Chronophobia (Bronze)

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Owned by BronzeRattle. This character was originally made for The PhobiaWing Project by Starscatter-The-AbyssWing!; Bronze was given permission to expand on Chronophobia for her own AU
Chronophobia appears in two AUs, both in which he is of an unknown age and well known for his powerful but unpredictable prophetic powers. Both are covered here.
On the Oddity Islands, Chronophobia is a PhobiaWing representing the fear of the passage of time. He was relocated to a building in Phobia Forest after annoying other PhobiaWings too much, where he currently resides peacefully.
In the Bronze AU, Chronophobia or Chrono is a tribeless dragon that wanders and lives in the northern Pyrrhia wilderness.
== Description==
Chronophobia is an alarmingly pale skinny dragon rivaling IceWings in lightness. He has a bandaged thick freckled snout and large clear eyes that can dilate and glow. His eyes have deep eye bags and gray mindreader scales. Lengthy horns jut from his head above pointed chipped ears. Chronophobia has an orange mane and fur the same color along the remnants of his wings, back, and back legs. Spines run down his neck. He is coated in dust and sticky notes, with a sagging long tail and broken/cracked claws.
Chronophobia is only about the size of an 8 year-old RainWing, but his horns are longer than even a 60 year-old's, so his actual age is unclear.
== History ==
=== Oddity Islands ===
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Little is known about Chronophobia. Chronophobia's parents or even year of birth is unknown, although it's thought that he is at least 40 years old based on the length of his horns. He once mingled with other PhobiaWings, but his prophetic powers annoyed them too much. He was made an adobe building with barred windows and a locked wooden door in a hidden avenue of Phobia Forest to keep him away. He still resides there, capable of leaving when he wants but never going far for reasons unknown. Perhaps he finds peace there.
=== Bronze AU ===
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== Personality ==
Chronophobia is simply...unsteady. Both literally and figuratively. He would probably be a pretty normal dragon, maybe a little like Moonwatcher because of his mindreading, if it wasn't for his extreme foresight. Constant visions make him extraordinarily nervous about everything, especially dying. To him the end is always near and he has a need to be doing, from pacing, planning, ranting, to drawing prophecies. Being still only makes his anxiety worse. Chronophobia is forgetful so he tacks notes onto himself to remember what he need to do, which only really works like 10% of the time. In fact, seeing him in a whirlwind of colorful sticky notes filled with scrawlings and doodles is usual. He is very impulsive.
Since he's so busy doing, he has terrible hygiene. He bathes so rarely you would think he was a foul odor emitting HiveWing, always covered in mud, dirt, and leaf litter. Being near him when he talks is even less recommended. Chronophobia's insomnia from his visions is so severe that most sleep he gets is from collapsing in the middle of the wilderness. It's a miracle for him to not go awake for days at a time. Since he is so frequently sleep deprived, his gait is wobbly, his speech is slow, and doing anything coordination-wise causes his limbs to shake from exhaustion. The only real bit of hygiene work he ever does regularly is bandaging up wounds to prevent infection, which is often seeing that his meltdowns tend to involve self-injury.
Chronophobia keeps a constant routine and is as sharp as an arrow when it comes to abiding it. If something happens that he didn't expect in his visions or mindreading, he reacts very violently with tantrums to destroy nearby surroundings. It's unknown if he has ever killed anyone, but he is known to press visitors against the ground, trees, or anything solid in the vicinity to question their motives and character in a frenzy. This might make it look like he hates seeing new faces, but in reality he is a talkative bunch and eager to share what he's doing. A good encounter with Chronophobia just needs preparation and not a sudden entry into his field of view.
==Abilities==
Besides having a strangely strong grip despite his frail shape, Chronophobia has a few abilities.
===Foresight ===
Chronophobia has an unusual foresight ability that is not only very powerful but almost never-ending. His near constant visions always involve some kind of time-keeping device as a representation, be it hourglasses, clocks, sundials, egg timers, etc. Visions are often innacurate. For decades, Chrono's visions have been mostly about seeing when someone dies, especially himself, causing great anxiety for him. A mere glance at someone new provokes dozens of visions about them. It's unknown if Chronophobia can follow timelines in a manner similar to Clearsight.
His prophetic ability means that he is always rambling under his breath, scrawling images he sees in them, and taking notes, even in his sleep. Chronophobia always using time-keeping devices as a metaphor in them, although his prophecies become dangerously clear when they're in the process of happening or absolutely about to occur. Very important prophecies cause him to freeze and his eyes to glow near white as he relays it. His eyes can shift color only when he is thinking about or relaying a prophecy.
=== Ticking===
Chronophobia always hears a ticking noise like a clock at exactly 60 beats per minute. It's unknown why, but it may be attributed to his resting heart beat which is also exactly 60 bpm. It drives him insane. So insane in fact, that he has mutilated his ears—Vincent van Gogh style—on multiple occasions since they grow back. Of course, this doesn't actually fix the ticking and only leaves him in a world of hurt.
As a side effect, Chronophobia can do any rhythm at 60 bpm and knows exactly what time it is even in a fully dark room. Being near clocks that are even a millisecond behind will slowly anger him to the point of destroying them.
=== Mindreading ===
"GET OUT!"
:—Chronophobia when he is mindread
Mindreading scales hide behind the bags of his eyes. The range of it is somewhat small, extending up to about 30 feet, and is especially keen to evil intentions and thoughts about Chronophobia. It's hard for him to focus on thoughts on purpose because of the ever-present ticking. No one actually knows about this because he already seems weird to them.
He is extremely sensitive to mindreaders prying his thoughts, to the point of being able to identify the appearance and location of one, and can very abruptly shut them out. To a mindreader, being kicked out causes time to feel like it slows to a crawl for 2 seconds before abruptly speeding up to time in a sensation similar to going down a drop in a roller coaster ride. A sharp prick of pain in the forehead follows. Attempting to read his mind afterward will recreate that feeling but stronger in the bones. Banishment from Chronophobia's mind can last for months at a time.
=== Regeneration ===
Chronophobia can heal like any other dragon, but his healing is more identical to an axolotl in the sense that it doesn't scar and can regenerate lost limbs. His ears are infamous for being able to regenerate any major damage, including total amputation, perfectly literally overnight. His claws, fur, and likely horns grow significantly faster than a normal dragon's. They are often unkempt as a result.
Very large parts of his body cannot heal back entirely: This trait is only indicated by his missing wings and leftover buds. Healing injuries are still prone to infections, so Chronophobia covers up all non-minor cuts.
==Gallery==
ChronophobiaHeadshot.png|Headshot of Chronophobia (currently used for infobox)
== Trivia ==
* Some suggest that Chronophobia's coloration may be caused by partial leucism, the lack of pigmentation in some cells without affecting the eyes.
* The bandage on Chronophobia's snout doesn't actually hide any damage, at least currently. It was originally there to hide an incident with a thorny vine, but the injury has long since healed and he enjoyed the look. The bandage is replaced every couple days with a fresh one.
* The outstretched golden spine from his back is a sundial that accurately displays the time when it directly faces true north.
* His eyes were intended to change color like a RainWing according to mood, but this capability was removed.
* Chronophobia is the first true tribeless dragon to be made by me (i.e without being an ancestor, like Storm).
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