'Tamarin' is a blind female RainWing dragonet who was introduced in The Hidden Kingdom (book)|The Hidden
Kingdom. Before attending Jade Mountain Academy as a member of the Gold
Winglet, she worked as a flower gardener in the RainWing village. She is
currently in a relationship with Anemone.

## Description

While not displaying any particular emotion, Tamarin is shown to have
blue-and-gold scales. She has odd light blue eyes with a pale film on
them, and several scars on her wings and neck, including one twisting
across her underbelly. She is small, but larger than Pike, and wore a
garland of red, pink, and purple flowers around her shoulders before
attending Jade Mountain Academy. After the explosion of the
Plants#Other plants|dragonflame cactus in the Jade Mountain
Academy#The History Cave|history cave, her scales were covered in
bandages, and she wore a poultice of damp leaves tied over her eyes. She
has a limp and several scorch marks across her scales.

## Personality

Tamarin is kind, quiet, competent, and determined. In The Hidden
Kingdom, she refused to let Glory down during her contest for the
RainWing Dragon royalty|throne. Tamarin was hatched blind, but she never
let her disability stop her from doing the same things as other dragons.
She kept this mentality later on as well; after the explosion at Jade
Mountain Academy badly injured her, she recovered quickly and refused to
let her wounds stop her from attending classes or socializing with other
students. She also never allows anyone to push her around. As shown in Talons of Power, Tamarin seems to prefer
independence, as she likely feels pitied for something she does not want
pity for, refusing Pike's offer to support her as she walked in the
halls of Jade Mountain Academy. She is quite thoughtful and shy. Tamarin
is also highly observant, being able to analyze others based on their
actions or tone of voice. She has immense concentration.

## Biography

left
Pre-Series
Tamarin worked in the
royal gardens, where she took care of the flowers ruined year after year
by Fruit Bat, who used them to try and make perfume, much to Tamarin's
annoyance. She is completely blind, although her other senses have been
sharpened because of this. She memorized every section of the Rainforest
Kingdom and can sense anything out of the ordinary, such as flowers. If
she were told to change her scales red, for instance, she would be
unable to, but if she relaxes, then her scales could automatically
change to the color around her. Tamarin's underbelly, legs, and wings
are scarred from previous attempts to learn how to navigate and fly
blindly as a young dragonet.

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### The Dragonet Prophecy

left The Hidden Kingdom

Tamarin was mentioned by her close friend Kinkajou when she
was talking to Glory about the current queen|queens and
howFile:Mush-3.png|thumb|left|150px|Tamarin winning the flower-search
competition Fruit Bat annoyed Tamarin whenever she had access to the
gardens. When she was picking her team to battle for the crown, Glory
chose Tamarin (not knowing that she was blind) to join her team. As the
team conferred about who would do which contest, Tamarin offered to do
the flower hunt, insisting that she was knowledgeable in the field.
Tamarin competed in the flower hunt during the challenge for the
RainWing throne, using her excellent sense of smell to her advantage
even when Glory doubted her skills. Tamarin almost lost as Fruit Bat
followed her to the hidden flower, but the former managed to grab the
flower first and win the contest.

left The Brightest Night

She was mentioned to be helping Starflight adjust to flying
blind, with guidance, and avoiding obstacles.

In the epilogue, Glory suggested that Tamarin and Kinkajou should be
students at Jade Mountain Academy to have real teachers, not the "scraps
of time" Glory had for them.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Moon Rising

Tamarin was present when the Jade Winglet and Gold Winglet had a history
class together. Kinkajou introduced Tamarin to Moonwatcher, and Tamarin
introduced Kinkajou and Moon to Onyx. Later, Tamarin was accidentally
injured by a dragonflame cactus, an explosive variety of cacti, set off
by Sora. Clay took Tamarin to one of the underground lakes with Onyx and
Pike, before she was brought to the medical wing to recover from her
burns. Shortly after Sora tried to kill Icicle in the prey center, Sora
visited Tamarin, who was unconscious and wrapped in bandages from her
wings to her tail. Moon, Umber, and Qibli arrived to see her crying at
Tamarin's bedside, apologizing for her injuries.

left Talons of Power
Having recovered from her injuries, Tamarin was shown with Anemone and
Pike when Turtle came to warn them about Darkstalker. She anxiously
asked about Kinkajou, to which Turtle responded that "she was alive when
I saw her last." Pike then showed some kindness toward her. Then Anemone
left to impress Darkstalker, and Pike asked Turtle to walk her to the
infirmary. Once he left, Turtle admitted to Tamarin how Kinkajou was
really doing, as the RainWing pressed. Tamarin said she disliked secret
faces and knew that Turtle and Pike were making them. Then, Tamarin told
him she did not know Anemone was an Animus magic|animus, and when Turtle
realized that, he asked her to keep it secret. After that, she shared
her thoughts on animus power, talking of how if animus RainWings made
all the medicine appear in the healing hut, they would never find new
remedies. When they got to a fork in the tunnel, she said she could go
on her own from there and limped off.

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Darkness of Dragons
Tamarin was in
the history cave and asked Qibli if he smelled smoke, saying that she
could only smell smoke since the explosion. Tamarin was also one of the
students requesting a history lesson on Darkstalker to Webs in the
history cave.

In the epilogue, Tamarin was also mentioned doing a presentation on
Darkstalker's history with Pike and Fearless, and when Kinkajou told
Turtle that Anemone has a crush on her.

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### The Lost Continent Prophecy

left
The Hive Queen
Turtle mentioned
Tamarin when he explained that Anemone had tried to restore her sight
with her animus magic but failed due to animus magic mysteriously not
working anymore, which Turtle described as "Qibli 'breaking' animus
magic."

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### Field Guides

left
A Guide to the Dragon World
Tamarin
was the recipient of a letter from Anemone written with punched-up
letters as a test for scrolls that blind dragons could read.

## Relationships

### Anemone

Tamarin promised to keep Anemone's animus magic a secret and thought it
must have been hard on the SeaWing to keep a secret like that. Anemone
has a crush on Tamarin and casually shows up everywhere Tamarin is,
offering to read her scrolls and leaving her small gifts of flowers or
unusual fruit. The two go on gardening dates together.

### Glory

Tamarin appears to support Glory as her new queen, and Glory trusted her
to be on her team because she was good friends with Kinkajou. Although
Glory doubted her at first due to her blindness, Tamarin won the flower
hunting contest and helped Glory become queen. Glory suggested having
Tamarin and Kinkajou attend Jade Mountain Academy so they could have
real teachers.

### Kinkajou

Kinkajou and Tamarin are good friends. Tamarin shows concern for
Kinkajou upon learning about her condition, saying that she wishes she
could go to her. Tamarin thinks that Kinkajou is a little impulsive but
expresses that opinion in a way that indicates concern. Moonwatcher was
sure to allow Tamarin to know as soon as Kinkajou was awake and healing.
Kinkajou cares very much for Tamarin's safety, just as Tamarin does for
her.

### Onyx

Tamarin knew Onyx was sneaking out so she did not have to talk to her,
and could also tell that Onyx huffed and rolled her eyes whenever she
talked to her.

### Starflight

Tamarin and Starflight appear to be on friendly terms, as Tamarin helped
Starflight after he lost his sight. She taught him how to fly without
someone guiding him, how to sense unexpected obstacles, and how to ask
for help.

## Quotes

If it's about flowers, I can do it.
to Glory

The Hidden Kingdom
261

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But who gets to decide what's a good thing? […] Dragons would
always be asking for spells or telling you your choices are wrong. And
sometimes it's hard to tell what's good and what's just easy.

to Turtle about animus dragons Talons of Power (book)|Talons of
Power
25

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It depends. […] For instance, an animus dragon might think,
I'll make all our medicinal herbs appear magically in the healer's
treehouse, so we never have to go looking for them again. That seems
obviously good, right? But then we'd stop learning how to look for them,
and we might stop experimenting with new ones to see how those might
help dragons in different ways. We'd stop thinking about it at all,
because everything would be too easy. Don't we lose something when
everything is done for us?
to Turtle about animus magic Talons of Power
25

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So do I, normally. But I haven't been able to get the smell of
smoke out of my nose since the explosion.
to Qibli about her
sense of smell
Darkness of Dragons
18

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No, she's always nice to my face. Most dragons don't realize
how much I can figure out from their tone of voice, or the little huffs
they make between sentences. She thinks because I can't see her, I won't
be able to tell when she's rolling her eyes or making fun of someone.
Sometimes she'll sneak in and out of our cave, because she doesn't want
to talk to me, and she thinks I don't notice. It's not personal though.
I think she doesn't particularly care about any dragons unless they can
help her get what she wants.
to Sunny about Onyx

Darkness of Dragons
35-36

## Trivia

  - Tamarin has an excellent sense of smell.
  - Tamarin explained to Qibli that she could only smell smoke since the
    explosion. It is unknown if this is a permanent result of her
    injuries.
  - She was hatched blind and navigates her environments using other
    senses and a mental map of her surroundings. If the case is the
    Rainforest Kingdom, she has already memorized everything about the
    village so she can move around like normal.
  - In the minigame Wings of Fire Island|Speed Wings on Scholastic's
    Home Base, Tamarin is a playable character.
      - In this minigame, her eyes are mistakenly depicted as green.

## References

DoD Category:Mentioned in TBN Category:Jade Mountain Academy students
characters Category:Disabled characters Category:Featured in OCB