Spensa Nightshade

Spensa Nightshade
Abilities	Cytonics
Groups	DDF, Skyward Flight
Homeworld	Detritus

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“When this is done, Jerkface, I will hold your tarnished and melted pin up as my trophy as your smoldering ship marks your pyre, and the final resting place of your crushed and broken corpse! ”

—Spensa to Jorgen Weight

Spensa Nightshade is a cadet at the DDF Flight School on Detritus. Her callsign is Spin. She is the daughter of Zeen Nightshade (callsign: Chaser). She is the main character of Skyward.

Appearance and Personality

Spensa is seventeen years old with brown hair and is 151 centimeters tall (4'11" in feet).

As the daughter of "The Coward of Atla", Spensa was looked down upon by her fellow Defiants. As a result, she acted fiercely when confronted by others and used intimidation as a defense-mechanism. Spensa would often lash out at people who threatened her and even those who didn't, using a wide and somewhat graphic vocabulary inspired by stories of glorious heroes from Earth that her grandmother told her. She was certain that her father was not a coward like everyone thought, and she was bent on proving it by seeming as 'brave' as possible. However, she believed that bravery was about being the most daring warrior and to never show fear. She thought that anything less would make her a coward and prove that the DDF had been right about her father.

In her time in Flight School, she came to realize that her concept of bravery was flawed.

History

Spensa lived in the Glorious Rises of Industry with her mother and grandmother, who she referred to as Gran-Gran.

Spensa accidentally finds an old ship in a cavern. Shortly afterward, she is accepted into Captain Cobb's Flight School class. Unable to take up residence at the school overnight because of Admiral Ironside's fears, she stays in the cavern with the ship. After recruiting her friend Rodge "Rigmarole" McCaffrey to help her, they repair the ship; which is the host of an AI known as M-Bot.

Trivia

• Spensa's race was intentionally left ambiguous.

Notes

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