Rime (Willowlupa)

RIME
he/they • ice • demisexual • merchant
made for sunset's unique character contest
changing of pronouns throughout is intentional, as he is bigender
Coding and character belong to Willow, please do not steal!
Appearance
Rime isn't a dragon you see every day.
His frame is small and unassuming, and he carries himself with uncertainty. Their facial scales are a muted light blue, and a stormy grey-blue on the top. A silver ring pierces his top lip. Three horn rings adorn his short, stubby horns, glinting silver and highlighting the intricate detail carved into them. 
Their eyes are a bright turquoise and often look distant, as if recalling old memories. Five shining sapphires are embedded under each of his eyes. Their rich, deep blue colour is similar to that of the night sky. In his ear, he wears a silver earring in the shape of a sun, accompanied on both sides by two smaller studs. And there are three blue-grey triangles on his cheek, pointing inwards to form a flower-like shape. 
That's far from the strangest thing about them. 
Rime completely lacks one of the most defining features of an IceWing— spikes. This is due to a genetic deformity that Rime was born with. However, his spikes aren't the only thing the deformity affected. 
Their scales glitter in shades of pale blue, like the morning sky after sunrise. Large purple-grey triangles run down his back and onto his long tail. Their underbelly is a soft, muted blue, reminding you of fresh snow. His wings are larger than average, looking out of place on their small body. The wing membranes are almost white, and have a small dark blue triangle pattern inside. 
The strangest thing about this IceWing is that their front left foot and their back right leg are completely absent. This is also due to Rime's genetic deformity. He's learnt to walk without them, and as a result walks slowly and with a loping gait. 
Rime also has very large tail spikes, and it is the only part of them that has any spikes at all. 
Personality
Rime is a very reserved and secretive dragon. Shy isn't quite the right word to describe them; he's just very closed-off and professional. Because of this, he has an aura of mystery, and their customers will often be left wondering about them long after they've visited his stall.
They're also very careful, both with his words and with his actions. He's the sort of dragon to 'look before he leaps', and this philosophy has served them well over the years.
Rime isn't great at recognising emotions, especially kindness. There have been many dragons interested by his strange appearance that he's brushed off, unaware that they were trying to be friendly. 
It takes a lot to get Rime angry; a good trait in a merchant. He keeps his temper even when dealing with rude and entitled dragons. However, they are very self-conscious about his strange features— a trait they didn't have when he was younger— and will begin to get irritated much faster than usual when dragons ask him about it, although he tries to hide it.
History
 Rime was born as a male to Opal and Boreal, two well-off Second Circle dragons. They were embarrassed of having a deformed son, and as a result tended to ignore him. They also kept him away from other dragons, fearing that they'd lose their hard-earned reputation if word got out about him. 
Rime learned to take care of himself, developing a way to walk and feeding himself. He thought the way he was treated was normal, and he didn't think it was all that rare to not have spikes or legs. 
He never went to school, and he spent most of his early years inside their house. Opal and Boreal lived just outside the city, so it wasn't all that difficult for them to hide him away. However, when he was six, he left the Ice Kingdom. He thought that there must be more to life than what he was experiencing. He began travelling around Pyrrhia, meeting others and seeing what the world was like, and he realized that the way he had been treated wasn't normal at all. 
He began to collect trinkets to take his mind off his painful epiphany. In time, he amassed a large collection, and decided to sell some of them to make some money. He also began creating little sculptures out of anything he could find: wood, stone, debris, bone. He sold some of those too.
Some trinkets and sculptures he couldn't bear to part with, and he found a little cave near the Sea Kingdom to store them. He visited that cave often, although he had to remain a nomad for his job.
Something else he realized during his travels is that genders weren't limited to male and female. He encountered genderfluid, multigender, and even genderless dragons all over Pyrrhia, and he realized that there had always been two genders that he identified with at the same time: male and non-binary. After discovering that they were bigender, they felt more complete than they had ever felt before.
Trivia
*made for sunset's unique character contest
*talks to himself when he thinks nobody's listening
*he's like 15 dy or something
*his theme song is fool by cavetown
*he is bigender 
Gallery
Modified jadabase by me!
Rime-By Petaltail.jpg | By Petaltail, ty!
Category:Characters
Category:IceWings
Category:Non-binary
Category:Males
Category:LGBT+
Category:Disabled
Category:Occupation (Merchant)
Category:Adoptable