Komatiite

for the "natural phenomena" oc challenge :) phenomena: volcanic lightning
 	
creator 	cowboy
status 	alive
original idea	volcanic lightning as a natural phenomena
age 	20 DY, 22.3 HY
tribe 	skywing mutt, some nightwing blood
gender 	male, AMAB
pronouns 	he/him
orientation 	
occupation 	failed racer
residence 	some small village in the mudwing kingdom
likes 	philosophy, racing, traveling, small talk (somewhat)
dislikes 	accidentally burning someone, rain (it makes his ears hurt when it sizzles), his mother's anger
hobbies 	racing, traveling, spending time by himself
family 	mother, father, deceased twin
lover 	ew no he doesn't even like people
quote 	"i'm sorry, okay? it was an accident! i'm sorry mother!"
komatiite is a twenty year-old skywing firescales who was formerly a champion racer. he got exiled from the skywing queendom after a freak accident involving two other racers.
looks
 
*dark brown scales, orange glow due to his firescales
*striking blue eyes
komatiite is a tall, herculean skywing. he's often one to stand out due to his dark-colored scales. it's easy to see that he's not pure skywing, as there is some nightwing blood due to his pigmentation. it seems as if he was burned as a dragonet since his scales give the appearance of charred wood.
a bright orange glow emanates from between each scale. heat radiates off him and it is no doubt that he is a firescales. any dragon could see the air sizzling and crackling around him as he stands--a sound akin to lightning itself.
koma's bright blue eyes stand out from the orange and brown of his body. they're almond shaped, unwavering, and piercing the dragons before him. his eyes are not the window to his soul, they appear cold (unlike the heat of his scales) and uninviting. his pupils are most always slit, and they're a slightly lighter shade than his irises.
his wings take up most of his body, they're large and perfectly built for racing in the skies. so large, in fact, that occasionally they may drag on the ground and leave char marks as komatiite walks. perfectly folded against his body, they help the skywing manuever through the clouds and towards the finish line.
komatiite speaks with what scavengers would call a "boston" accent. he uses a hard A sound in a lot of his sentences and sometimes drops the R in some words so it flows easier on his tongue.
personality
 
*formerly like this haughty guy who was self-absorbed and rich from his races
*now hes like exiled and running around pyrhhia with the only money he has left but hes still friendly!
komatiite is a haughty individual. he seems to think he deserves esch and every gold medal that is out there. no wonder he's accessoried with golden piercings. he enjoys his riches and doesn't plan on giving it away. he's ouspoken and loud and not afraid to challenge other's opinions. 
that was the past. now, time for the present.
komatiite still keeps his outspokenness even as he was exiled from the skywing queendom. he's still friendly to the dragons that will speak to him! he's trying his best to staypositive during these dark times for him, and most of the time that ideology works. so, yay!
now, he's not one to be spending all his money at once. since he was only allowed to bring with him a small sum, komatiite's finding out that he has to be more frugal in order to survive. so, unfortunately, he doesn't leave generous tips any longer, but he is able to pay for his whole meal.
koma is now starting to appreciate things that don't cost a lot of money, like that agate bracelet that an old dragoness was crafting. or simply the birds chirping. he's realizing that money isn't truly happiness, money isn't a kind stranger in a café. money was never his goal. he sees that happiness was his goal, and with less money that he has previously had, komatiite is noticing that he is substantially happier than he was when he was rich.
abilities & weaknesses 
firescales
komatiite burns everything he touches, and when it downpours, the rain sizzles and steams off of him. he has difficulty walking in crowded areas, and carefully makes sure he does not burn any living thing.
faster flight
due to his muscled frame and his large wings, koma can propel himself forward faster, giving him an edge when he races. although.. he's gonna have to steer clear of other dragons.
colorblindness
although komatiite has multiple advantages on his side, he has tritanopia, a type of color blindness that allows him to confuse light blues with greys, dark purples with black, mid-greens with blues and oranges with reds.
backstory
 
 
*how did volcanic lightning tie into komatiite and his history? i don't know
all his life, komatiite grew up knowing two things. one, that his mother hated his very existence. and two, his father is somewhere off the side of the wrld (maybe?) and he just so happens to be a firescales.
koma had a mediocre dragonethood, isolated from the rest of society during school and isolated from his mother during his home life. so... it was fine, fine as fine could get from a firescales dragonet.
most of his young years were spent flying in solitude, racing the eagles with minimal damage (okay so MAYBE he burned ONE. ONE). he'd join the racing team when he turned seven, trying it out in secondary school. supposedly, ne was a natural, winning most races that he was in.
komatiite was good enough to start a professional career as soon as he got out of JMA. he signed with the company "East Cliff" and started his racing career in the less-known leagues. similar to his years in education, koma was placing on the podium about 75% of his races. meany spectators complained about how good he was and that EC had the overpowered team.
he'd won his first gold medal at the championship when the skywing queen hosted her race every four years. his team was elated, he was elated, and for once.. his mother was happy. at the time he'd assume it was because she was proud, but incarnadine was truly looking forward to the riches. he'd thought nothing of it.
komatiite kept getting better and better and winning more often. he started becoming richer and richer, and with that prosperous amount of gold, he because more haughty and started to only care about the riches his races brought him.. not how he was back then when he was winning amd having fun. komatiite was a greedy dragon.
time passed and a championship arrived again. cloudy skies forecasted for rain, but why would anyone cancel a race like this? three champions were racing today! komatiite, frigatebird, and goshawk were all racing! it was the only event where those three (and other nammeless champions) were racing against one another.
"champions, on your mark.. get ready... start!" the announcer had called, audience cheering and whooping. music from a live band played down on the stands to rile up the fans.
komatiite and goshawk were first to launch, right up next to eachother. they were careful not to touch-racing against a firescales was unheard of until koma started his career--as he would burn goshawk to a crisp. as they soared around the crags and bends of a supposed dormant volcano, komatiite glimpsed a bubbling of lava from far down in the heart of the crater.
then, he thought nothing of it. it was winning season, and he wanted that gold.
the rumble of the volcano was soft, but loud enough to call attention. the announcer waved it off like nothing, saying it was his stomach that came across the loudspeaker. 
steam and smoke rose from the volcano, catching the audience's attention. they'd assumed that it was just the warmth from the crater. after all, it had been long since it erupted, and most dragons thought it was simply dormant.
however, they were wrong. as soon as the racers had came around the bend outside the volcano, it had erupted and spewed lava from its center. unafraid of danger, the audience flocked and craned to get a good look at it. since there were only a couple more bends and a final loop to go, the racers kept going. 
komatiite, goshawk, and frigatebird were neck and neck as they passed the volcano again. a rumble escaped the mountain-like mound, and a crack soon followed--similar to thunder and lightning. koma was gaining ground, just barely a nose ahead of the other two dragons.
he was nearly at the finish line now. a crack of lightning escaped from the volcano--scientists later established the fact that it was caused by colliding fragments of volcanic ash rubbing up against one another to create electricity-and the audience went silent.
komatiite had landed to see what was happening, and there they were. the charred, crumpled forms of goshawk and frigatebird. upon seeing their bodies, komatiite rushed to the scene, nearly retching at the sight.
they were slightly buzzing with electricity, small forms of lightning emanating from their charred corpses. when koma reached out to touch them, the electricity reacted to his scales. it buzzed and crackled around him, bouncing off his wings and his talons.
hushed whispers came from the audience. he could only pick up bits and pieces, although he heard murmurs of "he killed them.." and "monster."
the queen had arrived with her royal guard, supposedly there to gift the medal to the winner.. but there was no winner of this. 
he'd bowed his head as she arrived and attempted to explain what had happened. "there was lightning form the sky--" komatiite had started.
the queen cut him off. "you caused this, firescales. i order you out of my kingdom at once." jeers erupted from the crowd at the racer. chants of him being a monster filled his ears.
he took to the sky, grabbed his satchel (luckily, fireproof. he'd had it custom made for himself) and scooped up coins with the fireproof material. in his early racing years, all the gold melted in his talons. koma didn't know if it was fireproof now, but he's not gonna take chances.
his mother sneered at him from the tunnel to her part of their cave. "finally lost your sh**, huh? little komattite is a killer now, eh?"
komatiite glared at her. "it wasn't my fault, mother."
"lies. get out of my house, firescales," incarnadine had snorted, stomping back to her room. "i want you out by the time the clouds part."
he'd bid his goodbyes to bubba, the betta fish who had miraculously lived more than a year after komatiite won him at the carnival when he was little.
komatiite lifted off and started heading south(?). he assumed he was getting closer to getting out of the sky kingdom. the landscape changed from the rocky mountains and pine forests of the skywing kingdom towards the wet marsh of the mud kingdom.
he'd taken no breaks over the last couple of days. he just wanted to obey his queen, his former queen. only the gods knew what would've happened to him if he'd stayed. komatiite was not going to take that chance.
he'd dropped a couple coins on the counter of a hotel and whisked upstairs to the nearest room which was, luckily, built of stone. komatiite had laid on the floor, thinking. what was he going to do now?
to be continued <3
relations
incarnadine | negative
 
komatiite and his mother never truly got along. after his hatching, incarnadine had suggested to komatiite's father that the dragonet should be dropped off a cliff. it was skywing law, after all, and she had the right to do so as his mother. when his father protested, incarnadine had fumed and detested her firescales son for as long as he could remember. 
the only true positive interaction they had was when komatiite won his first gold medal. she was truly only happy for the riches it brought the family, and not for her son's success.
arcus | neutral-negative
komatiite had never really known his father, as his parents were set up with a breeding program. he understood at a very young age that his father was the only dragon that kept him living. however, he never did anything to protect him from incarnadine, who was against komatiite's every being from the moment he hatched.
extra
 
 
*really interested in knitting but he'd just burn the wool :(
*hes best friends with this old lady mudwing (who, luckily, is impervious to fire)
(bold is a main themesong) 
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Category:SkyWings
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Characters
Category:Males
Category:Content (Trustingmyselfwiththis)
Category:Occupation (Athlete)
Category:Status (Exiled)
Category:Subtype (Firescale)