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Pearnose: An Overanalysis by Pearpaw

Pearpaw takes a look at Pearnose, the only character in the series with the pear prefix.

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Hello! Pear here! Today I’m going to overanalyze PEARNOSE, the only warrior cat with a prefix of Pear. I chose Pearnose because I liek pears and I am a pear.
First of all, who the heck IS Pearnose? Goosefeather’s mentor! Not Cloudberry, his ThunderClan mentor, and not Mapleshade, who briefly showed up to offer to train him in fighting. Pearnose, StarClan mentor of Goosefeather, appeared in Battle of the Clans, Goosefeather’s Curse, and Pinestar’s Choice, dark-brown tabby she-cat. (Also my favorite cat in Warriors other than Jayfeather.) Why do I like Pearnose? First, she is the only cat in the whole series that has pear in their name, meaning I connect with Pearnose on a personal level, as we are both pears.
Let’s take a look at all of Pearnose’s appearances in the series. In Pinestar’s Choice, Pearnose gives Pinestar a life for trusting his closet companions. In Goosefeather’s Curse, Pearnose appears as a StarClan warrior among the living ThunderClan cats, that only Goosepaw could see. She helped Goosepaw memorize herbs, sympathized with him when he complained he had no friends because he was a medicine cat apprentice while the other apprentices were training to be warriors. and when ThunderClan was starving, she came to Goosefeather and tells him that he must guide his Clannmates but not change anything. In Battles of the Clans, Pearnose treated Leafstorm and announced that he had died.
From this, we can take away that Pearnose is sympathetic and kind, helping Goosepaw and training him. Pearnose sympathized with Goosepaw and understood how he did not have friends. We can gather that Pearnose did not have many or any friends during her apprenticeship because she walked a different path than her denmates. She also was pretty important, or her life was symbolic, as she gave a life to Pinestar.
Pearnose is a kind medicine cat who served under Morningstar and appeared in Pinestar’s Choice, Goosefeather’s Curse, and Battles of the Clans. She is best known as Goosefeather’s StarClan mentor. Pearnose is my favorite character other than Jayfeather. Hope you enjoyed this article! Sorry if there are any mistakes/typos. Bye!

~Pear
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