Ocotillo (HTTYWOF)

Ocotillo is an adult male SandWing and one of the protagonists of How to Train Your Wings of Fire: Winglets, a How to Train Your Dragon and Wings of Fire crossover written by HTTYDPokemonFan under the username ReptileGirl497 on Fanfiction.net. He was a soldier in Ex-Princess Blaze's army before forming, and becoming the leader of, the Outclaws. He is the father of Prince Diamondback and Queen Arid, though they have different mothers, Caracal and Storm, respectively. He is also the adoptive father of Qibli.
== Appearance ==
Ocotillo has sandy yellow scales, a paler yellow underbelly, and a gold-colored frill and wing membranes. His horns are white, and his eyes, tongue, claws and tail barb are all black.
== Personality ==
Ocotillo is a compassionate and loyal SandWing who is kind to dragons who need help, and takes care of those he loves and protects. He can be stern, and even hostile, to strangers, likely a result of his spending a lot of time training in the army, serving in the War of SandWing Succession, and adjusting to life in the Scorpion Den. He is known for being a natural leader to the Outclaws, and almost always has a good reason for doing certain things. He is also quite clever, figuring out a way to defeat Inferno in the SkyWing arena without killing him.
== Biography ==
=== How to Train Your Wings of Fire: Winglets ===
Years before the death of Queen Oasis, Ocotillo met and became fast friends with Dune and Six-Claws while in the wingery. After saving Princess Blaze from a sandstorm, King Char invited them to become part of the army. They accepted and stayed in the army, which was where they remained for a while.
Over the years, Ocotillo also befriended, and fell in love with, one of Six-Claws's sisters, Caracal. Not long after they married, they heard chaos and roaring outside, and exited to find that Oasis was dead, and there was no sign of the killer. Ocotillo sided with Blaze because she was the least likely to kill him if he ever failed, and Caracal followed his lead.
Three years into the war, Caracal revealed to Ocotillo that she was with egg. Delighted, the couple spent a majority of their down time coming up with names for the dragonet, one of which was Diamondback, a name Caracal liked. On the eve of the egg's hatching, Caracal went out to hunt a camel to roast for their dragonet's first meal, only to be caught by Princess Burn's soldiers.
Nearly a week after Caracal's disappearance, Ocotillo was visited by Six-Claws, a badly wounded Dune, and a SandWing nurse named Kindle. Six-Claws revealed that Burn's soldiers had taken Caracal to Burn, who was in the nurses' tent with the three of them examining Dune's injuries. When Caracal refused to join their ranks, Burn had ordered Six-Claws to kill her. Unwilling to kill his own sister, he refused, prompting Burn to kill Caracal herself and brutally maim Dune to punish Six-Claws for his disobedience. The three then fled to where they knew Ocotillo would have been hiding to inform him of what had happened.
Devastated at the news of his wife's death, Ocotillo left with them to the Scorpion Den, carrying his week-old son, whom he named Diamondback to honor his late wife, in his talons. Ocotillo later formed the Outclaws to bring order and protection to the Scorpion Den, with Six-Claws, Dune and Kindle joining him.
=== Pre-Series ===
A few years before the brightest night, Ocotillo met and rescued an injured IceWing named Storm. Having sided with Blaze before forming the Outclaws, he offered to nurse her back to health, which she reluctantly allowed. The two gradually grew closer, eventually gaining an attraction to one another. After fully recovering from her injuries, Storm decided to stay with the Outclaws instead of returning to the Ice Kingdom. Despite their romantic relationship being strictly forbidden, the two dragons eloped and conceived a single egg.
In an attempt to keep his and Storm's relationship a secret, Ocotillo buried the egg out in the desert, and gave Dune the job of protecting and checking on it. Storm also helped come up with names for their dragonet, one being Arid. When Dune learned it was due to hatch on the brightest night, he stole it to complete the Dragonet Prophecy and destroyed his friends' trust.
Around five years after the brightest night, while searching for his and Storm's egg, Ocotillo met a three-year-old dragonet named Qibli, whom he took home with him, effectively saving him from his abusive mother, Cobra. Despite Storm insisting that Qibli would never replace the egg they lost, the couple adopted him as their son.
=== How to Train Your Wings of Fire ===
Ocotillo's name appeared in Dune's thoughts while Windracer was spying on the guardians as they were discussing their plan to exterminate Arid and the RainWing twins.
After he and the other Dragonets of Destiny were imprisoned by Queen Scarlet, Windracer was placed on a spire next to Ocotillo's. Ocotillo spent most of his time between matches pacing around, coming up with plans for him and Storm to escape the Sky Kingdom and find their missing dragonet. He kindly answered all of Windracer's questions about the SkyWing arena and how it worked, before introducing himself and Storm. Upon recognizing Ocotillo's name, Windracer informed him that Dune had been killed by Scarlet, which saddened him. Ocotillo explained that Dune had stolen his and Storm's egg to fulfill the prophecy, causing Windracer to realize that the SandWing was Arid's father, and that Arid was an IceWing-SandWing hybrid.
After four victories in the arena, Ocotillo was pitted against Inferno, who managed to pin him down. Inferno was about to deliver a killing blow when he was distracted by Storm throwing herself off of her spire. Ocotillo took advantage of Inferno's lack of focus, shoving the SkyWing off and pinning him in the sand, but chose to spare the dragonet's life instead of killing him, and convinced Inferno to forfeit the match. This made Scarlet angry because the fight was supposed to be to the death, and Ocotillo was returned to his spire.
== Relationships ==
=== Queen Arid ===
Ocotillo put a lot of work into looking for his lost dragonet after her egg was stolen by Dune. He first saw Arid when she was chained up by Scarlet, who presented the hybrid as her "pet", but didn't know who she was until Windracer revealed her identity. He was shocked, but outwardly clam, to learn that Scarlet was holding his daughter prisoner. After Windracer used his magic to free all the prisoners, Ocotillo was the first to reach Arid, joyful to finally meet his daughter. He affirmed that he was not ashamed of Arid nor her origins and that she was perfect the way she was. He expressed a great deal of pride when Arid was chosen as the new SandWing queen.
=== Dune ===
Dune was one of Ocotillo's friends, having worked together, along with Six-Claws, to save Princess Blaze from a sandstorm. They remained friends for several years, and continued to work together as part of the SandWing army. Though the war split the friends apart, Ocotillo was horrified to see Dune badly injured, and fled with him and Six-Claws to the Scorpion Den to start a new life there. He trusted Dune with the knowledge of his relationship with Storm, and to protect the egg they'd conceived. Despite being upset when Dune stole his and Storm's egg, Ocotillo was understanding of his friend's motive and was sad when Windracer told him that Dune was dead.
=== Caracal ===
Caracal and Ocotillo had been friends since their childhood. Their friendship gradually developed into a romantic relationship, and they eventually got married. Ocotillo was extremely distraught after he learned of Caracal's death at Burn's talons. After fleeing to the Scorpion Den, he decided to honor her by giving their son a name of her choosing: Diamondback. Before meeting Storm, Ocotillo was convinced that he would never love anyone as much as he loved Caracal.
=== Qibli ===
Ocotillo loves Qibli and looks after him as a father. He and Storm adopted him as a young dragonet, and assured him that they would take care of him and keep him safe.
=== Storm ===
At first, Ocotillo only saw Storm as an ally due to having served Princess Blaze in the war. However, during and after his deed of nursing her back to health, he found himself falling for the IceWing, and was joyful to discover that his feelings were reciprocated. They came to love each other very much, enough to elope. He is very supportive of Storm when she's upset, and is willing to do everything within his power to make sure she is happy with him. He is unafraid of what other dragons think of their relationship, and claims that he'd be lost without Storm.
== Quotes ==
"One more fight. [...] I just have to beat Scarlet's Champion, and I'm free to go. Then I'll come back for Storm, and we'll resume our search." - thoughts
"Yes, I did [have an egg with an IceWing]. Such an act is forbidden, even with the SandWings and IceWings being allies in the war, but I couldn't help but fall for Storm. She's quite fierce, yet kind and polite once you get on her good side. We were married in secret, and we had an egg. A beautiful egg, white as snow with little yellow speckles. Now, I was rather worried about how other dragons would take it, if they ever found out that Storm and I had eloped and conceived a dragonet, so we hid it in the desert sand near our home and took turns checking on it frequently. When I went out one night, the egg was gone. I went to find Dune, but he was gone, too. He was the only other dragon besides me and Storm who knew of the egg, and where to find it, so I knew that he was the one who took it." - to Windracer
"Arid. [...] That's the name Storm and I picked for our dragonet. See, we spent a lot of time discussing names, sometimes with Dune, and we both agreed that word could describe an area that is either hot or cold, so we reasoned it would be a suitable name for our dragonet. This dragon you speak of, it has to be our child, I just know it!" - to Windracer
"You know you've lost. [...] And frankly, I don't wish to kill you. We can end this now, if you yield." - to Inferno
"I thought I could kill [Inferno], but it turns out I didn't have it in me. He's still only a dragonet, after all. He might not have even had a choice about becoming the Queen's Champion. Besides, even if I did kill him, I doubt Scarlet would keep her word about letting me go. She has quite a nasty habit of changing her mind at the last minute, if you know what I mean." - to Windracer
"Hey. [...] It's all right for Windracer to worry. We can't say for sure where Morrowseer and the NightWings are. But, [...] I know you want to find the SeaWings as fast as possible. So let's find them instead of fighting about it, and then we can get to safety sooner." - to Storm
"Good. [...] I've been wondering where that clever little Qibli was. He'll be so delighted to finally meet Arid." - to Typhoon
== Trivia ==
* An ocotillo is a spiny, scarlet-flowered desert shrub of the southwestern US and Mexico, sometimes planted as a hedge. It is often referred to by other names such as coachwhip, candlewood, slimewood, fouquieria splendens, and desert coral.
== Gallery ==
Ocotillo.png|Joy Ang base
OcotilloPeregrinecella.png|Peregrinecella base
OcotilloConstelliarts.png|Constelli Graphic Novel base
Typical_SandWing_by_Sassy_the_Beagle.jpg|A typical SandWing (colored), by Joy Ang
SandTransparent.png|A typical SandWing (lineart), by Joy Ang
SandWing Sigil.png|SandWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing
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