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Clay is an adult male MudWing and the main protagonist of The Dragonet Prophecy. Formerly a dragonet of destiny, he is partly responsible for the end of the War of SandWing Succession and the founding of Jade Mountain Academy.

Appearance
Clay is big, and built with a sloping back, a massive, lengthy neck, and a broad, coffee-toned head, as well as glistening white teeth. He is the largest of the dragonets of destiny and has a rumbly, deep, warm voice.

He also has fire-resistant, mud-brown scales. They are warm browns in the shades of rich mahogany and tree bark, along with undertones of glowing amber, and gold glinting between and beneath his scales. His scales are identical to the color of Wren's eyes.

He has enormous feet, and thick, brown claws, as well as mud-colored, massive, strong brown wings and warm brown eyes like his mother, Cattail.

On his right thigh, he has a scar from a dragonbite viper bite. He also has a deep bite wound in one of his forelegs from the battle at Jade Mountain.

Personality
Clay is a friendly, strong, empathetic, protective, loving, caring, courageous, and extremely hungry dragon. He is committed to helping his friends and family, protecting them and keeping them safe at all costs. He is seen as a bigwings by most of his friends due to his selflessness, protectiveness, and kindness. He is willing to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, but he will stand up for himself and his loved ones at all costs, even willing to guard them with his own life. He is loyal to a fault, displayed when he refused to leave Glory with Kestrel in The Dragonet Prophecy. According to Webs, he would do anything to the other four dragonets of destiny. He is honest, kind, open, a bit daft, and would never intentionally hurt someone's feelings.

Clay also loves feasting and food in general (like most of the MudWings, as seen by Ochre), a fact of which Sunny takes full advantage of and regularly teases him about it, often calling him "adorable." Clay appears to have a liking for larger, more meaty meals. This is shown many times throughout the first arc; cows are one of his favorite meals, as shown in The Dragonet Prophecy, and in other instances, it's shown that he likes to eat meat more than vegetables or fruits.

He seems to be skilled in first aid and medical knowledge as shown in The Lost Heir and Moon Rising, and he teaches healing at Jade Mountain Academy.

Starflight
As with the other dragonets, Clay considers Starflight a brother. He took the dragonbite viper bite meant for Starflight and shielded him when the volcano of the NightWing Fortress exploded. Although Clay gets bored of Starflight's lectures sometimes, he cares about him quite a lot, so much that he would risk his life to keep him safe. Starflight sees Clay as his bigwings, as the rest of the dragonets do. All in all, Starflight and Clay have a good relationship.

Tsunami
Tsunami is among Clay's closest friends. She found and cured him when Clay was drenched in the white ooze in the underground river and his scales were burning with pain. Also, she stabbed Scarlet's tail with a sword to allow herself and Clay to fly away from the SkyWing queen. Later, she calls Clay a "handsome idiot" and gives him a hint that Peril likes him, though it goes right over his head because Clay is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Throughout the book, Tsunami often interjects when Clay talks about Glory and Sunny in front of Peril because she appears to understand that Peril gets jealous. After she and Clay escape from under the mountain, Clay notices how beautiful and shiny her scales were in full moonlight (he says that they looked like emeralds). In The Lost Heir, she states she had feelings for Clay and Starflight but had gotten over her crush when she realized Clay thought of her as a sister and that Starflight was "too annoying." She was also the second one to hatch, and the first egg Clay tried to help with hatching.

Trivia

 * Clay sometimes dreams about Starflight giving him lectures.
 * As revealed in The Dark Secret when Starflight dream visited him, Clay also dreams about food.
 * In the annotated version of The Dragonet Prophecy, Tui revealed that she had originally wanted him to have a crush on Glory, but decided that it wouldn't work.
 * Tui has said that Clay was one of the easiest characters to write just because she adores him, and she says "affable/kindhearted/loyal/hungry is exactly my type of hero."
 * In the graphic novel adaptation of The Dragonet Prophecy, his eyes are yellow.
 * Clay has clearly appeared on a book cover four times which is the second-highest amount in the series (Tsunami has the most, with five appearances). Clay appeared twice on The Dragonet Prophecy (graphic novel), once on The Lost Heir (graphic novel), and once on The Dragonet Prophecy.
 * Tui revealed in an interview that Clay was the first Wings of Fire character she ever came up with.