Margay(VanquishedHydra)

== Description: ==
Margay, nicknamed "Mar", is an enormous elderly RainWing with dull brown scales, a lighter tan underbelly, and a yellow-brown ruff and wings, one of which is torn and typically drags beside him as he walks. He has golden yellow eyes, and long brown horns and claws, which are usually kept quite sharp. Margay is covered in long scars, including several on his belly, neck, and wings. He lacks the typical RainWing fangs, and has two scars on his face where they used to be. He typically wears a tail prosthetic shaped like a SandWing tail stinger that holds a lethal poison derived from Dragonbite Viper venom. He rarely ever smiles, and has a near constant scowl on his face. 
== Personality: ==
Margay is grumpy, irritable, bitter, and prefers to remain isolated from other dragons. He has a particularly fierce loathing of NightWings. He is mildly manipulative, seeking to keep Blink, his adopted daughter, isolated from her fellow NightWings and preventing her from making friends with them at times, but claims that he only wants her to be safe. He is spiteful and frequently suspicious of trespassers in his territory, and would prefer it if he never had to see, hear, or speak to any other dragons but Blink ever again. He is inwardly vengeful, and heavily sarcastic. Blink believes that Margay loves her deep down, but that he just has a very difficult time showing it. 
== Biography: ==
Margay hatched in the Rainforest around 4,902 AS, and had a relatively normal dragonethood, as far as the RainWing tribe was concerned. 
Around 5,008, AS, Margay was captured by the NightWings, and was used as a test subject for the NightWings' venom experiments. He grew angry and spiteful over his continued imprisonment, and began performing at a lower and lower success rate, pretending that his venom was becoming weaker the longer he spent on the island. Eventually, the NightWings deemed him to be useless for any further testing, and left him alone in his cell. Desperate to escape the island, Margay attacked the next NightWing guard who came to bring him food, killed them by knocking them unconscious and then strangling them to death, and dropped their body into the abyss behind him when the other guards weren't looking. He managed to get his muzzle and claw bindings entirely off before the other guards noticed that their fellow hadn't returned, and came looking for them. What they found was Margay in the process of tearing his way through the wing bindings, and they sounded the alarm, to which Margay reacted by attacking the guards as best as he could, leading to his wing being irreparably torn in the struggle against them. 
After being chained up again, Margay was defanged and taken through the tunnel to the Kingdom of Sand, where he was sold to a SandWing trader who muzzled him to prevent him from biting, and then dragged him to the Scorpion Den, where he was sold to a SandWing noble named Echis, who decided to display him as her pet. Margay was very unhappy with this, but was unable to protest against it. For the next year or so, Margay was dragged to all manner of high end parties, where he was decked out in gold and silver chains, and made to sit silently beside Echis, seething as she droned on about the state of the war and how she was willing to offer her support to any of the three SandWing sisters, because they all paid equally well, so she would support all of them, take their money, and run. 
When Echis didn't have him on display like some sort of extravagant pot plant, she kept Margay in a cage that was barely big enough for him to move around in, muzzled at all times, except when he was being fed. During his time acting as Echis's pet, Margay became familiar with Echis's brother, a SandWing named Pangolin. Pangolin was in charge of feeding Margay and making sure he looked presentable for Echis's guests. While Pangolin may have been Echis's brother, he was, in reality, little better than a servant himself, and frequently complained about his sister's treatment of him to Margay, who took an interest in him, and struck up conversation with him one day out of boredom. Together, they conspired to escape, and successfully managed it after Pangolin bribed one of the guards to let them free. Pangolin knew that Echis would be searching for them, so he decided to try and disguise Margay as a SandWing, giving him a fake sail, and calling him "Skink" as a false name. Pangolin later obtained a job as a blacksmith, and forged Margay a tail prosthetic that would act as a replacement for his fangs, one that was deliberately designed to hold a lethal poison derived from SandWing stinger poison and dragonbite viper venom. 
Margay travelled back to the Rainforest, where he was immensely irked to find that the NightWings had moved to in the year that he'd been in the Kingdom of Sand. Not desiring to be among his fellow RainWings, but faced with the possibility that he would have to interact with NightWings instead, Margay found an isolated clearing on the floor of the Rainforest in which to live, far enough away that no one would discover him easily, but close enough that he could get to either of the tribes' villages simply by walking or climbing if it became necessary. Margay began killing NightWings unfortunate enough to wander into his territory shortly after. 
About a year later, Margay was traveling back to his home after visiting the RainWing village to see how much, if anything, had changed since he'd been gone. He was suddenly startled by the feeling of something latching onto his torn wing as he waded through the small river that bordered on his territory and that of the NightWing village. He tried to shake it off, but whatever it was only clung on tighter, digging into his scales like a cactus burr-which he knew felt unpleasant from his time in the Kingdom of Sand. He climbed back onto the other shore, and began peering at his wing to try and determine what it was that had gotten stuck, and was shocked to find that it wasn't a particularly annoying stick, or an insect, or even a thorny vine, but a dragonet, only a few hours old by the size of it. And the coloration was unmistakable. This was a NightWing. Margay's first instinct was to kill it immediately, to not let it grow up to be one of those snide, arrogant lizards who had experimented on him and then sold him like he was a moons-forsaken prey animal. But on second thought, he hesitated. This dragonet was only a few hours old. It didn't yet have any concept of good, evil, arrogance, humility, or anything that would make it even remotely similar to the other NightWings. Besides, it wasn't as though this dragonet had ever done anything to him. It was merely trying to survive. If it's general state and the lack of any fully grown NightWings crashing through the brush was any indication, this dragonet had likely been abandoned by it's parents. And even if it did survive the river, it was likely to get killed or eaten by some Rainforest predator of some sort, even if he wasn't the one to do it. 
Reluctantly, he pulled the dragonet off of his wing, and set it on the bank, then sat back and studied it for a bit. The dragonet looked completely ordinary, nothing odd or exceptional about it at all. The only thing remotely different about it was it's mismatched eyes and the two silver scales by their corners. Hmm, mismatched eyes... perhaps that was why this dragonet had been abandoned. Perhaps its parents didn't like for their dragonets to have physical differences, and the fact that this dragonet's eyes were two different colors-one a light cyan blue, and the other silvery gray-was cause enough for them to abandon this dragonet to die in the river. The dragonet stared back at him, wide eyed and unblinking for a long moment before stumping over on it's tiny legs and clinging to his wing again. Great. This worthless little lizard had decided that he was it's parent, and the moons would fall from the sky before that changed, apparently. Margay pulled the dragonet off of his wing again, only for it to clamber back on a few moments later. Grumbling, he pulled the dragonet off of his wing for a third time, holding it up to the light of the single full moon in the sky. The dragonet stared up at him, barely blinking, as water dripped off of it. 
Well, fine. If he was to be a father, he'd have to give this worthless lizard a name. Something...vaguely NightWing-ish. But what? He didn't know what NightWings called themselves, except that they were usually dark and creepy-sounding. Something ordinary and decidedly not creepy, then. Like....Blink. Yes, that would do. Grumbling to himself, Margay carried the dragonet, now named Blink, the rest of the way to his home. 
== Relationships: ==
==== NightWings ====
Margay loathes most NightWings with a passion, and has made a habit of killing those who trespass into his territory unknowingly, or those who are completely alone. He doesn't kill groups, so as to avoid suspicion or scrutiny. When he does interact with the NightWings, he usually keeps his interactions as short as possible, often speaking to them in a clipped, irritated tone. Margay refers to the NightWings as "arrogant lizards", and believes that they are cruel, evil, only care about themselves, and have no qualms about hurting other dragons if it gets them what they want in the end. 
==== Rainwings ====
Margay liked the other members of his tribe growing up, but after several years away, and having grown increasingly bitter and jaded toward the world, he has found that he can no longer tolerate being around his fellow RainWings for long. 
==== Echis ====
Margay disliked Echis, the SandWing who was his "owner" for a brief time, mainly because of her habit of treating him like a glorified pot plant and not as a dragon. He also wasn't fond of Echis's habit of dragging him along to parties simply to show him off, and hated the way she would refer to him as her "pet". 
==== Pangolin ====
Margay initially disliked Pangolin, but warmed up to him after the SandWing complained numerous times of the way that his sister treated him and stated that he didn't think that owning another dragon like a pet was right. Margay's appreciation grew after Pangolin helped him to escape Echis's clutches, and even helped hide him from his sister for several months. 
==== Blink ====
Margay initially wanted to kill Blink simply for the crime of being a NightWing, but then realized that Blink wouldn't know anything of what the other members of her tribe had done simply due to the fact that she was only a few hours old. He reluctantly adopted the seemingly abandoned dragonet, and would go on to tell her that her parents had abandoned her due to the mismatched color of her eyes. Whether or not this was actually true is unknown. Outwardly, Margay tolerates Blink's presence in his life, but deep down, though he would never outright admit it, he actually enjoys having her around and has grown to love her as his own. 
== Trivia: ==
* Margay can read and write, having been taught the basics of how to do so by Pangolin. 
* Margay cannot fly due to his torn wing, but can climb extremely well, and has taught Blink to do the same. 
* Margay likes the taste of strawberries. 
== Gallery: ==
File:Margay ref.png|Margay's official reference
File:Margay ref 2.png|Margay wearing his SandWing tail prosthetic
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Category:Males
Category:RainWings
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