Nightnose

**Nightnose** is a MoonClan warrior known for being the father of a mentally-slow cat, Birdwing, and the mentor of a cat who fled to AdderClan, Stonetooth.

## Physical Description

### Namesakes

Prefix: His fur color, and perhaps to be themed with Nutclaw's suffix.Suffix: His nose is also black.

## Education

### Unofficial Mentor

Goldenlily

He is also known for being the paternal uncle of the seventh leader of MoonClan, Waterstar, and for being the mate of a senior queen, Sandleap, who was also Snowstar's second daughter and Birchstar's older sister.

He was given to the Clan by his kittypet mother (along with his littermate, Nutclaw) at two moons, similarly with Flameeye and Redwater. His father, Watereye, tried to watch over him and Nutkit in the nursery since they had no mother. However, Peonyclaw and Petuniaheart, two other queens (the former being his apprentice's mother and father's apprentice and the latter being his mate's mother) offered to take care of them like their own kits until they became apprentices. He became good friends with their kits, especially Sandkit who he developed a crush on in apprenticehood. Peonyclaw also advocated for her younger friend, Rosepetalpaw, to be Nightkit's mentor and had them meet often, so Moonstar decided to make them mentor and apprentice.

Nightpaw and Rosepetal were very friendly throughout his apprenticehood, and even when Rosepetal became pregnant with Maplestripe's kits a moon before becoming him a warrior, they still chatted frequently, and Rosepetal assisted him for the last moon while he did physical training with Goldenlily, his father's mate, and her apprentice, Hailpaw (also the younger littermate of Sandleap).

Nightnose was usually kind and friendly to all his Clanmates, until he became the mentor of Stonetooth, Stonepaw at the time (which Peonyclaw advocated for since she knew Nightnose was a nice cat). Since Stonepaw was usually too uncooperative and rebellious during training, he found it exhausting to train her, since they usually ended up arguing in bad faith. He even wondered if he was unlucky to have such an apprentice, as he remembered his own apprenticehood and other cats' apprenticehoods. This made him bitter for a while, since Stonepaw's hatred of him seemed to pass onto him, too, and relished the time that he didn't have to do so, such as when Stonepaw got punished two times and he didn't have to train her for two days each. He was horrified to learn that Stonepaw pushed a mute kit, Swankit, into a ditch and agreed with his apprentice's punishment wholeheartedly. So he went on escapades with his crush, Sandleap, later becoming mates with her. This was a source of tension between his apprentice and his mate's apprentice, Zebrapaw (who was also Stonepaw's littermate), especially when Sandleap became pregnant and Zebrapaw had to train with Violetrain, his older sister. But Zebrapaw forgave them when he became a warrior and admitted he just wanted to spend more time with his mentor. Stonetooth, however, did not.

When Goldenlily died from giving birth to Mousekit and Petalkit, Nightnose was genuinely mourning for her. Since Swanpaw was his brother's apprentice, he had a soft spot for her, too. However, he wanted to try to use it as an excuse to not train Stonepaw, much to her frustration. When his first litter was born, he was very excited as he liked kits a lot, but got extremely shocked and worried when he realized his oldest kit, Birdkit, had a condition where her processing and response time was slow, similarly to his mentor's daughter, Primrosepaw, whose reflexes were slow. So he decided to forget about Stonepaw completely and only pay attention to Birdkit as he wanted to monitor her condition. When Mousekit died, he felt like he had even more obligation to watch over Birdkit and asked Snowstar if he could stay in the nursery, that is, officially become a queen.

When Stonepaw was finally becoming a warrior, Nightnose was happy that he would finally be rid of her, but was unhappy at the fact he had to touch noses with her. When that was over though, both Nightnose and Stonetooth were finally relieved that they didn't have to see each other again. But Stonetooth was already fed up with MoonClan by this point, and when she heard about AdderClan's stories from Begoniaclaw (the cat who joined and nursed Mousekit and Petalkit after Goldenlily died) and Desertflames, a tom from AdderClan, she decided that that Clan was better for her than MoonClan, and left with Begoniaclaw. She told her littermate, Whitestripe, why she was leaving and stated Peonyclaw and Nightnose as majority of the reason.

Nightnose was one of the cats who was relieved at her leaving MoonClan, but was shocked to hear that she had entered AdderClan. He was also surprised that Whitestripe was trying to defend her and tried to plead with him why he didn't want to train with Stonetooth when she was an apprentice.