Thistle(VanquishedHydra)

Thistle is a nonbinary adult LeafWing who formerly resided in the Poison Jungle, and later, the dungeons of Wasp Hive. They now currently reside in the Leaf-Silk Kingdom with their partner, Click. 
== Description: ==
Thistle has pale green scales with brownish-green overscales and a pale green underbelly. Their wings are a gradiant of pale green to pale yellow, and the fin running down their back and tail is a pale red-orange to yellow gradiant. Thistle has a massive burn scar splashing across their face and eyes, rendering them blind. They typically wear a blindfold to hide the damage. 
== Personality: ==
Thistle is assertive, and unafraid to voice their opinions. They are also quite happy to be confrontational if need be, and can be hot-headed and ready to pick fights if it comes down to it. Fortunately, they have mellowed out some after starting a relationship with their partner, Click. 
== Biography: ==
Thistle was the product of a Poisonwing-Sapwing relationship between her parents Hawkweed and Lotus. Before leaving for the Sapwing village, Lotus named her dragonet Thistle, thinking it a LeafWing name that could go either way, and handed the dragonet off to Hawkweed to raise. Hawkweed raised Thistle to be able to fight the HiveWings without quarter, and the harsh environment of the Poison Jungle taught Thistle valuable survival skills, including how to sneak up on unsuspecting dragons (or prey), while avoiding being attacked themself. 
Around the age of five, Thistle was sent on a reconaissance mission to Yellowjacket Hive, but as they were making their way out, they were caught by the HiveWing guards, who swiftly captured them (life in the Poison Jungle hadn't made Thistle the greatest flier in LeafWing history) and delivered them to the Wasp Hive dungeons. Before Thistle was captured, however, they foolishly attempted to fight the oncoming guards, only to receive a faceful of boiling acid to the eyes from one of the guard's tail stingers, which rendered them blind. 
While in the Wasp Hive dungeons, which they were being held in while the HiveWings attempted (and failed) to get information out of them, Thistle learned to recognize when the HiveWing guards were nearby due to a rather distinctive buzzing sound their wings made, similar to that of bees. Most of the servants down in the dungeons, they learned, were SilkWings, in charge of bringing food to the prisoners and generally making sure they were still alive. One day, Thistle heard the familiar sound of buzzing wings, and, thinking they were addressing one of the guards, hoarsely snapped that they could hear the noise, but was confused when the only response they received was a humming sound, followed by the feeling of a dragon settling down to watch them. Thistle hoarsely grumbled at them to leave if they weren't going to talk, to which the dragon hummed again, and made a sort of strange clicking sound, then followed it up with a slightly questioning hum. Unsure what the dragon was trying to ask, Thistle asked them to repeat it. The dragon did so, then poked Thistle in the chest and whistled softly. The dragon seemed to be trying to ask Who? and hummed a seemingly affirmative sound when Thistle asked if that was correct. The dragon then grabbed one of Thistle's claws, and poked themself in the chest with it, then repeated the clicking noise from before, when it dawned on Thistle that the dragon was trying to tell them what their own name was - Click. After several months of Click "talking" - or rather making various combinations of humming, whistling, and clicking while Thistle attempted to translate, they managed to become friends. 
When Wasp Hive fell, Thistle and Click left the dungeons behind them, and ran out to hide in the Pantalan Savannah for a while until the dust settled and they knew that the HiveWing guards wouldn't come after them. They would've happily stayed out in the Savannah for a while longer, but Click caught wind that the LeafWings, SilkWings, and some HiveWings were working to rebuild the tribes' infrastructure by combining the LeafWing and SilkWing kingdoms into one giant government that would be ruled over by an assembly instead of a queen. (It took a while for that to be interpreted fully by Thistle.) The pair decided to move to the newly formed kingdom, where Click would meet his mother, Arthemis, by chance, and Thistle continued to adapt to life as a normal citizen. 
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