Vera's son, and closely associated with Pravus Nocte, as it's where his mother came from. In Pravus Nocte, they got their lives by killing their siblings and taking their power (or in Vera's case, killing former Nemesis and taking their lives), and I don't think it's too far of a stretch for Arden to be able to accidentally separate Omega's soul from his body, but not be able to take the tom's lives for his own. In this case, the end is probably similar to Sen's, in that he rips out Omega's soul, decides to let him live, and Omega goes through the remainder of his life soulless.
To bank off it though, Chief Moon, my former VenomClan (which eventually became Tox, then AL) Strategos, could have motive to steal his soul away. She's currently in the Dark Forest, and once his soul is out of his body, either in Sen or Arden's case, she could steal it away and wish him all sorts of suffering for abandoning Tox/AL not once, but twice. Could either augment the darkness in his heart, or she could simply leave him to be as he is soulless, which would look more like what I mentioned above, with Omega being unable to find happiness, and being left with only the darkest parts of himself to live with, or alternatively, he can still feel happy and moral, but doing so only ever causes him pain and makes him weaker? Something like that.
Foxstar
This one is a bit different from the other to. Iirc, Omega was in SunClan as an Initiate for a bit, before you ended up putting him in PI. This would give Foxstar motive to want him dead. In this scenario, there isn't a Dark Forest cat who would be the cause of him missing his soul, but the Sun God himself. After finally catching up to Omega in the League, Foxstar attacks him, and the Sun God allows her to rip out his soul, then stops her from actually stripping him of his remaining lives. The Sun God himself dooms Omega to wander for the remainder of his life, growing ever weaker as he loses his lives, to suffer for eternity, with his soul being banished to the Dark Forest, never again to enjoy the feel of the Sun on his skin, or to enjoy all the good in life.
In this case, the Sun God is cursing Omega. The curse could go farther, in that Omega feels actual pain by being in the Sun, and is forced to crawl through the shadows for the rest of his life(kinda like a vampire). Either his soulless body is able to feel joy and such, but he slowly just grows to resent living due to the curse, or like before, all the good in him is stripped away, leaving a husk of only darkness left.
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Now, personally, I'm partial to the first or last ones, since I love giving Sen & Fox more development, and the idea of the Sun God cursing cats is fun, but of course, that's all up to you. c:
Sorry for the short response. I just want to keep the ball rolling so it doesn't slip my mind.
I'm leaning towards the one with Foxstar. I like the idea of him being actually cursed and all that. It's was the suffering I wanted him to go through, plus a little bit extra that will really make him lose his mind/become a total psychopath as he becomes weaker and weaker.
The part about the sun was really the tipping point for me. It's just so cruel, but that's what makes it so great to think about. Would Foxstar want anything to do with him after she strips him of his soul/how do you think she might do it?
Well, why not? If he's left this suffering little husk without a soul, I don't see why Foxstar wouldn't jump at the chance to abuse that weakness and use it to her advantage. Chances are, she'd absolutely try to force him to be her little puppet, making him do her dirty work, a little extension of her will not bound by SunClan laws. There's a few ways she could do this, such as claiming that she's holding his soul hostage and if he's obedient enough, she'll give it back, or that he can earn the Sun God's favor by listening to her, the High Priestess. Or, if he doesn't care about any of that, just abusing the fact he's y'know had his freaking soul ripped out and simply telling him he has to listen to her, and him not having enough motivation to consider doing something else, or otherwise convincing himself he can be redeemed, without any manipulating by Foxstar, could be the reason he followed.
TL;DR - She'd want him as her puppet, essentially.
