Beemask

> Yeah, prettyyyy sure murder is against the warrior code. Think I could kiss being leader someday goodbye. - Beemask to Ryelight on the subject of Nightshade
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## Appearance

Beemask is an angularly-shaped tom, a siamese. He has sharp blue eyes, and a well groomed pelt. He'd probably be described as 'handsome.' He has dark, greyish-brown markings on his face, ears, paws and his tail. The rest of his body is a creamy colour. He has a couple of scars from training mishaps, nothing too serious. These scars are a small trailing mark on his face, and another on his side. He has large paws, and is tall for his age. His tail is long, and thin. He's lean, and muscular.

## Personality

Beemaks is a very blunt tom, who's open with his opinions and feelings, to the point of coming across as rude. He covers up any insecurities in himself with flirtatious, and obnoxious comments. He's not overly insecure in himself, and is generally happy with his looks, he just has the odd bad day when it comes to looking back at his past self, when he was undoubtedly worse to be around. In his past, his bluntness was much more cruel, and was often deliberate in order to break other cats down. He used to take a malicious kind of curiosity in seeing what made other cats tick, especially as a young apprentice. However, since learning, and realising the effect this can have on other cats, he's stopped taking pride in doing this that much. Whenever he says something mean spirited, he usually firmly believes that the other cat deserves it, or doesn't intend to say it. He's actually started to apologize for his actions, recently, which is quite some progress.

When he meets another cat who is much like himself, he clashes badly with them. By this, he'll argue with any other cat that has a similar spirit, or even disagrees with him slightly. He's secure in his opinions and thoughts, and whilst he's more inclined to change his mind nowadays, he'll still fight his corner. When he's gotten to know a cat well, he'll still exchange barbed comments with them, but this is much more banter than him actually trying to be cruel. This is usually seen with Troutstream, and Ryelight. He has a definite back-and-forth between the two cats, due to his familiarity with them.

He's extremely competitive, even with his friends, and family. He's especially competitive with his sister, Ryelight, in training, and also with his friends. He spends his life trying to one-up other cats, and if someone does better than him, he can be easily agitated, and holds grudges. These grudges can be held for pretty much his entire life - he remembers. He carries on these powerful emotions when it comes to defending his loved ones - he's deeply caring, and gentle at heart, and would rather die than see his clan be destroyed. This is partially why he's so untrusting of loners - to him, they are a threat to the clan. However, his current relationships with other cats have cleared that animosity away slightly.

He's grown from his past self. He's much more welcoming to cats that he would have otherwise have turned his nose up at, and his bluntness is more enduring rather than being rude. He's much more likely to be blunt about his feelings, usually positive, for other cats, rather than to offend them for the way they've groomed their fur. He's made a conscious effort to do this, suppressing any words that he'd rather not have spill out.

He's a meticulous groomer, and takes deep pride in personal looks. He's been known to roll in lavender, in order to make his scent smell sweet. Part of this is because he has a natural want for attention, and part of this is just because he likes to smell good. Similarly, he takes care of his body, training often. This is mainly because of his natural competitiveness, wanting to be better than his denmates, as well as wanting to become a warrior before his brother did. This competitive is shown often when he talks to Bristlerose.

He does care for cats, but has a curious way of showing it, especially with Ryepaw, where he's unlikely to compliment her. However, he does care for her, being her wingman when Sloefall confessed that she liked her, and often visiting her when injured in the medicine cat's den. He's been in a relationship with Troutstream for a good few seasons. The two toms do genuinely care for each other, reaching a point where they're raising a kit together. He proposed to Troutstream many times due to his secret, very deep rooted fears that Troutstream would remember the cat he once was, and only hold him to that, much like he did when Silksong interfered.

His gentleness usually translates as physical affection, and teasing compliments. He's fond on petnames, and nicknames, and whilst he's dropped enjoying working cats up with nastiness, he certainly enjoys flustering Troutstream. When someone he loves is pressed into a sticky situation, he'll try as hard as he can to get them out of it. If he fails, he tends to feel useless, and incompetent, which only acts as fuel for him to try harder next time.

He's not great at comforting cats when they're upset, and isn't even that good at telling when cats are upset, but he'll try. He's intune to the goings-ons in camp, and quite a gossip.

## Backstory

Beekit was born alongside his sister, Ryekit, during a time in which the Fallenclan nursery was very crowded. The sheer number of kits allowed to the two to slip away often and pull pranks on the other apprentices, or get into other sorts of trouble. They both really admired their older brother, Shadowwind, who was praised as being a skilled and ruthless young warrior.

As an apprentice, Beepaw was haughty and thought he was better than most of his denmates, only really spending time with his sister. The pair found a scared, but surprisingly feisty, loner named Trout, who ended up joining the clan as Troutpaw. Beepaw and Troutpaw formed a rivalry of sorts, with Beepaw making fun of Troutpaw for his kittypet blood.

After Troutpaw was attacked by a fox, Beepaw started to realize he had feelings for the small tom. Troutpaw eventually admitted that he returned Beepaw's feelings shortly before his own warrior ceremony.

A few moons after Beemask's own warrior ceremony, he and Troutstream officially became mates. When Brisaedir attacked, Beemask was almost blinded, with the monsterous tom nearly missing his eye. He still has a large, jagged scare from the attack.

When his long lost cousin, Satin, showed up covered in blood with a newborn kit, he took the kit in to care for until she recovered. Unfortunately, Satin died of her injuries and Troutstream and Beemask adopted the kit as their own, naming her Dreamkit.

After Pebblestep stepped down as deputy, Beemask was chosen. Some of the clan was wary because of his youth, and he faced some resistance. This movement was led by a senior warrior, Elderchime, who was hoping to goad Beemask into stepping down so she could take the position for herself.

After making an unsuccessful attempt on Troutstream's life to try and break the morale of the deputy, Elderchime publicly challenged Beemask. Blazestar, decided this was enough, ordered her to back down. She did not and left the clan. Troutstream awoke from his injuries, and confirmed Beemask's suspicion that she had tried to kill him by showing him into the rapid part of the river. When this news reached Blazestar, he officially exiled her.

He spent the next several moons helping Blazestar come up with strategies on how to defeat Fireclan with the assistance of his brother, Shadowwind. However, the big ambush Fallenclan had planned was a failure due to the fact that Redclaw, one of their warriors, betrayed the clan and told Fireclan of the attack. As a result, many cat, including Beemask, were captured. Shortly after this, Troutstream gave birth to Beemask's kits: Primrosekit, Mallowkit, and Talonkit. Beemask escaped the tunnels when the priosoners were rescued, only to be furious when Flareheart took leadership from him while he rested and rejoiced with his family.