Prickle

"This is all your fault. Your earrings. Your fine words. Your stupid dragonet."

— Prickle to Smolder, Darkness of Dragons

Prickle is an adult female SandWing who was introduced in Prisoners. She is Palm's identical twin sister, and was imprisoned by Queen Oasis after being mistaken for Palm, a SandWing fugitive. She is currently imprisoned within the dungeons of the SandWing stronghold.

Appearance

Prickle has sharp eyes and patterns of light brown scales freckled across her paler yellow scales. She is lean and weathered, and wears earrings made of glittering fire opal. After her imprisonment, she became tortured-looking.

Personality

Currently, Prickle often erupts into strange, gibbering wails, and is considered to be mad; she attacks anyone who goes near her chains or into her cell. She is frantic and only has occasional, thin moments of clarity.

Before her imprisonment, Prickle spoke acerbically. She appeared cold, self-righteous, heartless, and condescending.

Biography

The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Darkness of Dragons

In the prologue, Palm appears at the door of Prickle's hut after being chased by a fraction of the SandWing army, where Prickle asks Palm why she should let her in. After a quick discussion, Palm reluctantly gives her earrings to Prickle, saying that Smolder gave them to her. This brings up a discussion about Smolder, Prickle disliking him and Palm defending him. During their talk, the soldiers chasing Palm break into Prickle's hut. They take Prickle away, thinking that she was Palm because she was wearing her earrings. One soldier, by the name of Agave, recognizes that the soldiers captured the wrong dragon, but says nothing as the soldier was a former friend of Palm. While Smolder and Onyx are hiding from the sandstorm that Qibli caused, after the attempted assassination of Queen Thorn, Prickle begins screaming at them from her cell about her innocence and her plans of vengeance against Palm. Thorn explains that they would have freed her, but approaching the cell ends in injuries for her soldiers, so they decided to leave her. She was likely starved many times in the past by Burn's negligence of prisoners.

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Winglets

Prisoners
When Fierceteeth is trying to get Saguaro to hear her story, she mentions a "gibbering mad SandWing a few cages down who never shuts up," referring to Prickle.

Relationships

Palm

Palm and her twin sister had a rocky relationship. Even before Prickle's unfair imprisonment, the two sisters did not seem to get along, and Prickle only agreed to help Palm to gain the fire opal earrings that Smolder had given her. In her current state, Prickle despises Palm for her imprisonment, and Palm had several nightmares about Prickle's imprisonment before her death.

Family Tree

Char

Oasis

2 Dragons

Scald

Singe

Burn

Blister

Blaze

Prickle

Palm

Smolder

Onyx

Quotes

"Oh, by the circle of snakes. I told you to stay away from that prince. You should have left the palace with me when he first started mooning around the kitchens. I knew he'd get you killed sooner or later, and probably me too if I didn't clear out."

― to Palm, about Smolder

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"Smolder's probably already dead. You'll never be able to go back to the palace. If Oasis doesn't get you, one of her daughters will."

― to Palm

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"For LIES! I'M NOT HER! THE QUEEN NEVER CAME! NO ONE EVER CAME! NO ONE SEES ME! SHE STOLE MY FACE! SHE THREW MY FACE INTO THE FIRE! I'M NOT HER!"

― to Thorn, about Palm

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"You. This is all your fault. Your earrings. Your fine words. Your stupid dragonet."

― to Smolder

Gallery

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  Reference by CleverBasilisk

References

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