Lily Leaf

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Lily Leaf 	Lily Leaf
Background 	Background
Creator 	Siren, edited by Luna
Artist 	Siren
Photographer 	Courtney Smith on Unsplash
Coder 	Scroll
Code Base 	Himmalerin
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Age 	8 DY - text HY
Gender 	Female
Pronouns 	she/her der/dyr they/them zem/ze/zir
Orientation 	verdasexual (prefers females also known as a verda-vey)
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Tribe 	HiveWing
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Appearance
Lily Leaf is a little short for zirs age, with a slim torso and fairly thick, short legs. Zirs wings are a bit small for the rest of zirs body, and zirs wing-bones are a little thinner than normal. Lily Leaf's scales are mainly orange-red, like the lily leaf beetle ze was named after. Zirs underbelly is cream-colored, and zirs pattern scales are a shade of dusty brown. Zirs eyes are the color of clouds just before a light storm, and zirs horns and spines are dark mahogany brown. Lily Leaf can often be seen smirking or glaring at some hapless dragon that has annoyed zir.
Personality
Lily Leaf is very confident in zirself. Ze knows who ze is and is proud of it. Whenever someone tries to belittle zir or otherwise hurt zirself, then Lily Leaf will snap back with a withering comeback that either leaves the dragon in tears or makes them snap right back, meaner. Lily Leaf has serious anger issues though, and has difficulty telling when a dragon messed up zirs pronouns to make fun of zirself, or when it was an honest mistake that they genuinely feel bad about. 
Lily Leaf spends a lot of time ranting to zirs friends, which is probably the reason ze only has two friends. Ze has tried to stop being so angry at everything, because it's the one thing ze doesn't like too much about zirself, but it's difficult. Lily Leaf is currently taking battle lessons to help put zirs anger somewhere else besides zir friends.
History
Lily Leaf's parents met a few months after the breath-of-evil's defeat. Roach, Lily Leaf's mother, was a former advisor to Queen Wasp, demoted and stripped of her title after Wasp was killed. Honey was a tapestry-seller in Vinegaroon Hive, and met Roach one day in a dirty corner of the Hive, where she was sweeping to earn a little bit of money to save to get a house and a life again. Honey took her to his house, and gave her some food and drink. Over the next few years, he helped Roach get back on her feet, eventually selling his house so they could live in a bigger one closer to the sun. Roach proposed the day after she got a good job working as a secretary to a large-business owner, and Honey gladly accepted.
A year later, Lily Leaf hatched, and right away, ze was a very confused dragonet. When ze was few months old and was starting school, ze accidentally went home with the wrong dragons, making zirs parents extremely worried until ze was returned safely. Ze didn't like using zirs birth pronouns, she/her/hers from the beginning, but ze didn't feel comfortable talking to zirs parents about it. While zirs parents were generally accepting of everything their dragonet decided, they didn't understand non-binary dragons or neopronouns, and often accidentally misgendered the non-binary dragons that they met.
Lily Leaf, with the help of Pierrot, one of zirs friends who knew everything about zir and completely accepted them for it, went on a journey to find everything ze could about gender, sexuality and identity. First, they went to Mantis Hive, because they'd both heard about Mantis Hive being the apparent center of knowledge in Pantala. Much to their disappointment, very few of the libraries had anything about LGBT+ identities, and those that did were woefully inadequate and unhelpful. After that massive letdown, Lily Leaf and Pierrot stopped searching for a few years.
Then, one morning, Pierrot brought up their little journey a few years ago, and Lily Leaf decided to look in other places, and Pierrot chose to help zir. They remembered Roach talking once about Jewel Hive's massive library, and they decided to investigate. Jewel Hive's library was more informative than Mantis Hive's, and it helped Pierrot discover that he was aromantic, and that Lily Leaf liked female dragons instead of male dragons. But it didn't tell Lily Leaf why she/her pronouns felt so wrong for zir. 
Then while listening to one of Queen Jewel's announcements, for once, Lily Leaf heard about the great Jade Academy on Pyrrhia and how knowledgeable the librarian, Starflight was. Lily Leaf immediately applied to go and be a student at Jade Academy, which rather confused zirs parents, as they had thought that Lily Leaf would never want to go there, as ze had said once. But they let zir go. Ze got tired of it and came back after a few weeks, but ze had talked to Starflight in that time and discovered a new word. Non-binary.
Lily Leaf spent the next few months talking to other non-binary dragons in zir hive, which ze realized pretty belatedly that ze should've done earlier. Once ze had discovered the pronouns that fit zir best, ze came out to zirs parents with the information ze had discovered, and luckily, they were very accepting, usually, once they understood what Lily Leaf was talking about.
Relationships
Roach: Lily Leaf has a pretty good relationship with zirs mother. While Roach does occasionally mess up Lily Leaf's pronouns because she has a terrible memory, she does make an effort to address Lily Leaf correctly, which ze appreciates. Sometimes Lily Leaf does get annoyed with zirs mother, such as when she stereotypes non-binary dragons, but other than that they get along pretty well.
Honey: Lily Leaf has an okay relationship with zirs father, but they don't get along too well. Honey fully accepts Lily Leaf, and almost never messes up zirs pronouns, but he often makes belittling jokes that he doesn't seem to understand are hurtful, despite Lily Leaf's frequent reminders that they are not okay.
Pierrot: Pierrot is Lily Leaf's closest friend, and the one ze feels ze can trust the most. They met when Lily Leaf and Pierrot were three and Lily Leaf helped Pierrot get somewhere he couldn't get to because he had no wings yet. Lily Leaf is sort of selfishly glad that Pierrot came out as aromantic, because ze falls in love with his friends sometimes, and wouldn't want any competition.
Woodlouse: Woodlouse is Lily Leaf's other friend, and they get along relatively well. Lily Leaf's only known Woodlouse for a few months, and during that time she mostly tunes zirs ranting out by reading a book.
Apircia: Apricia is the current object of Lily Leaf's infatuation. She's a pretty and confident HiveWing that, for all intents and purposes, doesn't know that Lily Leaf exists. But that doesn't stop zir from watching Apricia from afar and leaving her little gifts of flowers and such.
Trivia
- Lily Leaf was my second-place entry in Jinx's Color Palette OC Contest
* My word was journey and this was my color palette
- Lily Leaf was going to be an explorer. Then my plan for zir was for zir to be a psychopath. Now it's this.
- I may or may not have written this entire thing in a blind panic the day of the due date
*And then Jinx extended the due date, so now I am eternally indebted to them
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Category:Characters
Category:Females
Category:HiveWings
Category:LGBT+
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