Sundew
Template:QuoteBox Template:Charbox Sundew is a young female LeafWing and one of the four known living LeafWings, along with her mother Belladonna, her father Hemlock, and Willow. She helped Cricket and Blue steal the Book of Clearsight and is planning to overthrow Queen Wasp herself. At first, she disliked Blue, Luna, and Swordtail (and outright resented Cricket), but has grown closer to them over time. Sundew will be the main protagonist for book thirteen, The Poison Jungle.
Appearance
Sundew has a small[1] and wiry[2] body and a face similar to her mother, Belladonna. She has forest 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 that contain numerous plants and bugs, most of which come straight from the Poison Jungle. The pouches are woven from long grass and fashioned from waterproof leaves[3].
Biography
Sundew appeared in the late half of the book, asking for her mother's permission to kill Blue, Cricket and Swordtail, then leave their bodies someplace outside the greenhouse, stating, "That will really scare those worms in the Hive." Her mother (Belladonna) immediately disagreed.
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. It was still better than Blue's cracking paint, however. Before entering Wasp Hive, she defaced 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," implying that Sundew intends to rake off Wasp's face when they meet. In the Temple of Clearsight, she paralyzed several HiveWing guards from a distance with blow-darts similar to Hivewing nerve toxin. 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 from mind control using bullet ants to bite the dragon, causing unbearable pain to her, and by extension, Queen Wasp, making her leave.
After the Librarian's room was surrounded by mind-controlled HiveWings, Sundew threw a smoke bomb made of waxy leaves to to distract Wasp and obscure her, Cricket, and Blue's escape with the Book. Instead of helping the wingless Blue fly away (relegating the job to Cricket and the Librarian), she fought against Wasp's drones with her organic weapons to buy them time.
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 (proving she had the LeafWing ability to control plants) 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 leaped into the fight to protect them and ended up fighting alone. This was the last Blue saw of her before entering his Metamorphosis.
More flying in soon...
Personality
Sundew was very aggressive and hot-blooded at first, but seemed to calm down as she grew closer to Blue, Swordtail, and Cricket. She appears to be very skilled in combat, 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, among other things.
She shows fierce animosity towards 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 experiences with Luna, Swordtail, Cricket, Blue, and members of the Chrysalis. Sundew prefers not to do anything that would embarrass her in front of her tribe or her one true love (a LeafWing).
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, Sundew orders Swordtail to move the HiveWing guards away from the burning greenhouse so they wouldn't get hurt.
She seems to like dark colors and care about her appearance and what she is wearing, stating that she would rather wear a "midnight black or dark green" cloak when disguised.
Relationships
Although Sundew claims to hate all HiveWings, she seems okay with Cricket and has actually expressed friendly affection for her at various times. She has mentioned that Cricket is "different" from the other HiveWings, possibly due to her insatiable curiosity. 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. It is possible the dragonet considers her, Blue, and Cricket her "parents".
Blue, like Cricket, believes that while Sundew may seem fierce on the outside, she really is sweet and kind on the inside. Sundew is constantly surprised by Blue, from his sister being a flamesilk to him standing up to Queen Wasp. She knows that Blue understands everyone (or at least tries to) and tries to hide her feelings from him 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, like not setting all the Hives on fire.
Sundew considers Swordtail to be quite rash, yet has respect for him as of The Hive Queen. They tend to share the same destructive mindset and are similar in terms of personality. She understands his devotion to Luna, as she also has a lover.
Sundew mentions her several times, and it is conjectured that she might be a love interest.
Family Tree
| Linden | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||
| Belladonna | Hemlock | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sundew | |||||||||||||||||||
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Trivia
- Sundew is named after the carnivorous sundew plant.
- Sundew will be the first LeafWing PoV in the series.
- Sundew is the only one in her family who is not named after a poisonous plant, but rather a carnivorous one.
- Sundew is the first character who demonstrated the "unusual control over plants" that some LeafWings were rumored to have.
- Sundew claims to "not do sparkles" despite the fact that she's covered in gold flecks that Cricket compares to sparkles.
- In the cover of The Poison Jungle, Sundew is depicted without her numerous pouches.Template:Character Info
Gallery
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Sundew on the cover of The Poison Jungle
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References
- ↑ The Lost Continent, page 223
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Lost Continent, page 168
- ↑ The Lost Continent, page 170
