History Characters / WingsOfFireSandWings

* CloningBlues: When she was little [[spoiler:(the first time), she expressed dissatisfaction with her ''also'' being named Jerboa.]] While she was with her mother, she preferred to be called Boa.

* MeddlingParents: [[spoiler:She was very controlling of Boa and what she wanted out of her, often enforcing what she would do with magic.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Her situation reads out [[spoiler:like the worst kind of MeddlingParents scenario you can ever imagine.]]

* BewareMyStingerTail: Their tails are tipped with a venomous barb. One of the first things dragonets learn is how to keep it curled up so they won't accidentally scratch anyone, and bringsting cacti juice is sold in markets in case of accidents.

* LightIsGood: A common belief among [=SandWings=]. They don't ''need'' sunlight like the [=RainWings=], but they ''really'', really like it. The only part of the [=SandWing=] palace that isn't close/open to the sky is its dungeons.

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Among the royal [=SandWing=] treasures is the Eye of Onyx, an animus-enchanted necklace that singlehandedly gives its chosen enough power to rule the kingdom. No soldiers or royal blood required. But if the Eye ''doesn't'' accept someone, [[TouchOfDeath they die instantly]]. Many "legitimate" heirs refuse to take the risk of wearing it, especially because just what the Eye's criteria is has been lost to time. Based on the events of ''The Brightest Night'', [[spoiler:being a good dragon is the only prequisite. Being the sort of dragon who would be a good ''ruler''- who can protect her subjects and make hard decisions- is not. Sunny realizes this when the Eye accepts her, and wisely chooses to give it to someone else. The Eye also allows this.]]

* PoisonousPerson: They possess potent venom in stingers on their tail.

* ThemeNaming: Like all of the tribes. SandWings are, obviously, normally named after desert features, such as rock formations, wind, animals, types of cacti, or things related to heat.

* AdultFear: She has her infant daughter (who was still in her egg) stolen from her, by someone she thought she could trust. She searches for ''years'' to find her. This all happens in a WretchedHive, during a civil war.

* CourtMage: She was this to the [=SandWing=] queen Scorpion [[spoiler:before she fled the kingdom in response to her ever-increasing demands, which included making her live longer and healing her, crafting the Eye of Onyx so that Scorpion's line would always rule the Sand Kingdom, and doing something to the [=SkyWings=]. While Jerboa rebelled a little with the Eye, making it so that it would only allow those who it judged worthy to be Queen, commoner or royal, she outright refused to follow Scorpion's orders with the [=SandWings=] and fled the kingdom to go into hiding.]]

* EyeScream: She was killed by being stabbed in the eye with a sword.

* BewareMyStingerTail: Their tails are tipped with a venomous barb.

* MutualKill: Poisons [[spoiler:Flame]] before [[spoiler: he throws her into the volcano]] during their fight. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because Starflight and Fatespeaker manage to get Flame a bright sting cactus through the tunnel before he can die from the poison.]]

* INeverGotAnyLetters: She was angry at [[spoiler:Stonemover]] for never responding to her letters, but it turns out [[spoiler: that Burn is in the business of intercepting everyone's letters.]]

%%* MamaBear: When Sunny is [[spoiler: kept prisoner by Burn]], she responds by immediately invading Burn's fortress with her considerably smaller army of outclass.

* RoaringRampageOfRescue: When Sunny is [[spoiler:imprisoned in Burn's palace, about to be killed and stuffed]], she [[spoiler:charges in with all of her outclaws against Burn's much larger army to rescue her.]]

!!Ostrich (Six-Claws' mother):

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!!In General

* SmallRoleBugImpact: Her death started the events of the book series.

* PygmalionSnapback: at first she seems like an obedient child to Jerboa I [[spoiler: That is, until she finds the list of all the changes she's made to her over years.]]

* ArabianNightsDays: Their culture is the dragon equivalent of this trope. Treasure-filled palaces, street urchins, bustling open-air markets filled with everything- fruit, antidotes, assassins openly hawking their services- it's all there.

* PygmalionSnapback: at first she seems like an obedient child to Jerboa I [[Spoiler:That is, until she finds the list of all the changes she's made to her over years.]]

* ActionMom: She's [[spoiler:Sunny's]] mother and a very powerful fighter.

[[folder:Burn]]
!!Queen Burn
->"This world doesn't need a prophecy. It needs me as Queen of the [=SandWings=]."

First daughter of Queen Oasis. Oldest and strongest of the rival [=SandWing=] queens. Allied with [=SkyWing=] Queen Scarlet and [=MudWing=] Queen Moorhen. Known for her strength and brutality.

* AlliterativeFamily: Burn and her sisters: Blister and Blaze.
* BadBoss: So much so that she ends up driving most of her allies to Blaze's side.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The brawn to Blister's brains and Blaze's beauty.
* BerserkButton: Do not mention how Oasis was killed by a scavenger in font of her.
* BloodKnight: The Dragonets decide against supporting her since she'd probably continue the war ForTheEvulz.
* CainAndAbel: Is fighting a civil war with her sisters.
* TheCaligula: Is one of the three sisters waging war over rulership of the [=SandWings=], having dragged the other dragon nations in.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: She keeps taxidermied dragons in her palace and loves obtaining abnormal specimens.
* DarkActionGirl: She loves fighting, and though she's generally more practical about her bloodlust than Scarlet she does have scars from fighting other dragons in person.
* EnemyMine: Pulls one with Blister at the beginning of ''Deserter'' when they conspire together to kill Blaze.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first appearance in the prologue of book 1, which the above quote is from.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Is described as having a good relationship with Queen Oasis.
* EvilerThanThou: Tries to pull this on Blister by turning her plot against her while lecturing her on how she underestimated her as too stupid to see through her and how disgusting her plans were. [[spoiler:Blister responds by killing her with the ''other'' snake she brought with her and doing this to her instead.]]
* EvilIsBigger: She's a huge dragon, especially compared to the main characters, who aren't even fully grown.
* ForTheEvulz: She likes killing for the thrill of it and is actually happy when Blaze joins the war because she thinks fighting two sides will be fun. She [[NoNonsenseNemesis draws the line at]] not even killing her enemies quickly, though.
* FrontlineGeneral: She has scars from fighting in the war, unlike Blister, who always avoids being in any position to be injured.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Though her position as queen is contested, she certainly fits the "evil" part.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Unlike most dragons, who think hybrids are too rare to be concerned about, she thinks they shouldn't exist and keeps a stuffed alleged hybrid ([=SandWing=]/[=IceWing=]) in her castle.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: She attacks [[spoiler:Dune]] because she is mad at [[spoiler:[[HypercompetentSidekick Six-claws]] for questioning her orders.
* KarmicDeath: Tries to give Blister one by [[spoiler: killing her with the snake she was going to kill Burn with, but there is an extra snake so she ends up getting a KarmicDeath herself.]]
* LargeAndInCharge
* NoNonsenseNemesis: In contrast to Scarlet.
* OffingTheAnnoyance: Why she kills Scald and Singe.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Smolder figures out that she's planning something horrible when he sees her actually working with Blister.
* ScrewDestiny: She doesn't care about what the prophecy says, and wants to make a bid for the throne anyway.
* TaxidermyTerror: Her palace is full of these.
* VillainousDemotivator: Burn is ''not'' good at keeping a support base, and despite being the closest to the rightful heir and initially having the most support, it ends up being Blaze who most of the [=SandWings=] like most by the end of the war. Whenever she's talking to her competent general Six-claws, she notes how she's going to [[TaxidermyTerror stuff him in her castle]] when he dies to show off his "freakish" extra claws. And then there's also what she did to [[spoiler:IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure Dune]].

[[folder:Blister]]
!!Queen Blister
->"Give me the dragonets. And then we'll both get everything we want."

Second daughter of Queen Oasis. Allied with the [=SeaWings=] [[spoiler:and [=NightWings=]]]. Known for her intelligence and ruthlessness.
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* AlliterativeFamily: Blister and her sisters: Burn and Blaze.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The brains to Burn's brawn and Blaze's beauty.
* CainAndAbel: Is fighting a civil war with her sisters
* EmotionlessGirl: She seems to show no emotions ever since she was a dragonet, which creeps out her mother, Oasis.
* EnemyMine: Pulls one with Burn at the beginning of ''Deserter'' when they conspire together to kill Blaze.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first appearance, like Burn's establishes her motivation, personality, and ruthlessness.
* EvilerThanThou: She is constantly fighting with Burn and Blaze, eventually planning to kill them outright. [[spoiler:After she kills Burn, and when she is about to kill Blaze, she gloats about how she has plotted the whole war and successfully bested both of her sisters.]] She also does this to [[spoiler:Kestrel]], with her death showing how Blister is far more threatening than her.
* EvilGloating: After she [[spoiler:kills Burn]] and [[spoiler:challenges Blaze]], she gloats about how successful her plans have been while [[spoiler:slowly killing her remaining sister.]]
* [[TheEvilPrince The Evil Princess]]: She was ambitious to be queen since she was a dragonet, and engineered Oasis' death and the resulting world war because she knew she couldn't defeat Burn in a fair challenge but wanted to be queen anyway.
* GambitRoulette: Her plan for killing Burn in ''The Brightest Night'' relies on her getting the package and somehow not realizing they are vipers, or trying to keep them alive (unlikely for [[NoNonsenseNemesis Burn]]. Then she plans to kill Blaze in a fair challenge, despite how she is heavily guarded and how the war would have been over decades ago if such a challenge was feasible. [[spoiler: It only works due to Burn and Blaze being personally present at the peace meeting, which had not been announced when she first made her plan. Burn gets killed by one of the vipers when she is close to the package, but only because she was trying to kill Blister with the other one (so she was standing close to her) and Glacier allows Blaze's challenge to occur because they're in the middle of a peace meeting and it is easy to just let the war end at this point.]].
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Noticing a pattern? Again, she isn't the official queen yet, though.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: She looks very similar to Smolder and they are from the same hatching.
* KarmicDeath: Burn tries to kill her this way by [[spoiler:using the snake she wanted to use to kill Blister. Blister kills her instead with the second snake, and then still gets a KarmicDeath by her ambition to rule backfiring when she tries to grab the Eye of Onyx.]]
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Tsunami and Starflight figure out that she killed [[spoiler:Kestrel]] because she mentions that [[SlashedThroat her throat was slashed]] as well as being poisoned with a [[BewareMyStingerTail [=SandWing=] tail]], which she shouldn't have known.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Is introduced in the epilogue of ''The Dragonet Prophecy''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Blister was the one who [[spoiler:started the war in the first place by stealing the treasure and blaming the Scavengers, and succeeds in killing Burn]] through trickery and deception.
* MurderByInaction: She purposefully didn't get Burn's help when Oasis fought the scavengers that killed her, because she wanted her dead. Oasis knew this was her intention, but thought that a few scavengers couldn't possibly kill her anyway.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: At the end of the last book of Part I. [[spoiler:She's incinerated by the Eye of Onyx]].
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: She treats the dragonets as honored guests in the Sea Kingdom to convince them to join her side. [[spoiler:Until Starflight betrays her, that is.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: She is described as having a creepy affect that makes the dragonets of destiny and others instantly not trust her and think she's planning something. That doesn't mean they necessarily know ''what'' she is planning, though.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Smolder figures out that she's planning something horrible fairly quickly when he sees her working with ''Burn''.
* SmugSnake: Oasis sees her as one, saying she's a dragon who thinks she can use her brain to solve everything but isn't even as smart as she thinks she is. YMMV on whether she actually is one.
* SnakesAreSinister: Is described with a snakelike face and uses snakes to try to kill Burn.
* TheSociopath: Is noted to show no emotions or empathy even as a child, and is manipulative but also sometimes rash due to her belief that she would make the best queen.
* TheUnfavorite: She was Oasis' least favorite daughter, because she thought that Blister was always scheming to have her killed and didn't like her [[EmotionlessGirl emotionlessness.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Why she kills [[spoiler:Kestrel.]]

[[folder:Blaze]]
!!Queen Blaze
->"Are you going to kill my sisters for me? Because that would make everything so much easier."

Third daughter of Queen Oasis. Youngest of the rival [=SandWing=] queens. Allied with the [=IceWing=] Queen Glacier and supported by most of the [=SandWings=]. Known for her incompetence and vanity.
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* AlliterativeFamily: Blaze and her sisters: Blister and Burn.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Beauty to Blister's Brains and Burn's Brawn.
* BrainlessBeauty: Known for being the most beautiful [=SandWing=] sister and also the least intelligent.
* CainAndAbel: Is fighting a civil war with her siblings.
* DumbBlonde: Has pale gold scales like most [=SandWings=] and is very unintelligent and incompetent.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: While not openly malicious, she's unintelligent, naive, and easily manipulated. ''Not'' good traits for one of the three unofficial queens.
* IdiotHero: More like "Idiot Villain". She is acknowledged as the least intelligent of the three sisters when the Dragonets discuss the benefits of supporting one or another.
* LethallyStupid: She does things like following two random dragons deep into enemy territory despite being her centerpiece of her own side in the war who would be killed on site, and walking into a huge sandstorm because a dragonet said someone hid her crown there. She nearly gets killed as a result both times.
* [[PuppetKing Puppet Queen]]: She's mostly juts a figurehead for her ally, Queen Glacier.
%%* SoleSurvivor: She's the only one of the three sisters to survive the war.

[[folder:Thorn]]
!![[spoiler:Queen]] Thorn
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* ActionMom: She's [[spoiler:Sunny's]] mother and a very powerful fighter.
* AdultFear: She has her infant daughter (who was still in her egg) stolen from her, by someone she thought she could trust. She searches for ''years'' to find her. This all happens in a WretchedHive, during a civil war.
* AmicableExes: With [[spoiler:Stonemover]] after ''The Brightest Night''.
* AngerBornOfWorry: When Qibli is hit by frostbreath in ''Darkness of Dragons'', she screams at him not to faint.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Is chosen by [[spoiler:the Eye of Onyx to become the new Queen of the [=SandWings=].]]
* BigNo: When she learns [[spoiler:Morrowseer is dead]] she becomes so angry she literally spits fire. [[spoiler:And kills a [=NightWing=] named Preyhunter.]]
* DarkHorseVictory: In the [[spoiler: War of [=SandWing=] Succession.]]
* DartboardOfHate: She has wanted pictures for Morrowseer and a younger Dune used for throwing sharp things at.
* EnemiesList: Has compiled a list of dragons she wants revenge on - namely Morrowseer and Dune.
* GoodIsNotSoft: She's the leader of a WretchedHive, and while it ''was'' a lot worse before she and her "Outclaws" took over, she will resort to using fear to maintain order if necessary.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: She is noted to have a reputation for being an incorruptible dragon, which leads the Jade Mountain dragons to immediately determine she won't become the ally of [[spoiler:Chameleon.]]
* INeverGotAnyLetters: She was angry at [[spoiler:Stonemover]] for never responding to her letters, but it turns out [[spoiler: that Burn is in the business of intercepting everyone's letters.]]
* JustLikeRobinHood: She and her Outclaws turned a WretchedHive into a refugee camp, taking from the rich and giving to the poor to ensure everyone has an even share.
%%* MamaBear: When Sunny is [[spoiler: kept prisoner by Burn]], she responds by immediately invading Burn's fortress with her considerably smaller army of outclass.
* OfferedTheCrown: By [[spoiler: Sunny]], who [[spoiler: gives her the Eye of Onyx.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Feels this way towards Morrowseer and Dune, so [[spoiler: she is very angry when she finds out they are already dead]]
* [[KingOfThieves Queen Of Thieves]]: She's the leader of the Outclaws. [[spoiler:She later becomes an actual queen.]]
* RagsToRiches: Went from being the leader of a group of outlaws to [[spoiler:the Queen of the [=SandWings=]]] in the space of one book.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: When Sunny is [[spoiler:imprisoned in Burn's palace, about to be killed and stuffed]], she [[spoiler:charges in with all of her outclaws against Burn's much larger army to rescue her.]]
* StormingTheCastle: She and her outclaws storm [[spoiler:Burn's palace]] to [[spoiler:rescue Sunny.]]
* SirSwearsALot: She curses a lot. Well, as close as you can come to it in a kids book.

[[folder:Smolder]]
!!Prince Smolder

* AlliterativeFamily: Smolder and his brothers, Singe and Scald.
* ApologeticAttacker: Apologizes before he [[spoiler: locks Sunny and Thorn in Burn's palace]].
* CannotConveySarcasm: It's hard for dragons to tell whether he's being serious or sarcastic when he talks.
* DeadpanSnarker: He spends much of his time snarking about Burn and his life, but tries to keep it very much deadpan and subtle so Burn won't pick up on it and [[OffingTheMouth have him executed.]]
* HalfIdenticalTwins: He looks very similar to Blister and they are from the same hatching.
* HumanPet: He has one, and is sending Vermilion letters of advice on how to keep them.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Palm.
* TrappedInVillainy: He's forced to stay as Burn's prison guard because if he disobeys her, he'll be executed like his brothers.

[[folder:Viper]]
!!Viper

* BewareMyStingerTail: She has a poisonous tail tip like all [=SandWings=], but she has a particular tendency of brandishing it all of the time.
* DarkActionGirl: She fights a lot, including against her fellow alternate dragonets.
* EvilCounterpart: She's Sunny's replacement, and is much more aggressive and less enthusiastic about the prophecy.
* MutualKill: Poisons [[spoiler:Flame]] before [[spoiler: he throws her into the volcano]] during their fight. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because Starflight and Fatespeaker manage to get Flame a bright sting cactus through the tunnel before he can die from the poison.]]

[[folder:Oasis]]
!!Queen Oasis

* DragonHoard: She presided over the [=SandWing=] treasure, which was once the largest treasure in Pyrrhia.
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: In ''The Brightest Night''.
* PosthumousCharacter: She died 20 years before the start of the series.
* SoundOnlyDeath: In ''Deserter'', Six-claws doesn't actually witness her death but just hears a lot of horrific roaring coming from the palace area.
* TemptingFate: Her thoughts in the prologue of ''The Brightest Night'' show her wondering what a few scavengers could possibly do to her.

[[folder:Six-Claws]]
!!Six-Claws

* ADayInTheLimelight: In ''Deserter''.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Dune.
* HypercompetentSidekick: To Burn. It's why [[spoiler: the [=NightWings=]]] want to get rid of him. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that when Burn decides to try to force the [=MudWings=] to her side against Six-Claws' orders it actually works, and she's shown to be utterly cruel and more than a bit rash but not the complete idiot Blaze is.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Why he initially works for Burn. Even he eventually becomes too disillusioned with the war and her cruelty to continue any longer, though.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Deserts Burn's army for the Outclaws along with Dune due to Deathbringer's influence and [[spoiler:what Burn did to Dune.]]

[[folder:Saguaro]]

[[folder:Ostrich (Six-Claws' daughter)]]
!!Ostrich (Six-Claws' daughter)

* DeadGuyJunior: Presumably named after Ostrich, her paternal grandmother.

[[folder:Addax]]
!!Addax

* TheMole: He is an outlaw who's really working for Burn.

[[folder:Char]]
!!King Char

* KilledOffscreen: Dies along with Quicksand due to a sickness during a TimeSkip in ''Deserter''.
* LukeIAmYourFather: He mentions being Blaze's father after she is whining to him that he's not her boss. Everyone in-story knows it, but it counts as this for the readers.
* MinorMajorCharacter: He's Burn, Blister, and Blaze's father and the king of the [=SandWings=], but his importance in Oasis' court varies depends on what Oasis feels about him at the moment and he dies fairly early into ''Deserter''.

[[folder:Ostrich]]
!!Ostrich (Six-Claws' mother):

* ActionMom: She's Six-Claws' mother and also one of Oasis' most respected royal guards who is a very competent fighter.
* GoodParents: It is noted that thanks to her and Quicksand, Six-Claws is one of the rare dragons who has a happy childhood.
* KilledOffscreen: Is killed in battle after a TimeSkip in ''Deserter''.

[[folder:Quicksand]]
!!Quicksand

* GoodParents: It is noted that thanks to him and Ostrich, Six-Claws is one of the rare dragons who has a happy childhood.
* KilledOffscreen: Dies of a sickness along with Char after a TimeSkip in ''Deserter''.
* NonActionGuy: Unlike Ostrich, he doesn't have a role as a guard but is instead the royal chef.

[[folder:Scald]]
!!Prince Scald

* AlliterativeFamily: Scald and his brothers, Smolder and Singe.
* TheCasanova: He has three girlfriends, though he doesn't take any of them too seriously.

[[folder:Singe]]
!!Prince Singe

* AlliterativeFamily: Singe and his brothers, Scald and Smolder.

[[folder:Horizon]]
!!Horizon

* RedShirt: His only purpose is to be killed to show how powerful Peril is.

[[folder:Qibli]]
!!Qibli

* AbusiveParents: His mother would hit him, apparently to make him 'strong.' One of the reasons he loves Thorn so much is because she saved him from her.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He is unaware of it (Pyrrhia not having advanced medicine), but he bears marks of psychological trauma. His irrationally low self-esteem, urges to placate [[ObviouslyEvil Cobra]], and self-acknowledged delusions of affection on her part are common in abuse victims, and much of ''Darkness of Dragons'' revolves around him overcoming his desire for Cobra's approval so he can bring her to justice.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He's extremely observant and analytical, though he downplays it on the surface.
* BadassNormal: He notes hat he's the only member of the main cast of the second arc not to be royal or have any special powers; all he has is his mind. That doesn't stop him from [[AwesomenessByAnalysis making use of it]].
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: He's suspicious of Moon, but considers her "too pretty to be evil."
* BrokenMessiah: He often worries about his darkest thoughts, hating himself for them, while dragons who know him consider him a perfectly noble dragon who shouldn't have to worry about such things.
* TheConsigliere: Darkstalker wants him to become this for him, reasoning that his cleverness and ability to TakeAThirdOption will allow him to point out when Darkstalker is [[WellIntentionedExtremist going too far]] in dealing with a threat or [[BelievingTheirOwnLies falsely convincing himself that his course of action is necessary]]. [[spoiler: Qibli refuses on the ground that a dragon who needs someone else to point out that genocide isn't necessary when you have omnipotent power shouldn't be allowed to have that power in the first place.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He tends to make sarcastic quips about other dragons, particularly Winter.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Qibli is desperate to be loved by his [[AbusiveParents mother]], and this carries out to everyone he interacts with in his life, to the point of wanting to use a spell to make them like him if he was an animus dragon.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Got a minor role in ''The Brightest Night'' before returning in the second series as a main character.
* EnemyMine: Why he asks for Moon's help [[spoiler:even after she reveals her powers]]; he doesn't trust her, but finding out [[spoiler:who set the bomb]] is more important than that.
-->"And I think that's the most important thing, and you're the dragon who has the best chance of figuring it out, so I'm here to help you, is what I wanted to say."
* {{Foil}}: To Winter. The two are roommates, and Qibli actively tries to help other students deal with him. Given Qibli's calmness and talent for diplomacy, he restrains Winter's bad temper quite well.
* GuileHero: Despite not having powers (well, more than [[EveryoneIsASuper the typical dragon]] and not being particularly strong, he manages to succeed thanks to his intelligence, eye for detail and understanding of how other dragons' minds work.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Upon learning [[spoiler:that Moon has been reading his thoughts]], his first reaction is ''fear'' that she will hate him for them.
-->'''Moon:''' But I don't understand. He never thought anything more terrible than any other dragon. [...]
-->'''Darkstalker:''' He doesn't know that. [...] It's often the most brilliant dragons who are the most insecure.
* HyperAwareness: He notices just about everything about every dragon.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Constantly wonders how to act to make others like him.
* ImNotAHeroIm: When Turtle calls him one a heroic dragon, he is quick to point out that he's not as perfect and incorruptible as he seems and it's only because of Thorn that he doesn't act on some of his worst thoughts.
* JustLikeRobinHood: Being raised among the outclaws, his first reaction to seeing a rich dragon with a lot of treasure is to think of how selfish that dragon is and how much more useful the treasure would be if stolen and given to the poor. Being as self-deprecating as he is, though, he hates himself for even having those thoughts.
* MotorMouth: A mental example. He's no sooner broached the idea of negotiating with Moon than his mind is flooded with ideas about how they could do so.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Accidentally provoked Winter's fight with Moon by letting Bandit out of his cage.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Pretends to be dumber than he is to fit in with the other dragonets.
* RecruitedFromTheGutter: Thorn rescued him from his abusive family and life where ehe was forced to steal to survive and made him her advisor. It's part of why he's so [[UndyingLoyalty loyal to her.]]
* TheSocialExpert: He analyzes any and all social situations and is very good at figuring out what other dragons' thoughts and intentions are.
* StreetSmart: Is very practical and observant.
* {{Tuckerization}}: He's named after Tui's son, and has a personality somewhat based on him - though Tui says that another, younger dragonet (presumably Cliff) is more like him.
* TykeBomb: He was raised be his parents to be an assassin, and mostly didn't end up a villain because of Thorn.
* UndyingLoyalty: The whole reason he's attending Jade Academy is so he can serve Thorn better.
* WhiteSheep: Is the only member of his family who didn't end up a ruthless career criminal.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Onyx]]
!!Princess Onyx

* PsychicBlockDefense: Like Turtle, she is completely unreadable by [=NightWing=] psychics [[spoiler:because of her skyfire.]]
* RightfulKingReturns: Subverted. She thinks that her royal blood gives her the right to usurp Thorn and jail whoever she wants, but in reality everyone recognizes her as an arrogant, ignorant brat who has no business being anywhere near power.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Meerkat]]
!!Meerkat

* MrExposition: He introduces the main characters to Possibility and explains things about the town.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cobra]]
!!Cobra
The abusive mother of Qibli, Rattlesnake and Sirocco; an accomplished assassin.
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* BlatantLies: As the Outclaws are locking her away, she does [[DirtyCoward her utmost]] to act like a caring mother who Qibli is betraying- the fact that she ''sold him'' be damned.
* CharacterTics: She always eats roasted seeds before undertaking a job.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Having no appreciation of real love, she cannot fake it well enough to deceive Qibli.
[[/folder]]

%%* TheSociopath: Is noted to show no emotions or empathy even as a child, and is manipulative but also sometimes rash due to her belief that she would make the best queen.

!! In General

!!Burn

!!Blister

!!Blaze

!!Smolder

!!Scald

!!Singe

!!Onyx