Hailstar

is owned by Whiskers
Hailstar was a skinny gray tom with short, ragged fur.
==Description==
===Physical===
Most cats are exceptionally talented at hiding any of those undesirable signs of aging...Hailstar? He's an exception. The tom was always slender-built, even in his youth, but now, he's a hollow shell of a once youthful and confident feline. The elderly leader's ribs and hip bones are visible beneath his thinning, poorly groomed coat. His spine is also visible once he stretches, although it's typically hidden by uneven, ragged fur when the tom's body is relaxed. Hailstar is deep chested for a cat, although the chest bone is very easy to find nowadays. Like most elderly cats, he is plagued by loose skin.
He once had a lovely coat, back when he had the time and wits to remember to groom it. His short-furred coat was once silky smooth, dense, and clean of any sign of debris. Several years later, Hailstar's coat has dulled, a visible reminder of his failing health. The MistClan leader's fur is uneven, with signs of matting, ragged tufts of fur, and places where fur seems to grow very thin. In addition to this, the tom has seen some rough days in his years. Hailstar wears a fair number of scars, most notably along the bridge of his nose and on his shoulders.
===Personality===
During his youth, he was a very admirable and hard-working warrior with a mind like a steel trap. There was no getting any secrets out of the loyal warrior. Hailstar was respectable towards most every cat he came across, save for the occasional outsider that he believed did not deserve his trust. Simply put, he was very cynical towards those not apart of MistClan.
That being said, he lived and breathed warriorship- Hailstar had no interest in retiring or stepping down to have a family. He did not believe in having any distractions. That being said, he always seemed to hold something against cats that had parents or retired into the elder's den. Although he put on a respectable façade, deep down, he resented those cats. When he became leader and his life began to slow down, he was much more appreciative towards those who raised kits, which would become future warriors. Still, he seems to resent elders, despite Hailstar himself being ancient. He considers elders to be cowardly, a disappointment to their clan for selfishly stepping down.
==History==
===Background===
Hailkit had been born into MistClan to a queen whose mate had abandoned her shortly after discovering that she was expecting. Nonetheless, the queen was highly respected within MistClan, and was also strongly independent. She immediately fell in love with her kittens and the idea of being a mother. 
Hailkit was always a bit different than his littermates. While they loved to play with one and other and think of stupid kit games, he was much more interested in talking to the warriors and convincing the apprentices to show him a few battle moves. Surprisingly, Hailkit's mother was in full support of his ambition. 
A harsh leafbare resulted in the death of Hailpaw's only two littermates (both of which were toms) when they became apprentices. His mother was devestated, but held onto her remaining kit with great hope. Hailpaw survived the leafbare, and trained hard to be a good warrior.
He seemed to be obsessed with being a productive warrior. Hailpath was always the first to volunteer on patrols, no matter the conditions or dangers. He wanted to be deputy and eventually leader because he felt that he could steer his clan in a good direction, but not only because of that.
Hailpath feared death. 
Leaders had nine lives, and warriors had only one. His belief in StarClan seemed to be quite loose. As he grew older and worked harder, Hailpath eventually became deputy, and not much longer, he became leader. He continued a close relationship with his mother, but grew irritated with her constant talks about attempting to have more kits. He found queens to be useless in the productivity of a clan.
But after another harsh winter that caused Hailstar to lose many of his warriors, he grew to respect queens. However, he was 8 years old, and his mother even older. She could no longer have kits, so she pressured him into the idea of having some, since the clan was in need of future warriors. He was repulsed by the idea, but his mother sobbed on about wanting to meet her own grandkits, since she could no longer have kits of her own. After all, his brothers would have had kits, but both had died as apprentices...
...He tried to force himself to feel something. He had a brief and unsteady relationship with a warrior until he decided that he could bear the idea of romance no longer. Hailstar was independent, and there was no changing that. He broke off the relationship and was on unsteady terms with the she-cat. The warrior announced that she was pregnant, and Hailstar confirmed that he wanted no part in rearing the kits. 
===Roleplay===
Hailstar has aged, and not well. MistClan is not fairing well, with hungry cats and little territory. When Poppykit, Palepaw, and the two sons (Redkit and Acornkit) of rival RainClan leader, Lionstar, appear on MistClan territory, he agrees to hold them captive. It is his hopes to use them as a bartering chip. After all, Lionstar would most certainly do anything to get his sons back, perhaps even give away some of his hunting grounds.
It comes as a great surprise when Lionstar enters camp to barter, only to refuse to give up territory. He tells Hailstar to keep his sons. From that point onward, the stressed MistClan leader appears to only grow more mentally ill and unstable. Poppykit seems to grow close to the tom, albeit disliking him for holding her hostage. She's curious about the strange creature. 
Camp starts on fire, and Hailkit gets lost with Poppykit. He blacks out and hopes for death, but wakes to find his deputy, Larkfur, with Dapplepaw. After nearly drowning in the river and nearly having a tree collapse on top of him, Hailstar seems to make it to safety. Deep down, he is beginning to welcome death. He no longer fears it. 
==Lineage==
==Relationships==
===Family===
WIP
===Friends===
None
===Love Interests===
None
===Other===
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Category:Toms
Category:Characters
Category:Leaders
Category:MistClan Cats
Category:Silverwhisker's Cats
Category:LGBT+
Category:Clan Cats
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