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Moonwatcher

Moonwatcher (Moon)

Narrates Moon Rising.

Beneath the Mask: Her telepathy allows her to quickly judge the mood and personality of everyone she meets. She remarks that a person's speech is often at odds with their thoughts.
On the inside, nobody was normal.
Cannot Convey Sarcasm: Winter sometimes can't tell if she's being serious or not. Then again, WINTER.
The Chosen Many: She's the NightWing representative picked to go to Pantala to fight the Breath of Evil in The Dangerous Gift.
Cursed with Awesome: Secretkeeper has taught her to keep her powers secret at all costs, and she begins to think of them a curse. To be more specific, her powers involve her being personally needing to stop traumatic world-ending events from occurring at age 4, dozens of thoughts invading her brain at all hours, visions that cause her enough pain to make her black out, and active discrimination once she reveals them. Qibli and Darkstalker both can't imagine why she would think her powers are a bad thing.
Cute Bookworm: Like her friend Sora. Well okay maybe not so much like Sora.
Dreaming of Things to Come: Some of her visions come in dreams.
Dude, Not Funny!: In-Universe, as of her reaction when Darkstalker jokes about killing a dragon. He does apologize with "Too soon!".
Fainting Seer: Sometimes, like during her vision of the history cave explosion and the main prophecy of the second arc.
Foil: To Flame. They are both seen as Category Traitors for something that wasn't even their fault. They are also both disappointed about going to Jade Mountain Academy, due to it meaning leaving their mother, when they only just got the chance to spend time with her. Flame is far more angry about the situation, though.
Gray-and-Grey Morality: She's a believer in this, saying that no dragon is actually evil and how everyone has their reasons for doing things, good or bad. This is the main reason why she continued to hold out hope for Darkstalker, believing there was still some good in him even despite everything he'd done, which Winter calls her out on.
A Hero Is Born: The prologue of Moon Rising shows her hatching.
I Just Want to Be Normal: Subverted. She complains about her powers, but- when pressed- admits that she likes having them. Another passage involves her wondering how scary it would be to know nothing about people "except what they chose to show and tell [her]".
In-Series Nickname: Her full name is Moonwatcher, but everyone generally calls her Moon.
Like a Son to Me: Darkstalker describes Moon as a friend, but in practice he treats her like the daughter he and Clearsight never had.
Lunacy: Was hatched under two full moons, which is where she got her name and Psychic Powers.
Mark of the Supernatural: The silver scales under her eyes, which mark her as having Psychic Powers.
Mind over Manners: She is a very moral dragon who refuses to use her powers for preemptively discovering criminals like Qibli suggests and when she gets Darkstalker's scroll, she refuses to use it to control other dragons and feels betrayed when she learned that Darkstalker did not follow the same moral code.
Meaningful Name: She is the first dragons in centuries to get her powers from the moon.
Merlin and Nimue: With Darkstalker. He teaches her about Psychic Powers, and there's always the knowledge that one of them might betray the other - Darkstalker by really being evil or Moonwatcher by not freeing him. They both betray each other - Darkstalker by withholding just how he killed his father, and Moonwatcher by refusing to free him out of a belief that his action crossed the Moral Event Horizon.
Mushroom Samba: She once ate a hallucinogenic frog that makes her get some... rather unusual "visions of the future", in this case anteaters taking over the world.
Never Tell Me the Odds!: When she is going to save Qibli and Starflight from Icicle, Darkstalker warns her of the very low odds of survival and tells her to stay back because her destiny is important. She doesn't listen.
Obfuscating Stupidity: Tries to hide her telepathy (and the unusual knowledge it grants her), but often forgets the limits of what she is 'supposed' to know. By Moon's second day at the Academy, her peers know she's hiding something.
Psychic Powers: She's the first NightWing to actually have them in over a century.
Power Incontinence: Has never been trained to use her telepathy, and is constantly overwhelmed by having to keep track of people's thoughts and speech simultaneously.
Rousseau Was Right: Believes this due to her mind reading powers. Winter is surprised that someone who can see all dragons' thoughts would think this.
Shrinking Violet: Has social anxiety because of her powers and isolated childhood. She has to be forced to attend the Academy.
Silence Is Golden: Played with. She compares the mental silence of skyfire holders favorably to the silence of not having her powers at all.
Silk Hiding Steel: Despite her shy and quiet exterior, other dragons grow to admire her for her courage, especially with regards to the whole Darkstalker incident.
Small Steps Hero: In contrast to Darkstalker, she tends to choose to save whatever dragon is in danger regardless of the risks or future consequences.
Sneaky Departure: She leaves while the dragonets she is traveling with are asleep to free Darkstalker.
Story-Breaker Power: Tui has noted that it is very difficult to write a murder mystery with a main character who can read minds. Her powers are limited, though, to avoid this; she can only discover what characters are thinking at the exact moment, certain characters like Glory and Peril are naturally very hard to read, and Turtle and Onyx are both completely unreadable to her because of their skyfire jewelry.
Tell Me About My Father: Averted. She tried to find out who he was, but Secretkeeper refused to tell her. All Moon knows is his name: Morrowseer. During the events of Winter Turning, Moon an co. stumble, upon Morrowseer's mummy in the tunnels. Moon wonders aloud who the Night Wing was unaware that the corpse was her father's.
Uniqueness Decay: She is introduced as the first NightWing with psychic powers in over a century. Later it is revealed that not only is Darkstalker still alive, but her powers will probably become commonplace in future generations now that the NightWings are living in the rainforest where they can hatch under the moons.
What Beautiful Eyes!: Has one silver scale under each eye; they are said to resemble teardrops. Secretkeeper and Winter admire them.
You Remind Me of X: She reminds Darkstalker of Clearsight.

Qibli

Abusive Parents: 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.
Ambiguously Bi: Some of his interactions with Winter indicate this, including snarking that they'd likely get married some day. Not that he has any intention of romancing anyone but Moon.
Awesomeness by Analysis: He's extremely observant and analytical, though he downplays it on the surface.
Badass Normal: 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 making use of it.
Beauty Equals Goodness: He's suspicious of Moon, but considers her "too pretty to be evil."
The Chosen Many: He's the SandWing representative picked to go to Pantala in The Dangerous Gift.
The Consigliere: Darkstalker wants him to become this for him, reasoning that his cleverness and ability to Take a Third Option will allow him to point out when Darkstalker is going too far in dealing with a threat or falsely convincing himself that his course of action is necessary. 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.
Deadpan Snarker: He tends to make sarcastic quips about other dragons, particularly Winter.
Desperately Craves Affection: Qibli is desperate to be loved by his 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.
Early-Bird Cameo: Got a minor role in The Brightest Night before returning in the second series as a main character.
Enemy Mine: Why he asks for Moon's help even after she reveals her powers; he doesn't trust her, but finding out 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.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a scar across his muzzle that he got from his mother.
Guile Hero: Despite not having powers (well, more than 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.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Upon learning that Moon has been reading his thoughts, his first reaction is fear that she will hate him for them. This is a big part of his character, and even throughout his own book he wants Moon to fall in love with Winter despite loving her just as much, as he doesn't think that he's good enough for her.
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.
Hyper-Awareness: He notices just about everything about every dragon.
I Just Want to Have Friends: Constantly wonders how to act to make others like him.
I Just Want to Be Special: One of his dreams is to be an animus in order to try and help Pyrrhia (and especially Thorn), and he's one of the biggest supporters of keeping Darkstalker's scroll around to use for benevolent reasons. His experiences in Darkness of Dragons teach him that he's not the right dragon to have those sorts of powers, after his use of Anemone's bracelets causes a sandstorm and he nearly brings down Jade Mountain with a storm trying to stop the IceWings and NightWings from fighting.
I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: 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.
Just Like Robin Hood: 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.
Mirror Character: He's a lot like Darkstalker, which the dragon himself points out. Both of them want to help people using animus powers and are willing to use animus magic to protect their loved ones and friends. Both of them are also very intelligent and clever but also carry deep-rooted trauma and feelings of inadequacy. The difference between them is that while Darkstalker was born with his powers and has been using them casually all his life, Qibli was born with nothing and his conscience won't let him do things like that because he knows, deep down, that it's not right to do so.
Motor Mouth: 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.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Accidentally provoked Winter's fight with Moon by letting Bandit out of his cage.
Obfuscating Stupidity: Pretends to be dumber than he is to fit in with the other dragonets.
Recruited from the Gutter: Thorn rescued him from his abusive family and life where he was forced to steal to survive and made him her advisor. It's part of why he's so loyal to her.
Sherlock Scan: Does this a lot, both when observing dragons and observing situations; it's part of what makes him so smart. However, this can also cause him to over-analyze certain dragons, or his own actions.
The Social Expert: He analyzes any and all social situations and is very good at figuring out what other dragons' thoughts and intentions are.
Street Smart: 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.
Tyke Bomb: He was raised be his parents to be an assassin, and mostly didn't end up a villain because of Thorn.
Undying Loyalty: The whole reason he's attending Jade Academy is so he can serve Thorn better.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Winter, his roommate. They argue and bicker a lot due to their different personalities, but they do care for each other. Winter even considers Qibli to be his best friend, which surprises Qibli.
What You Are in the Dark: He has a tense conversation with Darkstalker with nobody else watching for a good while, where Darkstalker brings up their similarities and how he could use someone like Qibli as a friend to advise him. He even offers to make Qibli an animus, one of Qibli's secret desires, if he agrees. Realizing both that he himself can't be trusted with animus powers, and that Darkstalker wouldn't change even if Qibli agreed, Qibli refuses.
White Sheep: Is the only member of his family who didn't end up a ruthless career criminal.

Kinkajou

"WOULDN'T THAT BE SO AMAZING?"

All Girls Want Bad Boys: She staunchly protects Moon from Winter's bullying... but is Squeeing on the inside about how cute he looks.
The Baby of the Bunch: She is possibly the youngest member of Jade Winglet, being the same age as Moon, so the other dragons tend to be protective of her.
Badass Adorable: She's an enthusiastic and very young dragon... who is capable of setting up the release of the captured RainWings from the NightWings under their noses because they underestimated her too much, holding her own in a fight against those same NightWings, and going toe-to-toe with Queen Grandeur in venom accuracy {only losing out on distance because RainWings improve on that only with age.
Beware the Silly Ones: She mostly acts silly and overly excited, so Winter is quite surprised when he finds out that she was one of the dragons captured by the NightWings. He would be even more so if he knew just the role she played in saving the entire RainWing tribe.
- Taken to full effect in Darkness of Dragons, where Kinkajou realizes that Darkstalker can only be harmed by his own magic. She enchants a strawberry to turn him into a harmless NightWing-RainWing dragonet. It works.
Face Your Fears: She is dismayed that being a student at Jade Mountain means she will have to work with a NightWing. By the end of the second series, that NightWing has become her best friend and Kinkajou has taken down the strongest NightWing who ever lived.
Fantastic Racism: She grumbles internally about rooming with a NightWing — mostly because the tribe once imprisoned her. Upon realizing that Moon "is hardly a NightWing at all", she feels more confident talking with her.
Genki Girl: Enthusiastically converses with Moon, babbling about how great the Academy is and how happy she is to be there. Her dialogue is often rendered in capitals.
Genre Blindness: She thinks that finding the Lost City of Night will instantly make the threat to Jade Mountain disappear, the unlikeliness of which is Lampshaded by Turtle.
Hero-Worshipper: Of Glory.
I Just Want to Have Friends: Is subtly jealous whenever Moon spends time with another dragon. This is caused by her fear of loneliness.
Innocently Insensitive: When Carnelian refuses to introduce herself, Kinkajou jokes about what her name could be and constantly tries to draw her into conversation. Carnelian is insulted by this, having made her desire for privacy perfectly clear.
Leeroy Jenkins: She rushes into every dangerous situation, in contrast to Turtle.
Motor Mouth: She talks a lot. Especially evident when she's monologuing to a Bound and Gagged Glory.
Noble Bigot: The aforementioned racism is limited to stray thoughts and a few well-intentioned comments. She doesn't let either interfere with befriending Moon and making her feel welcome.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Suffers one from Chameleon that puts her in a coma for several days before Anemone heals her.
Only Sane Man: Of the Rainwings. Before Glory came along she was the only Rainwing that cared that dragons were disappearing and also the only Rainwing who thought the tribe was poorly ruled.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She is the one of younger members of Jade Winglet and very small, though she can hold her own impressively in a fight.
Plucky Girl: She is always optimistic and determined, even when she is captured by the NightWings and hit by Grandeur's venom.
Put on a Bus: Is absent from the main party in Escaping Peril due to being attacked and severely injured by Chameleon.
Shipper on Deck: She wants Winter and Moon to be together, despite her own crush on him.
Smarter Than You Look: She describes herself as smart but annoying, and takes to academic life quite well, even though her personality would not seem to indicate intelligence. And her crush on Winter is just part of the school experience for her, not something she puts too much stake in; she's just as happy about Moon's relationship with Winter.
Taking the Bullet: Flies in front of Grandeur's venom to save a sloth who accidentally jumps into the target range.
What the Hell, Hero?: She is at first upset at Moon for not telling her and the others about her visions and mind-reading, leaving her alone for a while. But being the friendly bubbly dragon she is, she doesn't hold it against Moon, and she forgives her as long as Moon promises to tell her and the others of Jade Winglet about her visions from now on.

Winter

Narrates Winter Turning.

Abusive Parents: A part of the IceWing Fantastic Caste System, his parents and other relatives constantly looked down on him for not being as skilled as his siblings, Icicle and Hailstorm. They also blamed him for Hailstorm being captured by the SkyWings despite Hailstorm sacrificing himself to let Winter get away.
Aggressive Categorism: His narration in Winter Turning shows that he constantly categorizes dragons he meets based on their tribe, and is surprised when they don't fit the stereotypes.
The Comically Serious: He was initially a haughty and arrogant dragon, to the point where Pyrite calls him "an enormous grump." After Winter Turning, however, he gradually becomes less serious, partly thanks to his interactions with Qibli.
Big Damn Heroes: Shows up in time to save Moon, Qibli and Starflight from Icicle
Bishie Sparkle: He sparkles like all IceWings, but dragons like Kinkajou tend to notice his sparkly scales in particular when thinking of how attractive he is.
Broken Pedestal: All of IceWing society becomes this to him, as his experiences with the rest of Jade Winglet, along with seeing the flaws in the tribe's society shatters his worldview and makes him realize the IceWings aren't nearly as great as they claim.
Bullying a Dragon: Gets into a fight with Peril. He actually does fairly well due to her unfamiliarity with fighting dragons that can fly, but ends up being badly burned when Peril accidentally collides with him.
Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: At first he hates being forced into a winglet and resents the rest of Jade Winglet coming with him to rescue Hailstorm, but as he spends more time with them he comes to enjoy their company, to the point where when he returns to the Ice Kingdom, something he's wanted the entirety of Winter Turning, he misses them.
Catchphrase: "I'm Queen Glacier's nephew". Or sometimes "I'll freeze your face off".
Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Loves to talk about how he will freeze dragons' faces off. Qibli lampshades it and wonders if he will ever threaten another part of a dragon's body for a change.
Conscience Makes You Go Back: After the Diamond Trial. Well, conscience and not being able to return without killing his brother, but his narrative makes it clear that this is a major factor in his decision.
Dying Declaration of Love: Nearly makes one after being burned by Peril, begging her to tell Moon he loves her before falling unconscious. However, he survives thanks to Turtle's rock.
Face Death with Dignity: When he is about to be killed by Hailstorm, though his brother relents at the last minute.
Faking the Dead: Does this so both he and Hailstorm can survive the Diamond Trial. After The Dangerous Gift, this isn't necessary anymore, as Queen Snowfall undoes his banishment and welcomes him back into the Ice Kingdom.
Foil: To his roommate Qibli. Qibli is calm and the voice of reason while Winter is perpetually angry.
Headbutting Heroes: With Peril. They are working towards the same goal but spend much of the time shouting at each other and sometimes even physically fighting.
Human Pet: He had one that he named Bandit. However, he was forced to release him in Winter Turning since Bandit was unlikely to survive in the Ice Kingdom.
Hypocrite: Can be this, like when he is angry at Exquisite for being protective of her sloths, even though he himself is equally protective of Bandit. Peril also calls him out on it when he finds out Turtle is an animus, as he asks Turtle why he didn't use his powers to help the SeaWings in the war, which causes Peril to ask why it would be okay to force Turtle to use his powers, while Peril is always treated as a monster for following the orders of her own queen.
Ice King: Is disdainful of everyone, even the teachers, and quick to threaten anyone who gets in his way. As befits the trope, he is also intimidatingly handsome. This is less a product of his personality, however, and more how he was raised.
Icy Blue Eyes: Which Moon first notices when he glares at her.
In Another Man's Shoes: He wears the Pyrite necklace to understand what Hailstorm had experienced over the last few years. Needless to say, he's horrified when it's taken off of him.
Intrigued by Humanity: He's utterly obsessed with scavengers. He has a Human Pet, Hailstorm got captured taking him along to find a scavenger den, and once had a dream that if he was an animus, he would use his power to build a scavenger observatory. He starts a scavenger outreach project after it's proven that they're sentient in The Dangerous Gift.
I Just Want to Be Badass: He desperately wants to be a tough, first-circle tier warrior and The Ace like his siblings.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: Acts arrogant, though he hates himself for not being as capable as his siblings and letting Hailstorm die.
I Work Alone: He insists on finding Hailstorm by himself.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He acts very aggressive and arrogant, though he can be noble and empathetic and ultimately pulls through for the rest of Jade Winglet. Harming humans/scavengers in front of him, or not handling them with care, will put you on his bad side. He threatened to murder Moonwatcher gruesomely if she didn't relinquish his Human Pet.
Karmic Transformation: He wears the Pyrite necklace for one chapter. While he thinks that Pyrite was indeed shallow, he notes that Pyrite's Fantastic Racism favoring SkyWings was exactly the same and exactly as real as his favoring IceWings.
Morality Pet: A literal example: the first indication that he isn't a total douche is his fierce protectiveness of Bandit.
Noble Fugitive: As of the end of Winter Turning he is essentially a fugitive from the Ice Kingdom, considering he's supposed to have died in the Diamond Trial and the IceWings won't be happy if they find out the truth. In The Dangerous Gift, Queen Snowfall undoes his banishment.
Oh, Crap!: After Narwhal puts him in the seventh circle and then again when he finds out exactly why Narwhal changed his ranking to the top of the first circle.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When he is willing to give Darkstalker a chance despite his previous enmity toward him, Moon is shocked and immediately suspects that Darkstalker enchanted him to think that.
Opinion Myopia: Invoked. As he himself does not eat fruit, he doesn't consider the possibility that Bandit might.
"If he's hungry enough, he should eat anything."
Poor Communication Kills: When Moon picks up his pet, Winter snarls at her to give him back before he slices her face off, drawing the two into a confrontation. As Qibli points out, he could have just asked.
Promoted to Scapegoat: Though he initially mistakes it for another trope.
Promotion, Not Punishment: He gets promoted to the top of the First Circle for saving Hailstorm despite breaking the rules in doing so. But Narwhal's intentions aren't as caring as they seem...
Royal Brat: Is Queen Glacier's nephew, and has no problem with throwing his weight around to intimidate strangers or get special privileges.
Sadistic Choice: His sister orders him to murder Starflight, playing on his hatred of NightWings in doing so. At the last minute, Winter rejects his bigotry and attacks her.
"Would you rather be good or strong?" Icicle spat at him.
In response, Winter smashed his sister across the head with his tail.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: He and Icicle try to be put in their own cave because they're Queen Glacier's nephews. The dragonets of destiny think otherwise.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He is always questioning whether he should follow the typical IceWing code of conduct or do this, but he generally ultimately decides to ignore the rules.
Shoo the Dog: Forces Bandit to leave him because he knows that he will not be able to survive in the Ice Kingdom, where he plans to go to look for Hailstorm.
Sour Outside, Sad Inside: His bitterness and constant anger hides his desperation to prove himself and grief over his brother's death.
Take a Third Option: During the Diamond Trial, he is supposed to either kill Hailstorm or be killed by him. So he tells Hailstorm to return and tell everyone that Winter is dead, while he goes back to Possibility.
Taught to Hate: Winter was raised to despise NightWings, a prejudice that has been held among IceWings for the past two thousand years. He manages to grow beyond this eventually.
Tragic Bigot: While all IceWings have a grudge against NightWings due to events thousands of years ago, he is especially hateful of them due to them killing his brother in Scarlet's arena in The Dragonet Prophecy.
Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: Portrayed as this in Winter Turning. He's constantly questioning whether the bigotry he learned from his tribe is justified, while hating himself for ever questioning it in the first place.
To the Pain: Explains in detail how he is going to kill Moon if she does not give Bandit back by freezing parts of her body and snapping them off, one at a time.
Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Qibli are relatively good friends (Winter even calls him his best friend at the end of the series) and are constantly engaging in Snark-to-Snark Combat.
What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out Moon on continuing to believe that there was some good in Darkstalker despite everyone knowing at that point that Darkstalker had engineered a magical plague to wipe out the entire Ice Wing tribe, among many other horrible things.
You Killed My Father: Bears a grudge against all NightWings because they killed his brother. This ends when he finds out he's alive

Peril

Narrates Escaping Peril

Afraid of Their Own Strength: She was raised to fight, and tends to want to solve problems with violence - though given how destructive she can be by just touching a dragon, she has to try to curb this tendency. She becomes terrified of accidentally hurting a dragon with her scales.
All of the Other Reindeer: Is shunned by the other SkyWings due to her firescales. Though what she has actually used her scales for is not helping.
Angel/Devil Shipping: In-Universe with Clay. Dragons like Sunny wonder how someone like Peril could ever deserve Clay.
Angsty Surviving Twin: She killed her twin in the egg, which adds to her self-hatred and feeling that she's destined to be a monster. It turns out that it was actually Kestrel who killed her brother, though.
- Subverted come Dragonslayer, since her brother turns out to be alive after all, although she isn't aware of this.
Appeal to Inherent Nature: When we first meet her, she argues that she kills because it is the nature of a firescales dragon to do that. Clay notes that this is exactly what the guardians told him about his nature.
The Atoner: She has recurring nightmares of the atrocities she committed and desperately wants to redeem herself for her crimes, though she believes herself to be a lost cause.
Ax-Crazy: Initially, having been raised to delight in bloodshed and death. She starts to grow out of this with Clay's influence, but still struggles with murderous impulses.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Why she fell in love with Clay, since he was the only one who treated her like a dragon.
Be Yourself: In Escaping Peril, she ultimately learns to accept herself, firescales and all.
Big Damn Heroes: Shows up just in time to save Clay from a Dragonbite viper's bite.
Blood Knight: Even more so than other SkyWings, as she was raised as a gladiator. She also has a somewhat warped sense of honor. Even after her Heel–Face Turn, she struggles to suppress the urge to immolate everything around her.
Breaking Out the Boss: She rescues Scarlet from Burn's prison.
Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Gender-flipped with Clay, as although Peril starts off Cute and Psycho, her cheerfulness takes a dive by the end of book one, and by the time she reappears she's become brooding and temperamental.
Brought Down to Normal: When she wears Chameleon's necklace. She still has normal SkyWing powers, just not her fire scales.
Brutal Honesty: As part of her No Social Skills. Turtle admires this aspect of her, though.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Taunts Avalanche with how, for all she swears revenge and how Peril should die, she won't remember her within a few minutes. She also can't confirm or deny that she killed Tourmaline partially because she'd killed so many dragons before, however angry Ruby is with that particular one.
Butt-Dialing Mordor: She ends up accidentally freeing Darkstalker when she was just trying to get Jade Winglet to stop fighting.
Cannot Spit It Out: She cannot admit her love for Clay and wants to rip Starflight's tongue out for saying so.
Catchphrase: Substitutes "blazing" for "awesome". She's stopped using it by the time she reappears.
The Champion: She was raised as Queen Scarlet's gladiatorial champion and executioner, molding her into a Blood Knight with excpetionally poor social skills.
Child Soldier: Literally since she hatched, Scarlet has been using her to kill people. She doesn't know any other way to live.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Once she falls in love with Clay. When they fight in the arena she even yells at him how he doesn't need the other dragonets because he'll have her. Lampshaded by Tsunami.
Cloudcuckoolander: One could say that this is partially due to her having spent so much time as Scarlet's killing tool, but Peril, though being the oldest of the protagonists in the main series, is also easily the least 'worldly' and most 'head-in-the-clouds' of them, and her mind tends to go through some rather strange logical pathways as a result. The entirety of the scene where she yells at a bowl, for example.
Cradling Your Kill: When she fights Horizon in the arena, he realizes that there is no escape and hugs Peril to make his death quicker. Peril holds him as she burns him to death, though Scarlet is not happy at what she sees as an Anti-Climax.
Creepy Blue Eyes: Her eyes are described as an unnatural and unnerving shade of blue that are not anything like what you'd normally see in a SkyWing. Ruby is quite creeped out by them.
Curious Qualms of Conscience: She never quite feels pure guilt about what she has done - her feeling are too complicated and caught up in trying to impress Clay, so she doesn't actually recognize her guilt about freeing Darkstalker and Turtle has to tell her that that's what she's feeling.
Cute and Psycho: When she first appears, Peril is remarkably cheerful in regards to eventually killing Clay (as she's never fought a MudWing before) and gladiatorial combat in general.
Defecting for Love: Why she left Scarlet.
Don't Make Me Destroy You: While she's always itching for a fight, post Heel–Face Turn Peril warns dragons who try to attack her that touching her scales means risking certain death.
Dramatic Necklace Removal: She removes the necklace that Chameleon gave her to make her fire scales disappear when she realizes he also enchanted it to convince her to follow Scarlet.
The Dreaded: Everyone fears her so much for her fire scales that she stops a fierce battle just by flying in the vicinity, since everyone is scared of even getting near her, and she is able to help Scarlet, who has no other allies around besides Chameleon, take over the Sky Kingdom just through everyone's fear of her, even though she no longer has her firescales.
Everyone Can See It: Her feelings for Clay are so blatantly obvious that he's the only one who's in the dark.
Evil Counterpart: Initially for Clay. They both are told that it is their nature to be monsters by abusive guardians, but Peril actually acts like this while Clay feels like he's not monstrous enough.
Fighting from the Inside: In Escaping Peril, after being brainwashed by Chameleon into being loyal to Scarlet and forgetting about Clay, some part of her can't shake the feeling that what she's doing is wrong and that she's forgotten something important.
Fighting Your Friend: Scarlet arranges for her to fight Clay to the death after Peril demands to fight to have Kestrel's execution waived. Peril having just betrayed them during their escape attempt, Clay wonders if she intends to go for Together in Death.
Forbidden Fruit: She only goes to Kestrel's trial because Scarlet mysteriously insisted she shouldn't go. Normally, she thinks the trials are horribly boring, especially given the way Scarlet always makes them end.
Force and Finesse: Exaggerated with her and Turtle. Peril can kill a dragon just by touching them and is unbeatable in arena combat, but she's hopeless at anything even vaguely long-range, while Turtle is completely helpless in battle and can't so much as fly without being tired, but has animus magic, which is very rare and very powerful.
Friendless Background: All dragons besides Queen Scarlet and Osprey avoided and feared her her whole life due to her scales.
The Friend Nobody Likes: She's a close friend of Clay, but the rest of the dragonets of destiny don't like her due to her betraying them in Scarlet's palace. The rest of Jade Mountain doesn't like her either due to her actions in the war, but by the epilogue of Darkness of Dragons she's made a full member of Jade Winglet and is hanging out with the other students.
Fully-Embraced Fiend: Starts out as this, in contrast to Clay (who is terrified by his supposed Superpowered Evil Side). But by the end of The Dragonet Prophecy, Peril is the one terrified of herself, while Clay has found out he had no evil side in the first place.
Genki Girl: She is cheerful even while flambeing her opponents. When she reappears, she's become far more brooding and serious due to losing everyone who cared about her and not being welcome in the Sky Kingdom.
Guilt-Induced Nightmare: What she did for Scarlet in the arena haunts her dreams in Arc 2, as she dreams every night about running through a burning palace with flaming dragons leaping out at her. After Escaping Peril, where she helps free the SkyWings from Scarlet and makes peace with Queen Ruby and her own past, the nightmares stop.
Half-Identical Twins: She had a twin brother who was born in the same egg as her but had too little fire instead of too much. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize that some reptiles' gender is determined by their temperature in the egg.
Headbutting Heroes: With Winter. They might be both on the same side, but that doesn't stop them from fighting each other and despising each other.
Heal It With Fire: Uses her fire scales to heal Clay's dragonbite viper bite.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Decides to help Clay and his friends despite her loyalty to Scarlet but then betrays them, in order to prevent Clay from leaving. Later on, she rescues Scarlet after saying she wants to be a better dragon, but then leaves her and saves Clay's life. Then she briefly turns evil again thanks to Chameleon's necklace, until she realizes what is going on and takes it off.
Heroic Bystander: She comes to the rescue at the end of Book 5 to save Clay's life after he was bitten by a dragonbite viper, charging into the peace meeting where she was watching from afar.
Heroic Fire Rescue: Her immunity to fire allows her to rescue dragons when the dragon flame bomb goes off in Jade Mountain Academy's history cave.
Heroic Willpower: Manages to still retain some of her normal personality after Chameleon enchants her to forget Clay and be loyal to Scarlet with a necklace, and eventually takes the necklace off.
Hero with an F in Good: She tries to be heroic, but her powers and violent tendencies means that she tends to fail at this.
Horrifying Hero: Thanks to her firescales. Most dragons treat her as an abomination even without the influence of what she's used those scales for in the past.
How Dare You Die on Me!: When Clay is bitten by a Dragonbite viper, Peril tackles him to the ground, yells at him not to die, and burns the venom out... along with a decent-sized chunk of his leg.
I Am What I Am: At the end of Escaping Peril, She no longer wants to get rid of her fire scales and and even sees their benefits, realizing that her fault was in being loyal to Scarlet all along, not being born a "freak".
I Hate Past Me: At the beginning of Escaping Peril, she refers to her Genki Girl self from The Dragonet Prophecy as stupid and naive.
I Just Want to Be Loved: Ruby notes that reason Peril started killing for Scarlet was to obtain her approval and affection. This is also the root of her infatuation with Clay, because he is the only dragon she can get close to.
I Just Want to Be Normal: She's quite happy about being given the chance to lose her firescales until she finds out that Chameleon also gave her loyalty to Scarlet and made her forget Clay.
I Just Want to Have Friends: But her firescales and her reputation usually make that impossible. When Chameleon gets rid of her fire scales, the first thing she wants to do is just hug all of the other SkyWings and make friends with them all.
I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: Rejects Clay's offer to join the Dragonets because she feels unworthy, having betrayed them, and calls herself "a villain".
Insanity Immunity: Her mind is so tormented and somewhat insane that NightWing psychic powers can barely understand it at all. This gets toned down by the end of Escaping Peril.
Intergenerational Friendship: With Osprey, a much older dragon that she looked up to as a father figure.
It's All My Fault: Her viewpoint in Escaping Peril shows that she's blamed herself for when dragons she cares about get hurt or killed, such as Osprey.
Just Following Orders: Her entire life she's been Scarlet's attack dog, because Scarlet manipulated her into thinking that she was the only one who cared about her and after being abandoned by Kestrel she was desperate for approval. Ruby realizes this at the end of Escaping Peril and undoes her banishment to the Sky Kingdom.
Living Emotional Crutch: Peril is strongly dependent on Scarlet to make decisions for her, and later tries to replace Scarlet with Clay. Clay recognizes this and refuses to let it happen, a choice Peril eventually grows to understand.
Loser Protagonist: She's an outcast with No Social Skills who is perpetually trying to be noticed by Clay.
Meaningful Name: Since no-one can even get close to her without sustaining severe burns.
Motor Mouth: Like Clay, she talks a lot when she is anxious.
Morality Pet: Clay serves as this to her. For a lot of Escaping Peril she is stopped from becoming violent by thinking about how Clay would react.
My God, What Have I Done?: After accidentally burning Winter, has this reaction, literally thinking to herself "three moons, what have I done?" and frantically apologizing to everyone.
Never Learned to Read: Thanks to her firescales making her unable to touch a scroll.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When she destroys Darkstalker's scroll so neither Darkstalker nor any other dragon could abuse its powers, it only succeeds in freeing Darkstalker.
Nigh-Invulnerable: Due to her firescales, almost nothing can get close enough to hurt her before being incinerated.
Not Me This Time: She really didn't kill Tourmaline.
No-Sell: She is immune to fire, heals from frostbreath in minutes, and any SandWing tails that hit her bounce off and are set on fire without her being poisoned.
No Social Skills: Due to her upbringing as Scarlet's champion, she tends to mess up and look off-putting even in her attempts to make friends.
Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: She knows no other way than bloodshed and death because she was raised in the gladiator ring.
Not Helping Your Case: She desperately wants to prove that she isn't an evil dragon who wants to burn everyone, but the way she keeps almost doing so or being angry at other dragons isn't helping. Peril realizes this and tries to hold herself back just so she won't be this trope.
Odd Friendship: Between her and Turtle. She's loud, slightly crazy even after she breaks free of Scarlet, and has anger issues. Turtle's quiet, reserved, is practically unreadable to anyone, including Moon (though that's only because of his skyfire bracelet), and hates being in the spotlight. And yet Turtle is probably Peril's closest friend barring Clay.
One-Man Army: She's capable of being a threat to a whole army of dragons due to her powers.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When she doesn't remember who Clay is, Queen Ruby instantly determines that she must have been enchanted to help Scarlet try and take back the SkyWing throne.
Out-Gambitted: She isn't much of a planner, but the one time she does make a plan, to betray Clay and the other dragons to ultimately free them and Kestrel and make him love her, Scarlet stops her by making her fight Clay himself in the arena, which works especially well since Clay is the only one immune to her firescales.
Perky Female Minion: To Scarlet, in the first book. She gets over both the "perky" part and the "minion" part.
Please, Don't Leave Me: She turns Clay and the others in to Scarlet during their first escape attempt due to not wanting Clay to leave.
Power Incontinence: She constantly radiates intense heat to the point where even being near her feels like standing next to an erupting volcano.
Powers Do the Fighting: She relies completely on her ability to damage other dragons in a battle by touching them, and also never fought dragons that could fly, so she finds she isn't quite so invincible when she gets into a dispute with Winter and he keeps dodging her by zipping all around her in the air.
Pyromaniac: Initially is quite happy about burning dragons with her fire power. Even after her Heel–Face Turn, she sometimes sets random plants on fire because she's angry.
Redemption Quest: Why she's trying to find Queen Scarlet and go to Possibility with Turtle in Escaping Peril.
Reformed, but Rejected: Queen Ruby and most of the Dragonets of Destiny believe that she hasn't changed, or if she has, what she did is unforgivable. Ruby at the very least gets over it by the end of Escaping Peril.
Satellite Love Interest: Her whole life revolves around Clay. This is downplayed in the sense that she actually has her own personality beyond simply her crush on Clay, and is also deconstructed in that this behavior is not treated as being healthy at all. Her Character Development in Escaping Peril specifically focuses on her becoming her own dragon rather than just being someone whose decisions and life revolves around what Clay would approve of.
Self-Restraint: She notes that she could have easily fought back to stop herself from being exiled by Queen Ruby, but she didn't want to be exactly the dragon Ruby thought she was. She also struggles to keep a lid on her fiery temper and murderous impulses.
Single-Target Sexuality: She's not interested in any dragon except Clay, especially because he's the only dragon she can touch.
The Sixth Ranger: She is the only one of the second series protagonists not to be from the Jade Winglet, and only joins them halfway through the arc.
Sour Outside, Sad Inside: In later books, she tends to act very aggressively, hiding her sadness and guilt.
Sneaky Departure: She thinks about doing this in Escaping Peril, but stops when she realizes Tsunami and Starflight would assume she is a traitor going to help Queen Scarlet. So she decides to pursue Scarlet after explaining what's going on to Clay but Turtle runs into her and makes her leave without telling him.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
- When Peril frees Scarlet from Queen Burn's castle, she makes it very clear that if Scarlet lays so much as a claw on any of Clay's friends, Peril will reduce her to ashes.
- When Turtle accompanies her at the beginning of Escaping Peril, she initially tries to deter him. Later, Winter outright attacks her, though Peril provoked him.
Touch of Death: Her power allows her to severely and often fatally burn others just by touching them.
Tyke-Bomb: From the moment she hatched, she was trained by Queen Scarlet to kill dragons in the arena or every dragon who bothered Scarlet, and to be completely loyal to her. When Scarlet threatens to do the same thing to Cliff, it makes her so angry that she rips of the enchanted necklace that Chameleon gave her.
Then Let Me Be Evil: Initially thinks that she is supposed to be a killer because of her scales, so she might as well be one, but changes her mind at the end of the first book.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Being exiled took a toll on her, as when Peril reappears in The Brightest Night her brooding apathy is in stark contrast to her cheerful bloodlust in the first book.
Took a Level in Kindness: After her firescales are removed in Escaping Peril, she becomes much more cheerful and friendly, and makes an effort to keep her new optimistic attitude after they are restored.
Unable to Cry: She's never cried in her life despite all she's been through, no matter how horribly she feels inside.
Unwitting Pawn: Queen Scarlet manipulates her into being her prize gladiator.
Villain Protagonist: In Escaping Peril, Chameleon gives her a necklace that implants loyalty to Scarlet in her and makes her forget her memories of Clay, leading to her helping Scarlet take the throne from Ruby.
Welcome Back, Traitor: Clay offers her a place in the Dragonets after she helps them escape, but the others are not so welcoming and she refuses.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Pre character development, she would do anything to get the approval of her adoptive mother Scarlet.
What You Are in the Dark: She believes she can't be good unless Clay tells her what to do, but even after her memories of him are erased, she retains enough compassion to prevent Cliff's murder.
What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out Turtle and the others when he doesn't stick up for her in front of the rest of Jade Winglet and they accuse her of working with Scarlet due to her past.
Wreathed in Flames: Her entire body radiates heat intense enough to melt metal.
Yandere: Towards Clay, becoming jealous of his relationship with Tsunami and other dragons. She gets over it (the Yandere part, that is).

Turtle

Prince Turtle

Above the Influence: G-rated example. He feels very uncomfortable whenever Kinkajou shows any affection toward him and tries to avoid her, given that Anemone enchanted her to be in love with him.
Always Save the Girl: When Darkstalker threatens to kill Kinkajou if he doesn't reveal himself, he gives up his stick to save Kinkajou, though he does manage to give Anemone the stick instead in the process.
Brought Down to Normal: Darkstalker takes away his animus powers once he reveals his existence by giving his stick to Anemone.
Cain and Abel and Seth: He's Tsunami's brother, introduced after The Lost Heir has already shown her and her three siblings, plus Orca.
The Cassandra: He's one of the only dragons who suspects Darkstalker isn't what he seems. It turns out that it's because Darkstalker enchanted himself to make everyone enamored with him, and Turtle enchanted himself to not be affected by Darkstalker's spells.
Commonality Connection: With Peril. He notes that he's not scared of her because they both have dangerous powers.
Create Your Own Villain: He was responsible for giving Anemone animus powers, leading him to think it's his responsibility to stop her.
Dissonant Serenity: Still remains his usual calm when talking about Coral torturing a SkyWing, and even seems excited about the affects of dragon flame cactus. Tsunami and Sunny are somewhat creeped out by this.
Emerald Power: He is green and has greenish bioluminescent scales, and he's the protagonist of the book titled "Talons of Power" and an animus.
Force and Finesse: exaggerated with him and Peril. He's helpless in close combat and gets tired easily from just flying, but has the very rare and powerful animus magic, while Peril can kill anyone she touches, has Nigh-Invulnerability, and is helpless in long-range fights where her opponent isn't tied down.
Genre Savvy: He reads lots of fiction scrolls and is consequentially always treating his life like a work of fiction and trying to figure out what genre he's in so he can act like this. It leads to him immediately figuring out that Kinkajou's plan to save Jade Mountain won't work.
Go Mad from the Isolation: He really doesn't take being alone well. Eventually leading to him using his powers to make his siblings stop shunning him in revenge for his failure to save his sisters.
Heir Club for Men: A gender-inverted example. Because Turtle's male, he will never inherit the SeaWing throne. That is why he wasn't assassinated like Coral's daughters.
Heroic Sacrifice: He risks his life by throwing away the stick concealing him from Darkstalker in order to save Kinkajou and Anemone. He doesn't die, but ends up imprisoned and drained of his powers.
His Code Name Was "Gary Stu": He used to write stories in his spare time about him being an awesome hero who was respected by the whole tribe.
Identical Grandson: He looks exactly like his distant ancestor Fathom.
I Just Want to Be Badass: He wants to be a badass hero, but over time he's started thinking it's useless trying to be that way.
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: When his sister attacks him, he strives to restrain her instead of hurting her back, and eventually forces her to confront the root of her insecurities.
It's All Junk: He destroyed all of the wish fulfillment scrolls he wrote after failing to be heroic enough in real life.
The Load: He sees himself as this.
"He wasn't the hero, and he wasn't the storyteller. He was the idiot who fell over his claws in the first chapter, had to be rescued in the fourth, ruined the whole plan in the ninth, and ran away at the end, or died, if he were really stupid."
Lovable Coward: He's grown up sheltered (if not always favored) as a SeaWing prince and doesn't have a particularly dynamic personality, so he'd prefer to stay in Jade Mountain Academy than go on scary and life-threatening adventures. He's still a friendly and likable character who will always help the other dragons if it's necessary.
Massive Numbered Siblings: Has thirty-one brothers. A justified trope, as Coral was trying to birth an heir.
Mellow Fellow: Is unfailingly nice and kind but rather detached and unwilling to take action. His mellowness is ultimately hiding his crippling fear of actually doing something heroic, though.
Moment Killer: Peril gets quite annoyed when he shows up once in Escaping Peril just when she and Clay were finally alone and she was fantasizing about a romantic moment.
My Greatest Failure: When he was young, he was instructed to get a guard(as the current one was sick)in order to guard his unborn sisters from the mysterious assassin that was going to kill them. He fails to find the guard, and his sisters are killed. After disappointing his father, he decides that he's a worthless hero and decides to be a random background character in someone else's story instead.
Nigh-Invulnerability: He becomes this accidentally, due to one of his spells he used to protect himself from Anemone that ends up being unexpectedly permanent.
Non-Action Guy: He can barely even stand flying for a day, let alone epic battles and adventures, though his animus powers are certainly helpful.
Nice Guy: Is generally mild and polite. Even when Moon reveals her powers, his first priority is to help heal her injuries. Later he becomes one of the few dragons to befriend Peril, and saves Anemone's soul from her animus corruption.
Obfuscating Stupidity: He fakes being useless and boring so no one will try to take advantage of his animus powers.
Odd Friendship: Between him and Peril. He's quiet, reserved, is practically unreadable to anyone, including Moon (though that's only because of his skyfire bracelet), and hates being in the spotlight. Peril's loud, slightly crazy even after she breaks free of Scarlet, and has anger issues. And yet Turtle is probably Peril's closest friend barring Clay.
Parental Neglect: Is ignored by Queen Coral because he isn't in the line of succession.
Psychic Block Defense: Moonwatcher can't read his mind at all - it's completely static. This is because he is wearing skyfire.
Sibling Yin-Yang:
Small Steps Hero: Embraces this at the end of Talons of Power - he realizes he can't do something dramatic and save the world, fighting for the greater good even if it means sacrificing Kinkajou and potentially Anemone's lives, but he can still save them both.
Spanner in the Works: The other dragonets of Jade Mountain Academy want him to be this, since he has made his existence completely invisible to the otherwise-omniscient Darkstalker.
Stopped Caring: After his greatest failure above, he stopped trying to stand out or do anything important with his life and just tried to get by.
Squishy Wizard: He's horrible at any physical task though he's an animus dragon.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: He wants to get attention from his mother, particularly for his writing skills.
- He also wanted to impress his father by saving his unborn sisters, but he fails to do so.
The Watson: He briefly thinks of himself as this to Qibli when comparing himself to characters in stories he has read.
Too Dumb to Live: He's half-convinces that this will be his fate, especially when Darkstalker shows up.
With Great Power Comes Great Perks: How does he use his animus powers? To stop his wings from being sore when he flies too much.

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