Queen Coral

## Appearance

Coral appears similar to Tsunami, having sea-blue scales, with a bright blue bioluminescent stripes, and her underscales are a lighter blue, and her wings are slightly lighter. Her gills are dark blue, and her eyes are blue.

She wears pearls stranded along her horns and on her neck, a harness (for Anemone), and a narwhal horn on her tail.

## Personality

Queen Coral first appeared to be a fair queen and mother. As noted by Tsunami, none of her subjects seemed underfed or grumpy, like the SkyWings under Scarlet's rule. However, when two SeaWing soldiers returned from a nasty battle, she seemed to be most concerned about one soldier's blood staining her pearl-embedded floor instead of his health.

She also resents and outcasts Riptide for having a "tainted bloodline," despite that it wasn't his fault that his father, Webs, betrayed her and his tribe by stealing Tsunami's egg for the Talons of Peace. She remarked that Shark was too soft on the starving Tortoise by allowing her to eat an octopus — her first meal in days — instead of forcing her to continue guarding the Royal Hatchery. Tortoise's punishment, administered by Coral herself, was torture, followed quickly by death. She also executed Abalone and Snapper for failing to protect her eggs, despite the fact that Abalone was physically disabled due to a strange illness and it wasn't his fault. And although her scrolls usually do not pertain to history, they are required reading in SeaWing schools.

Coral also forced her daughter Anemone to grow up connected to her by a rubber harness at all times, and it was only after Auklet was born that Anemone was allowed to roam free for the first time. She cares excessively about her daughters to the point that she rarely remembers any of her sons' names. Coral once declared that because they could not inherit the throne, they were unimportant. Because many of her daughters were murdered before hatching, she now harnesses herself to her youngest daughter, Auklet, very protectively.

Despite this, she is fiercely protective of her daughters and truly cares about them, even though one of them will eventually challenge her for the throne. Coral still loves and misses her first daughter Orca, despite the fact that Orca nearly killed her in a royal challenge. During the SkyWing attack, she flung her scrolls into the water to avoid them catching fire to save the many SeaWings inside the Summer Palace, sacrificing her writing for her tribe. She has a fondness for writing and loves her scrolls, wanting every dragon in her Kingdom to read them. Tsunami describes her to be an overprotective mother.

Overall, Coral is a kind queen, but she seems to be a bit selfish as she tends to care more about her personal interests and her loved ones than her tribe as a whole. Coral cares for her daughters very much. As such, she would punish anyone who threatened to kill them, as well as killing incompetent guards. She pays excessive attention to her daughters, which leads to neglecting her many sons (thirty-two, to be exact) and the well-being of her guards. Her sons often do not receive attention from her since they are not heirs to the throne, and, for the most part, Coral does not remember their names because there are so many of them. However, Queen Coral appears to care about her sons more than she lets on, as in the epilogue of *Darkness of Dragons*, she writes a letter to Turtle saying she sends her love and hopes he visits soon to see the new Summer Palace they're building.

Queen Coral also appears to somewhat lack the ability to think for herself, and can easily be persuaded or influenced. In *The Lost Heir*, Blister easily convinces her to imprison the dragonets even though one of them was Coral's own daughter, Tsunami. In fact, most of the SeaWing queen's actions during the SandWing Succession War were influenced by the sinister SandWing princess.

## Relationships

### Anemone

Princess Anemone is the second oldest currently living daughter of Queen Coral. She is an artificial animus, enchanted by Turtle. Queen Coral does not know that Turtle enchanted Anemone. She is very attached to Anemone since she lost several daughters before Anemone hatched. Orca's enchanted statue was killing off her daughters, so she slept with Anemone in the Royal SeaWing Hatchery for a year. After she was hatched, Queen Coral attached a harness to Anemone to ensure that she doesn't get lost or hurt.

Queen Coral is especially paranoid about losing her loved ones, especially Anemone. Anemone spent the first year of her life with no independence, freedom, or connections to anyone except her mother. Coral seems unbothered by killing, which could have been damaging for Princess Anemone, however, they seem to love each other on some level. Queen Coral tries to protect her beloved daughter from what she considers "a dangerous world." Anemone doesn't show any forms of radical anger towards her mother until book nine. At one point, Anemone calls her mother "crazy."

In *Moon Rising*, Queen Coral unattached the harness on Anemone and let her stay at Jade Mountain Academy. In *Talons of Power*, Anemone, who was internally damaged by her mother's over-protective behavior, seeks to kill Queen Coral. She never follows through. It is unknown whether or not Queen Coral was ever aware of this.

### Auklet

Princess Auklet is Coral's youngest daughter, whose egg was saved by Tsunami. Queen Coral seems to love her as much as Anemone. Instead of being afraid every moment of losing her, she can just enjoy being with her daughter. She is finally settling down, at peace knowing Orca's statue was destroyed and her daughters are all safe. Auklet wanted to go to Jade Mountain Academy, but Coral insisted that she was too young to attend.

### Blister

Queen Coral usually behaved in a weak and spineless attitude around her former ally and obeyed her every decision.

The SeaWing Queen listened to Blister constantly, as though Blister was running the Kingdom instead of herself. It is unknown why Coral chose to support Blister during the War of SandWing Succession. She seems to hold a rather unhealthy amount of respect for her ally.

Blister is often seen playing with Coral's emotions and manipulating her decisions. Blister leads Queen Coral to let her waste away Anemone's soul daily by allowing excessive animus magic use. At the end of the *The Lost Heir*, Blister coerces Queen Coral into imprisoning Tsunami. We do not know if Coral regrets these decisions, though it can be inferred that she does. She seemed relieved when Thorn was chosen to be queen, hinting that she may not have really liked Blister nor wanted her to be Queen. It is unknown why she formed an alliance with Blister in the first place, but it is possible that, like Burn and the MudWings, Blister might have threatened the SeaWings into an alliance and or tricked her into one.

### Gill

King Gill was Coral's husband, Coral described Gill as "the perfect king," and she wrote a scroll about why she chose him as her husband. She also said that King Gill had a way with words, as to persuade prisoners in the Sky Arena to lie down, and refuse to fight. They had an astonishing thirty-two sons and four daughters. Gill was mentioned to adore his wife's scrolls.

### Moray

Princess Moray has been described to adore and dote on Queen Coral, treating her like she's the most perfect queen in existence. In return, Coral completely and thoroughly trusts her niece despite her ability to challenge for the throne, having the SeaWing on her council and consulting her for other matters. Moray often scrapes and bows at her talons, cleaning up Herring's brother's blood and oozing about how wonderful it must be for Tsunami's return. Their relationship appears to be close, and it is unknown why Moray is so submissive when power is so close within her reach.

### Orca

Princess Orca challenged Coral for the throne when she was only seven years old. She was about to win until Coral stabbed her with the narwhal horn that was on the tip of her tail. She misses and worships her daughter, and also did not know she was secretly an animus. Coral was unaware that Orca enchanted her statue to kill off Coral's heirs.

### Riptide

Queen Coral does not trust Riptide because his father, Webs, was a traitor. She later threw Riptide and Webs in prison, although Riptide escaped. After that, he fought for the SeaWings in the battle of the Summer Palace. Queen Coral then said he could escape with his life, but not travel into the Kingdom of the Sea ever again.

### Talons of Peace

Queen Coral dislikes the Talons of Peace, as shown when she outlawed Webs from ever coming back to the Kingdom of the Sea again. This hatred stems from Webs (who worked for the Talons of Peace at the time) stealing Tsunami's egg from the Royal Hatchery.

### Tsunami

Before Tsunami found Queen Coral, Coral had written a scroll titled "The Missing Princess" about their happy reunion. When Coral and Tsunami met for the first time at the Summer Palace, they embraced and Queen Coral vowed to always watch and protect her daughter. For example, she wanted to put a "harness" on Tsunami which Tsunami declines. Their first point of friction was when Coral ordered Tsunami's friends, the dragonets of destiny, to be chained and starved. When Queen Coral killed one of the dragons guarding the Royal Hatchery for neglecting her duties under Commander Shark's permission, Tsunami began to doubt her mother's leadership. For most of *The Lost Heir*, Tsunami and her sister found much of Coral's behavior over-protective to an unhealthy extent.

Queen Coral displayed a sickening level of obedience towards her ally Blister. Because Princess Tsunami volunteered to protect Coral's egg - even if failure meant Coral killing her, their relationship was already beginning to crumble. Blister managed to convince Coral to imprison Tsunami "for her safety," and Coral finally agreed. Tsunami escaped shortly after. Queen Coral's feelings on this are unknown.

In *Moon Rising*, Tsunami and Queen Coral meet again when Coral is dropping Princess Anemone off at Jade Mountain Academy. Queen Coral and Princess Tsunami seemed to display a surprising lack of anger towards each other during the encounter. Tsunami seemed annoyed by Coral's paranoia and overprotective nature.

Overall, it is shown that Queen Coral loves Tsunami, and cares for her very much, to the point that she will be extremely overprotective.

### Webs

Webs became infamous for stealing Princess Tsunami's egg. Queen Coral hated Webs deeply and always planned for revenge. Queen Coral found Webs in *The Lost Heir*. Blister said Webs killed Queen Coral's eggs, however, Webs didn't but Blister wanted Webs dead. Queen Coral agreed and threw Webs and Riptide in her prison.

### Whirlpool

Queen Coral said that Whirlpool is a wonderful teacher and that he'll be a perfect king, although Anemone and Tsunami have different opinions. Whirlpool muttered that she could re-marry (most likely he meant that she could re-marry himself) after Moray stated that "no Gill means no more eggs" after Tsunami revealed that Gill was dead.

## Scrolls she wrote

* *A Tail of Blood*
* *On the Differences Between Oysters and Clams*
* *The Claws of Murder*
* *The Missing Princess* (in *The Lost Heir*, it is told that Queen Coral wrote this scroll mainly about Tsunami)
* *The Tragedy of Orca*
* A scroll describing how she chose Gill as her husband (unknown title)

## Quotes

*"My baby! […] I knew you'd come back to me, […] I knew you were out there, trying to find your way back. I never stopped searching for you."*
― to Tsunami (*The Lost Heir*, page 77)

*"It's all right. Naturally, I forgive my long-lost daughter any accidental impudence. As we all know, she was raised by barbarians, so she couldn't know any better. I give you all permission to eat."*
― to the SeaWing Council (*The Lost Heir*, page 110-111)
## Trivia

* Coral's second spoken words to Tsunami were identical to ones in *The Missing Princess*.
* Most of her works are mentioned to be published on water-proof scrolls and thin stone tablets, and many are required reading in SeaWing schools.