Arcticflake

Arcticflake is the het ship between Arctic and Snowflake from the Wings of Fire fandom.

Canon
Prince Arctic and Snowflake were both IceWings alive before the events of Legends: Darkstalker (with Arctic playing a larger role in that book, while Snowflake only appears once). They were engaged to be married against their will before Arctic ran off with the NightWing Foeslayer. Snowflake also had a girlfriend, Snowfox, who she schemes to kill Arctic with since she didn’t want to marry him.

Legends: Darkstalker
Prince Arctic of the Arctic sees the single circle around Snowflake’s neck and realizes that she must be in the first circle. He thinks about how he could forget a first circle IceWing; he should remember them all, unless they lived on the outer three palaces. He blurts out her name, and internally calls himself an idiot for forgetting who she was, the IceWing his mother had chosen for him to marry. He thinks, Respectable family, loyal, likely to have a daughter that will replace Queen Diamond one day, since he had no sisters or aunts, and that she was probably the reason he’d been dragged on the trip. She bows and tells him yes, and he observes that she was pretty in a boring, glassy way that his mother liked, and he hadn’t gotten the chance to get a sense of her personality and was a little afraid she didn’t have one.

They walk down the halls and Arctic tries to start a conversation, asking Snowflake is she’s ever seen a NightWing before. She tells him that she’s only seen the ones who came to request this meeting. He asks if she knows what their here for, and she says no ending the conversation. Arctic thinks about using his Animus magic to make an object that can make any dragon interesting, although he dismisses it as it would be a waste of his gift. He asks Snowflake what she would make if she had animus magic,and she fidgets her wings and says she doesn’t know. He tells her to think about it and she says alright. About one minute later, she apologizes saying that she couldn’t think of anything. Arctic doesn’t hide the irritation on his face, and he tells her to really try, and to tell him tomorrow or whenever she comes up with something. To his surprise, she looks almost as irritated as he did, saying it seems like a waste of time unless he’s having trouble coming up with his.

Fanon
Arcticflake is a very niche and unpopular ship. It is easily forgotten about with only a few scenes of them interacting in Legends: Darkstalker. The few interactions they do have it is made clear that they do not love each other, Arctic even forgetting who Snowflake was. Arctic falls in love with Foeslayer and runs away with her to the NightWing kingdom and they have two children together, making it a much more popular ship(although it still has plenty of haters).

Since all of the Winglets series were previously Ebook exclusive, a lot of fans had not read them or even knew they existed, and so many weren’t aware of the extra plot surrounding Arctic and Snowflake’s relationship. There have been a few MAPs or PMVs/AMVs featuring the two but never in a romantic light, and despite Snowflake and Snowfox trying to kill him, Arctic is usually portrayed as the villain in the situation. And so it is virtually impossible to find any ship art, fanfic or other content for the ship.

Foxflake and Arcticslayer are both much more popular ships for each character, although Arcticslayer is considerably more well known since Legends: Darkstalker has been read by most fans unlike the Winglets series.

Fandom
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