Starflight
Starflight is a purplish black NightWing dragonet of destiny with silver underscales and the main protagonist of The Dark Secret. Like most NightWings, Starflight has scattered scales of silver on the underside of his wings that genetically spray outward like a splash of water. He has white horns and pitch black spines. His replacement is Fatespeaker, a new friend of his, who believes she does have a typical NightWing's powers, though they are extremely rare; supposedly a NightWing hasn't had a true prophecy in a hundred years. He had loved Sunny, but never told her until the minute before he was led into battle, incase either of them were killed. Starflight was blinded by the explosion when the Night Kingdom erupted.
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; 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 pathetic 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 pathetic skills in battle, Clay volunteered to fight in his place multiple times to avoid him from being killed. 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. Starflight managed to figure out how to escape using Peril, but was betrayed 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 of. He and Tsunami refused to fight, however, and Scarlet released four scavengers for them to battle. After a fierce battle in which two of the scavengers were killed, Queen Scarlet declared that they would have to face off against multiple IceWings. However Morrowseer and an army of NightWings came to Starflight's rescue before having to fight. He later met up with the dragonets outside the Mud 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 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.
Starflight 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, Starflight 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 wishes she was the prophesied dragonet. Morrowseer then comes in and brings Starflight to see the queen. He is left in a cave on a pillar of rock surrounded by lava. The cave is filled with around forty council dragons and on the wall across from him, is the NightWing heir to the throne, Greatness. Greatness listens and speaks for her mother, Queen Battlewinner, who is behind the wall. When the NightWings demand information regarding the RainWings, Starflight panics and says that Glory is planning an attack. Deathbringer is brought in by Vengeance, who claims that Deathbringer is a traitor and conspired with the RainWings. However, Greatness orders Vengeance to be thrown into the lava for endangering the tribe by bringing Glory in and irritating the queen.
Morrowseer takes Starflight hunting, hoping to get more information. After Starflight figures out why he cannot safely eat infected carrion, Morrowseer realizes who Starflight's father is and brings him to see him. Fatespeaker finds them and decides to tag along as she tells Starflight she is the NightWing Dragonet of Destiny. This leads Starflight to realize he is being replaced. They find his father, Mastermind, in the lab of the palace and meet him. His father takes him to show them an experiment. In a small room a RainWing is chained to the wall. When Starflight asks for her name, she says it is Orchid, prompting Starflight to tell 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, who he soon assigns to kill Starflight. Starflight flees to RainWing prison, and the false dragonets are caught by NightWings guarding the area. During the night, Fatespeaker brings Starflight to explore the palace, they find the old treasury. Starflight finds a dreamvisitor, he goes back to his bed and attempts to use it but fails. The next morning, Morrowseer brings the false dragonets and Starflight south a remote outpost belonging to the SkyWings. He instructs them to make the SkyWing guards inside switch alliances to Blister. When Starflight is not able to get them to switch, a group of NightWings kill the SkyWings. Squid states he wants to quit and Morrowseer tells him to leave, prompting the SeaWing to say he was lying. However, Morrowseer forces him to fly away, alone.
The following night, after returning to the island, Fatespeaker brings him to find the queen. They find her secret room and she rises out of a bowl of lava. The queen then explains while fighting an IceWing, the IceWing shot its freezing death breath into her mouth. In order to counteract the ice forming inside of her body, she was confined to a pool of lava. They explain to her Morrowseer's plan but she refuses to help. After returning to the dormitory, 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, Morrowseer orders Flame to fight Ochre. After Ochre attempts to surrender, Morrowseer points out that on a battlefield, that would not happen. Fatespeaker stands up for Ochre, and Morrowseer orders Flame to attack her instead. Viper asks to join the bout, which is approved by Morrowseer. As Viper is about to stab Fatespeaker in the neck with her tail, Starflight joins in and shoves the SandWing away from Fatespeaker. Viper accidentally scratches Flame's face with her tail and falls into the lava. Morrowseer brings Flame to the healers, and Starflight realizes the false dragonets were not born on the brightest night when Ochre is unwilling to save Viper.
Starflight later develops a plan to escape from the Night Kingdom. Fatespeaker and Starflight take Flame and bring him out to the rainforest portal, claiming to have orders from the NightWing queen to take the SkyWing to the RainWings to be healed. After tricking the guards successfully, they meet up with Glory, Tsunami and Sunny, where the RainWings are about to go to war. In case he doesn't survive the battle, Starflight 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. Greatness agrees with their plan and comes with them. They continue to free the prisoners along with Splendor and Deathbringer, and most of the NightWings declare Glory their queen after Mightyclaws starts a chant. As the volcano erupts, Morrowseer tells them he and Battlewinner made up the prophecy to steal the RainWings' home. The volcano erupts, possibly killing Morrowseer, and the NightWing sends a last bolt of fire towards the dragonets. Clay protects Starflight from most of the blast with his fireproof wings and brings him back to the rainforest, though Starflight still sustains burns on his body and his eyes. 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, and plunges into unconsciousness.
After Starflight comes out of the NightWing tunnel he is injured with burns. He has a bandage put around his eyes while they heal. When Sunny disappears, Fatespeaker takes care of him.
When she returns, Starflight and the other dragonets (and Deathbringer) meet to discuss the Eye of Onyx and who will be the next SandWing queen. He mentions that they don't have to be the ones who stop the war as anyone could if they had the Eye of Onyx. Fatespeaker says that it definitely didn't have to be Starflight and that he'd done enough. Sunny suggests gathering all three sisters at the SandWing stronghold. Starflight stays behind while the other dragonets go send messages to the three sisters.
He is present when the meeting is held outside the stronghold. Blister mentions a gift sent to Burn to "mend fences" and "reunite the family". Burn knows that the present was a dragonbite viper who was meant to kill her, and intends to have it bite Blister. Starflight tells Fatespeaker what a dragonbite viper is when Burn first mentions it. But there was a second viper in the box who leaps out and bites Burn. The dragons at the meeting panic and take flight, Fatespeaker and Sunny try to hold Starflight up. Clay is bitten while he sends the three of them backwards in an effort to save them. But Peril arrives and burns out the poison, although scarring Clay's foot and making it limp for life.
When Blister attacks Blaze to start a fight for the throne, he says that Blister will win, but Sunny and the other dragonets follow Flower's instincts and dig up the bones of Queen Oasis. The SandWing treasure was put in her mouth where the Eye of Onyx was. Sunny gives it to Thorn as the new SandWing queen, but Blister takes the eye in an attempt to be queen. The enchantment turns her to dust and Thorn takes her place as queen of the SandWings. Starflight is later seen with sunny in the rainforest, discussing why they won't work out as a couple and Sunny tells him that Fatespeaker also likes him and that he should like her too. Starflight is seen discussing the school for all tribes that they will build and it is mentioned that he is now blind or temporarily blind for now.
Personality
Starflight is shown to be fascinated by history and reading, and is often a source of frustration to the others, sans Sunny, 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 pathetic fighter. His shy personality also left him to considered an outsider, which Kestrel was quick to use against him. He felt awkward around the NightWings and worse about his new orders. However, he stood up to Blister when she wanted to imprison the Dragonets of Destiny. Also, he thinks of Sunny as a crush, but starts to develop feelings for Fatespeaker in The Brightest Night. Some think he is cowardly. Due to his lack of powers and fighting skills, he seems to have an inferiority complex.
Abilities
He is different from most of the other dragons of his tribe, the NightWings, as he cannot read minds or foretell the future, but it is revealed that no NightWing can. He 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. However, he is blinded at the end of The Dark Secret.
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)
" I am saying it to your face. Or was I saying it to your rear end? It's easy to get the two confused." (to Tsunami)
Relationships
Starflight is thought to admire Sunny's joyful personality, but doesn't interact with her much in the first book. It is thought that he did love her then, too, for when Tsunami said to Peril that Sunny was like a little sister to all of them, Starflight acted like he considered Sunny differently. However, he does stand up for her against Tsunami, Glory, and even Morrowseer. In the second book, he is noticed to want 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. But in The Brightest Night, it is shown that Sunny only loves him as a brother and Starflight has changed his mind.
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. Starflight often wishes he had Tsunami's "crazy-brave" courage.
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. Starflight seems to admire Glory's way of remembering things easily and making plans. This is demonstrated when Starflight used the dreamvisitor to appear in her dreams, and while the other Dragonets believed Starflight was just a part of their dream, Glory immediately knew that he had found a dreamvisitor. 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. He did however, stand up to her by helping Sunny melt the chains Kestrel put on Tsunami.
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 fears of Peril, and refuses to speak to her. 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. However, by the end of The Brightest Night, he feels slightly indebted to her for saving Clay's life.
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. Starflight likes Fatespeaker better than all the other NightWings. It is possible that they could be crushing on each other, as when Starflight is confessing to Sunny he glances at Fatespeaker to think about his feelings for her could never be the same as his affection towards Sunny. He later realizes that he loves her too, and Sunny helps him realize that.
Trivia
- Starflight has a tenor singing voice.
- He may have heightened sense of smell.
- He used to have a crush on Sunny.
- He finds scavengers "terrifying" after fighting them in the arena.
- He is blind, according to The Brightest Night.
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