Characters / Wings of Fire: SeaWings

In General

• Bioluminescence Is Cool: They have bioluminescent patches used to communicate in their own special language underwater (as any sound from the mouth will be made into incoherent gurgles) that no other dragon can duplicate and allegedly find mates, though the latter might have been a lie.
• Decadent Court: The queen's council is this.
• Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Most members of the royal family are shown wearing some piece of jewelry on their bodies, necklaces for most of them and armbands for Moray and Turtle. ^note Whirlpool (who is not a member of the royal family) also wears an earring
• Fish People: Can be considered a dragon equivalent, having several fish-like characteristics, living in an around the sea, and even being able to breathe underwater just like fish.
• Making a Splash: While they don't possess water-related Breath Weapons, they can use their powerful tails to douse opponents in water.
• Royalty Superpower: Royal SeaWings have extra bioluminescent scales and often have animus powers.
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: They can live under water due to possessing gills.
• Super-Senses: Have enhanced night vision.
• Tail Slap: They have a very powerful tail that can be used in battle, either for sheer force or spraying large amounts of water on enemies.
• Theme Naming: Normally named after oceanic things, such as kinds of waves, tides, sea animals, sea plants, fish, SeaWing bodily features, or sea-related colors.
• Underwater City: They live in one.

Lagoon

Queen Lagoon

• Big Sister Bully: She and her sister Sapphire to their little brother Albatross. It didn't work out well for either of them.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She was outwardly a dignified, beautiful, beloved queen to the SeaWings, but there's a great many hints underneath that she's a classist, selfish, arrogant bitch beneath her classy exterior, even trying to force Fathom to stop hanging out with Indigo because she sees Indigo as beneath him.
• The Charmer: She's quite the smooth talker, as it's mentioned she's been able to smooth over issues with the MudWings and RainWings, and was doing the same with the SkyWings after building villages on coastlines in their territory.
• The Dog Bites Back: Her constant abuse of Albatross eventually leads to her death when she gives him one insult too many.
• It's All About Me: Her whole personality seemed to be focused on how to make herself look good. All of the work she made Albatross do for her was to make her jewelry and trinkets and projects that could make herself look good to visiting diplomats. She even has a Freudian Slip when she finds out Fathom is an animus, nearly saying he'll make so many wonderful things for her, rather than the kingdom.
• Ironic Death: She made use of Albatross's animus magic for decades to make trinkets and various projects for her...only for Albatross to finally use those same powers to kill her.
• Jerkass: Forcing Albatross to train his replacement while also constantly holding what he did to Sapphire over his head, trying to force Fathom and Indigo apart, and intending to use Fathom as her personal trinket-maker for the rest of his life, rude, arrogant, and selfish? Lagoon fits the bill.
• Kick the Dog: Does one of these essentially every time she's in a scene, whether to Albatross or someone else.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Decades of emotionally abusing Albatross in order to make him "atone" for maiming Sapphire resulted in her being brutally murdered in front of the entire SeaWing court, with the majority of her family following afterwards.
• Pet the Dog: She might be a selfish, arrogant, bullying bitch, but she still regularly went to visit her sister Sapphire after Albatross maimed her.

Coral

Queen Coral

• Beware My Stinger Tail: She wears a spike on her tail as an intimidating decoration, which she accidentally impaled Orca with during their fight for the throne.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's a kind, friendly queen for most of her subjects, but she will make you regret it if you make her angry.
• Blind Obedience: Most of her council acts like this to her, especially Moray.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Does this to any hatchery guard who lets her eggs be killed, no matter how justified their failure is. She also finds out about the dragonflame cactus by torturing a SkyWing.
• It's All Junk: Throws away her scrolls to prevent dragons from dying when they are burned up by the SkyWings' bombs at the end of book 2.
• Knight Templar Parent: She's willing to torture and brutally execute any guard for her eggs who failed to protect them from being killed, or anyone she suspects of being the murderer, including one she suspects just because of Blister's manipulations and for being the son of the dragon who kidnapped one of her daughters.
• Kill the Ones You Love: She killed Orca in a challenge for the throne, and still feels guilty over it.
• My Beloved Smother: Has Anemone attached to her by a harness at all times to prevent assassination attempts. As of the second series, she's improved...a little. Enough to send her to school.
  Coral: But you can come home anytime, you understand? If you feel lonely, or overworked, or tired-
• My God, What Have I Done?: Had this reaction to killing Orca, and since then has been churning out scrolls and texts of how great of a queen she is out of a concern that her subjects think of her as a monster because of it.
• Offing the Offspring: Killed her oldest daughter, Orca, in a challenge for the throne, which she still grieves about. She's also one of the suspects for killing her other daughters though it turns out she was not responsible.
• Parents as People: She's a loving mother to her daughters (to a smothering extent) but barely acknowledges her sons, having to be reminded of Turtle's name when introducing him to Tsunami. She's also very violent when angry, but is still grieving over the death of her daughter Orca and is under a lot of stress due to her yet-to-hatch daughters being repeatedly murdered. By the end of Talons of Power, she's making strides to be better to her children.
• Revenge by Proxy: Punished Webs for stealing Tsunami's egg by forcing his wife into the army and sending her into a bloody battle.
• Ruling Couple: With her husband, King Gill.
• Sanity Slippage: Is under a high amount of stress due to the war, her husband's disappearance, and her daughters being repeatedly murdered, causing her to act irrationally and be easily manipulated by Blister.
• Self-Made Myth: She actually wrote the history books that portray her as such a benevolent queen.
• The Uriah Gambit: How she has Webs' wife killed.
• Written by the Winners: While she isn't nearly as horrible a queen as some of the other queens, she's much more morally ambiguous than the scrolls that she herself wrote would suggest.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Her experience writing murder mysteries allows Blister to manipulate her into thinking her own plight must be just like one.
• Villains Love Entertainment: While she's not quite as sadistic in general or in her choice of entertainment as Scarlet, she loves reading and writing books which leads to her tendency to be Wrong Genre Savvy.

Anemone

Princess Anemone

• Accidental Murder: Accidentally knocks Whirlpool into the electric eel-infested SeaWing prison, killing him. She is horrified at what she is done, but by book 6 she is proud of her actions.
• Alpha Bitch: Shows herself to be one upon attending Jade Academy. She eventually gets better.
• Black Magician Girl: She's a one-year old dragonet with a strong personality and animus powers that she's already killed a dragon with.
• Cain and Abel: She is driven to insanity by her magic, and attempts to murder her brother Turtle. Anemone is also willing to kill Auklet and Tsunami. However, Turtle talks her out of it, showing that she isn't as far gone as one might assume.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Starts out as Tsunami's cute (though defiant) little sister. By book 6, she seems to have changed a lot for the worse, though whether she was corrupted by her animus powers or not remains to be seen. Taken to sad extremes in Talons of Power, courtesy of Darkstalker.
  • Thankfully, she makes a genuine effort to reform in the next book, becoming more carefree and less selfish.
• Creepy Child: Is only very young—she'd be approximately nine years old as a human—and is very volatile, often unkind, occasionally violent and willing to use her powers for corrupt ends, even murder.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's a Little Miss Snarker, just like her big sister Tsunami.
• Green-Eyed Monster: In Talons of Power, she becomes jealous of Moonwatcher's (complicated) relationship with Darkstalker, and treats her horribly as a result.
• Heel–Face Turn: In ''Darkness of Dragons."
• Incoming Ham: "DARKSTALKER!" Said while using her animus powers to create a dramatic thunderstorm.
• My God, What Have I Done?: About killing Whirlpool. At least until Book 6.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: She has unusual partially pink scales, and is a princess.
• Royal Brat: Moon's peek into Anemone's mind reveals that she's entitled and arrogant, believing that others should kowtow to her whims. In Talons of Power, Anemone is shown complaining about having to clean her new room, because she never had to in the Kingdom of the Sea. Meanwhile, Kinkajou comments that she never even had a room of her own, and it wasn't a big deal. When Moonwatcher refuses to do it for her, Anemone enchants a broom to ''hit and abuse Moon until she's satisfied''. Ouch. That being said, she does get better.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: How she justifies trying to kill her family with her powers in Talons of Power. She says that all animus dragons are destined to become evil anyway, so there's no point in trying to be cowardly about it. Turtle manages to talk her out of this mindset.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In Moon Rising and especially in Talons of Power. It is still ambiguous whether she was always like this when not around Tsunami, if it's a consequence of her accidental murder of Whirlpool, or if it is because of her animus powers.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After Turtle and Anemone have their talk, she goes back to being the dragon she used to be in The Lost Heir. In Darkness of Dragons, she plays a key role in stopping the battle between the IceWings and NightWings, and later casts a spell on herself to protect her soul and to make herself less selfish and arrogant. She also promises to cut back on using her animus magic in general.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She debuted in "The Lost Heir" as a sweet, cute little princess, but by the time we see her again in "Moon Rising," she's become a spoiled, entitled Royal Brat who's not much better than Winter and Icicle.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: What she's worried will happen to her since she's an animus dragon.

Riptide

Riptide

• Declaration of Protection: He teaches Tsunami the phrase "I will protect you" in Aquatic, which Tsunami mistakes for this and is predictably enraged by.
• Loser Son of Loser Dad: Isn't very respected considering his father is Webs.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Tends to be Coral's scapegoat thanks to being Webs' son. This leads to Blister manipulating Coral into thinking he is part of a conspiracy to kill her female dragonets along with his father just because of their relationship, and she nearly has him executed.
• Young and in Charge: Leads the Talons of Peace at seven years old.

Whirlpool

Whirlpool

• Armored Dragons: Wears armor when he tries to kill Tsunami.
• The Bore: He's an incredibly boring dragon, so Tsunami can't stand spending time with him.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: He's not the one killing all of Coral's children, but no one expected him of all dragons to be the one who tries to kill Tsunami halfway through the book.
• Evil Mentor: Teaches Anemone to use her animus powers, despite knowing the consequences, as well as teaching Tsunami aquatic. Ends up wanting Tsunami dead so he can marry one of her sisters.
• Green and Mean: He has green scales and tries to kill Tsunami because he doesn't want to marry her.
• High-Voltage Death: Falls into Coral's pit of eels and is shocked to death.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Turtle describes him as this.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: He tries to kill Tsunami so she can't get in the way of him marrying Anemone or Auklet, both of whom can give him power but he doesn't hate.
• Old Man Marrying a Child: He's supposed to be married to Tsunami, though he's an adult dragon. He doesn't want to marry her but one of her even younger sisters, the one-year old Anemone or the newborn Auklet.
• Prince Charmless: Tsunami is supposed to marry him, but given that he's a textbook example of this trope, she's not so happy about it. Neither is he.
• Smug Snake: He's a smug, manipulative asshole who bows and scrapes to get into Coral's good graces.
• Wife Husbandry: He wants to raise either Anemone or Auklet (a one-year old dragonet and a newborn, respectively to be his future wife.
• Windbag Politician: He's one of Coral's counselors, and he is very long-winded - he recites a large part of a whole book in aquatic to Tsunami, who is supposed to be just learning the basics of the language.

Shark

Commander Shark

• Commanding Coolness
• Evil Uncle: Is Tsunami's uncle, and is aggressive towards her and the other dragonets, to the point of Locking all of them except Tsunami in a prison and not caring that they might drown when a storm comes. He also might be responsible for the deaths of Tsunami's sisters though it turns out he isn't, and he turns out to be genuinely loyal to the Sea Wings and even, in Coral's view, too compassionate towards the dragons guarding her eggs.
• Last Stand: Leads a counterattack against the SkyWings when they bomb the Summer Palace in order to give the dragons inside time to escape.
• Noble Demon: He's a very aggressive and murderous dragon who has moments of more compassion and heroism than he'd like to admit.
• Warrior Prince: He's Queen Coral's brother and commands the SeaWing army.

Moray

Moray

• Undying Loyalty: Is utterly devoted to Coral, to a creepy extent.

Orca

Princess Orca

• Abel And Cain: Creates a Living Statue designed to kill all of her sisters, which is eventually stopped by Tsunami.
• Antagonistic Offspring: Of Coral, attempting to challenge her for the throne the moment she became an adult.
• Evil Genius: She was known to be very intelligent and skilled at sculpting. She also enchanted a statue to murder her future sisters when Coral won their fight.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Gets impaled on Coral's tail spike accidentally during their fight.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: She is already dead by the time of the books, but is still a threat due to the Living Statue she programmed to kill all female royalty.
• Posthumous Character: Has already been killed by Coral before the events of The Lost Heir.

Gill

King Gill

• The Atoner: He intends to make up for how he berated Turtle for letting his sisters die, especially when he finds out that Snapper was outside the Deep Palace all along. Unfortunately, he gets captured before he has a chance to ever do so.
• Badass Pacifist: He competently manages the war though refuses to fight himself and is a very successful and persuasive negotiator.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: He was originally a competent leader who preferred peace. When we meet him in The Dragonet Prophecy, he has been deprived of water by the SkyWings and as a results has turned insane and is perfectly willing to kill Tsunami in the arena.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Is introduced as a random SeaWing that Tsunami fights in the arena. in The Lost Heir, he is revealed to be Coral's husband and Tsunami's father, and he later gets an appearance in Assassin.
• Doomed Moral Victor: He wanted peace, even when he was imprisoned and forced to fight to the death. It doesn't end well for him.
• Fallen Hero: He was once the heroic king of the SeaWings.
• The Good King: He was a beloved king despite not having any real political power; he was respected and fondly thought of, and loved and respected his subjects in turn, attempting to try and persuade Blister to end the war peacefully and crying for Tempest when she's assassinated.
• Intro-Only Point of View: The prologue of Talons of Power is told from his point of view, the only time we get a look into his thoughts in the series. This lets us see what he did to Turtle to make him how he is in the main story.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Regretted blaming Turtle for his sisters' deaths, especially once it came to light that Snapper was not even in the Deep Palace, so Turtle's mission was doomed to failure to begin with. Gill regretted this terribly and meant to apologize to Turtle but never got the chance.
• Parting-Words Regret: He blamed Turtle for the deaths of his unborn sisters (unfairly, it turns out) and never got the chance to apologize, which Coral tells Turtle about when he comes home briefly in Talons of Power.
• Please Wake Up: Tries to wake up Tempest after Deathbringer kills her.
• Ruling Couple: His wife is Queen Coral, and he's given a lot of responsibility as a general and a diplomat.

Tempest

Commander Tempest

• Commanding Coolness
• Doomed by Canon: In "Assassin", we see that her competence means that Blister's side is almost winning the war, and Deathbringer is assigned to kill her to stop that from happening. Predictably, he succeeds.
• Genius Bruiser: Is described as being both as intelligent as Blister and a large and powerful dragon. The NightWings assassinate her because with her and Blister working together, there's a chance Blister might end the war faster than the NightWings want.
• Large and in Charge: She's absolutely massive, as large as Morrowseer, and is in command of the Kingdom of the Sea's army.

Squid

Squid

• Attack Hello: Greets Winter this way in Winter Turning.
• Butt-Monkey: He spends much of The Dark Secret getting humiliated in various ways and complaining about it.
• Evil Counterpart: He's Tsunami's replacement and is much more cowardly and selfish.
• Nepotism: Is only the alternate SeaWing dragonet of destiny because he is Nautilus' son.
• Non-Action Guy: He's pretty pathetic in a fight and spends most of his time complaining.
• Only In It For The Treasure: However much Nautilus wants him to be high-minded.
• Left for Dead: By Morrowseer. He's not injured, but he's alone in enemy territory and it is presumed that he couldn't possibly live. He gets discovered by a Talons of Peace spy and rescued.

Pike

Pike

A minor character who's part of Anemone's posse.

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• The Champion: Is obsessed with protecting Anemone, and Moon thinks (correctly) he might be sent to Jade Mountain Academy by Coral for that.

Fathom

Fathom

• Babies Ever After: This can't really happen to him since he's not allowed to have dragonets but he does eventually get to have them, breaking his oath to Pearl.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: When he was young, he wanted to be an animus. He soon regrets ever wanting that.
• Blood Oath: He makes his oaths to Pearl by slashing his palm with a sword. He mostly does this as a method of self-harm due to his grief at losing his whole family, though, rather than Pearl requiring it.
• Break the Cutie: Starts out as an enthusiastic young dragonet who loves hanging out with his friend and using his animus powers. It doesn't last that long.
• Celibate Hero: He swore an oath to never have dragonets so they wouldn't inherit his animus powers. At the end of the book, he decides to have dragonets anyway.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Indigo.
• Conflicting Loyalty: He decides early on that he would break his oath to his sister to never use his magic if Indigo's life depends on it, to avoid this kind of issue. This comes up when he has to free Indigo from the dragon carving.
• Court Mage: Was supposed to be this to Queen Lagoon. It didn't end well.
• A Day in the Limelight: Is one of the three points of view in Darkstalker.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Holy fuck, yes. Fathom loses nearly his entire family in a bloody massacre, nearly all of his friends, is forced to betray one of his best friends to stop him from trying to Take Over the World, nearly loses the love of his life, and overall comes through Darkstalker a traumatized mess...but he manages to escape, rescue Indigo, and lives out his days on a peaceful island with three kids, happy and content.
• Emerald Power: Has green scales and is an animus.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When he questions his grandfather on how Albatross discovered he was an animus, Albatross casually reveals that it was while being teased by his sister, Sapphire. Fathom mentally goes over that while he's heard an "Aunt Sapphire" mentioned once or twice, it sure is weird that he knows nothing about her. He knows everything about the rest of the Royal Family, but was never told anything even about her current status. Not even if....she's...alive... She is alive, but Albatross was so angry at her teasing that he used his nascent powers to maim her until the pain drove her insane.
• Friendless Background: He never had any friends after the massacre, because they were all scared of his powers. Nobody even came to celebrate his sixth hatching day.
• Heroic Team Revolt: He and Clearsight team up to betray Darkstalker after he kills his father and tries to become king.
• I Just Want to Be Special: He wanted to have animus powers so he's stand out, because his sister was always the one who was going to be queen and he was just a minor prince who got little attention.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Of course, this behavior takes a complete 180-turn after the Massacre.
• Interclass Friendship: He's a prince, but Indigo, the daughter of a soldier and a museum keeper, is his best friend.
• Kid Hero: He's the oldest out of the three protagonists of Darkstalker, being a year older than Darkstalker and Clearsight, but is still only 5-7 years old throughout most of the story.
• Morality Pet: Was supposed to be one for Darkstalker, helping him gain humility, but however friendly they were it didn't work out.
• One-Person Birthday Party: No one ever attended his sixth hatching day due to his animus powers.
• Posthumous Character: Presumably died 2000 years ago.
• Power Trio: With Clearsight and Darkstalker, who made the dreamvisitors for them so they could always contact each other.
• Properly Paranoid: He correctly guesses that it might not be a good idea to use Darkstalker's scroll because Darkstalker might have cast a spell on it that would alert him.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: He's not supposed to be with Indigo, first because she comes from a lower-class family and then because Pearl doesn't want to risk him having animus dragonets.
• Spotting the Thread: He's able to realize that Darkstalker did something to Indigo and rescue her when Blob comes out from under his bed, knowing that Indigo would never leave Blob behind if she actually left.
• Survivor Guilt: He, his sister and Current were the only members of the Royal Family to survive Albatross' rampage. It tears him apart inside. Especially because he's the one who ultimately stopped his grandfather, leaving him convinced that it's all his fault things got so bad. And since he blames himself for hiding when Albatross started killing his family, because he was the only one who could have saved them.
• To Be Lawful or Good: A key part of his character development is him being torn between keeping his vow to Pearl to never use his animus powers, lest he become like Albatross, or use them to protect the dragons he loves, despite the oaths he swore. At the end of the story, he choses Good.
• The Woobie: Loses nearly his entire family in a bloody massacre perpetrated by his beloved grandfather, is ostracized by other SeaWings, is banned from using his animus powers, marrying Indigo, or having dragonets, then is betrayed by his best friend, has to betray him in turn...it's a miracle that by the end of the book Fathom is still sane.
• You Can't Go Home Again: He can't go back to the Sea Kingdom because of how ostracized he is and breaking both of his oaths. He and Indigo live out the rest of their lives on an island outside the Kingdom of the Sea, with their dragonets.

Indigo

Indigo

• Action Survivor: But she first becomes renowned to how she fought Albatross in the Royal SeaWing massacre, before she got that training.
• Babies Ever After: She's not allowed to have this with Fathom thanks to the oath he swore to Pearl. They do get to have dragonets at the end, though.
• Becoming the Mask: She is allowed to be a royal guard because of her heroism in supposedly killing Albatross, and offers to be Fathom's bodyguard to be with him. Over time, she becomes an actually skilled bodyguard.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Fathom.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: With Fathom, after all the hardships they both went through.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She faces Albatross on her own to save Fathom's life, knowing it could kill her. She is horribly injured and only survives due to Fathom using his powers to heal her.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: She was scared of the idea of having animus power, even before she knew how they could make you lose your soul. Fortunately, she gets her wish and doesn't end up with powers.
• Interclass Friendship: She's the lowly daughter of a soldier and a museum keeper, and looked down on by Queen Lagoon, but Fathom's immediate family, all nobility, adores her and basically treat her like one of their own.
• Legendary in the Sequel: In the present day she's one of the famed heroes of the Seawings.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: When she switches into bodyguard mode, her stance changes, her voice deepens, and she holds up her spear like it's more than just a prop.
• The Main Characters Do Everything: Out of Fathom's three bodyguards, she's the one always doing the actual protecting. Lampshaded by several characters, who start to suspect from this that her relationship with Fathom might be more than it seems.
• Naughty Is Good: As a dragonet she's disobedient and tends to earn the ire of the queen. But she's a very good dragon, and Darkstalker's soul reader even shows that she's almost entirely good.
• Properly Paranoid: She always suspects Darkstalker of trying to enchant dragons around him. This leads to her stopping Fathom from drinking a goblet, which really was enchanted - to make him forget his oath and Indigo, and use magic all of the time.
• Rags to Riches: She goes from a lower-class dragon who the queen thinks will never amount to anything and likes to treat as a servant to the most respected of the new queen's personal guard and a renowned hero throughout the kingdom.
• Red Baron: Following Fathom giving her the credit for killing Albatross, she becomes known as the "Animus Slayer" throughout the Kingdom of the Sea.
• Sealed Good in a Can: Darkstalker seals her in one of Fathom's carvings, while enchanted a note in her handwriting to be written that says she has left.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Fathom. First they're not supposed to be together because of her coming from a lower-class family while he's a prince, and then because of Pearl not wanting them to have dragonets who might have animus powers. Subverted by the end, where they eventually marry and have dragonets anyway on an island outside the Kingdom of the Sea.
• Training from Hell: Put herself through this in order to protect Fathom and Pearl.
• Took a Level in Badass: After becoming part of the royal guard, and later Fathom's personal bodyguard.

Albatross

Albatross

• Court Mage: To Queen Lagoon.
• The Dog Bites Back: He does this inadvertently to Sapphire when she teases him, telling a shell he was playing with to rip her claws out. Then later, Lagoon telling him that he'll never escape what he did to Sapphire drives him into his murderous rampage after she'd emotionally abused him with what he did to Sapphire his entire life.
• Fallen Hero: Was once considered a heroic dragon until his animus powers drove him insane.
• Guilt by Association: The entire reason he goes after Fathom during his massacre. After it was discovered Fathom had animus powers, Lagoon took every chance she could to tell Albatross how much better of an animus Fathom would be than him, using it as another method of emotionally abusing him.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He's jealous of Fathom for being the second animus in his tribe, especially giving the effect his animus powers are having on his soul.
• The Mentor: To Fathom. He teaches him how to use his animus powers.
  • Evil Mentor: Once he uses his powers too much.
• Offing the Offspring: He kills his own daughter Manta during his attack.
• Pater Familicide: His animus power-driven insanity (and a lifetime of emotional abuse from his sister, Lagoon) leads him to slaughter nearly his entire family.
• Posthumous Character: Even though he's long dead, him perpetrating the Royal SeaWing Massacre leaves a black stain on animus magic for millennia to come.
• Tragic Villain: Was a dragon that the entire royal family loved and respected, and one of the most-respected dragons in the kingdom. However, his constant emotional abuse by Lagoon and the overuse of his powers to make trinkets for her caused him to eventually go insane, massacre his entire family, and blacken the reputation of animus magic forever.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Overuse of his animus powers were blamed for why he went insane and massacred most of his family.

Pearl

Queen Pearl

• A Child Shall Lead Them: As the oldest female relative of Queen Lagoon to survive the massacre, she ends up becoming Queen of the Kingdom of the Sea at five years old.
• Interclass Friendship: Indigo is one of her best friends, despite not being royalty herself. After the massacre, she pulls a lot of strings to get Indigo set up with a good, respected job and a marriage to a minor noble in order to assure Fathom she'll be taken care of.
• Playing Possum: She survived the Royal SeaWing Massacre by cutting herself with glass to make her look injured and then pretending to be dead.
• Universally Beloved Leader: She was loved by all of the SeaWings to the point of being the only SeaWing queen to die of old age, rather than being killed by a daughter in a challenge.
• Wise Beyond Her Years: Starts out as an immature, envious dragonet, but after her family's massacre, she becomes a strong queen at only five years old.
• Young and in Charge: Becomes queen when she's only five years old.