#jade winglet polycule

[spids]

This will be the plot of book 17 I think

The answer's all of them by the way #yep #polyamory

[flying-scaled-things]

The more and more I write/think about it the more and more I feel people are underselling Wintle. I know I already mentioned the similarities in my Jade Winglet Rarepairs post but there I was making an argument that was closer to: oh they’d have so much to talk about!

Now it’s more like… oh they’d understand one another like no one else would be able to. Like. The prince stuff, the daddy issues, the inferiority complex developed by their sisters being so important etc etc etc but also like.

Them both deciding to retreat from relationships and the world at large. Winter does it by becoming as sharp and repellent as possible. Turtle does the exact opposite, smoothing himself out and fading into the background so no one will even really notice him. But they both have the same goal in mind for the same reasons. “I must push every dragon away so no one can find out how much of a failure I am.”

I stg one deep conversation and they’d be inseparable.

[butchriptide]

Falls to my knees. Qiblijou. Kinkabli. Whatever you want to call it. Does anyone understand. Does anyone understand.

Now, as a certified AroAce, I am not the type to pedal that every dynamic ever has to be romantic. But also. I think they're cute as a couple. But ALSO also, even if you do not care for them as a couple, I need more people to discuss and write about and draw their dynamic. I need more if it like, yesterday.

Having to put this under the cut because it got crazy fucking long but like trust me. Trust me okay.

The element I find so compelling about them is that they read very much as similar characters at first-boiling down largely to "silly and kind". They diverge from this shared center point largely in how they react to trauma; They both are survivors, persistently... Goofy in the face of hardship. Kinkajou's seems to act as a natural element of her personality, rising up in face of being a generally lonely and somewhat disliked child. It's interesting how her impulsive nature and cheery demeanor overlaps with the genuine emotional intelligence she seems to hold. In moments of low-tension, where her head's clear and she's not immediately tunneling down something else, she seems fully able to process the fact that her trauma DOES effect her and often at least somewhat how. She doesn't have any big feelings on it, but she can still recognize her knee-jerk reaction to a Nightwing roommate being due to her trauma. Later conclusions about Moonwatcher being an exception due to some general difference from Nightwings as a whole, while not fully "correct", does still show her own ability to recognize these knee-jerk feelings as irrational-At least when faced with significant proof of that being the case, rather than doubling down on her own internal logic that's been shaped by her traumas. Her impulsivity and general hyperactivity tends to push this understanding to the side however, leaving a lot of her trauma something she's working past but not necessarily resolved. It isn't that Kinkajou is purposefully trying to avoid her pain to an unhealthy degree, so much as I think she largely doesn't think about it until she's forced to.

Meanwhile, Qibli's goofy exterior seems to largely be a mask; Or, at the very least, somewhat purposefully curated. He lives almost entirely in his fight or flight response, and seems to interpret his own overthinking and anxiety responses as a boon rather than an effect of his trauma. He likes his scar, but can't reconcile how he got it; Can't reconcile the part of him that loves his mother and wants to believe she loves him back with the fact that she hurt him, repeatedly, through pretty much every avenue one can neglect or abuse a child. This makes his optimistic veneer a lot more purposeful, an attempt to earn people's love because there was never any guarantee of receiving it from anyone. I don't believe that being this silly, playful person is necessarily fully disingenuous of Qibli, so much as I think he forces himself to amount to ONLY this. Shoves himself into a box which is used largely to ignore his trauma, as opposed to cope with it. He can't acknowledge everything that's happened to him affecting him because its incongruous with his image-both to others and himself. Despite being perceived as traditionally intelligent, Qibli's honestly incredibly lacking in the realm of emotional intelligence.

I think that ultimately, this leads them to having a very interesting balance and chemistry that's effective in getting me invested in them even though they have very little one-on-one time during the arc. They don't have any particularly "deep" moments together, but there's this implicit understanding and trust in a lot of their interactions. They match each other on a level that the rest of the Jade Winglet doesn't quite hit due to the vastly different levels they're coming from. While Qibli's not lacking his own impulsivity issues, his tendency to scrutinize and overplan becomes much more effective when it's actively curbing Kinkajou's tendency to fling into danger head-first, while Kinkajou's high-energy and quickness to action forces Qibli out of his own head in order to keep up with her.

Beyond the way they balance each other out, there's a strongly showcased, implicit trust between the two of them. Kinkajou and Qibli are co-conspirators, and them dealing with Chameleon in Book 10 (for all the gripes I hold against this book) showcase this perfectly. Qibli keeps Kinkajou from immediately jumping to action, but he doesn't talk over her, and Kinkajou's information is both pivotal to their planning and prompts Qibli to act. An important element too is that Qibli's trust in Kinkajou doesn't result in excessive idolization, like it does with Moon-Not to say that Moonbli is bad, but rather, it's an element of the relationship that makes Kinkajou and Qibli mesh much easier while Moonbli, I wholeheartedly believe, requires a lot more work to make work than canon would suggest. I think this trust is particularly important due to Qibli's issues with control, which he still easily puts aside for Kinkajou when he lets her simply keep the scrolls from Chameleon, instead of doubling down on them destroying them. Kinkajou opts to keep the scrolls at that's the end of it; even if Qibli's worried over Chameleon coming after them, he simply trusts Kinkajou to take care of them, and that's the end of it.

The way they match each other's energy is also just incredibly sweet. The Vase SceneTM comes immediately after it, so nobody ever talks about it, but they literally greet each other like 2000s scene kids who just found out what a "glomp" is.

My ultimate point is I think Kinkajou and Qibli's personalities bounce off each other in a very compelling way already as friends, and find the idea of them as a romance interesting largely because I don't think it would change much of their chemistry. I think they already feel very natural from what we're shown of them (although a lot of the non-ship dynamics in arc 2 are vastly underutilized due to how fractured everyone in the winglet is through the series to begin with) and I think they're sweet due to how much I think they can understand each other. They're interesting parallels that doesn't really get to shine in a lot of books due to the pacing of Arc 2 nor in fan works due to how people don't really read much into Kinkajou and choose to take her as just sort of a flat comic relief.

Also Kinkajou likes tortured guys <3

[levii0th0n]

sketchy moonelian 💕

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A sketch of two dragons from the Wings of Fire book series. The dragon on the left is Moonwatcher, a dark green NightWing. She has curled horns, braids, and circular scales beside her eyes. She is holding hands with the left dragon, Carnelian. She is a maroon SkyWing with horns that curl forward. She has feathered wings and a necklace adorned with animal teeth. Moonwatcher is smiling while Carnelian is talking.

[dragon-enthusiast-number420]

HEAR ME OUT

[beehive-collective]

What do you mean Jade WInglet isn't one big polycule???

[hollowflight-propaganda]

What Wings of Fire Rarepair ships do you like and/or have?

>:)))

For starters, me and my mutual @themightymoose concocted Riptide x Clay a while ago for funsies, and I've recently brought the idea up again and I think there's potential there! They're both guys who had unfair misconceptions thrust upon them from adults at a young age, and are often overlooked in the fandom. So yeah! I think it's a cute idea :)

The next one might sound a bit weird, but please stick with me here. Dusky x Cliff, specifically the aged up versions of them that I have in my brain for a hypothetical arc 4. Timid traumatized guy who doesn't know how to interact with people his own age x excitable himbo bard who takes it upon himself to befriend the shy kid is essentially how I see them! I do agree that shipping the children characters together as actual young children is weird, but that's not what I'm doing here, and I don't wanna hear anybody twisting my words around pretty please 🥺

Next is poly jade winglet! (inspired by this post) Cause why limit yourself to a couple ships when you can have all of them at once. I just think it's kinda funny, and the idea of arc 2 ending with Moon x Qibli x Winter x Turtle x Kinkajou is awesome. Realistically, they all have tons of therapy to go through before this should happen, but once they're past that I think it could be sweet!

This one is purely crack about background nobodies, but Lionfish x Wharf! Which if you don't remember, they're Fathom's guards besides Indigo that come with him to the night kingdom. I'm pretty sure that after the whole... Arctic Thing, we never hear about them again, but I like the idea of them after that being like, "Wanna go into retirement early?" "Sure man." And then they just like, chill on a beach for the rest of their lives

And I'm pretty sure that's all I have that isn't already shipped by quite a few other people! If it's not, or if I come up with anymore, I might make a part 2. Thanks for asking!

[flying-scaled-things]

Arc 2 ending the way it does continues to baffle me. The idea of Moon seeing her life stretch out before her without Kinkajou in it every single day and her being okay with that is just ridiculous. The idea of Qibli seeing his life stretch out before him without Winter in it every single day and him being okay with that is equally unbelievable.

The idea of Winter just! Giving up! Of just BEING OKAY with not having Moon or Qibli in his life every single day is JUST. WHAT? WHAT!!

Qibli and Moon getting 'married with kids ever after' is the most unbelievable part of set of books where the big bad is defeated by a strawberry I stg