Dune

**Dune** is a female HeatWing who was introduced in *Dragon Heart*.

* Novels

## Appearance

Dune has golden scales, dark eyes, a stark white mane, and rippling dark gold patterns on her body. She has long claws to grip rocks with ease.

## Personality

Dune is very accepting of other mindsets and individuals she encounters.

When she identified as "non-binary", she was not angry at dragons who "misgendered" her and takes this as a nuisance to her.

## History

### Pre-Series

Dune hatched to her mother at an unspecified time in an unknown HeatWing herd in the Flat Desert. She was later outcasted from her herd as a result of her "non-binary" identity, which came from the gender dysphoria Dune suffered from. Dune later found a mixed herd of HeatWings who were outcasted due to physical or mental disabilities or social reasons and willingly joined them. She later became the herd's leader after the previous herd's leader, Bones, died peacefully in his sleep.

### *Dragon Heart*

Dune was encountered by Maple, Sand, and Cloud on the trio's quest to find the "legendary" FeatherWing species. She lead the trio to their herd, comprised of outcasted HeatWings, which had stopped at an oasis near TreeWing territory in the Flat Desert. The dragons were outcasted due to physical or mental disabilities or were otherwise deemed "abnormal" by mainstream HeatWings.

She the dragon that leads Maple, Sand, and Cloud to some ruins in the desert that hold hints on the FeatherWings' whereabouts.

### *Dragon Wings*

Dune appears during the Ili invasion of Eukarya, leaving the desert with other HeatWings for greener pastures. At the shores of the Forest of Groves, Dune and the outcast herd are the ones who initially help Maple, Sand, Cloud, Wind, Yellow, Coriolis, Mistral, and others who escaped the Mountain Claws.

Dune is mentioned by Bright in the epilogue when conversing with Maple in the aftermath of Danielle and Terence's wedding to be taking in outcasted HeatWings (from all walks of life) who desperately need a home or family.

She is also mentioned to have shed her "non-binary" identity since finding out that it was cover for her being homosexual.

## Relations

### Bones

Bones was a male HeatWing that was the previous leader of the HeatWing outcast herd before Dune.

### Parents

Dune's parents are unknown. It is unknown how Dune's mother discovered her "non-binary" identity, but what is known is that she shunned her daughter from the herd and mainstream HeatWing society (alongside other HeatWings) after learning about it. Dune's father was a HeatWing who encountered Dune's mother and mated with her before continuing to wander the Flat Desert.

### Sand

Sand is a female HeatWing.

Even though Sand "misgenders" Dune throughout *Dragon Heart* by referring to them with "she/her" pronouns (as Dune is biologically female and was "non-binary" in the novel), Dune is not offended by it.

## Trivia

* A "dune" is a sand hill or ridge formed by the wind, usually in desert regions or near lakes and oceans.
* Dune is the **only** LGBT+ character in *FeatherWings*.
	+ Dune is gender dysphoric, making her a true LGBT+ character. She was not groomed into their LGBT+ identity by others.
* As *Dragon Heart* is a toned down version of Matt Walsh's *What is a Woman?*, Dune is being kept in the novel, even if readers do not want any "woke" characters in it.
	+ Originally, if *FeatherWings* was ever published as a physical book and readers do not want any "woke" characters, Dune's "non-binary" identity would've be removed from the storyline, and Sand would've hate Dune because she questioned HeatWing society. Additionally, if a publishing house wanted a "woke" character in the series, Dune would fulfil that role easily.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Dragon Heart*, Chapter 6
2. ↑ *Dragon Heart*, Chapter 7
3. ↑ Dune - Dictionary.com
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Luna's outlines and notes for *FeatherWings*