Halfmask

### Basic Physical Description

A chimera tom. His left side was gray, with slightly darker spots and a green eye. His right side is black with a yellow eye.

## Relationships

### Kits

Dawnkit (daughter), Eclipsekit (daughter), Quartzkit (son), Sootkit (kit)

## Education

### **Detailed Description**

A chimera tom. He was pretty average-sized, and slender. He had medium-length fur. His left side was a stormy gray with a few spots and a green eye, while his right half was black with a yellow eye. He also had a stumped tail.

### **Personality**

Halfmask was quiet, calm, and polite, hardly ever losing his temper. He was patient, too, and wasn't a fan of the circles. He didn't trouble himself with the hierarchy, and he had gladly taken a mate in the lower circles, as it made him happy. However, he was not without his faults. He was often anxious about socializing, and could be pretty awkward, especially around cats he didn't know. He overthought things, and was definitely a perfectionist.

### **History**

#### **Pre-Roleplay**

Halfmask was born to average-ranking parents. He had a pretty normal upbringing; he didn't really have any desire to become leader or anything, he just hoped to settle down with a family one day, and had little regard for circles. However, his parents died young; his mother died as an apprentice, and his father almost as soon as he had become a warrior. After that, he swore to be there for his family if he ever had one of his own.

#### **In-Roleplay**

Halfmask was a young warrior in RootClan. He met a 5th-circle she-cat named Mistysong, who was a former rogue. Despite both of them being pretty shy, they got along well and quickly became pretty good friends.

Only a little while later, he got his first apprentice, Cricketpaw, who he took on a tour of the territory and gave hunting and fighting lessons.

He also had an awkward conversation with the prickly apprentice Frostpaw.

He went hunting with Mistysong some more, and had a lot of fun. They got along really well. A few days later, they talked again, about the weather, the birds chirping, and their favorite prey. It was around this time that Halfmask began to realize that he had a crush on her.

Finally, one day, he worked up the courage to ask Mistysong to go on a walk with him. He led her out into the forest, and through to the edge, where they could look over the Gatheringplace, the Great Boulders, and out at the ocean beyond. The sun was setting, creating a beautiful scene. It was there he asked her to be his mate, to which she accepted; Halfmask felt on top of the world.

A little while after, Cricketpaw got the name Cricketchirp. During his silent vigil, Halfmask sat beside him. They had a polite conversation, where Halfmask did all the talking. He expressed how proud he was of Cricketchirp, and they bonded a little more.

However, only a little while later, Halfmask ran into Thornpelt, a warrior he hadn't talked to before. Thornpelt was really sad, so Halfmask tried to cheer him up by climbing a tree with him and looking out at the view from the top. It was fine at first, until Thornpelt began to grow fearful of the heights. Halfmask led him down to safety, apologizing sheepishly. However, Thornpelt, who had severe anger issues, began to attack Halfmask. After a very long, drawn-out struggle as Halfmask attempted to get back to camp, he finally got back into camp and retreated to the safety of the medicine den, although permanently scarred - both mentally and physically.

A little while after being healed of his wounds, he went back to the medicine den for a thorn in his pad, which the medicine cat apprentice Moonpaw took out happily.

A while after, he was hanging out with Mistysong again. She told him about her past: as a rogue, her parents had died when she and her sister were young; she was hunting with her sister, Feather, when she jumped on what she thought was prey, but in actuality, it was a fox's tail. The fox thought that her sister was the one to attack it, and it quickly killed her. Mistysong was traumatized. Halfmask helped console her, telling her it wasn't her fault. He opened up about his backstory; about his parents dying young, and how he'd sworn to be there for his family. He promised to be there for Mistysong.

And only a small while later, Mistysong approached him, and told him that she was expecting kits. Halfmask grew very excited; he couldn't wait to experience fatherhood.

Despite being lowered down a circle, down to 4th, he didn't care. He was on Cloud 9, and life was going good: he had a beautiful mate, friends, and kits on the way. However, it this didn't last long. An abnormally high amount of foxes began to enter the area around RootClan's forest and the outerlands.

As Mistysong was giving birth to their kits, a few foxes burst into camp. Halfmask, Duskfeather, and Moonsong all helped her into the nursery, and Halfmask stood guard right outside. A fox made its way over while he was distracted with the birth of Dawnkit, Eclipsekit, and Quartzkit. It clamped its jaws hard down over him, and he struggled to fight it off. Finally, he managed to hurt it enough for it to let go, where he was finally able to kill it. However, moments later, he collapsed to the ground. He realized that he was going to die - that there was nothing he could do to stop it. He realized that he was just like his parents; abandoning his children, his family, when they needed him most. In his last moments, he began to sob and bid farewell to Mistysong, before his spirit lifted out of his body. He was greeted by his mother. He began to fight her, begging her to let him back into his body. However, she would not let him - this was his fate. He finally, weakly, accepted it, and followed her to StarClan.

### **Trivia**

* Halfmask was created because, at the time of his creation, there were three toms in RootClan: Reedsplash, Flypond, and Oakthorn. Reedsplash was getting with Hareleap, and Flypond and Oakthorn were getting together - there was a desperate need for toms.
* Two of Halfmask's kits, Quartzit and Eclipsekit, inherited his chimerism.
* He had to be killed off because I (@ammi\_) got Patchkit in the Hareleap x Reedsplash litter, and needed to clear out a slot for him.