Strawberries and Darkness

Character Facts #8

Hope/Foeslayer:

1. The few dragons in the rainforest that know of her identity(besides Winter who doesn't know about Hope) are Glory, Deathbringer, Moon, Qibli, Kinkajou, and Turtle. Some Rainwings were still informed but were explained a little less about Hope such as Jambu and Pineapple while other Rainwings/Nightwings that work closely with the queen that weren't necessarily informed at all have their suspicions. Examples include Mastermind(who got out of prison later) and Avis.

2. Glory, seeing that Hope is quite knowledgable and experienced granted her the role of a Nightwing representative/semi-queen for the Night Village. She tends to make choices involving trade between the rainforest and other locations, making sure markets are running, and make sure the general population is kept in check.

3. Because of facts number 1 and 2, quite a bit of the Nightwings are suspicious of Hope and the fact that she seemingly just appeared. Due to her role in the village, she isn't insulted or hurt unlike Peacemaker but dragons don't entirely trust her and sometimes also treat her like an outsider though it is less obvious.

4. Hope is pretty big and quite healthy looking, unlike most Nightwings that came from the volcano furthering suspicion. 

5. As her old name suggests, Hope is still good at fighting and slaying her foes(a lot of experience). She's one of the most physically strong Nightwings and with a bit of luck on her side can easily take on Queen Glory. She tends to accidentally intimidate others. Despite this, she never teaches Peacemaker how to fight as she wants little to no violence at all in his life. She tries to teach Peacemaker to try to find solutions with communication instead of violence.

6. As previously stated in Peacemaker's facts, Peacemaker reminds Hope more of Whiteout than Darkstalker and she brought him a painting set to see if Peacemaker would have skills like Whiteout had...he didn't.

7. The reminders get pretty bad at times to the point that Hope is reminded of Whiteout, knows that the origins of Peacemaker were from her first dragonet, Darkstalker, but also realizes she has to start seeing Peacemaker as a third dragonet separate from the other two as those two are now gone. Those thoughts torment her quite often.

8. Speaking of reminders, Hope accidentally finds herself setting up the table for four instead of two. She tries to avoid making this mistake but she built up quite a habit from back then. Peacemaker notices.

9. Due to her role, Hope tends to be quite busy with her job leaving Peacemaker alone sometimes. Every time she is not at home, she stresses badly praying that nothing bad is happening or has happened to Peacemaker and she wouldn't be able to help or save him just like she wasn't home to save her original family(she feels insanely guilty).

This is part of the reason why Rainwings like Jambu looked after Peacemaker so often as Hope couldn't be there at times.

10. Deep down, Hope had a rough time adjusting to taking care of Peacemaker instead of Darkstalker or Whiteout especially when Peacemaker acted entirely like the scripted enchantment he pretty much. As Peacemaker grew older, she finally settled in as Peacemaker's mother.

11. Hope has wondered and thought about having a new partner but she struggles with trying to get over Arctic. She also fears the chance that if she does get a new partner, arguments and traumatized dragonets are going to come back as well.

12. Like Peacemaker, Hope also wonders deeply about the idea of Peacemaker's existence, especially with the idea of an afterlife. If they both die then who is coming with her, Darkstalker or Peacemaker? If there is Peacemaker, then that proves she entirely erased her first son from existence possibly and if there is Darkstalker, then all those memories of raising Peacemaker don't mean much anymore as he never truly existed as a dragon. Unless miraculously both are in the afterlife with her.

13. When she spent some time looking at the remains of the old Night Kingdom, she didn't ever enter her old home as she was worried she might just fall apart looking at the place that once brought her some attachment and joy. She'll never go back there anymore.

14. Hope accidentally has biases against Icewings as she developed trauma from dying repeatedly to Queen Diamond and the rest of the other Icewings. 

15. Hope often likes having tea(or coffee) time with Queen Glory to discuss the state of the rainforest and any improvements it needs. Peacemaker had a lot of interactions with the queen from this as well. Sometimes Avis joins as Glory recognizes his observation and surprising intelligence.

16. Speaking of Avis, Hope at first considered Avis a nice social acquaintance but it evolved into more of a closer relationship as they both find each other interesting. Hope thinks Avis is a little creepy at times due to him being weirdly unpredictable and how he could just silently stare at anything and everything.

Regardless, Hope finds Avis's near dragonet-like innocence with his fondness of games oddly pleasurable to take part in.

17. When Hope is around, she can be quite defensive over Peacemaker therefore leading to not many dragons targeting Peacemaker during the time. She can go from heart-warming to savage in an instant.

18. Hope had once stopped an assassination attempt on Queen Glory fighting off several Nightwings on her own. She is well respected by the Rainwings.

19. Hope has been keenly aware of Peacemaker's progressive change after Clearblade's death. Originally, Hope was more fine with the happy future that Peacemaker was destined to have but as the future never started to occur correctly, she now is getting fearful of what could happen with Peacemaker as she's starting to be unable to understand the result. It isn't like she can abandon her duties so now she has to wait.

20. Hope especially is getting scared at the fact that Peacemaker is getting way more distant with her to the point that Peacemaker actively chooses to not go home to her. She hadn't yet fully grasped how badly the rainforest affected Peacemaker.

There's Hope. I think Hope can be a good mother but also if we consider her perspective, going from having at least a family she loved to being killed repeatedly across two thousand years to her now trying to live a normal life while raising a dragon that was at some point, her dead son now definitely made her go a little unhinged.

She often keeps constant communication with Moonwatcher to ensure that Peacemaker has a happy ending. But because she can't explain this to Peacemaker without further questioning or having to explain what happened that created him in the first place, Peacemaker eventually starts retaliating creating a kind of a cycle that resorts to resentment from Peacemaker.

Peacemaker and Hope kind of a sad relationship with each other as they both loved each other. However, things never get tense but instead get vacant as Peacemaker distances himself entirely away from the rainforest. They went from constantly being by each other as a family to both being alone at the end with Peacemaker seeing Hope as part of the side that pressured him into the situation he's in right now and Hope truly wanting Peacemaker to have a happy ending Darkstalker couldn't get.

Anyways, these are fun facts about Hope/Foeslayer. I might go back to edit this as right now, it's extremely late and I had the urge to write and not enough brain power to truly think but I wanted to at least get this done as someone recommended.