Nightflare

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IS IT HALLOWEEN YET?!?
Nightflare 🎃 Real name unknown 🎃 • 🎃 He/Him 🎃 Several centuries old 🎃 Biologically 40 🎃 SkyWing 🎃 Former knight
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 Beware Beware, the one called Nightflare
 Beware the lord, the great Nightmare!
 His tortured screaming, his grisly lights
 Will make sure to bring your demise.
==Intro==
Did you know of the man, the one with the pumpkin head?
Every dragonet of Pyrrhia is very familiar with his story. The dragon, whose own abilities lead to his downfall, cursed to wander around forever. He who had dared to challenge me, Fate. Many were foolish enough to try to outsmart Death and I, but nobody succeeded.
I can't get my own page for now, so instead I'll let you listen to this story of someone, who I generously gave, what he wished for.
==Appearance==
Born with firescales Nightflare, as they call him, had blue eyes. They were beautiful, like sapphires. For a SkyWing his scales were rather dark, but still red, and from inbetween them came light, a side effect of his condition. He had long spiraling horns, black like the spines along his back. As a knight the huge dragon had quite a nice collection of battle scars, such as the countless ones around his neck, scars on his wings, and some on his claws. Despite having magic the drake never bothered fixing up those, but rather saw them as a symbol of experience, and something to show off. You'd wonder how would a firescales even get scars? Well, just wait till I'll tell you about his abilities. You might already guess it. Oh, Nightflare also often wore armor. Of course, not plain one. It was blood red, decorated, having spikes on it like a porcupine.
Ever since that day however, the dragon's head is lost, dark fog coming out where it should have been. Sometimes he may wear a carved pumpkin or a skull in place of the lost part. Fiery glow is seen coming from the holes. This inspired many dragonets to carve vegetables on Soul's Day.
==Personality==
There wasn't a single person, who would tell you that Nightflare had been a good dragon before it happened. Cunning, but manipulative, the drake used his smarts to deceive others, and used dragons for his own benefit. Selfish and stingy he was guilty of the deadly sin of greed, trying to obtain so much wealth by plundering and tricking. The SkyWing had also the tendency to drink a lot, and he was highly aggressive. More than once he had severely injured others while on one of his fits. Not once had Nightflare felt remorse. No, this man was not a noble knight - he was a savage, a barbarian. The perfect thing to create spooky stories.
It was his vanity what eventually lead to the tragedy, thinking he could do anything just because he had such grandiose powers! He was a fool! It is for a reason that Lucifer's sin is pride! Nightfall believed that because he was not only a firescales, but also an animus, he was better than other dragons. But enough with his negative traits, because I could complain about his stubbornness, cruelty, and coldness all day. Instead I'll tell you about the few not so bad aspects. I have mentioned that J-Nightflare was quite intelligent, smart enough to trick my friend Death, but not enough to go past me! When it came to confidence, this dragon was just overflowing with it. But while being brave and all was great too much spirit just gets you too worked up and you become careless. That's how his scars came to be in the first place. But like previously established, those markings are just another thing to make him look intimidating and awesome. Ask other dragons and you'll know, he didn't fail there.
Not that much changed from back then. He is still the same way, maybe a bit grumpier.
==Abilities==
Physically he was already strong, no surprise for a SkyWing. Good with the blade, the dragon was a fearsome enemy. If that wasn't enough to fear him Nightflare was born with firescales, being able to burn everything upon touch, melting blades, setting things ablaze.
Our fearsome dragon still had some more to offer: he was an animus. With this ability he was also able to control his firescales, being able to turn them off upon contact with water, and turning them on again when touching fire. He was immune to the fire, of course. Would have been stupid if not. But I put some more flair into the spell, making it rather painful to turn off the firescales.
Nightflare's magic had another flaw to it. One special condition was that the object to be enchanted must be hollow and possess holes. It could be a skull, a harness, a hollow pumpkin - just as long as it fit the conditions. Odd one, but I find it rather amusing, how original he was at picking objects to enchant. This made it rather hard for him to enchant himself or other dragons, though he could make food affect, whoever ate it overcoming his flaw a bit.
As a knight this dragon was also great with the sword, and he was a very skilled general, being able to come up with strategies easily. Like mentioned it didn't lack him of intelligence. 
==Synopsis==
Now comes the best part, and probably what you had been waiting for. Who was this dragon, who is now a mere story told to young dragonets to not misbehave?
Nightflare, or rather [redacted], as he was called at that time, hatched from a knight and a lady, having been in a great position even before he had hatched. Born with a twin brother, who he had shared his egg with, Nightflare had taken the fire of the other child, becoming a firescales, whereas Rook, his brother, became fireless. Usually such children were killed off, but his father, who was a secret animus, could prevent others from discovering their dragonets' conditions by enchanting them to be able to switch between normal scales and those special ones they were born with. But soon both children showed yet another talent: They inherited their father's magic.
The father trained his children to properly use the gifts of the gods they were given. Like every other animus child Nightflare got taught the rules. 1) Never use your magic for selfish reasons. 2) Don't hurt anyone with your powers. 3) Others should never know you can cast magic. 4) Know your place as a mortal.
But Nightflare was a self confident and naive child, too stupid and unexperienced to understand his place in the world and the consequences his actions may have. Years after years he had trained, perfected his skills, eventually joining the army. SkyWings were known to be involved in many wars. They weren't always the ones who started them, and often they weren't actually part of them, but their strength made SkyWings great allies, that you couldn't just not use.
Due to the circumstances of the world he lived in Nightflare often had gotten into fights. This way he could prove his power over and over again. With time he learned how to properly use his firescale powers, and the sword has become his second best friend.
Soon the dragon became feared everywhere. But everybody, even the most fearsome of dragons, had something they were afraid of. In Nightflare's case it was one of the most common things: Death. With his magic he gave himself the ability to see the personification of death allowing him to avoid them. He also made himself immortal, being unable to be killed by other dragons. But each spell came with a prize. It had a downside. Because nobody in this world could ever defy Fate. Because they were merely mortals.
Nightflare had forgotten the fourth rule he had been taught. His own confidence would lead to a not so nice future for the animus. One day he was fighting, like always, winning, like always, and definitely not thinking about dying, like always. But then a dragon came from behind and cut off his head. Like he had wanted Nightflare hadn't died, no he was very much alive - but he had no head. It was gone. He couldn't find it. Was it taken by his enemies?
His world went dark, but his heart was still beating. There was just one thing he could see. It was none other than Death. The boney figure approached the headless dragon and told him that he could not take him. "This is your fate. The fate of those, who are stupid enough to defy the laws of the world." With that Death had left him alone. Just like he had wanted.
Stories about his death had spread all over the continent. The deadly flame's head had been cut off! Such delightful message. But the peace didn't last long. Many years had passed since then, and the world and borders had changed. Nightflare had obtained a new head. It was a hollowed pumpkin, enchanted by the headless dragon himself. Now with this new head he started to haunt the world once again, but this time as an even more terrifying 
The legend of Nightflare was born. To this day he is going around trying to find his head, and taking the heads of those who are foolish enough to face him.
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Nightflare 	Nightflare
 	
Background Information	Background Information
Creator 	❄️
Main Attributes 	Pumpkin; Fire; Headless
Elemental Attribute 	Fire
Theme Animal 	Horse; Pumpkin
Theme Color 	Red; Black
Theme Song 	type here
MBTI Personality 	ESTJ
Character Information 	Character Information
Alias 	Pumpkin King; Jackdaw (Real Name); Spooky Boy; The Headless One
Age 	Immortal; Biologically 40DY
Gender 	Male ♂
Orientation 	Aro Ace Ø
Occupation 	Formerly a Knight; Spook
Tribe 	SkyWings
Goal 	salvation; Find his head
Residence 	Travelling
Enemies 	Fate
Powers and abilities 	Firescales; Animus
Weapons 	Sword
Quote 	Clack clack
This character is primarily based on the legend of Stingy Jack, however has elements of the the Headless Horseman. Yes, he is overpowered, but it is a vital part of what makes him how he is.
==Original Story==
Stingy Jack is about a cunning man, who tricked the devil and made him promise to not take Jack to hell. In some stories he did this multiple times bargaining for more years. In the end though he died, but because he was a bad person couldn't go to heaven. Hell didn't accept him either, which may have been either because the devil hated him and didn't want Jack there or because he actually kept his promise like a good little devil, depending on the version. Either way Jack ended up having to wander through the dark forever, having nothing more but a fire inside of a hollow turnip, later changed to a pumpkin, becoming part of Halloween's tradition.
Much like the Headless Horseman, Jack was said to haunt the night forevermore. He became known as "Jack of the Lantern", which was later shortened to "jack-o-lantern".
Irish and Scottish children delighted in carving their own scary faces in turnips, potatoes, and beets. They sat the ghastly faces by their homes, to scare Jack’s spirit away.
These handmade lanterns lit the paths for people celebrating Samhain, the Gaelic version of Halloween.
==Trivia==
 OC For This
* I thought Nightflare would be a cool name.
* He's firescales for the glow effects. Also Jack had a lantern with a special flame satan gave him.
* I could've probably also made him a NightWing for the aesthetics, but God said no.
* His real name is [redacted].
* The Coco, a type of boogeyman, may also be portrayed with a pumpkin head.
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