History Characters / WingsOfFireNightWings

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Starflight notes that his science could accomplish a lot for the [=NightWings=] if they weren't busy [[spoiler: experimenting on [=RainWings=]]]. This isn't fully accurate since he does undertake projects like desalinization and vulcanology when he's not working with [spoiler: [=RainWings=].

* EvilCounterpart: Though not necessarily ''evil'', when Darkstalker gives her mind-reading powers she proceeds to act entirely ''unlike'' Moonwatcher, meaning that she reads the minds of everyone around her and blurts out their thoughts with no regards to their own privacy.

** After saving Pyrrhia from the threat of Darkstalker, she flies away to Pantala and mates with a [=BeetleWing=] named Sunstreak, as well as others. Their offspring eventually evolved into modern [=SilkWings=] and [=LeafWings=].

* AmbiguousDisorder: She's confusing to mindread for Darkstalker because she thinks in colors instead of words, and tends to be seen as a "weird" dragon for talking about random things, which led to her being placed in classes a year behind despite her intelligence (she knows about things like chaos theory and is a great painter).
** WordOfGod confirmed that Whiteout has Associative Synesthesia, and associates people with colors and shapes.

* DeadlyDisc: His WeaponOfChoice for assassinations.

* ProudScholarRaceGuy: In their heydey, they had plenty of libraries and were the most scientifically and technologically advanced tribe. While they had an expansive library at the volcano, they had forgotten much of their knowledge.

* AndManGrewProud: The [=NightWings=] of the past were cultured intellectuals who studied scavenger biology and regularly held art symposiums. The [=NightWings=] of the present are desperate, stunted creatures whose ignorance horrifies Darkstalker.

* FondMemoriesOfWhatCouldHaveBeen: While she didn't kill Darkstalker, for the rest of her life she mourns about the six dragonets they could have had together, the friendship they could have had with Fathom, and the life they could have lived together if the future had turned out well. She'd seen all of this in her visions, as well, making it hurt all the more.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: May have been a victim of this InUniverse like her son. [[spoiler:As it turns out, far more of a victim than her son, given that while Darkstalker was more complicated than the legends suggested he really did most of the evil things he was feared for.]]

* TogetherInDeath: She thinks about letting the collapsing agate mountain bury her along with Darkstalker, but ultimately decides against it because she sees futures where she can be happy again.

* PromotionNotPunishment: After being captured by [[spoiler:Glory and Darkstalker]] for trying to kill Glory, the latter decides to promote her to his lieutenant rather than punish her.

* ThemeNaming: Like all of the other tribes. NightWings are named after various night objects like Moonwatcher and Starflight, bodily features like Mightyclaws, Strongwings, and Fierceteeth, wishful traits like Secretkeeper, Mastermind, and Morrowseer, or values like Prudence, Vengeance, Fearless, Vigilance, and Wisdom.

* ManipulativeBitch: She specifically brought Foeslayer along to the Ice Kingdom in the hopes that she and Prince Arctic would end up bonding and mate, letting Foeslayer conceive eggs that they could then take back to the Night Kingdom to get their own animus dragons. While the plan didn't exactly work out the way she'd intended, it still got them Arctic and an animus dragon...who turned out to be ''[[GoneHorriblyRight too]]'' [[GoneHorriblyRight powerful.]]

* ManipulativeBitch: She specifically brought Foeslayer along to the Ice Kingdom in the hopes that she and Prince Arctic would end up bonding and mate, letting Foeslayer conceive eggs that they could then take back to the Night Kingdom to get their own animus dragons. While the plan didn't exactly work out the way she'd intended, it still got them Arctic and an animus dragon...who turned out to be [[GoneHorriblyRight ''too'' powerful.]]

* NotSoDifferent: They and the [=IceWings=], despite hating one another, are fairly alike, believing in their superiority over the other tribes, and many of them being arrogant blowhards.

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The [=NightWing=] city that Darkstalker remembers [[spoiler:and later recreates with magic]] is all gardens and statues and marble terraces. (It even had a public school, a civic accomplishment that the other tribes would not equal for hundreds of years.) Unfortunately, [[Main/{{Atlantis}} most of it has sunk]] or crumbled now. The archaeologist team studying its ruins have to fly in their own supplies, because there is simply no wildland left on which they can hunt.
* DarkIsEvil: A lot of them are villains, and [[spoiler: the tribe in general made up the prophecy and is trying to kill all of the [=RainWings=].]]

* DrivenToMadness: The first thing a telepathic dragonet is taught are mindfulness techniques that allow them to visualize the thoughts invading their head without focusing on them. Without this help, any but the isolated of dragonets would quickly go insane.
* FatalFlaw: [=NightWings=] tend to let their fear rule them. It's why they abandoned their genetic heritage, why they [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption kidnapped]] [=RainWings=] instead of asking them for help, why Darkstalker felt he needed to kill his friends, why Moonwatcher kept her telepathy secret, and so on.

* ProudScholarRaceGuy: They have plenty of libraries and are the most scientifically and technologically advanced tribe.

%%* TheChessmaster
* TheBlofeldPloy: After questioning [[spoiler:Deathbringer]] for [[spoiler:betraying the [=NightWings=] for Glory]], she has [[spoiler:Vengeance]] killed instead.

%%* [[spoiler: DelayedTimeDeath]]

%%* FightingForAHomeland: She and Morrowseer's plans to involve their [=NightWings=] in the [=SandWing war=] and attack the [=RainWings=] are designed to find the [=NightWings=] an acceptable home.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: As queen of the [=NightWings=], she and Morrowseer [[spoiler: plan the extension of the war for the [=NightWings'=] own purposes, set up a genocide of the [=RainWings=], and make up the prophecy.]]

%%* WalkingSpoiler

* HitmanWithAHeart: Seems to be the case with [[spoiler:Glory as of ''The Hidden Kingdom''']].

* ProfessionalKiller: A [=NightWing=] assassin sent to dispose of the Dragonets.

* BrokenPedestal: Like Starflight, she [[spoiler: has only heard stories treating the [=NightWings=] positively]], so it is a shock for her to see [[spoiler: their island.]]

%%* TheCuckoolanderWasRight:

* HeelFaceTurn: She [[spoiler: betrays Battlewinner and supports Glory's bid to rule the [=NightWings=] because she thinks it will give her tribe a better future than killing another tribe.]]

* TrainingFromHell: For Morrowseer, training Starflight and the alternates means [[spoiler: ordering the alternates to try to kill Starflight, making them fly a very long distance over water to the border of the Sky kingdom, and then making them all fight each other in a volcano, leading to Viper being killed and Flame being seriously injured.]]