Bayshine

Bayshine is a golden tabby with white splotches.

Bayshine is a current Foamclan warrior under Fogstar's leadership in the Valley Territories. Born as **Baykit** to Dewnose and Sorrelstripe and his sister Myrtlebloom, their mother also fostered Finchstar and Nightstar while Sparkpelt was grieving. As **Baypaw**, he was mentored by Mousewhisker. He became **Bayshine** and mentored Graysnow; after the Bloody Journey and the breakup of the Thunderclan representatives h,e had a fling with Violet having Rylee and Mushi Fogstar saved him from drowning, and he joined Foamclan.

## **History**

### **Post-New Clans**

Being more lazy and mellow than his Myrtlekit, Baykit got along easily with Flamekit as Sparkpelt was mourning her mate and kit's death, so she couldn't raise Finchkit and Flamekit, who all quickly became friends with Baykit and Myrtlekit. However, Baypaw didn't get over his mellow personality, which many cats looked at as quietness, and with Mousewhisker as a mentor, he couldn't truly spread out and speak for himself. This didn't help when the moon was given an apprentice, Graypaw, who reminded him of himself after becoming a warrior. So instead of bringing them together, it made both distant, and every training exercise could have been more comfortable.

As Bayshine was hoping to finish Graypaw's training as quickly as possible, his hopes were dashed as they were dragged onto the bloody journey. However, Bayshine stood out when the fox ambush split up the Thunderclan representatives, which hurts more as he believes his friends, sister, and apprentice are dead. While exploring the territory, he saved a pretty tortoiseshell she-cat from a fox; he soon grew close to Violet but always planned on leaving. However, his plans seemed to change as he discovered Violet was expecting his kits, and the young warrior was thrust into fatherhood.

However, due to how he was raised and being close to Finchlight and Nightheart, Bayshine did his best for his kits, which he allowed his mate to name as Rylee and Mushi. But this happy family wouldn't be to last. When trying to hunt fish on the river that runs through the valley, Bayshine splits into the current and cannot swim out. Forcing his head up, desperately clinging to some rocks for a few days. But as his body weakened, he slipped into open water, giving one last yowl for help before the waves engulfed him. Finally, he felt his pelt being tugged to the foaming shore as he was saved by Fognose, who carried him back to camp where he was fed fish and given herbs, seeing some rogues and all the former Riverclan cats in what resembled a camp.

Bayshine decided to stay in this camp and became an official member of Foamclan, swearing loyalty to the clan for saving his life. Bayshine spent the first moons learning to swim and fish, slowly losing his Thunderclan skills. While Bayshine always remembered his kits, he realized how long he had been gone, and while trying to find them, he knew the area they had settled was past Foamclan territory and could lead to problems with the new clans. His first adjustment of Foamclan life was the battle for basking rocks.

Bayshine found himself in battle with Hootpaw, a Sparrowclan apprentice he easily defeated until another, Dewpaw, attacked him. As he fought her, it soon divulged into the apprentices attacking him. Still wary of his near-death experience from almost drowning and being leaf-bare, the young apprentices managed to slit his cheek, and he would have kept fighting but chose to retreat when Splashtail ordered it.

## **Ceremonies**

**Baypaw's Apprentice Ceremony**

**Bayshine's Warrior Ceremony**

## **Relationships and Personality**

### P**ersonality**

Bayshine is still a mellow tom; Bayshine was never an ambitious cat and mostly spent his life content in the clans. But even Foamclan's mellow nature is still mistaken for quietness, but he usually doesn't care. Bayshine is also a quick learner, as shown when he abandoned his Thunderclan training and easily adapted to fishing and swimming, becoming one of the fastest swimmers of Foamclan.