#keeb!starflight

everything you thought you knew will fall apart, but you'll be alright

yayyyy! you get some fun facts about the dragonets of destiny's group dynamics:

clay feels responsible as the dragonets' bigwings after the dragonet prophecy. he thinks it's his duty to protect the others and keep them all safe. he and tsunami butt heads over this, because she also feels responsible and wants to be their leader - this is largely because kestrel saw the most promise in her and told her privately that she was the best fit for leadership. tsunami's plans are often much more proactive (and dangerous) than clay's. they have to learn how to share responsibility and trust glory, starflight, & sunny to look after themselves.

glory and starflight like to be pretentious about things together. they both enjoy reading, under the mountain they liked to read together (partly as a subconscious escapism tactic). prior to leaving the mountain, literary analysis was one of the few things starflight ever got vocally assertive over - he and glory got in lots of arguments about books & plays but never seriously held it against the other.

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howdy, ty for asking!

starflight's arc in my rewrite is all about confronting his desire to be important/special. he's taken by the nightwings sometime between the lost heir and the hidden kingom after appearing on a battlefield to stop blister from killing king gill (will make sense after I share my tlh notes haha). prior to this, he was raised on lots of stories about the nightwings being very special, and he's always wanted to embody that.

on the nightwing island he meets his family (father and half-sister) and is placed at the head of the false dragonets of destiny. this is a very alluring thing to him, becoming the leader - he could start over as the powerful mythical dragon he's always wanted to be. of course, this façade gradually falls apart, and he eventually rejects the nightwings' plan in favor of choosing the prophecy and bringing it to fruition with his chosen family (the dragonets of destiny).

there's some other stuff going on in the dark secret as well, which i'll list here:

starflight replaces fatespeaker in the fake dod lineup. fatespeaker acts like she's totally okay with this, but it actually tears her up a lot, as she feels like she got thrown out the second a "better choice" showed up. starflight actually bonds with her quite a bit in tds, he helps her find meaning beyond the prophecy and in the process discovers things about himself & the nightwings.

starflight learns about stonemover while on the island! stonemover is spoken about in hushed tones, as a traitor who the queen wants dead. he comes up again in the brightest night, but plays a different role than in canon.

starflight gets into a fistfight with fierceteeth and some other nightwing teens. he loses.