Mallownose

Mallownose is a light brown tabby tom with a torn ear.
Mallownose is a RiverClan warrior that has served under Leopardstar's, Mistystar's, Splashtail's, and Icestar's leaderships in the lake territories. He was born as Mallowkit to Graymist alongside his brother, Sneezekit. As an apprentice, Mallowpaw was mentored by Rippletail. He earned his warrior name, Mallownose, and fought in the Great Battle. He mentored Havenpelt and became mates with Petalfur, who gave birth to their kits: Brackenpelt, Jayclaw, and Owlnose. Mallownose mentored Harelight, and later agreed with Bramblestar that the codebreakers should atone. After Mistystar and Reedwhisker's deaths, Mallownose argued for control of leadership, and he refused to ask the other Clans for help.
==History==
===In the Power of Three arc===
====Dark River====
:Mallowkit and his brother, Sneezekit, are the kits of Graymist. At the Gathering, when RiverClan shelters on the island, looking frightened, he is seen asking Swallowtail where his mother is. Swallowtail then comforts Mallowkit, although she seems too weak to handle it. She says that his mother will probably be back soon, along with Sneezekit. Later, Graymist is leading him and Sneezekit down to the water of the lake to drink. He does not say anything, but Hollypaw thinks that the RiverClan cats' pelts are already as familiar to her as if they were from the same Clan.
====Long Shadows====
:Mallowpaw is now an apprentice and his mentor is Rippletail.
===In the Omen of the Stars arc===
====The Fourth Apprentice====
:Mallowpaw is now a warrior known as Mallownose. He calls out during a Gathering that since Mistyfoot contradicted Leopardstar's decision with her own, and she made her leader look weak, to which Birchfall retorts that Leopardstar could not look weaker if she was dead.
====The Last Hope====
:Mallownose fights against the Dark Forest cats along with Shrewfoot, Whitewing, Hazeltail, and Berrynose when they attack the WindClan camp. While fighting, his opponent bats him away with a vicious swipe.
===In the A Vision of Shadows arc===
====The Apprentice's Quest====
:Mallownose's apprentice, Havenpaw, is now a warrior named Havenpelt. His kits are now warriors, Owlnose, Jayclaw, and Brackenpelt.
====Thunder and Shadow====
:At a Gathering, Mallownose and Minnowtail share tongues with Brightheart and Cloudtail, and the RiverClan cats look sleek again after the long leaf-bare.
====Shattered Sky====
:Mallownose springs to his paws after Mistystar finishes her retorts against Rowanstar, and asks how they're going to drive out the rogues. He continues on to say that the lost kits ShadowClan and ThunderClan took in do not seem to be part of the prophecy, and even though they've been with the Clans even longer, things beside the lake were only getting worse, making Alderheart throw him an unfriendly look.
:When Mothwing and Alderheart convince Sedgewhisker, Oatclaw, and Leaftail to let them pass through WindClan territory to RiverClan territory, Alderheart asks Mothwing what Sedgewhisker meant by 'yesterday'. Mothwing explains to him that Mistystar had sent Mallownose and Petalfur to ask for Onestar's help, but they had been turned back at the border. During a meeting at ThunderClan's camp to discuss the plan to free the RiverClan prisoners, he curses WindClan for closing their borders, as their camp is closer to the Kin's camp than ThunderClan's. Mistystar says there is no point in going over it again, and Bramblestar responds that ThunderClan is not much further, and either way they would have to cross a stream. Giving his chest fur an embarrassed lick, he gives in with a mumble.
====Darkest Night====
:RiverClan is temporarily staying at ThunderClan's camp following Darktail's defeat. Reedwhisker, Mintfur, Brackenpelt, and Icewing, who are recovering from being held captive by Darktail, sit clustered below the Highledge; Lakeheart and Mallownose flank them protectively. Soon after, he enters the camp from a patrol with Mistystar, Minnowtail, Breezepaw, and Podlight. He and the rest of his patrol stop when they see that there is a quarrel going on between Owlnose and Molewhisker.
====River of Fire====
:When RiverClan is escaping from the fire in their camp, Twigpaw helps Softpaw cross the log to safety. However, when she falls in, Mallownose and Shimmerpelt jump in to rescue her. They bolster her flanks, and, along with Finpaw, bring her back to shore.
====The Raging Storm====
:Mallownose attends the Gathering with his Clan, and talks with Breezepelt and Sparkpelt while on the island. After the meeting starts, the medicine cats reveal the vision they had, and their interpretation that the Clans must stand together or all fall. Mallownose disagrees, yowling that there has always been conflict between the Clans.
===In The Broken Code arc===
====Lost Stars====
:Mallownose attends a Gathering where he hears Shadowpaw describe how he had supposedly received a message from StarClan. Shadowpaw is trying to further explain himself when Mallownose loudly interrupts. The RiverClan warrior questions Shadowpaw's story, saying that it seemed strange that a ShadowClan apprentice would be the only one to receive a sign from StarClan. He adds that it seems especially suspicious given how much trouble listening to ShadowClan has caused for the other Clans in the past. A few cats murmur in protest at Mallownose's comments, but many of the other warriors at the Gathering seem to share his perspective. Harestar later remarks that he thinks Mallownose had a point that it was odd that only ShadowClan had received the sign.
====The Silent Thaw====
:At a Gathering, Mallownose calls out that the codebreakers must atone, with other cats raising their voices in agreement. Shortly after, he yowls that StarClan makes rules for a reason and they must be obeyed.
====Darkness Within====
:Mallownose and Lizardtail guard Ashfur's prison in ShadowClan's camp when Tigerstar, Alderheart, Hawkwing, and Frecklewish confront Ashfur about being able to move freely without Bramblestar's body. When Hawkwing and Tigerstar brutually attack Ashfur, Mallownose and Lizardtail merely watch. Later, at a Gathering, Mallownose advocates for Ashfur's death and follows the Clan leaders to witness the execution.
===In the A Starless Clan arc===
====River====
:After Mistystar's death, Mallownose questions where Reedwhisker is, since he's now their leader, though Havenpelt replies he went on a hunting patrol and should be returning soon. However, the hunting patrol returns without Reedwhisker, since he vanished. With Reedwhisker absent, Mallownose agrees that the medicine cats should lead until he is found. However, an argument breaks out when the Clan argues who should be leader instead, and Mallownose snaps at Podlight when he offers to lead. When Frostpaw rushes into camp with news of Curlfeather's death, Mallownose is the first to spot her and calls to his Clanmates for help. He suggests that Frostpaw should return to the Moonpool to ask StarClan for another leader, though when Frostpaw fearfully disclaims she can't, Duskfur scolds Mallownose for suggesting such a thing so soon after Curlfeather's death.
====Sky====
:Following Curlfeather's death, Splashtail and Frostpaw discuss how Mallownose and the other older warriors are hesitant to take up leadership. When Sunbeam, Hopwhisker, Scorchfur, and Snaketooth visit RiverClan to ask for catmint, Mallownose and Splashtail confront them on their territory. While hesitant, Mallownose and Splashtail take them to their camp and Mallownose calls for Frostpaw. When Mothwing insists they do not have any catmint, Mallownose and Splashtail escort the ShadowClan patrol back to their territory. When his son, Owlnose, is chosen as leader, Mallownose comments that the warrior code does not specify that leaders need to train an apprentice first. While hunting with Owlnose, Splashtail, Brackenpelt, Sneezecloud, and Podlight, the riverbank collapses. Mallownose and Duskfur later challenge Tigerstar when he suggests that he should temporarily lead RiverClan, since they are without leadership. When Tigerstar later brings his warriors to ShadowClan to convince them to let him lead, Mallownose argues with Icewing and Harelight, who suggest listening to him. During the battle, Mallownose fights Spireclaw, and later Stonewing by yanking on the tom's kinked tail. Mallownose later flees into the river through the reed wall.
====Shadow====
:Following ShadowClan's victory, Frostpaw treats Mallownose's injured ear as he argues why his son Owlnose is not giving orders. A few days later, Mallownose returns to the medicine cats' den for Frostpaw to reapply horsetail to his ear. Mallownose is disgruntled with ShadowClan's occupation of RiverClan, criticizing Tigerstar's right to perform ceremonies and mocking the ShadowClan stench in the camp. Later, Mallownose joins Splashtail and Duskfur in a secret meeting with Berryheart, Yarrowleaf, and Whorlpelt by the greenleaf Twolegplace to discuss the issues with Tigerstar and ShadowClan in their camp. The tabby warrior questions Splashtail's methods to find a new medicine cat, though Splashtail ridicules him. 
====Thunder====
:Mallownose is mentioned to have came along with Splashtail and Icewing to the Gathering, and Sunbeam notes that she remembered Mallownose had been resentful to ShadowClan's presence in their camp.
====Wind====
:During a battle training session, Splashtail swipes Mallownose across his ear to force him to unsheathe his claws.
====Star====
:To encourage Tigerstar to help, Berryheart lies that Mallownose is bleeding badly. However, their plan was to trap ShadowClan's strongest warriors to the island, allowing Mallownose and the other RiverClan warriors to attack ShadowClan's camp. Nightheart hauls Mallownose off of Tawnypelt, and later Sunbeam and Nightheart swipe at Mallownose together. When Sunbeam leaves to help Oakfur, Mallownose drags at Sunbeam's haunches until Nightheart shoves him away. The brown tabby warrior and Podlight team up to attack the nursery, preventing Cinnamontail and her kits from escaping. 
:When Fognose and Sneezecloud arrive in RiverClan's camp with Nightheart as their prisoner, Fognose demands to know why Mallownose and the other warriors are not battle training. After Splashtail orders Nightheart's death, Mallownose attempts to reason with Gorseclaw, though Splashtail emerges from his den before Mallownose can finish. After the other Clans defeat Splashtail, Splashtail swims away with Floatkit, and Mallownose dives after him to rescue his kin. However, Fognose prevents Mallownose from reaching her brother. In RiverClan's camp, Mallownose blames Fognose for preventing him from catching up with Splashtail, though both Fognose and Breezeheart claim that Mallownose enjoyed following Splashtail's orders. With Frostpaw injured, Mallownose frets that RiverClan will never have a proper leader without Frostpaw, and he wonders if he should leave RiverClan. Mallownose, Minnowtail, and the other RiverClan warriors call for Fognose and Breezeheart to be exiled for their fervent support of Splashtail.
:RiverClan begins repairs of its camp, with Mallownose and Nightsky repairing the camp wall. When they stop to rest, Mallownose debates with his Clanmates about the future of RiverClan. He wonders if they even need a proper leader at all and instead speak as a single group. At the Gathering, Mallownose and Owlnose speak for RiverClan, though they have nothing to report. When Icestar and Frostdawn return back to camp, Mallownose worriedly asks if Icestar did indeed earn her nine lives.
===In the Super Editions===
====Bramblestar's Storm====
:Upon the announcement that Petalfur has given birth to a she-cat and two toms, Bramblestar looks around and notices how proud Mallownose looks, and comes to the conclusion that the brown tabby is Petalfur's mate.
====Squirrelflight's Hope====
:Leafstar asks Bramblestar if something was up, since she saw Stonewing lash out at Mallownose. At another Gathering, Mallownose agrees with Emberfoot that sometimes StarClan does not answer them.
===In the Novellas===
====Mistystar's Omen====
:Mallownose returns from a hunting patrol, carrying a tiny minnow in his mouth, and drops it in the space where the fresh-kill pile would be. Robinwing, Petalfur, and Minnowtail place similar-sized prey beside Mallownose's minnow, and Mistystar is dismayed, remarking that it wouldn't feed Duskfur's two kits. Mallownose apologizes for the low prey count, explaining that the water may had came back, but the fish hadn't, and adds that the lake was empty. As Mistystar begins to suggest other places to hunt prey, Mossypaw makes a face in disgust, asking who would eat fur and whiskers, and Mallownose flicks her with his tail. He informs her that any cat who did not want to starve would eat such prey.
:As Hollowpaw and Rushpaw arrive back in their camp, Mallownose calls out to them, telling them to look, since there was fresh mice.
:When Mistystar questions her deputy, Reedwhisker, about the location of Hollowpaw and Rushpaw, Reedwhisker points with his tail to them, noting that Mallownose, Graymist, and Robinwing were at the boundary. Mistystar narrows her eyes, and can barely make out Mallownose and his Clanmates crouching by the long wall of stones. Reedwhisker then calls for them, and Mallownose and his companions scramble onto the wall, and balance beside Mistystar, where they are ordered to make noise when he is near the Twoleg den.
:Reedwhisker soon arrives near the nest, and Mallownose is one of the cats to taunt the dogs, asking if they were scared of them. The dogs soon break loose, and Mistystar finds herself being dragged sideways, which makes Mallownose shout from the wall for her to let go. She attempts to, but knows she could not, and when Graymist and Robinwing help her lose her grip, Mistystar asks where Mallownose was, noticing that the stones' top was empty. Graymist replies that he was helping Reedwhisker, and Mistystar whirls around to see Mallownose cling onto the back of the other dog, and distracts it while Reedwhisker pushes Hollowpaw and Rushpaw to the top of the fence. Mallownose then springs up from the dog's shoulders onto the fence beside them, which makes the narrow strip of wood shudder and buckle.
:After Reedwhisker lets out a shriek, Mistystar bunches her hindquarters, but Robinwing holds her back, stating that Mallownose had Reedwhisker. Mallownose is then shown having dug his claws into the fence's top, and lowers himself until he can sink his teeth into Reedwhisker's scruff. He then hauls him, who is barely moving, out of the reach of the dogs, and carries him along the wood. As Hollowpaw and Rushpaw stumble in front of him, the dogs snap and spring at them from below, but Mallownose continues to go, his eyes bulging from the effort of holding his Clanmate. Mistystar then pushes them out of the way to take her son from Mallownose. After Mistystar examines Reedwhisker's wound, Robinwing suggests to bring Reedwhisker back to camp, standing with Mallownose at the foot of the wall as Graymist and Mistystar lower him onto their shoulders. The two warriors stumble a little under his weight, but brace themselves, and begin their slow trek back to camp. Mistystar walks at her son's head, and tries to stop it from bouncing against Mallownose's elbow.
:When they arrive at camp, Mothwing asks what had happened, and Mallownose informs her that Reedwhisker was injured. After she orders for Robinwing to fetch moss, she asks if she had smelled dog. Mallownose confirms that she has, explaining that he was bitten by one of the dogs, if not both, and Mothwing then states that they would need to get the wound as clean as possible.
====Mothwing's Secret====
:In the days leading up to the battle against the Dark Forest, Mallownose practices battle moves with Graymist, Pebblefoot, and Grasspelt. Once the fighting begins, he attacks a Dark Forest tom to keep him away from an injured Minnowtail. Moons later, he, Petalfur, and Icewing are attacked by a dog while on patrol. He and Icewing fight it off, though Petalfur gets heavily injured when it grabs her in its jaws. Fretting for his mate, Mallownose and his Clanmate tow Petalfur back to camp, where Mothwing and Willowshine begin treating her. He explains what had happened to his mate and begs them to save her. Mallownose helps hold her down when she spasms, and reassures that he is there when she briefly wakes up. Mothwing watches as Mallownose helps transfer Petalfur to the medicine den.
====Dovewing's Silence====
:Mallownose is now mentoring Havenpaw. Mistystar announces at a Gathering that his mate, Petalfur, is expecting his kits.
==Detailed description==
===Scars gained===
*Torn ear caused by an unnamed ShadowClan warrior in the battle for RiverClan during Sky.
==Character pixels==
==Kin==
===Members===
Mate:
:Petalfur: 
Daughter:
:Brackenpelt: 
Sons:
:Jayclaw: 
:Owlnose: 
Mother:
:Graymist: 
Brother:
:Sneezecloud: 
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==Trivia==
===Mistakes===
*Mallownose is called a she-cat.
===Continuity===
*There are several contradictions regarding Harelight's mentor. In the first editions of A Vision of Shadows, Beetlewhisker is listed as his mentor, despite being killed in The Last Hope. In an attempt to fix this error, the Finnish version of Darkest Night lists Mallownose as Harelight's mentor,Revealed in Synkin yö, hahmolista (allegiances) while the Norwegian version of River of Fire instead lists Sneezecloud as his mentor, since Beetlewhisker is not listed at all.Revealed in En elv av flammer, troskapsforhold (allegiances) However, in the English reprinted versions of A Vision of Shadows, Harelight's mentor is listed as Mallownose in Darkest Night and River of Fire,Revealed in the reprinted version of Darkest Night, allegiancesRevealed in the reprinted version of River of Fire, allegiances in addition to Spotfur's Rebellion. He is also listed as Harelight's mentor on the Warrior Cats website. However, Harelight's mentor changes to Sneezecloud in the reprinted version of The Raging Storm.Revealed in the reprinted version of The Raging Storm, allegiances
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