Subzero (HTTYWOF)

Subzero is an adult male IceWing who is a supporting character in How to Train Your Wings of Fire, a How to Train Your Dragon and Wings of Fire crossover written by HTTYDPokemonFan under the username ReptileGirl497 on Fanfiction.net. He was hatched with a rare and dangerous condition known as frostscales, and lived with his parents in a Talons of Peace camp. After moving to Possibility, he became a member of the Dragonet Defenders. He is currently attending Jade Mountain Academy as a member of the Diamond Winglet.
== Appearance ==
Subzero has pale blue scales that are dappled with snowball-shaped blue spots of varying sizes. He has dark blue horns, spikes and talons, black eyes, a white underbelly, and white wings. He is described by Ember as gorgeous, with scales that gleam like polished jewels and claws that glint like crescent moons.
== Personality ==
Subzero is blunt, snappy, bitter, and introverted. According to himself, Subzero acts hostile to keep other dragons away from him so they won't get hurt by his frostscales. He has a softer side that he only shows whenever he's around dragons he trusts, like Typhoon or Ember, and will become more quiet and calm. He is sensitive about his condition, and is often annoyed or downright enraged whenever it is pointed out or brought up. As a young dragonet, he seemed untroubled about his power; after learning how deadly it could be he would often hide himself on the sidelines to avoid hurting anyone, especially his mother. On several occasions, he mentally and verbally expressed a wish to live his life like a normal IceWing. He has a sort of depression and loneliness about him, and King Windracer described Subzero's mind as almost impossible to read; it is all ice and snow, as if trying to navigate through a blizzard. Windracer believes that Subzero would be happier if he had friends.
== Biography ==
=== Pre-Series ===
Subzero is the son of Hvitur and Polynya, a pair of IceWings in the Talons of Peace. Upon hatching, it was discovered that the dragonet possessed an excess amount of frost and ice. Dragonets like Subzero - referred to as having "frostscales", - are usually exiled or even killed due to how dangerous they can be, but Hvitur and Polynya were able to raise their son in secret.
As a young dragonet of about a year and a half old, his father, Hvitur, was killed by Princess Burn while trying to steal the egg containing the SkyWing Dragonet of Destiny. On the day after the brightest night, Polynya, fearful for her son's life, brought Subzero before Queen Glacier to plead for his protection. The IceWing queen, having an understanding of Polynya's feelings due to having dragonets of her own, arranged for Subzero to reside in Possibility with a SeaWing-IceWing hybrid named Typhoon.
Since then, Subzero spent his childhood and early adult life alone and friendless (with the possible exception of Typhoon). His mother would often visit him, but he refused to come near her, to protect her from his condition. He also refused to talk to her, presumably because he was upset at having lost his father. He was forced to keep his distance from others, including his loved ones, due to the dangers of his frostscales, and thus became embittered and depressed.
=== How to Train Your Wings of Fire: Winglets ===
Subzero appeared in Destiny, where he met Ember in Possibility. Despite his animosity toward SkyWings due to his father's death, Ember managed to convince him to let her spend a night at his place.
=== How to Train Your Wings of Fire ===
Subzero was nominated by Queen Glacier to be part of an escort for the Dragonets of Destiny as they journeyed to the Rainforest Kingdom to warn the RainWings of the NightWings' plan to overthrow them and take the rainforest for themselves. When the dragonets questioned why he was standing so far away from the group, the IceWing demonstrated his frostscales on an apple, which he then crushed into tiny bits of ice when Windracer revealed the name of his condition.
When Ember confessed her love for Subzero, he violently pushed her away because of his frostscales condition meaning he could never touch her or hug her. Windracer offered Subzero the chance to be able to once more; enchanting his frostscales to only activate when he wanted them to. So he could hug other dragons for the first time and be with Ember cause he could see that he did love her despite what he said.
When Ember was bitten by the dragonbite viper, Subzero nearly slammed into her in horror. Ember told him it was okay for her to die but he protested, confessing that he was a broken dragon and that she fixed him, apologizing for pushing her away, and finally admitting that he loved her. Windracer enchanted Ember's necklace to save her life, while Subzero killed the viper with his frostscales.
=== How to Train Your Wings of Fire 2 ===
Subzero is enrolled at Jade Mountain Academy in the Diamond Winglet, and is given a private cave to protect other students from being harmed by his frostscales. He appeared with Ember, Qibli, Kinkajou, Turtle and Moonwatcher and alongside Winter witnessing Icicle trying to kill Windracer and Arid after failing to do so the first time in the bombing of the History Cave the other day. She revealed she was working for Malicious in order to claim Darkstalker's scroll, but he and Winter fought against her and she later escaped.
Subzero joined the Jade Winglet in looking for Icicle to prevent her from killing Queen Arid, finding her inside of the tunnel leading to the lost city of night where Arid, Qibli, Ocotillo, and Diamondback arrested her for attempted murder. Later, he freezes Darkstalker's scroll with his frostscales when the Jade Winglet starts fighting over it, which inadvertently frees Darkstalker from his 2,000 year prison within Agate Mountain. Subzero became one of the many victims of the IceWing Plague before one of Arid's loyal subjects gave him a copy of Qibli's enchanted earring and saved his life. He fought in the Battle of Jade Mountain, freezing a NightWing who had harmed Ember before taking her inside with the help of Auburn.
In the epilogue, Subzero attended Queen Glacier's funeral, alongside his mother.
== Relationships ==
=== Ember ===
Subzero did not like Ember at first, because he saw her as a reminder of why his father died. Despite this, he saved her from Queen Scarlet and Princess Burn, showed her sympathy for her mother's death, and allowed her to bunk with him for a single night. He was enraged when she poked him with a stick to get his attention while avoiding touching his scales, but softened a great deal when she apologized for it and thanked him for letting her stay. Subzero had never met anyone who thought he was special until he met Ember. Although he claimed he did not hate Ember, he initially refused to let her be his friend in an effort to protect her from himself, but eventually realized he was being unfair and resolved to be nicer and more open to her. He picked out a diamond necklace for her as a hatching day present, but was adamant that he was not going soft. He insisted that he did not have a crush on her, but he knew he was lying to himself. Subzero's mind becomes a lot less blizzardy whenever he looks at Ember.
=== Queen Glacier ===
Subzero and Queen Glacier seemed to have been on good terms. When Polynya went to Glacier for help after Hvitur's death, the IceWing queen decided to forgo the tradition of either killing or exiling frostscales IceWings and instead arranged for Subzero to live peacefully in Possibility. Glacier seemed to trust Subzero, as she volunteered him to be part of the dragonets' escort to the Rainforest Kingdom.
=== Hvitur ===
Polynya confirmed that Subzero had a good relationship with his father. Hvitur would often entertain him with stories and bring him special fish to eat. Hvitur loved Subzero in spite of his condition and would go out of his way to improve his son's life in any way he could. Subzero was devastated upon learning of Hvitur's death.
=== Polynya ===
Subzero was happy with his mother initially, but then grew to be angry with her after she sent him away for his own safety. Polynya claims that he got along with his father more than he did with her. However, she seems to be one of the few dragons that Subzero actually cares about. He even admitted that he secretly looks forward to seeing her when she visits.
=== Typhoon ===
Typhoon is kind to Subzero, and doesn't seem to mind the IceWing's condition. He views Subzero as a sort of younger brother type of friend, and taught him about how to get around in Possibility. Before Subzero met the Dragonets of Destiny, Typhoon was the closest thing he had to a friend.
== Quotes ==
"You've been sharing your home with a SkyWing?! [...] And you didn't tell me?!" - to Typhoon
"You better have a really good reason for sticking that up my nose!" - to Ember
"I'm sorry. [...] I haven't been fair to you. I never took the time to make any lasting friendships because of my frostscales. Typhoon's the closest thing I've had to a friend, and he's sort of an older brother type of friend. I thought that if I pushed you away, I'd be keeping you safe...safe from me. But you just won't quit. Why are you so determined to be my friend?" - to Ember
"I'm used to being alone. [...] A lot of dragons around here are afraid of me because they know what I can do. I can't even touch another IceWing for more than a few seconds without giving them frostbite. I figure if I act hostile, everyone will leave me alone and that way I won't hurt them, accidentally or on purpose if they make me mad enough. My mother and Typhoon were the only dragons who saw me as a real dragon, the only ones I ever opened up to...until I met you. Somehow you got under my scales, and now you're hanging out with me like we've been best friends our whole lives. I don't know what it is, but when I'm around dragons I trust I feel like I can be almost normal. You said you'd do anything to be special, right? Well, I'd do anything to be normal, even if it's just for a little while. To actually touch other dragons, to eat warm food and drink water without it freezing...to hug my mother when she comes to see me...or nudge Typhoon whenever he makes one of his jokes that I'll never admit are actually kind of funny...or to hold you when you're upset and missing your mother..." - to Ember
"His name was Hvitur. [...] He was caught stealing some stupid SkyWing egg for some stupid fake prophecy by that stupid warmonger princess Burn." - to the Dragonets of Destiny
"Just suck it up, you whiney prince. [...] There are worse places to be than a rainforest. Like in the SkyWing prison. Or a mile underwater. And what about under Morrowseer's claws?" - to Prince Winter
"She's looking at me again. [...] Why does she hang around me all the time? [...] She looks so pretty with that necklace on. [...] What is happening to me right now? [...] Stop thinking about her! [...] My father's dead because of a SkyWing! [...] I AM NOT IN LOVE WITH EMBER!" - thoughts
== Trivia ==
* Subzero temperatures are below zero on the Fahrenheit scale.
* Subzero can be seen as a parallel to Peril. Both are the offspring of a guardian of the Dragonets of Destiny, have special scales powers with elements associated with their tribes (ice for the IceWings and fire for the SkyWings), are enrolled at Jade Mountain Academy, and are romantically interested in a Dragonet of Destiny (Clay for Peril and Ember for Subzero).
== Gallery ==
SubzeroJoyAng.png|Joy Ang base
SubzeroBaby.png|Peregrinecella dragonet base
SubzeroConstelliarts.png|Constelli Graphic Novel base
Typical_IceWing_by_Sassy_the_Beagle.jpg|A typical IceWing (colored), by Joy Ang
IceTransparent.png|A typical IceWing (lineart), by Joy Ang
IceWing Sigil.png|IceWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing
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