Viper
- "This is your fault! I could be back at camp with my parents if it weren't for your stupid tribe!"
- — Viper, about to kill Fatespeaker in a mock battle set up by Morrowseer.
Viper was the false SandWing dragonet of destiny and the intended replacement for Sunny. Her unnamed parents were members of the Talons of Peace. She was chosen only for her "convenience". She despised the NightWings, especially Morrowseer, and wished she could return home to her family. She was the only false dragonet who died at the Night Kingdom while "mock battling" Starflight and the false dragonets under Morrowseer's bidding. Flame had accidentally shoved her off the edge of a cliff into a river of lava. Fatespeaker and Starflight made a feeble attempt to save her, but didn't succeed in getting her out from the lava in time.
Description
Viper's scales are the normal SandWing color, sand-pale, and she also had a barbed, venomous tail, unlike Sunny.
Personality
Similar to all the other false dragonets, she was annoyed by Fatespeaker's imprecise predictions, and found amusement in bullying Squid. She seems to take pleasure in abusing Fatespeaker, nearly to the point of killing the NightWing, and despises the NightWings for taking her away from her family. She acted aggressive to anyone she met, and usually kept to herself, while if anyone came to close, she'd threaten them with her tail to scare them away. Starflight said, in The Dark Secret, that Viper seemed like the exact opposite of Sunny.
Biography
In the prologue, Viper was fighting with the other false dragonets. Ochre, the MudWing, trips over her, and she bites his tail. Squid says that she, Ochre, and Flame are bullies.
In the epilogue, they flew across the ocean with Morrowseer to the Night Kingdom and were placed in a cave. She tells Ochre that he smells bad, and gets mad at Fatespeaker when she claims to be having a vision of the future. Nothing else was recorded of her in the Hidden Kingdom.
Viper was introduced to Starflight, along with the rest of the false dragonets. She seems to like the idea of replacing Fatespeaker with Starflight, but still tries to kill him on Morrowseer's orders. She sticks with Squid during the chase, and are chased back to their cave by four NightWing guards. As Flame and Ochre are in the dungeon, she and Squid have to spend the night in the NightWing Dormitory. The NightWing dragonets annoy her, and she threatens them with her tail before sulking in a corner.
The next day, Morrowseer takes them to a remote SkyWing outpost and orders them to convince the SkyWing soldiers inside to switch their allegiance from Burn to Blister. The test is a failure, and had to be rescued by NightWing soldiers. Later, she told Morrowseer that she never wanted to do that again.
She is eager to jump into the practice fight with Fatespeaker. Viper blames Fatespeaker for her being taken to the NightWing island and nearly killed her before Starflight ran into her. She lost her balance, then her tail sliced Flame's face, and she toppled into a river of lava by accident. When Viper didn't reappear above the surface, Fatespeaker wept by the river for her lost "friend."
Sunny and Tsunami told the Talons of Peace of Viper's death, including a SandWing who is hinted to be her uncle or another relative, as he asks about her, but doesn't seem totally torn or upset when Sunny says that she was dead.
In the epilogue, Fatespeaker mentioned that Viper was one of the dragons they cared about who had not survived.
Quotes
"Send me in, too! I want a chance to bite her! I can definitely kill her, just give me a chance!" - To Morrowseer, requesting to fight Fatespeaker.
"This is your fault! I could be back at camp with my parents if it weren't for your stupid tribe!" -To Fatespeaker, about to kill her.
"Next time? I'm not stupid enough to go through that again."
Gallery
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A typical SandWing by Joy Ang -
Viper attacking Fatespeaker, art by Hawky
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Viper is bottom rightmost
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Viper and Fatespeaker
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Viper is in the Upper Middle
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Viper by QueenClam -
SandWing line art by Joy Ang colored by Heron
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By Heron
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