Sundew
Template:SpoilerTHQTemplate:QuoteBox Template:Charbox Sundew is a female LeafWing and one of the four known LeafWings left alive, along with her mother Belladonna, her father Hemlock, and Willow. She helped Cricket and Blue steal the Book of Clearsight.
Appearance
Sundew has a small[1] and wiry[2] body and a face similar to her mother’s[3]. She has dark green[2] scales, with small gold scales speckled along the edges of her wings and talons and across her snout, and she wears several small pouches, woven from long grass and fashioned from leaves[3].
Biography
Sundew appeared later in the book, asking for her mother's permission to kill Blue, Cricket and Swordtail and then leave their bodies someplace outside the greenhouse, saying, "That will really scare those worms in the Hive." Her mother (Belladonna) immediately disagrees.
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. In the Temple of Clearsight, she paralyzed several HiveWing guards from a distance with blow-darts and also defaces 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." 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 of Queen Wasp's mind control using bullet ants to bite the dragon, causing unbearable pain.
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 to punch a hole in the wall. She then led them through the tunnel to the sea.
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 leapt into the fight to protect them and ended up fighting alone. Since this was the last Blue saw of her before entering his Metamorphosis, no one knows what happened to her yet.
Sundew first appears when Cricket hears the sounds of another dragon in the caves where she and Blue are hiding. Cricket is terrified that the dragon could be another HiveWing, or worse, a mind-controlled one, but it turns out to be Sundew. Cricket is immensely relieved and asks Sundew what happened and what she did to the HiveWings, to which she responds that she led them "all the way to Lake Scorpion" before losing them and taking the long way back to the caves. Sundew also says that she didn't find Luna, but she did find Swordtail, and drags his unconscious, soaking wet body into the cavern. She explains that she found him on a rock in the bay, and that she guesses Luna was blown out to sea and Swordtail tried to follow her, but the winds "chucked him into a boulder instead". Sundew says that she has a one true love, too, and that she understands, but ignores Cricket's questions as to who and continues that Swordtail did leave her fighting two HiveWings alone. Cricket comments that Swordtail probably thought Sundew could fight nine times that many HiveWings and be okay, to which Sundew looks slightly mollified. Cricket then asks Sundew if she knew where Luna went, and Sundew replies by saying that she "got a survivor vibe" from Luna and that she was capable of taking care of herself. Cricket then asks Sundew how she got Swordtail into the cave, noticing that Sundew was about the same size as Swordtail (if not smaller). Sundew snaps at Cricket, irritated by all the questions. Cricket offers to get some water for Sundew's injury and Sundew agrees, and adds that there she has a certain type of moss in her pouch that "can absorb nearly a whole pond".
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Personality
Sundew is very aggressive at first but seems to calm down as she grows closer to Blue and Cricket. She appears to be very skillful at fighting, as shown when she fought The Librarian in the Temple of Clearsight. She is an expert on using bugs and plants as weapons that can paralyze, cause pain, and knock dragons out.
She dislikes HiveWings due to what they did to her tribe, as well as SilkWings for submitting to Queen Wasp, calling them "subservient worms". She has said on multiple occasions that she wants all the HiveWings to suffer. However, she shows signs of having a better opinion of the tribe after her experience with Luna, Swordtail, Cricket and Blue.
At the end of The Hive Queen, Sundew is shown displaying much kinder behavior. An example of this is when Blue sets the queen's greenhouse on fire and Sundew orders Swordtail to move the HiveWing guards.
Relationships
Although Sundew hates all HiveWings, she seems okay with Cricket, and has actually seemed to like her at various times. Sundew has mentioned that Cricket is "different" from the other HiveWings. Cricket's company also seems to relax Sundew, as she seems more friendly and open than she did in The Lost Continent.
Sundew dislikes Bumblebee, although she can´t seem to stop the dragonet from clinging to her and messing with her, likely since she imprinted on Bumblebee due to being present at her hatching.
Blue, like Cricket, believes that while Sundew may seem like a total fierce-face on the outside, she really is sweet and kind on the inside. Sundew is constantly surprised by Blue, from his sister being a flame-silk to him standing up to Queen Wasp. She knows that Blue understands everyone (or at least tries to) and tries to hide her feelings 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, NOT setting all the Hives on fire.
Swordtail is a fierce, tough guy who will literally get himself killed just for his beloved Luna. Sundew warms up to him much faster than the others, as his violent and reckless ideas to make the HiveWings pay are just what Sundew thinks and/or approves of. Swordtail is reckless, large, and smart, but he is continuously awed by Sundews battle tactics and quick thinking. He fully supports Sundew, but most of his actions are for his one and truly, Luna.
Family Tree
| Linden | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||
| Belladonna | Hemlock | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sundew | |||||||||||||||||||
Quotes
"We wouldn't. As if we'd tell you anything! Tree killers!" - To Blue
"To THINK about it? ARRRRRRRRRRRGH." - Her reaction to Blue's request to think about their plan.
"Of course you can, you ungrateful beetles! We're not lying, conniving HiveWings! We're LeafWings! We're honorable!" - Yelling at Swordtail after he says is not sure they can trust the LeafWings.
"Are you seriously making small talk with me right now?" - To Blue
"You're just like I always pictured SilkWings. Subservient worms." - To Blue after he shows her proper SilkWing posture.
"How many trees had to die to make this place?" - To Blue about the Temple of Clearsight.
"You seem surprised. I thought you were 'expecting' us. Didn't your precious Book tell you I'd be a LeafWing?" - Sundew mocking The Librarian.
"That may be, but I'm guessing that's because you've never been bitten by a bullet ant before." - To the Librarian about the pain Queen Wasp can suffer before she leaves a mind-controlled dragon.
"I don't have any more blow darts. Or enough bullet ants for everyone in the whole Hive, although that would be my kind of revenge."
"You sat around in a greenhouse and then followed me into a tunnel. I'm not sure you qualify for a statue in your honor just yet." - To Swordtail
"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
"He's alive. I found him like this on a rock in the bay. He's lucky I found him instead of a HiveWing, although I was pretty tempted to leave him there." - About Swordtail
"I perhaps should have mentioned this sooner, but I rather intensely dislike small dragonets." -To Cricket
"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." -On her parents
"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
"I feel like you're mocking me." -To Bumblebee
"I like the way you think. But they're centipedes you dingbat. " - To Swordtail
Trivia
- Sundew is named after the carnivorous sundew plant.
- Sundew is the only one in her family not named after a poisonous plant.
- Sundew is going to be the first LeafWing PoV in the series.
- Sundew is the first character who demonstrated the "unusual control over plants" that LeafWings were believed to have.
Gallery
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Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
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Sundew by TheFlashDragon (FlashDragonWikia)
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References
- ↑ The Lost Continent, page 223
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Lost Continent, page 168
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Lost Continent, page 170
