Difference between revisions of "Spensa Nightshade"

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Spensa is nearly twenty years old{{book ref|cytonic|40}} with brown hair and is 151 centimeters tall (4'11" in feet).{{book ref|skyward|1}}{{book ref|skyward|29}}{{book ref|cytonic}} Spensa's favorite color is blood red{{wob ref|13311}} and she prefers simple but flavorful food.{{wob ref|11326}}

Spensa went to school and did reasonably well, but occasionally skipped classes to go exploring or hunting. She skipped class on the last day of school when a sanitation worker was giving a presentation. She accidentally found an old ship in a cavern, seemingly high tech and unfamiliar in appearance. She also found a yellow and blue slug whom she named Doomslug. She was told she could take the pilots exam, and was confident in her knoweldcdgeknowledge. To her horror, she found her pilots test to be all questions about city sanitation. she failed the test, having skipped class that day.{{book ref|skyward|5}} She sat in the exam room for hours, then picked up a blank regular test and filled it out. Cobb, her father’s old wingmate and a First Citizen, entered the room and looked over her test. He asked her some questions, and told her to show up at flight school the next day.{{book ref|skyward|6}}

|Cobb after Morningtide’s and Bim’s deaths.{{book ref|sky1|320}}

Spensa entered the place of the eyes, and they focused on her. She jolted back into M-Bot’s cockpit, and he reported that the cytonic hyperdrive was now offline again. She found that she was one hundred kilometers away from the blast site, and that almost no time had passed. Spensa called Alta Base, and heard cheering. Ironsides told her to return to base and that she’ll pardon Chaser, but Spensa saw a hole in the debris belt.{{book ref|skyward|54}} She flew up through it, where she discovered that the belt was a series of organized defense platforms. She saw a large space station beyond them, and could hear the Krell communication. They tried to overwrite her vision like they tried with her father, but M-Bot jammed the signal and kept her safe. M-Bot translated some Krell communications, as well as downloading some of their data. He discovered that the Krell are effectively theretheir prison guards, keeping the humans contained on Detritus.{{book ref|skyward|55}}

|Jorgen! I need you to come herhere right now and talk me out of doing something incredibly stupid.

After being rescued and treated in a Superiority hospital on Starsight, and was greeted by Cuna, who had begun making overtures of peace with the humans.{{book ref|sky2|epilgoueepilogue}} Winzik’s soldiers came for Spensa and Cuna suddenly, Spensa helping herself and Cuna escape, hiding Cuna in a closet. Spensa ran into Brade, who saved her from a Superiority aircraft and asked her to join with Winzik’s coup. Spensa ran instead, finding M-Bot, who had been completely destroyed by Superiority scientists. She found that M-Bot had managed to slowly changed his programming, copying himself into the body of a cleaning drone. With more of Winzik’s soldiers on the way, Spensa lead M-Bot and Doomslug towards the location of Starsight’s nowhere portal, which she had seen before., she touched it, pulling herself and them into the nowhere.{{book ref|sky2|45}}

|one of the Broadsiders to Spensa after capturing her{{book ref|sky3|1817}}

After making a rough plan with the team, Spensa, Chet, and Doomslug touched down on on Solitary Shadow, and accessed the final portal in the Path of Elders. They learn that the first delver was an AI Jason created, modeling it after the personality of [[Lanna Write|his dead wife]]. The AI became self aware, and copied itself after changing its programming. The delvers were furious at Spensa for learning their secrets, and had rejected their treaty. Spensa and the others got back inside M-Bot, and took off full speed towards the lightburst, where they could escape the nowhere.{{book ref|sky3|42}} As she approached the lightburst, many of the delvers formed bodies, creating roughly a hundred ships to fight Spensa. For each one she destroyed, a new one took its place. The ships didn’t obey normal laws of physics, making them difficult to kill. Using her cytonic senses, Spensa was able to sense where the delvers were about to move, allowing her to evade attacks. There became too many however, and Chet sacrificed himself to distract them by leaving the ship. As ten thousand more ships emerged from the lightburst, Spensa landed M-Bot on the ground near the lightburst, Doomslug hiding them. M-Bot distracted Spensa, getting her and the others to leave his cockpit, then locking the doors. After saying farewell to Spensa, he sacrificed himself, letting the delvers destroy him and think they’d killed Spensa. The delvers flew away, allowing Spensa, Doomslug, and Hesho to enter the lightburst.{{book ref|sky3|42}}

Spensa entered the lightburst, and the delvers were surprised to find her alive. The delvers werearewere furious at Spensa, angry that she knew their secrets. Spensa felt tired beneath the onslaught of hateful delvers. Amidst all of the hate, she felt one delver that was different, which emanated courage. Spensa latched onto Chet, and they connected, their essences intertwining. Their minds and souls joined together, becoming one. The delvers tiedtried to destroy Spensa and Chet, but touching her hurt them. A location clicked into Spensa’s mind, and she hyperjumped back to Detritus, holding Hesho and Doomslug.{{book ref|sky3|43}} Spensa emerged in the caverns of Detritus, then hyperjumped to Platform Prime, appearing before Jorgen and several DDF officials. They were alarmed, as her eyes were glowing white like a delver’s. After fainting, she woke up and talked with Jorgen, and had a happy reuinion. Spensa told Jorgen she knew the secrets of the delvers, and also saw that Detritus was orbiting another planet.{{book ref|sky3|epilogue}}

Jorgen is Spensa's boyfriend.{{book ref|Cytonic|Interlude Part Onei|1}} They originally got off on a bad foot, due to Jorgen's being admitted into flightschoolflight school without completing the admission test and his ordering around of Skyward Flight around prior to being made flightleader. {{book ref|Skyward|5}}{{book ref|Skyward|8}} As a result, she nicknames him "Jerkface", which later becomes his callsign, much to his chagrin. {{book ref|Skyward|9}} Jorgen also outs Spensa as being the daughter of Zeen Nightshade, The Coward of Alta, after Spensa bests him during flight practice. {{book ref|Skyward|15}} In retaliation, she steals his car's power matrix. {{book ref|Skyward|15}} The animosity in their relationship reaches a peak when they get into a fight which ends in Spensa physically attacking Jorgen. {{book ref|Skyward|23}} Spensa expects Jorgen to report her, but instead he tells her that he needs every pilot on the flight, even her. {{book ref|Skyward|24}} After Hurl's death, Jorgen helps Spensa give her a pilot's burial and they discuss how the both of them live in their parent's shadows. Jorgen also allows Spensa to steal parts from Hurl's ship and encourages her to build her own ship so that she can fly and be Defiant. {{book ref|Skyward|34}}{{book ref|Skyward|35}} Later on, they talk about the deaths of their flightmates and hug. {{book ref|Skyward|41}}. Spensa also confides in Jorgen about her and her father's "defect", and he calls her amazing and reassures her that he still wants her on his flight. {{book ref|Skyward|44}} Both of them, along with the rest of the Skyward Flight fly together in the Battle of Alta Second. {{book ref|Skyward|52}}

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