Haley Long

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Haley Long
Character Statistics
Gender	Female
Age Group	7/8 Season One 8/9 Season Two
Date of Birth	1996/1997
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Black
Species	Human/Dragon Hybrid
Occupation	Junior Dragon
Employment	American Dragon (temporarily)
Relationships
Family	Jonathan Long (father) Susan Long (mother) Jake Long (brother) Luong Lao Shi (Grandfather) Wing (Great Uncle) Patchouli Long (Aunt) Cathy (Aunt) Mai (Aunt) Chiu (Great Aunt) Gregory (cousin) Andrew (cousin)
Friends	Sun Park(mentor) Arthur Spudinski Trixie Carter Rose Fu Dog
Enemies	Councilor Chang Olivia Mears The Dark Dragon
Production Info
Portrayed by	Amy Bruckner
First Appearance	Old School Training
Last Appearance	The Hong Kong Longs
Forms

Haley Kay Long is Jake's intelligent, goody-two-shoes eight-year-old little sister. She, and many others, think she is cute. 

History

Haley as she appears in season one

Haley as she appears in season two

Like Jake, Haley also has dragon powers. Her dragon heritage, while not yet fully developed, started to express itself at a much earlier age than Jake's did as Susan Long explained dragon girls develop earlier than boys.

Haley takes pride in exposing Jake's mischievous behavior to their parents, as well as showing off her own "superior" talents. At first only able to express isolated parts of her dragon form, such as her claws, snout, wings or tail, after about a year she was already able to perform a full body morph into her adolescent dragon form, prompting her to begin her own dragon training under Sun Park's guidance as the reserve or substitute American Dragon should Jake be unable to fully perform his duties. Haley took many aspects of her training with Sun Park and applied them in her daily life, which put her at odds when compared with average human kids her age.

Haley also takes delight in making her brother look less than competent as a dragon. However, like most troublesome siblings, she actually has a deep-rooted respect for Jake, and when she was required to step up and take on the duties of Substitute American Dragon for a week, she fully realized exactly what all her brother had to deal with on a daily basis. She can be arrogant, like Jake and her grandpa in his youth, she is still learning humility. After nearly having her "perfect" school performance levels drop drastically and nearly suffering a breakdown, in a rare case of openly supporting her brother, Haley openly admitted that Jake had been doing a far better job balancing his human life against his magical duties than she was able to do, and that the adults needed to "step off" and allow him the chance to occasionally be a teenage boy.

Just before that, Haley had been so concerned with being a Good Girl that she has never intentionally gotten into trouble or broken rules; that doing something bad was against her nature. One day, she completely broke character to live a day as a Bad Girl, and in reaping the consequences learned the value of balancing fun with her rigid life.

She was present when Rose betrayed Jake before, in turn, destroying the Huntsclan. She also took part in the final battle against the Dark Dragon in Hong Kong, when her father learned the truth about his dragon daughter and family. Showing how far she had grown in just two years, Haley was able to to be happy for her older brother, cheering when he was reunited with Rose in the aftermath of banishing the Dark Dragon through a magical portal which would not open again for a thousand years.

Dragon Heritage

Haley possesses all the abilities of a young dragon her age. Like Jake, they have yet to reach their full potential. Instead of going into a situation without a strategy, she usually thinks of a plan needing little to no violence. She almost always manipulates her enemies into giving up.

Episode Appearances

Season One

• Old School Training (first appearance)
• Dragon Breath
• The Legend of Dragon Tooth
• Act 4, Scene 15
• Adventures in Troll Sitting
• Professor Rotwood's Thesis
• Shapeshifter
• The Long Weekend
• Jake Takes the Cake
• Hong Kong Nights
• Halloween Bash
• Fu and Tell
• Ring Around the Dragon

Season Two

• Half Baked
• The Doppelganger Gang.
• Family Business
• Hero of the Hourglass
• Haley Gone Wild
• The Rotwood Files
• Hairy Christmas
• Switcheroo
• Homecoming
• Young at Heart
• Siren Says
• Being Human
• The Hong Kong Longs

Skills

Haley is shown to be a child prodigy as she is able to perform exceptionally well for her academic subjects.

In the show's second season, it's mentioned that she goes to a school for gifted children.

Trivia

• In the Season One intro, Haley plays the tambourine in Jake's imaginary band.
• She was named after Haley's Comet because her mother said that she loved the name "Haley" while still dating Jonathan.
  • She was later named after Eminem's daughter, Hailie Jade, due to executive producer, Eddie Guzelian, being a big fan of the rapper.
• Concept sketches show that Haley was originally going to be named Brittany[citation needed].
  • As Brittany, she would be five years old and without dragon powers. She would simply have the traditional child-like ability to see into the magical world.
  • She also had a kitten named "Señor Gato".
• She somehow knows who Chang is in Season Two, despite not meeting Chang in Season One. Chang's identity was likely explained to her as part of her dragon studies.
• In Season One, Haley's suggested a purple dragon with a long neck and large wings. In Season Two, her dragon form is pink with a much shorter neck and smaller wings.

Gallery

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