'Starflight' is an adult male NightWing and the main protagonist of The Dark Secret. Along with being
a former dragonet of destiny and one of the founders of Jade Mountain
Academy, he was partially responsible for ending the War of SandWing
Succession. After being caught in a volcanic eruption on the NightWing
island, Starflight was permanently blinded, and currently resides within
Jade Mountain Academy as the head librarian. He formerly had romantic
feelings for Sunny.

## Description

Starflight has midnight-black scales with glints of purple and deep blue
in them. The silver scales on the undersides of his black wings spray
outward like a splash of water, similar to his father, Mastermind. He
has a black snout and claws, as well as sinewy shoulders and a worried
snout. The space between his wings is narrow and he is not very burly.
He wears a bandage over his very dark green eyes, and has long burn
scars streaking across his scales and snout.

## Personality

Starflight is often tentative, sensible, a know-it-all, massively
annoying, overly cautious, lecturing, anxious, worried, and nervous.
However, he is indignant and willing to fight for his students. He is
shown to have a humorous side. Starflight also is very protective of his
scrolls. Moonwatcher described his thoughts as constantly busy, ticking
through all the things he needed to do. He frets and complains often.
After he was temporarily kidnapped by Morrowseer, he tried to be bossy
toward his friends, although he only wanted to keep them all safe by
doing so. He often overthinks and worries so much that he ends up not
doing anything at all, and can sulk when he is upset. However, he is a
useful companion, as he has valuable information such as geography and
flight patterns constantly on his mind. Reading is his specialty, and he
is very smart but completely unreliable and terrified of the
Pyrrhia|world, despite him wanting to be brave and helpful. Glory said
he "shrieks like a tiny scavenger". He tries to know everything so that
he may be useful, but he is not a good fighter and is not brave. He is
talented at memorizing things and repeating those facts over and over,
even when no one seems to be listening. He will easily subside when
argued with.

## Biography

Left
Pre-Series
Starflight was given to
the Talons of Peace as an unhatched egg by Morrowseer, the NightWing prophet who delivered the The Dragonet Prophecy (prophecy)|Dragonet
Prophecy. Unlike most of the other dragonets, his egg was not stolen,
but given to the Talons of Peace by the NightWings; hence the line in
the prophecy "Wings of night shall come to you." While he was born with
three full moons in the sky, Starflight received no NightWing powers due
to hatching in an underground cave, where the moonlight could not reach
his egg. He was hatched and raised by the Talons of Peace#Guardians of
the dragonets|guardians Kestrel, Dune, and Webs, along with the other
dragonets, Clay, Tsunami, Glory, and Sunny. He loved scrolls and the
stories told by their guardians, mainly Dune, thus becoming the subject
of the dragonets' jokes and taunts they loved to make.

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### The Dragonet Prophecy

Left The Dragonet Prophecy (book)|The Dragonet
Prophecy
Starflight was in the dragonets' study cave, where
Tsunami started to assign the "parts". Starflight protested against
this, suggesting that he should read to them instead, before being shut
down by the other dragonets. During their reenactment of the start of
War of SandWing Succession, Starflight played as Blaze|Princess Blaze, a
role which he vehemently hated. Later when Morrowseer visited the cave
to inspect the dragonets, he seemed to approve of Starflight, due to him
being a fellow NightWing. Starflight also had a private meeting with
Morrowseer, whom he feared would discover he had not discovered his
powers yet. After the dragonets found out about the guardians' plan to
kill Glory, the dragonets of destiny came up with a plan in order to
escape. During this, Starflight gave Clay some lifesaving advice during
his attempt to escape. He helped Tsunami escape from the chains their
guardians used to stop her from preventing Glory's murder. He and Sunny
contributed to their escape attempt by burning the scrolls as a smoke
signal to Clay and Tsunami, which led to him and the rest of the
dragonets getting captured by Scarlet and her SkyWing soldiers.

[File:TsunamiVStarflight.png|thumb|Tsunami](File:TsunamiVStarflight.png%7Cthumb%7CTsunami)
and Starflight refusing to fight each other Chained to a rock spire away
from his friends, Starflight despaired of ever escaping. He was often
seen with his wings tented over his head, refusing to speak or interact
with other dragons. Due to his poor skills in battle, Clay volunteered
to fight in his place multiple times to keep Starflight from being
killed. This led to Clay facing Fjord instead of him, which led to
Fjord's death. He instantly became distrustful of Peril and stayed far
away from her. Clay could hear Starflight singing along with all the
other prisoners. After Clay's attempt to communicate with Peril through
Songs#The Dragonets Are Coming|song, he was also taken to Peril's room
by Scarlet and Burn|Princess Burn, who had arrived the previous day.
Starflight managed to figure out how to escape using Peril, but was
betrayed due to her obsession with Clay. He also was the one to confirm
that Clay was immune to fire.
[File:StarflightBeingTaken.png|thumb|Starflight](File:StarflightBeingTaken.png%7Cthumb%7CStarflight)
being taken by Morrowseer and the other NightWings He was eventually
pitted against Tsunami in a gladiatorial style battle, of which Scarlet
was fond of. He and Tsunami refused to fight each other, however, so
Scarlet released four scavengers for them to battle. After the fight in
which two of the scavengers were killed, Queen Scarlet declared that
they would have to face off against all eight of the IceWings. However,
Morrowseer and a squadron of NightWings came to Starflight's rescue
before having to fight. He protested, stating he could not leave his
friends behind, but either Morrowseer did not hear him shouting, or he
just did not care.

He later met up with the dragonets outside the Mud Kingdom, with the
orders to convince his group to choose Blister|Princess Blister as part
of Morrowseer's plot to make her the queen of the SandWings, in return
for her help with the NightWings own goal.

Left The Lost Heir

At the beginning of the book, Starflight constantly made warnings about
the SkyWings hunting for them, telling his friends they should hide
under the trees. Tsunami thought he was trying to take her place as the
dragonets' leader when he offered to take Sunny, and told them all to do
something other than something Tsunami wanted. He was with the other
dragonets when Shark|Commander Shark ordered Clay to be chained.

During their stay, he awkwardly supported Blister's side of the war, the
result of an order from Morrowseer. However, he eventually went against
Morrowseer's plan and told Queen Coral that Blister killed Kestrel,
wanted Webs dead for her own reasons, and did not care about Tsunami,
much to Blister's anger. Following this, he was imprisoned along with
the other dragonets by Blister and Queen Coral. Starflight helped
Tsunami escape the cell to release them, by giving the information that
electric eels needed time to recharge.

Left The Hidden Kingdom

Starflight was very helpful to Glory as she tried to unravel
who was kidnapping the RainWings. Glory observed that he had probably
been hopelessly in love with Sunny his whole life. He also showed a bit
of humor, as he played a prank involving a melon on Clay while he was
sleeping and joked that they should bring back the fruit for Tsunami.
After Deathbringer's failed attempt to assassinate Blaze, he revealed
that Morrowseer had told him to convince the other dragonets to pick
Blister. In the end, Clay told the dragonets that Starflight had
disappeared, and said he might have gone to warn the NightWings, which
was later revealed to be untrue.

left The Dark Secret
Starflight remembered that a NightWing knocked him out while he was
guarding the NightWing tunnels|tunnel and brought him to their kingdom.
He woke up in a small cave. A few NightWing dragonets were watching him
sleep. One of them was his half-sister Fierceteeth, who wished she was
the prophesied dragonet. Morrowseer then came in and brought Starflight
to see the queen. He was taken to a cave and pushed onto a pillar of
rock surrounded by lava. The cave was filled with around forty council
dragons, and on the wall across from him was the NightWing heir to the
throne, Greatness|Princess Greatness. Greatness listened to and spoke
for her mother, Battlewinner|Queen Battlewinner, who was behind the wall
submerged in lava because of an IceWing's frostbreath. When the
NightWings demanded information regarding the RainWings, Starflight
panicked and said that Glory was planning an attack. Deathbringer was
then brought in by Vengeance, who claimed that Deathbringer was a
traitor and conspired with the RainWings. However, Greatness ordered
Vengeance to be thrown into the lava for endangering the tribe by
letting Glory in and for irritating the queen.

Morrowseer took Starflight hunting, also to get more information. After
Starflight figured out why other NightWings can safely eat infected
carrion, Morrowseer realized who Starflight's father is and brought
Starflight to see him. When Starflight asked to meet his mother,
Morrowseer told him his mother, Farsight, had been killed trying to save
a SeaWing years ago, which devastated him. Fatespeaker found them and
decided to tag along as she told Starflight she was the NightWing
dragonet of destiny. This lead Starflight to realize he was being
replaced. They found his father, Mastermind, in the lab of the palace
and met him. His father took him to show them an experiment. In a small
room, a RainWing is chained to the wall. When Starflight asked for her
name, she said it was Orchid, prompting Starflight to tell her Mangrove
was looking for her. Starflight then realized that the NightWings are
planning to invade the rainforest and steal the RainWings' home.

Morrowseer came in and brought Starflight to meet the Talons of
Peace#The False Dragonets|false dragonets of destiny, whom he soon
assigned to kill Starflight. Starflight fled to the RainWing prison, and
two of the false dragonets of destiny were caught by NightWings guarding
the area. However, Fatespeaker found him and promised she would not kill
him, and they both returned to the cave. During the night, Fatespeaker
brought Starflight to explore the palace, and they found the old
treasury, where Starflight found a dreamvisitor. He went back to his bed
and attempted to use it but failed. The next morning, Morrowseer brought
the false dragonets and Starflight southward to a remote outpost
belonging to the SkyWings. He instructed them to make the SkyWing guards
inside switch alliances to Blister. When Starflight was not able to get
them to switch, a group of NightWings killed the SkyWings. Starflight
suspects that this would have happened no matter what they convinced the
guards. Squid stated he wanted to quit and Morrowseer tells him to
leave, resulting in the SeaWing to say he was lying. However, Morrowseer
forced him to fly away, alone.

The following night, after returning to the island, Fatespeaker found
Starflight in the dormitory. She prompted him to wake because Flame was
leaving the dormitory and she wanted to follow him. They followed Flame
down to the prisons where Deathbringer was being held. Flame asked
Deathbringer tips on how to be an assassin. Flame thought what
Deathbringer told him was useless. When he was gone, Fatespeaker asked
him where to find the queen. Deathbringer told them, and they found her
in a cauldron full of lava. Starflight and Fatespeaker were both
extremely shaken. Starflight tried to figure out how this was possible.
The queen then explained to him that while fighting an IceWing, the
IceWing shot its frostbreath into her mouth. In order to counteract the
ice forming inside of her body, she was confined to a pool of lava. They
explained to her Morrowseer's plan but she refused to help. After
returning to the dormitory, Starflight attempted to use the dreamvisitor
again. He succeeded, entering Glory's dream and explaining to her what
happened, and she prepared her army.

The next day, Morrowseer ordered Flame to fight Ochre. After Ochre
attempted to surrender, Morrowseer pointed out that on a battlefield,
that would not happen. Fatespeaker stood up for Ochre, and Morrowseer
ordered Flame to attack her instead. Viper asked to join the bout, which
was approved by Morrowseer. As Viper was about to stab Fatespeaker in
the neck with her tail, Starflight joined in and shoved the SandWing
away from Fatespeaker. Viper accidentally scratched Flame's face with
her tail and fell into the lava. Morrowseer brings Flame to the healers,
and Starflight realized the false dragonets were not born on the
brightest night when Ochre was unwilling to save Viper, yelling "I have
no idea if my egg was blood red, and I don't plan to risk my life
finding out!"

Starflight later developed a plan to escape from the Night Kingdom.
Fatespeaker and Starflight took Flame and brought him out to the tunnel
to the rainforest, claiming to have been ordered by the NightWing queen
to take the SkyWing to the RainWings to be healed. After successfully
tricking the guards, they met up with Glory, Tsunami, and Sunny. He told
them about the NightWings' plan to take over the rainforest. Glory
decided to attack the NightWings, leading to the NightWing Exodus. In
case he did not survive the battle, Starflight decided to tell Sunny he
loved her. They visited Queen Battlewinner and said that the NightWings
could live in the rainforest if they made Glory their queen.
Battlewinner was enraged by this, and attempted to attack them, but as
she jumped out of the lava, the ice within her killed her. Greatness
agreed with their plan and came with them.
[File:Starflight-blind.png|thumb|Starflight](File:Starflight-blind.png%7Cthumb%7CStarflight)
being hit by lava

Fatespeaker, Glory, and Starflight freed the RainWing prisoners, and the
volcano started to erupt. They continued to free the prisoners along
with Splendor and Deathbringer, and most of the NightWings declared
Glory their queen after Mightyclaws started a chant. As the volcano
erupted, Morrowseer told them he and Battlewinner made up the prophecy
in an elaborate plot to steal the RainWings' home. The volcano erupted,
most likely killing Morrowseer. When Starflight was severely injured,
Clay protected him from most of the blast with his fireproof wings and
brought him back to the rainforest. Though Starflight still sustained
burns on his body and his eyes, he believed he felt Sunny's talons press
against him, but also heard Fatespeaker's voice. Starflight was then
shot with a sleeping dart and plunged into unconsciousness, described to
be "as black as a NightWing’s scales."

left The Brightest Night

After Starflight came out of the NightWing tunnel, he was
injured with burns from the eruption. He wore a bandage over his eyes
while he healed. When Sunny disappeared, Fatespeaker started taking care
of him.

When Sunny returned, Starflight, the other dragonets, and Deathbringer
met to discuss the Eye of Onyx and who would be the next SandWing queen.
He mentioned that they did not have to be the ones who stop the war, as
anyone could if they had the Eye of Onyx. Fatespeaker said that it
definitely did not have to be Starflight and that he had done enough.
Sunny suggested gathering all three sisters at the SandWing stronghold.
Starflight stayed behind while the other dragonets sent messages to the
three sisters.

He was present when the meeting was held outside the stronghold. Blister
mentioned a gift sent to Burn to "mend fences" and "reunite the family."
However, Burn knew that the present was a dragonbite viper and was meant
to kill her, and intended to have it bite Blister. Starflight told
Fatespeaker what a dragonbite viper is when Burn first mentioned it.
There was a second viper in the box who leapt out and bit Burn. The
dragons at the meeting panicked and took flight. Fatespeaker and Sunny
tried to hold Starflight up. Clay was bitten while he sent the three of
them backward in his effort to save them. Peril arrived, saving Clay's
life by burning out the poison, scarring Clay's thigh in the process,
and leaving him with a permanent limp.

When Blister attacked Blaze to start a fight for the throne, he said
that Blister would win, but Sunny and the other dragonets followed
Flower's instincts and dug up the bones of Queen Oasis. The SandWing
treasure was discovered to be in her mouth, where Sunny found the Eye of
Onyx. Sunny gave it to Thorn as the new SandWing queen, but Blister
snatched the Eye in an attempt to be queen. The enchantment turned her
to dust, and Thorn took her place as queen of the SandWings. Starflight
was later seen with Sunny in the rainforest, discussing why they would
not work out as a couple, and Sunny told him that Fatespeaker liked him
as well and that he should like her too. Starflight was seen discussing
the school for all tribes that they would build, and it was then
confirmed that he was blind.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Moon Rising

Starflight is the librarian at Jade Mountain Academy and ensured that
the library was built in such a way that he could get around it, and
know where different scrolls were located by feeling carved nameplates
and stamps. He was first introduced when Moonwatcher went to the library
to borrow a scroll on animus-touched objects. Starflight gave her a
library scroll. Moonwatcher senses that he initially had fears about
whether he would be able to do a good job as a blind librarian, but had
gotten over them for the most part. Starflight also seems to know
dragons just by the sound of their footsteps. Starflight was also shown
to know how to read a carved script.

When Moon asked for a scroll involving dreamvisitors, Starflight asked
her if she was visited. When Moon said no and asked why, Starflight said
he was worried that Ex-Queen Scarlet would try to scare the students
through her dreamvisitor, though he knew that was not all she could do.

Starflight was later shown reading a carved stone tablet with his
talons, and even later, was seen spending time with Fatespeaker, who was
reading to him, and Sunny, who was helping sort scrolls.

Icicle tried to murder Starflight shortly after Sora tried to kill
Icicle. She attacked him for Queen Scarlet, who had contacted Icicle
using a dreamvisitor. Moonwatcher realized that she would attack him
because his blindness and lack of fighting skill made him an easy
target, so she went to the library to witness Icicle creeping up behind
Starflight. Qibli and Winter helped fight her off, and she escaped,
leaving Starflight alive and for the most part, unharmed, although
temporarily unconscious. Icicle wanted to kill Starflight to please
Queen Scarlet and to get her brother, Hailstorm, back.

left Winter Turning

Starflight was first mentioned when Winter remembered how Scarlet asked
for the dragonets of destiny's lives in return for Hailstorm's. Winter
then thought to himself that Starflight had been one of the dragons who
had confirmed that the NightWings had no more powers.

left Escaping Peril

Starflight was heard talking when Peril and Turtle were spying on the
conversation with Queen Ruby. He mentioned never being able to trust
Peril and was shown to be slightly sarcastic. He was in the epilogue,
talking to Anemone about the feeling of Darkstalker escaping and making
an earthquake.

left Talons of Power
Starflight was in the library when Tsunami and Turtle came in to learn
about Darkstalker. However, before he could start teaching, Darkstalker
himself poked his head in through a window, and after some discourse,
asked him to get scrolls on Clearsight and Fathom. Afterwards, Turtle
turned to look back through the window and saw Starflight hurrying
around, slipping scrolls out of their place, putting them back, and
every once in a while, marking the scroll's title on a slate and handing
it to Fatespeaker.

Later, Anemone talked to Darkstalker about fixing Starflight's blindness
with animus magic, and then Darkstalker said that Starflight would be
reluctant to accept that.

left
Darkness of Dragons
Starflight was
talking to the IceWings about where Darkstalker went. He was shown to be
scared of them and sidled up next to Sunny for comfort.

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### The Lost Continent Prophecy

left
The Hive Queen
Turtle mentioned him
in the prologue saying, "Right before Qibli came to get us, Anemone was
telling me about a spell she tried to restore Tamarin's sight. I've been
thinking of trying one for Starflight's, so we were comparing notes."

Tsunami indirectly mentioned Starflight when she stated that she and her
friends had solved plenty of problems without animus magic.

left The Poison Jungle

Starflight was mentioned by Tsunami when she was in the
SapWing village.

left
The Dangerous Gift
Snowfall thought
about how Tsunami's "gang of righteous do-gooders" would have used
animus magic to help if it was working. Later, Lynx talked about the War
of SandWing Succession and how the dragonets ended it.

left
The Flames of Hope
Starflight was in
Tsunami's memory of the dragonets arguing over which kingdom was the
biggest. He said to be careful not to tear the map, or Kestrel would be
furious at them.

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### Legends

left
Dragonslayer
Young Starflight
appeared unnamed when Wren and Sky were observing him and the other
dragonets of destiny. Wren noted how the brown dragonet (Clay) got along
poorly with the older red dragon (Kestrel). Wren mentally noted
Starflight's neediness for books or scrolls. Later, Cranberry and Rowan mentioned that they had to fight a "blue dragon and a black
dragon." The black dragon was Starflight.

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### Winglets

left
Prisoners
Fierceteeth complained to
Saguaro about how she should have been the dragonet of the prophecy, not
Starflight, who she described as "a walking tragedy." A scene later
showed Fierceteeth arguing with her mother, Farsight, who refused to
leave Starflight's egg, which she believed would be a female. Morrowseer
then arrived to take Starflight's egg, which was when Fierceteeth
offered him to take her instead. Morrowseer declined the offer.

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### Field Guides

left
A Guide to the Dragon World

Starflight's commentary was seen in the book's opening letter.

In the MudWing chapter, he wrote a note in the guide about Sepia writing
in the margins of Literature#Named scrolls|The Sluglike Qualities of
MudWings but reflected on how she had showed him that the scroll
contained harmful stereotypes. He sent Fatespeaker to count how many
scrolls written by MudWings were in the academy library and was
horrified when he learned there were only two. He wrote a note to Sepia
giving her an assignment to write a scroll about MudWing sibling troops.
Starflight had to correct the name of Sepia's scroll before he put it
into the guide. Later in the chapter, Starflight recieved a letter from
Fatespeaker about her journey to the MudWing palace to gather scrolls on
MudWing culture and history.

Starflight was the recipient of Coral's opening letter in the SeaWing
chapter. He later wrote a note in the chapter about how he could not fit
all of Coral's scroll descriptions in the guide, only putting the first
ten. He was also the recipient of Turtle's letter about his hatching
day. Anemone mentioned Starflight in her letter to Tamarin about how he
had invented pressed letters so that blind dragons could read scrolls.

In the beginning of the RainWing chapter, Starflight exchanged letters
with Glory about the content that would be put in the RainWing chapter.
He was later mentioned in Kinkajou's creative writing project and
briefly in Glory's notes on the Dangers of the Rainforest scroll.
Starflight wrote a letter about the history of RainWing storytelling and
scrolls.

Starflight wrote a few notes to Fatespeaker about Comet's story from
Tales of the NightWings following the story's inclusion in the guide. He
was later the recipient of a letter from Moon about the scroll she wrote
on NightWing powers. Starflight was mentioned a few times throughout
Glory's interview with Mastermind. Fierceteeth sent Starflight several
letters until she finally agreed to write him something about Renewal
for the guide. She later invited him to come to a hatching ceremony in a
year for her dragonets with Strongwings.

Sunny wrote a letter to Starflight about her and Smolder making of list
of all of the things they could find or remember in Burn's SandWing
stronghold#Weirdling Tower|Weirdling Tower. He was also the recipient
of a letter from Smolder about his observations on Rose the first week
he kept her as a pet.

Starflight was the recipient of Snowfall's opening letter for the
IceWing chapter. He was later also the recipient of an application for
Jade Mountain Academy by Mink.

Starflight was the recipient of letters from Vermilion and Ruby in the
SkyWing chapter. He was also indirectly mentioned as one of the dragons
Scarlet wanted dead.

Cricket wrote a letter to Starflight about the inclusion of Pantalan
material in the guide and possibly Pantalan Jade Mountain Academy
students in the future.

Starflight recieved a letter from Cricket about the Book of Clearsight
in the HiveWing chapter of the guide.

Starflight was mentioned by Hazel in her letter about LeafWing
literature. He was later the recipient of a letter from Sundew about the
letters she found between Sequoia, Linden, and Belladonna.

## Relationships

### Clay

Starflight and Clay are good friends since they have known each other
since hatching. Clay is often annoyed by Starflight's constant lectures,
although he sometimes appreciates them. Starflight felt very annoyed
when Clay called the Scorching "the Scalding," and in The Hidden Kingdom, Starflight seemed jealous of Clay when the
latter called dibs on sleeping next to Sunny even though he was only
joking and likely wanted to keep warm in the IceWing's territory. In The
Dark Secret, Clay shielded Starflight with his fireproof scales from the
fire coming from the volcanic explosion. The two also share a teasing
relationship at times, as shown when Starflight once used Clay as a
testing object by shoving fruits in front of Clay's snout while he
dreamed. Clay mentioned that he sees Starflight giving him lectures in his dreams. In Escaping Peril Starflight mentions
Peril's crush on Clay, which Clay denies.

### Farsight

When Starflight's egg was still on the NightWing island, Farsight did
not care about anything but his egg. She would refuse to leave the egg,
insisting that they were probably her last moments with her dragonet.
Farsight also believed that Starflight would be female. Farsight was
reluctant to give Starflight to Morrowseer.

### Fatespeaker

In The Dark Secret, Fatespeaker and Starflight become close friends.
When he is chased by Ochre and Flame, she is in the cave right next to
his hiding spot and promised that she was not going to kill him. They
snuck away to talk to Queen Battlewinner and figured out her secret
together. Starflight likes Fatespeaker better than all the other
NightWings. Fatespeaker has a crush on him but he currently likes her as
a friend, as when Starflight is confessing to Sunny he glances at
Fatespeaker to think about how his feelings for her could never be the
same as his affection towards Sunny. Even if Starflight's feelings are
not romantic, the two are still good friends.

### Fierceteeth

Fierceteeth is Starflight's older half-sister. Fierceteeth views him as
sappy, tragic, and disappointing; however, she believes she would show
mercy towards him if she ever became queen of the NightWings.

### Glory

Glory, like the rest of the dragonets (not including Sunny), was always
very annoyed by Starflight's lectures. She has made blunt remarks about
his tribe to his face, but nevertheless seems to care about him. They
seem to trust each other since they have known each other since their
hatching day. Starflight seems to admire Glory's way of remembering
things easily and making plans. This is demonstrated when Starflight
used the dreamvisitor to appear in her dreams, and while the other
dragonets believed that Starflight was just a part of their dream, Glory
immediately knew that he had found a dreamvisitor. In The Dark Secret,
they work together to unite the RainWings and the NightWings along with
the help of the dragonets.

### Kestrel

Starflight was afraid of Kestrel and her short temper. He would hide in
the shadows if the SkyWing was nearby, and would often get burned by
Kestrel just like all the other dragonets. He did, however, stand up to
her by helping Sunny melt the chains Kestrel put on Tsunami.

### Mastermind

Starflight shares many traits with his father, including scale patterns
and extreme intelligence. At first, Starflight wanted to have a good
relationship working with his father. But, when he learned what
Mastermind was doing to the RainWings, he felt horrified. He still
helped his father but was wary of him. Mastermind was very impressed
with Starflight and wanted him to be his assistant. After The Dark
Secret, Mastermind was put into prison and Starflight wanted little to
do with him after the incident with the RainWings. It is unknown how
Mastermind currently feels about this, or if he even knows how
Starflight feels about him.

### Morrowseer

Starflight seemed to be terrified of the larger NightWing, as shown when
he "froze like a stalagmite" when Morrowseer first visited the dragonets
under the mountain. During The Dark Secret, Starflight did his best to
impress Morrowseer and was very scared of Morrowseer exposing him as not
a real NightWing due to his lack of powers. Morrowseer hated Starflight
for being "weak" and a "spineless failure."

### Peril

Starflight fears Peril, and refused to speak to her when tethered to his
rock spire in The Dragonet Prophecy. Later, though, when the dragonets
were trapped by a wall of fire, Starflight addressed Peril, asking her
if she was hurt by fire, but this may have been out of desperation since
if they did not escape, he would be forced to battle in the SkyWing
palace#SkyWing Arena|SkyWing arena. When she answers, he comes up with
the idea of Peril moving the black rocks in order for the dragonets to
escape. During the time when she was out of earshot, he and Tsunami
point out to Clay of her crush on him. Peril lost Starflight's trust
when she betrayed the dragonets to Queen Scarlet. However, by the end of
The Brightest Night, he feels slightly indebted to her for saving Clay's
life. In Escaping Peril, that seems to have changed, as he was worried
he was going to wake up on fire one day. He also was thinking about
finding a scroll about sociopaths, which might mean that he thinks Peril
is one. He also gets uncomfortable when he senses Peril near his
scrolls. Regardless of his personal opinion of her, he is still aware of
Peril's crush on Clay and tolerates her at Jade Mountain Academy as long
as she stays out of the library.

### Sunny

Starflight is thought to admire Sunny's joyful personality but did not
interact with her much in the first book. It is thought that he did love
her then, too, for when Tsunami said to Peril that Sunny was like a
little sister to all of them, Starflight acted like he considered Sunny
differently. However, he does stand up for her against Tsunami, Glory,
and even Morrowseer. In the second book, he is noticed to want to do
everything in his power to protect her. In the third book, Glory is near
certain he has had a crush on her for his entire life. Starflight has
known Sunny and the other dragonets since hatching. Sunny seems to have
the most positive attitude about Starflight and his lectures. In the
fourth book, he is directly stated throughout the story to be in love
with Sunny, and has been his whole life. He finally admits it to her, but in The Brightest Night, it is shown that
Sunny is unclear and confused about how she loves Starflight. At the end
of The Brightest Night, Sunny ultimately decides that she loves him as a
brother, which he reluctantly accepts. Starflight also mentally pleads
to Sunny that she does not judge him for the terrible things that the
NightWings have done. He is comforting and reassuring towards her, and
she often feels pity towards him when he is ignored by the other
dragonets. When he became too tired to carry her through the ocean when
the dragonets visited the Kingdom of the Sea, he seemed disappointed to
be deprived of her contact. He worries about her safety, and she
believes in his ability to know everything and to be right.

### Tsunami

Tsunami and Starflight have known each other since hatching. Like the
other dragonets (with the exception of Sunny), she is annoyed by
Starflight's lectures and she often shushes him. Despite this, they seem
to care for each other, shown when they refuse to fight each other in
Scarlet's arena. Tsunami once had a slight crush on Starflight, before
realizing how annoying he could actually be, due to the ongoing endless
lectures. Starflight often wishes he had Tsunami's "crazy-brave"
courage, and Tsunami believes that the reason he studies so hard and
reads so much information is so he can be an asset to the group. Tsunami
does not particularly like taking orders from him, but when she is not
annoyed with Starflight, she mainly feels sorry for him.

## Quotes

She cares. […] She just doesn't whine about it.
to
Tsunami, about Sunny The Dragonet Prophecy (book)|The Dragonet
Prophecy
26

-----

Easy. It's because we have all these special powers, and we
don't want to make regular dragons feel inferior. […] You know.
Telepathy? Precognition? Invisibility? Hello?
to Clay, about
the NightWings The Dragonet Prophecy (book)|The Dragonet
Prophecy
105

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I'm sorry he took me. I wanted him to bring me back right away,
but he wouldn't. He said they couldn't afford to lose any NightWings,
even — even peculiar little ones.
about Morrowseer's
abduction of him The Dragonet Prophecy (book)|The Dragonet
Prophecy
297

-----

Shouldn't we stay under the trees? What if a patrol spots us? I
mean — We must stay under the trees. All right. Yes. Everyone back into
the trees right now.
to the other dragonets of destiny The Lost Heir
1-2

-----

Even so, I'm not sure that theory works. The princess murders
started two years before they stole Tsunami's egg, so the Talons, and
especially Webs, wouldn't have known they were going to steal a royal
egg at that point — Webs didn't even know he was going to be a Talon at
that point. And Webs has been underground with us for the last six
years. He couldn't have flown here and back every time he wanted to
murder a dragonet.
to Coral The Lost Heir (book)|The
Lost Heir
225

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What if I can fix everything? This is the chance you wanted.
You asked Glory to let you talk to the NightWings. You wanted to give
them a chance to explain themselves — you wanted to find a peaceful
solution, so you wouldn't have to pick sides in a war.

thinking The Dark Secret
18

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Crazy-brave is the opposite of me. Crazy-brave is Tsunami.
Crazy-brave would have been turning around to fight all four dragonets
at once, which is what she would have done. Sitting in a dark hole?
Waiting for someone else to deal with my problem? She's right about one
thing: that does sound like me.
thinking about Tsunami The Dark Secret
83

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Has she been under the lava this whole time? That's not
possible and now I'm definitely absolutely one hundred percent going to
die because THAT IS A DRAGON WHO LIVES IN LAVA.
thinking
about Queen Battlewinner The Dark Secret (graphic novel)|The
Dark Secret
123

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Perhaps that's one downside to staying isolated. They keep
themselves separate to seem more powerful, and yet they're cut off from
so much potential knowledge. If they didn't feel superior to all other
dragons, maybe they'd be better at listening to them, and maybe they'd
learn something new.
thinking about the NightWings

The Dark Secret
199

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There's no time to be afraid. This is the only thing you can
do. And you must do it.
thinking about saving Flame and
warning the RainWings The Dark Secret

215

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[…] We're only dragonets. We shouldn't be leading anyone to
their deaths. But this is happening no matter what we do. We have no
choice now. […] You can't be the most cowardly dragon on Pyrrhia right
now. Remember, you've read over all the history scrolls you could find
about famous battles. Now use that knowledge. It's time to prove that
you really do belong in this prophecy.
thinking about the
invasion of the NightWing island The Dark Secret (book)|The Dark
Secret
234-236

-----

They're not my tribe, You are. You and Sunny and Tsunami and
Clay.
to Glory about the NightWings
The Dark Secret
236-239

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No, I mean- you're all I think about and I want to be near you
and it hurts when I'm not, and everything I do, I think, what would
Sunny want me to do? And I think you're the only dragon who sees me the
whole way I am and likes me anyway … And I had to tell you, in case
something happens to either one of us today, although if anything
happens to you I don't know how I'd be able to breathe or think or do
anything ever again.
professing his love to Sunny before
going through the tunnel The Dark Secret

239-240

-----

It's royal SandWing business now. They'll fight and Blister
will win, but the important thing is that the war is over. There will be
a queen on the SandWing throne, and no one else has to die.

to his friends after Burn's death The Brightest Night (book)|The
Brightest Night
287

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I promise. You won't have done anything wrong, Icicle. You can
still go home now, but if you kill me, Queen Glacier might not take you
back.
to Icicle while she is attempting to kill him

Moon Rising
271

-----

Blaze is literally the least intelligent royal dragon in the
world. She can't be right, by definition. If she thinks this school is
doomed, then it is definitely going to be wonderful.
to Sunny
about Jade Mountain Academy
Darkness of Dragons
37

## Trivia

  - Before escaping the underground caves, Starflight would read a
    scroll entitled Scrolls#List of Known Scrolls|Tales of the
    NightWings whenever he was stressed or upset.
  - Starflight has a tenor singing voice.
  - After his experiences in the SkyWing Arena, Starflight has
    nightmares about scavengers.
  - Starflight becomes "hilariously twitchy" when he senses Peril near
    his papers.
  - Starflight is working on scrolls blind dragons can read and
    afterwards may create fireproof papers for Peril.
  - Before animus magic stopped working, Turtle was in the process of
    writing a spell to restore Starflight's eyesight.
  - Starflight thinks that fish smells awful.
  - Despite being blind, Starflight has the ability to read carved
    letters by running his talons over them.
  - When Starflight is deep in thought, he will gaze into the air as if
    he is trying to solve a math equation.

## References

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MR Category:Appeared in EP Category:Appeared in ToP Category:Mentioned
in WT Category:Protagonists Category:Point of views Category:Dragonets
of destiny Category:Mentioned in TPJ Category:Appeared in Dragonslayer
DoD Category:Featured in AGttDW Category:Featured in FYDW
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