Sounds like a Wood Elf team I ran in Blood Bowl:
https://start-warhammer.com/blood-bowl/
It’s been years though, I mainly ran a 4 Chaos Warrior, 1 Gutter Runner and supporting Beastman mutants team. The rat took care of everything involving scoring, and the Chaos Warriors worshipped Nuffle the only way they knew how, via Kerrunch.
Not really a thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome