#fee-speaks

GLADLY I actually really love Sunny a lot. She's a character I can really relate to, being small and treated as hopelessly innocent or naive when that is NOT the case.

Sunny is (pan)demiromantic asexual!

Sunny has the a very colorful cuss word vocabulary, falling only slightly behind Tsunami. She's always very considerate of swearing around kids, though.

Design hc: she does have a barb, actually, it's just super small and looks more like a little claw. It blends on with the NightWing spines on her tail, too

idc if it was ever established in canon or not, Sunny is the fastest and most agile flier among the DoD.

Sunny is still incredibly formidable in a fight. She knows she's small, but she uses that to her advantage. Her memory of weak spots is on point. But not having the prime natural weapon of a SandWing, she carries a small dagger for quick, close-range combat if she goes out alone

Sunny's pastimes include reading research scrolls about non-scavenger animals and making flower crowns with Glory.

tl;dr: though wof touts a theme about not needing special, predestined things like prophecies or fancy lineage to make a lasting and important impact on the world and society, plots and points involving particularly Glory and Thorn frustratingly contradict this message.

It's the same conflicting message that Warriors gets after it's first arc: that predetermined things like bloodline and prophecy *do*, in fact, define you.

I usually try to not let myself get too worked up about children's fiction and the little things in it like this, but this conflict of theme is just so, so frustrating to me.

If you consider the theme of (the first arc) of Wings of Fire to be "you are in control of your own fate; you do not have to be magical or special to change the world" (which is what I personally consider it to be and if anyone's interested I can write about that too), then Book 3 really messes that all up. Book 3/the RainWing trials done by Glory is the biggest thing that comes to mind but I've not read the whole series recently so there may be more.

The fact that Glory obtains queen status by being related to the ancient bloodline of RainWing queens, not by her own skill, prowess, or cleverness, is in such direct conflict with this main theme. If the theme is that you don't need to be special to attain greatness... why make Glory special? Would it not have been much more of an impact if Glory won fairly, or if she was voted in as queen due to her heroic actions on account of saving Kinkajou? I wouldn't even care if she were still related to Grandeur and the original line. It's the fact that the reason given for Grandeur's forfeiture is, "Ah, finally, a member of the bloodline with royal tendencies."

It's just always bothered me.

In the background, too, there's Thorn--a queen with no royal blood. A fresh kingdom. I actually really liked this, except for the fact that it made Sunny a princess, but... oh, well. That can be forgiven. But now there are rumors that Thorn is going to make Smolder her king to...

...Continue the original royal bloodline.

My name is Purple, or Filaree/Fee! I'm a WoF fan and occasional artist (y'know, when I feel like it). I'll also occasionally do some book commentary or headcanons and such.

Ask box is open! Feel free to ask whatever, please just be nice! Don't make me turn off anon lol.

I also have a ~carrd~ with some about info but I'm hardly a carrd expert so it's simple.

Yeah! I've had this url for a while but I'm excited to actually start using it and join the tumblr WoF community 💜💜

I have this sewing pattern and more fabric than I know what to do with. And personally I think more WoF dragons need to be recreated as plushies and I need to choose a canon victim for my first attempt (once I clean my sewing room).

I have the most black minky fabric so I'm leaning towards a NightWing. The opinion I'm asking is, which black NightWing should I do?

Current candidates are Starflight and Moon, *possibly* Clearsight? My memory is garbage and I don't remember characters well so please do feel free to inform me of NightWing friends (note that I'm only looking for nice NightWings for the shoulder friend, not any antagonists!)

I'm,,, a respectable adult woman I swear.

there's this Amazon return discount store or whatever that just opened in town and I went and they had those knockoff art WoF blankets out the wazoo. And I know these are bad to buy usually, since they steal the art, but in this case I figured no harm done--the product already existed, it was returned for whatever reason, and I paid $3 each to a local business for them. Reborn isn't someone I care to support so I'm actually a little smug about that one, but the other blanket (darker colored one) at the foot of the bed is by Blaze-TFD on DeviantArt and they seem like a sweet soul.