Meltwater

Category:Hybrids
Category:IceWings
Category:SandWings
Category:Characters
Category:Females
== Description ==
It would be incredibly hard to mistake Meltwater for anything but a hybrid. Her face and tail are clearly the product of her IceWing father, whereas her wings and back legs are distinctly SandWing. The rest of her is more mixed; her SandWing-like front legs seem to have the spiky IceWing scales, her thin build is too general to be allocated a tribe, her long, curved horns tilt upwards in a SandWing fashion, her claws all have a very slight ridge to them and she has a mix of frills and spikes running down her back, ending halfway along her tail. She mainly has a SandWing frill, but with some IceWing spikes as a crest; it starts as a three-way spike-frill at her head before merging into one frill near the base of her neck. Her eyes are a deep blue, warm and encouraging from weary sockets.
Her scales are an uneven mix of pale gold and cool white, fading into a slight blue at her tailtip. She has a glasslike sheen on the majority of her scales, but her rough wings and talons don't have this quality. There is a vague elegance to her colouration and scales. This is different to her physique; Meltwater is gaunt from years of wandering and has numerous minor scars all over her body. Her posture indicates insecurity and fear, despite her cheery attitude. 
== Abilities ==
Meltwater can breathe both fire and frostbreath, but not without a long gap. Like a MudWing, she has to be hot or cold enough to shoot the appropriate projectile. Whatever she shoots is weaker than what a purebred dragon could breathe. 
She also has a mild resistance to cold. Nothing like an IceWing’s subzero resistance; she feels fine until 5 degrees Celcius.
== Personality ==
Meltwater insists that there is no true reason to despair forever, and tries to help those who feel down (often with very limited results). She's gentle and respectful and always has a smile on her face, ranging from full-on to muted. However, she rarely gets as excited as, say, Kinkajou; Meltwater's glee tends to be relaxed, like one who is at peace. She is against violence due to her dysfunctional childhood, but may fight if there is no other option. In order to be as trustworthy as possible, she's very honest, polite and helpful, often aiding dragons she doesn't particularly like.
She travels to avoid bad memories from lingering in her mind, rubbing them over with the more pleasant ones before her family split up. However, she doesn't spend much time mulling over memories; Meltwater is currently searching for the dragons of her past to make amends, to start anew. She also enjoys her nomadic lifestyle, as it has taken her around the continent, meeting new dragons and seeing new things, and plans to continue until she can no longer keep up.
== Background ==
Currently under finalisation
== Relationships ==
=== Rebutia ===
Rebutia was the last relative that Meltwater lived with before she set out. At that time, the SandWing was paranoid and angry, repeatedly warning her daughter of the dangers of intimate love and its fragility. Meltwater feared her and would try to please her mother to avoid getting hurt, whether from a stone or her claws. Although Meltwater didn't understand at the time, Rebutia still somewhat valued familial love and thought that she was making the best choice in preventing her daughter from loving unrelated dragons. To Meltwater, Rebutia was just short of a dictator, preventing her from even having friendships with the other dragonets of Possibility. She might have stayed if she was relieved of that pressure.
=== Glare ===
Originally, Meltwater thought that Glare, being her father, could do no harm to the family and loved him dearly, but became suspicious of him when he left, without returning, after a long argument with Rebutia. Meltwater missed him for the six years of his absence, especially since his guidance was a large factor of her war-torn childhood. Once she found him living alone in the Ice Kingdom, she could tell that he was no longer the commanding, capable father to her dragonet self. She's still on good terms with him, especially since just the sight of her was encouraging to Glare. When she left him for the road, they had settled their scores and, by some means, their old bond returned.
=== Cardamom ===
Meltwater always favoured her chirpy young brother. Cardamom is as obvious a hybrid as Meltwater is and is three years younger. She doesn't know what he's been up to in the past ten years - he flew after Glare when he left and she hasn't seen him since - but remembers him as the lovable bundle of energy she once knew, despite what Glare said about him when she found him.
=== Bonsai ===
Bonsai the RainWing never saw eye-to-eye with Meltwater. When she was 11, the hybrid had tried to comfort her over the death of her beloved sloth, but it all went wrong with some insensitive comments and Bonsai has held bitter emotions against Meltwater since. The usually-calm RainWing always has a scowl whenever Meltwater sees her and she'll bicker when she gets the chance, but doesn't go much further than that (both Bonsai and Meltwater see this behaviour as reasonable).
=== Steppe ===
Steppe the SandWing was the closest thing to a close friend Meltwater had after her parents' divorce. She met them at a park when they noticed that she was uncomfortably alone. Their relationship was tense as Meltwater told him what would likely happen if Rebutia found out about their friendship. She did find out, and Meltwater couldn't see them for a month, but they were alright with it. Both of them are still good friends, now without the strain of Rebutia, even if they don't see each other very often.
== Trivia ==
== Gallery ==
Currently a dusty, unused cupboard.
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Occupation (Traveler)