Boxfish

== Appearance ==
=== Genetics ===
Boxfish naturally has dark, greyish blue scales. His mainscales are slightly lighter while his underbelly is very dark. His glowscales are a pale unsaturated blue, and his membranes are a lighter grey-blue.
He has vitiligo, which represents itself as patches of pale beige on his scales and membranes. His vitiligo patches were much smaller as a dragonet, manifesting as small white dots on his dark scales, causing him to resemble the white-spotted boxfish and thus giving him his name. He was also named for his wide-shouldered, boxy build.
He is naturally stout and strong. Despite his bulkiness, his movements are extremely delicate and graceful, especially underwater.
=== Scars ===
He has many small scratches that became scars across his scales, which have now healed to be barely noticable.
His most formidable scar is a deep puncture wound in his chest, under his left armpit. He generally keeps it hidden. 
When the scar was made, it barely missed his heart, and was the wound that put him out of action for the remaining years of the war.
=== Accessories ===
At events or around other dragons, Boxfish might wear some minimal jewelry. He also will wear a sheer shawl that drapes over his left shoulder, which he uses to help hide his scar.
== Personality ==
Boxfish often has a completely neutral expression on his face, and most people assume that he's grumpy or rude, but he's actually painfully shy. He is an extremely tenderhearted dragon with a love and passion for studying sea creatures, especially deep sea creatures.
Because of his shyness, he is often alone. Although he enjoys his alone time since being with other dragons stresses him out, he secretly craves connection and understanding between him and other dragons.
He has ASD
== Powers and Skills ==
=== Tribal Abilities ===
He has all regular seawing tribal abilities (strong tail, swimming skills, glowscales, breathing underwater).
=== Fighting Skills ===
Boxfish is an excellent fighter. Despite his bulk, he is extremely quick on his feet and able to dodge most attacks, and can defeat most enemies with one hit to the head, to knock them out, or getting them in a chokehold which causes them to pass out. He avoids killing when he can.
He's a great fighter on land and in water, but because of his bulk his fighting in the air leaves much to be desired. His SeaWing wings aren't nearly strong enough to support his weight affectively.
His fighting on land became awkward after his injury, but he's still incredibly graceful in the water.
=== Strategy ===
As a Lieutenant in the SeaWing army, Boxfish was an excellent strategist.
=== Marine Biology ===
Ever since Boxfish was a dragonet he loved the undersea biomes he called home. After retiring as a soldier, and recovering from his injury, he dedicated his life to Marine Biology.
== Biography ==
(age chart used: User blog:DuskRose42/Dragon age guide )
=== Pre-series ===
==== Dragonethood: 5002-5005 AS ====
(0-3 DY/0-14 HY)
Boxfish was an incredibly lonely child. He had few friends and instead bonded closely with the animals in his home (fish, mollusks, cephalopods, cetaceans), as well as burying himself in his studies. He was close with his parents, but they both worked and so had little time for him. He struggled with friendships due to his quiet nature, and his monotone voice.
==== Adolescence: 5005-5009 AS ====
(3 DY-7 DY/ 14 HY- 18 HY)
In adolescence, the curriculum for SeaWings included combat training, war studies (history, specifically battles and battle strategy), which Boxfish excelled in. Once he joined the army he was immediately promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade, and soon made his way to Lieutenant. His harsh, no-nonsense nature proved effective in a leadership role, and although most of the soldiers under him feared him and struggled to understand what lay beneath his stone-cold exterior, they respected him.
However, Boxfish hated war. He hid from his soldiers that he barely killed and mostly knocked his enemies unconscious or caused them to pass out. Despite this, being a Lieutenant was the closest thing to a connection with other dragons he had ever had and it gave him great pride, and the strategy side of war was like a fascinating puzzle to him. He had to mentally detach himself somewhat from the realities of it to keep himself sane.
==== Adulthood: 5009-5012 AS ====
(7 DY-9 DY/18 HY-21 HY)
On the month of Boxfish's 8th birthday, he was gravely wounded by an enemy soldier. He was stabbed by a knife, deep into the left side of his chest, missing his heart by a scale's width. After this, Boxfish was so close to death that he had to spend over a year recovering, in the ICU and in physiotherapy. Alone in a facility while his unit fought in the war, Boxfish fell into a deep depression, feeling utterly useless to society. However, during this time spent in the hospital, he rediscovered his love for marine biology, reading countless scrolls in the hospital library, and tending to kelp gardens where different kinds of animals would come and live.
After he healed, the war was coming to an end, and Boxfish was finishing his studies as a marine biologist, as his injury had rendered him permanently unable to serve in the army. With his newfound joy and companionship with the animals, he moved to a deep ocean marine research facility. Here, he lived alone. He found peace and happiness there, but there was still a tiny part of him that was lonely-- that craved connection with other dragons, but he ignored it. He didn't believe it was possible.
=== The Sins of the Father ===
(more information flying in soon...)
== Relationships ==
=== Kelp and Baleen ===
He was close with his parents, and they loved him a lot, but they were often absent (working) and did not know how to deal with his issues, and to support him (trouble at school, socializing, sensory trouble, etc)
=== Tide ===
(more information flying in soon...)
=== Mudskipper ===
(more information flying in soon...)
== Gallery ==
File:Boxfish- basefill.webp|base by tenebris, fill by Sans Ink Kiddo
File:White-Spotted Boxfish.jpg|A White spotted Boxfish
File:Boxfish-Moodboard.jpg|Boxfish's Moodboard
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