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'''Hope''', formerly known as '''Foeslayer''', is an adult female [[NightWing]] who was introduced in ''[[Winter Turning]]''. Many [[IceWings]] believed that she was one of the main causes of the [[NightWing-IceWing War]], as Foeslayer and [[Arctic]]'s forbidden relationship infuriated [[Diamond]] and led her to declare war on the NightWings. | '''Hope''', formerly known as '''Foeslayer''', is an adult female [[NightWing]] who was introduced in ''[[Winter Turning]]''. Many [[IceWings]] believed that she was one of the main causes of the [[NightWing-IceWing War]], as Foeslayer and [[Arctic]]'s forbidden relationship infuriated [[Diamond]] and led her to declare war on the NightWings. | ||
She was imprisoned in the [[Diamond Caves]] for over 2,000 years due to an [[Animus magic|enchantment]], but was freed by [[Winter]] after he completed the [[ | She was imprisoned in the [[Diamond Caves]] for over 2,000 years due to an [[Animus magic|enchantment]], but was freed by [[Winter]] after he completed the [[Diamond Trial]]. She is currently raising [[Peacemaker]] in the [[Rainforest Kingdom#NightWing Village|NightWing Village]]. | ||
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Revision as of 18:51, 28 April 2021
- "I didn't steal him. I fell in love with him. And he loved me, too. That's the truth, although no IceWing has ever listened long enough to hear it before. We didn't mean to ruin everything. Or start a terrible war, or make two tribes hate each other for all eternity. We just wanted to be together."
- — Foeslayer to Winter about Arctic, Winter Turning
Hope, formerly known as Foeslayer, is an adult female NightWing who was introduced in Winter Turning. Many IceWings believed that she was one of the main causes of the NightWing-IceWing War, as Foeslayer and Arctic's forbidden relationship infuriated Diamond and led her to declare war on the NightWings.
She was imprisoned in the Diamond Caves for over 2,000 years due to an enchantment, but was freed by Winter after he completed the Diamond Trial. She is currently raising Peacemaker in the NightWing Village.
Appearance
Hope is huge,[1] with black scales[2] that are as dark as a moonless night.[1] She has dark green underscales, dark green eyes, and black wings.[2] When imprisoned in the Diamond Caves, she had a pair of icy shackles around her ankles that did not seem to be connected to anything.[1]
Personality
As a dragonet, Hope was scatterbrained, likely to blurt whatever she was thinking, and passionate over things that most other dragons found pointless. She was loudmouthed,[3] hopeful,[4] and slightly strange.[5] She had a sharp tongue,[6] but was not the kind of dragon to leave others in danger.[7] Hope was never vengeful.[8]
When Winter appeared horrified by the enchantment that imprisoned Hope to the Diamond Caves, she only shrugged eloquently in response.[9] She also agreed and took part in changing her own dragonet, for the better of every dragon. Nonetheless, Hope is a good mother, as shown in how she still loved her dragonets dearly no matter what they did.
Biography
The Jade Mountain Prophecy
| Winter Turning |
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To win the Diamond Trial, one must defeat Foeslayer and then kill the opposition. When Hailstorm and Winter found her in the Diamond Caves, Hailstorm touched his narwhal spear to the layer of ice covering her, cracking it off. He then attacked her. Foeslayer fought back and immobilized him, but when she moved in to kill him, Winter attacked her to protect Hailstorm. After a short conversation about the history of her imprisonment and an explanation of how Diamond's enchantment worked, she let Hailstorm kill her, telling him to "Make it quick." Afterward, Hailstorm then revealed that he had been told in advance that one of them has to kill the other to win the Diamond Trial. Hailstorm agreed to let Winter sneak off and pretend he was killed instead of Hailstorm having to kill his brother. When Hailstorm left, Winter tapped his spear to Foeslayer's ice again and cracked it, and she remarked that she has never been woken up by the same dragonets twice. Winter then demanded why Foeslayer stole Prince Arctic, but she objected to the word "steal" and told Winter that they fell in love with each other, so Prince Arctic ran off with her, knowing the IceWings wouldn't accept this. Winter felt sympathetic to the love she had for Arctic, comparing it to the feelings he has for Moonwatcher, and decided to set Foeslayer free. Winter figured out that he needed to use frostbreath on the base of the chains to break off the animus-touched shackles that kept Foeslayer from escaping the Diamond Caves. Before he broke them off, he asked her to promise to leave the IceWings alone. She agreed, stating she never wanted to see another IceWing ever again and said that she was going straight back to the (old) Night Kingdom. Winter decided that this would be a chance to find the lost city of night since Foeslayer and Darkstalker are the only ones who know where it was hidden. He hoped that after finding it, he would be able to rejoin his friends and save Jade Mountain. |
| Escaping Peril |
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| Foeslayer appeared with Winter when they were flying back to Possibility. Upon seeing Peril, Foeslayer remarked that she hadn't seen a firescales dragon in a long time. Later, after Peril accidentally burned Winter in their fight, Peril shouted for Foeslayer to look for help, and she left. After Winter was healed, he explained that Foeslayer was with him because they were flying to the lost city of night. |
| Darkness of Dragons |
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Qibli met Foeslayer while he was in the library getting the blueprints of the Old Night Kingdom's Castle. She asked him what his opinion on Darkstalker was. When he said that he didn't trust him, she asked why, and Qibli was forced to tell the truth seeing that there was no way around it. He told her that he didn't trust Darkstalker because he killed his father and Foeslayer later gave him a map to the location where Tsunami was imprisoned. Near the end of the book, Foeslayer was sitting on a ledge, and Darkstalker flies over to her. They embrace and Qibli saw that Darkstalker loved her more than Clearsight or Moonwatcher. Soon after, Foeslayer tried convincing Darkstalker to eat a strawberry and make himself a dragonet with no powers and a wiped memory. Darkstalker was not persuaded, but Kinkajou was able to turn him into a NightWing-RainWing dragonet using scraps of his animus-touched scroll that she stole from Chameleon. Foeslayer took over as the dragonet's mother. She changed her name to Hope, upon the suggestion from Qibli, and went to live with the RainWings and NightWings in the rainforest. She also changed Darkstalker's name to Peacemaker. In the epilogue, Moonwatcher asked her about the lost continent, and she replied that it was a kind of joke in her time, and then said that the NightWings calculated that Pyrrhia only covered a third of the world and that another continent might have been out there. Then she told her that "Before you go looking for trouble, see if you can find anything on the Legend of the Hive." |
The Lost Continent Prophecy
| The Dangerous Gift |
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| Snowfall mentioned how Diamond's son ran off with a NightWing. Tundra objected and claimed that Arctic was kidnapped by a NightWing. |
Legends
| Darkstalker |
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Foeslayer appeared in the prologue, she pushing her way past Arctic and Snowflake to the balcony. She was shown talking and jumping around to try to warm herself up, and she eventually annoyed Snowflake into leaving. After learning the reason why Snowflake was so irritable was that Arctic forgot her name, she teased Arctic about it. The two proceeded to talk and flirt for a while. Eventually, to stay and talk with her for a while longer, Arctic enchanted his diamond earring to keep the wearer warm and protected, then gave it to Foeslayer, although he was aware that doing so was defying the IceWing heritage and law of only using animus magic once in a lifetime. This made her very surprised and worried about Arctic's soul. In the first chapter, Foeslayer was heard arguing with Arctic over what would be best for their two eggs. When the first one hatched, she named the dragonet Darkstalker. Arctic said that it sounded creepy, like he was stalking in the darkness, but she retorted that it sounded heroic, like he was following the darkness and chasing the shadows away. Arctic reluctantly agreed to the name but claimed he got to name the other dragonet, their daughter, Whiteout. About three years after Darkstalker and Whiteout hatched, Darkstalker came home to Foeslayer arguing with Prince Arctic about whether he should leave or stay in the Night Kingdom after Queen Diamond sent him a message that offered him amnesty if he returned to her and he killed his dragonets. Foeslayer was shocked, but Arctic told her that he wouldn't accept it, and just wanted her to know what he could do if the topic came up again. Later, Darkstalker enchanted a map to reveal the location of his mother after finding her enchanted earring discarded inside his house after a fight with Arctic. The red dot showed her frozen in place in the Ice Kingdom, and he presumed her to be dead, not aware that she had been enchanted by Queen Diamond and trapped in the Diamond Caves. |
Winglets
| Runaway |
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Foeslayer was in the IceWing palace dome right after she met Prince Arctic for the first time. Prudence, Foeslayer's mother, came over and asked where she was. Prudence noticed Foeslayer's new earring recently given to her by Arctic and asked if she stole it, which Foeslayer gave her mother a version of the truth, saying that an IceWing gave it to her. This led to a squabble broken up by Arctic, who had just walked in the room, trying to protect her from punishment. Prudence was confused about who Arctic was and why he was trying to protect her daughter. Foeslayer finally admitted to Prudence, that she met Arctic earlier, and Prudence became angry because she had told Foeslayer earlier to keep silent and not interact with any of the IceWings. Prudence punished Foeslayer by sending her to her chambers. While walking there, Foeslayer saw Snowflake who was supposed to marry Arctic, which made her feel worse because she loves Arctic and wanted him to herself. Foeslayer was locked in her chambers for two days. On the last day of their visit, Foeslayer and Prudence were seen packing up and getting ready to leave. Foeslayer was annoyed that Arctic never visited her in two days and now she would have to leave him forever. Prudence was scolding her about her pacing when she suddenly froze in place. Foeslayer was surprised to see Arctic walk through the wall of her chambers, and Foeslayer realized that he was using his animus magic to escape his kingdom and go with her so they could be together. Arctic and Foeslayer had a happy reunion, and he enchanted Foeslayer's earring so that she could not be harmed by any of Diamond's spells. Arctic then unfroze Prudence and persuaded her to go to the Night Kingdom with them. The three of them went together back to the hallway to escape. As Arctic froze IceWing guards in their way, Prudence revealed to her that she was letting Arctic come with them in hopes that Foeslayer and Arctic had dragonets and passed the animus gene to the NightWing tribe. Prudence then went to get the other two NightWings that came along with them, Starclaws and Discretion, Foeslayer swore to herself to never tell Arctic what her mother just told her. Snowflake and Snowfox spot the two fleeing and sent a huge wave of IceWing guards after them. The guards shot arrows at Foeslayer, but they swerved away from her due to her earring's enchantment. Arctic enchanted the guard's spears to stop them, and the spears killed the guards, which wasn't what Arctic meant to do. Snowflake then caught up with them, shouting at Arctic that he should never be happy. Foeslayer then breathed fire and Arctic enchanted it to fly over and burn Snowflake's wing, making her fall onto the snow below. They then flew to a cliff and met up with Prudence and the rest of the NightWings. Prudence offered Foeslayer one of the enchanted bracelets to survive the harsh, cold weather ahead of them, but Foeslayer declined, saying that her earring would save her. The group flew toward the Night Kingdom. Foeslayer asked Arctic if his soul was okay, which he replied saying that it was none of her business. When she told him that it was, Arctic just growled and looked at her with a smug expression. Foeslayer convinced herself that she would make Arctic happy again and that he and she would be together forever. |
Relationships
After Arctic broke the IceWing laws of animus magic to craft Hope an enchanted earring, she felt as though he was one of the only dragons who thought that she was not a total waste of space.[10] When being lectured by Queen Diamond, Arctic shared a glance with Hope that said "I see you; this is torture but I can survive it now that I've met you; you are the only other dragon in the world." Arctic looked at Hope as though being herself was a good thing, and she was fascinating rather than annoying.[5] Her heart leaped at the sound of his voice,[11] and he supported Foeslayer against Prudence's harshness.[12] She was the only thing that brought him happiness in the Ice Kingdom,[3] and he viewed her as sunlight and all the moons and the whole-star filled sky. Only nine days after meeting her, Arctic viewed her as the beginning and end of his universe; a dragon who made him laugh when no one else did. She made him want to be warm, made him brave and careless, and made him forget about IceWing hierarchies. She made him a dragon he actually wanted to be.[13] He was playful towards her, and they laughed often together.[14] He soon began to fall in love with her,[15] and even Prudence began to notice that Hope had been happier since arriving in the Ice Kingdom, and, by extension, meeting Arctic.[16] Hope also began to realize that she had fallen in love with him after noticing that all of his spells had been grounded by his love for her.[17] After Hope suggested fleeing to the Night Kingdom instead of somewhere remote, Arctic became reluctant, and to Hope's irritation, seemed to doubt her ability to protect him.[18] Before they left, she reassured him by twining her tail around his, but he still seemed unsure.[19] After Arctic unintentionally killed six IceWing guards with his magic, he snapped at Hope after she asked him if he was alright, leading to a brief argument.[20] Hope still loved Arctic, however, and she believed that their relationship could work,[20] despite Prudence's plan to use Arctic's magic for the NightWings.
Hope loved Darkstalker very much. Darkstalker said that when Foeslayer looked at Whiteout's egg, she didn't think anything would come out at all because she was ready to give all her love to him. However, the three of them became a loving family, despite Arctic.
Hope and Diamond were described to have a "complicated" relationship by Hope.[21] Diamond mainly blamed Hope for causing the NightWing-IceWing War, and after imprisoning her to the Diamond Caves, Diamond killed Hope forty times herself just to vent her anger.
Although Prudence was Hope's mother, she treated Hope poorly,[17] commenting that she looked frightful and then seizing Hope's ear so harshly that she recoiled in pain. Prudence viewed Hope as smart-mouthed[6] and wayward,[11] as well as idiotic,[4] brainless, and prone to catastrophe.[7] Prudence was dismissive, and typically would act outraged if Hope refused something she offered, but as soon as Hope wanted something, Prudence would refuse to give it to her.[22] Although Prudence was overbearing, Hope still cared about her, and refused to leave her mother in Diamond's claws while her and Arctic fled the Ice Kingdom together.[17] When Hope confessed that she had fallen in love with Arctic, she expected her mother's yelling, disapproval, and abuse, and was surprised when she reacted more calmly.[4]
As Foeslayer was mother to Darkstalker in his past life, she now looks after Peacemaker as Hope. Naturally, the two have a strong bond, and Peacemaker seems to amuse Hope quite often, given his silly and sweet personality.
Family Tree
| Royal IceWings | Animus IceWings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unknown | Diamond | Prudence | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Snowfox | Unnamed | Swiftwings | Arctic | Foeslayer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unknown | Clearsight | Darkstalker | Whiteout | Thoughtful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| More | More | More | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quotes
- "That's Arctic's fiancée. The dragon he's supposed to marry. He's taken. He's going to marry someone else. But he never could have been mine anyway. So why did I agree to meet him in secret later tonight? Am I still going to? A smart dragon wouldn't. A smart dragon would keep her head down and make it home to the Night Kingdom instead of risking an intertribal incident. Yes, but ... that smart dragon sounds perfectly miserable. All right. So what if I choose not to be smart? It's only one secret meeting. I just want to talk to him some more. I mean, really, universe ... what's the worst that could happen?"
- ― Hope's thoughts about Arctic (Runaway, page 7-8)
- "I didn't steal him. […] I fell in love with him. […] And he loved me, too. […] That's the truth, although no IceWing has ever listened long enough to hear it before. […] We didn't mean to ruin everything, […] Or start a terrible war, or make two tribes hate each other for all eternity. We just wanted to be together."
- ― to Winter about Arctic (Winter Turning, page 287-288)
- "Seriously the worst! That poor dragon! I am completely telling her not to marry you. I pity whoever gets tricked into that. You'll be like, 'Happy fortieth anniversary … what's your name again?' and she'll be all, 'It's our FIFTIETH, you slime weasel, and my name is you're sleeping on an iceberg tonight."
- ― to Arctic, about Snowflake (Darkstalker, prologue)
- "Nothing is wrong with my dragonets."
- ― to Arctic (Darkstalker, page 11)
- "The darkness is his prey. He chases back the dark, like a hero."
- ― to Arctic, about Darkstalker's name (Darkstalker, page 15)
- "Darkstalker, […] My beloved disaster."
- ― to Darkstalker when she is reunited with him (Darkness of Dragons, page 344)
- "We don't have to go looking for an island that might not exist and then be fugitives forever. Come to the Night Kingdom. They might be a little mad with me at first, but my tribe will protect you. I will protect you."
- ― to Arctic (Runaway, 44)
- "No, keep smiling. I know you're doing all this for me. It'll all be worth it. Together forever, Arctic! We're going to be the happiest dragons in the world."
- ― to Arctic (Runaway)
- "Yes, […] Your ancient and terrible enemy. Everyone is always surprised. I want to know what the point is of abducting and freezing your archnemesis and then never telling anyone about it? Don't you want to shout it from the clouds? So everyone will know how dangerous and powerful you are?"
- ― to Hailstorm and Winter (Winter Turning, page 277)
- "This is very moving, but would one of you please kill me already? […] I'm tired, I haven't eaten in hundreds of years, and these days it's more painful to be awake than to go through the process of dying again."
- ― to Hailstorm and Winter (Winter Turning, page 280)
- "Yes, […] You stab me, I die painfully, and then I go back to being frozen until someone wakes me up again. It's a cunning enchantment. The first forty times, Queen Diamond killed me herself. […] I suspect the original point of the spell was that she wasn't satisfied with killing me just once. But then the forty-first time, there were two dragonets here … so she must have decided I could be used for this other purpose, whatever you two are here for."
- ― to Hailstorm and Winter (Winter Turning, page 281)
- "You think you know everything about me and Arctic, Mother. You think we're already falling apart and you're so pleased with yourself. You can't wait to say I told you so to me every day for the rest of my life. But I love Arctic. I do, and that's real. I'm going to make this marriage work. I'm going to make him keep loving me, and I'm not going to let him get away with acting like a jerk. I'm going to hang on to his soul. I'm going to make him happy. We are going to be happy. Maybe this isn't exactly the fate either of us expected. But it's ours now. Me and Arctic. Together against the world. Forever."
- ― Hope's thoughts towards Prudence (Runaway, page 57-58)
- "It's part of your queen's gift, IceWing. I have been frozen in time, so I only age in the moments when I'm unfrozen like this. The plan, evidently, is to keep me here a very, very long time."
- ― to Winter (Winter Turning, page 277)
- "I never want to see an IceWing ever again in my whole life, […] Set me free, and I'll go straight home to the Night Kingdom, and you'll never see me again."
- ― to Winter (Winter Turning, page 290)
Trivia
- Whenever Arctic and Hope attended parties in the lost city of night together, they would intentionally complement one another's jewelry because it gave the illusion of matching and fitting perfectly together.[23]
- Hope was one of the strongest fighters in her class.[18]
Gallery
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Reference by SpaceshipEarth
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Winter Turning, page 275
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Darkstalker, prologue
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Runaway17
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Runaway46
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Runaway6
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Runaway7
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Runaway45
- ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 346
- ↑ Winter Turning, page 281
- ↑ Runaway5
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Runaway8
- ↑ Runaway9
- ↑ Runaway23
- ↑ Runaway26
- ↑ Runaway30
- ↑ Runaway38
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Runaway43
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Runaway44
- ↑ Runaway49
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Runaway57
- ↑ Winter Turning, page 278
- ↑ Runaway11
- ↑ Darkstalker, page 175
