Hazelpool

Hazelpool is a light gray-and-white mackerel tabby with blue eyes. 
Hazelpool is a medicine cat of MarshClan under Brookstar's leadership. He was born to Mistybrook and Pebblespirit alongside his siblings Otterkit and Rumblekit. He became apprenticed to Sparrowflight and learned the ways of medicine cats from her. He earned his medicine cat name for his calm and reserved nature. 
== Personality ==
Hazelpool was a little studious and stern for an apprentice his age. He didn't usually play with his younger siblings, often needing to be urged multiple times before giving in. He prefers instead to study the wildlife outside camp, or sort through the herb stores alone in the medicine den, reciting verbally and non-verbally what they do and what they're used for.
Hazelpool's reserved nature could be traced back to the loss of his siblings, but Mistybrook and Pebblespirit know he was always this way - though perhaps the loss of his siblings simply reinforced his reservation and studiousness.
== History ==
Hazelpaw is the only surviving member of his litter, the first litter borne by Mistybrook with Pebblespirit.
His two siblings - Otterkit and Rumblekit - were killed early in their lives when Otterkit got sick and Rumblekit was stolen in the night by foxes. MarshClan had, during one of the harder leaf-bare months, moved to another camp on a different island. They didn't have much time to shore up the defensive wall before seeking shelter for the night, and it was Rumblekit that paid the price, along with a few of the weaker warriors who perished in the cold.
Bramblesting, Mistybrook's brother, was supposed to be on watch that night. He was tired and stressed and already mentally unwell from Otterkit's death, and he fell asleep for just long enough that he was too late to react when a desperate fox breached the camp and stole Rumblekit away. Bramblesting was groggy and reacted too slowly to stop it, trying to follow and ended up wandering alone throughout the night, out of sorts and mentally shattered. 
The Bramblesting that finally returned to camp the next morning was a husk of his former self, muttering to himself and to cats that were long dead. He was forced to retire as an elder and Foxstep took over caring for him, doing his best to keep the younger apprentices from having to see what the noble warrior had become. 
Hazelkit despaired at the loss of his last sibling, but bottled up his emotions and redirected his grief into further studying medicine, hoping to one day be able to treat illnesses like the one that took Otterkit's life. 
Sometime after he became an apprentice, Mistybrook and Pebblespirit had a second litter of kits - Gingerkit, Ivykit and Pearlkit. Hazelpool views them fondly, and regards them as strongly as if they were his own littermates. However, they are at times too loud and rambunctious for him, and his social ineptitude makes it difficult to determine when they're simply playing pranks or joking around.
Category:Medicine Cats
Category:Characters
Category:Marshclan Cats