'Snowflake' was an adult female IceWing and one of the three
main protagonists of Runaway. She was an aristocrat in the
IceWings#Circle rankings|First Circle. She was in an arranged
engagement to Prince Arctic and later was in a relationship with
Snowfox.

## Description

Snowflake had silvery-white scales and wore a silver chain with one
circle around her neck. According to Arctic, she was pretty in a boring,
glassy way. One of her wings was permanently damaged by Arctic by
redirecting Foeslayer's fire towards her, and there were blackened marks
on it that come from Snowfox extinguishing the fire with her
frostbreath, most likely having resulted in her never being able to fly
again.

## Personality

Snowflake was a loyal Dragons|dragon who came from a respectable family.
Arctic worried that she might lack a personality, but Snowflake became
visibly irritated at Arctic after he snapped at her, and he later
speculated that her character was composed of repressed fury. Arctic
described her as unmemorable, and her face was impossible to read. She
was quiet, and Queen Diamond once stated that Snowflake was a dragon who
kept her mouth shut and either did not express or did not harbor any
opinions. She had an excellent look of icy disdain but struggled to form
cutting comebacks. She spent a lot of her time fuming, and although she
had rage under her scales, it was seldom noticeable beneath her cool
exterior. She was outwardly calm and collected and did not trust animus
magic. She was sarcastic, with a deep, dark, interior; Snowfox described
her as having "a depth of dark water beneath her ice."

## Biography

### Legends

#### Darkstalker

Snowflake was introduced in the prologue, informing Arctic that his
presence was required by his mother, Queen Diamond, in a diplomatic
meeting with the NightWings. Despite the two being engaged in an
arranged marriage, Arctic could not remember Snowflake's name,
irritating her massively. After Arctic grumpily followed her to the
meeting, Arctic suddenly remembered her name and the fact that they were
engaged, though he kept the latter fact to himself as to not seem like a
total idiot. As they ventured to where the NightWing diplomats were
waiting for them, Arctic asked Snowflake what gift she would give the
tribe if she were an animus.

She replied that she did not know, and after Arctic demanded her to
think about it, she responded by saying "Seems like kind of a waste of
my time, unless you're having trouble coming up with an idea for yours."
They went out to the balcony, where they met Foeslayer, who was trying
to keep herself warm while watching the sunset. Arctic eventually
annoyed Snowflake into leaving.

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### Winglets

#### Runaway

Snowflake watched Foeslayer and Prince Arctic with slight jealousy
etched all over her face.

Later, it was explained that she was chosen by Queen Diamond to be
Prince Arctic's fiancée because she was very quiet, and Diamond was
hoping that her quiet and submissive traits would pass on to her and
Arctic's dragonets so that Diamond would not be challenged for her
throne.

She and Princess Snowfox met and talked about things that they could do
to help Snowflake get rid of Arctic and help Snowfox ascend to the
throne. While they schemed and planned, they became close friends.

When Arctic was escaping with Foeslayer, Prudence, Starclaws, and
Discretion, Foeslayer blasted fire at Snowfox. Arctic used his animus
powers to direct the blast towards Snowflake, who suffered severe burns
to one of her wings. Luckily, Snowfox was able to put out the fire on
her wing, but despite her best efforts, Snowflake's injury likely
disabled her from flying for the rest of her life.

## Relationships

### Arctic

Snowflake was shown to despise Arctic. She thought of him as "the most
arrogant, entitled, patronizing, obnoxious, preening, fat-headed son of
a walrus she'd ever met," and described him to have a "smug pretentious
face." She noted that he acted as though she were barely Seventh Circle
and as though she had an obligation to entertain him when he was bored,
and as though she had no brains in her head whatsoever.

However, after she witnessed Arctic killing several IceWing guards she
knew by enchanting several spears, Snowflake's hate for him amplified
and she slashed at his snout, saying he did not deserve to live or be
happy with Foeslayer after what he had done. Snowflake tried to kill him
but was then shot down by a fireball Foeslayer threw, then Arctic
enchanted it to hit her instead, burning her wings and losing her
ability to fly permanently.

### Diamond

Diamond liked Snowflake because she was quiet and she thought she was a
model wife for Arctic, hoping that Snowflake's quiet, submissive traits
would be passed on to any dragonets the two of them had. She set up
tests in the form of small trials to see how Snowflake reacted. However,
Snowflake despised her as much as she hated Arctic as she needed to stay
quiet and unnoticed, causing her to fume and keep her anger on the
inside.

### Snowfox

Snowfox was Snowflake's partner. When Snowfox and Snowflake first met,
they instantly smiled at and joked with one another, and Snowflake
allowed sarcasm to creep into her voice around Snowfox. After Snowflake
cracked a joke about Arctic studying his noble reflection in the ice
cubes of his drink, Snowfox snorted so loudly with laughter that several
dragons turned to look at her. After understanding that they both had
mutual goals, Snowfox draped her tail lightly over Snowflake's, and
Snowflake began to regard her as beautiful. She thought of Snowfox as a
dragon who understood her and a dragon as deep and dark as herself, who
saw her anger and wanted to be nearer to it. It was noted by Snowflake
that Snowfox wanted to protect Snowflake with a fierceness that matched
Snowflake's own desire to get Snowfox on the throne. Snowflake described
her as "A dragon I would do anything for. That's something I never
thought I'd see."

## Quotes

Please accept my apologies, for I do not recognize your face. I
hope I am not bringing great dishonor upon my family.
to
Snowfox
Runaway

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Naturally. […] Who wouldn't want to marry a prince and watch
her daughters fight to the death for the throne?
to Snowfox,
about marrying Arctic
Runaway

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He's contemplating his noble reflection in the ice cubes.

to Snowfox about Arctic
Runaway

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We need him out of the Ice Kingdom|kingdom. Or dead. Otherwise,
someone else will marry him and have dragonets. I haven't forgotten that
we're here to solve your problem too.
to Snowfox about Arctic

Runaway

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I want to be there too. I want to see his face when he realizes
that he's not the Great Ice Dragon|great ice dragon's gift to the world
after all. When he discovers that we've outsmarted him.
to
Snowfox about Arctic
Runaway

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You monster! I knew those dragons! How could you just kill
them? For a NightWing? What is wrong with you?
to Arctic,
when he unintentionally kills a group of pursuing IceWings

Runaway

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But he doesn't deserve to live! He doesn't deserve to be
happy!
to Foeslayer
Runaway