Canyonstar

### Family

Basilpool (mate), Pepperpaw (daughter), Mistytuft (mother, deceased), Sandbee (father, presumed dead)

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Canyonstar is a tall, sleek cat. His short fur is pale gray with darker tabby stripes and he has vivid, light blue eyes.

### Personality

Canyonstar is a level-headed, reasonable cat. He tries to do what’s best for MarshClan and is always looking for a chance to prove his worth. He tends to get very worried when his mate or kits are at stake and is often very quiet and sober. He is very welcoming and one of the friendliest cats in MarshClan.

## Backstory

### Kithood

Canyonkit was born in MarshClan to Mistytuft. When he was a young kit, Mistytuft took in Mintkit and raised her alongside Canyonkit. The two were good friends for most of their lives.

Not much actually happened to him as a kit. He didn't really get to know his father, Sandbee, as he had left the Clan for complicated reasons shortly before Canyonkit's birth.

### Apprenticeship

Canyonpaw was apprenticed to a completely unimportant character who I'm not even going to name. That was cool. Canyonpaw basically just bounced between Mintpaw and another friend, not really doing stuff with both of them, but one at a time was fine.

Just before their first Gathering, Mintpaw and Canyonpaw got up to some mischief (namely, messing with one of the medicine cat's experiments) and weren't allowed to go to the Gathering as punishment. That sucked.

But when they did get to go, it was well worth the wait. Canyonpaw met a pretty OasisClan apprentice, Basilpaw, and totally fell for her. Hard. Mintpaw teased him mercilessly about this, but mostly out of jealousy. Because Mintpaw liked him.

Anyways, at one point, Canyonpaw forced a messenger to go to OasisClan and basically ask Basilpaw out for him. She did and Basilpaw said yes, despite having recently been in a fight with a fox.

They had a great time and agreed that they'd keep meeting up. And so they did. Mintpaw was getting more and more jealous and friend-zoned in the background, but did Canyonpaw notice or care? Nooooooo.

### Warrior Life

Canyonpaw passed his warrior assessment the first time, motivated by the fact Basilpaw had wished him luck the night before. And because he was good at everything to begin with. Anyways, he earned the name Canyonmist. At first chance, he met up with Basilpaw again and they freaked out over his name for a bit.

Mintbright also got her warrior names at some point. Good job her.

Anyway, once Basilpool got her warrior name, she moved to MarshClan and was like, "Yes, we're mates now, you don't even have to ask." Canyonmist was 100% okay with this. He was also

Anyways, Basilpool got pregnant maybe a moon after moving to MarshClan and Canyonmist reacted in a very new dad way. He totally freaked out the whole pregnancy and was always bugging the medicine cats about how Basilpool was doing.

Then the kits were born and Canyonmist kind of lost his mind for a bit. It was rather endearing.

Unfortunately, a sickness started going around and one of the victims was Canyonmist's son, Wolfkit. Another was the leader's last life.

### Leadership

Canyonstar became leader at like 24. He's been leader for five moons. Nothing has happened to him.