Sandstorm (ArialWasTaken)

"Hey Sandstorm-" "Three moons.. what'd you do this time, Starspeaker?"
== Appearance ==
For the way he lives, Sandstorm is rather decent-looking and stands out fairly easily from others.
He's a pale yellow for the most part, with very slightly noticeable golden scales scattered throughout his body and murky yellow-brown legs. His sail is a light, sand-like color that's so thin, that it allows light to filter through it. While barely noticeable in most situations, his eyes are a very dull yellow-black and tend to catch other dragons off-guard when they finally do notice. Compared to other Sandwings, he also has a darker tail barb that holds poison that's much more potent.
His signature and only defining accessory is a singular golden ring that goes on his right horn that looks discolored in many parts, due to the amount of times it's been reforged to fit him over the years. It was given to him by Saguaro, his father.
== Personality ==
The ultimate introvert, seeming like he wants to be isolated from everyone else at times with how he acts. Sandstorm tends to act rather roughly towards others or pretend that those outside of his focus just don't exist. He always manages to break and just give up in terms of trying to get them away from him if the dragon in question just so happened to be persistent, or in his words, "annoying" enough. He's also the type to be constantly keeping himself clean of basically anything, usually washing his talons/mouth in the course of eating most raw meat foods.
He slowly but surely does become friends with whoever achieves this over a rather long period of time, slowly but surely getting used to their presence and general existence in his life until he feels comfortable talking to them without any beforehand prompting.
Outside of all that, Sandstorm tends to be quiet and kept to himself, but also tends to blow up when put under lots of stress or trying to get a point through to others who won't listen to him. Even though it isn't his fault, he'll often end up apologizing profusely for letting it happen in the first place. 
== Backstory ==
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Sandstorm was born to Saguaro, a Sandwing living in one of the smaller, less notable desert towns scattered throughout the Sand Kingdom, and Sidewinder, a relatively quiet and unheard of member within the Scorpion Den who commonly used social engineering to get private information out of other dragons and relayed it to whoever may have wanted it. 
Before the Sandwing Succession War, Sidewinder ended up indirectly throwing her husband and son into extreme danger by deflecting the blame of manipulating one of Oasis' daughters and constantly turning up missing when guards were sent to bring her before the queen by force. After both were sent to the throne room, Oasis had Saguaro sent away by the guards, which is the last time Sandstorm had seen his father. Fortunately for him though, the queen didn't have the heart to kill the dragonet, and ended up simply banishing him from the Kingdom, sending him to live with another Sandwing named Topaz, in the Sandwing settlement/Skywing village of Possibility.
He eventually ended up being forced to live by himself, with Topaz having been sent out to fight alongside the Icewings in the Sandwing Succession War, which had lasted about 3 years at that point. Around this time, after he had worked out everything needed to simply live his days without much trouble, Starspeaker the Nightwing came literally barrelling into his life in the middle of the night. After much time was spent trying to shoo her out of his cave, Sandstorm eventually gave up, and accepted that the strange-looking, yet infinitely energetic Nightwing was now another part of his life as well, and became friends with her over time. 
Nowadays, Sandstorm lives in a slightly cramped house alongside his friend Starspeaker, living as simple a life as he can while simultaneously making sure the Nightwing doesn't get caught out and interrogated by many other dragons within Possibility about the ominous prophecy that had been sent by the other Nightwings. Meanwhile, he's still waiting for the day he can see Topaz or Saguaro again.
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--Construction still in progress, things are subject to change--
This takes place many, many years after the events of Book 15 (but was made way before book 13,) where Queen Wasp had been defeated and any tribe was allowed to go anywhere they wanted.
In this world, Sandstorm ended up being part-Nightwing and hatched to Cactus and Sidewinder. Sidewinder had been half-Nightwing herself, but had never visually shown any signs of being one, neither had she ever said anything about it. This finally began to show itself in Sandstorm in the darkened scales on his legs, creating a fun little visual effect where it would look like his legs would disappear when shown against the night sky. He had heard that his grandparents on his mother's side had done something great, but never heard anything about them past that point, neither had he attempted to find anything further about them. 
The main and most prominent school guide was Copper, a firescales Skywing with an enchantment that repressed that quality of him, and he ended up being the one to pick him out when he was initially very late to his first week at the new school. He ended up being clawmates with four other dragons, a Leafwing and a Seawing that were both in a relationship, a Skywing and a Nightwing with powerful future-telling.. powers.
Sandstorm often ended up getting distracted and started making drawings of tribes he thought could exist out there, or just straight up falling asleep, and just as often ended up getting called out by one teacher who would try to catch him off-guard, but he would always have the answer to it. To that, the teacher eventually just stopped trying and let him do whatever he wanted.
He lives comfortably with his friends/clawmates, usually being the one to try and mediate trouble or take his friends places thhey probably shouldn't be within the mountain, but they're all alive, so obviously he's doing something right. 
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== Relations ==
Saguaro: Missing
Even with both of them never having conversed or even seen each other in years, Sandstorm still thinks about his father a lot in his free time, which is a lot of time. He just hopes Saguaro at least hasn't died yet, which is unfortunately unlikely.
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Topaz: Simply waiting
Since the moment Topaz left to start fighting with the Icewings, Sandstorm just knew he had the worst possible luck out of most dragons. He's been and felt alone, sometimes even with Starspeaker, and wishes for her to come back every day he can. 
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Sidewinder: ...
He would shake the absolute living daylights out of his mother and scream at her in front of everyone at the first moment he even thought had the chance to do so. While not hating her, per-se, he still resents what she did, thinking she could get away with it and ending up endangering both him and Saguaro. When the war begins to calm down, he intends to head over to the Scorpion Den and do said things as soon as physically possible.
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Starspeaker: Only Friend
So far, Starspeaker has been the only one that's truly become friends with Sandstorm since he came to Possibility. Being the complete opposite of him (bouncy, constantly happy-looking, bottomless reserves of energy,) she was just the right dragon for trying to get his friendship in the place he was in, being able to just have his occasional remarks just completely bounce off of her and very occasionally cheer him up out of his normal pemanently-grouchy state.
== Trivia ==
=== General ===
* Sandstorm is Arial's first and oldest still-existing character.
** He has also gone through the most changes and quote-unquoute "evolution" of any of his OCs.
* Starspeaker's (a friend's OC) name was apparently a complete coincidence, they didn't seem to notice that the name was a combination of Fatespeaker and Starflight.
=== In-World ===
* Sandstorm was originally created in the Silver Mountain Academy RP, an old long-form school thread with much more of, uh.. everything, going on.
** Cactus was the original name for Sandstorm's father in said thread, but Saguaro ended up replacing this name later on.
* In the main backstory, he was supposed to seriously dislike Icewings due to unknown events in his story, but was eventually scrapped due to being a bit.. generic-feeling, especially for a Sandwing.
* In Silver Mountain School, Sandstorm was caught in class while drawing a tribe of dragon he thought could exist out there, on yet another continent. That drawing became the basis for what would, one year later, become an entire fantribe of its own known as the StormWings.
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