NAME: Baxter

AFFILIATION: Myra's Group

IMMEDIATE KIN:
Angel (mother)
Maxwell (father)
Myra (foster mother)

BASIC APPEARANCE: Ginger and white tom with blue eyes.

DETAILED APPEARANCE: Baxter is undeniably small for his age, the only sign of the hard life he was born into and rescued from. His ginger tabby fur is splashed with white, with wide baby blue eyes that will always get him his own way. Rounded features give him the appearance of an eternal kit, as does his soft fur and near-permanent smile.

PERSONALITY & DESCRIPTION:
Wide blue eyes are the picture of innocence, something that this little tom’s caregivers would do anything to protect. But born to a she-cat who’d dispatched many of her own kits in the past, Baxter’s life was in danger from the moment it began and he came perilously close to never finding the love he now knows. The moment he could be weaned he was smuggled away to the two cats he now calls his mothers; Myra and Minnow showed their new son the unconditional love of true parents from the moment they took him in, and together they have raised a cat who shows no signs of the cruelty he so narrowly escaped. He is friendly towards strangers and loving towards those he knows, and his inquisitive nature is so endearing that it would be hard for any cat to dislike him. With his constantly happy attitude he hates to see other cats upset so will always do his best to cheer them up, using the optimistic logic of kithood that’s infallible in his eyes. But this need to help any cat he sees has the potential to land him in trouble one day, and his mothers can only hope that he’ll be able to grow out of this naivety without losing too much of his innocent outlook. Since Bax was rescued at such a young age he remembers virtually nothing of his early life, nothing of the birth mother who wanted him dead or the sister who wasn’t as lucky as he was. The only reminders of this time are the problems caused by his necessary early weaning; he is a somewhat sickly kit and is more susceptible to catching leaf-bare illnesses, but despite worrying his mothers this has never seemed to dampen his smile. While his ginger and white fur makes it obvious he’s neither Myra or Minnow’s birth son, as far as Bax is concerned it’s the love they have for him and each other that makes them a true family.