Picking on…Honeyfern!
Thanks to Birchsong and Avatar2016 for the suggestion…
Ramblings about the purpose of Honeyfern and her very annoying personality…
Okay…wow. I had so many problems with Honeyfern until she finally died randomly in Sunrise (yeah, what was the point of that?). First of all, what was up with her crush on Berrynose? I mean, come on, Berrynose? Every time his name came up in the book I would just stop reading, look to see where his part ended and then start reading there. But, for some reason that I still can't even understand (even after his personality did a 360 like the moment she died), she thought he was the hottest thing in the entire flipping world. She gave up Lionblaze for him? Come on, even that mildly psychotic, potential mass murderer is a better catch than Berrynose.
Look, I think I got why she was in the book. Something 'bout showing the sacrifices Lionblaze had to make to be the best freaking warrior ever (He made a cat fall in love with Berrynose for crying out loud!).It's like blah blah blah she used to like Lionblaze until he blah blah blah Berrynose became a warrior blah blah blah and it was totally freaking obvious that he wanted NOTHING to do with her but apparently that made him TEN TIMES HOTTER! (And still Thornclaw hasn't had a mate and Berrynose gets fawned over like he's the hottest thing with a tail and four paws? Don't get it. Have major problem with that one…)
Honestly, it got to the point where Honeyfern annoyed me as much as Hollyleaf (yes, the psychotic, warrior code obsessed, hypocritical weirdo that she was). Every other word out of her mouth was Berrynose. Like we needed another Ferncloud in the story! That's probably what she would've turned into had that snake not bit her randomly in Sunrise. Now, if you think Ferncloud and Dustpelt's kits are annoying (i.e. Spiderleg and Birchfall (well Birchfall until Sunrise where suddenly his personality did a 360 and he was suddenly nice again)) just take a second to think about the kits that Berrynose and Honeyfern would have had…
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! MORE ANNOYING, SELF-LOVING, OVERLY TALKATIVE (I can just see one of them getting obsessed with another cat and the whole dang cycle staring over wasting more pages that could've been filled with action), OBNOXIOUS, HALF-KITTY PETS!!
Even their relationship at the end was totally messed up! I mean, yes Ms. Hunter I know it was supposed to be so darn touching and we were supposed to be so darn sad 'cause poor little sweet (sweet?????) Berrynose lost his one true love 'cause a snake randomly appeared (never had a single problem with a snake until then, and then it randomly appeared, yeah…) and bit her. But when, I ask, when was Berrynose ever nice to her up to that point? WHEN? And suddenly he's like hey, baby, let's be the new and improved Ferncloud and Dustpelt and breed the most annoying kits ever created. We can totally out produce them. And she's like *giggle* I know you ignored me for moons and moons and moons but now you obviously love me *swoon* Oh, Berrynose, yes I want to go down in history as the mother of the single most annoying line of cats ever created! And then it's like, OMG that snake is about to randomly kill that random kit (was it Briarkit? Bumblekit? Blossomkit? all the B named kits are getting on my nerves and are so darn similar it isn't even funny…) I must save her/him! Snake bites her…*gasp* Now I won't get to be with my wunderful, luvely, handsume Berrynose! NOOOOOOOOO! *dies*
At first I thought we were going to be saved from all the angst and endless love fest complete with incredibly annoying kits until I looked at the ThunderClan allegiance page in The Fourth Apprentice and saw that *gasp* BERRYNOSE GOT POPPYFROST PREGNANT! NO NO NO NO NO!! THAT IS SOOOO WRONG ON SOOO MANY LEVELS!
And then, just because I wanted to make sure that Berrynose was the jerk that I thought he was, I typed in Honeyfern's name in to see where she appears in the book and… OMG she's EVERYWHERE! Apparently, we're not going to be saved from their horribly clichéd annoying love fest even though she's dead and Berrynose got Poppyfrost pregnant! Because now Berrynose is apparently obsessed with her (never saw that one coming, did we?) Ugh… now that's something I can't even see Dustpelt and Ferncloud doing.
So, to sum everything up Honeyfern is one of those annoying secondary characters that really serves no purpose except to get killed (randomly) for some (random) kit so that Hollyleaf can go insane and try to kill Leafpool (randomly) and to annoy us all (even in death!!) by being like oh, Berrynose, wherefore art though Berrynose? endlessly.
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~Moore12~