Tamarin

"No, she's always nice to my face. Most dragons don't realize how much I can figure out from their tone of voice, or the little huffs they make between sentences. She thinks because I can't see her, I won't be able to tell when she's rolling her eyes or making fun of someone. Sometimes she'll sneak in and out of our cave, because she doesn't want to have to talk to me, and she thinks I don't notice."

— Tamarin to Sunny about Onyx, Darkness of Dragons

Tamarin is a blind female RainWing dragonet who was introduced in The Hidden Kingdom. Before attending Jade Mountain Academy as a member of the Gold Winglet, she worked as a flower gardener in the RainWing village. She is currently in a relationship with Anemone.

Description

While not displaying any particular emotion, Tamarin is shown to have blue-and-gold scales. She has odd light blue eyes with a pale film on them, and several scars on her wings and neck, including one twisting across her underbelly. She is small, but larger than Pike, and wore a garland of red, pink, and purple flowers around her shoulders before attending Jade Mountain Academy. After the explosion of the dragonflame cactus in the history cave, her scales were covered in bandages, and she wore a poultice of damp leaves tied over her eyes. She has a limp and several scorch marks across her scales.

Personality

Tamarin is kind, quiet, competent, and determined. In The Hidden Kingdom, she refused to let Glory down during her contest for the RainWing throne. Tamarin was hatched blind, but she never let her disability stop her from doing the same things as other dragons. She kept this mentality later on as well; after the explosion at Jade Mountain Academy badly injured her, she recovered quickly and refused to let her wounds stop her from attending classes or socializing with other students. She also never allows anyone to push her around. As shown in Talons of Power, Tamarin seems to prefer independence, as she likely feels pitied for something she does not want pity for, refusing Pike's offer to support her as she walked in the halls of Jade Mountain Academy. She is quite thoughtful and shy. Tamarin is also highly observant, being able to analyze others based on their actions or tone of voice. She has immense concentration.

Biography

Pre-Series
Tamarin worked in the royal gardens, where she took care of the flowers ruined year after year by Fruit Bat, who used them to try and make perfume, much to Tamarin's annoyance. Tamarin's underbelly, legs, and wings are scarred from previous attempts to learn how to navigate and fly blindly as a young dragonet.

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The Dragonet Prophecy

The Hidden Kingdom

Tamarin was mentioned by her close friend Kinkajou when she was talking to Glory about the current queens and how Fruit Bat annoyed Tamarin whenever she had access to the gardens. When she was picking her team to battle for the crown, Glory chose Tamarin (not knowing that she was blind) to join her team. As the team conferred about who would do which contest, Tamarin offered to do the flower hunt, insisting that she was knowledgeable in the field. Tamarin competed in the flower hunt during the challenge for the RainWing throne, using her excellent sense of smell to her advantage even when Glory doubted her skills. Tamarin almost lost as Fruit Bat followed her to the hidden flower, but the former managed to grab the flower first and win the contest.

The Brightest Night
She was mentioned to be helping Starflight adjust to flying blind, with guidance, and avoiding obstacles. In the epilogue, Glory suggested that Tamarin and Kinkajou should be students at Jade Mountain Academy to have real teachers, not the "scraps of time" Glory had for them.

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The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Moon Rising

Tamarin was present when the Jade Winglet and Gold Winglet had a history class together. Kinkajou introduced Tamarin to Moonwatcher, and Tamarin introduced Kinkajou and Moon to Onyx. Later, Tamarin was accidentally injured by a dragonflame cactus, an explosive variety of cacti, set off by Sora. Clay took Tamarin to one of the underground lakes with Onyx and Pike, before she was brought to the medical wing to recover from her burns. Shortly after Sora tried to kill Icicle in the prey center, Sora visited Tamarin, who was unconscious and wrapped in bandages from her wings to her tail. Moon, Umber, and Qibli arrived to see her crying at Tamarin's bedside, apologizing for her injuries.

Talons of Power

Having recovered from her injuries, Tamarin was shown with Anemone and Pike when Turtle came to warn them about Darkstalker. She anxiously asked about Kinkajou, to which Turtle responded that "she was alive when I saw her last." Pike then showed some kindness toward her. Then Anemone left to impress Darkstalker, and Pike asked Turtle to walk her to the infirmary. Once he left, Turtle admitted to Tamarin how Kinkajou was really doing, as the RainWing pressed. Tamarin said she disliked secret faces and knew that Turtle and Pike were making them. Then, Tamarin told him she did not know Anemone was an animus, and when Turtle realized that, he asked her to keep it secret. After that, she shared her thoughts on animus power, talking of how if animus RainWings made all the medicine appear in the healing hut, they would never find new remedies. When they got to a fork in the tunnel, she said she could go on her own from there and limped off.

Darkness of Dragons

Tamarin was in the history cave and asked Qibli if he smelled smoke, saying that she could only smell smoke since the explosion. Tamarin was also one of the students requesting a history lesson on Darkstalker to Webs in the history cave. In the epilogue, Tamarin was also mentioned doing a presentation on Darkstalker's history with Pike and Fearless, and when Kinkajou told Turtle that Anemone has a crush on her.

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The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Hive Queen
Turtle mentioned Tamarin when he explained that Anemone had tried to restore her sight with her animus magic but failed due to animus magic mysteriously not working anymore, which Turtle described as "Qibli 'breaking' animus magic."

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Field Guides

A Guide to the Dragon World
Tamarin was the recipient of a letter from Anemone written with punched-up letters as a test for scrolls that blind dragons could read.

Relationships

Anemone

Tamarin promised to keep Anemone's animus magic a secret and thought it must have been hard on the SeaWing to keep a secret like that. Anemone has a crush on Tamarin and casually shows up everywhere Tamarin is, offering to read her scrolls and leaving her small gifts of flowers or unusual fruit. The two go on gardening dates together.

Glory

Tamarin appears to support Glory as her new queen, and Glory trusted her to be on her team because she was good friends with Kinkajou. Although Glory doubted her at first due to her blindness, Tamarin won the flower hunting contest and helped Glory become queen. Glory suggested having Tamarin and Kinkajou attend Jade Mountain Academy so they could have real teachers.

Kinkajou

Kinkajou and Tamarin are good friends. Tamarin shows concern for Kinkajou upon learning about her condition, saying that she wishes she could go to her. Tamarin thinks that Kinkajou is a little impulsive but expresses that opinion in a way that indicates concern. Moonwatcher was sure to allow Tamarin to know as soon as Kinkajou was awake and healing. Kinkajou cares very much for Tamarin's safety, just as Tamarin does for her.

Onyx

Tamarin knew Onyx was sneaking out so she did not have to talk to her, and could also tell that Onyx huffed and rolled her eyes whenever she talked to her.

Starflight

Tamarin and Starflight appear to be on friendly terms, as Tamarin helped Starflight after he lost his sight. She taught him how to fly without someone guiding him, how to sense unexpected obstacles, and how to ask for help.

Quotes

"If it's about flowers, I can do it."

― to Glory

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"But who gets to decide what's a good thing? [...] Dragons would always be asking for spells or telling you your choices are wrong. And sometimes it's hard to tell what's good and what's just easy."

― to Turtle about animus dragons

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"It depends. [...] For instance, an animus dragon might think, I'll make all our medicinal herbs appear magically in the healer's treehouse, so we never have to go looking for them again. That seems obviously good, right? But then we'd stop learning how to look for them, and we might stop experimenting with new ones to see how those might help dragons in different ways. We'd stop thinking about it at all, because everything would be too easy. Don't we lose something when everything is done for us?"

― to Turtle about animus magic

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"So do I, normally. But I haven't been able to get the smell of smoke out of my nose since the explosion."

― to Qibli about her sense of smell

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"No, she's always nice to my face. Most dragons don't realize how much I can figure out from their tone of voice, or the little huffs they make between sentences. She thinks because I can't see her, I won't be able to tell when she's rolling her eyes or making fun of someone. Sometimes she'll sneak in and out of our cave, because she doesn't want to talk to me, and she thinks I don't notice. It's not personal though. I think she doesn't particularly care about any dragons unless they can help her get what she wants."

― to Sunny about Onyx

Trivia

• Tamarin has an excellent sense of smell.
• Tamarin explained to Qibli that she could not get the smell of smoke out of her nose since the explosion. It is unknown if this is a permanent result of her injuries.
• She was hatched blind and navigates her environments using other senses and a mental map of her surroundings. If the case is the Rainforest Kingdom, she has already memorized everything about the village so she can move around like normal.
• In the minigame Speed Wings on Scholastic's Home Base, Tamarin is a playable character.
  • In this minigame, her eyes are mistakenly depicted as green.

Gallery

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  Tamarin from The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel), by Mike Holmes
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  Tamarin from the Official Wings of Fire Stickerpedia, by Brianna C. Walsh
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  Tamarin's icon from Speed Wings, a minigame on Scholastic HomeBase
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  Reference by SpaceshipEarth

• Art by Mike Holmes, from the Wings of Fire Graphic Novels
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References

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