Wishbender

Wishbender is a young adult male NightWing and one of the main protagonists of ThatMooseDragon's canon-derived story A Thousand Souls. He is part of the prophecy Roguesong received and a descendant of Startamer, the Great Wise One. 
== Appearance ==
Wishbender has a tall and slightly chubby body, with large wings for his tribe. He has very dark indigo scales with a dark purple underbelly. His spines are a dark magenta and his back and blaze snout scales are purple. His claw nails are gray, along with is wing nails and thumb claws. His wing webbing is indigo-ish with white star-like spots of various sizes. His star scales along the side of his body are bright magenta, which are the same color of his large, almond-round shaped eyes. The scales on the sides of his snout are a muted, dark purple and are the same color of his leg scales. His horns are a light pinkish-lavender color, like the inside of his ears. His tongue is a deep scarlet. 
He stands a little hunched over, due to all the hours he spent in his vendor shop meticulously organizing its shelves. His tail is usually still, unless a high emotion triggers it to sway back and forth. He can't run or fly very fast.
== Personality ==
Wishbender is mainly a friend to all. He has a friendly way of saying "hello!" and "how's your day been going?" that could make even Burn smile. He is very good at accepting and adapting to different situations, such as the fact that he is a direct descendant of an ancient Animus that could very well take over the world should she be summoned back to life.
He is very humble about his signature hobby: writing music and songs. He knows he could never make it in the entertainer industry, so he writes for himself and the joy of his friends, which can be a little bit annoying to some. He usually gets sweaty palms just before a performance, which is concerning because he plays a lute and a flute, which could break if dropped on a hard floor surface. He takes pride in this hobby, as well as being an excellent entrepreneur. 
Wishbender will sometimes get mad if someone disrupts his plans, though rare. He uses his fire breath to show that he is in fact angry, and has destroyed some rooms in the past because of it (he's never hurt any dragon before). He sobs in apology and guilt after, letting his guilt get over his head. 
== Biography ==
Wishbender was hatched as Startamer whispered a prophecy from the Ghost Realm to his family. From then on, his mother and father, Taletwister and Beastslayer, knew that their son was eventually going to fulfill the quest of going to the island where Startamer lay dormant. So, as Wishbender grew, they told him vague details about what he was destined to do. 
He would play just outside the Scorpion Den, hidden behind the walls of great towers and such. One particular day, he found a very strange looking dragonet, with gray scales and antennae. Strangest of all, he was wingless. The two were cautious around each other at first, but visit after visit, became inseparable. The dragonet's name was Creatonotos, but Wishbender insisted on calling him "Notos" for short. 
As Wishbender got older, he learned from his parents, both of them well-known glassblowers and makers and sellers of all sorts of curios in the Scorpion Den, how to sell and make profit efficiently. So, after his parents saw that he was catching on quickly and built him a little stall next to their own. His business was booming.
Soon, it came time for Wishbender to go Jade Academy after Taletwister made him apply (a year late). Unfortunately, he was the very last to enroll for his age, and had to be placed in a first-year's Copper Winglet for space's sake. Due to skipping a full year, his workload was immense, and he often times had to pull all-nighters to complete his homework, then study after. He managed to get it all done with a passing grade, and of course, aced economics and entrepreneurship with flying colors. He became great friends with his Winglet, but they all had to say goodbye after three years at the Academy. 
Wishbender, now technically an adult, decided to move his station from the Scorpion Den to about a mile or two away from it so that it could be easily accessed by any IceWings or traveling dragons who don't want to deal with the clutter of the markets of the SandWing cornucopia of trade. He continued to meet Creatonotos and his family there, selling him water and other goods over light and friendly chatter. Together, they grieved the loss of Creatonotos's sister Jezebel. When Creatonotos disappeared for five days without warning and reappeared with not two, but FOUR of the most beautiful wings he had ever seen, Wishbender threw a friendly fit at the same time being very confused about his best friend suddenly growing his missing limbs. 
Creatonotos planned a long vacation, in which Wishbender didn't see him for five months. Business went on as usual, and he upgraded his vendor shop with a cooling room below a trap door to store ice-cold water.
When Creatonotos returned, he had two other dragons by his side; a SandWing-looking dragoness with auburn frills and a scowl on her face and an IceWing with orange and blue markings on his white body. 
That is Wishbender's story up until the plot of A Thousand Souls.
== Relationships ==
=== Sunslinger ===
Wishbender thinks that Sunslinger was a little rude, and a little scary when he first met her, but he wanted to try to befriend her nonetheless. He began to see the good in her after quite a while, and genuinely bonded with her. They talk about "the good old days" when they were dragonets in the Copper Winglet.
=== Ghost ===
Wishbender thinks that Ghost is like a dragonet trying to be as smart as he is. They have a rivalry between each other, but they're decently good friends at the end of the day. He pities him for having very few friends outside of Sunslinger and Creatonotos. 
=== Creatonotos ===
Wishbender loves Creatonotos as the brother he never had. They've never fought before, and they're willing to hold that record until the day they die. Being best friends since dragonethood, they are extremely tightly-knit. Wishbender admires Creatonotos for being able to keep hidden so well, and to risk so much to see him during troubled times. 
== Family Tree ==
WIP
== Quotes ==
"So, what brings you here? Another weird worm you found in your cave you wanna sell me?" - To Creatonotos"In a hole? Unconscious? Notos, what happened?” - To Creatonotos"Okay. This may sound a little crazy. My mother told me that when I was born, the voice of a dragoness echoed as I emerged from my egg. She wrote it down and told me to never forget what she said.” - To Sunslinger, Ghost, and Creatonotos“My family has been waiting for me to fulfill my life’s purpose. And… it lies in the axe.” - To Ghost“Uh, don’t worry about that. He’s got, uh, something in his brain. You know. The voices. I’m Wishbender. And please don’t call the authorities on my friend Creatonotos here. Call him Notos. He’s a nice SilkWing.” - To Megamouth about Creatonotos"...It turns out that the axe they tried to sell me was part of this huge prophecy that I received when I was hatching. I need to return it to its owners, or I’ll have this burden on my shoulders forever,” - To Warthog and Megamouth"Well, I’m not exactly warmed up, but, I guess I could play some tunes for you.” - To Warthog“This explains why my family set me up to find that Axe. But… I don’t know what to do with it other than return it to them. Based on this new context, I don’t want that to happen. They said that I was related to someone important to that cult. I didn’t think I’d be related to an ancient Animus.” - To Megamouth, Sunslinger, Creatonotos, Ghost, and Warthog"If you’re saying that I’m a descendant of some killer goddess, then yeah, you found me. I heard the whole prophecy and everything. If that’s enough for letting us go, then let us go!” To Oxbow"“No, it’s okay. I saw it coming for years, the fact that I was going to play some sort of important part somewhere and somehow. I didn’t know that it would be right now. I need to meet my fate. And right now, the biggest thing that needs to be done is hide the Axe.” - To Creatonotos
== Trivia ==
* Wishbender was originally going to be a librarian and an animus
* He sells mostly all different kinds of things, but his most sold-out item are glass-blown ice-cold water bottles.
* He was originally going to know about being Startamer's descendant before the plot of ATS
* Wishbender is the only dragon in ATS who has majenta/purple eyes, other than Startamer and Beastslayer.
Category:Characters
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Males
Category:LGBT+
Category:Occupation (Merchant)
Category:NightWings