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**Bait** is a Glow Toad originating from Katolis. Previously owned by Harrow, he is now Ezran's pet, companion, and best friend.

Along with Ezran, Callum, and Rayla, he returned the Dragon Prince, Azymondias, to his mother, the Dragon Queen Zubeia, to establish peace between the humans and the inhabitants of Xadia. Two years later, he regrouped with his friends to embark on a new quest of preventing the liberation of Aaravos.

## Appearance

Bait is a stubby Glow Toad with blue eyes, a yellow hide spotted with turquoise patches, a particularly big one surrounding his left eye, and an underbelly of the same hue, ending in a long tail. He always wears a grumpy expression on his rather large face. Like a regular toad, Bait features an extraordinarily long tongue, which he can use to snatch objects, hidden behind sharp up pointing teeth. His four legs feature three black, sharp claws each. Changing with emotion, Bait's hide is capable of glowing and changing color, including yellow for neutral, red for angry, purple for nervous or stressed, green for terrified or jealous, gray for depressed or sad or sick, blue for regretful or sleepy, orange for happy or feeling loved, and pink for playful or embarrassed.

## Personality

Bait is grumpy all the time, and even more so when he is "hangry". He is also sneaky at times, proven by how he drank all of Rayla's moonberry juice without anyone noticing, until he was glowing brighter than ever before. Despite his grumpy demeanor, Bait can also be comforting and understanding towards others. This showed when he stayed by Callum's side while reading Harrow's letter, when Ezran wanted some alone time upon learning of his father's demise, as well as when he comforted Zym when he expresses concern over his mother. He also secretly loves belly rubs. Bait is also empathetic enough to use his glowing to assist in threatening scenarios to assist his comrades in mundane tasks, such as reading.

Since Glow Toads are used by deep-sea fishermen for fishing, they are terrified of water, unlike Bait who isn't afraid to get wet. Bait himself is blissfully unaware of this fact, hence his lack of fear of the water. However, a terrifying ordeal involving a giant fish awoke him to the dangers of the water.

At times, Bait has proven himself to be brave and helpful, as he tried to protect Zym from Viren and freed Rayla when Viren had encased her inside a burst of ice. He often expresses himself by croaking and is also known to growl when angered or irritated. He is fiercely loyal to Ezran and expressed his anger when Kasef was rude towards his best friend.

According to Callum, Bait is patient and never lashes out at danger unless provoked. Those who knew Bait well could always tell that, behind his grumpy facade, hides a friend of great loyalty, courage and grumpy love.

## Skills and Abilities

### Sun Primal Connection

As a Glow Toad, Bait draws power from the Sun and is at his strongest when the sun is at its highest during noon. His body can glow at fluctuating levels of brightness. He can glow brightly enough to temporarily blind others. This is usually triggered by someone saying the phrase, "Say hello to my little friend". Bait has enough control over his luminosity to voluntarily glow at levels comfortable for the human eye to read at.

The way Bait glows and changes color depends on how he is feeling (e.g. lonely, hungry, angry, or hangry). Once, after consuming a great deal of moonberry juice, Bait's normally yellow skin turned a reddish, purplish berry color, while his turquoise spots glowed. Whilst frightened during an avalanche he caused with a loud burp, Bait turned green.

### Tongue

Bait has a chameleon-like tongue, that is long and fast enough to retrieve three jelly tarts per second.

### Swimming

Despite his connection to the Sun Primal, Bait has shown to be a decent swimmer by using a style Ezran called "Froggy Paddle".

## Trivia

* Bait was given to Ezran by his father, Harrow, who named Bait in favor of a distasteful joke, as his species is known for being delicious and is used by deep-sea fishermen to catch giant fish.
* Bait was not born or hatched on June 26th. Instead, it is the day Harrow gave Bait to Ezran, marking his date of birth unknown. As Bait does not even elaborate on his age or day of birth even to Ezran, he believes that he is either very old or very grumpy.
* Bait's "ba-dum" line during the Netflix opening scene is voiced by Aaron Ehasz.
* Bait likes Ezran, jelly tarts, and belly rubs. He dislikes almost everything else, but he especially dislikes when Ezran pays more attention to Zym, as he is easily jealous but got over it eventually. He also dislikes being called scared.
* Aaron Ehasz believes that Harrow owned Bait before Ezran was born. He also joked that Bait could be one of the oldest living characters in the show.
* Bait was described as a "living, mostly grumpy mood ring" during early development.
* Bait's German name is "Beut", redubbing him to a variant of the German word for "prey".
* Bait originally started out as a gecko companion, however, he was later changed into a mix of a gecko and a toad after a writer watched a video of a frog.

## Appearances

#### Book One - Moon

* 101. "Echoes of Thunder"
* 102. "What is Done"
* 103. "Moonrise"
* 104. "Bloodthirsty"
* 105. "An Empty Throne"
* 106. "Through the Ice"
* 107. "The Dagger and the Wolf"
* 108. "Cursed Caldera"
* 109. "Wonderstorm"

#### Book Two - Sky

* 201. "A Secret and a Spark"
* 202. "Half Moon Lies"
* 203. "Smoke and Mirrors"
* 204. "Voyage of the Ruthless"
* 205. "Breaking the Seal"
* 206. "Heart of a Titan"
* 207. "Fire and Fury"
* 208. "The Book of Destiny"
* 209. "Breathe"

#### Book Three - Sun

* 301. "Sol Regem"
* 302. "The Crown"
* 303. "Ghost"
* 304. "The Midnight Desert"
* 305. "Heroes and Masterminds"
* 306. "Thunderfall"
* 307. "Hearts of Cinder"
* 308. "Dragonguard"
* 309. "The Final Battle"

#### Book Four - Earth

* 401. "Rebirthday"
* 402. "Fallen Stars"
* 403. "Breathtaking"
* 404. "Through the Looking Glass"
* 405. "The Great Gates"
* 406. "The Drakewood"
* 407. "Beneath the Surface"
* 408. "Rex Igneous"
* 409. "Escape from Umber Tor"

#### Book Five - Ocean

* 501. "Domina Profundis"
* 502. "Old Wounds"
* 503. "Nightmares & Revelations"
* 504. "The Great Bookery"
* 505. "Archmage Akiyu"
* 506. "Bait & Switch"
* 507. "Sea Legs"
* 508. "Finnegrin's Wake"
* 509. "Infantis Sanguine"

#### Side Stories

* "The Royal Council"
* "Deep Below"

#### Books

* "Book One: Moon (Novel)"
* "Through the Moon"
* "Book Two: Sky (Novel)"

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Dragon Prince Official Twitter
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Callum's Spellbook
3. ↑ Merchandise
4. ↑ Book Two: Sky (Novel)
5. ↑ The Dragon Prince Official Website - Characters
6. ↑ Book One, Chapter 2: "What is Done"
7. ↑ Book One, Chapter 6: "Through the Ice"
8. ↑ Book One, Chapter 1: "Echoes of Thunder"
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Book One, Chapter 5: "An Empty Throne"
10. ↑ The Dragon Prince Official Website - June Birthdays
11. ↑ Book One: Moon (Novel)
12. ↑ Zoom into Xadia
13. ↑ The Art of The Dragon Prince
14. ↑ CartoonUV - San Diego Comic Con 2022 (Influence for Bait)]