Mangrove

"I will try … for Orchid."

— Mangrove to Glory about saving the captured RainWings, The Hidden Kingdom

Mangrove
Age	Adult
Gender	Male
Tribe	RainWings
Status
Status	Alive (as of The Brightest Night)
Affiliations
Current	Fruit gatherer
Relatives
Partner	Orchid
Book Appearances
Appeared in	The Hidden Kingdom, The Dark Secret, The Brightest Night
Appeared in	The Hidden Kingdom, The Dark Secret
Mentioned in	The Brightest Night

Mangrove is an adult male RainWing who was introduced in The Hidden Kingdom. He and his partner Orchid currently reside within the Rainforest Kingdom, where they work as fruit gatherers. He is one of Queen Glory's most trusted dragons.

Description

When not displaying a particular emotion, Mangrove's scales usually appear to be a shade of dark purple.

Personality

Unlike the average RainWing, Mangrove is shown to be rather alert, irritable, and perceptive — he is attentive enough to notice the disappearance of members of his tribe whilst the other RainWings did not. He was as cheerful as the other RainWings before Orchid disappeared. It was stated that he was grumpier than most other RainWings, mainly because he never had as much suntime after Orchid disappeared, as he spent most of his time worrying about her. He is impatient when it comes to finding his loved ones, as he ran away by himself into the tunnel to the Kingdom of Sand, to try and find Orchid. Glory stated that he was not the type of dragon to give up easily.

Biography

The Dragonet Prophecy

The Hidden Kingdom

After Orchid went missing, Mangrove was heartbroken and quite determined to find her. He stood in line at Queen Magnificent's pavilion every day, waiting for his turn to tell the queen about the disappearances, though she always ignored him, suggesting that she was taking a long nap. Because of this, he often missed large portions of his suntime and was grouchier than usual, similar to Glory. Mangrove appealing to Queen Magnificent He reluctantly allowed Glory as an audience with his discussion with Magnificent, where he expressed his problem yet again. When it became apparent to everyone that Queen Magnificent did not intend to do anything about it, he volunteered to help Glory in looking for the "rainforest monster" after she suggested Bromeliad and Mangrove should have their audience with the queen together. The search lead to the discovery of a tunnel made by Stonemover that leads to the borders of the Kingdom of Sand and the hidden NightWing Kingdom. Thinking Orchid might be in the latter, Mangrove took off into the tunnel while the dragonets were not looking. Glory and Jambu then disguised themselves as IceWings and found him hiding in Blaze's fortress near the IceWing palace, camouflaged against the sand in Blaze's room. The siblings managed to rescue him, but not before running into Deathbringer. As Blaze arrived, Glory sent Jambu and Mangrove back to the safety of the rainforest. Mangrove fruit-hunting for Glory's challenge During the competition in which Glory tried to become queen, Glory picked Mangrove as part of her team. He participated in the fruit gathering contest and collected seventeen different fruits (including one that appeared to be newly discovered), beating Queen Dazzling, who originally had nineteen (through cheating by preparing beforehand), but ate three of them on the way back.

The Dark Secret

Starflight and Glory led an attack on the NightWings through the tunnel. They rescued Splendor, Orchid, the rest of the missing RainWings, and Deathbringer. Mangrove and Orchid reunited by locking tails, glowing pink with happiness. Mangrove introduced Orchid to Glory, who was immensely grateful to their new queen. Orchid mentioned that she felt a rumbling in the earth, and Mangrove replied that it was like "all the happiness in us is trying to burst out." After that, he went off with Orchid back to the Rainforest Kingdom.

The Brightest Night

Mangrove and Jambu disguised themselves as IceWings to send a message to Blaze, asking her to attend the meeting at Burn's stronghold. He and Jambu later told Glory that Blaze was not coming, and Mangrove stated that it was because they knew that Burn and Blister could both easily kill Blaze. When Queen Glory visited Burn's stronghold to finally end the war, Mangrove and Grandeur were left in charge of the Rainforest Kingdom and the RainWings.

Relationships

Glory

Mangrove suggested that Glory should be the one to search for the missing dragons as she seemed to have useful questions. Upon becoming a worthy queen, Mangrove has a higher opinion of her and named her as the reason they were able to save the missing RainWings. The two are also on good terms and are trusting of each other, given the fact Glory chose him (alongside Grandeur) to run the kingdom when she was at the peace summit.

Orchid

Orchid is Mangrove's partner, and he is very loving of her. After her disappearance, he neglected suntime to search and worry for her. Mangrove often requested the queens to send a search party for her, often to no avail. He described Orchid as "perfection in every scale". He dove into great lengths in order to save her, even stubbornly flying to the freezing north into Princess Blaze's fortress despite Glory's efforts to stop him. Mangrove was willing to use his venom for Orchid's sake. Their reunion was followed by happiness. They returned to the rainforest together soon after.

Quotes

"Complaining about something! […] I'll say! Something we should all be complaining about! My Orchid isn't the only one who's missing, you know!"

― about his complaint to Magnificent

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"My partner. […] Orchid. She's been missing for three weeks. I've asked the queen every day since then to send out a search party."

― to Glory, about why he is seeing Magnificent

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"There could be totally different explanations. […] I'm sure something terrible happened to Orchid."

― to Glory and Bromeliad

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"Not as far as I know. I noticed she was gone only when her turn came back around and she wasn't there. But I can guess when she went missing because her sloth found someone else to live with right around then."

― about Splendor

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"All right. You're right. I guess I've been neglecting my sun time since Orchid went missing, […] I used to be as cheerful as everyone else, but I'm worried about her. […] Trust me, Orchid was perfection in every scale. No one could possibly want to hurt her."

― to Glory

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"I think that's me. […] Like all the happiness inside us is trying to burst out."

― to Orchid, about the tremors

Gallery

Reference by SpaceshipEarth

Mangrove from The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel), by Mike Holmes

Art by Mike Holmes, from the Wings of Fire Graphic Novels