Azure (Venusbombyx)

Azure is a powerful, brash, and young SilkWing hailing from the Cicada Hive. He's notorious for planning and organizing the many assassinations of HiveWing guards and aristocrats in an attempt to bring down Queen Wasp. He was named for the deep blue color splashed around his scales.
== Biography ==
Azure was hatched in the Cicada Hive as the dragonet of two weavers. He actually was very sweet, quiet, and obedient when he was a dragonet. But his innocence didn't last forever--as he matured he began to see things...wrong with the way things worked around him. And soon, the rose-colored glasses forced on his narrow snout by the HiveWings quickly shattered. 
He heard whispers of a secret society of SilkWings that worked to make HiveWings and SilkWings equal and it sounded appealing to him. Young Azure began to daydream of joining them and helping lead the crusade. 
Azure began to act out more and more, becoming bolder and bolder each time he did. He found himself angry at the world around him, at his peers, and especially at the HiveWings around him. He also found himself struggling intensely with his identity as he matured into a juvenile. With all that energy and stress and anger and no place to go, he began to become more aggressive.
Azure began to shoplift exclusively from HiveWing owned stalls in the marketplace and was constantly out past curfew, usually loitering in the Mosaic Garden. He spent more time in Misbehaver's Way than he did at home and his parents did little to stop him. He assumed they thought he was out of control, and took it as encouragement to continue causing trouble. He derived pleasure from the negative attention he was constantly getting. The HiveWing guards that were constantly catching him in the act, however, were growing more and more impatient with him and his delinquency.
One night, Azure snuck out to the Mosaic Garden and vandalized the portrait of Queen Wasp. He was caught and didn't really care, thinking he'd just end up in Misbehaver's Way for a day or so. Instead, the guards beat him where they stood, before the sneering tile portrait of Queen Wasp. Azure was caught off guard and left bleeding, broken, and in shock on the ground. His leg had been broken so badly that even after it fully healed, he was stuck with a permanent limp.
Suddenly, the playful, obnoxious nature of Azure's antics were gone. He became much more bitter and fueled by anger and spite. He went out of his way to pick fights with the HiveWing guards, trying to do anything to get under their scales. It ended up with him in another brawl with two HiveWing guards--but one that he had wanted. Azure nearly killed one of the guards and ended up with his trademark scar across his face and neck. He was beyond out of control. No punishment so far seemed to work.
So, Azure was tranquilized and transferred to the Bloodworm Hive with no warning, only a few days before his metamorphosis. The Cicada Hive guards figured that the Bloodworm Hive guards could manage Azure better and break him back down to a spineless worm of a SilkWing. Hours after he was transferred, Azure's mother was exposed as a secret flamesilk and was taken away to the Wasp Hive. This information quickly reached the Bloodworm Hive and they put Azure under lockdown in case he turned out to be a flamesilk and useful. 
However, when Azure finally came out of his cocoon, it was revealed that he displayed no flamesilk traits. His ruined back leg didn't serve any favors for him either, and made him seem even more disposable. And on top of all that was his extensive record of stealing, behavioral issues, disobedience, and extreme aggression towards HiveWings. But when the HiveWing guards moved in to kill Azure, he fought back, killing one guard and knocking out the other before escaping in the dead of night.
Azure spent weeks hiding and flying on shaky, inexperienced wings, attempting to find the Chrysalis and join them. When he eventually did, he found himself utterly disappointed and underwhelmed. They were much more passive than he could have ever imagined and made no moves to directly attack the HiveWings and make them pay for what they were doing. Azure remained with the Chrysalis for about a month or so before leaving to form his own revolt against the HiveWings. One that would actually do something. 
A few Chrysalis members with the same ideas and itchy talons as him ended up going with him to form the Atlas Circle. Azure wanted things to change. And if he had to be violent and kill a few HiveWings to do it, then he would, no questions asked. Azure wanted the HiveWings to fear the Atlas Circle. He wanted to bring Queen Wasp down. So, within the first few weeks of establishing the organization, he decided to do something big. 
Azure and his dragons killed two HiveWing guards in the Wasp Hive and left their bodies in the marketplace square for all to see, spelling out a message in their blood for all to read: "Death to Wasp". It was a big enough demonstration to make him one of the most wanted SilkWings in all of the Hives. But that didn't stop more SilkWings from defecting to the Atlas Circle. If anything, Azure thought his face on wanted posters encouraged young and rebellious SilkWings to join up with him and take down the HiveWing authority that they all shared such contempt for.
Soon, a SilkWing by the name of Satyr joined Azure's organization. He was heavily scarred and had a rough history in the Bloodworm Hive, which made him seem even stronger in Azure's eyes. Satyr quickly became one of Azure's closes friends, right hand dragon, and soon, his fiance. Satyr helped Azure managed the quickly growing Atlas Circle and helped him wreak havoc on the Hives. 
The Atlas Circle assassinated HiveWing guards, aristocrat socialites, and even the families of any nobles they couldn't directly reach. They destroyed and sabotaged construction sites and stole SilkWings off of pedastals from Misbehaver's Way whenever they were active in the Cicada Hive. Most of these SilkWings ended up joining the Circle. For a short while, Misbehaver's Way was even shut down to prevent violent and troublemaking prisoners from being recruited so easily by Azure and his dragons. 
HiveWings grew to be terrified of the Atlas Circle, many of who dared not speak its name, thinking even mentioning it was a taboo on them and their families. A majority of the SilkWings in slavery didn't agree with the violence, fear, and sheer brutality the Atlas Circle brought, even if they weren't the ones being targeted. But Azure didn't care what the rest of his tribe thought of his revolution. He had his sights set on his ultimate goal, his sole purposes: bringing down the HiveWing tyranny and the head of Queen Wasp. By whatever means necessary. 
== Appearance ==
Azure is a well muscled, broad shouldered SilkWing with powerful forearms. He has a rather slender, narrow head that looks strange in comparison to the rest of his body, thus earning him the nickname: "horse-face". His hind legs are dramatically smaller than his front ones as a result of muscle atrophy due to his habit of putting all his weight on his front legs after his back one was broken. He has an unusually long tail and antennas. He's taller and generally much larger than other SilkWings, which makes him stand out more than he already does.
He has very vibrant scales and most of his extremities are lighter colored. He's missing two fingers from his left hand (a rather cruel punishment carried out by a HiveWing who owned a stall Azure shoplifted from when he was in his youth). Azure is notorious for the long, ugly scar stretched over his brow, face, and neck that remained with him even after his metamorphosis (to his disgust). The only other noticeable scar on his body is a long gash on his stomach--a result of the failed disembowelment attempted by the Bloodworm Hive guards). There are numerous shallow scars all over the rest of his body from scuffles and smaller fights. There's a nick in each of his ears. 
Usually, he's seen wearing a good amount of jewelry--probably an attempt to be even flashier and distract from his scar. Azure has a heavy preference for white gold and jade. He wears several rings that he never takes off, one of which is his engagement band to Satyr.
== Abilities ==
Due to his size, Azure has a lot more raw, physical strength than most SilkWings, proving time and time again that he can take more than one HiveWing in a fight. He's still despite his size, and his colorful, iridescent scales can be somewhat distracting and disorienting, making it hard to directly hit him somewhere specific. He can take a beating and still get up and push on. 
Still, Azure has a tendency to be overconfident and overestimate himself. Due to his size, he's also much easier to hit somewhere even if it's not the place where a dragon is aiming. His hind legs are also tragically weak, and when they're swept out from underneath him he often has a hard time recovering. He's also not a very calculating fighter, still being young and brash and relying on anger and sheer force rather than strategy or controlled movement. He's basically a whirlwind of angry pastel. Azure is also an extremely poor flyer, being completely self taught and too stubborn to actually learn. His long tail is also easy to grab or stomp on and his antennas are so sensitive that he has to keep them pinned back when he's fighting. 
Azure's antennas, however, are hypersensitive enough to work in his favor for the most part. It's practically impossible to sneak up on him and he can sense movement coming towards him at a surprising distance. 
Azure, like all grown SilkWings, also has the ability to create silk. His tends to be tinted a very light shade of pink, but turn pale when he's stressed out. 
== Personality ==
Azure has a sort of burning, passionate drive to him that makes him a very good leader. Paired with his charisma and inability to accept any sort of defeat and he's seen as infallible among the Atlas Circle. He used to have a more obnoxious, playful streak in his youth, but he seems to have left that behind in his cocoon in the Bloodworm Hive. He's much more malicious and bitter, with a sort of toxic spite and unmanaged anger that will boil his blood but leave him cold and hated in his grave one day. He seems unaware of this and on the path to god-like grandeur filled delusions as he ages. 
He's a bit of a control freak and isn't afraid to get his claws dirty. In fact, when it comes to higher ranked assassinations, Azure tends to carry them out himself. He believes heavily in the idea of "if you want something done, you gotta do it yourself". He has a bit of difficulty relying on anyone but his fiance, Satyr. 
Azure is at the point where he's so stupidly bold and brave that it'll bite him where it really hurts one day. He feels untouchable and thinks he's invincible. He's definitely wrong and he has the scars to prove it, but he's in denial about them for the most part still. It makes him a very powerful head of his organization and he's unchallenged for his position because he does it so well. 
Azure has little empathy for HiveWings and firmly believes they all deserve to pay for the actions of their tribe, by any means necessary. Including death. He believes they're all guilty in taking part of the oppression of his tribe in some way. His extreme views are certainly not part of his charm and have made him a worse dragon in the long run, despite what he believes. 
== Relationships ==
=== Satyr ===
Azure regarded Satyr with extremely high respect upon learning that he hatched and grew up in the Bloodworm Hive. Satyr's scars were heavy enough to prove that even being in the hive with the nastiest HiveWings wasn't enough to keep him submissive. The two became fast friends, finding many similarities within each other. Satyr is also Azure's first romantic partner and will probably be his only one. Azure was extremely pleased to find how comfortable he felt being around Satyr, which is something he was always seeking in other dragons and hadn't received before. The two share the burden of the Atlas Circle and Satyr often leads or makes calls when Azure is temporarily captured, busy, or unable to make decisions. They've made plans to get married once they kill Queen Wasp and they want her head on top of the arch at their ceremony. 
== Trivia ==
* Azure has a notably unusual style of flying. His wings always seem to be shaky and he tends to jerk to and fro and can't keep steady at all. His tail throws off his balance and he was never taught how to properly fly. 
* He never stands with all four feet on the ground. He tends to keep the leg that causes his limp hoisted up to reduce as much weight on it as possible. 
* Azure is female-to-male trans. 
* He likes to paint his talons and Satyr's talons.
* Due to the amount of nerve toxin that Azure was exposed to because of all the time he spent in Misbehaver's Way, he developed a bit of a tic. His talons randomly clench and his head will occasionally jerk to the left. 
* Azure used to steal and keep every single one of the tablets with transcripts detailing his crimes and what he was guilty of on his pedestal in Misbehaver's Way. He kept them as trophies but they were left behind when he was transferred to the Bloodworm Hive. They're now sold around a black market as rare collector's items to strange and morbid dragons. 
* Azure has a gem embedded in one of his teeth.
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