Basilpool

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Basilpool is a small, fluffy cream cat. She has flame-colored points and green eyes. She has a nick in her ear from a fox attack when she was nine moons old.

### Personality

Basilpool is brave, confident, and not worried about what others think of her. She is very close to her siblings and wishes they would come live with her in MarshClan. She is very fond of her new home, and still very much in love with Canyonstar. She worries that she isn’t a good enough mother for her kits and is very anxious whenever the subject comes up, though she does her best to hide this fact.

## Backstory

### Kithood

Basilkit was born in OasisClan to a former loner named Darkcurrent alongside her siblings, Elmkit and Sagekit. Their father, a former kittypet named Stormheart, ended up naming the kits, because Darkcurrent died shortly after the kits were born. Since Stormheart and Darkcurrent had met before joining the Clan, he remembered some of the plants in his garden that she'd liked and he named their kits accordingly. They were then given to another queen, Springpelt, to take care of.

Springpelt's kits were about a moon older than Basilkit and her siblings, but they were rather kind toward them. Icekit, Summerkit, and Owlkit had lost their father shortly before Darkcurrent's death and were happy to have younger siblings to look after. Basilkit and Sagekit loved their older sisters, but Elmkit regarded them with thinly veiled contempt.

Stormheart always tried to remain close to his kits. Springpelt approved of this, and he was able to spend some time with her kits too, making sure that all six kits got the chance to have a father in their life.

During the last moon of her kithood, Basilkit was rather jealous of Icepaw, Summerpaw, and Owlpaw. She was rather impatient to join them in the apprentice den.

### Apprenticeship

Basilpaw was apprenticed to Stemstar, the then-current leader. She enjoyed training with her siblings and Springpelt's kits.

Unfortunately, both Springpelt and Stormheart died of greencough that leaf-bare. Basilpaw was devastated.

At her first Gathering, she met a young MarshClan apprentice named Canyonpaw. Her sisters teased her about him, but Elmpaw had gotten into an argument with Canyonpaw earlier that moon and made his disapproval very loud.

When she was nine moons old, a fox was making a nuisance of itself on OasisClan territory. They managed to fight it off eventually, but she lost the tip of her left ear in the fight. Good job Basilpaw.

A few days later, a messenger came by to basically ask Basilpaw out on Canyonpaw's behalf. It was rather difficult for her, considering that Owlpaw was the medicine cat apprentice at the time and was watching her carefully. Eventually, though, Basilpaw explained that it was all for the power of love or whatever.

These meetings continued until they were both warriors. They had great fun with it.

Springpelt's kits eventually became warriors. Exactly one moon before Basilpaw and her siblings. Icewhistler moved into the nursery shortly after her warrior ceremony. Owlglow was a good medicine cat and Summerchip was constantly striving to prove herself.

### Warrior Life

Once Basilpool got her warrior name, she set out for MarshClan. She was going to be Canyonmist's mate and nothing but his sudden refusal could stop her. He didn't stop her, of course, and they were very happy together.

Canyonmist was made deputy when the former leader became leader. Basilpool was very happy for him.

Icewhistler and Summerchirp both caught greencough and died during Basilpool's pregnancy and she wasn't able to see them before their deaths.

When Basilpool was twenty, her kits were born. Their names were Wolfkit and Pepperkit. She loved them, but she told Canyonmist quite plainly that they were not having any more. Canyonmist was fine with this.

Not only did the leader lose all nine lives rather quickly, but Wolfkit also died. He was only three moons old and Basilpool was absolutely devastated. Things were made worse when she found out that Owlglow had also died- the same night as Wolfkit, actually.

Canyonmist got his new name and his nine lives and told Basilpool that Wolfkit was safe in StarClan with her parents. That was a bit of comfort to Basilpool, but not much.

However, life moves on and soon enough, Pepperkit was six moons old. She was apprenticed to Tawnythorn, a respectable young warrior. Basilpool moved back into the warriors den, but couldn't help but feel like she was missing something.

## Other

### Other Information

* Basilpool's vow to never have kits again is, in her eyes, the direct cause of her son's death.

### Trivia

* If you took her name literally, you would have pesto. Basilpool is referred to solely as "Pesto" in my house. Please send help.