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|quote = But [[Hawthorn]] and [[Queen Sequoia|Sequoia]] did terrible things, too. The [[HiveWings]] would be right to want them to be punished . . . but they would be wrong to want the same for the whole [[LeafWings|LeafWing]] tribe. So maybe . . . Maybe I need to think about that, too. Hawthorn, Sequoia, and [[Queen Wasp|Wasp]]. I should be angry at them - I can be furious at them. I can fight Wasp without hating the entire HiveWing tribe. I can free the HiveWings and spare their lives without betraying my quest. Because Wasp is the real enemy: Wasp and her mind control.
|quote   = But [[Hawthorn]] and [[Sequoia]] did terrible things, too. The [[HiveWings]] would be right to want them to be punished ... but they would be wrong to want the same for the whole [[LeafWing]] tribe. So maybe ... Maybe I need to think about that, too. Hawthorn, Sequoia, and [[Wasp]]. I should be angry at them — I can be furious at them. I can fight Wasp without hating the entire HiveWing tribe. I can free the HiveWings and spare their lives without betraying my quest. Because Wasp is the real enemy: Wasp and her [[othermind|mind control]].
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|age       = 6 years
|age       = 6 years (hatched in 5,006 AS)
|gender     = Female
|gender   = Female
|tribe     = [[LeafWings]] ([[PoisonWings]])
|tribe     = [[LeafWings]]
|residence  = Flying to unknown islands towards [[Pyrrhia]]
|powers    = [[Leafspeak]]
|status    = Alive


|Relation1  = Mother
|status    = Alive (as of ''[[The Flames of Hope]]'')
|RName1    = [[Commander Belladonna]]
|Relation2  = Father
|RName2    = [[Hemlock]]
|Relation3  = Girlfriend
|RName3    = [[Willow]]
|Relation4  = Ex-Fiancé
|RName4    = [[Mandrake]]
|Relation5  = Grandmother
|RName5    = [[Sundew's Grandmother|Sundew's Grandmother]] †
|appeared  = ''[[The Lost Continent (Book)|The Lost Continent]]'', ''[[The Hive Queen]]'', ''[[The Poison Jungle (Book)|The Poison Jungle]]''
|powers    = [[Hybrids and Special Dragons|Leafspeak]]
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'''Sundew''' is a young female [[LeafWings|LeafWing]] ([[PoisonWings|PoisonWing]]) and the main protagonist of ''[[The Poison Jungle (Book)|The Poison Jungle]]''. She was first introduced in ''[[The Lost Continent (Book)|The Lost Continent]]'' and was one of the first of her tribe to be introduced in the series. She is a member of the LeafWing rebellion under her parents, [[Commander Belladonna|Belladonna]] and [[Hemlock]], and is currently journeying to the [[Pyrrhia|Distant Kingdoms]] alongside her friends, [[Queen Hazel]], and several LeafWings and [[SilkWings]]. She is [[Willow]]'s girlfriend, although Sundew was formerly involved in an arranged betrothal to [[Mandrake]].


== Appearance ==
|former    =
Sundew has a small{{Ref|TLC|223}} and wiry{{Ref|TLC|168}} body and a face similar to Belladonna's. She has light forest green scales{{Ref|TLC|168}}, with small gold scales speckled along the edges of her wings, talons, and across her snout. She wears several small pouches, which are woven from long grass and fashioned from waterproof leaves{{Ref|TLC|170}}, that contain numerous plants and bugs from the [[Poison Jungle]]. Sundew wears a pouch over her heart that contains a small{{Ref|TPJ|98}}, smooth jade frog{{Ref|TPJ|3}} given to her by Willow.
Member of the [[PoisonWings]],<br />
[[LeafWing]] representative on the journey to [[Pantala]]


== Personality ==
|Relation1 = Mother
Sundew is irritable, grumpy, and snarky. Often aggressive and quite short-tempered, Sundew is a very fearsome dragon. It is noted in ''[[The Hive Queen]] ''that Sundew usually wears a scowl on her face; additionally, although snappy and sarcastic, she is rarely loud or boisterous. She is a good planner with a strategic and thoughtful mind and is very knowledgeable on which plants and insects can help her gain an advantage in sticky situations. She believes in justice and in doing what she believes is right, but her anger and bitterness can overshadow her reasoning in some situations, such as when she created a plan to execute almost every [[HiveWings|HiveWing]] in ''The Hive Queen''.
|RName1    = [[Belladonna]]


Sundew seems to also value dignity and dislikes embarrassing herself in front of others, namely those she respects or wants to impress. She is hard on herself and seems to expect perfection in most things that she does, becoming angry at herself if she fails or shows weakness in any given situation. Likewise, Sundew has high standards for other dragons, even referring to the [[SilkWings]] as "subservient worms" for letting [[Queen Wasp]] control them. Sundew also has a great capacity to be open-minded, however; as seen near the conclusion of ''The Hive Queen'', Sundew's resentment towards the HiveWings lessened when she realized that they could be better if they weren't under Queen Wasp's lies and mind-control.
|Relation2 = Father
|RName2    = [[Hemlock]]


Although she wouldn't like to admit it, Sundew can actually be compassionate beneath her sarcasm and moodiness. Although it was already established in ''The Lost Continent'' that Sundew hated most HiveWings, she took care to make sure that a paralyzed HiveWing guard, who was guarding Queen Wasp's greenhouse, was well away from it before Blue set fire to the greenhouse's plants in ''The Hive Queen.''
|Relation3 = Grandmother
|RName3    = [[Linden]]


== Biography ==
|Relation4 = Partner
=== ''[[The Lost Continent (Book)|The Lost Continent]]'' ===
|RName4    = [[Willow]]
Sundew appeared in the late half of the book, asking for her mother's permission to kill Blue, Cricket and Swordtail, then leave their bodies someplace outside the greenhouse, stating, "That will really scare those worms in the Hive." Her mother, Belladonna, immediately disagreed as this would alert the HiveWings that some intruders were in the area.


Sundew willingly accompanied Blue and Cricket to the Temple of Clearsight to help them steal the Book of Clearsight. She used flower dye and wing-shaped leaves to disguise herself as a SilkWing, though the disguise was imperfect. It was still better than Blue's cracking paint, however. Before entering [[Wasp Hive]], she defaced a carving of Queen Wasp, and as described in the book, "raked her claws across the queen's elegant snout." Cricket protested that the vandalism was unnecessary, but all Sundew said was, "Wait till I get to her ''actual'' face," implying that Sundew intends to rake off Wasp's face when they meet. In the Temple of Clearsight, she paralyzed several HiveWing guards from a distance with blow-darts similar to HiveWing nerve toxin. Sundew later fought the Librarian while the HiveWing was under Queen Wasp's mind control. Although the Librarian was bigger and stronger, Sundew broke her arm and nearly killed her before Cricket intervened. Sundew then freed the Librarian from mind control using bullet ants to bite the dragon, causing unbearable pain to her, and by extension, Queen Wasp, making her leave.
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''[[The Lost Continent (book)|The Lost Continent]]'',<br />
''[[The Hive Queen]]'',<br />
''[[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]'',<br />
''[[The Dangerous Gift]]'',<br />
''[[The Flames of Hope]]''
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''[[Official Wings of Fire Coloring Book]]'',<br />
''[[A Guide to the Dragon World]]'',<br />
''[[How to Draw]]'',<br />
''[[Official Wings of Fire Stained Glass Art Book]]''
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'''Sundew''' is a female [[LeafWing]] [[dragonet]] and the main protagonist of ''[[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]''. She was formerly a member of the [[PoisonWings]] led by her mother, [[Belladonna]], and father, [[Hemlock]]. She is honored and respected among PoisonWings due to her powerful [[leafspeak]] ability. She is currently in a relationship with [[Willow]] and resides in the [[LeafSilk Kingdom]]. She was formerly betrothed to [[Mandrake]].


After the Librarian's room was surrounded by mind-controlled HiveWings, Sundew threw a smoke bomb made of waxy leaves to distract Wasp and obscure her, Cricket, and Blue's escape with the Book. Instead of helping the wingless Blue fly away (relegating the job to Cricket and the Librarian), she fought against Wasp's drones with her organic weapons to buy them time.
== Description ==
Sundew has a small{{Ref|TLC|223}} and wiry{{Ref|TLC|168}} shape and a face that is similar to Belladonna's.{{Ref|TLC|170}} She has dark{{Ref|TLC|168}} forest-green{{Ref|THQ|74}} scales that are flecked with gold,{{Ref|THQ|58}} and she also has golden scales along the edges of her wings, talons, and across her snout.{{Ref|THQ|148}} She wears several small pouches, woven from long grass or fashioned from leaves,{{Ref|TLC|170}} which contain venomous insects or useful plants. A pouch that rests over her heart contains a small,{{Ref|TPJ|3}} smooth jade frog,{{Ref|TPJ|98}} and there is a pouch under her left wing that is a darker shade of green than the others.{{Ref|TPJ|182}} There is also a pouch marked with a large A, and it holds a jar for bullet ants inside.{{Ref|TLC|215}} She is slightly smaller than [[Swordtail]],{{Ref|THQ|22}} and smaller than [[Tsunami]].{{Ref|TFoH|22}}


In the ensuing chaos, Blue lost track of Sundew and didn't know if she or Cricket had escaped the Temple with the Book. However, they later made contact with Blue again, and Sundew revealed that she had escaped, and, using a tunnel system made by LeafWings, originally to find a way into the Hive from below, could rescue Blue and Luna, which she did by rapidly growing a plant and using its roots (proving she had the LeafWing ability to control plants) to punch a hole in the wall. She then led them through the tunnel to the sea.
== Personality ==
Sundew is a natural leader{{Ref|TPJ|292}} who uses her fury to keep her going, and when she becomes tired, she thinks of all the things that make her angry.{{Ref|TPJ|1}} She is bristly,{{Ref|TDG|73}} sharp,{{Ref|TPJ|31}} quick to anger,{{Ref|TPJ|19}}{{Ref|TPJ|158}} persuasive,{{Ref|TPJ|109}} stubborn,{{Ref|TPJ|96}} intense,{{Ref|TDG|144}} brave,{{Ref|TPJ|98}} brisk,{{Ref|TPJ|163}} menacing,{{Ref|TDG|85}} furious,{{Ref|TDG|70}} defensive,{{Ref|TPJ|80}} fierce,{{Ref|TDG|85}} terrifying,{{Ref|TPJ|157}} and impatient.{{Ref|TPJ|37}} Her anger is both a weapon{{Ref|TPJ|265}} and a safe place for her to go when her emotions become too complicated.{{Ref|TPJ|81}} Due to her upbringing, she was unfamiliar with healthy and compassionate love and found Willow's love for her unsettling as a result.{{Ref|TPJ|100}} She believes that her own yelling is hilarious and morale-boosting,{{Ref|TPJ|167}} and has a strong moral compass, believing that even the [[HiveWings]] should not be subjected to poison at a peace summit.{{Ref|TPJ|215}} Sundew also appears to dislike jewelry and dressing up garishly,{{Ref|THQ|79-80}} and strongly stated that she does not do sparkles. She glares{{Ref|TDG|144}} and frowns often,{{Ref|TDG|85}} always looking ready for a fight.{{Ref|TDG|144}} [[Cricket]] thinks of her like a dragon who moves like she has already found all the answers to herself.{{Ref|THQ|17}} She also notes that when complimented, Sundew's face just "throws out a few spasms" and goes back to scowling.{{Ref|THQ|54}}


When talking, Sundew said that she would probably go back to the LeafWings, to form a new plan to take down the HiveWings. However, when Luna and Swordtail were discovered by HiveWing soldiers, she bravely leaped into the fight to protect them and ended up fighting alone. This was the last Blue saw of her before entering his Metamorphosis.
== Biography ==
=== The Lost Continent Prophecy ===
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|content = Sundew and her parents, Belladonna and [[Hemlock]], were hiding in [[Queen Wasp]]'s greenhouse. After they captured [[Blue]], Cricket, and Swordtail, she asked for her mother's permission to kill them and leave their bodies outside the greenhouse. Her mother, Belladonna, immediately disagreed as this would alert the HiveWings that intruders were in the area.


=== ''[[The Hive Queen]]'' ===
Sundew willingly accompanied Blue and Cricket to the [[Wasp Hive#Temple of Clearsight|Temple of Clearsight]] to help them steal the [[Book of Clearsight]], using flower dye and wing-shaped leaves to disguise herself as a [[SilkWing]]. While Cricket drugged the guards at the entrance with a flower Sundew had given her, Blue asked Sundew about what her parents had said about being born for this purpose. Before entering [[Wasp Hive]], she defaced a carving of Queen Wasp, and as described in the book, "raked her claws across the [[queen]]'s elegant snout." Cricket protested that the vandalism was unnecessary. Sundew responded with, "Wait till I get to her ''actual'' face." In the Temple of Clearsight, she paralyzed several HiveWing guards from a distance with blow-darts. Blue and Cricket both stared, and Sundew told them to "get moving and quit staring". In the room with the Book of Clearsight, Sundew tried to take the book, then the container, but everything was firmly locked and rooted to the floor. Sundew fought [[The Librarian]] shortly after she revealed herself, who was always under Queen Wasp's mind control. Although the Librarian was bigger and stronger, Sundew broke her arm and nearly killed her before Cricket intervened. Sundew then freed the Librarian from Wasp's mind control by using bullet ants to bite her, causing unbearable pain to Queen Wasp. This made her temporarily leave the Librarian's body.
Sundew first appeared when Cricket heard the sounds of another dragon in the caves where she and Blue, still in metamorphosis, were hiding. Cricket was terrified that the dragon could be another HiveWing, or worse, a mind-controlled one, but her fears were unfounded. Cricket was relieved and asked Sundew what had happened above ground. Sundew explained she led the HiveWings "all the way to [[Lake Scorpion]]" before losing them and taking the long way back to the caves. She didn't find Luna, but she did find Swordtail, having likely hit a rock and passed out, and dragged his unconscious, seaweed-covered body into the cavern (As we now know, Sundew used her leafspeak on the seaweed, creating a sort of harness, which she used to transport him, as Swordtail is larger than her).


Sundew mentioned that she understood his devotion to Luna, since she "has a one true love herself", but ignored Cricket's questions as to who and continued that Swordtail did leave her fighting two HiveWings alone. Sundew eventually snapped at Cricket, irritated by all the questions, so Cricket offered to get some water for Sundew's injury to make peace. She agreed and gave Cricket a kind of absorbing moss. Cricket was intimidated by the LeafWing's "scowly" expression and decided that "it would be safer to back away for a little while." Sundew then had Cricket use a “weird-looking plant” from one of her pouches to wake up Swordtail, who she claimed was in no state to still be looking for Luna.
After the Librarian's room was surrounded by mind-controlled HiveWings, Sundew threw a smoke bomb to distract Wasp from her, Cricket, and Blue's escape with the Book. Instead of helping the wingless Blue fly away, she fought against Wasp's drones with her weapons.


When Cricket and Swordtail were talking about Blue's flamesilk status, Sundew admitted her motives with Blue; to use him and his silk to burn down the Hives. Sundew, Cricket, and Swordtail then had a long argument about whether it was the right thing to do, with Swordtail taking sides with the LeafWing.
In the ensuing chaos, Blue lost track of the others and did not know if they escaped the Temple. However, they later made contact with Blue again, with Sundew revealing that the LeafWings had made a tunnel into the Hive from below. She helped Blue and [[Luna]] escape by making roots grow rapidly, knocking a piece of stone out from the floor of the flamesilk cavern, showing her leafspeak abilities for the first time. She led them through the tunnel to the sea.


Sundew called the Book of Clearsight "completely useless" because it couldn't tell them the future (as the predictions had stopped over a thousand years  before the Tree Wars), and then told the others that she would rather have Luna with them as Luna would have jumped to the idea of burning down the Hives and that she'd settle for using Blue to destroy the HiveWings. Sundew believed that all the HiveWings (except Cricket, as she might have been growing fond of her) deserved to be killed for what they did to the LeafWings and their home. Sundew then tried to get more information about The Chrysalis out of Swordtail, who explained it was an organization of SilkWings who are "fighting (the HiveWings) for (their) freedom.”
After learning the truth about the book, Sundew said that she planned to return to the LeafWings to form a new plan to take down the HiveWings. However, when Luna and Swordtail were noticed by HiveWing soldiers, she leaped into the fight to protect them and ended up fighting alone. This was the last Blue saw of her before beginning his [[Metamorphosis]].
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She agreed to go looking for the Chrysalis after Blue finished his Metamorphosis and try to find a way to defeat Queen Wasp's mind control powers. Eventually, the four reach the decision to find out how to stop Queen Wasp's mind control instead of slaughtering innocent dragons.
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|content = Sundew appeared when Cricket heard the sounds of another dragon in the caves where she and Blue, who was still in his cocoon, were hiding. Cricket was terrified that the dragon could be another HiveWing, or worse, a mind-controlled one, but her fears were unfounded. Cricket was relieved and asked Sundew what had happened above ground. Sundew explained she led the HiveWings "all the way to [[Lake Scorpion]]" before losing them and taking the long way back to the caves. She had not found Luna, but she had found Swordtail, having likely hit a rock and passed out, and had dragged his unconscious, seaweed-covered body into the cavern.


Sundew then went to talk with her parents to tell them where she’d been and what to do with the book. She requested more time to create a less violent plan of destroying the HiveWing kingdom than the one in effect (mass slaughter and destruction). After much argument, Belladonna and Hemlock relented, giving Sundew, Blue, Cricket, and Swordtail two days to make a plan.
Sundew mentioned that she understood his devotion to Luna, since she "has a one true love herself," but ignored Cricket's questions as to who and continued that Swordtail did leave her fighting two HiveWings alone. Sundew eventually snapped at Cricket, irritated by all the questions, so Cricket offered to get some water for Sundew's injury to make peace. She agreed and gave Cricket a kind of absorbing moss. Cricket was intimidated by the LeafWing's "scowly" expression and decided that "it would be safer to back away for a little while." Sundew then had Cricket use a "weird-looking plant" from one of her pouches to wake up Swordtail, who she claimed was in no state to still be looking for Luna.


Cricket suggested going to [[Jewel Hive]] to look for clues, as it was the closest Hive to the group, and the laid-back rules and security would allow them to remain undetected for longer. Once they arrived, Sundew once again disguised herself as a SilkWing (much to her chagrin) using gaudy fabrics. During their stay, the four made the water tower near [[Cadelle]]'s house their seat of operations.
When Cricket and Swordtail were talking about Blue's flamesilk status, Sundew admitted her motives with Blue; to use him and his silk to burn down the Hives. Sundew, Cricket, and Swordtail then had a long argument about whether it was the right thing to do, with Swordtail taking sides with Sundew.


At midnight on their first day, Sundew and the others met with The Chrysalis's Jewel Hive branch (though only three members were there, [[Tau]], [[Morpho]], and [[Cinnabar]]), much to their surprise. Sundew told them about the LeafWing plan to destroy the Hives, and they jumped on the idea, to Cricket's distress.
Sundew called the Book of Clearsight "completely useless" because it could not tell them the future, and then told the others that she would rather have Luna with them as Luna would have jumped to the idea of burning down the Hives, but that she would settle for using Blue to destroy the HiveWings. Sundew believed that all the HiveWings deserved to be killed for what they did to the LeafWings and their home, except for Cricket. Sundew then tried to get more information about the Chrysalis out of Swordtail, who explained it was an organization of SilkWings who were fighting the HiveWings for their freedom.


Near the end of the book, Sundew met up again with Cricket. She watched Bumblebee hatch, and discerned what Queen Wasp's poison was made of by the dragonet's eggshell; a plant from the restricted greenhouse she and her parents hid in days earlier. When [[Bloodworm Hive]] was attacked by LeafWing forces, she used the chaos and destruction as a cover, having Blue destroy the greenhouse and thus Wasp's source of mind-control poison.
She agreed to go looking for the Chrysalis after Blue finished his Metamorphosis and try to find a way to defeat Queen Wasp's mind control powers. Eventually, the four decide to find out how to stop Queen Wasp's mind control instead of slaughtering innocent dragons.


=== [[The Poison Jungle (Book)|The Poison Jungle]] ===
Sundew then went to talk with her parents to tell them where she had been and what to do with the book. She requested more time to create a less violent plan of destroying the HiveWing kingdom than the one in effect. After much argument, Belladonna and Hemlock relented, giving Sundew, Blue, Cricket, and Swordtail two days to make a plan.
They are flying and a flash of yellow and black catches her eye. Sundew hisses and Cricket apologizes to her for startling her. Sundew says that it didn't.


As they fly closer, Blue asks nervously if the Poison Jungle is actually as dangerous as the rumors say they are. Then Swordtail asks, “Like, maybe LeafWings spread stories exaggerating how dangerous it is so that no one else would go there? That would make sense; I bet that’s it.” Sundew laughs and replies “How could we spread stories? We haven’t communicated with any SilkWings or HiveWings since the end of the Tree Wars fifty years ago. We were supposed to be extinct. That was kind of your whole goal, remember?”
Cricket suggested going to [[Jewel Hive]] to look for clues, as it was the closest Hive to the group, and the laid-back rules and security would allow them to remain undetected for a longer amount of time. Once they arrived, Sundew once again disguised herself as a SilkWing using gaudy fabrics, much to her humiliation. During their stay, the four made the water tower near [[Cadelle]]'s house their seat of operations.


Blue protests that it wasn't his goal, or Cricket's, or Swordtail's. Sundew confirms the rumors. “Queen Wasp sent a few expeditions to the Poison Jungle looking for resources and trying to make sure no dragons were hiding from her there. Almost all of them died; the rest are the ones who brought the stories back to you. One of the expeditions was sent to burn down the jungle because Wasp wanted no more trees anywhere. None of those dragons survived. We helped the jungle make sure of that. No one who comes for the trees again will be allowed to live.” Blue asks how a whole tribe could be living there if it's so dangerous for dragons. Sundew replies with "We didn't really have a choice," and then follows up with how they have adapted for living there, knowing how to heal snakebites, and suchlike. She mentions carnivorous plants, and Swordtail starts to panic. Sundew notices and says "Yeah, you will probably get eaten. They always get loud flappy ones. And that HiveWing dragonet is cobra lily food for sure.”
At midnight on their first day, Sundew and the others met with the Chrysalis's Jewel Hive branch, though only three members were there, [[Tau]], [[Morpho]], and [[Cinnabar (THQ)|Cinnabar]]. Sundew told them about the LeafWing plan to destroy the Hives, and they jumped on the idea, to Cricket's distress. After a close encounter with Wasp, they overheard Wasp planning to go to Scarab's mansion. Cricket realized that meant Katydid was in danger and quickly headed to [[Scarab|Lady Scarab]]'s place. Sundew tried to protest, but eventually gave in to Cricket's demands. Before she left, she told Morpho to gather all of the Jewel Hive Chrysalis members at the farthest stall in the Glitterbazaar by midday.


Swordtail says that he doesn't enjoy this conversation. They start talking about why they're going there. The Distant Kingdoms gets mentioned. They move closer to the Jungle.
Sundew, Blue, Cricket, and Swordtail stopped at a party nearby, pretending to be party-goers, as they watched the encounter between Queen Wasp and Lady Scarab. After Wasp left with Katydid, Cricket insisted on talking to Scarab, believing she knew how the mind-control worked. Even though Sundew disapproved, she allowed Cricket to carry through with her plan. After Cricket came back, she presented them with the plan to reveal the truth about the Book of Clearsight to the entirety of Jewel Hive. Cricket continued with the plan, despite Sundew and Swordtail's protests. Afterwards, the group parted ways with Sundew heading off to meet with Chrysalis.


Sundew hovers over the river and realizes that the others had stopped. Cricket marvels at the size of the trees. Blue says that it feels like one big creature and that it almost sounds like it’s breathing. Bumblebee starts yelling out “Eepow!” suggesting that she is hungry. Sundew tells her that she can eat when they get to the village. They start talking about the outside of the jungle is the thickest to keep intruders out. They walk further into the jungle and Blue pots an interesting looking plant. He asks Sundew what they are and Cricket says that she thinks they’re called touch-me-nots. Sundew replies, saying that that’s one name for them. Swordtail laughs and says that it sounds super dangerous. “Touch me not — or you will DIE!” he says. Cricket smothers a laugh. “Actually,” Sundew says, “this is probably the only plant up here that won’t kill you.”
After Cricket found the truth about the mind-control, she reunited with Sundew. Even after hearing Cricket's explanation of the mind-control, Sundew was still convinced that this information would not change anything. She did, however, offer Cricket and Blue a chance to negotiate with her parents. She later watched [[Bumblebee]] hatch and discerned what Queen Wasp's poison was made of by the dragonet's eggshell: a plant from the restricted greenhouse she and her parents hid in days earlier. When [[Bloodworm Hive]] was attacked by LeafWing forces, she used the chaos and destruction as a cover, having Blue destroy the greenhouse and thus Wasp's source of mind-control poison.
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Cricket steps on a tree slug and lifts her foot up again, which is covered in ooze. “Oooom-yum?” Bumblebee squeals, “Eeee?” Cricket tells her that it’s not for eating, and Bumblebee cries “GWOSE!” She wakes a snake up and it narrows its eyes at her. Sundew tells them to keep moving. She slinks through the trees nimble and quick. Swordtail comments that she’s like a monkey not "foodishly", but fast and agile. They stop for a rest, and Blue says that it’s like the Hives, high up and smelly, and loud. Swordtail spots a pink book-like flower and goes to sniff it. Sundew yells that he shouldn’t touch the plant, but it’s too late, Swordtail’s nose brushes it, and he is swallowed whole by the plant.
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|content = Sundew, Blue, Swordtail, Cricket, and Bumblebee were flying and a flash of yellow and black caught her eye. Sundew hissed and Cricket apologized to Sundew for startling her, and Sundew claimed that it did not.


Sundew tells him to go limp in order to fool the plant into thinking Swordtail was a rock or a tree branch, however, he was struggling in the plant's mouth too loudly for Sundew to be heard. In a desperate attempt to save him, Blue uses some of his flamesilk to burn the plant. This, however, does nothing and makes the situation worse and lighting some of the nearby plants ablaze. Sundew uses her leafspeak (the ability to control plants) to grow a tree that contains berries with flame-retardant properties, effectively squashing the fire. With Blue's help, she manages to rip the plant's maw open and free Swordtail. After they free Swordtail they head for the PoisonWing village with no other difficulties until they get there. When they get to the village they are checked to see if Swordtail, Blue, Cricket, and Sundew had any seeds from the Poison Jungle on them that was trying to get into the PoisonWing's village. Right when she enters the village, she is immediately antagonized by her own tribe by bringing strangers into the village. She immediately revolts at their antagonism and tells them that she brought them to the tribe because they were all very useful to their plans to destroy the hives and get their revenge.
As they flew closer, Blue asked nervously if the Poison Jungle was as dangerous as the rumors say it is. Swordtail suggested that the LeafWings were spreading stories and exaggerating how dangerous it was so no one else would go there. Sundew laughed, replying that the LeafWings had not communicated with any SilkWings or HiveWings since the war, as the LeafWings were supposed to be extinct. Sundew called the LeafWings' extinction both the SilkWings and HiveWings whole goal. Blue protested that it was not his goal, or Swordtail's, or Cricket's. Sundew confirmed the rumors, saying that no one who came for the trees again will be allowed to live. Blue asked how the LeafWings could be living in the Poison Jungle if it was so dangerous for dragons — Sundew replied that the tribe did not have a choice, saying that the LeafWings adapted to living in the Poison Jungle. After Sundew mentioned carnivorous plants, Swordtail began to panic. Sundew noticed, saying that he would probably get eaten.


== Relationships ==
Swordtail said that he did not enjoy the conversation, and changed the topic. They started talking about why they were going there. The Distant Kingdoms was mentioned as the group moved closer to the jungle.
=== [[Cricket]] ===
Although Sundew claims to hate all HiveWings, she seems okay with Cricket and has actually expressed friendly affection for her at various times. She has mentioned that Cricket is "different" from the other HiveWings, possibly due to her insatiable curiosity and immunity to Queen Wasp's mind control powers. Cricket's company also seems to relax Sundew, as she seems more friendly and open than she did in ''The Lost Continent''.


=== [[Bumblebee]] ===
Sundew hovered over the river and realized that the others had stopped. Cricket marveled at the size of the trees. Blue said that it felt like one big creature and that it almost sounded like it was breathing. Bumblebee started yelling, and Sundew told her that she could eat when they got to the village. They flew further over the jungle until Sundew opened up a secret way in. Blue asked what they were and Cricket said that she thought they were called touch-me-nots. Sundew confirmed this, saying that touch-me-nots were one name for them. Swordtail laughed, saying that it sounded super dangerous. Cricket smothered a laugh. Sundew replied that touch-me-nots were probably the least likely to kill a dragon in the Poison Jungle.
At first, Sundew seemed to dislike Bumblebee, but in ''The Poison Jungle, ''it is revealed that she actually cares about her. When she went to the SapWing village, she worried that no one would feed Bumblebee. She volunteered to carry her while crossing a patch of carnivorous plants. Bumblebee also helped Sundew out of her really sticky situation. She seems to sometimes get annoyed by Bumblebee and her nickname, Snudoo, but still cares about her well-being. Bumblebee seems to look up to Sundew, and could possibly think of her as a parent. Later in [[The Poison Jungle (Book)|The Poison Jungle]], Sundew comments that Bumblebee is smart.


=== [[Blue]] ===
Bumblebee woke a snake up and it narrowed its eyes at her. Sundew told them to keep moving. She slunk through the trees nimble and quick. Swordtail commented that she was like a monkey, not "foodishly," but fast and agile. They stopped for a rest, and Blue said that it was like the Hives, high up and smelly, and loud. Swordtail spotted a pink book-like flower and went to sniff it. Sundew yelled that he should not touch the plant, but it was too late. Swordtail's nose brushed it, and he was swallowed whole by the plant, which was actually a Venus Dragon-trap.
Blue, like Cricket, believes that while Sundew may seem fierce on the outside, she really is sweet and kind on the inside. Sundew is constantly surprised by Blue, from his sister being a flamesilk to him standing up to Queen Wasp. She knows that Blue understands everyone (or at least tries to) and tries to hide her emotions from him that she believes are wimpy (for example, guilt and fear) to show that she is tough. Blue is her friend but tends to side with Cricket on many things, for example, like not setting all the Hives on fire, or painting Jewel Hive with messages of Wasp lying about the Book of Clearsight.


=== [[Swordtail]] ===
Sundew told him to go limp to fool the plant into thinking Swordtail was a rock or a tree branch, however, he was struggling in the plant's mouth too loudly for Sundew to be heard. In a desperate attempt to save him, Blue used some of his flamesilk to burn the plant. This, however, did nothing and made the situation worse and lit some of the nearby plants ablaze. Sundew used her leafspeak (the ability to control plants) to grow a tree that contained berries with flame-retardant properties, effectively squashing the fire. With Blue's help, she managed to rip the plant's maw open and free Swordtail.
Sundew considers Swordtail to be quite rash, yet has respect for him as of ''The Hive Queen''. They tend to share the same destructive mindset and are similar in terms of personality. She understands his devotion to Luna, as she also has a lover. In ''The Hive Queen'', Sundew is tempted to leave Swordtail on the shore after trying to find Luna, however, just brought him to Cricket. When Io was talking to Swordtail, Sundew noted that Io was "Another Swordtail".


=== [[Willow]] ===
After they freed Swordtail, they headed for the PoisonWing village with no other difficulties until they got there. Along the way, they encountered Mandrake, [[Nettle]], and [[Wolfsbane]] hunting a panther, which, in short, did not go very well for Mandrake, and Sundew killed it for him. When they got to the village they were checked to see if Swordtail, Blue, Cricket, and Sundew had any seeds from the Poison Jungle on them, to be sure that none of the dangerous plants got inside of their village. Right when she entered the village, she started being heckled by her tribe for bringing strangers into the village. Sundew, falsely stated that she brought them to the tribe because they were all very useful to their plans to destroy the hives and get their revenge, in an attempt to sway Belladonna into letting them stay.
Sundew is Willow's girlfriend, and before the events of ''The Poison Jungle'', their friendship was both forbidden and secret. Sundew keeps Willow a secret even for the reader in the first few chapters of ''The Poison Jungle'', referring to her as "her dragon" or "the dragon she's not supposed to think about." Though they have their disagreements, it's very clear that Sundew cares a lot about what Willow thinks, and knows her very well. Willow is the only dragon who makes Sundew happy (according to Sundew, at least) and is one of the few dragons the feisty LeafWing will actually listen to.


===[[Commander Belladonna|Belladonna]]===
Under the cover of darkness, Sundew sneaked out of the village and to a secret meeting place, where she met with her girlfriend, Willow. While she was waiting for Willow to show up, it cut to a flashback when Sundew was two. She was trying to catch a frog that ate her sugar-coated grasshopper and ran away. Sundew, enraged, pursued the frog to the border of the village, but the frog hopped right through, and into the rest of the jungle. Sundew crossed the border and continued the pursuit. She almost caught it, but it slipped through her grasp yet again. The frog hopped right into a nearby pond. Not ready to give up, Sundew grabbed the nearest sharp stick and started furiously stabbing the water to impale the frog. Alas, she failed, and the frog escaped, getting to enjoy its treat. Sundew, having let the frog run off with her dessert, started screaming bloody murder, which a nearby dragon heard, namely Willow.
Sundew doesn’t like her mother very much and ends up in a fight with her practically every time they talk. Belladonna noted that Sundew was clever when she said Cricket, Blue, Swordtail and Bumblebee were her prisoners. She is very snappy towards Belladonna and would never let her control her life.


===[[Hemlock]]===
Sundew then thought Willow had a "sparkly face" and they both end up liking each other. Sundew wanted to continue seeing Willow so the next meeting they had, Willow gave her a jade frog. Sundew would leave it on a rock at night and Willow would come. Willow eventually arrived, and they conversed about recent events before [[Queen Sequoia]] appeared. Sundew accused Sequoia of spying on her, to which the latter told her that it was time for Sundew to join the "[[SapWings|real LeafWings]]."
Sundew isn't very close to her father but still wants to save him from the Othermind in ''The Poison Jungle.''


===[[Mandrake]]===
Sundew and Willow were led into the [[SapWing village]], where Sundew met [[Hazel|Princess Hazel]]. Sequoia discussed the breath of evil cutting and examined it before telling the dragonets to go away. Sundew stayed in Hazel's room for the night.
Sundew and Mandrake are good friends that were destined to be married because they both have some of the strongest Leafspeak in the tribe. Mandrake calls Sundew his "fiancée". Later on it is shown that Sundew will not marry Mandrake because she is in love with Willow instead.


== Family Tree ==
In the morning, Sundew and Willow went to meet the 'strange visitors,' who turned out to be Tsunami and [[Turtle]]. Later, Sundew realized that Sequoia had summoned Belladonna and Sundew's friends for a meeting, which she protested about but did not get a say about her mother coming. She and Belladonna had a heated discussion before Sequoia silenced all the gathered dragons and told them all about the [[Legend of the Hive]]. Later, Sequoia and Belladonna agreed to send Sundew, Willow, Mandrake, Nettle, and Cricket on a mission to [[Eye of the jungle]], where [[Hawthorn]] guarded a small faction of the breath of evil.
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== Quotes ==
On the way to [[Hawthorn's home]], Sundew and Nettle keep on arguing, and Sundew ended up getting caught in an actual sundew, which Nettle mocked her for. They soon arrived at the Eye, where Hawthorn told them the story of how Wasp exploited the LeafWings, and how he played a major part in the tree Wars. They then travelled back to the SapWing village to tell Sequoia about Hawthorn's discovery of an antidote. Sequoia told Sundew to rest while she and other dragons went to build a bonfire for the incoming HiveWing army to inhale.
"''Why would you ''tell'' them that? They can't help us! They'll turn us in the moment they get a chance! We should kill them now and leave their corpses somewhere that'll really scare those worms in the Hive''." - Sundew to Belladonna <sup>''The Lost Continent'', page 173</sup>


"''It's nothing mystical. She wanted a daughter to carry on our family's legacy. She trained me my whole life for one purpose: this''." - Sundew to Blue <sup>''The Lost Continent'', pages 192-193</sup>
When Sundew woke up, she, Cricket and Mandrake went down to grow some of the Heart of Salvation, which turned out to be the breath of evil in disguise. Before Sundew could react, Hawthorn appeared behind them. Sundew realized that there was a [[dragonbite viper]] around Willow's neck, then threatened to kill Hawthorn, who mocked her. While Cricket asked Hawthorn questions to stall him, Sundew summoned a sundew plant to kill the viper around Willow's neck. Hawthorn raged at Sundew, then got killed by Willow.


"''I don't know why Willow wants to save your tribe. You're as much of a problem as the HiveWings, with your nodding and smiling and agreeing to let them trample all over you''." - Sundew to Blue <sup>''The Lost Continent'', page 197</sup>
Sundew was later seen in the SapWing village again, where Hazel was ordering LeafWings to gather everyone free from the othermind, onto the shores of the [[Gullet River]]. Sundew then flew with the rest of the LeafWings and SilkWings refugees on the way to Pyrrhia.
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"''My guess is Luna got blown out to sea and he tried to follow her. But the storm chucked him into a boulder instead. Which he deserved, if you ask me. Did you see him fly off and leave me fighting two HiveWings alone? I mean, sure, Luna is great and I know he just got her back and all and I get it; I have a one true love, too''." - Sundew to Cricket <sup>''The Hive Queen'', page 21</sup>
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"''Protestors. Shouting enthusiastic rhymes at the sky while their friends slaughtered us. Maybe that would have been useful if they'd kept it up, but they all vanished by the end. Not a single HiveWing objected when the last tree was cut down''." - Sundew to Cricket <sup>''The Hive Queen'', page 35</sup>
Sundew later arrived in the [[Ice Kingdom]] with the rest of the Pantalan dragons. She stood and bristled several times while Hazel spoke to [[Queen Snowfall]], but did not intervene.


''"And to drive out the LeafWings. Queen Sequoia wouldn't agree to step down without seeing the Book first, which of course Wasp wouldn't allow. Our queen said if she'd seen it in Clearsight's own handwriting, she might have considered it. Which I think is insane in the first place. We don't need anyone else to be our queen!"'' - Talking about how Queen Wasp lied about the Book of Clearsight.
Upon arriving at [[Jerboa III's hut]], Sundew argued with [[Cobra Lily]] about the dragons they have left behind in Pantala. Though Cobra Lily found it fortunate that dragons like Nettle did not come along, Sundew protested for how the dragons who saved their lives are in great danger and they are doing nothing to help them.


''"No. I'm just wondering where they are, that's all! I don't need them! Let's go kill some plants! Oof, no, I don't like the sound of that at all. Let's go destroy some HiveWing stuff! That's much better."'' - About her parents.
Sundew was then hugged by Luna. After being asked about Blue and Swordtail, she swears to her that they will get them back. She, Cricket, Bumblebee, and Willow lead Luna inside of the hut to explain what she had missed. Later in [[Sanctuary]], Sundew was seen arguing with Tsunami about animus magic.


''"Listen here. We are on a STEALTH HORTICULTURAL MISSION and you are going to be ABSOLUTELY SILENT until we are done, do you understand?"'' - To Bumblebee
When the queens were choosing dragons to explore the abyss, Snowfall approached Sundew and Willow. Snowfall explained that she wanted Sundew to have anything magical that might defeat the villain they were fighting. Sundew was amazed at the prospect of magic. Snowfall then removed the [[IceWing gifts|gift of stealth]] from her wrists and handed the bracelets to Sundew. Sundew put them on, and asked how they worked. Snowfall explained, and then Sundew turned herself invisible, then Willow, then the two of them. She thanked Snowfall and promised to return the bracelets.


''"I like the way you think. But they're centipedes, you dingbat."'' - To Swordtail
Sundew was chosen to be the LeafWing representative for the stealth team.
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<span>"</span>''They're CENTIPEDES; what is WRONG with you dragons?''<span>"</span>
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''"It's the best part of my day, a little tiny bit of vengeance every morning." ''- To Swordtail, when he complains about her methods of waking dragons up
When the stealth team was spying on Axolotl, Sundew made them all visible again, and Luna went to check if that meant she and Lynx had arrived. However, Luna did not find anyone, and the stealth team soon decided to stop waiting and go to the abyss. Cricket thought of using a plant to leave Sundew a message. When Luna was talking with [[Cottonmouth]] and [[Freedom]], Cottonmouth said that he wanted to get Sundew and spread the plant across the whole world with her leafspeak. Luna realized that this meant Sundew was still safe and had not been mind-controlled yet. Later, while Qibli, Tsunami and Pineapple were in Wasp's throne room, Wasp mentioned how Moon or the "invisible one" had been stolen by someone. Luna, who was in the [[Mindspace]] at the time, realized that Sundew and Lynx must have been able to rescue Moon from Wasp's clutches. Later, Cottonmouth used Luna to trick Cricket into looking for Sundew in order to capture Sundew.


''"No, everything you've heard about the jungle is true. Queen Wasp sent a few expeditions to the Poison Jungle looking for resources and trying to make sure no dragons were hiding from her there. Almost all of them died; the rest are the ones who brought the stories back to you. One of the expeditions was sent to burn down the jungle, because Wasp wanted no more trees anywhere. ''None'' of ''those'' dragons survived. We helped the jungle make sure of that."'' - Sundew to Swordtail <sup>''The Poison Jungle'', pages 4-5</sup>
After Qibli, Tsunami and Pineapple were able to escape Wasp Hive, they headed south towards Lake Scorpion, where they ran into Sundew, Moonwatcher and Lynx. Sundew was happy to see them and explained how they wanted to rescue them, but decided to change plans and head to the abyss to help the others. They all headed towards Lake Scorpion after Sundew mentioned Luna's and Cricket's message. After Pineapple revealed himself to be possessed by Cottonmouth, Sundew questioned him on his intentions. Cottonmouth offered to let Luna go in exchange for one of the others. Sundew offered herself in exchange for Luna, much to the others' and Luna's dismay. They all followed Pineapple while staying invisible with the gift of stealth. While the others were flying towards Lake Scorpion, Luna had the idea to offer Freedom the memories of the other members of the stealth team, to show to her that dragons were not unloving monsters. Through Moonwatcher, they were able to share the memories of the stealth team to Freedom. In Sundew's vision, she was shown chasing after a frog and meeting up with the love of her life, Willow. Sundew and the others arrived at the scene of Cricket and [[Bullfrog (TDG)|Bullfrog]] being dragged down by Cottonmouth's dragons. Sundew demanded Cottonmouth to let go of Cricket and Bullfrog, to which Cottonmouth refused and a fight ensued between Cottonmouth's dragons and the stealth team. After Luna managed to destroy the othermind and free everyone, she reunited with Sundew, who was confused on what had just happened. Luna promised to tell her everything on their way to [[Cicada Hive]]. After Swordtail and Luna reunited, Luna mentioned that Sundew and the other dragons had gone to imprison Wasp so that she could be brought to justice. 


"''If we set it free, the Poison Jungle could devour the continent for us, and all the HiveWings, too. If ''I'' set it free. I could unleash the jungle and send it forth to strangle our enemies. I won't, though. I don't want a Pantala covered in poisonous, dragon-eating plants. I want the Pantala of the old stories; the giant forests that stretched from shore to shore''." - Sundew's thoughts <sup>''The Poison Jungle'', page 6</sup>
In the epilogue, Sundew was shown planting and growing trees on the [[Dragontail Peninsula]] to restore Pantala to its former glory.
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=== Field Guides ===
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== Relationships ==
=== [[Belladonna]] ===
Belladonna is manipulative,{{Ref|TPJ|66}} and often makes Sundew angry{{Ref|TPJ|1}} by ruining things.{{Ref|TPJ|127}} She and her mother are always only moments away from a fight,{{Ref|TPJ|50}} and Sundew often disobeys her orders.{{Ref|TPJ|54}} Sundew can vaguely see her mother as a dragon who cares for others, but she knows that Belladonna will never show that side of herself to other dragons.{{Ref|TPJ|54}} Her mother taught her to summon her anger at a moment's notice,{{Ref|TPJ|80}} and she often tells Sundew everything that she does wrong, comments on her mistakes, and starts shouting matches when she is the slightest bit aggravated.{{Ref|TPJ|100}} It is rare for Belladonna to compliment her daughter.{{Ref|TPJ|186}}


"''Basic carnivorous plant safety lesson number one. If you fall into a dragon-trap, go as still as you can. If the plant thinks you're just a rock or tree branch that fell in by accident, it'll open back up and drop you. But if you FLAIL AROUND LIKE AN IDIOT, then it will KNOW YOU'RE A DELICIOUS SNACK FOR SURE''." - Sundew to Blue, Bumblebee, Cricket, and Swordtail <sup>''The Poison Jungle'', page 15</sup>
=== [[Blue]] ===
Because Blue is so willing to apologize, Sundew finds it impossible{{Ref|TPJ|20}} and unenjoyable to yell at him.{{Ref|TPJ|22}} Sundew is often surprised by Blue, from his sister being a flamesilk to him standing up to Queen Wasp. She knows that Blue tries to understand everyone and tried to hide her emotions from him that she believes are weak, like guilt and fear, to show that she is tough. Blue is her friend but tends to side with Cricket on many things, such as not setting all the Hives on fire, or painting Jewel Hive with messages of Wasp lying about the Book of Clearsight.


"''I could have left. Belladonna doesn't even know I could have left them. But I didn't, because I have a purpose, and that purpose is vengeance. I hatched for one reason: to destroy our enemies. That's why I will always come back. Not for Belladonna or Hemlock. I come back so that one day I can be the one who wipes out the HiveWings foreve''r." - Sundew's thoughts <sup>''The Poison Jungle'', page 28</sup>
=== [[Bryony]] ===
At one year older than her, Bryony and Sundew grew up with each other. When Snowfall told Sundew that she had a vision about Bryony, her eyes narrowed like she was trying not to have some other expression.{{Ref|TDG|185}} Sundew knew where Bryony's nest was.


"''But of course we can't talk about that. We can't take a moment to say, hey, things are a little better, aren't they? We can only talk about the HiveWings and our fury and all the things we're going to do to them. No time to pat you on the head or say "Thank you, Sundew''."" - Sundew's thoughts <sup>''The Poison Jungle'', page 50</sup>
===[[Bumblebee]]===
Sundew was unsure and annoyed that Cricket had brought back a HiveWing egg, but after Sundew gave a dried mango to the newborn dragonet to keep her still, Bumblebee was mentioned to "give Sundew a worshipful look."{{Ref|THQ|275}} She loves Sundew dearly,{{Ref|TPJ|2}} and while Sundew was visiting the SapWing village, she caught herself hoping that someone would feed Bumblebee while she was away.{{Ref|TPJ|115}} She was disappointed when Cricket brought Bumblebee to the village and the dragonet was asleep.{{Ref|TPJ|131}} Sundew was amused{{Ref|TPJ|157}} when Bumblebee seemed to disagree with Nettle taking charge of their expedition to the Eye of the jungle, and gave her a high-five, much to Bumblebee's delight.{{Ref|TPJ|155}} Bumblebee seems to completely trust her, and Sundew refers to her as 'little bug.'{{Ref|TPJ|174}} Sundew thought that fleeing from battle was worth it, if it meant that Bumblebee would be protected from the othermind.{{Ref|TPJ|281}}


"''My archenemies. Who is hiding in this pond but NOT FOR LONG because I am going to DESTROY HIM. [...] . . . a frog. But a VERY BAD frog who deserves STAMPING ON''." - Sundew to Willow <sup>''The Poison Jungle'', pages 74-75</sup>
=== [[Cobra Lily]] ===
Cobra Lily is one of Sundew's friends, and one of her favorite dragons. Sundew thinks Cobra Lily is awesome, and she was close enough to Cobra Lily as a friend to be aware of her silent rage. They are also physically affectionate towards one another.{{Ref|TPJ|46}} Cobra Lily pointed out once that Sundew should be their queen.{{Ref|TDG|116}} However, Sundew becomes annoyed with her on the subject and tells her to stop saying such things.


"''So your suggestion is we let them win? We let them steal our continent and revel in our extermination? We accept just living ''here''? [...] Wasp could live for another hundred years, or be replaced by someone equally bad. We can't just sit around and wait for history to sort itself out. We ''have'' to fight! We have to ''make'' things better with our own claws''!" - Sundew to Willow ''<sup>The Poison Jungle</sup>''<sup>, pages 80-81</sup>
=== [[Cricket]] ===
Cricket is one of Sundew's friends,{{Ref|TPJ|2}} and she is often amused by the HiveWing.{{Ref|TPJ|45}} She teases Cricket,{{Ref|TPJ|230}} and although Sundew claims to hate all HiveWings, she seems okay with Cricket and has expressed friendly affection for her at various times. She has mentioned that Cricket is "different" from the other HiveWings, possibly due to her insatiable curiosity and immunity to Queen Wasp's mind control powers, and silently felt anger at Nettle when she spoke to Cricket in such a cold and harsh way, though noting she treated Cricket similarly at first. Cricket's company also seems to relax Sundew, as she seems more friendly and open than she did in ''The Lost Continent''. Cricket often wants to open up her mind like a book and read it.


"''Even after everything I just told her, even if she thinks I've endangered her tribe and restarted a war she doesn't want . . . she still loves me''." - Sundew's thoughts <sup>''The Poison Jungle'', page 99</sup>
=== [[Hazel]] ===
When Sundew first met Hazel she was jealous after seeing Hazel's close behavior towards Willow.{{Ref|TPJ|110}} But after Willow assured Sundew she was the only dragon for her. Sundew thought to think kindly about the queen, and it is thought Hazel does also. Hazel is a bit of a calming influence for her. Sundew believed that Hazel was the rightful queen of the LeafWings and does not try to take that leadership from Hazel.{{Ref|TDG|117}} Even though they have only met each other recently, they seem to have developed a friendship.


"''I just want to say that I for one am very glad you were an angry dragon when the Tree Wars started, because it meant you fought back against Wasp's power grab and you didn't just roll over for her like [[Ex-Queen Monarch|Monarch]] did. I'm ''glad'' you fought for our tribe and protected us from her. I would ''hate'' for the LeafWings to be stuck where the spineless SilkWings are right now. So thank you for being a mad dragon and I say keep it up and let's go fight some more''!" - Sundew to Queen Sequoia ''<sup>The Poison Jungle</sup>''<sup>, page 108</sup>
=== [[Hemlock]] ===
Hemlock frequently makes Sundew angry.{{Ref|TPJ|1}} He often tells her everything that she does wrong, comments on her mistakes, and starts shouting matches when he is the slightest bit aggravated, like her mother.{{Ref|TPJ|100}} Sundew and her father are not close, but she asked Iot to search for him before fleeing Pantala.{{Ref|TPJ|290}}


"''Or just pause for a moment to be happy. That's what Willow would say to do. After all the craziness with SilkWings and sneaking through Hives and dealing with strangers, I'm back with her at last, where I can just be myself''." - Sundew's thoughts <sup>''The Poison Jungle'', page 115</sup>
=== [[Mandrake]] ===
Before the events of ''The Poison Jungle'', Mandrake was Sundew's fiancé.{{Ref|TPJ|37}} Sundew refused to let Mandrake be injured by a panther, even though that would have made her life a lot easier.{{Ref|TPJ|29}} He was happy and accepting when Sundew told him she wanted to marry Willow instead.{{Ref|TPJ|253}} They have a playful friendship and Sundew even considers Mandrake as one of the few dragons that she likes.{{Ref|TPJ|254}} 


<span>"'</span>''By all the trees! Of course! That's obvious! That's so obvious. I don't need to say that, do I? You know all that. I mean, obviously. As if! Leave you for a SilkWing! BLEH''<span>." -Sundew to Willow </span><sup>''The Poison Jungle'', page 119</sup>
=== [[Nettle]] ===
Sundew and Nettle's average conversations are usually hostile and argumentative.{{Ref|TPJ|35}} She felt joy at Nettle's furious scowl after Bumblebee mocked her tone of voice,{{Ref|TPJ|157}} and she considers Nettle's behavior to be vicious, unproductive, and out of control. Yelling at Nettle gives Sundew energy, and stops her from worrying.{{Ref|TPJ|167}} She usually considers Nettle to be simply unlikable{{Ref|TPJ|188}} and irritating, but became genuinely angry towards her after Willow intervened during one of their arguments.{{Ref|TPJ|170}} She was also quietly angry at Nettle for how she addressed Cricket. Nettle sounded unmistakably triumphant when Sundew was trapped by a sundew plant.{{Ref|TPJ|177}}


"''I'm not letting go now. I'm not ever letting go of her again. If this is it, all our truth spilled over the table, then this is my truth: I choose Willow. Even if she is a SapWing, and not Mandrake''." - Sundew's thoughts ''<sup>The Poison Jungle</sup>''<sup>, page 150</sup>
=== [[Swordtail]] ===
Sundew finds Swordtail amusing,{{Ref|TPJ|10}} but she is often angry at him without feeling bad about it.{{Ref|TPJ|21}} She finds yelling at him satisfying,{{Ref|TPJ|22}} although there are moments where she enjoys his company,{{Ref|TPJ|56}} and Swordtail considers her to be a leader.{{Ref|TPJ|36}} Sundew considers Swordtail to be quite rash, yet he started to grow on her.{{Ref|THQ|79}} They tend to share the same destructive mindset and are similar in terms of personality.{{Ref|THQ|79}}  She understands his devotion to Luna, as she also has a lover.{{Ref|THQ|21}} In ''The Hive Queen'', Sundew is tempted to leave Swordtail on the shore after trying to find Luna, but ultimately brings him to Cricket.{{Ref|THQ|21}}


"''Wait, come back and tell us again about how you're the smartest dragon in the jungle''!" - Sundew to Nettle ''<sup>The Poison Jungle</sup>''<sup>, page 160</sup>
=== [[Willow]] ===
 
Willow is Sundew's long-time girlfriend,{{Ref|TPJ|120}} and Sundew thinks about her all the time.{{Ref|TPJ|5}} She makes Sundew feel more like herself,{{Ref|TPJ|68}}{{Ref|TPJ|115}} and is often gentle, calm,{{Ref|TDG|144}} amused{{Ref|TPJ|75}} and reassuring towards her.{{Ref|TPJ|125}} They regard one another as mutually beautiful,{{Ref|TPJ|78}} and when they initially met, Willow made all of Sundew's words "bump around in her mind like disoriented moths".{{Ref|TPJ|80}} Willow helps Sundew feel more calm{{Ref|TPJ|98}} and less tense, and Sundew finds it impossible to scoff at her.{{Ref|TPJ|81}} Willow is the only dragon that Sundew looks forward to seeing, and they often laugh{{Ref|TPJ|83}} together and are very affectionate towards one another.{{Ref|TPJ|85}} Sundew is gentle{{Ref|TPJ|91}} towards Willow, and when Willow smiles at her, she feels a funny shiver in her chest. Due to Willow's calm and rational demeanor contrasting her own fury and bristly attitude, one of Sundew's greatest fears is her temper pushing Willow too far, thus ruining their relationship. Even when Willow believed that Sundew had endangered the LeafWings by stealing the Book of Clearsight, she still loved her.{{Ref|TPJ|99}} Sundew became jealous after seeing Hazel's behavior towards Willow,{{Ref|TPJ|110}} but Willow assured her that Hazel was just a friend and that Sundew was the only dragon for her.{{Ref|TPJ|118}} When Willow referred to Sundew casually as her girlfriend to a stranger, Sundew felt unexpected joy, and considered that the second-greatest moment of her life, after meeting Willow.{{Ref|TPJ|120}} Sundew is comforted by Willow, and found it impossible to pull away from her when she was in emotional distress, even in Belladonna's presence.{{Ref|TPJ|145}} Willow is one of the only dragons that Sundew is not typically angry with,{{Ref|TPJ|157}} and she often longs Willow's company,{{Ref|TPJ|163}} as she loves Sundew for who she is.{{Ref|TPJ|187}} Sundew was sad to leave Willow behind, as she had been chosen to fly back to Pantala to stop the othermind. After the othermind's defeat, Sundew and Willow went to live in the new LeafSilk Kingdom together.  
"''Wow. I was hoping we'd lose her, but I didn't think it would happen quite that fast. I'm kidding! I'm sure she's fine. She can handle anything, remember''?" - Sundew to Mandrake ''<sup>The Poison Jungle</sup>''<sup>, page 161</sup>
 
"''It's not like that for me. Maybe the guilty part, sometimes. But being mad makes me want to get up and ''do'' something. It makes me want to ''fix'' the bad things. Isn't that better than curling up under a pile of leaves and hoping the bad things go away''?" - Sundew to Willow ''<sup>The Poison Jungle</sup>''<sup>, page 171</sup>
 
"''We were trying to turn the HiveWing queen into ''our'' mind-controlled zombie. We would have done that to her - the same terrible thing she's done to her subjects. Instead we made her stronger than any other dragon. We gave her a way to keep her claws on her tribe's necks, and the power to use them against us. I thought we were the good tribe. How could we do something like this''?" - Sundew's thoughts <sup>''The Poison Jungle'', page 213</sup>
 
"''Is that what we want? All the HiveWings get to go home and keep living their happy lives as though they didn't nearly destroy us? Where's the punishment? The justice''?" - Sundew's thoughts ''<sup>The Poison Jungle</sup>''<sup>, page 235</sup>
 
"''But Hawthorn and Sequoia did terrible things, too. The HiveWings would be right to want them to be punished . . . but they would be wrong to want the same for the whole LeafWing tribe. So maybe . . . Maybe I need to think about that, too. Hawthorn, Sequoia, and Wasp. I should be angry at them - I can be furious at them. I can fight Wasp without hating the entire HiveWing tribe. I can free the HiveWings and spare their lives without betraying my quest. Because Wasp is the real enemy: Wasp and her mind control''." - Sundew's thoughts <sup>''The Poison Jungle'', page 247</sup>
 
"''That is not a comforting answer, light of my life,"'' - To Willow.


== Family tree ==
{{Sundew Family Tree}}


== Quotes ==
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Why would you ''tell'' them that? [...] They can't help us! They'll turn us in the moment they get a chance! We should kill them now and leave their corpses somewhere that'll really scare those worms in the Hive.
|speaker = to Belladonna, about Blue, Swordtail, and Cricket
|book    = [[The Lost Continent (book)|The Lost Continent]]
|page    = 173
}}
----{{SingleQuote
|quote  = None of your business. [...] As if we'd tell you anything! Tree killers!
|speaker = to Blue, Swordtail, and Cricket
|book    = [[The Lost Continent (book)|The Lost Continent]]
|page    = 174
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Yeah! You'll have ME. That's like the ''opposite'' of being alone. I can do anything twenty dragons can do.
|speaker = to Cricket
|book    = [[The Lost Continent (book)|The Lost Continent]]
|page    = 188
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = It's nothing mystical. She wanted a daughter to carry on our family's legacy. She trained me my whole life for one purpose: this.
|speaker = to Blue, about Belladonna
|book    = [[The Lost Continent (book)|The Lost Continent]]
|page    = 192-193
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = I don't know why Willow wants to save your tribe. You're as much of a problem as the HiveWings, with your nodding and smiling and agreeing to let them trample all over you.
|speaker = to Blue, about SilkWings
|book    = [[The Lost Continent (book)|The Lost Continent]]
|page    = 197
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = My guess is Luna got blown out to sea and he tried to follow her. But the storm chucked him into a boulder instead. Which he deserved, if you ask me. Did you see him fly off and leave me fighting two HiveWings alone? I mean, sure, Luna is great and I know he just got her back and all and I get it; I have a one true love, too.
|speaker = to Cricket
|book    = [[The Hive Queen]]
|page    = 21
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = A few hundred awesome fiery things. Starting with the most obvious: he's going to burn down all the Hives for us.
|speaker = about burning down the Hives
|book    = [[The Hive Queen]]
|page    = 29
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = What do you say? Care to destroy the HiveWings together?
|speaker = to [[Cinnabar (THQ)|Cinnabar]]
|book    = [[The Hive Queen]]
|page    = 149
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = This was your brilliant idea. [...] Don't look at me. I don't want anything to do with dragonets. Especially a ''HiveWing'' dragonet. [...] I'll go get us something to eat. Yes, that's what I should do.
|speaker = to Cricket, upon Bumblebee's hatching
|book    = [[The Hive Queen]]
|page    = 260
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = No, everything you've heard about the jungle is true. Queen Wasp sent a few expeditions to the Poison Jungle looking for resources and trying to make sure no dragons were hiding from her there. Almost all of them died; the rest are the ones who brought the stories back to you. One of the expeditions was sent to burn down the jungle, because Wasp wanted no more trees anywhere. ''None'' of ''those'' dragons survived. We helped the jungle make sure of that.
|speaker = to Swordtail, about the Poison Jungle
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 4-5
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = If we set it free, the Poison Jungle could devour the continent for us, and all the HiveWings, too. If ''I'' set it free. I could unleash the jungle and send it forth to strangle our enemies. I won't, though. I don't want a Pantala covered in poisonous, dragon-eating plants. I want the Pantala of the old stories; the giant forests that stretched from shore to shore.
|speaker = thoughts on setting the plants of the jungle free
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 6
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Don't be a drama queen. They can help us.
|speaker = to Nettle, about her friends
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 17
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = I could have left. Belladonna doesn't even know I could have left them. But I didn't, because I have a purpose, and that purpose is vengeance. I hatched for one reason: to destroy our enemies. That's why I will always come back. Not for Belladonna or Hemlock. I come back so that one day I can be the one who wipes out the HiveWings forever.
|speaker = thoughts
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 28
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = But of course we can't talk about that. We can't take a moment to say, hey, things are a little better, aren't they? We can only talk about the HiveWings and our fury and all the things we're going to do to them. No time to pat you on the head or say "Thank you, Sundew."
|speaker = thoughts
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 50
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = What?! No one has ever offered to murder a frog for me before!
|speaker =  to Willow about murdering a frog
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 83
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Even after everything I just told her, even if she thinks I've endangered her tribe and restarted a war she doesn't want ... she still loves me.
|speaker = thoughts about Willow
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 99
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Or just pause for a moment to be happy. That's what Willow would say to do. After all the craziness with SilkWings and sneaking through Hives and dealing with strangers, I'm back with her at last, where I can just be myself.
|speaker = thoughts about Willow
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 115
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = I'm not letting go now. I'm not ever letting go of her again. If this is it, all our truth spilled over the table, then this is my truth: I choose Willow. Even if she is a SapWing, and not Mandrake.
|speaker = thoughts about choosing Willow over Mandrake
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 150
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Wow. I was hoping we'd lose her, but I didn't think it would happen quite that fast. I'm kidding! I'm sure she's fine. She can handle anything, remember?
|speaker = to Mandrake about Nettle getting trapped in a plant
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 161
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  =  I wasn't planning on doing splamflamp. Whatever that is.
|speaker =  to Bumblebee
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 174
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = We were trying to turn the HiveWing queen into ''our'' mind-controlled zombie. We would have done that to her — the same terrible thing she's done to her subjects. Instead we made her stronger than any other dragon. We gave her a way to keep her claws on her tribe's necks, and the power to use them against us. I thought we were the good tribe. How could we do something like this?
|speaker = thoughts about Wasp and the breath of evil
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 213
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = But Hawthorn and Sequoia did terrible things, too. The HiveWings would be right to want them to be punished ... but they would be wrong to want the same for the whole LeafWing tribe. So maybe ... Maybe I need to think about that, too. Hawthorn, Sequoia, and Wasp. I should be angry at them — I can be furious at them. I can fight Wasp without hating the entire HiveWing tribe. I can free the HiveWings and spare their lives without betraying my quest. Because Wasp is the real enemy: Wasp and her mind control.
|speaker = thoughts about her true enemy
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 247
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = That is not a comforting answer, light of my life.
|speaker = to Willow
|book    = [[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]
|page    = 119
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = I think I get it. [...] You're saying the future is up to us. Whatever happens next, it's because of what we decide to do, not because of some mystical force pointing us here or plopping us there.
|speaker = to Bullfrog and Luna, about the [[The Lost Continent Prophecy|prophecy]]
|book    = [[The Flames of Hope]]
|page    = 58
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = I eat all the time! I ate a ... something ... this morning while we were sorting Pyrrhian tree seedlings! Didn't I? I think I did. The seedlings were very noisy, full of questions. It must be weird to fly across an ocean when you're a tree. Not a common tree experience, I suspect.
|speaker = to her friends
|book    = [[The Flames of Hope]]
|pe      = epilogue
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Me too. [...] We need dragons who can see the brightest futures so we can try to get there, even if it takes longer than we want it to.
|speaker = to Luna
|book    = [[The Flames of Hope]]
|pe      = epilogue
}}


== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
* Sundew is named after the carnivorous sundew plant and the only known LeafWing in her family who is not named after a poisonous plant.
* When it comes to garments, Sundew prefers wearing black, dark green, or midnight blue.{{Ref|THQ|75}}
* After [[Bryony]], Sundew is the second LeafWing to have a point of view in the series so far.
* Sundew was in charge of hunting for every PoisonWing tribe feast.{{Ref|TPJ|27}}
* Belladonna, Sundew’s mother, is the leader of the PoisonWings.
* When Sundew is reunited with Willow, the former uses her leafspeak to make violets grow in between them.{{Ref|TPJ|86-87}} Violets and their coloration have been used as a special code by lesbian and bisexual women throughout history.
* On the cover of ''The Poison Jungle'', Sundew is depicted without her numerous pouches and freckles.
* On the cover of ''The Poison Jungle'', Sundew is missing the gold flecks on her wings.{{Ref|TPJ|English cover}}
* The LeafWing page in [[A Guide to the Dragons of Pantala|''A Guide to the Dragons of Pantala'']] says LeafWings can be green or brown, but Sundew has several gold scales.
* Sundew is the first dragon known to have an exercise program, as she performs a series of stretches every morning.
* It has been confirmed that Sundew is Willow’s girlfriend. This makes her one of eight confirmed LGBT characters (the others being [[Princess Anemone|Anemone]], [[Burnet]], [[Silverspot]], [[Snowflake]], [[Princess Snowfox|Snowfox]], [[Umber]], and [[Willow]]) as well as the first LGBT protagonist in the main series, and second point of view overall, after Snowflake.
* Due to Sundew's relationship with Willow, Sundew is the first protagonist in the series to be in a relationship of a romantic nature for the entire duration of their book, as opposed to merely having a crush on another dragon for the entire duration of their book.
* Sundew appears to have a leaflike appendage on the end of her tail, which is not seen on any other dragons on the cover of ''The Poison Jungle''. This may have been [[Joy Ang]]'s error (As the typical LeafWing art shows this tail as well), or an indication that only LeafWings with the Leafspeak ability possess this particular appendage.{{Character Info}}


== Gallery ==
== Gallery ==
===Canon===
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Wings of Fire 13 US.jpg|Sundew on the cover of ''[[The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison Jungle]]'', by [[Joy Ang]]
TPJ FrontCover Final.jpg|Sundew on the cover of ''[[The Poison Jungle (Book)|The Poison Jungle]]'', by [[Joy Ang]]
Wings of Fire 13 Full Edited.jpg|Sundew on the full cover of ''The Poison Jungle'', by Joy Ang
Wings_of_fire_13_the_poison_jungle.jpg|Sundew on the prefinal cover of ''[[The Poison Jungle (Book)|The Poison Jungle]]'', by [[Joy Ang]]
KlutzPress Stained Glass Art Kit.jpg|Sundew on the cover of the ''[[Official Wings of Fire Stained Glass Art Book]]'', by [[Brianna C. Walsh]]
LeafTransparent.png|A typical LeafWing, by [[Joy Ang]]
Official Stickerpedia cover.jpg|Sundew on the cover of the ''[[Merchandise#Official Wings of Fire Stickerpedia|Official Wings of Fire Stickerpedia]]'', by Brianna C. Walsh
SundewTemplate.png|Reference by [[User:Platypus the SeaWing|Platypus the SeaWing]]
Sundew Fullbody Render.png|Sundew fullbody render, edited by {{U|Blue the SilkWing}}
LeafWing Sigil.png|LeafWing Sigil by [[User:Platypus the SeaWing|Platypus the SeaWing]]
Sundew htd.png|Sundew from ''[[How to Draw]]'', by Brianna C. Walsh (edited by {{U|WillowCharlotte1234}})
0AE6A043-D6C8-4E8B-9A56-B87487414E1C.jpeg|A real sundew devouring a insect.
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===Fan Art===
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Dcyptqd-0ce39b4e-2d94-4fb8-b802-c1ebc28b0629.png|The Poison Jungle by RyhnoBullraq|link=https://www.deviantart.com/rhynobullraq/art/The-Poison-Jungle-783905989
WOF_SundewHeadshotsmall.png|Sundew by Biohazardia|link=https://www.deviantart.com/biohazardia/art/Wings-of-Fire-SPOILERS-Sundew-752948350
Sundew Poster.png|Sundew by TheFlashDragon (FlashDragonWikia)|link=https://www.deviantart.com/flashdragonart/art/Wings-of-Fire-The-Lost-Continent-Sundew-Poster-752996133
IMG_20180827_181712.jpg|Sundew by [[User:Spiritdragon1432|Spiritdragon1432]]
85300534.png|Sundew by Ta-ak|link=https://www.deviantart.com/ta-ak/art/into-the-lion-s-den-764322568
So pretty.png|Sundew by thewisestdino|link=https://thewisestdino.tumblr.com/tagged/wings-of-fire
Lil more.png|Sundew by irisbaidezart
Sundew.jpg|Sundew by dragondailies|link=https://dragondailies.tumblr.com/tagged/wings-of-fire
a little more Sundew.png|Sundew by karmalade|link=https://karmalade.tumblr.com/tagged/sundew
Sundew Oncilla.png|Sundew by OncillaPhoenix
Screen Shot 2019-01-06 at 10.43.28 AM.png|Sundew by [[User:Peregrinecella|Peregrincella]]
PSX_20190123_164711.jpg|Sundew Icon by [[User:Junonia the SilkWing|Junonia the SilkWing]]
PSX_20190102_161918.jpg|Sundew lineart by [[User:Junonia the SilkWing|Junonia the SilkWing]]
tumblr_pj8o6pNuti1v1rcef_400.png|Sundew by glamoroussneaking
tumblr_pkkjn7kggI1uuabyc_900.png|Sundew by dragon-cider
Tumblr pm4260QZTT1w5o5l3o1 500.png|Sundew by anonymousfandomtrash
tumblr_inline_pkq0eiwKhO1uuabyc_400.png|Sundew by dragon-cider
36773311_2305944506083179_6769730093360087040_n.jpg|By tayseiber
tumblr_pgyoj1jfT21vs8mfxo1_500.png|Cricket, Sundew, and Blue by lostspirit101
Sundew by xTheDragonRebornx.PNG|Sundew by xTheDragonRebornx
TPJ No Text.jpg|Work in progress of TPJ cover with no text
sundew3.png|Sundew by station_pass|link=https://twitter.com/station_pass/status/1101189674041778182
Screenshot 2019-02-26 at 5.51.03 PM.png|Sundew by [[User:Junonia the SilkWing|Junonia the SilkWing]]
A111431E-5FBC-47CB-9100-65186FDFBDCD.png|FR version of Sundew by [[User:XSabxManiacX|XSabxManiacX]]
sundewxcricket.jpg|Sundew x Cricket by [[User:AquaTCS|AquaTCS]]
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dsBuffer.bmp.png|Green Girl by CanineDragons|link=https://www.deviantart.com/caninedragons/art/Green-girls-and-Kinkajou-780330009
i swear.png|Bumblebee and Sundew by §^ River ^§|link=https://medibang.com/picture/bo1901100821501380007955421/
New Destiny.png|Luna, Cricket, Swordtail, and Sundew by [[User:Peregrinecella|Peregrincella]]
i_want_nothing_to_do_with_dragonets____by_xxshadowfang99xx_dcvj1fc-pre.jpg|I Want Nothing to do With Dragonets by xXShadowFang99Xx
Sundew by Superderpyfish.jpg|Sundew by [[User:Superderpyfish|Superderpyfish]]
sun pt 4.png|Sundew by [[User:Nightwhisper The Animus|Nightwhisper The Animus]]
sundewstationpass.png|Sundew by StationPass
Sundew'sVestConcept.png|Concept of Sundew's vest by [[User:Queen Samarra|Queen Samara]]|link=https://www.deviantart.com/princessgoldenrod/art/Sundew-s-vest-805109222
Screenshot (6).png|Sundew by xxxSnowdragonxxx
Screenshot 20190723-003512.png|Sundew by PrincessAquaTheSeaWing
File:1A82ABA1-4D9B-47E5-8EF4-D63E3F9AA6F1.jpeg|Sundew and Willow by VioletclawstheSeaWingIceWing
File:1670F597-A08E-4394-8156-CA40E91BA698.jpeg|Sundew and Willow by _king_of_lemons
SunWillow WM.png|Sundew and Willow by xTheDragonRebornx|link=https://www.deviantart.com/xthedragonrebornx/art/SunWillow-808284571
File:SundewMorphoWIP.png|Sundew and Morpho, by [[User:Queen Samarra]]
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"But Hawthorn and Sequoia did terrible things, too. The HiveWings would be right to want them to be punished ... but they would be wrong to want the same for the whole LeafWing tribe. So maybe ... Maybe I need to think about that, too. Hawthorn, Sequoia, and Wasp. I should be angry at them — I can be furious at them. I can fight Wasp without hating the entire HiveWing tribe. I can free the HiveWings and spare their lives without betraying my quest. Because Wasp is the real enemy: Wasp and her mind control."
— Sundew's thoughts, The Poison Jungle

Sundew is a female LeafWing dragonet and the main protagonist of The Poison Jungle. She was formerly a member of the PoisonWings led by her mother, Belladonna, and father, Hemlock. She is honored and respected among PoisonWings due to her powerful leafspeak ability. She is currently in a relationship with Willow and resides in the LeafSilk Kingdom. She was formerly betrothed to Mandrake.

Description

Sundew has a small[1] and wiry[2] shape and a face that is similar to Belladonna's.[3] She has dark[2] forest-green[4] scales that are flecked with gold,[5] and she also has golden scales along the edges of her wings, talons, and across her snout.[6] She wears several small pouches, woven from long grass or fashioned from leaves,[3] which contain venomous insects or useful plants. A pouch that rests over her heart contains a small,[7] smooth jade frog,[8] and there is a pouch under her left wing that is a darker shade of green than the others.[9] There is also a pouch marked with a large A, and it holds a jar for bullet ants inside.[10] She is slightly smaller than Swordtail,[11] and smaller than Tsunami.[12]

Personality

Sundew is a natural leader[13] who uses her fury to keep her going, and when she becomes tired, she thinks of all the things that make her angry.[14] She is bristly,[15] sharp,[16] quick to anger,[17][18] persuasive,[19] stubborn,[20] intense,[21] brave,[8] brisk,[22] menacing,[23] furious,[24] defensive,[25] fierce,[23] terrifying,[26] and impatient.[27] Her anger is both a weapon[28] and a safe place for her to go when her emotions become too complicated.[29] Due to her upbringing, she was unfamiliar with healthy and compassionate love and found Willow's love for her unsettling as a result.[30] She believes that her own yelling is hilarious and morale-boosting,[31] and has a strong moral compass, believing that even the HiveWings should not be subjected to poison at a peace summit.[32] Sundew also appears to dislike jewelry and dressing up garishly,[33] and strongly stated that she does not do sparkles. She glares[21] and frowns often,[23] always looking ready for a fight.[21] Cricket thinks of her like a dragon who moves like she has already found all the answers to herself.[34] She also notes that when complimented, Sundew's face just "throws out a few spasms" and goes back to scowling.[35]

Biography

The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Lost Continent

Sundew and her parents, Belladonna and Hemlock, were hiding in Queen Wasp's greenhouse. After they captured Blue, Cricket, and Swordtail, she asked for her mother's permission to kill them and leave their bodies outside the greenhouse. Her mother, Belladonna, immediately disagreed as this would alert the HiveWings that intruders were in the area.

Sundew willingly accompanied Blue and Cricket to the Temple of Clearsight to help them steal the Book of Clearsight, using flower dye and wing-shaped leaves to disguise herself as a SilkWing. While Cricket drugged the guards at the entrance with a flower Sundew had given her, Blue asked Sundew about what her parents had said about being born for this purpose. Before entering Wasp Hive, she defaced a carving of Queen Wasp, and as described in the book, "raked her claws across the queen's elegant snout." Cricket protested that the vandalism was unnecessary. Sundew responded with, "Wait till I get to her actual face." In the Temple of Clearsight, she paralyzed several HiveWing guards from a distance with blow-darts. Blue and Cricket both stared, and Sundew told them to "get moving and quit staring". In the room with the Book of Clearsight, Sundew tried to take the book, then the container, but everything was firmly locked and rooted to the floor. Sundew fought The Librarian shortly after she revealed herself, who was always under Queen Wasp's mind control. Although the Librarian was bigger and stronger, Sundew broke her arm and nearly killed her before Cricket intervened. Sundew then freed the Librarian from Wasp's mind control by using bullet ants to bite her, causing unbearable pain to Queen Wasp. This made her temporarily leave the Librarian's body.

After the Librarian's room was surrounded by mind-controlled HiveWings, Sundew threw a smoke bomb to distract Wasp from her, Cricket, and Blue's escape with the Book. Instead of helping the wingless Blue fly away, she fought against Wasp's drones with her weapons.

In the ensuing chaos, Blue lost track of the others and did not know if they escaped the Temple. However, they later made contact with Blue again, with Sundew revealing that the LeafWings had made a tunnel into the Hive from below. She helped Blue and Luna escape by making roots grow rapidly, knocking a piece of stone out from the floor of the flamesilk cavern, showing her leafspeak abilities for the first time. She led them through the tunnel to the sea.

After learning the truth about the book, Sundew said that she planned to return to the LeafWings to form a new plan to take down the HiveWings. However, when Luna and Swordtail were noticed by HiveWing soldiers, she leaped into the fight to protect them and ended up fighting alone. This was the last Blue saw of her before beginning his Metamorphosis.
The Hive Queen

Sundew appeared when Cricket heard the sounds of another dragon in the caves where she and Blue, who was still in his cocoon, were hiding. Cricket was terrified that the dragon could be another HiveWing, or worse, a mind-controlled one, but her fears were unfounded. Cricket was relieved and asked Sundew what had happened above ground. Sundew explained she led the HiveWings "all the way to Lake Scorpion" before losing them and taking the long way back to the caves. She had not found Luna, but she had found Swordtail, having likely hit a rock and passed out, and had dragged his unconscious, seaweed-covered body into the cavern.

Sundew mentioned that she understood his devotion to Luna, since she "has a one true love herself," but ignored Cricket's questions as to who and continued that Swordtail did leave her fighting two HiveWings alone. Sundew eventually snapped at Cricket, irritated by all the questions, so Cricket offered to get some water for Sundew's injury to make peace. She agreed and gave Cricket a kind of absorbing moss. Cricket was intimidated by the LeafWing's "scowly" expression and decided that "it would be safer to back away for a little while." Sundew then had Cricket use a "weird-looking plant" from one of her pouches to wake up Swordtail, who she claimed was in no state to still be looking for Luna.

When Cricket and Swordtail were talking about Blue's flamesilk status, Sundew admitted her motives with Blue; to use him and his silk to burn down the Hives. Sundew, Cricket, and Swordtail then had a long argument about whether it was the right thing to do, with Swordtail taking sides with Sundew.

Sundew called the Book of Clearsight "completely useless" because it could not tell them the future, and then told the others that she would rather have Luna with them as Luna would have jumped to the idea of burning down the Hives, but that she would settle for using Blue to destroy the HiveWings. Sundew believed that all the HiveWings deserved to be killed for what they did to the LeafWings and their home, except for Cricket. Sundew then tried to get more information about the Chrysalis out of Swordtail, who explained it was an organization of SilkWings who were fighting the HiveWings for their freedom.

She agreed to go looking for the Chrysalis after Blue finished his Metamorphosis and try to find a way to defeat Queen Wasp's mind control powers. Eventually, the four decide to find out how to stop Queen Wasp's mind control instead of slaughtering innocent dragons.

Sundew then went to talk with her parents to tell them where she had been and what to do with the book. She requested more time to create a less violent plan of destroying the HiveWing kingdom than the one in effect. After much argument, Belladonna and Hemlock relented, giving Sundew, Blue, Cricket, and Swordtail two days to make a plan.

Cricket suggested going to Jewel Hive to look for clues, as it was the closest Hive to the group, and the laid-back rules and security would allow them to remain undetected for a longer amount of time. Once they arrived, Sundew once again disguised herself as a SilkWing using gaudy fabrics, much to her humiliation. During their stay, the four made the water tower near Cadelle's house their seat of operations.

At midnight on their first day, Sundew and the others met with the Chrysalis's Jewel Hive branch, though only three members were there, Tau, Morpho, and Cinnabar. Sundew told them about the LeafWing plan to destroy the Hives, and they jumped on the idea, to Cricket's distress. After a close encounter with Wasp, they overheard Wasp planning to go to Scarab's mansion. Cricket realized that meant Katydid was in danger and quickly headed to Lady Scarab's place. Sundew tried to protest, but eventually gave in to Cricket's demands. Before she left, she told Morpho to gather all of the Jewel Hive Chrysalis members at the farthest stall in the Glitterbazaar by midday.

Sundew, Blue, Cricket, and Swordtail stopped at a party nearby, pretending to be party-goers, as they watched the encounter between Queen Wasp and Lady Scarab. After Wasp left with Katydid, Cricket insisted on talking to Scarab, believing she knew how the mind-control worked. Even though Sundew disapproved, she allowed Cricket to carry through with her plan. After Cricket came back, she presented them with the plan to reveal the truth about the Book of Clearsight to the entirety of Jewel Hive. Cricket continued with the plan, despite Sundew and Swordtail's protests. Afterwards, the group parted ways with Sundew heading off to meet with Chrysalis.

After Cricket found the truth about the mind-control, she reunited with Sundew. Even after hearing Cricket's explanation of the mind-control, Sundew was still convinced that this information would not change anything. She did, however, offer Cricket and Blue a chance to negotiate with her parents. She later watched Bumblebee hatch and discerned what Queen Wasp's poison was made of by the dragonet's eggshell: a plant from the restricted greenhouse she and her parents hid in days earlier. When Bloodworm Hive was attacked by LeafWing forces, she used the chaos and destruction as a cover, having Blue destroy the greenhouse and thus Wasp's source of mind-control poison.
The Poison Jungle

Sundew, Blue, Swordtail, Cricket, and Bumblebee were flying and a flash of yellow and black caught her eye. Sundew hissed and Cricket apologized to Sundew for startling her, and Sundew claimed that it did not.

As they flew closer, Blue asked nervously if the Poison Jungle was as dangerous as the rumors say it is. Swordtail suggested that the LeafWings were spreading stories and exaggerating how dangerous it was so no one else would go there. Sundew laughed, replying that the LeafWings had not communicated with any SilkWings or HiveWings since the war, as the LeafWings were supposed to be extinct. Sundew called the LeafWings' extinction both the SilkWings and HiveWings whole goal. Blue protested that it was not his goal, or Swordtail's, or Cricket's. Sundew confirmed the rumors, saying that no one who came for the trees again will be allowed to live. Blue asked how the LeafWings could be living in the Poison Jungle if it was so dangerous for dragons — Sundew replied that the tribe did not have a choice, saying that the LeafWings adapted to living in the Poison Jungle. After Sundew mentioned carnivorous plants, Swordtail began to panic. Sundew noticed, saying that he would probably get eaten.

Swordtail said that he did not enjoy the conversation, and changed the topic. They started talking about why they were going there. The Distant Kingdoms was mentioned as the group moved closer to the jungle.

Sundew hovered over the river and realized that the others had stopped. Cricket marveled at the size of the trees. Blue said that it felt like one big creature and that it almost sounded like it was breathing. Bumblebee started yelling, and Sundew told her that she could eat when they got to the village. They flew further over the jungle until Sundew opened up a secret way in. Blue asked what they were and Cricket said that she thought they were called touch-me-nots. Sundew confirmed this, saying that touch-me-nots were one name for them. Swordtail laughed, saying that it sounded super dangerous. Cricket smothered a laugh. Sundew replied that touch-me-nots were probably the least likely to kill a dragon in the Poison Jungle.

Bumblebee woke a snake up and it narrowed its eyes at her. Sundew told them to keep moving. She slunk through the trees nimble and quick. Swordtail commented that she was like a monkey, not "foodishly," but fast and agile. They stopped for a rest, and Blue said that it was like the Hives, high up and smelly, and loud. Swordtail spotted a pink book-like flower and went to sniff it. Sundew yelled that he should not touch the plant, but it was too late. Swordtail's nose brushed it, and he was swallowed whole by the plant, which was actually a Venus Dragon-trap.

Sundew told him to go limp to fool the plant into thinking Swordtail was a rock or a tree branch, however, he was struggling in the plant's mouth too loudly for Sundew to be heard. In a desperate attempt to save him, Blue used some of his flamesilk to burn the plant. This, however, did nothing and made the situation worse and lit some of the nearby plants ablaze. Sundew used her leafspeak (the ability to control plants) to grow a tree that contained berries with flame-retardant properties, effectively squashing the fire. With Blue's help, she managed to rip the plant's maw open and free Swordtail.

After they freed Swordtail, they headed for the PoisonWing village with no other difficulties until they got there. Along the way, they encountered Mandrake, Nettle, and Wolfsbane hunting a panther, which, in short, did not go very well for Mandrake, and Sundew killed it for him. When they got to the village they were checked to see if Swordtail, Blue, Cricket, and Sundew had any seeds from the Poison Jungle on them, to be sure that none of the dangerous plants got inside of their village. Right when she entered the village, she started being heckled by her tribe for bringing strangers into the village. Sundew, falsely stated that she brought them to the tribe because they were all very useful to their plans to destroy the hives and get their revenge, in an attempt to sway Belladonna into letting them stay.

Under the cover of darkness, Sundew sneaked out of the village and to a secret meeting place, where she met with her girlfriend, Willow. While she was waiting for Willow to show up, it cut to a flashback when Sundew was two. She was trying to catch a frog that ate her sugar-coated grasshopper and ran away. Sundew, enraged, pursued the frog to the border of the village, but the frog hopped right through, and into the rest of the jungle. Sundew crossed the border and continued the pursuit. She almost caught it, but it slipped through her grasp yet again. The frog hopped right into a nearby pond. Not ready to give up, Sundew grabbed the nearest sharp stick and started furiously stabbing the water to impale the frog. Alas, she failed, and the frog escaped, getting to enjoy its treat. Sundew, having let the frog run off with her dessert, started screaming bloody murder, which a nearby dragon heard, namely Willow.

Sundew then thought Willow had a "sparkly face" and they both end up liking each other. Sundew wanted to continue seeing Willow so the next meeting they had, Willow gave her a jade frog. Sundew would leave it on a rock at night and Willow would come. Willow eventually arrived, and they conversed about recent events before Queen Sequoia appeared. Sundew accused Sequoia of spying on her, to which the latter told her that it was time for Sundew to join the "real LeafWings."

Sundew and Willow were led into the SapWing village, where Sundew met Princess Hazel. Sequoia discussed the breath of evil cutting and examined it before telling the dragonets to go away. Sundew stayed in Hazel's room for the night.

In the morning, Sundew and Willow went to meet the 'strange visitors,' who turned out to be Tsunami and Turtle. Later, Sundew realized that Sequoia had summoned Belladonna and Sundew's friends for a meeting, which she protested about but did not get a say about her mother coming. She and Belladonna had a heated discussion before Sequoia silenced all the gathered dragons and told them all about the Legend of the Hive. Later, Sequoia and Belladonna agreed to send Sundew, Willow, Mandrake, Nettle, and Cricket on a mission to Eye of the jungle, where Hawthorn guarded a small faction of the breath of evil.

On the way to Hawthorn's home, Sundew and Nettle keep on arguing, and Sundew ended up getting caught in an actual sundew, which Nettle mocked her for. They soon arrived at the Eye, where Hawthorn told them the story of how Wasp exploited the LeafWings, and how he played a major part in the tree Wars. They then travelled back to the SapWing village to tell Sequoia about Hawthorn's discovery of an antidote. Sequoia told Sundew to rest while she and other dragons went to build a bonfire for the incoming HiveWing army to inhale.

When Sundew woke up, she, Cricket and Mandrake went down to grow some of the Heart of Salvation, which turned out to be the breath of evil in disguise. Before Sundew could react, Hawthorn appeared behind them. Sundew realized that there was a dragonbite viper around Willow's neck, then threatened to kill Hawthorn, who mocked her. While Cricket asked Hawthorn questions to stall him, Sundew summoned a sundew plant to kill the viper around Willow's neck. Hawthorn raged at Sundew, then got killed by Willow.

Sundew was later seen in the SapWing village again, where Hazel was ordering LeafWings to gather everyone free from the othermind, onto the shores of the Gullet River. Sundew then flew with the rest of the LeafWings and SilkWings refugees on the way to Pyrrhia.
The Dangerous Gift

Sundew was mentioned in Swordtail's thoughts in the prologue. Swordtail was sent to find Sundew and the other LeafWings by the breath of evil, but was internally relieved that she had fled to the Distant Kingdoms. He desperately hoped that she and the rest of the refugees would come back soon and find out a way to release him and Blue from the othermind's control.

Sundew later arrived in the Ice Kingdom with the rest of the Pantalan dragons. She stood and bristled several times while Hazel spoke to Queen Snowfall, but did not intervene.

Upon arriving at Jerboa III's hut, Sundew argued with Cobra Lily about the dragons they have left behind in Pantala. Though Cobra Lily found it fortunate that dragons like Nettle did not come along, Sundew protested for how the dragons who saved their lives are in great danger and they are doing nothing to help them.

Sundew was then hugged by Luna. After being asked about Blue and Swordtail, she swears to her that they will get them back. She, Cricket, Bumblebee, and Willow lead Luna inside of the hut to explain what she had missed. Later in Sanctuary, Sundew was seen arguing with Tsunami about animus magic.

When the queens were choosing dragons to explore the abyss, Snowfall approached Sundew and Willow. Snowfall explained that she wanted Sundew to have anything magical that might defeat the villain they were fighting. Sundew was amazed at the prospect of magic. Snowfall then removed the gift of stealth from her wrists and handed the bracelets to Sundew. Sundew put them on, and asked how they worked. Snowfall explained, and then Sundew turned herself invisible, then Willow, then the two of them. She thanked Snowfall and promised to return the bracelets.

Sundew was chosen to be the LeafWing representative for the stealth team.
The Flames of Hope

Sundew was mentioned when Luna was using the dreamvisitor to talk to Swordtail. She told him how Sundew and Cricket and some other dragons were going to save him. As the stealth team continued on their way to Pantala, they were suddenly ambushed by a group of mind-controlled HiveWings. Sundew was able to make most of the group invisible in time with the gift of stealth. Unfortunately she was not able to make Pineapple, Qibli, and Tsunami invisible in time. During the battle, she used seaweed to help fight the HiveWings. A mind-controlled SilkWing revealed himself to the stealth team and demanded Sundew to show herself. Sundew, however, stayed silent throughout the exchange. After the HiveWings left, taking the unconscious Moonwatcher, Pineapple, Qibli, and Tsunami with them, the rest of the stealth team were torn on what to do. The team ultimately decided to split off into two teams; one team would go ahead and search for the abyss, while the other team would go and rescue their fallen comrades. Sundew and Lynx were in the latter team and took off almost immediately. Before they left, Sundew got into a fight with Cricket about what to do with HiveWing soldiers that were knocked unconscious during the fight. Cricket wanted to leave a copy of the map with one of them so they could find their way back to Pantala. Sundew thought the plan was bad as the HiveWings could be trouble if Queen Wasp decided to mind-control them again. In the end, Luna and Cricket decided to leave a copy of the map with a HiveWing named Earwig before they left.

When the stealth team was spying on Axolotl, Sundew made them all visible again, and Luna went to check if that meant she and Lynx had arrived. However, Luna did not find anyone, and the stealth team soon decided to stop waiting and go to the abyss. Cricket thought of using a plant to leave Sundew a message. When Luna was talking with Cottonmouth and Freedom, Cottonmouth said that he wanted to get Sundew and spread the plant across the whole world with her leafspeak. Luna realized that this meant Sundew was still safe and had not been mind-controlled yet. Later, while Qibli, Tsunami and Pineapple were in Wasp's throne room, Wasp mentioned how Moon or the "invisible one" had been stolen by someone. Luna, who was in the Mindspace at the time, realized that Sundew and Lynx must have been able to rescue Moon from Wasp's clutches. Later, Cottonmouth used Luna to trick Cricket into looking for Sundew in order to capture Sundew.

After Qibli, Tsunami and Pineapple were able to escape Wasp Hive, they headed south towards Lake Scorpion, where they ran into Sundew, Moonwatcher and Lynx. Sundew was happy to see them and explained how they wanted to rescue them, but decided to change plans and head to the abyss to help the others. They all headed towards Lake Scorpion after Sundew mentioned Luna's and Cricket's message. After Pineapple revealed himself to be possessed by Cottonmouth, Sundew questioned him on his intentions. Cottonmouth offered to let Luna go in exchange for one of the others. Sundew offered herself in exchange for Luna, much to the others' and Luna's dismay. They all followed Pineapple while staying invisible with the gift of stealth. While the others were flying towards Lake Scorpion, Luna had the idea to offer Freedom the memories of the other members of the stealth team, to show to her that dragons were not unloving monsters. Through Moonwatcher, they were able to share the memories of the stealth team to Freedom. In Sundew's vision, she was shown chasing after a frog and meeting up with the love of her life, Willow. Sundew and the others arrived at the scene of Cricket and Bullfrog being dragged down by Cottonmouth's dragons. Sundew demanded Cottonmouth to let go of Cricket and Bullfrog, to which Cottonmouth refused and a fight ensued between Cottonmouth's dragons and the stealth team. After Luna managed to destroy the othermind and free everyone, she reunited with Sundew, who was confused on what had just happened. Luna promised to tell her everything on their way to Cicada Hive. After Swordtail and Luna reunited, Luna mentioned that Sundew and the other dragons had gone to imprison Wasp so that she could be brought to justice.

In the epilogue, Sundew was shown planting and growing trees on the Dragontail Peninsula to restore Pantala to its former glory.

Field Guides

A Guide to the Dragon World
Sundew explained that her favorite book was The Count of Mount Kudzu. She later wrote a scroll to Starflight about the letters she found between Sequoia, Linden, and Belladonna. She was briefly mentioned in one of Sequoia's letter to Belladonna when she noted that Belladonna was with an egg.

Relationships

Belladonna

Belladonna is manipulative,[36] and often makes Sundew angry[14] by ruining things.[37] She and her mother are always only moments away from a fight,[38] and Sundew often disobeys her orders.[39] Sundew can vaguely see her mother as a dragon who cares for others, but she knows that Belladonna will never show that side of herself to other dragons.[39] Her mother taught her to summon her anger at a moment's notice,[25] and she often tells Sundew everything that she does wrong, comments on her mistakes, and starts shouting matches when she is the slightest bit aggravated.[30] It is rare for Belladonna to compliment her daughter.[40]

Blue

Because Blue is so willing to apologize, Sundew finds it impossible[41] and unenjoyable to yell at him.[42] Sundew is often surprised by Blue, from his sister being a flamesilk to him standing up to Queen Wasp. She knows that Blue tries to understand everyone and tried to hide her emotions from him that she believes are weak, like guilt and fear, to show that she is tough. Blue is her friend but tends to side with Cricket on many things, such as not setting all the Hives on fire, or painting Jewel Hive with messages of Wasp lying about the Book of Clearsight.

Bryony

At one year older than her, Bryony and Sundew grew up with each other. When Snowfall told Sundew that she had a vision about Bryony, her eyes narrowed like she was trying not to have some other expression.[43] Sundew knew where Bryony's nest was.

Bumblebee

Sundew was unsure and annoyed that Cricket had brought back a HiveWing egg, but after Sundew gave a dried mango to the newborn dragonet to keep her still, Bumblebee was mentioned to "give Sundew a worshipful look."[44] She loves Sundew dearly,[45] and while Sundew was visiting the SapWing village, she caught herself hoping that someone would feed Bumblebee while she was away.[46] She was disappointed when Cricket brought Bumblebee to the village and the dragonet was asleep.[47] Sundew was amused[26] when Bumblebee seemed to disagree with Nettle taking charge of their expedition to the Eye of the jungle, and gave her a high-five, much to Bumblebee's delight.[48] Bumblebee seems to completely trust her, and Sundew refers to her as 'little bug.'[49] Sundew thought that fleeing from battle was worth it, if it meant that Bumblebee would be protected from the othermind.[50]

Cobra Lily

Cobra Lily is one of Sundew's friends, and one of her favorite dragons. Sundew thinks Cobra Lily is awesome, and she was close enough to Cobra Lily as a friend to be aware of her silent rage. They are also physically affectionate towards one another.[51] Cobra Lily pointed out once that Sundew should be their queen.[52] However, Sundew becomes annoyed with her on the subject and tells her to stop saying such things.

Cricket

Cricket is one of Sundew's friends,[45] and she is often amused by the HiveWing.[53] She teases Cricket,[54] and although Sundew claims to hate all HiveWings, she seems okay with Cricket and has expressed friendly affection for her at various times. She has mentioned that Cricket is "different" from the other HiveWings, possibly due to her insatiable curiosity and immunity to Queen Wasp's mind control powers, and silently felt anger at Nettle when she spoke to Cricket in such a cold and harsh way, though noting she treated Cricket similarly at first. Cricket's company also seems to relax Sundew, as she seems more friendly and open than she did in The Lost Continent. Cricket often wants to open up her mind like a book and read it.

Hazel

When Sundew first met Hazel she was jealous after seeing Hazel's close behavior towards Willow.[55] But after Willow assured Sundew she was the only dragon for her. Sundew thought to think kindly about the queen, and it is thought Hazel does also. Hazel is a bit of a calming influence for her. Sundew believed that Hazel was the rightful queen of the LeafWings and does not try to take that leadership from Hazel.[56] Even though they have only met each other recently, they seem to have developed a friendship.

Hemlock

Hemlock frequently makes Sundew angry.[14] He often tells her everything that she does wrong, comments on her mistakes, and starts shouting matches when he is the slightest bit aggravated, like her mother.[30] Sundew and her father are not close, but she asked Iot to search for him before fleeing Pantala.[57]

Mandrake

Before the events of The Poison Jungle, Mandrake was Sundew's fiancé.[27] Sundew refused to let Mandrake be injured by a panther, even though that would have made her life a lot easier.[58] He was happy and accepting when Sundew told him she wanted to marry Willow instead.[59] They have a playful friendship and Sundew even considers Mandrake as one of the few dragons that she likes.[60]

Nettle

Sundew and Nettle's average conversations are usually hostile and argumentative.[61] She felt joy at Nettle's furious scowl after Bumblebee mocked her tone of voice,[26] and she considers Nettle's behavior to be vicious, unproductive, and out of control. Yelling at Nettle gives Sundew energy, and stops her from worrying.[31] She usually considers Nettle to be simply unlikable[62] and irritating, but became genuinely angry towards her after Willow intervened during one of their arguments.[63] She was also quietly angry at Nettle for how she addressed Cricket. Nettle sounded unmistakably triumphant when Sundew was trapped by a sundew plant.[64]

Swordtail

Sundew finds Swordtail amusing,[65] but she is often angry at him without feeling bad about it.[66] She finds yelling at him satisfying,[42] although there are moments where she enjoys his company,[67] and Swordtail considers her to be a leader.[68] Sundew considers Swordtail to be quite rash, yet he started to grow on her.[69] They tend to share the same destructive mindset and are similar in terms of personality.[69] She understands his devotion to Luna, as she also has a lover.[70] In The Hive Queen, Sundew is tempted to leave Swordtail on the shore after trying to find Luna, but ultimately brings him to Cricket.[70]

Willow

Willow is Sundew's long-time girlfriend,[71] and Sundew thinks about her all the time.[72] She makes Sundew feel more like herself,[73][46] and is often gentle, calm,[21] amused[74] and reassuring towards her.[75] They regard one another as mutually beautiful,[76] and when they initially met, Willow made all of Sundew's words "bump around in her mind like disoriented moths".[25] Willow helps Sundew feel more calm[8] and less tense, and Sundew finds it impossible to scoff at her.[29] Willow is the only dragon that Sundew looks forward to seeing, and they often laugh[77] together and are very affectionate towards one another.[78] Sundew is gentle[79] towards Willow, and when Willow smiles at her, she feels a funny shiver in her chest. Due to Willow's calm and rational demeanor contrasting her own fury and bristly attitude, one of Sundew's greatest fears is her temper pushing Willow too far, thus ruining their relationship. Even when Willow believed that Sundew had endangered the LeafWings by stealing the Book of Clearsight, she still loved her.[80] Sundew became jealous after seeing Hazel's behavior towards Willow,[55] but Willow assured her that Hazel was just a friend and that Sundew was the only dragon for her.[81] When Willow referred to Sundew casually as her girlfriend to a stranger, Sundew felt unexpected joy, and considered that the second-greatest moment of her life, after meeting Willow.[71] Sundew is comforted by Willow, and found it impossible to pull away from her when she was in emotional distress, even in Belladonna's presence.[82] Willow is one of the only dragons that Sundew is not typically angry with,[26] and she often longs Willow's company,[22] as she loves Sundew for who she is.[83] Sundew was sad to leave Willow behind, as she had been chosen to fly back to Pantala to stop the othermind. After the othermind's defeat, Sundew and Willow went to live in the new LeafSilk Kingdom together.

Family tree

LindenUnknown
BelladonnaHemlock
Sundew


Quotes

"Why would you tell them that? [...] They can't help us! They'll turn us in the moment they get a chance! We should kill them now and leave their corpses somewhere that'll really scare those worms in the Hive."
― to Belladonna, about Blue, Swordtail, and Cricket (The Lost Continent, page 173)
"None of your business. [...] As if we'd tell you anything! Tree killers!"
― to Blue, Swordtail, and Cricket (The Lost Continent, page 174)
"Yeah! You'll have ME. That's like the opposite of being alone. I can do anything twenty dragons can do."
― to Cricket (The Lost Continent, page 188)
"It's nothing mystical. She wanted a daughter to carry on our family's legacy. She trained me my whole life for one purpose: this."
― to Blue, about Belladonna (The Lost Continent, page 192-193)
"I don't know why Willow wants to save your tribe. You're as much of a problem as the HiveWings, with your nodding and smiling and agreeing to let them trample all over you."
― to Blue, about SilkWings (The Lost Continent, page 197)
"My guess is Luna got blown out to sea and he tried to follow her. But the storm chucked him into a boulder instead. Which he deserved, if you ask me. Did you see him fly off and leave me fighting two HiveWings alone? I mean, sure, Luna is great and I know he just got her back and all and I get it; I have a one true love, too."
― to Cricket (The Hive Queen, page 21)
"A few hundred awesome fiery things. Starting with the most obvious: he's going to burn down all the Hives for us."
― about burning down the Hives (The Hive Queen, page 29)
"What do you say? Care to destroy the HiveWings together?"
― to Cinnabar (The Hive Queen, page 149)
"This was your brilliant idea. [...] Don't look at me. I don't want anything to do with dragonets. Especially a HiveWing dragonet. [...] I'll go get us something to eat. Yes, that's what I should do."
― to Cricket, upon Bumblebee's hatching (The Hive Queen, page 260)
"No, everything you've heard about the jungle is true. Queen Wasp sent a few expeditions to the Poison Jungle looking for resources and trying to make sure no dragons were hiding from her there. Almost all of them died; the rest are the ones who brought the stories back to you. One of the expeditions was sent to burn down the jungle, because Wasp wanted no more trees anywhere. None of those dragons survived. We helped the jungle make sure of that."
― to Swordtail, about the Poison Jungle (The Poison Jungle, page 4-5)
"If we set it free, the Poison Jungle could devour the continent for us, and all the HiveWings, too. If I set it free. I could unleash the jungle and send it forth to strangle our enemies. I won't, though. I don't want a Pantala covered in poisonous, dragon-eating plants. I want the Pantala of the old stories; the giant forests that stretched from shore to shore."
― thoughts on setting the plants of the jungle free (The Poison Jungle, page 6)
"Don't be a drama queen. They can help us."
― to Nettle, about her friends (The Poison Jungle, page 17)
"I could have left. Belladonna doesn't even know I could have left them. But I didn't, because I have a purpose, and that purpose is vengeance. I hatched for one reason: to destroy our enemies. That's why I will always come back. Not for Belladonna or Hemlock. I come back so that one day I can be the one who wipes out the HiveWings forever."
― thoughts (The Poison Jungle, page 28)
"But of course we can't talk about that. We can't take a moment to say, hey, things are a little better, aren't they? We can only talk about the HiveWings and our fury and all the things we're going to do to them. No time to pat you on the head or say "Thank you, Sundew.""
― thoughts (The Poison Jungle, page 50)
"What?! No one has ever offered to murder a frog for me before!"
― to Willow about murdering a frog (The Poison Jungle, page 83)
"Even after everything I just told her, even if she thinks I've endangered her tribe and restarted a war she doesn't want ... she still loves me."
― thoughts about Willow (The Poison Jungle, page 99)
"Or just pause for a moment to be happy. That's what Willow would say to do. After all the craziness with SilkWings and sneaking through Hives and dealing with strangers, I'm back with her at last, where I can just be myself."
― thoughts about Willow (The Poison Jungle, page 115)
"I'm not letting go now. I'm not ever letting go of her again. If this is it, all our truth spilled over the table, then this is my truth: I choose Willow. Even if she is a SapWing, and not Mandrake."
― thoughts about choosing Willow over Mandrake (The Poison Jungle, page 150)
"Wow. I was hoping we'd lose her, but I didn't think it would happen quite that fast. I'm kidding! I'm sure she's fine. She can handle anything, remember?"
― to Mandrake about Nettle getting trapped in a plant (The Poison Jungle, page 161)
"I wasn't planning on doing splamflamp. Whatever that is."
― to Bumblebee (The Poison Jungle, page 174)
"We were trying to turn the HiveWing queen into our mind-controlled zombie. We would have done that to her — the same terrible thing she's done to her subjects. Instead we made her stronger than any other dragon. We gave her a way to keep her claws on her tribe's necks, and the power to use them against us. I thought we were the good tribe. How could we do something like this?"
― thoughts about Wasp and the breath of evil (The Poison Jungle, page 213)
"But Hawthorn and Sequoia did terrible things, too. The HiveWings would be right to want them to be punished ... but they would be wrong to want the same for the whole LeafWing tribe. So maybe ... Maybe I need to think about that, too. Hawthorn, Sequoia, and Wasp. I should be angry at them — I can be furious at them. I can fight Wasp without hating the entire HiveWing tribe. I can free the HiveWings and spare their lives without betraying my quest. Because Wasp is the real enemy: Wasp and her mind control."
― thoughts about her true enemy (The Poison Jungle, page 247)
"That is not a comforting answer, light of my life."
― to Willow (The Poison Jungle, page 119)
"I think I get it. [...] You're saying the future is up to us. Whatever happens next, it's because of what we decide to do, not because of some mystical force pointing us here or plopping us there."
― to Bullfrog and Luna, about the prophecy (The Flames of Hope, page 58)
"I eat all the time! I ate a ... something ... this morning while we were sorting Pyrrhian tree seedlings! Didn't I? I think I did. The seedlings were very noisy, full of questions. It must be weird to fly across an ocean when you're a tree. Not a common tree experience, I suspect."
― to her friends (The Flames of Hope, epilogue)
"Me too. [...] We need dragons who can see the brightest futures so we can try to get there, even if it takes longer than we want it to."
― to Luna (The Flames of Hope, epilogue)

Trivia

  • When it comes to garments, Sundew prefers wearing black, dark green, or midnight blue.[84]
  • Sundew was in charge of hunting for every PoisonWing tribe feast.[85]
  • When Sundew is reunited with Willow, the former uses her leafspeak to make violets grow in between them.[86] Violets and their coloration have been used as a special code by lesbian and bisexual women throughout history.
  • On the cover of The Poison Jungle, Sundew is missing the gold flecks on her wings.[87]

References

  1. ↑ The Lost Continent, page 223
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Lost Continent, page 168
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Lost Continent, page 170
  4. ↑ The Hive Queen, page 74
  5. ↑ The Hive Queen, page 58
  6. ↑ The Hive Queen, page 148
  7. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 3
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 The Poison Jungle, page 98
  9. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 182
  10. ↑ The Lost Continent, page 215
  11. ↑ The Hive Queen, page 22
  12. ↑ The Flames of Hope, page 22
  13. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 292
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 The Poison Jungle, page 1
  15. ↑ The Dangerous Gift, page 73
  16. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 31
  17. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 19
  18. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 158
  19. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 109
  20. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 96
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 The Dangerous Gift, page 144
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 The Poison Jungle, page 163
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 The Dangerous Gift, page 85
  24. ↑ The Dangerous Gift, page 70
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 The Poison Jungle, page 80
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 The Poison Jungle, page 157
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 The Poison Jungle, page 37
  28. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 265
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 The Poison Jungle, page 81
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 The Poison Jungle, page 100
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 The Poison Jungle, page 167
  32. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 215
  33. ↑ The Hive Queen, page 79-80
  34. ↑ The Hive Queen, page 17
  35. ↑ The Hive Queen, page 54
  36. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 66
  37. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 127
  38. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 50
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 The Poison Jungle, page 54
  40. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 186
  41. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 20
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 The Poison Jungle, page 22
  43. ↑ The Dangerous Gift, page 185
  44. ↑ The Hive Queen, page 275
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 The Poison Jungle, page 2
  46. ↑ 46.0 46.1 The Poison Jungle, page 115
  47. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 131
  48. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 155
  49. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 174
  50. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 281
  51. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 46
  52. ↑ The Dangerous Gift, page 116
  53. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 45
  54. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 230
  55. ↑ 55.0 55.1 The Poison Jungle, page 110
  56. ↑ The Dangerous Gift, page 117
  57. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 290
  58. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 29
  59. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 253
  60. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 254
  61. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 35
  62. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 188
  63. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 170
  64. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 177
  65. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 10
  66. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 21
  67. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 56
  68. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 36
  69. ↑ 69.0 69.1 The Hive Queen, page 79
  70. ↑ 70.0 70.1 The Hive Queen, page 21
  71. ↑ 71.0 71.1 The Poison Jungle, page 120
  72. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 5
  73. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 68
  74. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 75
  75. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 125
  76. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 78
  77. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 83
  78. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 85
  79. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 91
  80. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 99
  81. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 118
  82. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 145
  83. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 187
  84. ↑ The Hive Queen, page 75
  85. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 27
  86. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 86-87
  87. ↑ The Poison Jungle, page English cover


LeafWings
Queens

Present: Hazel • Sequoia
Historical: Zelkova

Other Dragons
(Present)

Belladonna • Bryony • Byblis • Cobra Lily • Hawthorn • Hemlock • Mandrake • Nettle • Odollam • Pokeweed • Sundew • Willow • Wolfsbane

Other Dragons
(Historical)

Linden • Maple

Kingdom

Eye of the jungle • Hawthorn's home • LeafSilk Kingdom • Poison Jungle • PoisonWing village • SapWing village

Kingdom
(Historical)

Dragon Ridge Academy • Southern forest palace

Society

Book of Clearsight • PoisonWings • SapWings • Tree Wars


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