Brightskip

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**Brightskip** is a red and brown splotched tabbico molly with gold eyes.
**Brightskip** was born to Jake and Gayle as a loner.

## Relations

Crush: Decayingbelladonna, Spider (formerly)

Friendships: Decayingbelladonna

Enemies: Dawnstar (one-sided on her behalf)

Mentor: Windsear

## Interests

*Likes*

Faithe loves spring, bright flowers, dusk, and cricket sounds. Her favourite colours are yellow and pink. She loves being social and sharing physical affection. Ash introduced her to puns, and she’s loved them ever since. She also loves learning, legends and folktales, and history. Finally, she’s grown fonder of robins and spiders since her time with skinners because they remind her of home.

*Dislikes*

Her least favourite season is winter. She doesn’t like sycamore trees because that’s where she lived with Jake and Gayle. Gayle would also sneak poppy seeds into Faithe’s food sometimes, so she has a big aversion to them. She curls her lip at those who believe in the saying “blood is thicker than water” since it’s so antithetical to her life experience; her chosen family is more important than her biological relations. Arguments among family, even if it’s not her own, heightens her anxiety. She doesn’t like large animals, the taste of voles, or enclosed spaces. She also doesn’t like the first few seconds of being in sunshine because it makes her sneeze.

## Skills/Faults

*Skills*

She doesn’t take things for granted anymore and is good at appreciating the little things in life, recognizing the importance in treasuring life where you can. She’s good at hunting woodland prey, considering she grew up in the woods. She’s extremely loyal and will do anything to keep her loved ones safe. She’s skilled at sneaking around and noticing small details around her, courtesy of Jake and Gayle. Finally, she’s great at thinking outside of the box.

*Faults*

Faithe has a fear of abandonment and not being enough for those she cares about, so she can get a bit possessive or overprotective of them so they stay with her. She’s also dependent on external validation, the degree fluctuating depending on her state of mind. She’s not too familiar with medicinal herbs other than the basic ones. She will do anything to keep her loved ones safe, and while that’s a strength, it can also be weakness because it means she would sacrifice herself for their safety or happiness.

## Personality

Faithe is energetic and passionate about almost everything, meeting life with enthusiasm at every step. She’s naturally perceptive and independent, which was heightened with her first moons of life; she keeps a hawk’s eye on peoples’ movements and sometimes has a hard time relying on her family. She’s very affectionate and thrives on physical touch as long as she initiates it or it’s someone she trusts. Faithe is excellent at communicating her feelings but is blunt in normal conversation. She can have better social skills but often chooses not to. She’s curious about many things, always asking questions and trying to understand the world and people around her. She loves spontaneity and is easily bored by the mundane parts of life. Faithe has strong emotions and experiences life to its fullest in its joys and criticisms, ups and downs. She often overthinks and overstresses about things. These feed into her fear of abandonment and that she might mess up so much that her family doesn’t love her anymore. Faithe loves other cats and talking about them, their motivations, and their dreams. She finds something to identify in with almost anyone, creating genuine common ground to meet on even if she’s planning to exploit them. She wants to believe that people do the right things out of good morality, but she had to learn better from a young age. As a friend, Nika is cheerful and supportive. She loves helping them solve problems and brings creative solutions to the table. She’s open-minded and sincere, a great friend to bounce ideas off.

## Detailed History

*Dawnstar's Reign*

Brightskip debuts in a scene under the name Faithe where she first meets Dawnstar, offering the molly prey in exchange for sanctuary within the clan. Flattered by the gift, Dawnstar accepts almost immediately, and the two chat on the way back to camp. Dawnstar promises to rename her and formally introduce her to the clan momentarily, though she is quickly whisked away by Lavendersnow. Faithe ends up meeting Decayingbelladonna, and the two hit it off relatively quickly, becoming friends.

## Detailed Appearance

Faithe is a thin medium-furred molly with yellow eyes and a pink nose. Her coat is mostly a bright dappled dark brown and ginger with dark tabby markings on her forelegs, face, and tail. She has a white muzzle, chest, and underbelly, as well as white paws. The white on her back legs reaches her knees. Her ears are dark brown, and she has a noticeable ginger patch on her right flank. She has a prominent bite wound on her shoulder from the dogs. It’s healed as much as it can be, although it gets sore on stormy days and if she overworks it. She also has thick scratches on her neck and a kink in her tail. She’s a bit small, only noticeable if you look for it. She’s also very thin; it doesn’t take much for her ribs to show, even if she’s eating enough.

## Kin

Mother: Gayle

Father: Jake

Adoptive Mother: Svana

Sibling: Unnamed, stillborn.

Uncle: Ash

Aunt: Princess

Grand-parents: King and Harriet

## Backstory

Faithe was born to Jake and Gayle, two cats where one must ask why they wanted kits. She had a stillborn littermate, unnamed by her parents. Jake and Gayle were terrible parents from the get-go, and there were a couple times where Faithe almost starved. She ate lots of bugs and learned how to hunt early on. Despite knowing how to hunt, Faithe couldn’t fully sustain herself and thus relied on Jake and Gayle more than she wanted. They were abusive, Gayle verbally and Jake physically, but Faithe had nowhere else to go.

When Faithe was five moons old, Jake and Gayle got into a fight with a group of passing rogues. The rogues won and Jake and Gayle ran away to lick their wounds. Faithe saw an opportunity and pounced on it, begging to join their group. Their leader, Svana, didn’t take much convincing after Faithe told her why. Thus, Faithe found her new family.

Life was good and Faithe flourished as the rogues settled near a town far away from her birthplace. The moons turned and she learned how to be a true kitten. She started learning how to fight and hunt again when she was eight moons old alongside her best friends Robin and Spider. When she was fifteen moons old, she got to stray from their territory for the first time, joining a monthly trip into town. Faithe went with Svana and it started well, until they were attacked by dogs. Even though they fought them off, Faithe was severely injured. Svana recognized that her good-as daughter wouldn’t survive to where she could get help, so she made the hardest decision she ever had to.

Svana found the first skinner (human) she could and drew their attention to the heavily wounded Faithe. Both mother and daughter knew how likely it was that they’d see each other again, but it was Faithe’s only chance of survival. Faithe was taken away, her life saved—and Svana went back home with one less family member. Two months later, Faithe was recovered enough to be adopted. A month later, she was fully healed and ran away from her new “home”, becoming a rogue on her own. Unfortunately, she was now very far away from Svana and the rest, too far to find them. Faithe tried, of course, and wandered the forest and asked everyone she could find. It was to no avail; this part of the world was completely foreign and she had no way of reuniting with her family. Four months after escaping, when Faithe was 23 moons old, she heard about Clans. While they sounded stricter and larger than where she came from, she didn’t want to be alone anymore. She eventually decided to say goodbye to her old life, painful as it was, and step into a new one by asking to join a Clan. She slowly made her way to where she heard they were, unwittingly missing the Festival of the Springtide by a hair.

## Trivia

* Luckily, she’s not spayed; her new owners had an appointment booked but she escaped before they took her. So if she ends up wanting kits, she can. I’d like her roleplay to start with her maybe waiting at the border for a patrol to take her to the leader to discuss joining. She can also have her name changed if/when she joins. I was thinking Brightpaw.

## Links

Theme Song/Voice Claim

* Playlist: Spotify

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