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mudwingpropaganda · 4 years

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(Princess) Kinkajou of the RainWings

I want to believe that Kinkajou is actually a biological descendant of Grandeur, but it doesn’t truly matter because she was supporting Glory for the throne and heritage does not equal merit. Kinkajou is fascinating character who took so many punches yet shes never properly thanked or appreciated for them? I think Kinkajou ought to be more painfully optimistic. As a partial foil to Sunny. She’s not optimistic because she NEEDS to be the one keeping the group optimistic. Kinkajou remains happy because of somewhat emotionally stunting double standards in the RainWing queendom and the act that tears only get you so far. Confidence and energy is what people respond to.

Kinkajou deserves so much more than what canon gave her. Tui might have said “her story is over,” but I seriously disagree. Let’s open her book in the first place.

Design headcanons

I may have leaned a tad far into the idea of her design being physically representational of my ideas for her, but let’s just say these are her comfort colors. The default! They spontaneously flicker with pink and yellow patterns but her default is a banana yellow and bright pink combination, with intruding grey scales on the edge of her torso. (I imagine her underbelly is also similarly melting into pink colors, as her wings are. I just didn’t have the foresight while drawing this.)

I referenced a kinkajou in designing Kinkajou! As a result, her paws seem a little too big for her and she has little ears as opposed to Glory’s more serpentine/bird appearance. Kinkajou’s frill is an example of a feathered RainWing that have plumage similar to a bird of paradise that is also susceptible to the color changing pigmentation.

Her eyes are a striking jungle green, the most natural color on her.

I believe that her time under the NightWing’s grasp definitely should have a more visual representation on her. It may be exaggerated but... art is such. She retains indents where cuffs and chains essentially squeezed on her scales and snout. Her scales tend to dull and turn grey if she is not consciously keeping control over these body parts, yet she has more trouble changing the color of her afflicted indents.

Her wing is illustrated with the venom wound she suffered from the accident she had in the Queen competition. Her wings struggled to fold back into her sides after the event and regardless if she had these scars removed or not through “magic,” she finds it awkward trying to put her wings back.

I imagine she had more of a full mane of plumage in store, but due to the stress on the island, they struggle to grow healthily behind her ears.

A personal headcanon of mine is the most noticable circular scales on a RainWing is the clearest indicator of their current emotions. Glory’s was an angry red-orange. Kinkajou’s tends to default, like her indents, to a grey if she doesn’t pay attention. A numbness.

Miscellaneous thoughts

Kinkajou could have been a fascinating case study about the flaws of the RainWings’ lifestyle. Rather than their flaws being a foolish, uneducated, lazy tribe, the RainWings could have been at fault for putting too much trust in their young, making subjects feel obligated to put on a happy face, and their violently isolationist tendencies. Dragonets may be obligated to reach out to adults for help if they need it, not the other way around. That’s why she self isolated to personally focus on her venom practice lest infuriate Bromeliad further. It’s why she maintains a bright yellow and pink coloration rather than subject other dragons to her emotions. It’s why Kinkajou never quite thought she would be able to escape the NightWing island.

When she was young, Queen Grandeur also realized that Kinkajou was one of her own descendants, making Kinkajou a princess. Grandeur may have been the only one concerned catching wind that Kinkajou went missing, but her perception of RainWings as lazy beings was a personal bias that took away any sympathy she had for her offspring, assuming the dismissals were true that she simply went lost in the woods.

Kinkajou’s upbringing really affected her! She begins dropping her ideals of being an ideal RainWing due to her trauma chipping away at her. Especially the fact that she now realizes the extents of what the Queen, her friend, Glory, goals mean when it comes to a symbiotic shared queendom between the RainWings and those who experimented on her for months, or maybe even longer, until Glory finally took action.

Kinkajou retains scars from the NightWing island, both physical and mentally. Scars from her bonds and greying scales from a jarring transfer from a flourishing environment to something significantly harmful for her body and color shifting scales. And aside from that, she developed PTSD from the events on the island. Between nightmares, the occasional flashback if someone jostles her... she herself has compartmentalized the experience so she herself doesn’t fully remember the events of the island. But she remembers things at extremely inconvenient times. Especially around NightWings.

Her friendship with Moonwatcher was initially based on the mental note she makes that Moonwatcher isn’t a “real NightWing.” Originally, Queen Glory asked that Kinkajou, as her friend, made the effort to connect with NightWings attending the school, which panicked her. But Moonwatcher didn’t have anything to do with it. In fact, she spent as much time and she did in the rainforest! If not, more. And there’s an envy that Moon never faced any of the ugliness of the NightWings! But a disconnect that maintains their friendship. It isn’t until they begin to bond on their across the world adventure that they begin to trust each other outside of the fact that they were supposed to. It’s difficult! Of course! Especially when Chameleon (another great victim of the RainWing culture), taking the form of Shapeshifter to incapacitate her. Yet it was Moon’s face that greeted her when she woke from her coma. Who had been by her side intent on her recovery.

A lot of what Kinkajou does is to try and reinstate normality and an environment she finally feels comfortable in, essentially! She feels out of touch with other RainWing dragonets, not enough to be around them, and inevitably confides her self worth mostly to the Jade Winglet, as they don’t know what a RainWing is supposed to be like. She assigns a crush to Winter to make her childhood feel more normal, even if she doesn’t really feel it.

Kinkajou has internalized a LOT of the shit that was thrown at her. To the point where she doesn’t consciously recognize that she’s been putting on a happy face for so long, aside when she needs to put her scales back in their classic pink and yellow. Even when Moon sees her mind, she struggles to recognize if those thoughts really belong to her or not, assuming the ash and glow of lava is that of a NightWings’, not hers.

Queen Glory is the main dragon that teaches her how to read. Her and Moonwatcher were both somewhat or basically illiterate when they started their educations. But are both are passionate about literature. Where Kinkajou becomes an avid writer and attempts to to become a journalist for kingdom specific and international news for the continent! She assists Starflight in the library of Jade Mountain occasionally. But she also helps establish libraries and such in the Rain Forest! She helps Glory develop an education system that doesn’t sacrifice culture for secular curriculum.

LGBT+ headcanons

I would say that Kinkajou is a questioning genderqueer individual and still uses she/her pronouns but is growing partial to neutral they/them and doesn’t object to other terms used to address her. She is generally flexible with how she is perceived as long as she is perceived respectfully.

Kinkajou is also panromantic but also on the aro and ace spectrums! She muses the idea of finding a partner eventually, but finds platonic relationships easier to establish and grow than the prospect of a romantic one. Like how she simply plays with the idea of Winter being her crush for the sake of personal normalcy in her childhood and, honestly, Anemone’s little innocent emotional manipulation spell? Yeah. That never happened. Kinkajou’s oblivious to Turtle’s feelings. Attractions fly RIGHT over her head, from others or her own self. She also may have queer platonic partners perhaps? I don’t make the rules. Love is love! uwu

#wingsoffire #wings of fire #wof #kinkajou wof #wof kinkajou #wof rainwing #rainwings #wof redesign #sebastiowu #enigmew

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smokysteventheories-blog · 7 years

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WOF and it’s depth.

I’ve got to make a confession. Are you ready?

I actually enjoy Wings of Fire more than Warriors.

OKAY LET ME EXPLAIN

First of all, I want this Tumblr to be more than a Steven Universe theory blog. I feel there are many more passions I can expand to, and while Steven Universe will be my primary focus, gosh, I’ve got to comment about how brilliant this series is.

And yes, I am going to address why I like it more than warriors. I know you’re all dying to know.

So, some context, if you will. You may have heard of this series, you may not have. Either way, here’s a summary of the series I grabbed from the Wings of Fire Wiki, (because I’m awful at these things.)

oh by the way, there probably will be spoilers, fyi.

Books 1-5: The dragons of Pyrrhia are divided — and only the five dragonets foretold in a prophecy can unite the seven warring tribes and bring peace and understanding among them. The books by Tui T. Sutherland tell their story.

Books 6-10: The dragons of Pyrrhia are at peace after the war, but a new prophecy has arisen, and the dragons who are trying to fulfill it are the Jade Winglet: Moonwatcher, Winter, Qibli, Kinkajou, Peril and Turtle. They must keep a wary eye out for Darkstalker, Onyx, and Chameleon. Those three are all enigmas, and could turn against them at any time. The new dragonets must fulfill their prophecy- to find the 'Lost City of Night', in order to stop thunder and ice from destroying Jade Mountain!

So, sounds innocent enough, right? Well, it’s the exact same trap Warriors places. At first, I believed that Warriors was going to be a cutesy series about kitty cats in the forest thinking they’re going through prophecies and arguing over catnip.

As many of you will know, that turned out entirely wrong. And I was all for it.

It’s pretty much the same with Wings of Fire as well. Of course, Tui T Sutherland, who worked as Erin Hunter, wrote the series, so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.

This series can get extremely intense at times. It took paths I never expected it to go. It introduced concepts that were not only interesting, but posed intriguing questions about humanity, (and yes, I know, it’s a book about dragons. That’s what makes it even better.)

Let’s take an early example in the series. It’s sort of spoilerly, I guess? Not really, but if you want to remain entirely unspoiled for the series, you probably want to click off now.

So, one of the main struggles the protagonist of the first novel, Clay, faces include the expectations his mentors, who after seeing him supposedly attack the other eggs, believe he has raw fighting potential. However, Clay, as you may have guessed, isn’t all that into battling, much more fascinated by eating.

Another problem he faces is never knowing his parents, and the worries he has about them. He believes that they really do miss him, and that when he does come home, they’ll welcome him with open arms, even throwing a party.

Both of these problems are resolved in the same visit. Clay finally visits the Mud Kingdom, and discovers his parents. Instead of them being estatic at seeing him again, they are rather indifferent on the matter. It turns out that his mother willingly gave his egg up for merely two cows in return. In fact, she’s not even happy that her son is back, she’s more worried if the cows will have to be returned. It’s quite a gut punch to Clay, proof that things in life aren’t as fairy-tale perfect as we wish they could be.

As for the issue with the eggs, it’s also revealed that Clay’s intent wasn’t actually to harm the other dragonets. In Mudwing society, the oldest sibling is known as the bigwings, and one of the things the bigwings are known for is helping out their siblings of their shells, by cracking them. However, the dragons who were watching over Clay mistook this for violent behavior, despite the fact it was simply an act of love. You get the picture.

Why did I just mention all that? I dunno.

you should totally read the books

just saying

#wings of fire #this post is a mess

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mudwingpropaganda · 4 years

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Arc 2 Timeline Rewritten

I’ve been thinking about my headcanons and I’ve been seriously struggling to get across the plot points that I want to happen within my headcanons. So I decided the best way to figure out what was important for the sequence of events was to just smash arc 2 on the ground and rebuild from the shards.

From now on, I think I’ll be referring to this when working on my own characters (or my headcanons)! It’s not the most eloquent, but this is how I’ll be reasoning the events of the books.

Arc 1 is valid. All arc 1 needs is more foreshadowing for Thorn and a little less forced love interests. Anyway, feel free to absorb by “ideal timeline” if you so desire.

The Second Brightest Night takes place.

(I have my own handful of headcanons about my take on the Second Brightest Night and less magical ending for that night, but lets sum it up by saying that Burn dies via the snakes, unfortunately, Blister is killed by Thorn, and Blaze suffers substantial injuries but survives and goes missing after Thorn ascends to the throne.)

AT LEAST a year or two passes as the RainWing Queendom is focused upon, until Jade Mountain is founded.

Queen Glory requested her siblings’ attention to help set up the tribe before jumping into their next war reparation project. This included the punishment of NightWing criminals, the state of the ex-experiment RainWings, and the customs that were lost when Queen Grandeur gave up on her bloodline and the title was shared between multiple dragonesses. Handsome, especially, assists in this restoration of culture and stability. Ex-Princess Greatness tries to give Glory her tribe’s history and customs, but ultimately gives up her title and acts as a figurehead to reach her subjects.

Jade Mountain is formed at least 2 or 3 years after the end of the war.

As a resolution of treaties, the Dragonets convinced the queens to enroll students in their peace building project, Jade Mountain Academy. Sunny already had the favor of Moorhen and Thorn, Tsunami took a little convincing of Coral, knowing she could bring in her siblings, Glory had the authority of her own two tribes, Clay reached out to Peril and Queen Ruby, and it took a little extra effort of reaching out to Queen Glacier. But after her approval was given, the school could finally take full initiative.

The opening of the school was met with the ominous reappearance of Queen Scarlet. This caused unrest and disaster within the first month of school.

As a result of her disturbance, students who had previously been optimistic about the school’s opening were now uneasy. The attempted assassination of Princess Icicle’s life, the death of multiple students on Sora’s hands, and thicker tension in the air of the school. The disappearance of the entire Jade Winglet lead the school to be temporarily shut down. Classes were suspended and students were asked to stay in their rooms or go home. (This is saying that Jade Mountain was equipped as an escape for those in bad home situations. Though. Not very successful as an escape, per say.)

Scarlet’s antagonism opens the arc, introducing her “alliance” with Chameleon.

Both by terrorizing Princess Icicle to do her bidding or tricking Peril into coming back to her clutches, the terrible things Scarlet did in her reign comes to light, namely the kidnapping of Prince Hailstorm and the mental deception of Princess Tourmaline/Ruby. Chameleon acts as a servant of her, facading as Soar for a majority of the time, acting as Peril’s technical father. Though, it’s obvious that while he serves her, he has not necessarily dedicated his life to her. Chameleon disappears for the sake of Peril’s resolution to wrap up Scarlet’s tyranny. But Chameleon’s near murder of Kinkajou sets up more antagonism on his part.

Chameleon generally becomes the main focus of antagonism for the rest of the arc. He causes the team to split up so Winter could do some soul searching and Kinkajou could coma, I guess.

After the Jade Winglet physically joins Peril and Turtle to resolve Scarlet’s arc, Chameleon is now gone of a powerful ally. He attempts to pick the group apart. Conflict between Winter, Moon, and Qibli, over the injuries of Kinkajou, and the spite between Peril and Winter, leading to Winter having his side trip to the IceWing kingdom with Hailstorm, where no one else could follow him. The Jade Winglet hangs out in Possibility, I guess, I’m still working out the details.

When trouble stirs in Possibility, Qibli accidentally pulls the group into SandWing trouble, revealing the alliance between Vulture and Onyx, as well as Chameleon disguising under their ranks.

Vulture and Onyx begin to be relevant. This was set up and foreshadowed, of course, but I’m not writing these books. Onyx was a dragon who went missing when things started going awry at Jade Mountain, as she decided playing into Sunny’s favor to get close to Thorn wouldn’t work. As Qibli hints at knowing something about the danger encroaching on Possibility, he flees to warn Thorn, but gets caught up in his past. He’s fully aware how to get himself out of these situations, but now he needs to protect the Jade Winglet from the likes of his family.

Onyx and Vulture’s plot relates, once again, to the thrones that were shifted by the Dragonets’ meddling, as Onyx tries to take the throne from Thorn.

Onyx has a more valuable role in this rewritten timeline. Her opinion on royalty isn’t disregarded, and her father legitimately shows remorse for his daughter rather than??? his girlfriend Thorn (which doesn’t happen in my headcanonverse). The concept of a fourth heir to the throne seemed like it would be such a significant plot point for Tui. Darkstalker took over that. In this version, Onyx is an important character, with Vulture pulling the strings, promising she has a chance at the throne. His point being: if a criminal can take the throne based on a child’s word and a magical necklace, another criminal can work for the throne based on his wit and his access to a true blood heir to the throne.

After the royalty plotlines are addressed, Chameleon is separated from his allies by the Jade Winglet once again.

Thorn eventually wards off Vulture and Onyx, with the somewhat support of her subjects, but the event left the SandWing queendom uneasy, as it still has work to be done. Thorn loses the Scorpion Den to the two of them, leaving Chameleon identified again. After being separated from his allies, once again, Chameleon becomes more focused in his vengeful plots against these children, but he does have his own points, especially in relevance to Kinkajou’s abuse she faced against the NightWings experimenting on her. When all else fails, he resorts back to the scroll itself.

As a final grasp for power, Chameleon attempts to become the previous owner of the scroll, leading to the storyline of Darkstalker.

Chameleon attempts to create a charm that will turn him into the true owner of the scroll. So Chameleon destroys the scroll in the process, as Darkstalker overtakes Chameleon’s body and, instead of it being a mask, similar to his disguises, Darkstalker is capable of using his magic to use Chameleon as a vessel as a whole. Jade Mountain begins to collapse with his old body’s sudden disappearance. And Darkstalker plot happens!

Darkstalker is still bent on revenge and restoring his kingdom’s former glory, but more in the sense of a more magically manipulative kind... the idea of magically changing people’s minds and changing people as a whole as he sees fit is focused upon

The twisted scene like Fierceteeth being turned into Clearsight has much more gravity. And directly affects our protagonists. While yes, a plague begins to wipe out the IceWings, and Queens and influential individuals are simply made to accept Darkstalker as a king, Darkstalker also realizes that the best way to get his friends - and enemies - back is molding them from the closest things to them. Moonwatcher being Clearsight, the two of them being striking similar in appearance and mannerisms, Turtle being Fathom, a timid descendent of another SeaWing animus who was afraid of his powers, Winter being Queen Diamond, someone he could kill, over and over, just as his mother was. Kinkajou? Oh, she’s irrelevant. Peril would have to be taken care of. But Qibli’s a wise one, thoughtful, and craved for validation. Perhaps he could help him perfect the spell.

This makes the story moving forward less about MAGIC as a whole and more of the concept of forcing dragons to do things against their will. (Which leads into the Pantala arc but first...)

Darkstalker is defeated, of course, after hinting about the existence of Pantala, and causing a “glitch” in magic system which has caused a lull in enchantments and animus dragons.

After a few obnoxious monologues, a bit of trickery and secret exchanging on Qibli and Kinkajou’s parts, and the sibling drama of animus SeaWing royal siblings, the free Jade Winglet (including Peril) was able to kill Darkstalker, who’s weight on the magic continuism caused magic to “break” momentarily in the Wings of Fire continuum, (just for Pantala’s conflict to be wrapped up without cheat codes). The residue of magic is left on the world, which accidentally manifests into a whole new dragonet. Peacemaker. (I’ll elaborate on my ideas for Peacemaker one day but... as much as I HATE the resolution of Darkstalker getting once another second chance, I love the idea of a whole separate identity facing the consequences for another’s evil. I’ll figure it out later.)

The students will resume classes again. Maybe Stonemover becomes useful to attempt to help out with the consequences of Darkstalker. The NightWings begin grappling with Glory’s rule, even more than usual, after the progress that they made. Pantala’s arc will be moreso about the fallout of Darkstalker, the accidental marks that Clearsight made, and the longlasting magical residue of Fathom. But those are ideas for later posts.

#wingsoffire #wings of fire #wof rewrite

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mudwingpropaganda · 4 years

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your timeline is really good :0 which povs would you give to which events? also, fun fact: kinkajou offhandedly mentions her “potential post-traumatic stress”, so apparently dragons do have a knowledge of mental health?

That was actually my next step in trying to figure these headcanons out! I’ll use this ask to sort through my thoughts actually.

(I’m going to pretend I have free reign over book numbers because I love the ideas of all our POVs but I ALSO want a Kinkajou book.)

Okay, SO

1. I would make Kinkajou the introduction to the arc. She’s the character that we’re familiar with in terms of Dragonets of Destiny story. She had the most stake in the NightWings joining the RainWings. Her book would sooort of montage her rising uncertainties for the years leading up to Jade Mountain, and possibly end on the note of Glory asking her to attend Jade Mountain academy OR the false assassination of Queen Glory. Kinkajou’s left on an ominous note where we realize that shit’s about to go down.

2. And I absolutely love the mindreader, future-seeing Moonwatcher as a character in a lowkey mystery arc, trying to figure out who’s trying to kill the IceWing Princess. I’d push her perspective back, but I still think it’s important to establish “uh oh! NightWing powers are real, actually, and they’re back!” Foreshadowing for Darkstalker but he’s put on the backburner 100%.

3. Then I’d love do Peril’s POV! The gang tags along because they’ve established themselves as a(n unstable) friend group held together by individuals trying so hard to find camaraderie or those with similar goals. Winter despises Peril, but she’s the closest lead he has to finding his brother, for example. Turtle is also there, and while Team Jou, Moon, Qibli and Winter buddy up, Turtle is still awkward and spends his time with the literal on fire dragon. Besties <3 Her friendship with the Jade Winglet actually helps her break Chameleon’s spell even more so than her crush on Clay. Because this lass NEEDS some mutual platonic relationships.

4. Then I’d give Winter his POV. Having found his brother, he claims he has no need to associate with these other tribes, when he could be regarded as a hero back home. Kinkajou’s been incapacitated, Chameleon’s on the run, and Winter is trying to deny that he has emotions. Similar circumstance of events, he finds Foeslayer/Hope, and returns to find the gang up in hijinks. A “Good, you’re back. Quick, lift up this half of the zonked dragonet and we gotta get out of Possibility.” “That’s a funny way to say hello.”

5. Qibli deals with his wack family while pulling around the Jade Winglet who does not understand why he’s so obsessed with the queen. Perhaps Vulture/Onyx/Cobra capture Qibli to use as a bargaining chip and he kicks himself for giving them the advantage. But in their clutches, we see an important part of the WoF world. The shattered Scorpion Den community after Thorn’s leave (and her being forced to attempt to be law enforcement as queen, turning on her dragons that didn’t follow her before she became queen) and how Vulture is hungry for his definition of order and power. And Onyx is starving for justice and the attention she’s been deprived of, while running from the war. It’d be epic and thoughtful and not solved by Smoulder being Thorn’s “boyfriend” and breaking his daughter’s legs. The might o Thorn’s followers and the friendship of the Jade Winglet free him, of course, and chase out Chameleon.

6. Then I’d give Turtle a somewhat climatic POV. He’d be the perspective experiencing Darkstalker’s rebirth. He’d see the very point of why he should be afraid of his powers. And he’s directly beheld as an individual that could bring back Darkstalker’s friends. He’d have a similar “I am trying to save the day by hiding” plot, which Darkstalker would mockingly call cowardice. But he actually functions as an important information gatherer for Kinkajou and Qibli (who would currently be the dragons not being held prisoner by Darkstalker so that he could figure out how to turn them into his friends and eventually bring about his demise.) Moon doesn’t get to be the cheat code guru for them, she’s busy trying to convince Darkstalker not to go over the edge. Which is all too familiar to ol’ Darky either way.

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But ohohoh DRAGON THERAPY!!!!!!!!!!! I did not know this, but this gives me so much hope for my personal headcanons of mental health nurturing programs in places like Jade Mountain and the reforming queendoms. I am going to absorb this information, thank you.

#bread--quest

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