'Kinkajou' is a female RainWing dragonet who was introduced in The Hidden Kingdom. Formerly a
captive of the NightWings on the NightWing island, she is currently
attending Jade Mountain Academy as a member of the Jade Winglet.

## Description

Kinkajou's scales are typically kept at bright colors, such as pink and
yellow. She has a long neck, gigantic dark green eyes, tiny claws, and a
diamond-shaped snout. She is small and is the same size as Anemone
despite being slightly older than her.

## Personality

Kinkajou is bouncy, snarky, fierce, bright, immature, mischievous, and
quick to anger in difficult situations. She smiles often, but can become
dangerous when her friends are threatened. According to Carnelian, she
is noisy and talks all day. She looks at problems as something she can
solve, instead of thinking "everything is hopeless". She runs straight
toward danger without thinking first and is annoyed when she misses the
action and heroism. Kinkajou wants to be a dragon others will notice and
remember and does not like the idea of being unimportant. According to
her, she has spent nearly her whole life waking up dragons who would
rather be sleeping than talking to her.

## Biography

### The Dragonet Prophecy

left The Hidden Kingdom

Kinkajou was one of the seventeen missing RainWings held
captive by the NightWings on the NightWing Island. Kinkajou met Glory
when she was knocked unconscious
[File:Kinkajou-gn.png|thumb|left|175px|Kinkajou](File:Kinkajou-gn.png%7Cthumb%7Cleft%7C175px%7CKinkajou),
imprisoned on the NightWing islandand brought through the animus
magic|animus-touched NightWing tunnels to the Night Kingdom. Kinkajou's
venom was so weak that the NightWings did not even bother to gag her,
which was why she was able to talk to Glory. She claimed that she was
the youngest dragon there and confirmed that there had been seventeen
missing, three of which were already dead.

When the NightWings were coming after them during their escape, Glory
asked Kinkajou to camouflage herself to look like a NightWing dragonet.
Kinkajou fooled the guards for long enough so that she and Glory could
escape with Clay and Deathbringer's help. They were both able to escape
and warn the rest of the RainWings about the impending danger that they
had been ignoring; however, most of them continued to ignore the
warnings and follow Magnificent's example.

Kinkajou participated in the venom contest during Glory's Dragon
royalty#Royal RainWing Challenge|challenge for the RainWing throne and
proved to be exceptionally better than what Bromeliad had claimed.
During Grandeur's turn, a sloth tumbled out of the trees and landed in
front of the targeting board. When Kinkajou leaped to move it away,
Grandeur's venom accidentally hit the young RainWing's wing, causing the
venom to start burning through her wings. Kinkajou started to scream,
and her scales turned white and green. The three spots of venom began
eating away at Kinkajou's wing, and due to
herFile:Jou-venom-gn.png|thumb|Kinkajou saving the sloth panicking, she
fainted. After a quick and panicked venom test that showed that Glory
was related to Grandeur, Glory put her venom on a reed and used it to
spread the venom on Kinkajou's affected wing safely in an attempt to
stop the venom from eating through her scales. Luckily, it proved
successful and Grandeur forfeited, realizing that Glory should be the
rightful queen, especially because Glory was related to Grandeur.
Kinkajou was thereby was awarded the victory for the venom targeting,
and Glory became the new queen of the RainWings. Glory told Kinkajou
that she won the venom contest, and Kinkajou was awake enough to say
that was super cool.

left The Dark Secret
Kinkajou had dreams about Glory and was shown to look up to her. She
was terrified that she might lose the ability to fly after the venom
scarred three black spots on her wing and badly burned her. Kinkajou was
the first dragon that Starflight visited while using the dreamvisitor he
found, visiting her while she was in a nightmare.

left The Brightest Night

Near the beginning of the book, Sunny spied on Starflight
with the Obsidian Mirror. As she watched, the healers were mumbling to
each other, saying that they would prefer to be Kinkajou rather than
Starflight, believing Starflight's injuries to be worse than Kinkajou's.

Kinkajou was mentioned when Peril asked Sunny if Clay had talked about
her. Sunny remembered Clay had not referred to her much and that they
had been watching over Kinkajou after her venom accident when he did.

In the epilogue, Glory mentioned her as a possibility when the dragonets
discussed students for a new school on Jade Mountain. She said that
Kinkajou and Tamarin needed real teachers, not just the scraps of the
time she had for them.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Moon Rising

Kinkajou was a friend and clawmate of Moonwatcher. When Moon first saw
Kinkajou, she noticed three ink-like drops on Kinkajou's wing that did
not change color like the rest of her body. Kinkajou at first did not
like the idea of being clawmates with Moon, due to her being a
NightWing. However, she quickly got over it once she heard that Moon
grew up in the Rainforest Kingdom|rainforest and soon became best
friends with her. Kinkajou tried to guess Carnelian's name, which she
learnt from Moon after some guesses. At the prey center, Kinkajou
introduced Moon to her former friend Coconut, whom she held a grudge
against, for he did not even realize she was missing when she was
captured. She also handed Bandit, Winter's pet scavenger, a blueberry
when Winter said that he would not eat anything that Winter gave him.
She was considered annoying by their clawmate Carnelian. The next day,
Kinkajou attended their winglet's meeting. She was shown to have a crush
on Winter, but still defended Moon when Winter was mean to her. Moon
used Kinkajou's thoughts to test her mind blocking, and it nearly worked
until Kinkajou turned around and thought directly about Moon. Kinkajou
sat with Moon, and when Moon wanted to go to the library, Kinkajou
insisted that Moon finish her lunch first. Moon saved Kinkajou from the
fire by telling her not to go there. When Moonwatcher revealed her
powers, Kinkajou did not know what to think, but was shocked and angry.
She fled to her cave, so that she could think without Moon hearing her
thoughts. Later, after Qibli, Winter, and Moon fought Icicle, Kinkajou
forgave Moon, saying, "Well, yeah, but that was yesterday." She and the
remains of the Jade Winglet (excluding Turtle) later set off to find
Winter. Turtle also gave Kinkajou a piece of skyfire to keep her
thoughts private.

left Winter Turning

Kinkajou set out with Winter and the others to find Hailstorm and travel
to the rainforest, where she saw Glory again. While in the rainforest,
she, Winter, Moon, and Qibli were discovered by a NightWing patrol, and
Kinkajou recognized Bromeliad after calling out to her, mistaking her
for Orchid. Bromeliad was with the NightWing Obsidian, who lead them to
the NightWing village while Bromeliad flew off to tell Queen Glory that
they had arrived. After a brief moment in the hatchery, Kinkajou and the
others found Icicle. Queen Glory's guards knocked her out with a
sleeping dart. Later, while searching for Scarlet, her ally Chameleon
attacked Kinkajou in the form of Shapeshifter, knocking her into a tree
with his tail and putting her in a coma.

The group then left the Claws of the Clouds Mountains, each of them
taking turns to carry Kinkajou. Eventually, they reached the town of
Possibility, where Mayfly diagnosed her with broken ribs, skull
fracture, and a bruised spine. She was in a coma and would not be able
to move for at least a month if she ever woke up at all.

left Escaping Peril

Kinkajou was mentioned once Turtle and Peril reached Possibility. She
was still in a coma, and Turtle visited her with Moon and Qibli, leaving
Peril to wait outside of town. Later in the book, Peril was having a
conversation with her father about Kinkajou. Peril was slightly shocked
Chameleon would hurt a young dragonet like Kinkajou. Chameleon (as Soar)
answered that she would have laughed at him like the other RainWings.
Near the end of the book, Qibli was pointing out that Chameleon was not
working for Scarlet when he put Kinkajou in the hospital when Chameleon
argued to Peril about using Darkstalker's scroll for evil.

left Talons of Power
Kinkajou was woken up by Anemone, who was casting a spell on her with
Turtle. Anemone enchanted Kinkajou's skyfire to heal her and later added
a spell to "make her love Turtle as much as he loved her." Turtle hated
this but could not change the spell because it had already been cast,
and he thought it might risk hurting Kinkajou. The healing spell erased
Kinkajou's three venom scars, and she seemed a bit disappointed that
since she claims it made her look tough. Turtle secretly enchanted the
skyfire at the same time to protect her from any spells by Darkstalker.
Darkstalker would also not notice her, not be able to read her mind, and
regard her as unimportant if he ever spotted her or if she was in any of
his futures. Soon after she was woken up, Darkstalker showed up. He
created a prison for the dragons coming to kill Glory, and Kinkajou did
not think that was good. As soon as he left, Kinkajou told Turtle, "He's
definitely evil." Turtle told her his suspicions of how evil Darkstalker
was, and she agreed to help him spy on Darkstalker. When Darkstalker
left with the dragons who wanted to come with him to the Lost city of
night|old Night Kingdom, Kinkajou followed him, along with Turtle. When
they got there, Moonwatcher was attacked by the mop Anemone enchanted to
hit her until she was done cleaning Anemone's room for her, and that she
would not be done until Anemone told her that it was done. Kinkajou told
Anemone to stop and called her an "overripe melon" and a "jackdaw." She
said she was being a horrible dragon and told her to stop using her
magic for bad things. Then Darkstalker came in. He put Moon under a
trance, and Turtle signaled to Kinkajou for her to pretend she was under
the trance, too. Then, after Anemone was told to leave and she did, Moon
came out of the trance, and Kinkajou pretended to as well. Turtle had to
go after Anemone. Kinkajou flared her wings, turning them pink at the
edges, and gave him a sweet smile. After that, she left the room with
Darkstalker and Moon.

Later, Kinkajou was brought to Darkstalker's throne room by a sword that
he enchanted to find someone the hidden animus dragon (Turtle) cared
about. She told Turtle not to mind her and stay hidden, but he refused
and gave his enchanted hiding stick to Anemone. Darkstalker then tried
to kill Turtle, but Kinkajou melted his eyeball, hindering him
temporarily, though it is possible she only did this due to Anemone's
love spell. Turtle then quickly gave Kinkajou his pouch of animus
objects, and Kinkajou was sent out of the room as Darkstalker took
Turtle's animus powers. Darkstalker tried to enchant her to forget about
everything that happened, but it did not work because of the spell
Turtle put on her, though she pretended to leave under Darkstalker's
spell. Turtle, while being brought to the dungeon, thought of her when
he thought of the dragons that could still save him and the world.

left
Darkness of Dragons
Kinkajou was
mentioned in a note from Turtle to Qibli, telling him that she was
awake.

Later, when Qibli was visiting the old Night Kingdom to rescue Turtle,
Qibli ran into Kinkajou, who was camouflaged, spying on Chameleon in his
MudWing form of Bog. Once seeing Chameleon change into his NightWing
form, Shapeshifter, she noticed that Shapeshifter still had the same
jewelry as Bog, but she then noticed that he was wearing another
earring, and Kinkajou guessed that the scroll pieces were in it. They
devised a plan to steal Chameleon's pieces of Darkstalker's scroll.
Qibli acted as a distraction, and Kinkajou managed to camouflage and
steal the earring, reverting Chameleon to his original lime-green
RainWing state. They persuaded him to go back to the Rainforest Kingdom.

After Darkstalker's discussion with Qibli, Kinkajou used the pieces of
Darkstalker's talisman to turn him into Peacemaker, making herself the
hero of the second arc.

At the beginning of the epilogue, Kinkajou was mentioned by Moon, who
pointed out that she kept her accomplishment in defeating Darkstalker
secret. Kinkajou was also seen accidentally scaring away the scavengers
Winter was trying to catch for the scavenger Sanctuary he and the other
Talons of Peace planned to build. Winter pointed out to Kinkajou that
she could help catch one of the scavengers, as she could camouflage
herself. After a quick talk with her about Moon and leaving Jade
Mountain Academy for Snowfall and the other IceWings, they set off to
catch one.

Kinkajou also appeared later in the epilogue, when it was Turtle's point
of view. She said that she liked the story he wrote for a Jade Mountain
Academy class and how she felt bewildered after having a love spell on
her. She also revealed Anemone's crush on Tamarin, which was a bit of a
shock to Turtle.

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### Field Guides

left
A Guide to the Dragon World
In the
SeaWing chapter, Kinkajou was mentioned by Turtle in his letter to
Starflight about celebrating his hatching day at Jade Mountain Academy.
In his letter to Turtle, Fin teased him on his crush on Kinkajou.
Kinkajou was also mentioned by Anemone in her scroll to Tamarin,
expressing her desire to send future notes solely for Tamarin to read
and that they will not be read by others, especially Kinkajou. Anemone
expressed further frustration towards Kinkajou in said scroll about her
finding out about her gift to Tamarin and getting suspicious about it
being enchanted, though she relented and said that Tamarin can come to
her cave to see her gift, and that she may bring Kinkajou along with
her.

Kinkajou's scroll about Silver was featured in the RainWing chapter of
the guide.

## Relationships

### Anemone

Kinkajou dislikes the thought of accepting help from Anemone, and she is
often angry with her. Anemone is quite annoyed by Kinkajou. She was
surprised when Anemone decided to take the love spell off of her. She
found Anemone's crush on Tamarin cute, though was cautious of her
intentions. She stated that she was watching Anemone very closely to
make sure she does not use any magic on Tamarin.

### Bromeliad

Bromeliad is Kinkajou's venom trainer, and Kinkajou and Bromeliad appear
to have a genuine dislike for each other. She even quotes that
"Bromeliad is a slow old baboon," showing her displeasure for her. She
once had a dream where Bromeliad was in Mastermind's place, doing
experiments on her venom. She later mentioned to Turtle that Bromeliad
and Mastermind were the two dragons she hated most and that she must
have been stressed lately.

### Coconut

Kinkajou used to believe that Coconut was her good friend and thought
that he was helping search for her until she returned from the NightWing
island only to realize that Coconut did not notice her disappearance or
seemed concerned after finding out. She has attempted to reconstruct
their friendship despite this, though he disregards her efforts.

### Darkstalker

After Kinkajou was healed from Anemone's magic in Talons of Power, Kinkajou and Darkstalker shared a mutual hatred
(Kinkajou's abhorrence is more exaggerated, while Darkstalker does not
take her very seriously, not seeming to pay much attention to her).
Darkstalker is enchanted by Turtle to think that Kinkajou is
insignificant. When Turtle was in the throne room with Darkstalker,
Darkstalker enchanted a sword to bring someone Turtle cared for deeply
into the room. Kinkajou came in, and when Darkstalker burned Turtle with
his fire, Kinkajou spat her venom all over Darkstalker's face. From
shock, and in response, Darkstalker slammed Kinkajou down, showing their
genuine dislike of each other. He later apologized for injuring
Kinkajou, saying that he would never hurt a ball of fluff.

After the events of finding Hope, Kinkajou used the fragments of
Darkstalker's scroll to turn him into Peacemaker by enchanting a
strawberry. Darkstalker was not afraid of Kinkajou when he challenges
her, but as the enchantment turned him younger and smaller, he realized
in shock that he had been beaten by a "ball of fluff."

### Glory

She proved to be fierce and helpful while helping Glory escape the Night
Kingdom, though she hit a NightWing with the blunt end of a spear. She
views Glory as a role model, and it is shown that Queen Glory thinks of
Kinkajou as a friend rather than a subject. She also did not hesitate to
find a blood relative to Ex-Queen Grandeur to save Kinkajou from an
accidental venom strike. She is one of Kinkajou's closest friends, and
Kinkajou thinks of her as her "awesome queen." She is fiercely loyal to
her, attacking Icicle when Icicle was plotting to murder Glory. She also
sometimes brags about having Glory as a friend. She is one of Glory's
favorite subjects, and Kinkajou considers herself to be Glory's best
friend.

### Moonwatcher

Moon and Kinkajou are very close friends, and they get along pretty
well, as shown several times in the second arc. Kinkajou also tends to
think Moon likes other dragons better than her. She treats Moonwatcher
like a best friend. Kinkajou used to hold a slight grudge against her
since she was a NightWing, but after Moon told her about Secretkeeper
hiding her egg in the rainforest, they have been best friends ever
since. Anemone mentioned that Darkstalker would not hurt a scale on
Kinkajou's head because she was her best friend.

### Qibli

Qibli was very relieved to see that Kinkajou was all right, and she
beamed at him after thwarting Chameleon. He once greeted Kinkajou by
giving her a giant hug.

### Tamarin

Kinkajou and Tamarin are good friends. Kinkajou does not dwell on her
blindness, and when telling someone about Tamarin, it is not the first
thing she says. Kinkajou has a strong belief in Tamarin's abilities, as
shown during the flower hunt portion of the RainWing Royal Challenge.

### Turtle

At the end of Talons of Power, Kinkajou says that she loves Turtle,
unknown she was under a spell. Turtle then sadly replies that it was
only a spell and she did not really love him. At the end of Darkness of
Dragons, the love spell is removed. Kinkajou returned to her normal
feelings of him as one of her best friends. Anemone's spell enchanted
Kinkajou to believe that Turtle was handsome, brave, and noble, but
Kinkajou was aware that these feelings were a result of the spell and
was quite angry towards Anemone and towards herself. Turtle has an
enormous crush on her, and after not mentioning the spell for about a
month after Anemone released Kinkajou from it, Turtle admitted that he
still had feelings for her. Kinkajou likes him too, but confessed that
it was confusing having to go through enchanted emotions. Kinkajou wants
to keep spending time with him in order to sort out her feelings, but
she thinks he is adorable. She once twined her tail around Turtle's and
glared at Anemone, as though to say that she would be doing it even
without the love spell.

### Winter

Kinkajou considers Winter to be her friend, though Winter originally did
not appear to acknowledge her existence. Throughout Moon Rising, Kinkajou was shown to admire his "sparkly scales" as
noted by Moon; however, he does not seem to notice. In Winter Turning, she showed multiple acts of kindness, none of
which Winter cared about. Winter and Kinkajou talked to each other about
the aftermaths of the events of Darkness of Dragons, and they both
consider each other friends. Winter noted that he does not want Kinkajou
dead.

## Quotes

Don't worry, I know you can't talk. I'm the only one without a
gag. They decided my venom wasn't strong enough or I couldn't shoot far
enough to be dangerous, or something, I guess, which is a little unfair
because if somebody would just train me properly, I think I'd be
super-great at it and then these horrible dragons would be super-sorry
for putting me in a cage.
to Glory about the NightWings The Hidden Kingdom
179

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Why don't you ask Gibbon that question? […] Or Orchid? Or
Splendor, Or Tualang, Or Loris? […] Hmmm, that's right. […] Haven't
seen them in a while, have you? That's because they've been kidnapped,
like I was. And they're still trapped there — except for Tapir and
Bright and Orangutan, who died awful deaths, alone and far away from
everything and everyone they loved. And the only dragon who's willing to
do anything about it was Glory. That's why she should be our queen.

Kinkajou arguing to the Rainwings about why Glory should be
queen The Hidden Kingdom
226

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Isn't this exciting? I'm so excited I can hardly STAND IT.
That's why I'm this color, by the way. I have been trying all morning to
turn myself something more dignified and I can't do it; my scales are
all like, YAY WE'RE REALLY HERE! and will not listen to me.

to Moon about school Moon Rising
23

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I love this place. […] Have you explored at all yet? There's
the most amazing library - not that I can read yet, but oh my gosh, I'm
working on it really hard. And an art cave! It's full of all these
colors of paint, like, like, like a couple of RainWings just EMOTED all
over it! You guys, we should make amazing paintings and then decorate
our cave with them. WOULDN'T THAT BE AMAZING?
to Carnelian
and Moonwatcher, about Jade Mountain Academy
Moon Rising
23-24

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Look at her! I'm sure she'd love to be called Friendly.

to Moonwatcher, about Carnelian
Moon Rising
25

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Ooooo. […] How does it feel to be related to someone famous?
Probably a bit like being best friends with a queen, […] Which I am,
just incidentally, so, I mean, I totally get it.
to Sora

Moon Rising
33

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I say anyone who is gross enough to eat something that's alive
and wriggling deserves to get pecked. You should take those dragons out
hunting with you and leave the rest of us here to enjoy our quiet
sensible fruit in peace.
to Clay
Moon Rising
38

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It's MORNING! […] Isn't that WONDERFUL?
to
Moonwatcher Moon Rising
70

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Qibli told me what happened. […] I can't believe I missed it
all! I can't believe I wasn't there to protect you! You're totally
heroes, saving us all from bad guys! Although, I'm kind of confused
about who's the bad guy and who I should be mad at, because SORA WHAT
but also Icicle was totally scary but then SAVING HER BROTHER ACK so I
get it but still, attacking my winglet! My best friend! Not OK!

to Moonwatcher Moon Rising

282

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OOOOOOOO. Totally invisible to Darkstalker! That is an
excellent spell. Another great idea, see? You can be the idea dragon and
I can be the WHAM BAM SHOVE A PINEAPPLE UP HIS SNOUT dragon!

to Turtle, after he explained his enchanted stick
Talons of Power
171-172

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He looks like he's posing for a portrait. […] Pompous
Sneerdagard the Magnificent Awaits His Legions of Doomed Enemies.

to Turtle, about Darkstalker
Talons of Power
174

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No way. […] Queen Glory is perfect. I want her to be my queen
forever and always.
to Turtle
Talons of Power
187

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Oh, monkey brains — does this mean I'm the hapless sidekick?
Blorg, that is so lame. Better than the wailing victim who needs
rescuing, though. Make sure nobody writes me that way when this story
becomes an epic poem, all right? And I would definitely like to be the
hero next time, please.
to Turtle
Talons of Power
281

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He sure did. […] I owe that guy a few broken bones and a
coma.
to Turtle, about Shapeshifter
Darkness of
Dragons
227

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I was being a detective! […] I was being super observant! I
mean, OK, I missed the part about how he was actually the exact same
dragon, but I did notice the matching treasure. I just thought the
MudWing handed over all his jewelry for some reason. It's not like that
makes less sense than 'he shapeshifted into a whole other tribe of
dragon.'
to Qibli, about Chameleon
Darkness of
Dragons
229

## Trivia

  - Kinkajou's favorite color is yellow, which she displays on her
    scales the most often.
  - Kinkajou is claustrophobic and pyrophobic. She also possibly has
    PTSD.
  - Tui thought of giving Kinkajou her own book, but decided against it,
    replying in a chat that she used books to evolve characters and make
    them better, but Kinkajou was already great.
  - Even though most RainWings cannot count, Kinkajou could count at the
    age of three, shown when she stated that there were seventeen
    missing RainWings.
  - In the minigame Wings of Fire Island|Speed Wings on Scholastic's
    Home Base, Kinkajou is a playable character.
  - Kinkajou once mentioned that she is a former hide-and-seek champion.
  - Kinkajou dislikes fish.
  - Pages had to be added to the graphic novel just for Kinkajou's
    dialogue.