Glory

Template:Infobox Character Glory is a RainWing and an unofficial Dragonet of Destiny, in addition to being the current queen of the RainWings and NightWings.

Biography

The Dragonet Prophecy

Glory was stolen as a last-minute replacement by their guardian Webs (who fled the Kingdom of the Sea) for the broken SkyWing egg that was smashed. She was then raised with the other dragonets Clay, Tsunami, Starflight and Sunny. She was constantly bullied by the guardians, especially Kestrel (except for Webs, though he never defended her). Glory trained and studied harder than anyone else to try to prove herself to them that she wasn't lazy.

When Morrowseer comes he isn't happy with her, and orders the guardians to kill her. Tsunami is chained up to prevent her from interfering with Glory's death, so the dragonets form a plan to escape. Glory is hesitant to risk Clay's life to save her, but he does so anyway.

At the SkyWing Palace, Glory was chained to a marble tree and kept as Queen Scarlet's "art" in the arena fights. When Fjord was about to kill Clay, Tsunami attempted to jump off the ledges to distract everyone while Glory shot venom on Fjord's face, causing him to die painfully. When Clay was fighting Peril in the arena as part of The Champion's Shield, Glory shot venom at Queen Scarlet, causing the SkyWings to be distracted while Peril helped the Dragonets of Destiny escape. When Clay wanted to free Kestrel, Glory objected, trying to remind the others about how Kestrel wanted to kill her. When the dragonets were traveling to the Mud Kingdom, Glory and Tsunami played a trick on Clay because Glory thought that he wanted her to leave.

In the Mud Kingdom, Glory, disguised as a MudWing, went along with Clay to try to find his parents. They find out that Clay's mother doesn't care about him, so they begin to leave. Clay then finds his siblings, who tell them all about the MudWing tribe, and how he could be their bigwings. Clay refuses because he doesn't want to take Reed's place, and he needed to stay with his friends to stop the war.

Glory is there when Starflight is dropped off by Morrowseer, right when Clay was giving his speech about them staying together.

Glory then travels with them to the SeaWing Kingdom, to meet Tsunami's family.

The Lost Heir

Glory is perched on a rock, and soon a SkyWing patrol comes. She camouflaged herself to hide in the sand, then Tsunami attacked a SkyWing who opened his mouth (Glory was "pretty sure" he was yawning). She brings him up out of the sea (as an attempt to drown him). Glory got mad because Tsunami attacked him, She is one of the only ones who didn't need a blindfold to enter the Summer Palace (the others being Tsunami and Starflight). During the rest of The Lost Heir she is imprisoned by Coral. She then is let free to eat breakfast with the other dragonets when Blister arrived, but is imprisoned again only because they angered Blister. Tsunami escaped by a huge risk and freed the others. They escape together, and Webs got attacked by Blister, and got a poisonous scratch near his tail, so they decide to go see the RainWings (Glory was pleased to hear this), to see whether they have knowledge on healing poisoned injuries.

The Hidden Kingdom

Glory is the main protagonist in this book.

The book begins with Glory hoping that the RainWings are sensible dragons and nothing like the scrolls say. Then a MudWing patrol comes, so Glory is assigned to hide Webs, but she refuses and hides Sunny instead. She wanders off to follow the MudWings and hear their conversation, but she finds that they are dead with their necks cut open. They continue on and enter the Rainforest Kingdom.

One by one all the dragonets disappear except for Glory and Starflight, and she finds out that the RainWings had shot them with sleeping darts and camouflaged them, so they won't hurt them. She and Starflight go in the Rainforest Kingdom, and she learns about sun time, where RainWings sleep in the middle of the day, to make them smarter, braver, and recharge their scaales. Glory decides not to tell her friends, because she didn't need their pity.

She learns that RainWings have no families and they don't count their eggs, so Glory's egg was stolen without the RainWings catching Webs or even noticing her egg was gone. They don't read or write, and they do a lot of sleeping. Then they find that RainWings have been disappearing. Glory sets off to figure out why. They find out about a "monster". Then, Glory and her friends find a tunnel created by an animus dragon. They go through to find that it leads to the desert. Then when the mate of one of the RainWings that disappeared flies through, Glory follows with her friends and Jambu. Glory finds Deathbringer and talks to him, while masked as an IceWing. After that Glory and Jambu go find Mangrove (the dragon that flew through the tunnel looking for his mate) and bring him and Blaze back to the others. They run into Deathbringer again. They stop him from killing Blaze. They go back through the tunnel.

Glory watches the tunnel the night after they get back with Tsunami. They hear the monster, but Deathbringer shows up and the monster runs. They capture Deathbringer and tie him up. Glory uses herself as bait to catch the monster, and gets grabbed, and taken to the NightWing home. There she finds the missing RainWings. She meets Kinkajou there, and is saved along with her by Deathbringer and Clay. They go back and talk to the RainWing queen, she wouldn't do anything to save the prisoners, so Glory decides to challenge her for the throne, but instead of killing her, they go up against each other in multiple contest, testing camouflage, fruit hunting skill, venom aiming, tree gliding, and flower finding. Glory wins because (former) Queen Grandeur forfeits after finding out that Glory was a descendant of the original royal family. Kinkajou was injured by Grandeur's venom while saving a sloth during the contest.

The Dark Secret

It is believed Glory thought that Starflight left the Rain forest Kingdom to tell the NightWings about her army. Starflight later uses a dreamvistor and visits Glory's dream, he tells her that he was kidnapped and all the plans of the NightWings. When Starflight (along with Fatespeaker and Flame) return to the Rain forest Kingdom, Glory is overjoyed to see Starflight. Glory and her RainWings sneak into the Night Kingdom to save the captured RainWings. Glory, Starflight, and Fatespeaker go to Queen Battlewinner's throne room to talk with her, while Glory and Battlewinner are arguing, Starflight comes up with the idea, letting the NightWings live in the Rain forest Kingdom as long as they bow to Queen Glory. Battlewinner refuses and jumped out of the lava, saying that she would lead her tribe to safety, but, because of her Icewing injury, quickly froze to death. Then the ground starts shaking and lava starts to pour through the walls, Glory took Starflight with her to save Deathbringer, and they fly back to the others to tell the NightWings about their plan. The NightWings bowed to her and fly off to the Rain forest Kingdom. Then the volcano erupted and the dragonets flew out, with Starflight injured.

The Brightest Night

Glory is outraged when she found out her entire life was ruined by Morrowseer. She is also furious to find out of Morrowseer's demise and responds by saying, "I AM GOING TO BITE THAT DRAGON'S HEAD OFF AND STUFF HIM IN A VOLCANO!" Later, when Sunny returns she is relieved saying, "Now I can totally behead you." She votes on choosing Blister because she was the smartest. Glory also points out that if they're on Blister's side she'll leave them alone. It is believed that Glory bit or scratched Deathbringer after Clay was bitten by the viper. She is one of the dragons who helped Sunny dig up Queen Oasis' Grave to get the treasure buried with her.

Moon Rising

Glory is mentioned, but does not make an appearance in this book.

Winter Turning

She is seen in Winter Turning when the dragonets come to warn her about Icicle, who is coming to kill her. She summons a meeting at the Royal Pavilion and summons a couple of scouts to come along. One tells of a very cold place in the rainforest. Glory demands to be taken there. When they arrive, they find a NightWing corpse, but she decides not to tell the other NightWings that an IceWing had killed one of their own, for safety reasons. She sends the four dragonets to the Dragonet Wingery for their safety.

When the group escapes the wingery, Kinkajou left a trail that Glory followed to the old NightWing Island, where she tranquilized Icicle and and brought her to the healer's hut. When everybody is about to leave, Glory issues her orders to Kinkajou and Moon. Glory tells Winter that she used to think that she could accomplish everything on her own without friends, but now she says she wouldn't be here right now if she didn't stick with her friends.

Appearance

Glory has green eyes, and has no apparent scars around her body. She seems to prefer a red color around her frill, as well as on the underscales of her wings. However, she is not consistent with these colors, and usually allows other emotion colors to penetrate the pattern.

Despite this, Glory dislikes it when other dragons read her emotions through her scales, and attempts to bottle up her inner feelings.

Abilities

Glory is clever and capable in combat, despite not being built for it. She demonstrated knowledge of dragon anatomy by pressing a bladed disc right to Deathbringer's vital artery, and used pressure points like Sunny to stun a Nightwing foe when escaping from the Night Kingdom.

Like all RainWings, she is able to spit black venom from two of her longest fangs, as well as change color and camouflage herself. She uses both of these abilities effectively in combat.

Personality

Glory's most notable traits are her sarcasm, quick wit, and grumpy temperament. Unlike most other RainWings, due to lack of proper sunlight under the mountain, she never developed a mellow, laid back personality or as beautiful scales as her tribemates. Regardless, Glory does not care, believing herself to be fine just the way she is.

In The Dark Secret, when describing Glory to Starflight, Deathbringer admitted that he believed she was beautiful, sarcastic, and funny. He seems to have developing feelings for her, and Glory possibly views him as a love interest.

Quotes

"Wake me if anything exciting happens, but make sure it's actually exciting, not Sunny-exciting."

"Think of it this way. Time to leave the caves and fulfill the prophecy: exciting. You caught another weird-looking white crab in the river: not exciting. Got it?"

"Do what you like, but I'm not a big mushy ball of forgiveness like you are, Clay."

"Oh. The SeaWing princess has time for us all of a sudden."

"I like the one where we melt everyone's eyeballs on our way out the door."

"Um. All right. Do your best. And thanks and stuff."

"You'll have to call me 'Your Majesty.' I know. Won't it be hilarious?"

"I AM GOING TO BITE THAT DRAGON'S HEAD OFF AND STUFF HIM IN A VOLCANO!"

"LET'S GO BACK AND KILL HIM AGAIN." (reaction to Morrowseer's death)

"Aw, your lectures are even cuter when I can't understand a word you're saying." To Clay

"It's normal to be scared. I'm scared. You'd have to be crazy not to be- well, crazy or Tsunami, which is basically the same thing. You just have to push that aside and do what you have to anyway."

" No WAY, A tree? In the FOREST?!"

"The queen can take care of herself. Out of the two dragons in question, the queen happens to be the one with camouflage scales who can shoot venom. What can you do? Sit in the dark, is that it? Guess what, I can do that, too."

"So he says. Apparently he's my bodyguard now. Not that anyone asked him to be, ahem."

"He's just trying to make his list look longer than mine."

"I am not. Quit stalking me." (to Deathbringer)

"Then she ran into my claws." (to Queen Battlewinner, about Greatness)

"Blaze is a dizzy idiot who'd be dead by day two."

"What sort of assassin stalks his prey and whistles at the same time?" (about Deathbringer)

"Queen Magnificent, I challenge you for the throne of the RainWings."

"Funny, Tell me another. I love jokes about trusting NightWings." (about Deathbringer)

"Banana?"

"That is a level of noisy that makes me think you aren't even trying to be stealthy. Come on out." - To Qibli

Relationships

Clay

Clay and Glory have known each other since hatching, and Clay tried to help Glory and the other dragonets hatch as the bigwings. Clay was very concerned for Glory when he realized the Talons of Peace wanted to kill her. As with the other three dragonets of destiny, she feels a deep bond to him, at one point admitting that she could never have made it under the mountain without him and the others.

Kestrel

Glory was not afraid of the strict SkyWing, but she had always held a deep grudge against her for abusing her and underestimating her greatly. She refused to rescue Kestrel from the Sky Kingdom as Kestrel did want to kill her.

Webs

Though he was less strict than Kestrel, she still hated him for stealing her egg and letting Kestrel and Dune abuse her. In The Hidden Kingdom, she refused to camouflage him. She didn't even want to touch him. But as much as she hates him, she doesn't want to kill him for it, even though she said "Well, some of us don't" when it was mentioned that they don't want him to die.

Tsunami

Glory doesn't actually mind Tsunami's bossiness, but she still talks back because she thinks at least someone should stand up to Tsunami before her head gets too big for the rest of her. She is always snapping at Tsunami, even when Tsunami clearly isn't in the mood. She is shown to taunt Tsunami when she becomes queen and taunts her for her family.

Sunny

In The Hidden Kingdom, Glory decided Sunny was better to touch than Webs, even though she isn't comfortable touching other dragons. Glory was also extremely worried when Sunny went missing in The Brightest Night and held her talons in hers when she was found. As with Clay and the others, Glory feels a strong relational connection with Sunny.

Starflight

Glory is often annoyed by his know-it-all personality and rambling. She apparently knew about his crush on Sunny, and thought he should do something about it. She also shows affection to him at rare occasions. She wanted him to help her talk to Queen Battlewinner in The Dark Secret.

Deathbringer

When Glory first met him, she was disguised as an IceWing. Deathbringer gave her information about his mission, and then began to flirt with her. Glory was scared of him and his mission, but he helped her escape the NightWing island. The current status is 'more than friends.' In The Dark Secret, Deathbringer described her as beautiful, sarcastic, and fascinating. When Glory is helping him out of the prison, they hold each other's talons and Starflight sees; "they exchanged a look that said "thank you" and a whole lot more." Adding to that, in The Brightest Night, Glory and Deathbringer are constantly flirting with each other, and Deathbringer even put his wing around Glory, which she allowed.

Their relationship together has been confirmed.

Jambu

Glory didn't know she had a brother until she met him in the Rainforest Kingdom. Glory was unimpressed with him at first, and thought of him just as ridiculous as the other RainWings. However, Jambu helped her get Blaze to meet the dragonets and nearly beat Exquisite in the tree-gliding competition, one of the five contests that decided who would be queen of the RainWings. He was only stopped by a vine that wrapped around his neck, and he nearly strangled himself. He appears to be one of her most trusted dragons now, even if he is incompetent. He also makes sure Glory takes her suntime.

Kinkajou

The little dragonet met Glory when she was captured by the NightWings. She followed Glory in escaping, and claims that "I'll follow Glory anywhere!" when Glory threatens to take the throne by force. She did the venom targeting part of the contest to become queen and was injured by RainWing venom. She is later shown in a dream to see Glory as a big, beautiful queen, crowned and welcoming Kinkajou with open wings, while the other dragons stared at her enviously. Kinkajou sees herself as one of Glory's best friends.

Tamarin

Glory didn't really know Tamarin that well, other than the fact that she was blind. Tamarin seemed confident in front of Glory when she said that maybe she couldn't do the flower challenge, with Kinkajou later stating that Tamarin had the best nose in the whole kingdom. She also felt compassionate about getting Tamarin a better teacher in Jade Mountain Academy.

Trivia

Sutherland has mentioned on her blog that Glory is "probably her favorite so far" but mentions Clay that she'll always love sometimes so it is possible that she likes them both as their favorite.
It has been revealed that Glory is afraid of the dark.
Glory once had the desire to be an animus as a young dragonet so that she can enchant her guardians' food to eat them, but changed her opinion when she knew the price of using animus magic.
She has a pet sloth named Silver.
Glory's scales are duller than those of most other RainWings, because she lived under a mountain with no sunlight for most of her life.
On the cover of The Hidden Kingdom, Glory does not have the strip of wing membrane that the RainWings should have.
On the cover of The Hidden Kingdom, the thorns going down her back don't go to the tip of her tail, as shown in the guide.
Glory is descended from the original line of RainWing queens.
In Moon Rising, Glory is found to throw up an "instinctive shield" around her mind when uncomfortable, doing the same with her scales.