Canyonstar

Name - Canyonstar

Gender - Tom

Clan - MarshClan

Rank - Leader

Family - Basilpool (mate), Pepperpaw, Ashkit, Sedgekit, Cricketkit (daughters), Wolfkit (son)

Friends - Mintfang (formerly), Fennelfoot

Enemies - Elmleap

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Canyonstar is pale gray with darker tabby stripes and blue eyes.

#### Personality

Canyonstar is a level-headed, reasonable cat. He tries to do what's best for MarshClan and is always looking for a chance to prove his worth. He gets very paranoid and worried when it comes to his mate. He has a healthy fear of Whitebird, but respects her all the same. He is very welcoming and is one of the friendliest cats in MarshClan.

He's now a lot more somber and quiet. He might end up like Aspenstar someday.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Canyonkit was born in MarshClan to Mistytuft. When he was a young kit, Mistytuft took in Mintkit and raised her alongside Canyonkit. The two were good friends for most of their lives.

Not much actually happened to him as a kit.

#### Apprenticeship

Canyonpaw was apprenticed to a completely unimportant character who I'm not even going to name. Anyways, Fennelpaw moved to MarshClan and he became friends with Canyonpaw. That was cool. Canyonpaw basically just bounced between Fennelpaw and Mintpaw, not really doing stuff with both of them, but one at a time was fine.

Just before their first Gathering, Mintpaw and Canyonpaw got up to some mischief (namely, messing with one of Whitebird's experiments) and weren't allowed to go to the Gathering as punishment. That sucked.

But when they did get to go, it was well worth the wait. Canyonpaw met a pretty OasisClan apprentice, Basilpaw, and totally fell for her. Hard. Mintpaw teased him mercilessly about this, but mostly out of jealousy. Because Mintpaw liked him.

Anyways, at one point, Canyonpaw forced Sootsnow to go to OasisClan and basically ask Basilpaw out for him. She did and Basilpaw said yes, despite having recently been in a fight with a fox.

They had a great time and agreed that they'd keep meeting up. And so they did. Mintpaw was getting more and more jealous and friend-zoned in the background, but did Canyonpaw notice or care? Nooooooo.

#### Warrior Life

Canyonpaw passed his warrior assessment the first time, motivated by the fact Basilpaw had wished him luck the night before. And because he was good at everything to begin with. Anyways, he earned the name Canyonmist. At first chance, he met up with Basilpaw again and they freaked out over his name for a bit.

Mintfang and Fennelfoot also got their warrior names at some point. Good job them.

Anyway, once Basilpool got her warrior name, she moved to MarshClan and was like, "Yes, we're mates now, you don't even have to ask." Canyonmist was 100% okay with this. He was also

Anyways, Basilpool got pregnant maybe a moon after moving to MarshClan and Canyonmist reacted in a very new dad way. He totally freaked out the whole pregnancy and was always bugging Whitebird about how Basilpool was doing.

Then the kits were born and Canyonmist kind of lost his mind for a bit. It was rather endearing.

Unfortunately, that's when the first wave of plague struck. One of the first victims was Canyonmist's son, Wolfkit. Another was Minkstar, so Canyonmist had to become leader right after losing his son.

#### Leadership

Canyonstar became leader at like 24, so he's the youngest leader and the only one who isn't 40+.

He named Fennelfoot his deputy, wanting his best friend at his side as his deputy, despite Fennelfoot never having an apprentice. He quickly rectified this by giving Spiderpaw to Fennel when the young tom joined MarshClan along with his sisters.

## Other

#### Trivia

* He and Elmleap have the longest-standing animosity in the roleplay.
* Crayonstar
* "Yes, our leader was produced by Crayola." - Warrior, 2020

#### Quotes

*"Um... Silver Falls at sunset tomorrow. Yeah, that'll work. Probably."*

*"Was that stupid Elmpaw around? I know he's her brother and all, but great StarClan, I cannot stand him!"*

**Minkstar:** *"I hope you're right."*

**Canyonmist:** *"I usually am."*

*"Sticks, sticks, sticks, sticks."*

### Deputy Position

Proceeded by: Minkstar

Succeeded by: Fennelfoot

### Leadership position

Proceeded by: Minkstar

Succeeded by: No one yet