Xerxes

== Appearance ==
Xerxes is a broody dragon with many different styles. Most prominently, he has a mane of brown hair on the top of his head and down his neck. His wing membranes are a lighter brown while his scales are a shade of pale yellow. His underbelly is even paler brown. He has small spikes trailing down from beneath his mane to the tip of his tail, where there’s a venomous barb. The insides of his wing membranes are decorated with silver specks, while the outsides each have a slightly darker brown crescent-moon shape on them. He has four horns, the top two on either side having black markings on them while the lower two are coated with black flecks.
Xerxes also has heterochormia or two different colored eyes. His right is a natural blue, while his left is a shade of violet flecked with green. The outcast tribe he lived with attributed the rare genetic mishap as a side effect of his animus power, while his four horns were considered a birth defect. He has small horns over his eyes and three on his chin. Up to his snout are golden scales that arch over his eyes. He has similarly colored triangle shaped scales up all four legs. He has Dark red blood.
=== Accessories ===
Xerxes possesses a variety of trinkets he adorns. One being a pouch that loops his chest and hooks beneath his mane, easy to slip on and off. It’s made of a dark leather with an onyx clasp. On his back right leg he possesses a leg band carved from Skyfire, embedded with a glittering emerald. On his front right forelimb, he has a leather band with rhombus shaped sapphires sewn into the material. Lastly he favors a Ruby earring in his right ear, a gift from his mother, whoever that may be. He never met her. 
== Personality ==
Xerxes is rather slow to trust, which may become his fatal flaw. Xerxes has a tendency to orbit toxic people, drawn in by them somehow, he finds them intriguing. Even though toxic dragons treat him badly, he has a tendency to fall deeper into a loyalty for them, no matter how horribly he’s treated. Other than that Xerxes typically has a broody air about him, occasionally hiding away to paint or sketch. 
== Abilities/Powers ==
In addition to his moon-given prophecy powers, Xerxes was blessed with Animus magic, while neither of his parents had it. It may have been dormant within his parents’ generations and present in his grandparents. He used his powers to grant himself the ability to animate his artworks. Then he sealed his animus magic into a talisman, like Darkstalker, and destroyed it, forever eliminating his ability. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life And Dragonethood ===
Xerxes was born beneath a singular full moon, but while Clearsight strengthen her power to the max, Xerxes remained unable to do so, receiving his visions in short unpredictable bursts and dreams. He was raised by a group of outcasts, much like himself, they were unable to accurately trace their heritage. He was raised alongside three other dragonets (See Relationships). He was not raised by anyone in particular but many dragons in the outcast group. 
=== Teenage Life ===
Xerxes left his group for many years, traveling Pyrriah and even attending Jade Mountain for about a year. Xerxes reunited with his dragonethood companion, Tinted (See Relationships). He left Jade Mountain at age 15 and returned to his life with the Outcasts beneath the Sky Kingdom, where the Dragonets Of Destiny used to reside. 
=== Current Life ===
Xerxes is currently living with Tinted in their cave, where they’ve set up their own school for dragons who are unable to trace their ancestry. Xerxes teaches fighting styles of every tribe he’s encountered and he renamed their Outcast group, the Outcast’s School Of Heritage. 
== Relationships ==
=== Family Members ===
==== Memory ====
Memory is a supposed NightWing MudWing hybrid. Not much is known about her. It’s not even quite sure what her genetics contained, considering the more HiveWing like spikes on Xerxes’s tail. Memory was supposedly an Outcast leader in her day, ruling beneath the current monarch of the “tribe”. Xerxes never met her other than within the first days of his life.
==== Duststorm ====
Duststorm was a SandWing on a mission who discovered Xerxes and the outcasts. He stayed with them for a few months before returning to the Sand Kingdom. Then Xerxes was hatched. He never met Duststorm not did Duststorm play a part in his naming. 
=== Friends/Acquaintances ===
==== Tinted ====
Tinted is a mostly IceWing dragon who oddly enough has hints of red around his horns and face. With markings of dark blue and black along his wings. He was Xerxes’s first friend, and the two grew close as they aged. Disliked for his abilities with his artwork, Xerxes was moderately hated within The Outcasts, who soon recruited Tinted to deface one of Xerxes’s most proud artworks. It was a painting of the Claws Of Clouds Mountain. Xerxes claimed to have saw it in a dream since this was before he’d ever left the caves. Tinted and a few other dragons destroyed the painting and burned it in front of Xerxes, causing him such fury he animated a drawing of a beast, which ruthlessly attacked Tinted and his three friends. The beats killed two of the friends but on Xerxes’s final desperate command, the beast was reduced to dust. Xerxes then fainted, he’d never animated anything so large. Tinted and Xerxes became enemies, but soon Tinted apologized for what he’d done and admitted he never wanted to do it in the first place. Xerxes hesitantly agreed and the two went to Jade Mountain together, where they caught feelings and are now living their lives happily out together in The Outcast’s School Of Heritage. 
==== Warwatcher ====
Warwatcher is an extremely skilled mostly NightWing. While her scales are predominantly black, she’s shown abilities of an IceWing, hinting at a distant relation. Warwatcher, as her name implies , is rather gruesome when unneeded and has a tendency to be hesitant when trusting others. She enjoys teaching the students about poisons, toxins, and self defense, as it allows her to regularly disembowel a testing dummy. She’s surprisingly a gifted musician at the drums and good with fighting styles.
==== Evening ====
Evening is a female SandWing with hints of RainWing in her genetics (due to the venom she can shoot) as well as IceWing (her usually rigid and serrated claws). She is approximately 90% SandWing, 5% RainWing and 5% IceWing, making her almost a tribrid but not quite. She’s very peppy and likes to socialize. She teaches home education classes, such as cooking, weaving, farming etc. Evening is the best friend of Warwatcher despite their differences and the two have been close since Jade Mountain. 
=== Enemies ===
==== Beach ====
Beach was a female SeaWing who Xerxes briefly dated. She asked he didn’t know how to say no, so he dated her for about a month before breaking it off after he realized his feelings for Tinted. Beach remains extremely unhappy about this and hates both Xerxes and Tinted. 
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