Berry

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## Berry Crownleaf

**Berry** was a female baboon as well as the former Crownleaf of the Dawntrees Troop, the late mate of Thorn, and was the daughter of Pear and Stinger. After Stinger's downfall and death, she was elected by the Troop to succeed Berry as leader. However, she was exiled from the troop after the Crownguard rebelled against her, forcing her to leave the troop. She was killed by the Bloodheart Pack after pretending to be the Great Parent to protect Thorn. Even though her spirit has been freed, her spirit always stayed by Thorn's side.[*citation needed*]

## Appearance

Berry was a female baboon with golden-brown fur and large brown eyes. Her face is always said to be caring and gentle. She was slender and long-legged, with the characteristic short tail and dexterous, human-like hands of a baboon. She is said to be quite pretty, and has short, rounded ears and a long, furless snout. She was left with a stump for a tail after she was attacked by monkeys in *Code of Honor.*

## Personality

Berry is portrayed as kind, gentle, and caring to others, particularly her friends, Thorn and Mud, her mother, Pear, as well as her father, Stinger Crownleaf, but when she discovered her father was evil, she turned against him.
After she becomes Crownleaf Berry is more bitter towards Thorn and exiles him along with Nut, Mud and Spider for interfering with her plans to kill Tendril. She later blames Thorn for Creeper taking over her position as Crownleaf and calls him “a horrible mate" and a bad great parent. However, she eventually sees the error of her ways and apologizes to him for her attitude when Mud brings him back to the Great Father Clearing. Berry then confronts the Bloodheart pack and lies saying that she was chosen by the great spirit, the wolves kill her and destroy her spirit forever, she did it to save Thorn so that means that she still loved him greatly.

## Biography

### *Early Life*

7 years ago, Berry was born to Pear Goodleaf and Stinger Highleaf in Crookedtree Troop. However, her father was greedy and desired power. So Stinger (then known as Seed) attempted to become the troop's new leader by murdering Marula, the Crownleaf at the time. His mate, Pear, witnessed his treachery and questioned the reason behind his actions much to the former's shock, as he expected the latter to be pleased with him. The rest of Crookedtree Troop proceeded to exile him, but not before he kidnapped his daughter. He then lied to Berry that her mother was dead and together they stumbled upon Brightforest Troop and they were accepted as members of the troop.

### *The Spirit-Eaters*

Berry is annoyed with Thorn for him 'undermining' her when her Crownguard is going behind her back and Thorn tries to help. Later in the book she is exiled by her own Crownguard. Then, she pretends to be the Great Parent to the golden wolves, and they ultimately kill her and rip out her heart, destroying her spirit forever. When an anguished Thorn learns that Titan is in league with the wolves, he swears vengeance over his dead mate.

### *Oathkeeper*

When Fearless mistakenly believes that Thorn was killed by Titan and the wolves, he leads his pride to the Great Father Clearing in order to inform Berry that her mate has been "killed", unware that it was Berry who was killed.
Berry's corpse is being examined by an anguished Thorn. Thorn mentally notes that because the Gold Wolves has devoured Berry's spirit, she'll never ascend to the afterlife. Mud demands that they leave Bravelands with their group since Titan would be furious when he discovers that Berry isn't the great-parent after all and will seek vengeance on Thorn.
Thorn stubbornly refuses to leave the Bravelands and says that he'll stand his ground against Titan and Bloodheart Pack. When Fearlesspride arrives at the Great Father Clearing, they learn that Thorn is in fact still alive and it was Berry who was killed since she pretended to be the Great-Parent.
Berry's spirit, along with others, were freed after Fearless killed Titan. Five years later, Thorn felt Berry's spirit beside him, and he knows she would always be by his side.

### *The Venom Spreads*

Berry doesn't appear but she is mentioned numerous times.

At Tall Trees, Prance mentally notes Berry as Thorn's late lover. After Thorn is poisoned by Grandmother's followers
He briefly regains conscious and ivokes Berry's name.

## Trivia

* Berry was 7 years old at her death.
* Berry only had half of a tail due to a monkey attack.

## Kin

### Members:

**Mate:** Thorn Greatfather: Living (as of *The Spirit-Eaters*)

**Father:** Stinger Crownleaf: Deceased

**Mother:** Pear Goodleaf: Deceased

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Blood and Bone*,page 146
2. ↑ *Blood and Bone*, page 146

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