Characters / Wings of Fire: RainWings

In General

• Actual Pacifist: RainWings don't usually eat meat or harm any living creature. Kinkajou even throws herself in front of Grandeur's venom spray to prevent a sloth from being harmed. They may be gaining more Martial Pacifist tendencies after Glory becomes Queen and plans to militarize them.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Despite how they seem to be a harmonious society on the surface, they are also shown to be very intolerant of differences. Chameleon was born with a birth defect that prevented him from sleeping for very long, and as such never was able to change colors like other RainWings, which resulted in him being mocked and insulted until, finally, one of the RainWing queens banished him for, essentially, being creepy.
• Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Nobody in Pyrrhia thought much of the RainWings for some time due to stereotypes about their laziness and not taking part in the war, but during Darkstalker's time they were feared all across the continent, and once Glory whips them into shape they're able to sneak onto the NightWing island, rescue the prisoners, and force the NightWings to become Glory's subjects without any bloodshed at all.
• Chameleon Camouflage: They can change the color of their scales to blend in with their environment.
• Hidden Elf Village: All of them live in a single village in the rainforest, where they have withdrawn from other dragons ever since Grandeur's early reign.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Queen Grandeur was the last true queen of the RainWings, but her daughters were useless, so she allowed any RainWing who thought they should be queen the ability to try it, in the hope that some day the tribe might come across someone who would either grow into the role or actually want it. Until Glory showed up, nobody had impressed her.
• Lazy Bum: They are stereotyped as such, and Glory is dismayed to find it's at least partially true. It turns out to be necessary for their lifestyle, as they need regular naps in the sun to be strong, and it does come with benefits (such as making their society relatively conflict free). It's likely that their choice of ruler is more to blame for this than the RainWings themselves, as their queens are all useless and have been for decades, according to Kinkajou. They start shaping up once Glory takes over.
• Living Mood Ring: One of the reasons they change colors is because of their moods. For example, they tend to turn pink when happy, and they turn blue when sad. It's not purely Involuntary Shapeshifting, however, as they can also change their colors intentionally when they need to.
• Neutral No Longer: They don't end up actually participating in the War of SandWing Succession but they do end up fighting Blister's allies, the NightWings, in a separate conflict.
• Never Learned to Read: They don't have scrolls. Though Chameleon taught himself to read and Jade Mountain Academy means others can now learn. Glory is also setting up an actual school.
• No Blood Ties: RainWings "don't do parents"; instead, they lay their eggs in a single large clutch, and then they all raise the resulting hatchlings together.
• Perfect Pacifist People: See Actual Pacifist above. Although it turns out to be a subversion as they have serious flaws in their society, such as not caring much about other dragons going missing because it's too much work to chase them down, being intolerant of RainWings who are different, and any RainWing being able to be queen no matter how incompetent they are.
• Poisonous Person: They possess hollow fangs that can shoot a highly corrosive venom.
• Power of the Sun: Exposure to the sun strengthens them and allows them to spit venom.
• Prehensile Tail: Their tails are capable of coiling around things to hold them.
• Surprise Incest: Averted. Although most RainWings grow up never knowing who their family members are, any two dragons can identify if they are related to one another if both spit their venom. If the dragons are related, their venom will react and counter the harmful effects. Glory does this and determines that Jambu is her brother, and that Queen Grandeur is a distant relative.
• Team Switzerland: They stay out of wars and have been completely neutral for as long as most dragons (who live 150-200 years) remember.
• Theme Naming: It's mentioned that their queens often have "sparkly" sounding names, like Grandeur, Magnificent, Exquisite, Splendor, Dazzling, and Glory. Other dragons are normally named after fruit, jungle animals, or jungle plants.
• Tranquilizer Dart: They use these to guard their borders, and they are frighteningly effective with them, as the NightWings found out.
• Tree Top Town: Live in one, as you would expect from flying rainforest dragons.
• Veganopia: They only eat fruit, unlike the other carnivorous dragons, and have the most peaceful and Utopian society of the dragons, with no threats until the NightWings.

Magnificent

Queen Magnificent

• Cheaters Never Prosper: She attempts to cheat during the queens' contest with Glory by stockpiling a pile of fruit somewhere ahead of time. The only reason it doesn't pan out is because the queen assigned to that challenge ends up eating enough of it on the way back to lose to Mangrove.
• Forgetful Jones: She tends to forget almost all of her responsibilities. It's the main reason why she's such an ineffective queen.
• Head-in-the-Sand Management: She completely ignores how fourteen RainWings have disappeared over the past year, despite Mangrove's efforts. This is why Glory wants to take her place.
• Hidden Depths: Despite being an incompetent queen, she can still be clever when she wants to, such as in the contest scaring Glory's sloth in order to find her in the camouflage challenge.

Grandeur

Queen Grandeur

• Abdicate the Throne: In favor of Glory, after she finds out that they are actually related.
• Blue Blood: Descended from the original RainWing ruling family.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Kinkajou notes that she is a bad queen like the others because she almost never answers everyone's petitions. However, she turns out to be far more competent then the others, just disillusioned with how the other RainWings have become.
• Hero of Another Story: She mentions that she once fought in a war where she used her venom and camouflage for fighting, when their territory was invaded. Nothing is ever mentioned about it again, though.
• Lady of War: She's noted to be very regal and the only one of the RainWing queens who seems like an actual queen. She still looks graceful when she's proving a champion at venom shooting and she actually led her tribe into wars when she was younger.
• Grande Dame: She's a very old dragon and used to be the tribe's sole queen, and is very opinionated about everything and doesn't care about others' thoughts. She's also very regal and the only real queen of the bunch that actually looks like she fits the role.

Jambu

Jambu

• Cover Identity Anomaly: When he and Glory disguise themselves with IceWings to meet Blaze, his admiration of the SandWings' art (real IceWings prefer more subtle colors and art) somewhat ruins his disguise. Fortunately, it is Blaze they're talking to.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish sibling to Glory's responsible sibling.
• Long Lost Sibling: Half-sibling, but he's Glory's half-brother and is very excited when he finds out.
• Manchild: He's always excited, treating a scouting mission as a game, for example.

Mangrove

Mangrove

• Determinator: No one will stop him from rescuing Orchid.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Rushes ahead of the other dragons into the Sand Kingdom because he wants to find Orchid immediately, just when they were thinking of a plan.
• Only Sane Man: He's the only RainWing who cares about how so many of them are going missing, mainly because Orchid, the dragon he loves, has also been kidnapped.

Exquisite

Exquisite

• Crazy Sloth Dragon: She is obsessed with sloths above everything else, including her position as queen, so she makes a horrible ruler. In Winter Turning, she appears out of nowhere to attack Winter when he tries to kill a sloth.

Fruit Bat

Fruit Bat:

• Odd Name Out: The other queens of the RainWings are Magnificent, Grandeur, Splendor, Dazzling, and Exquisite. Kinkajou lampshades that her name doesn't fit the pattern.

Tamarin

Tamarin

• Covered in Scars: She has several scars thanks to bumping into tree branches and similar objects due to her blindness. Becomes this fully after being nearly burned to death by a dragonflame cactus bomb.
• Handy Helper: To Starflight. Kinkajou serves as this to her.
• Improbable Taxonomy Skills: Tamarin's very good at identifying flowers, even though she's blind. She somehow does it by smelling them. While smell does provide some indication of which flower is, several flowers have a similar enough aroma for this to be realistic.
• The Nose Knows: Identifies flowers very accurately by smelling them.
• Sixth Ranger: Is the only one of the dragons Glory teams up with in her bid for the RainWing throne that she hasn't already worked with before.

Handsome

Handsome

• Ironic Name: He jokes that sometimes RainWing names don't match the dragons that have them, not really thinking of himself as handsome.
• Mr. Exposition: His only role is to describe how a challenge for the RainWing throne should be performed.

Liana

Bromeliad

• Jerkass: Was introduced as attempting to teach Kinkajou how to properly use her venom, and was apparently a bad teacher. When Kinkajou disappeared she believed that Kinkajou had just thrown a tantrum and run off somewhere.

Orchid

Orchid

• Damsel in Distress: She was kidnapped by the NightWings and Mangrove is determined to rescue her.

Splendor

Splendor

• Damsel in Distress: Much like the other RainWing prisoners, she was captured by the NightWings. This was, however, an attempt by them to force the RainWing to surrender, which didn't work because there are multiple RainWing queens.

Dazzling

Chameleon

Chameleon

• Archnemesis Dad: To Peril, being Scarlet's second-in-command.
• Boomerang Bigot: Hates all other RainWings because of how they treated him before, to the point of trying to kill any on sight.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Gets mentioned off hand in Winter Turning before he is revealed to be so important. Even before that, he appears as Cirrus in a minor role in The Lost Heir.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Is Scarlet's closest ally after she is deposed, but is aiding her for her own purposes and because the alternative is Scarlet revealing his secret to everyone.
• Enigmatic Minion: He obeys Scarlet, but his his own secret agenda.
• Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: Boasts to the Jade Winglet of all of the powers he gave his NightWing form since they last met.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Goes from an exiled RainWing who can't even change color to one of the most powerful dragons in Pyrrhia.
• Glorified Sperm Donor: He never even knew Peril was his child, and was only supposed to be part of the breeding program that produced her. Despite this, they get along well and he quickly convinces her to help Queen Scarlet in exchange for getting normal scales.
• Green and Mean: He is perpetually green because he can't camouflage, and he's a villain.
• Greed: He's exceptionally greedy and hungry for treasure. When he changes to a MudWing named Bog in order to try and spark a war between the SandWings and MudWings to discredit Thorn for Vulture, his reward is so much treasure that he's absolutely smothered in it and also makes him look completely ridiculous.
• Ironic Name: His name is Chameleon, but he's the only RainWing who can't camouflage.
• It's All About Me: Peril calls him out on this when he feels hurt that Peril turned Ruby back into Tourmaline because it revealed his secret, despite how it saved Ruby's life.
• The Insomniac: Is incapable of sleeping for more than a short time, which is theorized to be the reason he doesn't possess camouflage powers.
• Last Episode, New Character: First appears in the epilogue of Moon Rising. Though he has already showed up as Cirrus in The Lost Heir.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Is Peril's father. When he announces this to her, Peril is not particularly thrilled due to him just turning up and saying so.
• Meaningful Rename: His name in his NightWing form is Shapeshifter, representing his true powers, in contrast to his original name. Peril points out that his name seems suspiciously perfect, but he argues that most NightWings have meaningful names.
• The Mole: In his disguise as Cirrus, he is this for Scarlet in the Talons of Peace.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Gives his NightWing form this by Escaping Peril.
• One-Winged Angel: He augments his already enormous NightWing form to make it nigh-invincible and super-strong.
• Super-Strength: After he learns he failed to kill Kinkajou, he alters his NightWing form, Shapeshifter, to possess the strength of ten dragons.
• Transformation Trinket: He turns into different dragons using pieces of Darkstalker's scroll.
• Two Aliases, One Character: He is that same dragon as Shapeshifter and Cirrus.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Uses Darkstalker's scroll to do this, allowing him to have a form in every tribe.
• Who's Laughing Now?: He was bullied and shunned by the other RainWings for his inability to change color, escalating to the point that he got exiled. He is first mentioned (well, at least his RainWing self is) in Winter Turning, where Jambu and Bullfrog discuss what a creepy dragon he was for not being able to sleep and having an ugly, unchanging color. Once he gets Darkstalker's scroll, he uses it to gain great powers and kill any RainWing on sight.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Peril mishears his SkyWing name, Soar, as "Sore". He is quite disappointed when he realizes that SkyWings must have thought his name was Sore all along.

Coconut

Coconut

• Flat Character: Moonwatcher states that he's the only dragon she's ever seen with such one-dimensional thoughts besides Pyrite.
• Ironic Name: He hates coconuts, which is lampshaded several times.
• The Ditz: He's pretty much the stereotypical RainWing that Glory hates and spends all of his time thinking boring thoughts about food. It doesn't help Glory, Kinkajou, or Moonwatcher's opinion of him.

Pineapple

Pineapple

• The Chosen Many: He's the RainWing representative in the Super Secret Stealth Team going to Pantala to fight the Breath of Evil.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: He's described as being "serious-looking" by Snowfall, a quality that doesn't fit the vast majority of RainWings. He's less serious in The Flames of Hope, being cheerful like many RainWings, but is also a great deal more level-headed and calm than many of them.
• Stepford Smiler: Implied, throughout the events of The Flames of Hope. After finding out that Pineapple has his boyfriend Jambu waiting for him back on Pyrrhia, Luna notices that Pineapple quickly locks his expression to one of calm, and worries that Pineapple must be deeply missing his boyfriend.
• Queer Establishing Moment: Pineapple's revealed near the end of The Flames of Hope to be Jambu's boyfriend, through a scene of the two of them cuddling.