Quinn

Quinn is tall and blond, with curls, bangs, round cheeks, hooped piercings along both ears, and several patches on her uniform, including a dark-green patch marked with two silhouettes.

Quinn speaks bluntly to younger riders about the Riders Quadrant’s mortality and the danger of delayed signet manifestation. Her explanations are useful, but her delivery can frighten first-years until another senior rider softens the point.

Amid Navarre-Aretia tensions, Quinn answers Aura’s deserter insult with a rude gesture and bluntly points out that riders must learn to function together if fliers are to be accepted.

Quinn says she usually sits with her girlfriend in Claw Section.

Imogen considers Quinn her actual friend and the person she relies on for conversations about her own love life.

Quinn’s girlfriend is Jax. During the Aretian rotation, Quinn spends nights with her and receives Trissa’s approval for her rune work.

Quinn’s final exchange with Imogen confirms Imogen as her best friend and recalls that their friendship began on Conscription Day before Parapet.

Quinn’s signet is astral projection. She can leave her body guarded in one location while her astral form moves elsewhere, which lets her lure a guard away from Lilith Sorrengail’s office during a covert mission.

In the astral plane, Quinn can distort her features enough to impersonate other people. The ability is imperfect, with small details such as Imogen’s exact hair color still difficult for her to reproduce.

Quinn can sign fluently, making her one of the people able to help Sawyer learn.

Quinn is bonded to Cruth, her great-aunt’s former dragon. That family connection makes Quinn’s signet more powerful, though not fundamentally different, because she is not in the direct familial line of Cruth’s previous rider.

Quinn can use projection tactically in sparring by presenting more than one version of herself. The tactic can split an opponent’s attention, but it has a clear weakness when the opponent can identify or affect Quinn’s real body.

Quinn understands rune work well enough to diagnose Violet’s difficulty with shaping power. She identifies that Violet needs a more assertive approach with Tairn’s magic, and the adjustment immediately improves Violet’s rune.

Quinn uses a labrys, a double-sided battle-ax, from Cruth’s back in combat against wyvern.

Quinn is brought into the hidden truth Violet disclosed after Imogen tells her. She accepts the revelation with resolve and stays nearby during a later mission setup in case the active infiltration team needs help.

Quinn fights in the aerial defense. She rides with Imogen toward left-side targets, catches Rhiannon during close fighting, strikes a wyvern from Cruth’s back, and survives with a busted cheek that is mostly swelling.

Quinn steps in front of Neve when riders from First Wing threaten the flier, using her own first-year victory over Hedley to challenge him again and shield Neve from the line.

At Draithus, Quinn relays through Cruth that the defenders do not have enough weapons and uses projections to distract a purple-robed venin inside the turret while her real body closes in with an alloy dagger. She and Imogen kill the venin together, saving civilians who entered the wrong tower, but Quinn is fatally stabbed by the venin’s green-tipped dagger and dies in Imogen’s arms after asking her to tell Jax she loves her, tell her parents it was worth it, and find some happiness.