#fierceteeth

The worst and most flagrant example of this is surprisingly one that's often forgotten or overlooked for other things he did and it's the enchantment he places on Fierceteeth to become Clearsight. He luckily gets caught and defeated but what would happen if he wasn't caught or defeated? What would happen if after he won and took over Pyrrhia continued to work on his fake Clearsight, which is literally just an enchanted Fierceteeth, to the point where he thinks a fake replication of Clearsight is good/close enough to the original? He would do what he always wanted to do with the real Clearsight like rule the Kingdom together, get married and have dragonets while Fierceteeth is still there under a spell.

There is actually no way to defend this, even if you give him the benefit of the doubt by saying "he was just sad and after failing to get the fake Clearsight right he would abandon the plan entirely and not go through with it," that still doesn't change the fact that he still did actually try to do it with the intention of it actually working. There is no defending him for this, no reasonings Darkstalker himself or irl darkstalker defenders can give to defend or lessen the severity of this action. This moment doesn't get much attention do to how little time the book spends on it but it's horrifying when you stop to think about the implications of Darkstalker did and was trying to do.

That's not even the only instance of ignoring one's autonomy. The pattern continues with him it constantly puts spells on other dragons wyith out their permission. Examples being Clearsight and the enchanted earrings so she won't see bad futures, a goblet that would make Fathom forget about and not like Indigo anymore (luckily Indigo knew something was wrong), turned Indigo to into a statue, enchanted Arctic to obey, enchanted Vulture to obey every command, enchanted everyone to trust and like him, and the whole telling Clearsight that he will drag her kicking and screaming to a future he likes. This is only counting magical subversions of one's autonomy he also just does it with plain manipulation and he does it a lot.

Sorry this took so long! Ended up getting artblock trying to figure out what the heck to do for her wings… I’m currently experimenting with the idea of NightWings having fluffy, cat-like tails, and that, as dragonets growing up in the island, young NightWings often had their tails docked to make them harder to grab in a fight… poor baby :(