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|Row 6 info = The Dragonet Prophecy, The Lost Heir, The Hidden Kingdom, The Dark Secret}}'''Starflight''' is the [[NightWings|NightWing]] [[Dragonets of Destiny|dragonet of destiny]], the protagonist of [[The Dark Secret]]. His replacement is the female NightWing [[Dragonets|dragonet]], [[Fatespeaker]], a new friend of his, who in contrast does have a typical NightWing's powers, though they are extremely unpredictable. | |Row 6 info = The Dragonet Prophecy, The Lost Heir, The Hidden Kingdom, The Dark Secret}}'''Starflight''' is the black [[NightWings|NightWing]] with white underscales and a [[Dragonets of Destiny|dragonet of destiny]], the protagonist of [[The Dark Secret]]. His replacement is the female NightWing [[Dragonets|dragonet]], [[Fatespeaker]], a new friend of his, who in contrast does have a typical NightWing's powers, though they are extremely unpredictable. | ||
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Revision as of 20:22, 3 February 2014
Template:InfoboxStarflight is the black NightWing with white underscales and a dragonet of destiny, the protagonist of The Dark Secret. His replacement is the female NightWing dragonet, Fatespeaker, a new friend of his, who in contrast does have a typical NightWing's powers, though they are extremely unpredictable.
Biography
Starflight was brought as an egg to the Talons of Peace by the NightWing prophet Morrowseer. Unlike most of the other dragonets (excluding Clay), his egg was not stolen but given to the Talons by the NightWings (specifically Morrowseer); hence the line in the prophecy "Wings of night shall come to you". He hatched and was raised by the guardians, Kestrel, Dune, and Webs along with the other dragonets Clay, Tsunami, Glory, and Sunny. He is slightly smaller than the other dragonets (except Sunny), and he was fascinated by the scrolls and stories told by the guardians, mainly Dune, thus becoming subject to their jokes and taunts. He became very literal and serious, turning out to be a horrible fighter. However, he is very intelligent, enough so that the other dragonets consider him "the smartest dragon in Pyrrhia". When Morrowseer arrived again, proclaiming the RainWing, Glory an unworthy substitute for the deceased SkyWing, Starflight gave Clay lifesaving advice during his attempt to escape. Starflight also had a private meeting with Morrowseer, whom he feared would discover he had not discovered his own powers yet. Helping Tsunami, who was chained as part of the plot to kill Glory, escape, the duo's actions led to him and the rest of the dragonets becoming captured by Queen Scarlet.
Chained to a spire of rock away from his friends, Starflight despaired of ever escaping. Due to his horrible fighting skills and (super-incredibly) awesome mental skills, Clay had volunteered multiple times trying to rescue him. This led to Clay facing Fjord instead of him. He became distrustful of Peril instantly, and stayed far away from her. After Clay's attempt to communicate with Peril via song, he was also taken to Peril's room by Scarlet and Burn, who had arrived the previous day. He managed to figure out how to escape using Peril, but was betrayed by her due to her obsession with Clay. He also was the one to configure Clay being immune to fire. He was eventually pitted against Tsunami in a gladiatorial style battle, of which Scarlet was fond. He and Tsunami refused to fight, however, and Scarlet released four Scavengers for them to battle. After a fierce battle in which two Scavengers were killed, Queen Scarlet declared that they would have to face off against multiple IceWings, who hate NightWings with a passion. However, Morrowseer and an army of NightWings came to his rescue before having to fight. He later met up with the dragonets outside the MudWing kingdom, armed with the orders to tear apart the group from the inside as part of Morrowseer's plot to make Blister the queen of the SandWings. Due to this, he is now considered a traitor. His attempts to lead the group so far have failed, and if anything, are becoming quite obvious.
In the beginning of the book Starflight stayed away from the group. Tsunami thought he was trying to take her place as leader when he offered to take Sunny. He was with the other dragonets when Queen Coral imprisoned all of them except Tsunami.
He was captured along with the other dragonets including Tsunami by Blister and Queen Coral. Starflight helped Tsunami escape from the eels, so he is still trying to help his friends.
In The Hidden Kingdom, he was very helpful to Glory as she tried to unravel who was kidnapping the RainWings. Glory observed that he'd been hopelessly in love with Sunny his whole life. He also showed a bit of humor; he played a prank involving a melon on Clay while he was unconscious and wanting to bring back the rubbery fruit for Tsunami. After Deathbringer's failed attempt to assassinate Blaze, he revealed that Morrowseer had told him to convince the other dragonets to pick Blister. At the end, Clay told the dragonets Starflight had disappeared, and said he might have gone to warn the NightWings.
At the end of The Hidden Kingdom, Clay said Starflight disappeared, possibly to warn the NightWings of an incoming attack. However, he remembers the NightWings knocked him out and brought him to their kingdom. He wakes up in a small cave. A few NightWing dragonets are watching him sleep. One of which is his sister Fierceteeth, who wants him dead. Morrowseer then comes in and brings Starflight to see the queen. He is left on a pillar of rock surrounded by lava. One wall has tiny holes in it and beside it is a dragon who is named Greatness. Greatness listens to her mother, Queen Battlewinner, and speaks for her. Starflight panics and says that Glory is planning an attack. Deathbringer is then brought in and sentenced to death. Morrowseer then takes Starflight, hoping to get more information. After a while Morrowseer realizes who Starflight's father is and brings him to see him, Fatespeaker finds them and tags along as she tells Starflight she is the NightWing Dragonet of Destiny and Starflight realizes he is being replaced. They find his father, Mastermind, in the lab of the palace and meet him. Then his father takes him to show them an experiment. In a small room a RainWing is chained to the wall, she tells him her name is Orchid and Starflight tells her Mangrove is looking for her. Starflight then realizes that the NightWings are planning to steal the RainWing's home. Morrowseer comes in and brings Starflight to meet the false dragonets. Morrowseer assigns them to kill Starflight. Starflight flees and finds the RainWing prison. The false dragonets catch him and Morrowseer says it was just a test. During the night, Fatespeaker brings Starflight to explore the palace, they find the old treasury and in it Starflight finds a dreamvisitor, he goes back to his bed and attempts to use it but fails. Morrowseer brings the false dragonets and Starflight south to the SkyWing's palace and they have to try to make them switch alliances to Blister. They fail and Morrowseer kills the SkyWing guards. Squid then says he wants to quit and Morrowseer says he can but then flies off, leaving him alone. They return to the island and the following night Fatespeaker brings him to find the queen. They find her secret room and she rises out of a bowl of lava. She then explains while fighting an IceWing shot their death breath in her mouth and she fled home and jumped in the lava and survived. They explain to her Morrowseer's plan but she refuses to help. Starflight attempts to use the dreamvisitor again; He succeeds and enters Glory's dream and explains to her what happened and she prepares her army. The next day starts battle training but Viper accidentally falls in lava and scratches Flame with her tail. Morrowseer brings Flame to the healers although they cannot do anything. Starflight then realizes the false dragonets were not born on the brightest night and have no powers what-so-ever. Fatespeaker and Starflight then grab Flame and bring him out to the rainforest to be healed. After tricking the guards successfully, they meet up with Glory, Tsunami and Sunny. The RainWings were about to go to war. Starflight says in case he doesn't survive the battle he tells Sunny he loves her. Fatespeaker, Glory and Starflight free the RainWing prisoners and the volcano starts to erupt. They visit Battlewinner and say that the NightWings can live in the rainforest if they make Glory their queen. Battlewinner attempts to attack them, but as she jumps out of the lava, the ice within her kills her. They continue to free the prisoners along with Queen Splendor and Deathbringer, and most of the NightWings declare Glory their queen after Mightyclaws starts a chant. As the volcano erupts, Morowseer tells them he and Battlewinner made up the prophecy to steal the RainWings' home. The volcano erupts and possibly kills Morowseer and some of the blast hits Starflight. Clay protects him with his fireproof wings and brings him back to the rainforest. He feels Sunny's talons press against him, but also hears Fatespeaker's voice: Starflight. You were so brave. Starflight then is shot with a sleeping dart, plunged into darkness as black as a NightWing's scales, and the book ends.
Personality
Starflight is shown to be fascinated by history and reading, and is often a source of frustration to the others, due to a tendency to give long, semi-boring lectures. He felt odd around the others because he never was able to access his powers. When he feels scared, he freezes up like a stalagmite, seen as a "terrified stalagmite" pose. Because of this, Starflight is a terrible fighter. His shy personality also left him to considered an outsider, which Kestrel was quick to use against him. He felt awkward around NightWings and felt even worse about his new orders. However, he stood up to Blister when she wanted to have the Dragonets of Destiny imprisoned. Some think he is cowardly.
Abilities
He is different from most of the other dragons of his tribe, the NightWings, as he cannot read minds or foretell the future, and is apparently slightly smaller than the other NightWings. However, his extreme intelligence is a quality that no one else known has. Glory had also mentions that he has a heightened sense of smell compared the other dragonets.
Quotes
"Maybe my powers will be activated by moonlight or something." (in Peril's room, talking about their powers)
"It's her life or his." (about Tsunami and Gill)
"They can't afford to lose any NightWings, even peculiar little ones." (about the NightWings)
"This is important and fascinating!" (about the heirs of Queen Coral)
"Freedom smells a lot like fish. Which, to be clear, is kind of nose-curlingly awful." (opinion about the smell of the ocean)
"There's a tree! In the forest!" (about how to tie up the SkyWing soldier)
"Ha! Let's take some back for Tsunami!" (about very chewy fruit that make it hard to talk)
"Oh, Starflight. Maybe you should actually do something about that crush of yours. He'd never admitted it aloud, but Glory was pretty sure he'd been hopelessly in love with Sunny his whole life. She was also pretty sure that Sunny had no idea, and that she would never find out at this rate." (Glory on Starflight's feelings for Sunny.)
"You don't have any scrolls? Don't you read? Do you really not read? Not anything?" (To Jambu)
"I love you, he would never say. Don't hate me because of what the other NightWings have done. Don't think I'm like my tribe. Don't listen to Glory's description of my kingdom, the smoke and the fire and the death and the trapped, tortured RainWings and cruel black dragons. Don't look at me like I'm one of them, like I could ever do what they've done, please." (Directed to Sunny)
"She cares.She just doesn't whine about it."
" I am saying it to your face. Or was I saying it to your rear end? It's easy to get the two confused."
Relationships

Starflight is thought to admire Sunny's joyful personality, but doesn't interact with her much in the first book. However, he does stand up for her against Tsunami, Glory, and even Morrowseer. In the second book, he is noticed to have a slight crush on her and wants to do everything in his power to protect her. In the third book, Glory is near certain he has had a crush on her his entire life. Starflight has known Sunny and the other dragonets since hatching. Sunny seems to have the most positive attitude about Starflight and his lectures. In the fourth book, he is directly stated throughout the story to be in love with Sunny. He finally admits it to her. Based on her reaction and her thoughts in the teaser for the next book, it is possible that the feelings are reciprocated.
Starflight and Clay are good friends, since they have known each other since hatching. Clay is often annoyed by Starflight's constant lectures, but sometimes appreciates them. In The Hidden Kingdom Starflight seemed jealous of Clay when the MudWing called dibs on sleeping next to Sunny, even though he was only joking and likely wanted to keep warm in the IceWing's territory. In The Dark Secret, Clay shields him with his fireproof scales from the fire coming from the volcanic explosion.
Tsunami, like the other dragonets, is annoyed by Starflight's lectures, and she often shushes him up. Despite this, they seem to care for each other, shown when they refuse to fight each other in the arena. Tsunami and Starflight have known each other since hatching. Tsunami once had a slight crush on Starflight, before realizing how annoying he could actually be.
Glory, like the rest of the dragonets (not including Sunny), is very annoyed by Starflight's lectures. They seem to trust each other, since they have known each other since hatching. In the fourth book, they team up to unite the RainWings and the NightWings along with the help of the dragonets.
Starflight was afraid of Kestrel and her short temper. He would camouflage if the SkyWing is around or nearby.
Little is known about the relationship between Morrowseer and Starflight, besides the fact that he was the one to bring Starflight's egg to the Talons of Peace. The young NightWing is terrified and froze up (like a stalagmite) when Morrowseer visits him and the other dragonets under the mountain. In the arena, Morrowseer comes to rescue Starflight, but not the other dragonets. In the epilogue at the end of the first book, it is hinted that Starflight may be a traitor, but in book two's epilogue he is mentioned as a traitor from Queen Blister to Morrowseer. In the preview of The Dark Secret, he tells Morrowseer and the rest of the NightWings that the RainWings may be coming to attack them so they can rescue their trapped tribe members.
Starflight is afraid of Peril, and won't talk to her when he is in his cell in the Sky Kingdom. Starflight comes up with the idea of Peril moving the black rocks in order for the dragonets to escape. Peril lost Starflight's trust when she betrayed the dragonets to Queen Scarlet.
In The Dark Secret, Fatespeaker and Starflight become good friends. When he is chased by Ochre and Flame, she is in a cave right next to his hiding spot and promises she wasn't there to kill him. They also sneak away to talk to Queen Battlewinner and figure out her secret. It is possible that they could be crushing on each other, as when Starflight is confessing to Sunny he glances at Fatespeaker and thinks; But his feelings for her and his feelings for Sunny. . . well, they couldn't be the same.
Gallery
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Starflight to the right of Glory.
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Glory shipping?
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Starfight the Nightwing By: Astral the Nightwing
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The Starflight result in the "Which dragonet are you?" quiz.
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Cool Starflight
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Credit to RhynoBullraq
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credit to Strawberryshakex
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Sunny flight
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Starflight and Sunny
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Starflight meeting his father
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Starflight discription
Trivia
- Starflight has a tenor singing voice.
- He has a heightened sense of smell.
- He has a crush on Sunny.
- May be blind according to the fourth book.
