Leafshine

Leafshine is the current leader of OrchidClan. She is respected by all of her warriors, a bit renowned for her sharp tongue and fierce passion. But she is an intelligent and strong cat, and she hopes to lead her Clan well. The validity of her leadership is a little bit controversial, though, because she kind of overthrew the previous leader..... but that's not the point!!

Name- Leafshine (she hasn't had her ceremony yet)

Gender- She-cat

Clan- OrchidClan

Rank- Leader

Family- Conifercob (brother, deceased), Lionspark (foster brother), Beechspring (foster mother), Stickstripe (father), Brightbark (mother, deceased), Fallowfleck and Dusklight (aunts), Cedarstrike (uncle, deceased), Tidewave (cousin), Violetleaf and Pricklepad (grandparents, deceased)

Friends- Moonmist (bestest friendo), Wrensong, Beestripe, and Saffronsplash. Maybe Palestep, sort of. When did she get so many friends?!?

Enemies- Myrtlepelt, Lavendersight, Pansymoon, probably Frondmist and Thrushthorn

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Leafshine is a dappled, light brown tabby with soft, thick fur. Her pelt is parted by thin darker stripes. Her chest, legs, and face are mottled with lighter cream-colored markings, and her eyes are a bright leaf-green. There are several small nicks in both of her ears from a tangle with an owl when she was an apprentice.

#### Personality

Leafshine is smart and sarcastic, bold and blunt, unafraid to take risks and challenge anything she deems questionable. She always speaks her mind, regardless of consequences. In spite of this, she is thoughtful when it comes to the good of her Clan, and has a firm belief in right and wrong. She will do anything for the sake of loyalty, and her devotion paid off when she was appointed deputy. The majority of her Clan stands with her against Lavenderstar, and for that she is grateful.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Leafkit and Coniferkit were born to Brightbark and Stickstripe in OrchidClan. They didn’t do much for the majority of their kithood. They just played around and wished they were apprentices like normal kits. Their parents were very loving and all was well. Until they turned four moons old. Oops.

Brightbark took Leafkit and Coniferkit out into the territory to explore and look at flowers or something like that. Coniferkit was an idiot and dashed off toward the outer border. Brightbark and Leafkit, of course, followed him, only to find him about to be attacked by a pair of rogues. Brightbark immediately started trying to fight them off and yelled at Leafkit and Coniferkit to get back to the camp. Leafkit led the way back, because she was actually competent and knew what she was doing. She alerted a bunch of warriors to go help as soon as she could. Oops.

Unfortunately, she wasn't quite quick enough, and by the time the aforementioned help arrived, Brightbark was dead. Leafkit was pretty shattered by that. Beechspring watched over them for the next few moons along with her son, Lionkit. Leafkit had grown rather bitter, though, and was somewhat cold toward the two of them, almost resenting them a bit as if they were trying to replace her dead mother. Oops.

Leafkit also developed a grudge against Coniferkit, blaming him for their mother's death. She began avoiding him whenever possible, and soon enough, her only friend was Moonkit - a tiny kit who was four moons younger than her. Way to go, Leafkit. Everyone hates you. Except a random baby and your dad. Stickstripe was cool and still loved his kids, even though they both kind of sucked at this point. Oops.

**Apprenticeship**

Leafpaw became an apprentice at six moons old, just like any other cat. Who was her mentor? We’ll never know. She was still salty at Lionpaw and Coniferpaw, just because... she was. She's just like that. When she was seven moons old, though, Coniferpaw sat her down and was like "listen, sis, ya gotta chill" and she was like "oK FiNeEeEe" and made amends with everyone. Yay.

At one point when she was eight moons old, Leafpaw was just chilling in the camp, watching Moonkit and Thornkit for their mother, Sandslip, when suddenly an owl swooped out of nowhere. Leafpaw didn't hesitate and jumped in front of the kits, throwing herself over them. They were protected, and the owl scratched and bit several small chunks out of Leafpaw's ears, but she was mainly unharmed, as were Moonkit and Thornkit. Yay.

Moonpaw finally became an apprentice when Leafpaw was ten moons old, and she was thrilled to have her friend back with her. That same moon, she and Moonpaw befriended a young HorizonClan she-cat named Wrenpaw when she visited from her territory, and Thornpaw developed a not-so-subtle crush on her. Only a bit later on, however, Coniferpaw left to join MarshClan. Leafpaw decided she'd miss him, but she certainly wouldn't miss his annoying antics. Yay.

Anyways, she trained well, and excelled in both hunting and fighting like the flawless, "teacher's pet"-type gal she is. Ugh. Leafpaw. Yay.

#### Warrior Life

Leafpaw being Leafpaw, she passed her assessment perfectly without a single flaw. She gained the warrior name of Leafshine and quickly gained the respect of her Clanmates and fellow warriors. At some point, Beechspring died. I'm not sure when. I don't own her. But Leafshine was kinda sad about that, sorta. She chilled for a while, staying friends with Wrensong and Moonmist after they gained their warrior names. She still had good relations with Conifercob and Stickstripe, too. She eventually got her first apprentice, Saffronpaw, and trained her well. She received the warrior name of Saffronsplash. Everyone was all like, "wow, Leafshine is so good at existing. Just look at her go. Man, I wanna be like Leafshine". So she became deputy after Lemondrop's death. Good for her.

When she was twenty-six moons old, she was hunting with Moonmist when she stumbled across a young loner named Myrtle. Myrtle had tried to attack Moonmist, but Leafshine easily pinned and questioned her. She eventually decided to let Myrtle join OrchidClan as Myrtlepaw. No-no. Big mistake.

Leafshine later received her second apprentice, Applepaw. And *oh god,* she *hated* Applepaw. Applepaw was incredibly annoying. Leafshine couldn't stand her. She was impossible to train. She was actually relieved once Applepaw finally moved to HorizonClan, freeing her from her yammering.

Lavenderstar soon closed OrchidClan's borders due to the serious problems with rogues. Leafshine thought that was stupid, but she begrudgingly went along with her leader's wishes and tried to enforce them, as any loyal deputy should.

One day, Foxpounce came running into the camp wailing about how Myrtlepelt had killed a friend of his, a loner named Seagull. Of course, he wasn't supposed to be friends with a loner in the first place, but everyone hated Myrtlepelt anyways and just jumped on the opportunity to get her gone. Leafshine and Redfire convinced Lavenderstar to exile Myrtlepelt, so she did. Leafshine felt somewhat guilty, remembering that she had been the one to first bring Myrtlepelt into the Clan, but she felt as though any cat who would kill another didn't deserve a place in the Clans.

After the death of Rushdawn, she took over Sagepaw's training. Sagepaw was Moonmist's daughter, so she was fairly cool with that, even though Sagepaw wasn't the best at training.

She confronted Palestep about the rebellion at one point. She agreed to speak to Lavenderstar about opening up the borders. Lavenderstar was like "no, get out" and Leafshine was like "fine, yes, I'll get out of your rule" and took over the whole hecking rebellion. You go, girl. Over the course of several moons, she able to recruit some more cats, and the rebellion members soon consisted of: herself, Palestep, Moonmist, Saffronsplash, Swallowfrost, Redcloud, Poppyshade, Wheatnose, Firestorm, Riverhawk, Beestripe, Sparkspring, Vulturescorch, Kalefur, Redfire, Thornstep, Wrensong, and Conifercob. But then Riverhawk and Poppyshade died. That wasn't cool. She sort of felt bad about that. She became friends with Beestripe, though. I mean, she was already sort of friends with Beestripe, I was just too lazy to type about it. But whatever.

She got the plague at one point, which was a little alarming. She survived it with Swallowfrost’s help, though. Unlike many of her Clanmates, she did not die. As it turns out, she's just too swag for death. Good for her. At her first gathering after taking over the rebellion, she took up Lavenderstar's position on the leaders' ledge and brought the other rebels with her, despite OrchidClan not being supposed to attend gatherings. She was pretty boss and savage. Epic. But then Aspenstar told everyone else to close off their borders because of the plague, which sort of pissed Leafshine off, but she eventually agreed to it.

Then Lavenderstar pretty much just gave up on OrchidClan and stopped performing ceremonies. Leafshine didn't appreciate that. She was not gonna stand for that. She did all of the ceremonies herself from then on - apprenticeship ceremonies, warrior ceremonies, ceremonies to accept new cats into the Clan... she even had to exile a man! Flowerstep committed murder and she had to throw him out of the Clan without Lavenderstar even giving any input! That was the last straw for her. She was done. She was pretty much ready to overthrow Lavenderstar at a moment's notice after that, and the only thing stopping her was the fact that she still hadn't planned out where she would go from there.

One of Moonmist's foster kits (and Flowerstep's son, actually), Redkit, was a disaster child. Leafshine recognized that. She decided to give him to a warrior named Pansymoon to train. She knew Pansymoon could probably handle him, and she also knew that Pansymoon disapproved of the rebellion - and she wanted to get her off of her tail. So it definitely wasn't the most thoughtful move on her part, but in her eyes it was tactical. Pansymoon disagreed. Pansymoon yelled at her. Leafshine defended her decision until Pansymoon left. Leafshine is kind of rude.

Oh, and back in MarshClan, Conifercob got the plague and died. Leafshine wasn't happy about that. She wasn't even necessarily sad - she was just angry. She decided she would channel the grief into determination and not actually be mopey about it until she could afford to be. Moonmist, however, saw straight through that. She pulled Leafshine aside afterwards and was like "hey, it's okay to be depressed over your bro dying, you know" and Leafshine was like "nO. I hAvE tO bE sTrOnG iN fRoNt oF tHe ClAn, tHeY wOn'T aCcEpT mE oR tHe ReBeLlIoN oThErWiSe" and they went back and forth for a while until Moonmist eventually backed down, although not before convincing Leafshine to come to her if she ever wanted help. She also got to connect a little more with Beestripe, whose brother Sparkspring had also been killed by the plague, but that's not too important.

    In any case, she took matters into her own paws. She confronted Lavenderstar one final time and finally persuaded her to surrender. She was actually sort of surprised by how easy it was. So they left the leaders' den and Leafshine hopped onto the Flowerstone and assigned Lavenderstar her warrior name again: Lavendersight. Then she confined her to the elders' den (which Stickstripe was not happy about, but that's neither here nor there). Then she promised Palestep she'd make him her deputy and talked to Swallowfrost about how they'd deal with the fact that Lavendersight still had five lives.

At the moment, she's actually pretty happy and proud of herself. She knows she still has problems - Pansymoon, Thrushthorn, and Frondmist disapprove of her leadership - but she has other things to deal with first.

#### Leadership

(I'm not gonna fill this out until she has her full name)

## Other

#### Trivia

* Apparently there's a character in the Warriors canon named Leafshine. I didn't know that. Oh well.
* She is a q u e e n. She demands r e s p e c c.

#### Quotes

She has some pretty epic ones. I'm too lazy to go back and look at all of her strands, but here's a recent one:

**Pansymoon:** *"You don't care about Redpaw's training. You just want me to fail humiliatingly."*

**Leafshine:** *"That was not my intention, no. But I* will *be straightforward with you. I know I owe you that much. You don’t like me and you disapprove of what I stand for. I could have given Redpaw to anyone, including a more experienced warrior — and yet I didn’t. I chose you because you are a threat to me. You have every right to seek help with his training. But if you do a poor job, I'm afraid that will be on you and you alone. (...) I apologize for the inconvenience that causes you."*

### Deputy Position

Proceeded by: some cat named Lemondrop who never did anything and will never get a page.

Succeeded by: Palestep