Glorybringer

Glorybringer is the het ship between Glory and Deathbringer from the Wings of Fire fandom.

Canon
Queen Glory the RainWing and Deathbringer the NightWing first meet in Glory’s POV book, The Hidden Kingdom. Glory and the other dragonets of destiny are trying to meet Princess Blaze, who resides in the allied Ice Queendom, to help decide which of the 3 Royal SandWing sisters they should choose to rule the Sand Queendom. Glory sneaks out of the cave her friends are sleeping in with her brother Jambu, and they both disguise themselves as IceWings. Before meeting Blaze, Glory runs into Deathbringer. They exchange words, Deathbringer flirts with her and offers to buy her a drink. She dismisses him and she and Jambu visit blaze, arranging for her to meet with the other Dragonets.

After Glory, Jambu and Blaze get back to the others and introduce them, Deathbringer shows up and tries to assassinate the SandWing Princess. He throws sharp metal disks which almost kill Blaze and injure one of the dragonets. Glory fights him, and he mildly flirts with her again, and tells her she doesn’t want to kill her. She responds aggressively and he runs away.

While guarding the animus-enchanted tunnel to the NightWing queendom (Although they do not know where it leads) with Tsunami, they hear Deathbringer whistling loudly and capture him. They tie him to a large tree and Tsunami leaves. While alone with Deathbringer, they talk to each other and Glory realizes that the NightWing assassin had wanted to be caught. They hold him there for a couple days. Glory soon decides to purposely bait the kidnappers into catching her and bringing her back to their island; Deathbringer tries to convince her not to, but she ties his snout closed with vines and does it anyway.

Glory’s plan works and she is knocked out and taken to the NightWing island and is put in a cell with the young Dragonet Kinkajou. She finds out more about the RainWings being imprisoned in the islands while trapped there. Deathbringer and Clay soon come to rescue her and Kinkajou. Clay leads the RainWings to the exit and fends of the NightWing guards, while Deathbringer leads the pursuing NightWings away from them. He is soon arrested when they find out he was tricking them. The Hidden Kingdom ends here.

In the next book, The Dark Secret, the now Queen Glory trains her Queendom of RainWings to attack the NightWing island and free the RainWings and Deathbringer. They sneak inside and start knocking out the guards. everything is going well until the volcano starts to erupt. Glory and Starflight go to face of against the NightWing Queen, Battewinner, and go to rescue Deathbringer. While saving Deathbringer they linked talons and exchanged tragic romantic words. They all narrowly escape.

In The Brightest Night, Sunny’s POV book, Sunny wonders about how they’re in love and thinks that they will have Dragonets soon. She wonders how that would work out since they’re from different tribes and their children would be hybrids.

Throughout the second arc they are mentioned as a couple, with Deathbringer acting as Glory’s bodyguard.

Fanon
Glorybringer is a very popular ship; it resembles Enemies to lovers and Tsundere tropes, and is canon. At its peak, it was probably the most popular ship of the Wings of Fire series, but it has since dwindled, most likely due to controversy.

It is also a controversial ship in the series. Some fans believe they have an inappropriate age gap. They say that In Deathbringer’s winglet he is born five years before The Brightest Night, the night all Dragonets of Destiny were born. However, this seems to be a retcon or a mistake as Deathbringer is said multiple times to be a dragonet not much older the Winter (5 years) and barley larger then Starflight (6-7). This is often brought up by defenders of the ship.

When Glory and Deathbringer first meet and he flirts with her, she is 6 years old. Many believe that dragons mature at 8 years; this may be a rumor since it’s unknown where this comes from as it doesn’t seem to be in the books, which has stated dragons are fully grown at 7. A lot of drama has come from dragon ages in this fandom, mostly because the characters aren’t human and nobody really knows what the age of consent would be for them.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * In Dragonslayer, Deathbringer is called “Murderbasket” by Wren. This is where the memey ship name Glorybasket comes from.
 * In Moon Rising Darkstalker shows Moon a vision of a future of Jade Mountain Academy. He shows her multiple next generation Dragonets, notably a purple female dragonet with orange spots name Firefly. This is theorized to be Glory and Deathbringer’s daughter but this isn’t yet confirmed.