Nyctalopia

due for a revamp for the celestial haven
he/him - also questioning orientation - child of tsuki - 16 or so hyrs - nictophany's brother - drift/nightwing
== appearance ==
*fairy armadillo
*membraneand belly (furred like nightwing) and wrist feathers orange/purple oombre
*starrish freckles
*moon pattern on sail, looks like the moon during the day basically
**subtly changes phases real time
*tear-drop marking on eye (not a mind reader)
*very droopy. very tired eyes
== personality ==
*terrified of the dark, first and foremost
**which kind of sucks doesn't it
*very idealistic 
*very much still misses dragonethood
*pretty good SMARTS. they didn't really get him anywhere though
*in love with storytelling. lullabies. sweet stories and innocent ideas
*seen as childish and immature for it
*he wants things to be easier to understand. real life is messy and makes his stomach queasy and he wants to escape into a world with fiendish scavengers and magical knights
*a little bit more realistic than his sister nictophany, though
**doesn't believe in conspiracy theories. they scare him
**unless something sounds vaguely like a fact ("people who have been stung by bees are more susceptible to tripping" "OOOOOH IS THAT WHY??"
**face palms
*very irrational also
*essentially? a dreamer?
== abilities==
*umbrakinesis 
**the ability to control shadows
**though this is associated with his emotions. when hes more upset, it'll get darker. which will make him upset. which will make it darker-
*fire breath
**combined drift/night ability. needs to not be upset though or he will cough smoke
*fakely rolls in a ball
**his scales through hybridization don't link up together the way they should for a driftwing but it's his happy place basically
*wonderful storyteller
**often overshadowed by noct, though, who's got flashy shadow puppet shows and much more exciting plots
*a practiced singer, alongside noctiphany
**although noctiphany's a bit more... howlish nowadays, its a style.
== history ==
*i am so tired I can't write my whole idea down right now
*essentially, drift/nightwing nerd meets tsuki while traveling the continent working on an astronomy thesis. 
*he dumps his ideas, his findings, his theories to tsuki, who just kind of stares
*eventually he meets a roadblock and he considers going up to the driftwing kingdom and giving up
*and tsuki finally reciprocates
*she shows shes been listening by pointing out holes in his logic, patterns he didn't notice, things he didn't realize
*night-long discussions go on and on as he points out his findings with a telescope tower and tsuki just kind of : | there because she already knows all these things and this dude's not catching on she's a god
*and then she Leaves. nerd is bummed but he's accelerated 3 times farther than he was before. so its all good. he goes home and begins properly writing his ideas down cohesively. 
*knock knock ding dong two eggs
*nerd is living with his drift and night parents in the driftwing kingdom
*nyct and noct hatch, and nerd says "I know big words" and named them nyctalopia and noctiphany 
*their grandparents basically raised them.
*told them stories before they went to bed every night
*sang them lullabies, and when they stopped, they sang to each other
*noct and nyct held onto that love for stories
**noct just went wild and became a conspiracy theorist. like their grandparents were
**nyct attached himself to the fantasy of it all. not the theories, those are dumb
*but they were aware of their holy parentage. tsuki left them with a note, of course
*nyct thought they were set out for some magical destiny
**nothing really happened though
*there might have been a yokai encounter young? i dunno
*the point is, when nerd dad had his thesis accepted, or whatever he was doing, he essentially shipped them to camp gin chi, as specified in the note
*glad to go, they live in the camp now, as noct terrorizes more people with her theories
== other ==
I am thinking of the pink fairy armadillo
I might also copy paste ideas from discord but I don't have the energy to do that right tnow
okay listen, I am thinking of him more of an individual who is not quite in touch with reality as he writes himself in a diary like a fantasy individual. he's so shocked by the mundanity of reality, ESPECIALLY with being in a camp for the children of divine, yet ITS JUST! HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL! WITHOUT ANY OF THE MUSICAL ITS JUST HIGH SCHOOL.
so he writes his life to try being more interesting. less mundane. he sees dragons as characters, less as people. he's a partial foil to Iliad, a dragoness who's surprisingly conscious of reality despite her inability to differentiate things that are real and ghostly. but nyctalopia willingly throws himself into a world where things are more black and white. where things are easier to understand and conflicts are tied nice and easily with a little bow. 
where every individual arc marks his growth as a "character." where every adversity he faces (which is anything that doesn't go his way) makes him stronger as an individual. a strange sense of entitlement. 
also a foil to Iliad in the sense that Iliad has never had a sense of security. no one to fallback on if she couldn't take care of herself, sans her imaginary friend (mom's ghost). nyctalopia has had a sister, wild grandparents, and a father, who may not have been good but he wasn't exactly neglectful. yet nyctalopia still responds to adversity so much worse. with so much less hope. 
nyctalopia panics at any form of him going out of relevance. at any concept of him not being the main character. while Iliad only panics if she senses she's losing the people closest to her. like her newfound half-siblings. since she still has the grudge against her mother.
</tabber>
Category:Characters
Category:Content (EnigmaTheHybrid)
Category:NightWings
Category:DriftWings
Category:Hybrids
Category:LGBT+
Category:Males