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*LowerDeckEpisode: More like "lower deck fanfic." In this case, it's a whole series about "normal" dragons and intervals from the dragon's realms on an adventure, technically in the background of the games while Spyro's quest is still happening. Meta-wise, the story focuses on and fleshes out many parts of the setting that were only glimpsed at or touched on briefly during the course of the main trilogy, such as what Warfang and dragon society as a whole are like.
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*AseopAmminesa: Charla never seems to learn her lesson about not acting so impulsively and heeding the advice of others. [[spoiler: Nuala exploits this in Balefire, using her desire to be treated like an adult to manipulate her into being a living weapon to use against the apes, likely knowing Charla was too stubborn to listen to any warnings Lance would give her. ]]
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** Played straiter in Balefire. For the sake of having drama in the third act, [[spoiler: Charla, despite seeing Lacne as her older brother and having had things go poorly for her after ignoring the advice of older and wiser people several times before, refuses to heed Lance's warnings about Nuala's abuse and toxic influence on her. This is despite Lance having given good advice and looking out for her the entire story. Worse, she goes as far as to abandon him and Meredy and run off into the dangerous wilds alone with a mentally unstable Nuala, and does not even raise much of a fuss or reconsider what Lance warned her about even after Nuala more or less attempts to mind controls her into nearly killing two apes and even Lance himself. Even more egregious is that, after all of this, she still does not listen to Lance and caves back to Nuala when she shows up later. All this in spite of Charla's prior relationship with Lance, her shrewdness for her age, being explicitly warned before and after the aforementioned events by Lance, and even fighting off Nuala's mind control twice. Part of it, though, is because Nuala made Charla feel like an adult, something she desperately craves despite her young age.]]
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** Played straiter in Balefire. For the sake of having drama in the third act, [[spoiler: Charla, despite seeing Lacne Lance as her older brother and having had things go poorly for her after ignoring the advice of older and wiser people several times before, refuses to heed Lance's warnings about Nuala's abuse and toxic influence on her. This is despite Lance having given good advice and looking out for her the entire story. Worse, she goes as far as to abandon him and Meredy and run off into the dangerous wilds alone with a mentally unstable Nuala, and does not even raise much of a fuss or reconsider what Lance warned her about even after Nuala more or less attempts to mind controls her into nearly killing two apes and even Lance himself. Even more egregious is that, after all of this, she still does not listen to Lance and caves back to Nuala when she shows up later. All this in spite of Charla's prior relationship with Lance, her shrewdness for her age, being explicitly warned before and after the aforementioned events by Lance, and even fighting off Nuala's mind control twice. Part of it, though, is because Nuala made Charla feel like an adult, something she desperately craves despite her young age.]]
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*ThirdActStupidity: Downplayed in Firelight, after [[spoiler: Charla steals the map to the Well of Souls from the library and runs away from Warfang to continue her quest. It had been established this was her goal in Warfang from the get go. However, she refused to consider Lance's admittably understandable urging to simply enjoy the decent life they got in the safety of the city and wait out the remainder of the war instead of continuing the deadly quest. When the two reunite afterward, there is still tension between them, though its understated Charla does not want to accept her adoptive family was likely dead nor her quest near impossible to accomplish.]]
**Played straiter in Balefire. For the sake of having drama in the third act, [[spoiler: Charla, despite seeing Lacne as her older brother and having had things go poorly for her after ignoring the advice of older and wiser people several times before, refuses to heed Lance's warnings about Nuala's abuse and toxic influence on her. This is despite Lance having given good advice and looking out for her the entire story. Worse, she goes as far as to abandon him and Meredy and run off into the dangerous wilds alone with a mentally unstable Nuala, and does not even raise much of a fuss or reconsider what Lance warned her about even after Nuala more or less attempts to mind controls her into nearly killing two apes and even Lance himself. Even more egregious is that, after all of this, she still does not listen to Lance and caves back to Nuala when she shows up later. All this in spite of Charla's prior relationship with Lance, her shrewdness for her age, being explicitly warned before and after the aforementioned events by Lance, and even fighting off Nuala's mind control twice. Part of it, though, is because Nuala made Charla feel like an adult, something she desperately craves despite her young age.]]
**Played straiter in Balefire. For the sake of having drama in the third act, [[spoiler: Charla, despite seeing Lacne as her older brother and having had things go poorly for her after ignoring the advice of older and wiser people several times before, refuses to heed Lance's warnings about Nuala's abuse and toxic influence on her. This is despite Lance having given good advice and looking out for her the entire story. Worse, she goes as far as to abandon him and Meredy and run off into the dangerous wilds alone with a mentally unstable Nuala, and does not even raise much of a fuss or reconsider what Lance warned her about even after Nuala more or less attempts to mind controls her into nearly killing two apes and even Lance himself. Even more egregious is that, after all of this, she still does not listen to Lance and caves back to Nuala when she shows up later. All this in spite of Charla's prior relationship with Lance, her shrewdness for her age, being explicitly warned before and after the aforementioned events by Lance, and even fighting off Nuala's mind control twice. Part of it, though, is because Nuala made Charla feel like an adult, something she desperately craves despite her young age.]]
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*Doorstopper: Firelight clocks in at over 300,000 words. Its sequel, Balefire, clocks in at over 200,000 words, for a combined total of over 500,000 words in counting. And yet, by the time Balefire went on ndefinite hiatus, the story was still not over yet.
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* * [[spoiler: Commander Darur in Balefire is a cruel ape commander like most others who is fine with capturing children, namely Charla and friends, and trading them off to pirates so that they can be used as slaves forced to fight in a death match arena for the entertainment of said pirates. He was also ok with killing said children if they are of no used to him. It's safe to say no one is sad to see him die after the pirates blast him and his crew off the cliff while they sleep and steal their prisoners right out from under him.]]
* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling. Doublby so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair.]]
* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling. Doublby so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair.]]
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* * [[spoiler: * Commander Darur in Balefire is a cruel ape commander like most others who is fine with capturing children, namely Charla and friends, and trading them off to pirates so that they can be used as slaves forced to fight in a death match arena for the entertainment of said pirates. He was also ok with killing said children if they are of no used use to him. It's [[spoiler:It's safe to say no one is sad to see him die after the pirates blast him and his crew off the cliff while they sleep and steal their prisoners right out from under him.]]
* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling.Doublby Doubly so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair.]]
* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling.
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* * [[spoiler: Commander Darur in Balefire is a cruel ape commander like most others who is fine with capturing children, namely Charla and friends, and trading them off to pirates so that they can be used as slaves forced to fight in a death match arena for the entertainment of said pirates. He was also ok with killing said children if they are of no used to him. It's safe to say no one is sad to see him die after the pirates blast him and his crew off the cliff while they sleep and steal their prisoners right out from under him.]]
* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling. Doublby so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair.]]
* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling. Doublby so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair.]]
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* * * [[spoiler: Commander Darur in Balefire is a cruel ape commander like most others who is fine with capturing children, namely Charla and friends, and trading them off to pirates so that they can be used as slaves forced to fight in a death match arena for the entertainment of said pirates. He was also ok with killing said children if they are of no used to him. It's safe to say no one is sad to see him die after the pirates blast him and his crew off the cliff while they sleep and steal their prisoners right out from under him.]]
* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling. Doublby so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair.]] ]]
* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling. Doublby so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair.
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* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling. Doublby so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair.
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* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling. Doublby so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair. ]]
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* AdorablyPrecociusChild: Downplayed, but Charla embodies this. She tries really hard to be this but is still very much a child her age( twelve) and acts like it, despite her claims of being mature enough to be treated like an adult. She has demonstrated some maturity, however.
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* AdorablyPrecociusChild: AdorablyPrecociousChild: Downplayed, but Charla embodies this. She tries really hard to be this but is still very much a child her age( twelve) and acts like it, despite her claims of being mature enough to be treated like an adult. She has demonstrated some maturity, however.
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* CereberusSyndrome: The series as whole never shied away from dealing with dark themes like loss of family, as well as showing the devasting results of war and genocide but is still typically about the fairly light-hearted adventures of Charla. However, at a few points in the Firelight and Balefire, things really start to grow more serious.
* * In Firelight, the more humor aspects of the story are toned down, especially after chapter 36, where [[spoiler: Lance suggests Charla give up her quest and wait out the war within the safety of Warfang with him, then return to his home of Jordguard. This puts Charla on the spot, as she feels she is asked to abandon any chances of ever seeing her adoptive family again, despite the merit Lance's agreements about the quest being a dead end. This causes a huge rift between the two of them and the drama escalates from then on to the rest of the story, although things don't get particularly darker.]]
* * Balefire starts out with the typical lighthearted antic of Charla and Co, but the drama noticeably escalates much more in this story, with the group arguing in circles about if Meredy is better off staying or going with them, as well as Lance not wanting Nuala to come with Charla and him. [[spoiler: After the WhisperGlade arc, the story becomes much darker, as Nuala becomes outright abusive and toxic to Charla and Charla starts drifting away from her other friends and falling into Nuala's toxic influence. There is a ton more tension and rather realistic depictions of abuse and manipulation, with far fewer moments of levity in between. ]]
* * In Firelight, the more humor aspects of the story are toned down, especially after chapter 36, where [[spoiler: Lance suggests Charla give up her quest and wait out the war within the safety of Warfang with him, then return to his home of Jordguard. This puts Charla on the spot, as she feels she is asked to abandon any chances of ever seeing her adoptive family again, despite the merit Lance's agreements about the quest being a dead end. This causes a huge rift between the two of them and the drama escalates from then on to the rest of the story, although things don't get particularly darker.]]
* * Balefire starts out with the typical lighthearted antic of Charla and Co, but the drama noticeably escalates much more in this story, with the group arguing in circles about if Meredy is better off staying or going with them, as well as Lance not wanting Nuala to come with Charla and him. [[spoiler: After the WhisperGlade arc, the story becomes much darker, as Nuala becomes outright abusive and toxic to Charla and Charla starts drifting away from her other friends and falling into Nuala's toxic influence. There is a ton more tension and rather realistic depictions of abuse and manipulation, with far fewer moments of levity in between. ]]
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* AssholeVictim: A few throughout both Firelight and Balefire
* * Pretty much any one of the ape soldiers killed in the story counts seeing as most are complacent in the atrocities of the Dark Army and are all too happy to murder innocent, including children like Charla.
* * [[spoiler: Commander Darur in Balefire is a cruel ape commander like most others who is fine with capturing children, namely Charla and friends, and trading them off to pirates so that they can be used as slaves forced to fight in a death match arena for the entertainment of said pirates. He was also ok with killing said children if they are of no used to him. It's safe to say no one is sad to see him die after the pirates blast him and his crew off the cliff while they sleep and steal their prisoners right out from under him.]]
* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling. Doublby so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair.
* * Pretty much any one of the ape soldiers killed in the story counts seeing as most are complacent in the atrocities of the Dark Army and are all too happy to murder innocent, including children like Charla.
* * [[spoiler: Commander Darur in Balefire is a cruel ape commander like most others who is fine with capturing children, namely Charla and friends, and trading them off to pirates so that they can be used as slaves forced to fight in a death match arena for the entertainment of said pirates. He was also ok with killing said children if they are of no used to him. It's safe to say no one is sad to see him die after the pirates blast him and his crew off the cliff while they sleep and steal their prisoners right out from under him.]]
* * [[spoiler: Nuala becomes this in the later stages of Balefire. Any sympathy for her past and tragic situation goes out the window after she starts abusing and manipulating Charla to use her as a weapon against the apes, even conditioning Charla to accept what is basically mind control after they've linked magic. Suffice it to say, it is hard to feel bad for her when her first attempt at mind control blows up in her face and causes Charla to burn her by accident in chapter 22 of Balefire, injuring her enough she has trouble traveling. Doublby so after she is shot by an ape's crossbow during the events of chapter 23, right after she was using Charla's magic link with her to force Charla to attack Lance when he catches up to the pair.
