Thistle

Thistle is a female LeafWing and a supporting character in How to Train Your Wings of Fire 3, an upcoming How to Train Your Dragon and Wings of Fire crossover and threequel to How to Train Your Wings of Fire, written by HTTYDPokemonFan under the username ReptileGirl497 on Fanfiction.net. She is a member of the PoisonWings and the mother of Yew.
== Appearance ==
Thistle has forest-green scales and wood-brown scales on her spine, legs, talons, and face. Her brown eyes hold a spark of vigor in them, and her claws are as sharp as thorns.
== Personality ==
Thistle is sharp, brisk, fierce, and bold. She enjoys the thrill of hunting and is always straight to the point. Because of her upbringing with the PoisonWings, she does not fully understand the concept of compassionate love and finds displays of affection to be awkward and disturbing. However, she is patient and was genuinely worried for her daughter when she was banished from the PoisonWing vilage on account of her father being a SapWing.
== Biography ==
=== Pre-Series ===
Around ten years prior to the main series, Thistle was out hunting for a panther, which she managed to catch with a trap she'd prepared beforehand. Thistle killed the panther but struggled to carry it on her own. The noise attracted the attention of a nearby SapWing named Eucalyptus, who offered to help. Thistle reluctantly accepted his assistance, and the two of them talked on the way to the PoisonWing village. They quickly realized they were from different factions, but Thistle ended up liking Eucalyptus and wanted to see him again. The two began meeting in secret, with Thistle using a wood carving of a panther to signal when she was waiting for him.
A few years later, Thistle and Eucalyptus unwittingly conceived an egg, which turned out to be Yew. Thistle raised their daughter with the PoisonWings for two years before her secret relationship with Eucalyptus was exposed and Yew was banished for having "tainted blood". Thistle was also forbidden to see or speak to Eucalyptus again and was reassigned from the hunting party to a unit of scouts.
== Relationships ==
=== Eucalyptus ===
Upon meeting Eucalyptus, Thistle thought of him as weird because of how much his kindness and nervous energy contrasted with the PoisonWings' bravery and fierce nature. She later admitted that she enjoyed his company, calling it "a breath of fresh air" from the militaristic chaos in the PoisonWing village. She often finds herself enchanted by his compassion and worries for him a lot. Thistle was reluctant to tell Yew about her father, but expressed a secret wish for the family to be together.
=== Yew ===
Thistle's relationship with her daughter had a rocky start. Not knowing how to properly raise a dragonet, she often left Yew in the care of others during the first year, and was frequently frustrated by Yew's inquisitiveness and childish naivety. During Yew's second year, Thistle taught her how to hunt as well as how to protect herself and what to watch out for in the jungle. She worried for Yew's safety when she was banished from the village and wants to be a good mother to her.
== Trivia ==
* Thistle is a widely distributed herbaceous plant of the daisy family, which typically has a prickly stem and leaves and rounded heads of purple flowers.
== Gallery ==
ThistleJoyAng.png|Joy Ang base
LeafTransparent.png|A typical LeafWing (lineart) by Joy Ang
LeafWing Sigil.png|LeafWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing
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