Luna (Wings of Fire)

**Luna** is a female SilkWing dragonet, and the main protagonist of *The Flames of Hope*. She is a flamesilk dragon and the half-sister of Blue. She is in a long-time relationship with Swordtail and currently resides in the LeafSilk Kingdom.

## Description

Luna has pale, pearly, bright green scales like of an elegant caterpillar color that are lined with golden flecks along her back and tail. Before her Metamorphosis, she had whorls of cobalt and gold in her wingbuds, and a pale green tail. She now has pale green wings that look beautiful, like cascading petals of green sunlight and has long, furling antennae and scales like sliced gems. From afar, she appears as a pale green shape with bits of white, gold, and blue, and is described as being smaller and lighter than Pineapple.

## Personality

Before her Metamorphosis, Luna had always felt ready for life with her wings and the change that would come with them. Her half-brother, Blue, always considered her to be the smartest dragon in their family. Luna is described as reckless, unworried, fierce, bubbly, and cheerful. She yearned for change and independence and was aware of how unfairly the SilkWings are treated.

She is often difficult and impertinent towards dragons she dislikes, and it is unlike her to apologize to them. Sundew describes Luna as great, that she gives off a survivor vibe and is able to take care of herself despite having known her for less than a day at that time. However, like her brother, she does think and care about how her actions would affect other dragons, such as when Chafer hurried Blue and Luna out of a candy store in Cicada Hive, Luna gave a pair of scales for their honey drops despite Chafer telling them to simply leave.

She cares about dragons who are in danger, and she is not easily frightened. Moonwatcher noted that Luna's mind is somehow more entangling than other dragons, and that she is slightly intense. Luna wanted a world where dragons loved who they wanted to love, took care of each other and were happy. She wanted to make tapestries that made others happy, and believes sad, true stories such as the cause of the Scorching should be told, but she does not want to be the one to tell them.

As much as Luna thought the idea of setting someone on fire with her flamesilk was fun, she always found the idea of hurting a real dragon extremely scary. She felt guilty for days when she accidentally hurt Jerboa III with her flamesilk. Some days, she feels she has endless energy, when she knows how to fix the wrongs of the world. She describes these as "sunny season days". On other days, her "rainy season days", a kind of fog weaves around her thoughts, making her want to hide away from everyone and not be a dragon for a while. On those days, she often tries to hide what she is really feeling so that the dragons around her do not worry. Luna sometimes suppresses upsetting thoughts, and instead tries to think optimistically.

## Relationships

### Blue

Despite having very different personalities, Luna is shown to love and care about her younger half-brother. On Luna's Metamorphosis Day, Blue is the dragon that she chose to spend her time with. Blue often allowed others to push him around to keep the peace, which was something she loved about him but also drove her up a wall. She also notices almost right away how much Blue had changed during the time she was in her Cocoon, saying, "Wow, […] It really was a long five days, wasn't it?" When Luna emerged from her Metamorphosis in the Flamesilk Cavern, Blue cried with joy because he had missed her very much. She is affectionate towards him and has always been able to read him.

### Cricket

Luna was initially distrustful of Cricket. Though Luna knows that Cricket is a safe HiveWing, she still gets a small shiver at the sight of her. A small part of her was angry that Blue and Swordtail had fallen into Queen Wasp's Hivemind and not Cricket. When Cricket attempted to get close to Luna to try and talk to her, Luna usually found an excuse to fly with the other representatives instead. Luna was surprised when Cricket opened up about her feelings, as it was not a "HiveWing thing" to do. Luna later recognized that Cricket was her own individual dragon, instead of just another HiveWing. At the end of *The Flames of Hope*, Luna introduces Cricket to her moms as a member of her family.

### Dusky

Luna cares for Dusky, enough to fly into the abyss to save him. She allowed Dusky to stay with her so he would not get lost.

### Jerboa III

Jerboa III is the first dragon Luna met when she came to Pyrrhia. Jerboa also helped Luna when she was wounded, so Luna sees her as a friend. At the beginning of *The Flames of Hope*, Luna gave Jerboa III a gift as a thank you for taking care of her. Jerboa III did not react much to the gift as she was not accustomed to normal dragon interactions, something Luna related to. When Luna tried to take the gift back, Jerboa III batted her away, insisting it was her weird-looking art fail. Luna promised that she would make a better gift for Jerboa III once the world is fixed.

### Lynx

Luna thought Lynx was "too smiley." However, she still trusted her enough to rely on her while they are invisible.

### Moonwatcher

She seemed thrilled to learn about Moon's ability to see the future, and believed Moon was the secret weapon the SilkWings and LeafWings needed to destroy the HiveWings. She got startled when she first saw Moon, thinking she was Clearsight. During their flight back to Pantala, Luna thought negatively of Moonwatcher as she did not fit Luna's image of an intimidating, mystic prophet. When Moon revealed that she had mind-reading powers to Luna, Luna did not know whether not to be mad at Moon for keeping it a secret or feel guilty over the mean thoughts she had about Moon.

### Pineapple

Luna described Pineapple as her "favorite new Pyrrhia friend." He is physically affectionate towards her. Pineapple found Sky to be delightful, unlike the other Pyrrhian dragons, which made Luna like him even more. After Luna saw Pineapple's vision, Luna wished she would have known about Pineapple's partner, Jambu, before so she could make him feel better. She saw herself in Pineapple as they both understood the feeling of missing someone who they loved dearly. Luna promised to Pineapple that they would try and get him back home to his partner. Luna mentioned she would look forward to Pineapple and Jambu coming to visit them in Pantala soon.

### Qibli

Luna found Qibli to be too hilarious and nowhere near serious enough. Qibli reminded Luna of Swordtail in some ways, as they both were funny and talked a lot when they were nervous. She also saw little things about him which reminded her of Blue, as they both wanted to be liked by everyone and make everyone happy.

### Sky

Luna described Sky as "her direct opposite" and thought that Sky was mostly likely to bump into a Hive and apologize to it. She also stated that Sky is a very sweet dragon, and reminded her of her younger brother, Blue.

### Snowfall

Luna found Snowfall to have been "a flipping terrifying dragon."

### Swordtail

Luna is in a relationship with Swordtail and is shown to care a lot about him. Swordtail has always been on her side since the moment they met. Swordtail loves her, and when HiveWing guards took Luna away during her Metamorphosis, he vaulted towards her and tried to protect her. When Swordtail met Luna before her Metamorphosis, she leaned into him as though she had been flying for days and Swordtail was the island she had been searching for. Blue believes that Swordtail puts dangerous ideas in Luna's head, but she claims that she is the one who introduces the ideas to Swordtail. The pair is devastated when they are separated. They never went long without each other in the five years they have been together, and she felt strange and untethered with him. Once the othermind was defeated, both Luna and Swordtail happily reunited with each other, and went to live in the LeafSilk Kingdom together with their friends.

### Tsunami

Luna believed that Tsunami would be useful for fighting the HiveWings. She thought that Tsunami was sometimes scarier than Sundew.

### Wren

Luna thought that Wren could take down a Hive if she had talons and fire.

## References

Information sourced from the Wings of Fire Wiki