Canyon (EV)

Canyon ⛰ He/Him ⛰ ⛰ 11-15 ⛰ ⛰ Mud x Sky ⛰ Guardian 
Canyon 	Canyon
 	
Background Information	Background Information
Creator 	Winter
Main Attribute 	Grand Canyon; Rocks
Elemental Attribute 	Ground; Rock
Theme Animal 	Rock
Theme Color 	Rock
Theme Song 	type here
MBTI Personality 	type here
Character Information 	Character Information
Age 	11-15; Technically immortal
Gender 	Male
Orientation 	Straight Ace
Occupation 	Guardian of the Rock Temple
Tribe 	MudWings x SkyWings
Goal 	Protect the temple; meet his sister again
Residence 	Pyrrhia
Relatives 	Burst (sister); Valley (parent)
Powers and abilities 	Fire Immunity
Weapons 	Spear
 For the Based on Landmark contest
Canyon is a male MudWing-SkyWing hybrid, who was born from a blood red egg. Because of his heritage and lack of fire he was banished. After his sister disappeared, and he had nowhere to go Canyon ended up in the Rock Temple, where he had assumed the position of the Guardian.
==🏞 Appearance 🏞==
A combination of MudWing and SkyWing Canyon is a very large, and very strong dragon with an impressive wingspan, broad muscles, a thick tail, and a large jaw to which comes a great appetite. His scales are sienna brown in colour, becoming a more greyish tone to the stomach, and his eyes a light orange-ish yellow. The wing membranes look like rock sediments, lines of various brown reddish shades. Canyon physically appears more like a MudWing, but has the flight capabilities of a SkyWing.
==🏞 Personality 🏞==
A down to earth and caring dragon, Canyon gives of older brother vibes - frankly unsurprising as he used to have an actual younger sister. Though young he seems already very old mentally. His kind side is something that had started to appear less with the years, and often Canyon seems rather serious, not particularly social, and often grumpy. Combined with his size and looks he can be quite intimidating - good for when facing enemies. But if you knew his story it would make sense to you why he is the way he is. Unexpectedly polite the stoic dragon is very much against rudeness, violence, and the like, always trying to stop it when he sees it. He also hates to see others suffer, and would readily take their spot.
==🏞 Abilities 🏞==
* Enhanced Endurance: Clad in biological armor made of scales, Canyon can take lots of damage. The heavy hitter can lift even more than regular dragons and his bones don't struggle with the high mass all too much. Clearly there's a limit, but it's much higher than that of other dragons that aren't MudWings.
* Enhanced Strength: 
* Fire Immunity: It isn't just because of his strong natural armor that Canyon is so hard to injure. His egg was blood red, marking him as a MudWing (hybrid) with fireproof scales. This makes him immune to many of the other tribes.
* Flight Skill: With his impressive wings Canyon is a superb flyer, far better than any MudWing, and probably by far surpassing most of his SkyWing cousins. Years of training in the canyons had only improved his natural skill.
* Firelessness: Canyon is unable to breathe fire, which is rather odd given that both his parents could. It is unknown what causes this defect, but he does not mind.
===Items===
* Earth Shaker: An animus touched object attached to the tail, which allows the user to cause earthquakes with a hit to the ground. Though it is powerful it ties Canyon to the temple, making it impossible to leave. It also slowly turns him into a rock statue, making him in a sense immortal, but also robbing him of his free will.
* Spear: A weapon.
==🏞 Relationships 🏞==
===Burst===
Canyon's sister. She had been kidnapped and he was trying to find her.
===Valley===
Mother. Left to search for Burst.
===Terrain===
A MudWing, who protected the Rock Temple as it was the duty of her bloodline. She was freed by Canyon, who became her partner.
==🏞 Synopsis 🏞==
Canyon was born as the older child of Valley, a SkyWing, and Atlas, a MudWing. He wasn't a BigWings because the drake was a single egg at the time he hatched, taking more after his SkyWing parent. Both his parents stayed together later getting another egg, Burst's.
The children were gonna be hybrids, so the parents were pretty much ready for oddities. But that Canyon would be born without fire was even odder than odd. It would have been understandable if one of the parents was a non firebreathing tribe. His condition made other dragons ...dislike him. When Burst hatched with extremely strong fire they explained it with the fire being transferred to a future child. There should be some reason for why that happened but the dragons didn't question further, deciding that the decisions of deities are unfathomable for the regular folk. Some saw it as a form of punishment for the couple, so their first child was cursed, others thought that it may be a sign for future greatness.
As SkyWings and MudWings are at war (sorta) a couple of such kind was definitely unacceptable, so all that was left was to flee to somewhere where nobody would be able to disrupt the family's peace. The parents fled south of the mountains near the Republic of Pandia, a place where they wouldn't be prosecuted by the government, but as they feared the reactions of the citizens they settled in a non inhabited area, where Valley and her partner raised their dragonets. 
There was a town close to where they lived, which the family sometimes visited. Although it was never the whole family, who came as one parent always was left behind. It was necessary as they didn't want too much attention.
Years went by and their life seemed to be going well. This wouldn't last for long. For some reason strange dragons in white robes were very interested in Canyon's sister and a few other dragonets, so they came to kidnap them, killing anyone in their way during this process. As only later found out their true target had been the treasure located nearby the town, and the kidnapped dragons were just distraction. Canyon tried to help the dragonets, but was attacked by fire (surviving it), and fell unconscious. When he came to himself his sister was gone. His MudWing parent dead. And in him spread the emptiness.
There wasn't really much more left to do then to search, travel around the continent and look for where the abducted dragonets had been taken. So that's what Canyon settled for. He had asked Valley to accompany him, but his parent didn't wish to do so saying that if they both looked at different places then chances were higher to find Burst and the others.
So their search began, both parting into different directions. Canyon's search lead him north, towards the SkyWing kingdom. Back then he was still young, and though he was aware of the relationship between his parents' tribes he still went there, sort of believing that they wouldn't try to harm a dragonet.
He was very wrong.
Looking like a MudWing was not very good when you were entering the Sky Kingdom. Soldiers chased him out, but, when he had entered the Mud Kingdom, did not follow him any further. MudWings found him, and took him into their ranks. For a few years he had fought on their side, but eventually they became more and more troubled with the fact that he had no fire. Note that firescales weren't unheard of among MudWings and so were their fireless twins, but it was still odd. They didn't suspect him of being part SkyWing though, so it wasn't all that bad. Until they found out. Not even sure how. All that was left was to leave.
Canyon kept flying through the area he was named after. Odd feeling, yeah. Flying through the canyons the hybrid landed at a mysterious place build into the walls of the natural construct. Maybe he should have turned back at that time, but he was foolish, and entered the temple anyway.
Everything in the temple was made of rocks. Impressive as it wasn't entirely naturally made. Canyon kept going until he reached a col de sac. It was a big room with an image carved into the wall. It was mountains, grass, tree and birds all in a circle around a symbol - it looked like a circle with a cross - in the center. In front was an altar, but Canyon could not get a look as rock-like dragons were hiding it behind them.
One dragon stepped forward. This one was different, as she was not made of stone. The MudWing introduced herself as Terrain, the guardian of the rock temple. She was pretty, and also very curious, as she rarely got visitors that didn't have the intention to steal the treasure. The two started to chat, both telling about their own pasts, Canyon sharing everything about his sister, the kidnapping, and how he ended up here.
Terrain had been here for many years unable to leave further beyond a certain area, as she had to protect the temple. All the rock dragons used to be normal, but the temple has immortalised them, and made them its servants. Canyon understood that Terrain will most likely also end like this, a life he really didn't want her to have, but Terrain already accepted her fate, which was already determined before she was hatched.
Then he came to a decision. Canyon would take Terrain's spot instead, allowing her to go outside and explore the world. At first she wanted to disagree, given that Canyon wanted to find his sister, but the hybrid already had sort of given up, instinctively hoping that she was fine somewhere, living a good life. Terrain couldn't help it but to agree, however she would also come to visit her saviour as often as she could. She also introduced him to the villagers of her hometown. Canyon didn't like them too much, because he blamed them for giving her such a life.
After this Terrain gave him the powerful Earth Shaker, a weapon attached to the tail, which can cause the ground to rumble. It was also the sign of the guardians, and the thing that bound them to the temple. It was official now. He had taken on the role that Terrain and her ancestors had had before.
He is guarding it till the current day even though not a lot of time had passed. But why is he guarding it, and what is he guarding? He knows that he is waiting for someone, and that he'll recognize them when they come. And he is hoping for them to come soon.
==🏞 Trivia 🏞==
* He's based and named after the Grand Canyon.
* Canyon's father is named after the titan Atlas, who was tasked with holding the sky until somebody takes his spot. In a sense this reflects Terrain's and Canyon's story, in that Terrain and her ancestors were all Atlas, tasked to protect the temple (hold the sky), and Canyon coming to take her spot thus freeing her of this task.
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