Blink(VanquishedHydra)

== Description: ==
Blink is small, and has shiny dark blue-green scales with a blue-gray underbelly and horns. Her claws are lighter gray, and slightly longer than the average NightWing's, and the underside of her wings are a darker shade of her scale color with scattered silver stars throughout Blink has mismatched eyes, her left eye being light cyan blue and her right being silvery gray. She has silver teardrop scales by her eyes, indicating that she is a mind reader. 
== Personality: ==
Blink is an overall positive and happy dragonet, but has been noted to be quiet and rather socially awkward, due to a lack of friends and general social isolation. She is quite clueless when it comes to social niceties, politeness, and interaction with other dragons, and has learned how to interact with other dragons by reading those other dragons' minds. As a result, when she does interact with other dragons, it often seems forced and sounds rehearsed, as though she's reading off of a script of some sort. She adores her adoptive father, Margay, and believes that he has her best interests at heart and that even though he doesn't always show that he loves her outright, he does love her deep down. Blink is wary around other dragons, due in part to her general isolation, and in part due to Margay warning her against becoming close with anyone. She finds NightWings to be untrustworthy, despite being one herself, as a result of her numerous attempts to make friends with them, but then finding that they disappear without sending word as to why. Blink worries about Margay frequently, and sometimes wonders what she would do if he didn't come back. 
== Biography: ==
Blink was abandoned soon after she hatched by her father, Neverclaws, who tossed her into a nearby river, for some unknown reason, apparently hoping she would drown. She floated for several hours, struggling to hold her breath as the current pulled her along, until she latched onto something large, scaly, and solid: a dragon who was wading through the river. She clung to it stubbornly, even as the dragon tried to shake her off. 
At last, the dragon climbed out of the river, pulling her along with it. The dragon-a RainWing who, to her, seemed to be as large as the sky itself-stared at her, shock and irritation warring through his mind, shades of orange and seafoam green shooting through his scales as he took in the sight of her, dripping wet and clinging to his wing. Those feelings were swiftly chased away by a flash of immense murderous loathing, as the dragon's eyes hardened and he swiftly plucked her off of his wing and set her on the bank. Images flashed through his mind, of dark scaled dragons in armor, an island of smoke, fire, and ash, and having two of his teeth cruelly ripped from his mouth, the feeling of loathing permeating all of them. 
But then, as she watched, the dragon's anger faded into a feeling of indecisive thoughfulness, and she moved to hold onto his wing again. The dragon froze irritatedly, picked her up and set her down again. Again, she moved to hold his wing. The dragon growled softly, and picked her up, holding her up to the moon's light, studying her for a moment, his thoughts flashing from irritation at her persistence, to wondering what NightWings named themselves, before finally settling on a word: Blink. That was her name-Blink. Grumbling wordlessly to himself, the dragon, who Blink realized was named "Margay", carried her until he arrived in a small clearing, where he settled her onto his back and ordered her to hold on before climbing up to a platform that she realized was hidden by thick foliage and set her down again, then silently curled up by himself after showing her around. 
Blink grew to love Margay, and took his words as immutable fact: NightWings were cruel, evil, arrogant dragons who only cared about themselves, and who had no qualms about hurting others if doing so furthered their own ends. They were not to be trusted, no matter how nice or how friendly they appeared to be. In the end, they would merely betray her, and leave her to face the consequences of their actions alone. Despite Margay repeatedly warning Blink against interacting with NightWings, she still attempted to do so, making numerous attempts at making friends with the NightWings who wandered into Margay's territory, though she was still extremely wary of them. All of the NightWings she spoke to were confused as to why some random dragonet was living out by herself in the middle of the Rainforest with no one nearby to take care of her, and were happy to be friendly with her, seeing as the NightWing tribe had had very few surviving dragonets on the volcano. Unfortunately, most of her "friends" never came back to visit more than two or three times, and she was always left feeling quite disappointed, thinking that she had done something wrong. Margay was quick to reassure her that she was doing nothing wrong, but that these seemingly failed interactions only proved him correct: all NightWings would eventually leave her alone and had no qualms about hurting her feelings, because they only cared about themselves. (This was actually incorrect, as Margay was quietly picking off each of the NightWings that Blink interacted with after giving her a chance to get her hopes up.) 
Margay, however, did allow her a few RainWing friends, though even those were few and far and between, as the RainWing dragonets thought that Blink was exceptionally weird because her scales didn't change colors like theirs and because she was more than a little confused regarding social niceties. As a result, they often left her hanging as well, leaving her with no friends and no way to interact with other dragons, except for when Margay chose to bring her along with him to the RainWing village. 
== Relationships: ==
==== Margay ====
Blink's adoptive father, an elderly RainWing who she accidentally latched onto while trying not to drown and then proceeded to become attached to. Margay tolerates her presence in his life outwardly, but Blink believes that he cares about her deeply, even if he refuses to outright admit it. She also believes that Margay has her best interests at heart, that he wants for her to be better than her tribe could ever be, and hopes that she'll be able to prove him right. She wants Margay to be proud of her, and hopes that one day, he will be. 
==== NightWings ====
Blink is immensely wary of the other members of her tribe, and believes them to be exactly as Margay has painted them: cruel, evil, arrogant, and self-centered, willing to hurt others if it means that they can further their own ends. Further failed attempts at becoming friends with several different NightWings has only solidified this worldview, and Blink has all but given up on trying to interact with her tribe in a friendly fashion. 
==== RainWings ====
Blink has a slightly more positive relationship with her adoptive father's tribe of origin, finding them to be interesting, but is still wary of them, seeing as the RainWing dragonets she has interacted with have generally left her hanging due to her lack of social knowledge, and her seeming weirdness in comparison to the rest of them. 
==== Neverclaws ====
Blink's biological father; the dragon who abandoned her in the river to die for an unknown reason. Blink believes that her father abandoned her due to her mismatched eye color, and has very little memory of him, except that he seemed to love his family very deeply, and seemed to regret having to abandon her. 
== Trivia: ==
* Blink has two older biological siblings, but has never met them. 
* Blink, like Margay, likes strawberries. 
* Blink hopes to one day attend Jade Mountain Academy as a student when she is old enough. 
* Blink practices her mind-reading on Margay. 
* Blink is very good at climbing trees, and sometimes likes hanging upside down from a tree branch like a bat.
== Gallery: ==
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Category:Characters
Category:Dragonets
Category:Females
Category:NightWings
Category:Subtype (Moonborn)