I read the first arc of wings of fire and this is how i imagined these goobers... Some queens with sandwing partners + general goober designs No icewings because i hauvent seen them yet LOL
(Edited: adjusted their colors + edited character descriptions)
I'm starting my WoF rewrite project with the Darkstalker Legend. The book is honestly fine, but I want to see if I can turn it into more of a tragedy where Darkstalker is known to be an animus from the start, Fathom flees the Seawing Queendom after the massacre, Arctic isn't a complete abusive asshole, and Clearsight and Darkstalker were never meant to cross paths.
Here are my Darkstalker and Whiteout designs/redesigns
Design info + minor ancient nightwing fashion hcs + designs without accessories below:
Darkstalker:
I find it incredibly boring that Darkstalker looks exactly like a Nightwing and that Prince Arctic likes Whiteout more because she looks more like him.
The only Nightwing aspect of Darkstalker is his dark scales. Everything else from his body structure, to his wings, to his face says Icewing nobility. In fact, he bears a striking resemblance to his grandmother, Queen Diamond, even inheriting her signature twisted horns. He has a teardrop scale behind each eye and a round scale on his forehead that denote his mind reading and prophetic abilities.
As is expected of any noble Nightwing, Darkstalker is very intelligent and very charismatic. While most Nightwings are initially wary of him due to his looks, he often manages to worm his way into their good graces. He was always going to be a key pawn in the Nightwing court by virtue of his birth, but when he was born on the brightest night, plans started to shift. Then, to Arctic's dismay, he presented as an animus when he was a dragonet.
Darkstalker is betrothed to Queen Vigilance's daughter and spends his time learning to become the perfect prince. He and all those around him see nothing but glory in his future, at least until he bumps into a strange Nightwing one night.
Darkstalker is always in fashion. Like many noble Nightwings, he wears a cool colored cloth around his body (the more translucent the better). He wears a matching set of bracelets and a tail band as well as silver bands on his horns and spines. The earring he has on is part of a pair gifted to him from his betrothed. He unfortunately doesn't have a nose horn or he would wear a ring on it, he wears one on his wing thumb instead.
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Whiteout:
Though her egg turned silver, Whiteout hatched the morning after the brightest night, which is unheard of. Unlike her brother, if you painted her fully black she'd heavily resemble a Nightwing, sans some spikiness. She has Foeslayer's eyes and horns. She's shorter than her brother, but a lot more stocky. Whiteout is regarded as strange, rude (by noble standards), and a pain in the tail to make wear anything.
Whiteout is like an open book, though the words that she says are either very blunt or don't make much sense...at first. She's sensitive to a lot of stimuli. She was very difficult to teach, regardless of how many private tutors she had, and continues to be unable to assimilate into Nightwing nobility, not that she cares. She trusts completely or not at all, and most of the nobility fall into the not at all category. As a result, she's generally dismissed and escapes Queen Vigilance's eye. She very talented in painting.
Whiteout wears a triple piercing earring with a blue, star-shaped gem on the end as well as a onyx bracelet matched with a nose-horn ring studded with lapis lazuli. She does not wear any clothing outside of formal events. All of her usual accessories have been enchanted by Darkstalker to not bother her.
I know I haven't even made an intro yet I swear I'll get there soon lmfao
But as requested by @princeofthedark I drew Whiteout! The very first one of this task, how exciting!
Design notes:
vitiligo ofc X3c
she has little freckles everywhere because I wanted the stars on the inside of her wings to also be on her body! Cuz I thought that was a fun idea, idk :]
made the white dots that go alongside Nightwings bodies into stars for her, again to keep with star theme :3
I made the star markings on her wings randomly clumped together more. This came about because of a pencil stain on the paper actually. It turned out really cool imo!!
her right side is mostly white while her left side is mostly black :]
Some random headcanons of mine I'll throw in here because why not:
I think she's an aromantic lesbian who uses she/they :]
Darkstalker enchanted for her a necklace that would make her look more "normal" to help fit in more with the Nightwings. Her normal design I should draw sometime, it's basically her canon design but tweaked a bit-
After Darkstalker was banished, Whiteout decided to destroy the necklace and instead live as herself
After her brother was sealed away, I headcanon she was so ostracized from the Nightwings she and Thoughtful (oh yeah bros here too- I headcanon she's actually trans mtf :> but anyways-) leave the city and instead go live out in a forest in the mountains near the Sky Kingdom :]
she also has PTSD from all the horrors she witnessed with Animus magic :( this is another reason she destroys the necklace and leaves the nightwings
Eventually when her and Thoughtful have kids, they migrate back to the Nightwing colony (to keep the Animus blood line going). Thoughtful sometimes also returns to the city, but Whiteout refuses to ever return. Her kids come and visit her some days instead as a compromise. Some kids do stay with them tho!
I mentioned earlier how I think she has PTSD, but I also see them being on the autism spectrum!
And yeah :] whiteout is really cool and Ralsei has definitely got me on the hype train for it haha. Yeah!!
