Wait, What Did Tricky Talon Do?

Huh.

That same reason is why he's my favorite character. Interesting how different our perspectives are /pos

I 100% read too much into that prologue specifically, but in my opinion he's such an intriguing character.

Still horrible tho.

"He didn't understand why they would want to be on their own, cut off from their protectors."

Oh gee, I don't know Webs. Maybe it could be because you let Kestrel beat them all the time? Or how her and Dune would consistently verbally abuse them? Or how they were never allowed to go outside their whole childhoods? Or wait! Maybe it could be because you all were going to kill Glory.

Ofc I know him! He's so silly!!!

Do You Know This Teacher? Poll #20

Webs from Wings of Fire

Webs teaches History!

This is why he's my favorite character.

#14 - "Fish"

Smaugust 2024

Here is Webs. Oh Websy... Perhaps one of the few dragons who can give Starflight a run for his money in regards to attracting misfortune. Much like Dragon Ball's Yamcha, nothing ever seems to go right for this old guy.

Here are some depressing facts about the life of Webs:

He was a soldier who became a pariah among his people for deserting during an important battle. This brought infamy and stigma to himself and his family by association.

He joined a group of political dissenters to end the war and redeem himself. Under their orders he was made to stage a kidnapping of the royal heir, which enraged the local government and necessitated his immediate escape from the country.

His wife got implicated in the kidnapping, and since she didn't flee with him, she was left to bear the brunt of a tyrannical and vengeful queen's fury. She died a cruel death for his crime.

His then-two-year-old son was left parent-less and grew up shunned by the populace for being his kid.

He can never return home, as he is a wanted man and will be killed on sight.

The organization he ruined his own life for later tried to kill him too.

He nearly got himself and his son killed by trying to appeal for mercy to a queen who he knows not to be particularly merciful.

While escaping from said queen he got poisoned and would have died, if his foster children hadn't bailed him out.

He is currently employed by the daughter of the woman who arranged his wife's death.

Said employer is also his foster daughter, who is dating his biological son, meaning said wife killer will eventually become part of his family via marriage.

It is unclear whether he is on good terms with his son, since they don't share many speaking scenes together and live in separate places.

When he was raising his foster children, he had an opportunity to teach the one who shares his heritage about their ancestral language--aquatic--which is very culturally important to their people. He declined to do this.

What he DID teach her is that the primary purpose of said language is to get hook-ups.

There is only a single moment in the graphic novels that shows him smiling.

Said moment occurs in someone else's imagination.

Everything in his life that he ever had a hand in has turned into abject failure. Everything that did not end in failure did so in spite of his actions, not because of them.

This is so sad. Why did I make this list? I'm sad now.

Something that confuses me is . . . I don't think anyone else really acknowledges how different (for lack of a better word) Webs is in the book 2 prologue. Like, ??? I'm not saying it's a bad thing but HUH?????

He's so much more of an asshole it's insane. Like I actually kinda wish that that was how he was most of the time. It would've been much more interesting.

But, yeah, book 2 prologue was crazy. Also the whole "Nautilus Trying To Brutally Murder Webs" thing, but, that's a whole different can of worms.

W anon !!! Thank you !!!

I honestly don't hc any character with this disorder. The only one I think gets close to it is one with severe self-esteem issues and trauma. But I'm not hc them with the disorder until I've done more extensive research lmao.

Calling Darkstalker a narcissist is ableist. There, I said it.

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Drawing Every Wings of Fire Character, Day Ten

Webs

He is very blue now

I mean. . .

I wouldn't call him a terrible dad.

He's really just a *loser* , honestly. Imeanhedidattemptmurderthatonetimebutyouknowwhatever.

Nautilus. Another terrible dad.

This is an oddly intriguing hc. I actually rather like this.

hc that the reason webs never taught tsunami aquatic was because he also doesn't know it

Honestly, I can see the vision. I can see it far too well.

Okay but Nautilus is described with spiral patterns, and Morrowseer has star patterns that are “curl inwards like a snail shell”, not to mention Nautilus is never shown with a wife, and so I propose:

Nautilus x Morrowseer

Leader of an underground organization and his shady NightWing politician. It could work horribly.

I love ALL OF THESE!!

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