Ditto

D I T T O
he / they ◇ painter ◇ homo
belongs to radar, please don't steal.
a former corrupted being, ditto exists solely to copy others. and they do it surprisingly well, from the way they talk to the way they act, they copy any dragon they want. from a young age, they were the younger of two brothers and was never given any attention. all their parents' love went to their older and more skillful brother while they have to live in his shadow. with the desire to be loved by their parents as well, they started mimicking to behavior of their brother. they started walking like him, talking like him, acting like him, until ditto themself had no personality left and was just a clone of their brother.
all throughout school and life itself, they began copying other dragons. until one day they weren't themself anymore and became a corrupted shapeshifting beast, desperate for the attention of others. the fabric of their mind twisted into a grotesque creature that can only take the form of someone else. something that wasn't dragon in the slightest and acted more of an animal than anything. only when the heroes of light came did they become themself again. a much more traumatized self, but themself nevertheless. and with that, they continued to do what they loved... what did they love? copying others and painting.
Ditto 	Ditto
 	
Art By 	fly
Background Information	Background Information
Aliases 	copycat, ditto, chimera
Creator 	radar
Attribute 	adaptability
Element 	sapphire, paint, phone texts, electronics
Animal 	parrot
Color 	light blue, pink
Song 	leopard ◇ jack stauber
Character Information 	Character Information
Age 	35 (hy); 50 (hy) when spent corrupted
Gender 	non-binary
Orientation 	biromantic homosexual
Occupation 	painter, hero (formerly)
Tribe 	silk (some ice)
Relatives 	older brother (deceased)
Allies 	???
Enemies 	brother (formerly)
Likes 	painting
Dislikes 	???
Abilities 	skilled painter
Weapons 	words, lance (formerly)
Loves 	n/a
NOTES
*just gonna put some stuff here for later.
*was once a part of a magical hero called a celestial who were just magical superheroes. their main task is to spend the rest of their lives killing dangerous and strange monsters that threaten the lives of the hives.
** was probably tricked into doing this by his half-brother. either both of them became celestials, or just ditto.
*at some point fell into obsession and became corrupted by it, turning into the monsters the celestials kill.
*was one of the very lucky ones who managed to get purified instead of being slayed. though the scars of being a mindless monster still stuck with him.
*became a painter to cope, most of their paintings are abstract, but often represent this trauma.
APPEARANCE
Their appearance is, to say the least, unique. The right part of their body is a light pastel blue, showing a bit of their IceWing heredity. The upper half of their scales are softly rounded and the bottom half are sharp. Much like that of an IceWing's scales. Light teal scales go across their back, only stopping when their scales sharpen out. A lighter color to that of their topscales hug the top of their snout and head. At least the right side. Jutting from the back of their head is a somewhat crooked horn. This is a paler pastel blue than the likes of Ditto's main scales.
The starts of what might've been an antenna can be seen on their forehead. Curled up and shriveled like a worm. The base takes the color of the smooth scales going across their head while the tip is a pastel green. Pale aquamarine spines go across their back, pointy and short. Though they seem to range in thickness here and there. Another bundle of pine needle thin spines of the same color are seen tucked behind their ear. These aren't very showy and tend to be overlooked, for they're quite short.
A light, saturated peach goes across their chest, acting in some form as their underbelly. Additionally, it is the only part of their body that isn't separated into two colors and stretches to their left side with the same color as well. Ditto's right eye remains mainly teal in color, with two rings of a lighter aquamarine. With the one wrapping around the pupil being thicker than the one circling the outskirts. Speaking of which, the SilkWing's pupils are misshaped into diamonds and are light purple in color. These look similar to their left side counterpart, but a bit darker in color.
Two curved wings sprout from their shoulders, with the two pairs of wings on either side of their body being different in color. The right side in particular remains a soft gradient of pastel and baby blues. Somewhere near the middle of the wings, cyan stripes crawl across the membranes. The hindwing fades from the gradient of the main wing into azure. Though the cyan stripes are still there, they're almost unnoticeable.
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The left side of his body goes for a brighter pink and peach coloration. Ditto's main scales remain a pale peach and have the same scale pattern as that of his right side. Starting from softly rounded scales and slowly fading into sharper ones. The scales going across his back are a deep pink and, much like the right part of him, ends when the IceWing scales appear. Going across the top of his head is a deeper pastel pink compared to his main scales. Unlike the slightly crooked horn on his right, Ditto's left horn is curvy and looks much more like a SilkWing's horn than the right one.
Light pink covers the base and moving up quickly changes into a ring of teal, pale aquamarine, and at it's tip, pastel green. This pattern can be seen clearly on his antenna as well, which looks similar to seaweed. It stems from the same color as the top of his head and has pastel green tips. To put into more description, blotches of the colors seen on his horns (except for the pink base) can be seen. These blotches of color came from his corrupted form, the same thing can be said about his eyes. As for the spikes going across his back, the left half of them are a pale strawberry pink. These same colors are used for the ruff of spikes.
Though the misshapen pupil is of the same size and color as his right one, the main coloration of the eye is much lighter in contrast to the other one. Being a pinkish-white or just plain white. The wings that sprout from his left shoulder is of a more pink gradient than blue. Having pale strawberry and pastel pinks fading into one another. The same stripes that are seen on his right wings can be seen on the left. Just instead of cyan, the stripes are a deep magenta. A somewhat melancholy expression is seen on his face, but isn't ever heard in his voice, so it's hard to tell if it's just a neutral expression or not is rather difficult.
Ditto's build is lanky and ungraceful, something you wouldn't really see in a SilkWing. His wings make up most of his size and if he was seen without, one could easily consider him to be small. By no means short, just small. His tail is somewhat thick and is slightly bent, the cause of this is unknown. Their ears are pointy and not very noticeable, though they hide the ruff of spines pretty well. Ditto's snout is rather elongated and his cheeks are sharp, showing yet again his IceWing heredity.
PERSONALITY
If one knows anything about Ditto's personality, it's that they like copying others. Specifically their personality traits. That's the SilkWing's entire personality. Just an amalgamate of a bunch of random dragons' personalities combined into one dragon. What do they do with this is more or less roleplay with the different characters they've copied. Okay, I think I went a little overboard by saying they have no personality past copying personalities of other dragons.
When they "break character," which they don't do too often, they are simply mean-spirited and cruel with little to no empathy for others. They seem to be considerably jealous of HiveWings, whom have much more interesting abilities than SilkWings. Even though they don't attack or torture others, they do often tease and find amusement in watching other dragons struggle. Ditto doesn't hesitate to rat someone's crimes against the government out just for a laugh. Sometimes they lie by falsely accusing dragons of crimes they didn't commit to make this happen.
Back to doing what Ditto loves most, copying others. Strangely enough, they can actually imagine and act out conversations between two different dragons who probably never will meet. These surprisingly accurate representations of how the two dragons would interact if the two possibly met. Ditto either does this to kill time or to tease other dragons. After all, they don't seem to have anything else going for them in life past painting. Which is the only skill they are incredibly good at other than copying others. Even then, this painting skill is used to paint out interactions between two or more dragons. Or even predictions they have regarding the future relationships between dragons.
Most of why they do the things they do are really a mystery. They have a knack of making things seem needlessly complicated just to throw people off guard and other times they're philosophical. Speaking downright nonsense that makes no sense to anyone other than themself. It's unfortunate that they don't put their great knowledge of just about all dragons to good use. If they did, they would probably be one if not the best detectives out there. That is if the goal is to find someone who has gone missing. But due to their way of complicated speaking and rude nature, it's hard to actually even approach them.
ABILITIES
Ditto isn't too different from the rest of their tribe. They can spin a silver silk from their wrists and can sense nearby danger with their antenna. Although not really an ability, due to their IceWing decent, the silk they spin almost looks like it's made of ice and is strangely cold upon touch. Other than that, it isn't too impressive or interesting. After going through their metamorphosis, they've gained the ability of flight, though they don't really use these flight capabilities too much. Only when they need to get somewhere quickly or reach a different level of the hive without having to use the stairs.
One of their more well-known abilities is being able to mimic others' personalities almost identically. They've been doing it their entire life, so they can do like second nature. This is what earned them the nicknames Copycat and Ditto. You could go as far as to say that they can act as anyone in Bloodworm Hive and have conversations between any two dragon. And being honest, they do that sometimes and it's shocking how real they sound, as though the dragons they're copying would actually say that. How do they do it, one may ask. Through very keen observation of the dragons they want to copy.
Additionally, Ditto knows how to paint and often paints what they think might happen in a conversation between two dragons. Usually it starts with a before painting, during the conversation, and then another one for after the conversation. Other than that, the SilkWing usually just paints sceneries and theories they have floating around in their mind. These paintings aren't necessarily good and they definitely don't brag about how good they are, but they seem to show what they were looking for very well. In the ones depicting conversations between two randomly picked dragons in the hive are said to particularly unnerving.
HISTORY
 
*was the younger of two brothers, was never given that much attention. all of that was given to their older brother.
*was treated as second best to put it lightly, in the shadow of their elder brother.
*so instead of trying to impress their parents, they became just like their brother. they acted, walked, talked just like their brother. believing that if they acted like the one their parents loved dearly, they'd love them as well.
*this gave them the name copycat from their brother for copying him.
* the nickname was a way of teasing them, was always annoyed by this nickname, but didn't let it show as that would've made him persist.
*brother was executed after being heavily accused (by surprisingly enough, ditto, his own sibling) for (or at least heavily involved with) the assassination of a high ranking hivewing named june.
**honestly, they only knew about this because they saw it first hand and told the authorities just to spite him.
*they don't even attempt to stop the authorities from taking their brother away, all they do is stare blankly at him as hive soldiers drag him off.
*parents were distraught after hearing the news of their favorite son dying, thinking him to be innocent when in truth he wasn't. mourned him for months.
*ditto didn't.
*uh... nothing interesting happened other than their metamorphosis.
*continued copying others into adulthood and slowly were they corrupted from a loss of identity. they became something of a shapeshifting monster for years.
*an organization of higher beings and keldeo freed them. still working out those details.
RELATIONSHIPS
please roleplay beforehand (pantala only)
BROTHER
Boastful, egotistical, and mean-spirited.
That's how Ditto describes their brother. He'd often show off and it didn't help that their parents fed his ego even more than he did himself. The SilkWing always envied him. Not because of his great skill in almost every category, but the fact that he got all their parent's attention. It annoyed them greatly how much they stroked his ego, how much they loved him. He was the first dragon that they tried to copy and he was the one who came up with the nickname "Copycat." Though such a nickname only fueled their hatred for him even more.
They didn't regret what they did, refusing to save him that day. Thinking he had that coming. Nowadays their brother barely crossed their mind, with them only thinking about him when he's mentioned.
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TRIVIA
 
*design came from two color palettes, design credit goes completely to fly.
*they don't have a real name (their parents didn't give them one), ditto is just a nickname they gave themself.
*originally named chimaeras. for a long time, actually.
GALLERY
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Category:Characters
Category:Non-binary
Category:SilkWings
Category:IceWings
Category:Hybrids
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Content (Verglas the IceWing)
Category:LGBT+
Category:Occupation (Artist)
Category:Status (Commoner)