Charboiled

Owned by BronzeRattle
This character is not part of the Bronze AU
Charboiled, better known as Char and formerly Samba, is an adult tribeless dragon that resides on Samba Isles. She is well known for writing the Samba Column newspaper and her exuberant personality.
== Description ==
Charboiled is primarily cherry red with lime green spots and a salmon underside. She is quite tall, about as lanky as a RainWing, with longer front legs than back legs. She has a fairly broad yet short snout, massive eyes capable of dilation, thick spiky fur behind her head and neck, and a very large frill that tends to be folded upwards. Two large fins on her back take place of wings. Flaps can be seen on her arms which end in three digits—Her back legs have four broader digits covered in sticky pads and lacking claws. She has spots and a lengthy slender tail ending in a few short spikes.
Char has a lime green forked tongue. Her eyes are glass bottle green.
When angry, Charboiled flares out an iridiscent neck hood not seen otherwise. She can flatten out the sides of her body to seem larger.
== History ==
WIP. Also I should make this a fanfic...
Charboiled was born on a tropical island by herself in the middle of the ocean. She adapted easily to the calm environment, eating fruits off trees to survive and the occasional roasted python. Over time she began to notice that the island moved in the ocean on a seemingly random path, most of the times out in a nondescript ocean but sometimes shifting quite closely to coasts. She could never feel it moving, but every time it parked off shore of some landmass, the next morning that land was gone even if the skies were crystal clear. That confirmed it for her.
Char never dared to venture outside the island (all other dragons she saw looked unfriendly) and especially once she discovered the island's unique wandering property. She was afraid that if she left, she would never be able to return and would become one of the angry dragons.
Still, Charboiled secretly hoped for one at least semi-kind dragon to meet with her and tell her why everyone was so irritable. She knew the habitat was different—maybe they didn't have fruits. With that thinking, she began to note down the infrastructure of the places she saw and built, after several failures, a small stable hut loaded with every type of fruit she knew. She deliberately built it on the beach that usually faced land. Whenever the island parked by a big landmass, she would be there arranging her supply, hoping to catch the attention of one thirsty or hungry dragon.
One morning, Char woke up late to the sounds she had never heard before. She quickly figured out that dragons had taken over her hut, talking and laughing as they listened to the sounds of other dragons banging, strumming, and twisting strange objects to make a sort of groove she couldn't resist. Leading them was one orangish dragon singing jubilantly along.
She knew this was her chance. She came out into the open tentatively, hoping she wouldn't startle the sand-colored dragons from their fun. The instant they saw her, all activity stopped. Some of them cowered. A few looked confused. Most wielded their barbed tails defensively. Even the object smashing crew had stopped the terrific groove, filling her with sadness as she wondered if she had made a terrible mistake.
The orange dragon that had been singing approached her, took her talons, and led her away from the group. She confessed that she had been living on the island for years, had no idea what a "tribe" was, and loved whatever sounds they had been making. The dragon introduced himself as Tang the SandWing and explained that the sounds were samba music. He brought her over to teach her all about the subject. In return, she showed him the island.
The sun was setting by the time they got back. She told Tang him and the SandWings needed to leave now or they would risk never seeing their homes again due to the nature of the island. The two of them bid a painful goodbye.
Char decided to name herself samba after the great music, and it wasn't very long until she had manufactured her own instruments for the sport, in large part due to a previously undiscovered beach where scrap parts often came ashore.
== Personality ==
Charboiled is very playful, easy-going, and active. Living on Samba Isles for her whole life has made her eager to talk to anyone who is in the mood to. She is very knowledgeable on the geography of the island, knowing exactly where certain fruits lie, and surprisingly adept at construction. She is always interested to learn about other dragons' cultures, hence why she dedicated herself to the task. Unsurprisingly, she likes to write.
Char tries to negotiate out of conflicts the best she can, but she isn't afraid to inject lethal doses of venom in anyone perceived as a threat to her or the island. She is usually honest but does occasionally lie to hide a greater picture. Char likes company, yet gets deeply concerned with kicking any out once night arrives on the island to avoid dragons being stuck on it.
== Abilities ==
=== Physique ===
Physically, Char isn't that strong except for her back legs which are very powerful. She uses them to leap hundreds of feet high and/or far like a grasshopper, taking advantage of her very light weight to do so. Charboiled can't fly as she lacks wings, but can flatten her body out and extend the fins on her back to glide great distances, often initiated through a jump.
Sticky pads on her toes and palms allow her to stick firmly on rough textures but not so well on smooth ones.
=== Heat pits ===
She can "see" temperature through heat pits just under her eyes. These help her calculate how much venom she needs to subdue a target.
=== Venom ===
Unlike the typical venomous snake, Charboiled does not have specialized fangs for injecting venom. Instead, roughly the first half of her teeth are directly connected to a venom surplus just under the gums.
When the venom breaches the bloodstream, it acts like laughing gas, causing feelings of relaxation, drowsiness, and heightened suggestibility. A greater quantity makes these feelings stronger, particularly the latter. Overdoses instead make the victim extremely euphoric, dizzy from shortness of breath, unwilling to follow instructions, and eventually left unconscious and temporarily paralyzed from the neurotoxic properties. Extreme overdoses can induce immediate lethal seizures or comas.
Char often injects more nervous subjects with a very light dose of venom to calm them down before an interview, using her heat pits to ensure the proper dosage.
=== Aging ===
Charboiled aged properly until adulthood, but has since stopped visibly aging. It's unclear if she no longer ages or ages at an astronomically slow rate. It's possible these effects are only due to the properties of Samba Isles.
== Relations ==
Due to the timeless, aimless nature of Charboiled and Samba Isles, she can exist wherever as long as there is an ocean. In other words, relations with other users' are allowed no matter the AU.
== Gallery ==
CharboiledFun.jpg|Sketch for the lunar new year
CharboiledConfrontation.jpg|Hood and patagonia (wing membrane) extended
CharboiledWriting.jpg|Charboiled writing
CharboiledTraditional.jpg|First sketch
== Trivia ==
* Something that is charboiled was grilled over charcoal on a rack (think hamburger patties over outdoor grill). Charboiled was named as such because when coming up with ideas for a name, the first thing that came to mind was the restaurant Carl's Jr which has the subtitle (?) "Charboiled burgers".
* Char is strongly based on Neroxide from the Roblox game Dragon Adventures. Neroxide are a wingless species with a similar frill and great jumping abilities. In particular, Char parallels my Neroxide Bohr who, as you can hopefully see on the right, is quite stylized.
** She was even going to have a segmented jaw like Neroxide that came apart when she was angry, but I scrapped this.
* Other inspirations include the Concorde plane for her gliding profile, flying lizards, the hognose snake which is known for flattening like a pancake when defensive, and general cobras. The flaps on her arms are similar to Grovyle's.
* Char is partially based on Calypso from Greek mythology, an immortal titaness who is cursed to never be able to leave her island Ogygia.
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