Moonstone

Moonstone
Moonstone 	Moonstone
 	
Background 	Background
Creator 	Delta
Owner 	Ahren
Artist 	N/A
Coder 	🧂
Attribute 	Hubris
Element 	Ice
Color 	Ivory white
Animal 	Seal
Song 	wip
Character 	Character
Age 	26 DY
Gender 	Female
Pronouns 	She/her
Orientation 	Lesbian
Occupation 	Soldier (formerly), police officer, instructor
Tribe 	IceWing
Goal 	Retain glory in her tribe
Residence 	Ice Palace (formerly), small town
Relatives 	Frigid (parent), Seal (mother), Argent (cousin)
Allies 	Argent, Innesi, Reed, Sunspot
Enemies 	IceWing army
Likes 	Being respected + appreciated
Dislikes 	Being disrespected + ignored
Powers 	Tribal, fighting prowess
Weapons 	Spear, frostbreath
Love Interests	Eyrie
Quote 	"You're scared? Shut up."
Appearance
Moonstone's claws are curved in shape, sharper than most IceWing's, and they are always perfectly white, even after hunting or fighting. Her horns are long and curved, more like a gazelle's than anything else, and the spikes on her wings are sharp and deadly, as she sharpens them on a rock every single day. Her spines are long and deadly, and they are always folded down, except when she is angry, when they spike upward.
Moonstone's eyes are the most odd thing about her, though. Her eyes are chocolate brown, the color of mahogany or fudge, and they are usually narrowed in concentration or anger. Despite constantly fighting and hunting and being on the move, Moonstone somehow always finds time to bathe in the frigid ocean. Her scales always glimmer like diamonds, and she always polishes her claws and talons so that they never have any trace of dirt on them. Her scales are perfect, never cracked or dulled, and her teeth glitter when she smiles, which is relatively rare.
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*changing her coloration probably
*has some gruesome-looking burn scars on her snout, wing, back legs, tail, underbelly, and talon palms
*worst scars are the ones on her talon palms, back legs, and wing
Personality
*Cocky and rude, most of the time
*Considers anyone that challenges her to be the dumbest dragon alive
*Has diagnosed anger issues
*Probably some inferiority complex and stuff
*Too prideful, to a point where she refuses to acknowledge and accept her flaws
*Tries to seem fine but she really isn’t 
*Obsessed with keeping up appearances even though shes disabled, constantly overexerts her body causing her more pain in the long run
*Moonstone and Innesi are two sides of the same coin; Innesi is driven more by sadness though, while Moonstone is (obviously) mostly driven by anger
*more later
History
*Parents were nobles, recent ones though so their position was unstable
*Kind of ignored moonstone for a lot of her life as a way to get her to earn their attention
*Only would praise/talk to her when she was ranked the highest in her age group
*Was at the top of the rankings in Evergreen Boughs, even compared to adults
*The circle system had gotten destroyed by Snowfall but many communities, especially rural ones, made up their version of it to keep balance. *Higher ranking dragons didn’t wear a physical reminder but it was still obvious via town square 
*Not based as much on honor anymore, more on combat abilities + social status + reputation
*Was horrible to everyone including (especially) Reed, her classmate- like, bullied dragons it was bad
*Actually had a crush on Sunspot, Reed's best friend, so she wouldn’t pick on him, eventually stopped bullying Reed though. Still hated his guts she thought he stole Sunspot from her
*Considers Argent, her cousin, to be a disappointment and a loser, would bully him too. Argent wouldn't take as many of her insults as other dragons did, though, and the two would get into frequent fights at school
*Was almost guaranteed a successful career as a future general in the Ice army but got in a nasty fight with a firescales on one of her first missions as a cadet. 
*Moonstone's squad was dispatched to deal with an incident on an island in between the IceWing and SkyWing queendoms, but Moonstone was attacked by a firescales. She tried in vain to fight back but couldn't, not really, and the firescales fled on their own anyway
*This incident caused a minor feud on the Ice/Sky border- the IceWings blamed the SkyWings for not being able to control their firescales dragons and the Sky Kingdom blamed the Ice Kingdom for meddling in foreign affairs. Eventually stuff smoothed over though
*Got most of her scars from this battle, but messed up her tail and leg permanently and her promising career was over before it began
*Instead is relegated to work as a police officer in her small town, Where-The-Caribou-Falls-And-Foxes-Leap-Under-Evergreen-Boughs (Evergreen Boughs for short), but never really likes it
*Moonstone is Reed’s parole officer; its weird she checks up on him every once in a while to make sure he hasn't left. its awkward because she used to bully him and now just tries to ignore him and only speak when it's strictly necessary. 
*On one such visit she sees that Sunspot (and some random hybrid??) have joined Reed in his exile; can't really do anything about it as it's not Reed leaving, but is hurt on a personal level. Realizes she has no one that would do that for her and starts going down a downwards spiral
*Sticks around for Reed and Sunspot’s funerals but needs to find another purpose in life
*On a whim decides to go on a rage fueled revenge quest to find + kill the firescales
*Almost kills herself in the process doesn’t take care of herself enough- heatstroke, almost drowning, general exhaustion, dehydration etc
*Finds the firescales, who's actually named named Eyrie, and tries to kill her. Would have honestly succeeded if not for those initial injuries
*Loses though, obv, but suprisingly Eyrie takes care of her and patches her up. Eyrie is a metalsmith btw
*Eyrie does not put up with Moonstone's crap in general and like confines her to bedrest
*Allows Moonstone to help her out only while she’s healed and rested and Moonstone is like damn what!! Wdym after resting, I can actually help out and be my best!!!
*Lives with Eyrie for a bit and learns a lot tbh, starts seeing a therapist. 
*They’re like not dating but also not not dating. Situationship!!! 
*Is known as the Eyrie’s partner in that Sky Kingdom town (Eastcliff)
*Eyrie explains to Moonstone why she hurt Moonstone in the first place; basically, she was forcibly conscripted into the Sky army as she was an orphan. The government was feeling cocky after the usefulness of a different firescales, Peril, and decided that Eyrie could be useful too, even though she wasn't a complete firescales. 
*Eyrie was as sent to a border town to settle a skirmish, where Moonstone was sent too- but by the Ice Army. Was scared out of her mind, thought the IceWings were there to kidnap here so she just attacked the first dragon she saw and booked it. Started a new life in a town called Eastcliff
*Moonstone is more sympathetic to Eyrie and is forced to look at the situation from a different angle, something she’s never done before!! Damn Eyrie look at you!! Starting some much-needed character development!!
*Moonstone stays with Eyrie for a bit but misses the Ice Kingdom, surprisingly
*Gets called back for a class reunion and decides to come back for good
*Seeing all of her former classmates living life to their fullest while also still being a little terrified of her changes something in Moonstone
*She no longer wants to be that Moonstone, feared by all and loved by none
*Starts patching up her relationships one by one. Writes letters to Sunspot and Reed, leaves them on their grave, and actually grieves for them
*Reaches out to Argent and expresses interest in staying with them for a little bit and getting to know them, Innesi, and their worker. Works with Argent at his flower shop for a bit and learns a lot more about her cousin that she should have probably known earlier
*Writes letters to Eyrie extremely often and visits her whenever she can, shares her newfound progress patching up relationships with wonder to Eyrie
*Introduces Eyrie to Argent, Argent assumes they’re dating/married
*Moonstone is forced to think about what exactly her relationship with Eyrie is and she kind of just accepts it as it is. Her soulmate is the best descriptor, probably. Moonstone has always struggled with romantic attraction and is more aesthetically attracted to dragons
*Goes back to the Ice Kingdom, with promises to continue visiting Innesi and Argent (which she ends up fulfilling!)
*Takes Eyrie back with her, although Eyrie doesn't like it very much. Eyrie goes back to Eastcliff after about a week. 
*Moonstone applies to work as a police officer again, though this time as an instructor for new cadets
*Tries to teach them to not be overly cocky and to take care of themselves
*Continues visiting Sunspot and Reed's grave and Eyrie and Argent when she can. Has started writing apology letters and letters in general to her former classmates
Relationships
Frigid and Seal: Moonstone doesn't care much for her parents and hardly ever talks to them anymore. However, when she is feeling particularly bad about her injuries, she feels like she's let down her parents by not being the great general she would have been. They don't fault Moonstone for the incident at all though, and that's just her negative thoughts talking. It's the opposite, actually- her parents blame Moonstone's demise on themselves, for being too hard on her when she was a dragonet (which they absolutely were). Nonetheless, Moonstone has naturally drifted apart from her parents and doesn't see herself talking with them soon- however, she didn't see herself ever patching up her relationship with Argent and look where she is now. neutral
Sunspot: Moonstone's former crush. neutral/negative
Reed: Moonstone has mixed feelings about this dragon- mostly regret. neutral/negative
Eyrie: Moonstone's... well, everything. very positive
Argent: Moonstone's cousin. positive
Innesi: Moonstone's... in law?
Trivia
*Moonstone originally belonged to Delta, but I adopted her later on- I don't even know where. I think I sent a message to Delta on her wall, offering to adopt her? I don't really remember though. 
*I'll be honest, I originally only adopted Moonstone to just claim the name (since it's so common), but have actually found inspiration to develop her around 4 years after I initially adopted her.
Gallery
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Transparent version of the icewing.png|Moonstone, colored in by Salty and made transparent by Dawn
Moonstone! For Delta.png|Drawn by Naakfai!
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Moonstoneice.webp|Moonstone by Ice!!
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Category:Characters
Category:Disabled
Category:Occupation (Soldier)
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Category:IceWings
Category:Females
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