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* HiveQueen: [[spoiler:Literally. She can mind control the [=HiveWings=] to see what is happening everywhere and accomplish tasks by means of the whole tribe.]]
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* HiveQueen: [[spoiler:Literally. She can mind control the [=HiveWings=] to see what is happening everywhere and accomplish tasks by means of the whole tribe. However, she's unaware that the Othermind is actually the ''true'' HiveQueen controlling her and thus everything she's doing.]]
* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth makes it clear he's not controlling her as a puppet, rather she's ''always'' been a monster and he merely allowed her to use him in her own schemes, unaware he's pulling her strings in more subtle ways.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:She's one for the Othermind/Cottonmouth, who gloats he allowed her to act on her own evil ambitions, unaware she was serving ''his'' own goals.]]
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:It's noted at his core, Cottonmouth is a coward and the reason intense enough pain drives him out of a host is that Cottonmouth can't tolerate actually being harmed himself.]]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth created the Breath of Evil out of a single-minded desire to rule the world and to get revenge for the dragons nearly wiping out humanity in the Scorching, something that was ''entirely his fault.'']]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth created the Breath of Evil out of a single-minded desire to rule the world and to get revenge for the dragons nearly wiping out humanity in the Scorching, something that was ''entirely his fault.'']]'' It's flat out stated he's the kind of person who 'only likes pictures if he's in them', and tends to only sift through dragons memories to look for things about himself.]]
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* [[PuppetKing Puppet Queen]]: She's mostly just a figurehead for her ally, Queen Glacier.
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* [[PuppetKing Puppet Queen]]: She's mostly just a figurehead for her ally, Queen Glacier. However, [[DefiedTrope Glacier was planning on molding her into a strong queen that could stand on her own once the war ended, and fully intended to be a loyal ally if Blaze won.]]
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* ChildByRape: Winter doesn't go into too much detail about it considering [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids it's a kids book]], but his mother kidnapped his father and forced him to have him [[spoiler:in order to have the [=NightWings=] get the [=IceWings'=] animus powers.]] [[spoiler: Though this turned out to be subverted, as it turns out they were actually in love but the [=IceWings=] assumed no prince of their tribe would ever be in love with a [=NightWing=].]]
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** Winter doesn't go into too much detail about it considering [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids it's a kids book]], but his mother kidnapped his father and forced him to have him [[spoiler:in order to have the [=NightWings=] get the [=IceWings'=] animus powers.]] [[spoiler: Though this turned out to be subverted, as it turns out they were actually in love but the [=IceWings=] assumed no prince of their tribe would ever be in love with a [=NightWing=].]]
** Winter doesn't go into too much detail about it considering [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids it's a kids book]], but his mother kidnapped his father and forced him to have him [[spoiler:in order to have the [=NightWings=] get the [=IceWings'=] animus powers.]] [[spoiler: Though this turned out to be subverted, as it turns out they were actually in love but the [=IceWings=] assumed no prince of their tribe would ever be in love with a [=NightWing=].]]
* ChildSupplantsParent: From birth he wanted to kill his father (but hesitated due to what good was still left inside him) and have his mother to himself. He eventually actually does kill his father.
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* OedipusComplex: From birth he wanted to kill his father (but hesitated due to what good was still left inside him) and have his mother to himself. He eventually actually does kill his father.
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* BerserkButton: Do not mention how Oasis was killed by a scavenger in font of her.
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* BerserkButton: Do not mention how Oasis was killed by a scavenger in font front of her.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She's part of the mind controlling the Breath of Evil, but is a lonely, abused, bitter, tired dragonet who never got to see the world or experience life or even be loved by her mother before she died. A big part of defeating Cottonmouth is getting her to come around and realize there was more to being a dragon than burning and destroying things.]
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She's part of the mind controlling the Breath of Evil, but is a lonely, abused, bitter, tired dragonet who never got to see the world or experience life or even be loved by her mother before she died. A big part of defeating Cottonmouth is getting her to come around and realize there was more to being a dragon than burning and destroying things.]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He reaches the last straw in tolerating Arctic's abuse of him and Whiteout when Arctic enchants her to follow him back to the Ice Kingdom (and also removing her speech quirks, as well), which culminates in Darkstalker [[PsychicAssistedSuicide enchanting Arctic to kill himself]]. While he's far from unjustified in his anger, [[spoiler:this is still coming from the same dragon who enchanted his beloved into only being able to see positive futures in order to better serve his own long-term interests, and tried to enchant his best friend into forgetting about the love of his life and using his animus magic in disregard of his oaths otherwise]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He reaches the last straw in tolerating Arctic's abuse of him and Whiteout when Arctic enchants her to follow him back to the Ice Kingdom (and also removing her speech quirks, as well), which culminates in Darkstalker [[PsychicAssistedSuicide enchanting Arctic to kill himself]]. While he's He's far from unjustified in his anger, [[spoiler:this [[spoiler:but this is still coming from the same dragon who enchanted his beloved into only being able to see positive futures in order to better serve his own long-term interests, and tried to enchant his best friend into forgetting about the love of his life and using his animus magic in disregard of his oaths otherwise]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He reaches the last straw in tolerating Arctic's abuse of him and Whiteout when Arctic enchants her to follow him back to the Ice Kingdom (and also removing her speech quirks, as well), which culminates in Darkstalker [[PsychicAssistedSuicide enchanting Arctic to kill himself]]. While he's far from unjustified in his anger, this is still coming from the same dragon who enchanted his beloved into only being able to see positive futures in order to better serve his own long-term interests, [[spoiler: and tried to enchant his best friend into forgetting about the love of his life and using his animus magic in disregard of his oaths otherwise]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He reaches the last straw in tolerating Arctic's abuse of him and Whiteout when Arctic enchants her to follow him back to the Ice Kingdom (and also removing her speech quirks, as well), which culminates in Darkstalker [[PsychicAssistedSuicide enchanting Arctic to kill himself]]. While he's far from unjustified in his anger, this [[spoiler:this is still coming from the same dragon who enchanted his beloved into only being able to see positive futures in order to better serve his own long-term interests, [[spoiler: and tried to enchant his best friend into forgetting about the love of his life and using his animus magic in disregard of his oaths otherwise]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He reaches the last straw in tolerating Arctic's abuse of him and Whiteout when Arctic enchants her to follow him back to the Ice Kingdom (and also removing her speech quirks, as well), which culminates in Darkstalker [[PsychicAssistedSuicide enchanting Arctic to kill himself]]. While he's far from unjustified in his anger, [[spoiler:this is still coming from the same dragon who tried to enchant his best friend into forgetting about the love of his life, and using his animus magic in disregard of his oaths otherwise]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He reaches the last straw in tolerating Arctic's abuse of him and Whiteout when Arctic enchants her to follow him back to the Ice Kingdom (and also removing her speech quirks, as well), which culminates in Darkstalker [[PsychicAssistedSuicide enchanting Arctic to kill himself]]. While he's far from unjustified in his anger, [[spoiler:this this is still coming from the same dragon who enchanted his beloved into only being able to see positive futures in order to better serve his own long-term interests, [[spoiler: and tried to enchant his best friend into forgetting about the love of his life, life and using his animus magic in disregard of his oaths otherwise]].
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* ItsAllAboutMe: He's insanely vain and self-absorbed, refusing to listen to anyone's opinions if they don't align with his. His entire friendship with Fathom is marked by him repeatedly attempting to persuade him to start using his animus magic again, completely disregarding the ''entire reason'' Fathom is terrified of his powers. [[spoiler:This even extends to enchanting a goblet as a gift to Fathom that, when drunk from, will make him forget the Royal [=SeaWing=] Massacre and his girlfriend Indigo, and believe that animus magic is a great thing that he'll start using whenever he wants.]]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: He's insanely vain and self-absorbed, refusing to listen to anyone's opinions if they don't align with his. His entire friendship with Fathom is marked by him repeatedly attempting to persuade him to start using his animus magic again, completely disregarding the ''entire reason'' Fathom is terrified of his powers. [[spoiler:This even extends to enchanting a goblet as a gift to Fathom that, when drunk from, will make him forget the Royal [=SeaWing=] Massacre and his girlfriend feelings for Indigo, and believe that animus magic is a great thing that he'll start using whenever he wants.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He reaches the last straw in tolerating Arctic's abuse of him and Whiteout when Arctic enchants her to follow him back to the Ice Kingdom (and also removing her speech quirks, as well), which culminates in Darkstalker [[PsychicAssistedSuicide enchanting Arctic to kill himself]]. While he's far from unjustified in his anger, [[spoiler:this is still coming from the same dragon who tried to enchant his best friend into forgetting about the love of his life, and using his animus magic in disregard of his oaths otherwise]].
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* HiveQueen: Thousands of years ago, it controlled massive swarms of animals which is used to attack the first dragons to arrive on the continent. Now it's in control of most of the dragons on the continent as well and plans on taking over everything on the planet.
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* HiveQueen: Thousands of years ago, it controlled massive swarms of animals which is used to attack the first dragons to arrive that arrived on the continent. Now it's in control of most of the dragons on the continent as well and plans on taking over everything on the planet.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth created the Breath of Evil out of a singleminded desire to rule the world and to get revenge for the dragons nearly wiping out humanity in the Scorching, something that was ''entirely his fault.'']]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth created the Breath of Evil out of a singleminded single-minded desire to rule the world and to get revenge for the dragons nearly wiping out humanity in the Scorching, something that was ''entirely his fault.'']]
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* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:a Cottonmouth is a poisonous snake. Fitting considering his actions resulted in the destruction of human civilization.]]
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* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:a [[spoiler:A Cottonmouth is a poisonous snake. Fitting considering his actions resulted in the destruction of human civilization.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth before the Scorching thinks that the dragons in the overall setting are dumb brutes who exist only to be slain for glory or forced into servitude with human masters when they are actually fully sapient beings capable of reason. His idea that is also adopted by rival empires in response, which is the taming aka ''enslavement of dragonets from birth'' to use them as future war beasts backfires in the most destructive way possible. The mothers of the stolen dragonets banded together and ''burnt the various human empires to the ground in anger'', resulting in the formation of the seven dragon tribes of Pyrrhia.]]
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* IgnoredEpiphany: At the end of ''Darkness of Dragons'', he remarks that he can see the future of his takeover of Pyrrhia, and knows that it will never happen because everyone will always be fighting and resisting him. That, and him being shown via the soul reader that he's nearly pure evil, are ''still'' not enough for him to realize that his dreams of a world under his rule will never come true and accept Jade Winglet's offer of starting over.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: At the end of ''Darkness of Dragons'', he remarks that he can see the future of his takeover of Pyrrhia, and knows that it will never happen because everyone will always be fighting and resisting him. That, and him being shown via the soul reader that he's nearly pure evil, are ''still'' not enough for him to realize that his dreams of a world under his rule will never come true and that he'll never be happy, especially without Clearsight with him, and accept Jade Winglet's offer of starting over.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: At the end of ''Darkness of Dragons'', he remarks that he can see the future of his takeover of Pyrrhia, and knows that it will never happen because everyone will always be fighting and resisting him. That, and him being shown via the soul reader that he's nearly pure evil, are ''still'' not enough for him to realize that his dreams of a world under his rule will never come true and accept Jade Winglet's offer of starting over.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He's insanely vain and self-absorbed, refusing to listen to anyone's opinions if they don't align with his. His entire friendship with Fathom is marked by him repeatedly attempting to persuade him to start using his animus magic again, completely disregarding the ''entire reason'' Fathom is terrified of his powers. [[spoiler:This even extends to enchanting a goblet as a gift to Fathom that, when drunk from, will make him forget the Royal [=SeaWing=] Massacre and his girlfriend Indigo, and believe that animus magic is a great thing that he'll start using whenever he wants.]]
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* MilitaryMage: Vigilance enlists him to use his powers to help the [=NightWings'=] war effort against the [=IceWings=].
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* MilitaryMage: Vigilance enlists him to use his powers to help the [=NightWings'=] war effort against the [=IceWings=]. In addition to creating a magical barrier around the Night Kingdom that kills any [=IceWings=] that enter it, he also made weapons for [=NightWing=] soldiers to use.
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* PapaWolf: Is shocked and disappointed that Moon never received training.
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* SelfServingMemory: He constantly denies that he's evil and that he did anything evil in his original life 2,000 years ago. While he ''is'' accurate in a number of instances, such as why he [[spoiler:killed Arctic]], he very noticeably leaves out important details and, when confronted on them, refuses to see it as a problem.
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Like Cottonmouth, she's trapped in their shared mental space, unable to do anything except act through the Breath of Evil itself.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:At first she only wanted to take over dragon bodies so that she could live and burn and destroy things like the dragons she's seen in Cottonmouth's memories, and only sees Luna and Dusky as annoyances that she likes to torment. By the end of the book, she's become more friendly with them, and rather than being constantly angry is just sad at all of the love that she'll never experience.]]
* EnfanteTerrible: [[spoiler:She's only a dragonet, but is still part of a horrific body-snatching plant that wants to take over the world. She's also violent and hateful to most.]]
* EveryoneCallsHerBarkeep: [[spoiler:Everyone that knows her calls her "Lizard" because Cottonmouth never bothered to give her a real name. Luna and Dusky name her "Freedom" before they kill her, so that she can be remembered.]]
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:While at first she's a smug, vicious, evil little dragon, further conversations with Luna and Dusky show that she's just a heartbroken and very lonely dragonet who never got a chance to live a life of her own.]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Subverted. Before her death, Luna promises that she'll weave tapestries in her honor so that she'll ''never'' be forgotten.]]
* TykeBomb: [[spoiler:Was intended to be this as a last-ditch effort from Cottonmouth to gain a dragon slave. It backfired horrendously.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler:She's only a dragonet, but she's vicious and violent and wants to take over other dragons so she can burn and destroy things, though her opinions on what dragons are like have been colored by Cottonmouth.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Before her MercyKill at Luna's talons, she asks for them to name her Freedom, the one thing she always wanted but could never have.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Luna is forced to do this to her because there's no way to free her from the Breath of Evil.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:She feels a great deal of bitterness towards her mother for supposedly never trying to find her, even though Cottonmouth's own memories show that her mother ''burned down the world'' in heartbreak and rage at her egg being stolen.]]
* VolleyingInsults: [[spoiler:She and Cottonmouth constantly insult one another, him criticizing her immaturity while she mocks his failures.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Her sheer importance to the fight against the Breath of Evil makes her this.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Briefly criticizes Luna for attempting to spare her, informing her that without Cottonmouth the Breath of Evil will run rampant unless she keeps it in check, something she doesn't want to do.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:She's spent 5000 years in a half-dead state controlled by an evil plant, and has hated every minute of it.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:She's part of the mind controlling the Breath of Evil, but is a lonely, abused, bitter, tired dragonet who never got to see the world or experience life or even be loved by her mother before she died. A big part of defeating Cottonmouth is getting her to come around and realize there was more to being a dragon than burning and destroying things.]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Like Cottonmouth, she's trapped in their shared mental space, unable to do anything except act through the Breath of Evil itself.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:At first she only wanted to take over dragon bodies so that she could live and burn and destroy things like the dragons she's seen in Cottonmouth's memories, and only sees Luna and Dusky as annoyances that she likes to torment. By the end of the book, she's become more friendly with them, and rather than being constantly angry is just sad at all of the love that she'll never experience.]]
* EnfanteTerrible: [[spoiler:She's only a dragonet, but is still part of a horrific body-snatching plant that wants to take over the world. She's also violent and hateful to most.]]
* EveryoneCallsHerBarkeep: [[spoiler:Everyone that knows her calls her "Lizard" because Cottonmouth never bothered to give her a real name. Luna and Dusky name her "Freedom" before they kill her, so that she can be remembered.]]
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:While at first she's a smug, vicious, evil little dragon, further conversations with Luna and Dusky show that she's just a heartbroken and very lonely dragonet who never got a chance to live a life of her own.]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Subverted. Before her death, Luna promises that she'll weave tapestries in her honor so that she'll ''never'' be forgotten.]]
* TykeBomb: [[spoiler:Was intended to be this as a last-ditch effort from Cottonmouth to gain a dragon slave. It backfired horrendously.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler:She's only a dragonet, but she's vicious and violent and wants to take over other dragons so she can burn and destroy things, though her opinions on what dragons are like have been colored by Cottonmouth.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Before her MercyKill at Luna's talons, she asks for them to name her Freedom, the one thing she always wanted but could never have.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Luna is forced to do this to her because there's no way to free her from the Breath of Evil.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:She feels a great deal of bitterness towards her mother for supposedly never trying to find her, even though Cottonmouth's own memories show that her mother ''burned down the world'' in heartbreak and rage at her egg being stolen.]]
* VolleyingInsults: [[spoiler:She and Cottonmouth constantly insult one another, him criticizing her immaturity while she mocks his failures.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Her sheer importance to the fight against the Breath of Evil makes her this.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Briefly criticizes Luna for attempting to spare her, informing her that without Cottonmouth the Breath of Evil will run rampant unless she keeps it in check, something she doesn't want to do.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:She's spent 5000 years in a half-dead state controlled by an evil plant, and has hated every minute of it.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:She's part of the mind controlling the Breath of Evil, but is a lonely, abused, bitter, tired dragonet who never got to see the world or experience life or even be loved by her mother before she died. A big part of defeating Cottonmouth is getting her to come around and realize there was more to being a dragon than burning and destroying things.]]
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* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:He nearly succeeds in capturing Sundew and the rest of the Super Secret Stealth Team in an ambush, allowing him to use her leafspeak to overrun all of Pantala and steal the body of every dragon in the world, before Cricket manages to break out of his mind-control and use her silk to kill him.]]
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* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:He nearly succeeds in capturing Sundew and the rest of the Super Secret Stealth Team in an ambush, allowing him to use her leafspeak to overrun all of Pantala and steal the body of every dragon in the world, before Cricket Luna manages to break out of his mind-control and use her silk to kill him.]]
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* AmbiguousGender: Its gender is initially left unknown, being referred to with "it" pronouns. [[spoiler: ''Flames of Hope'' reveals that it's a guy.]]
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* AmbiguousGender: Its gender is initially left unknown, being referred to with "it" pronouns. [[spoiler: ''Flames of Hope'' reveals that it's a guy.it - or, more specifically, the dominant personality of its composite mind - is male.]]
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* HumanityIsInfectious: Its communication is more like a dragon than the other plants are due to it having taken control of the minds of so many dragons.
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* HumanityIsInfectious: Its communication is more like a dragon than the other plants are due to it having taken control of the minds of so many dragons. [[spoiler: And due to being more than a mere plant in the first place.]]
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* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:a Cottonmouth is a poisonous snake. Fitting considering his actions resulted in the destruction of human civilization.]]
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** Qibli gets Darkstalker himself to admit as much regarding [[spoiler: him starting the [=IceWing=] plague and then going to war with them]] - though Darkstalker says it's in self-defense because [[spoiler: the [=IceWings=] have always had genocidal intentions regarding the [=NightWings=], and now the[=NightWings'=] location is known and the [=IceWings'=] ancient enemy is on the throne]], he could have chosen a peaceful solution [[spoiler:as Qibli himself did]] given that he is virtually omnipotent, and his real motivation was ultimately a desire for revenge he refused to admit to himself.
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** Qibli gets Darkstalker himself to admit as much regarding [[spoiler: him starting the [=IceWing=] plague and then going to war with them]] - though Darkstalker says it's in self-defense because [[spoiler: the [=IceWings=] have always had genocidal intentions regarding the [=NightWings=], and now the[=NightWings'=] the [=NightWings'=] location is known and the [=IceWings'=] ancient enemy is on the throne]], he could have chosen a peaceful solution [[spoiler:as Qibli himself did]] given that he is virtually omnipotent, and his real motivation was ultimately a desire for revenge he refused to admit to himself.
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* BaitTheDog: He's a notorious dragon according to the history scrolls who is actually quite reasonable when Moon gets to talk to him. And then we find out we [[spoiler:[[PsychicAssistedSuicide enchanted Arctic]], his own father, to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath disembowel himself]]]]. Even [[spoiler:Moon]] feels betrayed.
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* BaitTheDog: He's a notorious dragon according to the history scrolls who is actually quite reasonable when Moon gets to talk to him. And then we find out we he [[spoiler:[[PsychicAssistedSuicide enchanted Arctic]], his own father, to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath disembowel himself]]]]. Even [[spoiler:Moon]] feels betrayed.
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* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:While at first she's a smug, vicious, evil little dragon, further conversations with Luna and Dusky show that she's just a heartbroken and very lonely dragonet who never got a chance to live a life of her own.
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* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:While at first she's a smug, vicious, evil little dragon, further conversations with Luna and Dusky show that she's just a heartbroken and very lonely dragonet who never got a chance to live a life of her own.]]
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* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:While he was human Cottonmouth thought dragons were savage beasts that could be tamed and that he would eventually rule the world with them. That failed dismally, as did his backup plan of leading an exodus of humans to Pantala and trying to take over the last remaining dragon egg he had with the Breath of Evil plant, which also backfired because he also got caught by the plant and made part of its mind.]]
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: Subverted. Before her death, Luna promises that she'll weave tapestries in her honor so that she'll ''never'' be forgotten.]]
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: Subverted.[[spoiler:Subverted. Before her death, Luna promises that she'll weave tapestries in her honor so that she'll ''never'' be forgotten.]]
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* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth is effectively dead but lives on through the Breath of Evil. Once Luna cuts him off from the plant's root, he dies.]]
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* BadBoss: When Wasp tells it that it was their fault for letting one of the prisoners escape, it takes control of her and strangles her. [[spoiler: Cottonmouth wasn't much better before the Scorching as a normal human. When one of his men questions why they're risking taking more dragon eggs than necessary, Cottonmouth interrupts by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution stabbing him through his stomach and killing him]]]]''.
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* BadBoss: When Wasp tells it that it was their fault for letting one of the prisoners escape, it takes control of her and strangles her. [[spoiler: Cottonmouth [[spoiler:Cottonmouth wasn't much better before the Scorching as a normal human. When one of his men questions why they're risking taking more dragon eggs than necessary, Cottonmouth interrupts by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution stabbing him through his stomach and killing him]]]]''.
* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth thinks of dragons as nothing but savage beasts for him to use to rule the world and dominate.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Wasp was already a nasty piece of work and she was a huge threat to begin with, but the Breath of Evil rapidly eclipses her when it's revealed just how powerful it is, especially since it's only ''allowing'' Wasp to think she's in control, before planning on turning her into the same sort of mindless puppet.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Wasp was already a nasty piece of work and she was a huge threat to begin with, but the Breath of Evil rapidly eclipses her when it's revealed just how powerful it is, especially since it's only ''allowing'' Wasp to think she's in control, before planning on turning her into the same sort of mindless puppet.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Wasp was already a nasty piece of work and she was a huge threat to begin with, but the Breath of Evil rapidly eclipses her when it's revealed just how powerful it is, especially since it's only ''allowing'' Wasp to think she's in control, before planning on turning her into the same sort of mindless puppet.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Wasp was already a nasty piece of work and she was a huge threat to begin with, but ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth created the Breath of Evil rapidly eclipses her out of a singleminded desire to rule the world and to get revenge for the dragons nearly wiping out humanity in the Scorching, something that was ''entirely his fault.'']]
* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth can control a vast number of dragons with the Breath of Evil, but much like with Wasp, whenever a dragon experiences bad enough pain, he's forced to release his control over them. He also can't effectively use the abilities of dragons he's not familiar with; whenit's revealed just how powerful he attempts to camouflage Pineapple after he takes over his body, he can't use it is, especially since it's only ''allowing'' right because Pineapple is the first [=RainWing=] he's come across. He also finds it harder to control more dragons, leaving Wasp to think she's in control, before planning on turning her into control the same sort of mindless puppet.[=HiveWings=] while he controls the newly-taken [=SilkWings=] and [=LeafWings=].]]
* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler:Cottonmouth can control a vast number of dragons with the Breath of Evil, but much like with Wasp, whenever a dragon experiences bad enough pain, he's forced to release his control over them. He also can't effectively use the abilities of dragons he's not familiar with; when
* MentalWorld: [[spoiler:Both Cottonmouth and Lizard are trapped in a shared mind that they can't leave.]]
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:He nearly succeeds in capturing Sundew and the rest of the Super Secret Stealth Team in an ambush, allowing him to use her leafspeak to overrun all of Pantala and steal the body of every dragon in the world, before Cricket manages to break out of his mind-control and use her silk to kill him.]]
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:He nearly succeeds in capturing Sundew and the rest of the Super Secret Stealth Team in an ambush, allowing him to use her leafspeak to overrun all of Pantala and steal the body of every dragon in the world, before Cricket manages to break out of his mind-control and use her silk to kill him.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:He's in the middle of one when Luna meets him in ''The Flames of Hope'' due to his Guardian not only bringing him the wrong dragon (he wanted Sundew, not Luna) but also because the village of humans that have worshipped him since ancient times have stopped paying attention to the Abyss, leaving him essentially helpless.]]
!!Lizard/[[spoiler:Freedom]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Like Cottonmouth, she's trapped in their shared mental space, unable to do anything except act through the Breath of Evil itself.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:At first she only wanted to take over dragon bodies so that she could live and burn and destroy things like the dragons she's seen in Cottonmouth's memories, and only sees Luna and Dusky as annoyances that she likes to torment. By the end of the book, she's become more friendly with them, and rather than being constantly angry is just sad at all of the love that she'll never experience.]]
* EnfanteTerrible: [[spoiler:She's only a dragonet, but is still part of a horrific body-snatching plant that wants to take over the world. She's also violent and hateful to most.]]
* EveryoneCallsHerBarkeep: [[spoiler:Everyone that knows her calls her "Lizard" because Cottonmouth never bothered to give her a real name. Luna and Dusky name her "Freedom" before they kill her, so that she can be remembered.]]
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:While at first she's a smug, vicious, evil little dragon, further conversations with Luna and Dusky show that she's just a heartbroken and very lonely dragonet who never got a chance to live a life of her own.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Subverted. Before her death, Luna promises that she'll weave tapestries in her honor so that she'll ''never'' be forgotten.]]
* TykeBomb: [[spoiler:Was intended to be this as a last-ditch effort from Cottonmouth to gain a dragon slave. It backfired horrendously.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler:She's only a dragonet, but she's vicious and violent and wants to take over other dragons so she can burn and destroy things, though her opinions on what dragons are like have been colored by Cottonmouth.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Before her MercyKill at Luna's talons, she asks for them to name her Freedom, the one thing she always wanted but could never have.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Luna is forced to do this to her because there's no way to free her from the Breath of Evil.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:She feels a great deal of bitterness towards her mother for supposedly never trying to find her, even though Cottonmouth's own memories show that her mother ''burned down the world'' in heartbreak and rage at her egg being stolen.]]
* VolleyingInsults: [[spoiler:She and Cottonmouth constantly insult one another, him criticizing her immaturity while she mocks his failures.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Her sheer importance to the fight against the Breath of Evil makes her this.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Briefly criticizes Luna for attempting to spare her, informing her that without Cottonmouth the Breath of Evil will run rampant unless she keeps it in check, something she doesn't want to do.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:She's spent 5000 years in a half-dead state controlled by an evil plant, and has hated every minute of it.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:She's part of the mind controlling the Breath of Evil, but is a lonely, abused, bitter, tired dragonet who never got to see the world or experience life or even be loved by her mother before she died. A big part of defeating Cottonmouth is getting her to come around and realize there was more to being a dragon than burning and destroying things.]]
!!Lizard/[[spoiler:Freedom]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Like Cottonmouth, she's trapped in their shared mental space, unable to do anything except act through the Breath of Evil itself.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:At first she only wanted to take over dragon bodies so that she could live and burn and destroy things like the dragons she's seen in Cottonmouth's memories, and only sees Luna and Dusky as annoyances that she likes to torment. By the end of the book, she's become more friendly with them, and rather than being constantly angry is just sad at all of the love that she'll never experience.]]
* EnfanteTerrible: [[spoiler:She's only a dragonet, but is still part of a horrific body-snatching plant that wants to take over the world. She's also violent and hateful to most.]]
* EveryoneCallsHerBarkeep: [[spoiler:Everyone that knows her calls her "Lizard" because Cottonmouth never bothered to give her a real name. Luna and Dusky name her "Freedom" before they kill her, so that she can be remembered.]]
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:While at first she's a smug, vicious, evil little dragon, further conversations with Luna and Dusky show that she's just a heartbroken and very lonely dragonet who never got a chance to live a life of her own.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Subverted. Before her death, Luna promises that she'll weave tapestries in her honor so that she'll ''never'' be forgotten.]]
* TykeBomb: [[spoiler:Was intended to be this as a last-ditch effort from Cottonmouth to gain a dragon slave. It backfired horrendously.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler:She's only a dragonet, but she's vicious and violent and wants to take over other dragons so she can burn and destroy things, though her opinions on what dragons are like have been colored by Cottonmouth.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Before her MercyKill at Luna's talons, she asks for them to name her Freedom, the one thing she always wanted but could never have.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Luna is forced to do this to her because there's no way to free her from the Breath of Evil.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:She feels a great deal of bitterness towards her mother for supposedly never trying to find her, even though Cottonmouth's own memories show that her mother ''burned down the world'' in heartbreak and rage at her egg being stolen.]]
* VolleyingInsults: [[spoiler:She and Cottonmouth constantly insult one another, him criticizing her immaturity while she mocks his failures.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Her sheer importance to the fight against the Breath of Evil makes her this.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Briefly criticizes Luna for attempting to spare her, informing her that without Cottonmouth the Breath of Evil will run rampant unless she keeps it in check, something she doesn't want to do.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:She's spent 5000 years in a half-dead state controlled by an evil plant, and has hated every minute of it.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:She's part of the mind controlling the Breath of Evil, but is a lonely, abused, bitter, tired dragonet who never got to see the world or experience life or even be loved by her mother before she died. A big part of defeating Cottonmouth is getting her to come around and realize there was more to being a dragon than burning and destroying things.]]
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* BadBoss: When Wasp tells it that it was their fault for letting one of the prisoners escape, it takes control of her and strangles her. [[spoiler: Cottonmouth wasn't much better before the Scorching as a normal human. When one of his men questions why they're risking taking more dragon eggs and attracting a dragon's attention, Cottonmouth interrupts by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution stabbing him through his stomach and killing him]]]]''.
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* BadBoss: When Wasp tells it that it was their fault for letting one of the prisoners escape, it takes control of her and strangles her. [[spoiler: Cottonmouth wasn't much better before the Scorching as a normal human. When one of his men questions why they're risking taking more dragon eggs and attracting a dragon's attention, than necessary, Cottonmouth interrupts by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution stabbing him through his stomach and killing him]]]]''.
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* AncientEvil: Ruled the continent thousands of years ago before the first dragons came.
* AmbiguousGender: Its gender(or [[NoGender whether it even has a gender]]) is left unknown, being referred to with "it" pronouns.
!! The Othermind/The Breath of Evil
* AncientEvil: Ruled the continent thousands of years ago before the first dragons came.
* AmbiguousGender: Its gender(or [[NoGender whether it even has a gender]]) is left unknown, being referred to with "it" pronouns.
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Othermind]]
!! The Othermind/The Breath ofEvil
Evil/[[spoiler:Cottonmouth]]
* AncientEvil: Ruled the continent thousands of years ago before the first dragonscame.
came. [[spoiler: It came to be during the Scorching.]]
* AmbiguousGender: Itsgender(or [[NoGender whether it even has a gender]]) gender is initially left unknown, being referred to with "it" pronouns.pronouns. [[spoiler: ''Flames of Hope'' reveals that it's a guy.]]
* BadBoss: When Wasp tells it that it was their fault for letting one of the prisoners escape, it takes control of her and strangles her. [[spoiler: Cottonmouth wasn't much better before the Scorching as a normal human. When one of his men questions why they're risking taking more dragon eggs and attracting a dragon's attention, Cottonmouth interrupts by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution stabbing him through his stomach and killing him]]]]''.
!! The Othermind/The Breath of
* AncientEvil: Ruled the continent thousands of years ago before the first dragons
* AmbiguousGender: Its
* BadBoss: When Wasp tells it that it was their fault for letting one of the prisoners escape, it takes control of her and strangles her. [[spoiler: Cottonmouth wasn't much better before the Scorching as a normal human. When one of his men questions why they're risking taking more dragon eggs and attracting a dragon's attention, Cottonmouth interrupts by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution stabbing him through his stomach and killing him]]]]''.
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* HiveQueen: Thousands of years ago, it controlled massive swarms of animals which is used to attack the first dragons to arrive on the continent. Now it's in control of most of the dragons on the continent as well.
* HumanityIsInfectious: Its communication is more like a dragon than the other plants are due to it having taken control of the minds of so many dragons.
* HumanityIsInfectious: Its communication is more like a dragon than the other plants are due to it having taken control of the minds of so many dragons.
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* HiveQueen: Thousands of years ago, it controlled massive swarms of animals which is used to attack the first dragons to arrive on the continent. Now it's in control of most of the dragons on the continent as well.
well and plans on taking over everything on the planet.
* HumanityIsInfectious: Its communication is more like a dragon than the other plants are due to it having taken control of the minds of so many dragons.
* HumanityIsInfectious: Its communication is more like a dragon than the other plants are due to it having taken control of the minds of so many dragons.
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* HiveQueen: Thousands of years ago, it controlled massive swarms of animals which is used to massacre the first dragons to arrive on the continent. Now it's in control of most of the dragons on the continent as well.
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* HiveQueen: Thousands of years ago, it controlled massive swarms of animals which is used to massacre attack the first dragons to arrive on the continent. Now it's in control of most of the dragons on the continent as well.
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* ControlFreak: She attempted to conquer Pantala because she saw the [=SilkWings=] and [=LeafWings=] as more dragons that she could dominate. Her motive behind [[spoiler:infecting all of the other [=HiveWings=] with the Breath of Evil]] is so that she can always be anywhere at any time in case anything happens, and she doesn't take ''anyone'' being immune to her mind control lightly. It even goes from the wider tribe to deeply personal, as she took away Malachite, Lady Scarab's secretary and [[spoiler:Cricket's father]] just because she saw that Scarab liked him and wanted to hurt her.
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* ControlFreak: She attempted to conquer Pantala because she saw the [=SilkWings=] and [=LeafWings=] as more dragons that she could dominate. Her motive behind [[spoiler:infecting all of the other [=HiveWings=] with the Breath of Evil]] is so that she can always be anywhere at any time in case anything happens, and she doesn't take ''anyone'' being immune to her mind control lightly. It even goes from the wider tribe to deeply personal, as she took away Malachite, Lady Scarab's secretary and [[spoiler:Cricket's father]] just because she saw that Scarab liked him and wanted to hurt her. She also has flamesilk [=SilkWings=] tightly controlled and imprisoned their entire lives beneath Wasp Hive, only letting them out to breed, in order to produce more flamesilk, rather than letting them live freely.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Wasp was already a nasty piece of work and she was a huge threat to begin with, but the Breath of Evil rapidly eclipses her when it's revealed just how powerful it is, especially since it's only ''allowing'' Wasp to think she's in control, before planning on turning her into the same sort of mindless puppet.
