Category

You can cover up a wound with brass.
But brass will never heal it.
Leaving a gashing pain hidden by shining metal.
Brass is strong, and the pain hides,
But it is never gone,
The brass lies.
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Category is a male IceWing whose real name is unknown. He has many nicknames and aliases, but prefers to be known as “Category”.
== Appearance ==
Category is a medium-sized pale blue IceWing, with scuffed, dusty scales that once gleamed like snow. His underbelly is ice-blue, as is his head. Category is rather skinny, and has light gray horns.
Category lost his front two legs and his wings to injury, which have been replaced by brass prosthetics. His new “arms” have many gears and cogs on them, for decoration and use. The cogs help him move his claws, talons, and wings. His wing membrane has been replaced by a thin and flexible sheet of brass, with a faint gear pattern in the center. The brass making up his front limbs is very shiny.
Category has several scars, most prominently a tear across his eye, and slashing claw marks on his neck and left hind leg. Where his new wings and arms are connected, there is also a patch of damaged and scarred scales. His horns and spikes have also suffered damage, his right horn and several of his spikes are broken or cracked.
He often wears a large, dark blue cloak which covers his face and most of his features, making it hard sometimes to tell what tribe he is. The cloak fastens at the neck and has a large hood.
== Personality ==
Category is always tired, as he doesn’t sleep much, and dislikes talking. He is rather closed off and stand-offish, preferring not to discuss himself.
Category is easily annoyed, and when irritated snaps at whoever he’s talking to and stomps off in a huff. He can be mean when provoked, but is generally a pretty passive guy.
He is a very mysterious and enigmatic dragon, hardly anybody knows anything about him. Category has a number of secrets.
He has been described as “edgy”, “emo”, and “moody”. Category is somewhat paranoid and rather jumpy. He is easily startled and always on his guard.
Category has a dark sense of humor and laughs like a dolphin.
== Abilities, Strengths & Weaknesses ==
=== Abilities ===
Frostbreath - Category can breath frostbreath like all IceWings
Standard IceWing powers - Cat has all the standard IceWing powers
Strong Front Legs - Because of his brass legs and wings, he has a stronger grip on things and more brute force
=== Strengths ===
Concealment - Category is very good at concealing himself and staying out of sight
Endurance - As he travels Pyrrhia lots, he is good at enduring climates IceWings aren’t made for, as well as surviving off of little rations/resorces
Resourceful - Like stated above, Category travels lots, and therefore is good at building shelters, finding places to hide, finding food, etc.
=== Weaknesses ===
Impaired Flight - Because Category’s wings are made of brass, he is slow when flying
Clunky - Category’s brass limbs are harder to control than his normal ones, and louder. As such, he can be clumsy or loud
Perpetually Tired - Cat hasn’t gotten a good night’s sleep in years, and because of this, he is usually tired
== Backstory ==
An unnamed egg was left at an orphanage in the Ice Kingdom by an unknown dragon. No note. No letter. Just the egg.
The egg was taken in, named (though nobody really knows or cares what; very few dragons connect Category with his dragonet self), and soon hatched.
Category was a strange dragonet. Often silent, preferring to be alone, disliking communication and having few friends. One of the most notable things about him was that he hated his name. The dragonet went by many nicknames, but everyone eventually just called him his real name.
Category formerly had a friend named Bitter, a fellow orphan.
Bitter and Category were close once, good friends. However, as the years went by Category became more distant, more prone to hiding by himself somewhere and wanting to be alone. Bitter was convinced that Category didn’t want to be his friend anymore, or that Category and his other friends were sneaking off without him. Bitter became slowly more jealous and clingy.
Meanwhile, Category was increasingly unhappy at the Orphanage where he lived. Category had never liked it there, and as he neared adulthood, he began to give up all hope of being adopted. He felt unwanted, and hid from others.
Bitter became more snippy and rude when talking with Category, firm in his belief that Category disliked him, Bitter ran away from any conversation Category started, which only made Category feel more miserable.
Though the caretakers and his fellow orphans were kind, Category never felt at home at the orphanage.
Category then made up his mind. He prepared himself.
And he ran away.
Category was sick of waiting, he was eight (dragon years) by now, and ran away from the orphanage, bringing only a few things. He had tried to talk his friends into coming, but they had refused. He had never gotten an opportunity to ask Bitter. He went into hiding in the town the orphanage was in, planning to run away to Among-the-evergreens.
Bitter was distraught. He thought Category had wanted to leave him behind, had ran away from him. Bitter was blinded by rage, he could think of only one thing. Revenge. Bitter trained himself to fight, then left the orphanage to find Category…
Category kept moving, trying to avoid being brought back to the orphanage, and was camping out by a cliff overlooking the sea when Bitter found him. Category, surprised to see him, asked why he was there. Bitter spat that he had come to finish Category, once and for all, and attacked him.
The following battle was very bloody.
Bitter, blinded by rage, wounded Category almost beyond recognition. It is unknown if Bitter ripped off Category’s wings and front legs himself, or if this was merely a result of his injuries, but either way, Category left the fight missing his wings and arms.
Category didn’t want to hurt his former friend, but he had no choice. Category fought back, injuring Bitter too. As it became clear that Bitter wanted to kill Category, and Category, mostly defenseless, went for Bitter’s wings. Bitter ended up falling off the cliff and dying.
Category, close to death, dragged himself away from the now blue snow and tried to run away. Category managed to clumsily bandage his wounds, and left the Ice Kingdom, never wanting to return.
He was ashamed and infuriated and sad, a chaotic mix of emotions in a permanently injured dragon.
Category made it a little way from the Great Ice Cliff and into the disputed territory between the Sand and Ice kingdoms before collapsing, and passing out.
Category next woke up in a camel-skin tent. The only other dragon in there was a SandWing-IceWing hybrid, named Cougar. When Category was asked for his name, he refused to give it. Cougar started referring to Category as “Stranger” over the few days Category spent with him. Cougar was an inventer and rather smart, if a little eccentric, and had started building Category prosthetic wings and arms, which were completed shortly. Cougar helped attach these to Category, and helped him figure out how to use them.
After Category was skilled enough at using his new limbs that he could run and sort of fly, he bid Cougar farewell and left. Category never would return to the Ice Kingdom, however he visited Cougar from time to time.
With his new wings and arms, he began travelling Pyrrhia. Category never told anyone his name, and rarely stayed in one place for very long.
Category eventually came to Possibility, where he met three dragons, a SkyWing, a SeaWing, and a SandWing. Despite his “don’t get too close to anyone” policy, he liked these dragons and became friends with them. The SkyWing, Claret, started referring to Category as “a category of his own”, which was soon shortened to “category”. The other dragons, Flax and Shamrock, quickly began calling Category “category”. The nickname stuck.
Although Category still roamed Pyrrhia, he continued to return to Possibility regularly, often staying for a few weeks.
== Relationships ==
=== Canon ===
==== Bitter - Negative ====
Bitter was once Category’s friend, and Category was saddened when Bitter was hurt. However, Bitter was the one who injured Category, something which he could never forget. Category resents him and considers most of what happened Bitter’s fault, but he still mourns his death, and misses the days when they were dragonets who were best friends.
==== Cougar - Neutral/Positive ====
Category likes Cougar, but he isn’t his favorite dragon ever. While they’re both willing to chat, neither want to see each other every day for the rest of their lives. Category is thankful that Cougar built him wings and arms, and is intrigued by his inventions.
==== Claret - Positive ====
Claret is the SkyWing who gave Category his famous nickname, and he only maybe definitely has a crush on her. Claret is one of the few dragons he really likes, and most likely the only dragon he would tell his real name. Claret calls him Cat as a nickname and most likely likes him back.
==== Flax - Positive ====
Flax is one of Category’s few friends, and Category thinks highly of him. Category and Flax find each other very funny and often joke together.
==== Shamrock - Positive ====
Another of Category’s friends, Category trusts him and enjoys talking to him.
==== Bengal - Negative ====
Category hates Bengal, and doesn’t trust him. Bengal makes him very nervous, and reminds him too much of Bitter…
=== Fanon ===
Feel free to ask to have your character added to the fanon relationships!
==== Covellite (Onyxclaw’s Bean) - Neutral/Negative ====
Category thinks Covellite is worrisome, and she annoys him. He dislikes Covellite, and would rather avoid her when given the chance. However, as a fellow abnormal IceWing, she does intrigue him slightly.
==== Crowglyph (Crowji’s Bean) - Negative ====
He doesn’t like Glyph, and he finds her suspicious. Maybe she’s plotting something… maybe not… either way, Category doesn’t trust her.
== Trivia ==
* Category doesn’t like most animals, the exception being Shamrock’s pet macaw, Jewelry.
* He has reoccurring nightmares about steep cliffs.
* Claret regularly calls him a “silly goose”.
* The concept for Category came to Cakes as she was falling asleep.
== Quotes ==
”I hate that name. Just- call me whatever.”
”Okay, ‘Whatever’.”
-Category and Bitter
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“I’ve never liked it here… I want to be alone, and yet I want company. I wish others wouldn’t interact with me, but I feel unwanted.”
-Category
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“Though I have brass wings now, they’ll never be the same…”
-Category
== Incorrect Quotes ==
Category: GO AWAY I HATE EVERYTHING ANGST!!!!!
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Claret: You’re sorta a category of your own.
Flax: yeah I guess he is
Category: say… I kinda like that…
Claret, Flax, and Shamrock as well as everyone he knows: NO YOU DO NOT NEED MORE NICKNAMES
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Category: some people collect stamps, I collect names!
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Category: I like to play this game called “How many fake names can I use in a day”
== Gallery ==
Feel free to make fan art of Category!! I’d love to see it.
File:Category (Cloakless).png|Category without his cloak on
File:Category (Cloaked).png|Category with his cloak on
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