Miss Hazel Nutt

Ms. Hazel is a teacher who often teaches at primary and secondary school levels. Hazel has a nurturing and kind personality. She teaches at Heathbridge School to this day.

She is among the few to be a first-hand witness of Whimpers' Freak Transformation, and she is deemed an unsung hero for how her immediate action in evacuating students saved many lives, but yet, no newspaper article talked about her heroic acts on that day. She is also the one to indirectly contribute to the transformation in the first place.

Hazel often consoled the human Lisa Winterson, and attempted to take action when Lisa was the victim of the several bullying attempts. Unfortunately for Lisa, this special treatment further caused resentment, and Lisa's peers respected her even less for not being able to stand up for herself. And since Lisa was too naive to understand and approached her peers to make friends, she only made things worse, as her peers felt that she was intentionally rubbing it into their faces.

As part of the investigation on Whimpers' Freak transformation, the Astro Surveillance Team concluded that Hazel's niceness was largely the root cause and the catalyst of the event. Firstly, since Hazel was interested in boosting Lisa's self-esteem since Lisa had self-esteem issues, she used to compliment her and go as far as to give her special treatment. She also compared Lisa highly against other students due to her high performance, which made other students feel even more jealous and unfairly treated.

In additional, further accelerating the problem was, that Hazel tends to have a firefighter approach to problem solving; that is, she does not understand that certain problems brew over time, and she is more concerned about dealing with immediate effects than diagnosing the root cause. To avoid unnecessary guilt and grief, Hazel was never told about how her contribution unintentionally led to Lisa becoming Whimpers.