Appleshine

Appleshine is currently a warrior of HorizonClan. She has most likely annoyed everyone she's ever met to the point of nearly clawing her ears off at least once. No, I am not kidding. This is Appleshine we're talking about. *Appleshine.* She's a nice, happy cat, though. She just... isn't good at picking up hints.

Name- Appleshine

Gender- She-cat

Clan- OrchidClan (formerly), HorizonClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- Foxpounce (brother), Redfire (sister), Scorchstripe (father, deceased), Strawberry (mother, gone), Flamefur (grandfather, gone), Duckfeather (grandmother, deceased)... she's sorta crushin' on Strikeskip a lil bit

Friends- she considers everybody her friend. But specifically Strikeskip.

Enemies- she would be very sad to make any enemies.

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Appleshine is relatively small and round, with very long, thick, and soft fur. Her pelt is a dappled, diluted shade of reddish-ginger, mottled with darker splashes. The fur around her chest, neck, muzzle, and paws lightens into a more orangey color. Her ears are tiny and folded, and her tail is long, fluffy, and kinked over itself to droop behind her. Her eyes are a light, happy orange.

#### Personality

Appleshine is very excitable, hyper, friendly, and cheerful. She is extremely optimistic and approachable, although she is often viewed as being nosy or annoying. She is almost always hyper, and, quite frankly, she's not that smart. She's very sweet, though, and her love for everyone she meets more than makes up for her lack of intelligence.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

She was born to Strawberry at Strawberry’s house. Because Strawberry was a kittypet. Strawberry had a house. Scorchstripe - her father - would visit Strawberry in her yard every so often, and it was soon decided that Strawberry would give the three kits to him so he could bring them back to the Clans. She and her siblings were not named, because Strawberry thought it would be too painful for her to remember her kits by name. When she was two moons old, she, her brother, and her sister were given to her father. Scorchstripe left twolegplace to take them back to the Clans with him.

For the next two moons, the newly-named Applekit travelled with Scorchstripe, Redkit, and Foxkit to get back to Clan territory. She loved their new names. She had a very good relationship with her father and siblings, and loved hearing Scorchstripe’s stories about himself and Strawberry. She was very hyper and excitable, and always helped to put a smile on her father’s face whenever he was feeling particularly down or missing Strawberry more than usual.

At one point, Foxkit got abducted by a badger. That was a little frightening, but Scorchstripe got him back. Applekit also encouraged Redkit to climb a tree once. Redkit got stuck, though. It was sort of awkward. Applekit inadvertently caused a lot of problems. There was also a time when she wasn’t paying attention and toddled into the road and almost got ran over by a car. It missed her by, like, a few inches though. Three moon-old Applekit didn’t quite comprehend how close she’d come to death. She thought it was funny. Her father did not think it was funny. She got in trouble.

When Applekit, Foxkit, and Redkit were four moons old, Scorchstripe brought them to OrchidClan, where they were permitted to join by Lavenderstar. Once there, they were looked after by some other queen and got to know their new Clanmates. Unfortunately, less than a moon later, Scorchstripe suffered from a sudden heart attack that ended up killing him. Applekit and her siblings were shocked and devastated. Applekit’s positive outlook on everything became less of a mindless cheerfulness, and more of an intentional philosophy. She had been shaken by learning the lesson that life could be cut short at any moment, so she decided that it was best to enjoy every second of it.

#### Apprenticeship

Applepaw was apprenticed to Leafshine, OrchidClan’s deputy. Unfortunately, Leafshine couldn’t stand her, and was always irritated beyond belief by her apprentice’s seemingly brainless chatter and careless attitude. Applepaw was also a bit spooked by Myrtlepaw, because she seemed determined to flirt creepily with Foxpaw nonstop. Applepaw didn’t really think much of it, although she *did* feel that Myrtlepaw was kind of mean.

Anyways, she had always been curious about what laid beyond OrchidClan’s borders, and she eventually decided that she just felt out of place where she currently was. At seven moons old, she left her siblings behind and changed Clans, moving to HorizonClan. Her new mentor became Mudflame, and although they had their own share of difficulties, and he too was annoyed to death by her, Applepaw greatly admired her mentor and was glad for his training.

Applepaw also enjoyed bothering her Clan’s messenger, Mistrunner. She would seek her out and ask her to run pointless messages to Foxpaw and Redpaw quite often. She tried to expose Mudflame for having a crush on Mistrunner once, but she forgot what she was talking about midway through, and thus Mudflame’s secret was saved. Applepaw was very distressed when Lavenderstar closed off OrchidClan’s borders, and missed being able to see her siblings.

She did her best to befriend everyone she interacted with, too. It sort of backfired. She annoyed everybody and a lot of cats started actively avoiding her. That confused and saddened Applepaw, but she didn’t let it show - she was sure that if she kept on being positive, something good would eventually come of it. She developed several weird hobbies, like collecting rocks and making shapes out of leaves and sticks. She mostly just entertained herself with her own little games and activities since no one else really wanted to deal with her.

Near the end of her apprenticeship, Applepaw began formulating a plan with Redpaw and Foxpaw to travel to twolegplace in search of Strawberry. She referred to it as “the Thing”. As enthusiastic as Applepaw was, however, Foxpaw and Redpaw really weren’t too keen on the idea. Applepaw was eventually dissuaded from putting it into action by Mistrunner, Sootsnow, and Permafrost at a gathering after hearing a bit about Permafrost’s own experiences in twolegplace.

The rest of her training was largely uneventful. She became a warrior a few days after her siblings, having failed her first warrior assessment due to being a complete airhead, but convincing Mudflame to let her take it again only a couple of days later. Good job, Applepaw. On her second try, she managed to pass.

#### Warrior Life

Appleshine existed without doing anything for a few moons. She was disappointed that she couldn’t celebrate her new rank with her littermates, but that was alright. She was certain that they and her parents would be proud of her, and that was enough. Through Mistrunner, Poppyshade, and Redcloud, they were able to learn each other’s warrior names. It was cool. She was sort of startled upon hearing the news that Myrtlepelt had been exiled for murder, although she never learned the details regarding Foxpounce and Seagull. Whatever the case, she just vibed for a while.

But then the plague started spreading. Appleshine was worried about her siblings, and was particularly afraid upon hearing that Redfire had caught it, but she ended up being alright. Appleshine forced herself to stay optimistic and hopeful despite the circumstances. Things would always get better, or so she liked to think. The Clans had seen difficulties before, and she believed they could pull through again.

She also did her best to help everyone else stay in high spirits. In particular, she tried very hard to cheer up her old denmate Strikeskip after the deaths of his friends Slipmallow and Newtbrook. She also might‘ve gotten a lil bit of a crush on him. They're cute. AppleStrike is cute. Appleshine in general is cute. I mean, just look at that picture - she’s like a fat little floofball. I love her. She looks like a cheese puff, but fluffier.

Sorry, I got off-topic there. Anyways, she gave him a mouse then somehow convinced him to climb partway up the mountain on the edge of the territory with her. After being told about a trail in the mountain he'd found once while there with Slipmallow, she also somehow started talking about “giant invisible murderfrogs”, whatever those are, claiming that they could have made the marks. She also accused him of being one, then played it off as a joke. After they found a nice spot and got a good view of the territory for a bit, she tried to show him her rock collection. Then they arranged it to look like a frog. Appleshine thought is sort of resembled a tree, though, so she started calling it a “trog”. Then she skipped off to go ask everyone to help them look for invisible giant murderfrogs, and she made Strikeskip follow her. She asked Mistrunner to to ask Redcloud or Poppyshade to ask Foxpounce and Redfire about giant murderfrogs. And then she and Strikeskip left to go find Owlcrash, who was very big and very fluffy, and ask him if *he* was secretly a murderfrog. They had a nice chat about crushes. Then they interrupted Owlcrash's hunting date with Fawnflower to confuse the heck out of him. Then they went back to camp and decided to continue their hunt for murderfrogs another time.

We all love Appleshine. Even if you don’t, you know you really do.

## Other

#### Trivia

* Not to be confused with Ambershine. Or Cedarpoppy’s sister. This is a completely different cat.
* Strawberry was a Scottish fold. Appleshine doesn’t remember Strawberry, and she’ll never meet her. But anyways, that’s why she has cute lil curled ears.
* She was Strawberry's favorite kit. Because favoritism.
* We have decided that she is a god to whom the laws of physics do not apply. She lives her life in creative mode.
* She is allowed to say “oop” and “yee”. She just is. Do not challenge her.
* The only thing that can defeat her is one angry midget. (Just to be clear- they’ve never actually interacted and I highly doubt they ever will. This is purely a meme for meme purposes.)
* Behold: the original source of the giant invisible murderfrogs.