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  • Hazeltail had been one of my favorite warrior cats for a while,

  • and she now holds an even more special place in my heart because she is featured in the logo of my channel.

  • So at this point, I feel it's necessary to explain why I love her so much.

  • Because as far as her canon actions and personality are concerned, she doesn't have much to work with.

  • As a kit and an apprentice, Hazel was almost always lumped in as a group with one or both of her brothers.

  • Even at their warrior ceremony only Berrynose is given important attributes, brave and enthusiastic,

  • while Hazeltail and Mousewhisker are skipped over.

  • Other than a couple uses of her heritage, which I will get back to,

  • she's mostly just used as a generically nice cat.

  • She's excited to do apprentice duties, polite, and her biggest motivation is just becoming a warrior.

  • Then, when she is a warrior, she fades even further into the background,

  • going along with the crowd's opinions on events and only speaking out individually with,

  • again, the very boring and basic motivation of generally being a help to the clan.

  • In Sunrise she mostly serves as a foil for Hollyleaf,

  • who is dark, bitter, and jaded while she is excited and experiencing new things.

  • Even when they get back, Hollyleaf destroys a piece of prey in front of her and it is Hazeltail who notices her anger and is scared by it.

  • She shows herself to be a bit of a coward and fairly incompetent,

  • being injured and needing significant encouragement to accomplish their tasks multiple times.

  • This puts her more on par with Birchfall,

  • who she is actually paired up with a few times on the Sol patrol

  • as well as in Long Shadows on a Shadowclan border patrol that ends in both of them fighting and getting injured.

  • Her personality is jerked around wherever it needs to be to round out the cast in a certain plot,

  • leading to, among other things,

  • her having wildly different reactions to Sol when she meets him in Sunrise and The Forgotten Warrior respectively

  • with no reason given for the change.

  • And then, as soon as Omen of the Stars ends, she gets a mostly off-screen death from sickness.

  • So for the bulk of her canon portrayals she's a generic nice cat

  • with her opinions on the world informed mostly by what the plot needs them to be.

  • And sometimes, when she's lucky she gets the bonus of being a basic damsel in distress too.

  • That's not a very interesting character, especially since plenty of other cats fill that role already,

  • and honestly without Paws of Stars that's probably all she would be to me.

  • But as I went into the material of Power of Three and Omen of the Stars as a writer, with the intention of rewriting it,

  • I wanted to recognize the strengths of the books that I could capitalize and expand on as well as the flaws I would need to fix.

  • As I've mentioned before, Power of Three had a great background cast,

  • and I wanted to use this by making sure every character had a unique and fairly interesting personality,

  • especially if they would be interacting with the main characters to some extent.

  • Birchfall would already fill the role of the incompetent warrior, so her one book of characterization wouldn't really help,

  • and otherwise she has the standard female warriors personality of nice and polite without any other stand out characteristics.

  • This wouldn't do for me,

  • since she does have a lot of canon interaction with Hollyleaf, one of our point-of-view characters.

  • I needed to find her a personality and story,

  • something that would explain why she and Hollyleaf manage to become and stay friends.

  • Of course, I didn't want to pull a random character out of my head and give her Hazeltail's name.

  • Instead, I looked to her relationships and situation to find out what sort of character she might become to fit into this world.

  • Ironically, making her a believable friend of Hollyleaf was the easiest part for me.

  • Hazeltail's mentor was Dustpelt,

  • who I had already blocked in as a secondary father figure to Hollyleaf due to his traditionalist attitude

  • that might influence her towards the warrior code

  • and the fact that Ferncloud, Dustpelt's mate, was said to spend more time with Hollykit and her brothers in the nursery than Squirrelflight.

  • Since Hazeltail was trained by Dustpelt and was roughly Hollyleaf's peer while being older than her,

  • Hollyleaf could look up to her, and Hazeltail could appreciate the same traditionalist attitude that Dustpelt had instilled into her.

  • The second element to work in was her parentage, which was briefly touched on at moments in the canon.

  • Hazeltail and her littermates have no clan blood in them.

  • Both their parents are from the horseplace, even though Daisy joined Thunderclan after having them.

  • We know that they were too young to remember living in the horseplace,

  • but every cat in Thunderclan knows where they came from,

  • and at the beginning of Power of Three the clan is going through a phase where some cats believe

  • the cats not originally from Thunderclan are hurting their reputation with the other clans.

  • Hazeltail and her littermates are poised to receive flack for this, which I definitely wanted to take into account when designing her.

  • But unlike her friendship with Hollyleaf, Thunderclan's prejudice wasn't something she was uniquely going through.

  • Berrynose and Mousewhisker would also be put through the same scrutiny,

  • and I wanted to decide how each would react in forming their sibling dynamic.

  • The relationship between littermates was really important for me,

  • since this period of time had so many litters.

  • Cinderheart, Poppyfrost, and Honeyfern,

  • Hollyleaf Jayfeather and Lionblaze,

  • and Icecloud and Foxleap, all also appear within the first book alone.

  • This gives a chance to compare what different sibling dynamics may be like, and distinguish them from each other.

  • The biggest difference that stood out to me about Hazeltail, Berrynose, and Mousewhisker

  • was how different they were from each other,

  • and how little their paths crossed once they were warriors.

  • Berrynose was an arrogant braggart well known in the clan with Lionblaze as a rival and Honeyfern and then Poppyfrost as mates.

  • Mousewhisker seemed much more laid back and lacking in ambition,

  • but that led him to stepping outside his clan with his “""friendship""” with Minnowtail

  • and his place training in the Dark Forest.

  • Hazeltail was instead somewhere in the middle.

  • She cared about her clan and wanted to be a good warrior but didn't feel the need to stand out as much as Berrynose.

  • This would mean that, faced with the possibility of not being a true Thunderclan cat,

  • the three littermates all distanced themselves from their heritage, along with their mother and each other,

  • and forged their own paths in a world unfamiliar to them.

  • Berrynose tried to be the best warrior there was so no one would dare even remember he was from the horseplace.

  • Mousewhisker would move away from the ridicule and the clan as a whole to find a more welcoming place in inter-clan relationships.

  • And Hazeltail didn't care as much as either of her brothers.

  • She was a Thunderclan cat without question, and it was her job to do the best she could. No more. No less.

  • And of course she got this outlook from her mentor Dustpelt,

  • who would expect her to fulfill her duty and not look back to where she came from.

  • Whatever she was before, she was a Thunderclan cat now.

  • So she would follow the warrior code, obey her clan leader, and do all she could for her clan.

  • That's a lot more material to work with, and all, so far, from what would make sense in canon.

  • I did have to solidify a few details at this point.

  • She's fairly hardened to emotions after focusing on duty and closing herself off from her past.

  • She relates with and bonds most easily with cats who share her outlook on life, like Dustpelt and Hollyleaf.

  • She will do everything she can to help her clan,

  • and likely sees very little purpose in something like mingling at gatherings.

  • But, for development's sake,

  • there are a couple cats in Thunderclan with unyielding kindness and/or insight

  • that might just make their ways into being her friends anyway.

  • Hazeltail is, at this point, a constructed character much more than she is a canon one.

  • But I wouldn't ever call her an original character.

  • She is formed by who I would expect her to be in the canon world and circumstances she found herself,

  • and the choices she made in response.

  • What emerged was one of my favorite characters to write,

  • and knowing what I have coming for her, I'm sure I will love her for a long, long time.

  • Also she's gorgeous. I mean look at that face. Prettiest warrior cat there is.

  • Ahem.

  • Anyway, Thank you for watching, and always remember

  • to do your duty faithfully. It's much less complicated that way.

Hazeltail had been one of my favorite warrior cats for a while,

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