Peony

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Animus RainWings are rare - even by animus standards - but they aren't unheard of. The supposed reputation of such unique creatures are malicious tricksters, with impossible powers and the ability to get away with it with their evershifting scales. Well, Peony isn't exactly malicious but she would consider herself something of a trickster. Banished from her tribe, she found herself living with a hidden RainWing in the Scorpion Den, dazzling the citizens with her strange appearance and mystical powers. 
==appearance==
Peony is a rather average RainWing. Well-fed and plump and clearly healthy, she's never truly struggled all that much in her life. She knows how to take care of herself and has the perks of magic to streamline these necessities. Her scales shift like all RainWings, but her colors default to a pastel purple. Her wings and frills mismatch, as pink with yellow speckles and yellow with pink speckles. Freckles of pink and yellow often hover on her face as well. She has decent control over her scales and is able to hide her emotions rather well. 
==personality==
Overly peppy, somewhat overbearing, and ridiculously optimistic, Peony is a fun dragoness to have around. She's always seeking out a crowd, trying to be where the people are. She loves attention and seeks out the eyes of dragons who don't expect her and especially don't want her around. Annoying people is almost as fun as delighting people! She lives to entertain, to be witnessed. An extrovert by definition, Peony is aimless without the company of other dragons.
Peony struggles to be by herself. She struggles with her identity, as in, who she is when she isn't around anyone else. She's deeply self-conscious and doesn't enjoy spending time with herself on her lonesome. Perhaps the antagonizing words she's been dealt have been left internalized in Peony's mind, making her struggle to appreciate herself without the validation of others.
Peony can be overly trusting. She assumes dragons have her best interest in mind and wants to put her wellbeing in someone else's hands. She's used to the good-natured dragons of the rainforest and hasn't fully accustomed herself to the much rougher culture of the Scorpion Den.
==history==
Born shortly after Queen Glory had instated the age of responsibility for their youth, Peony hatched to a set of dragons who weren't necessarily interested in raising a dragonet on their own. She was often left on her own in the hatchery or neglected in the city. Which wasn't always necessarily a bad thing. RainWings were still used to raising youth as a village so Peony never necessarily knew anything different.
That was until her powers became evident. When her parents discovered that their dragonet was an animus they were deeply unsettled. With her new powers, she found new ways to pester them and try to get her parents' attention. When they became fed up with this dragonet they unofficially kicked her out of the rainforest. She was under the impression that, as her parents, they had full authority to banish her from her home. 
Peony found herself wandering Pyrrhia, trying to amaze people in exchange for a scrap of food or shelter. She found herself in the Scorpion Den before long, convincing the guards her services as an entertainer could be instrumental to the wellbeing of the city. While she frolicked through the streets, she was taken in by another strange sight. A RainWing, like herself, who had been posing as a SandWing for years in the Scorpion Den. 
Initially, Peony feared that this dragoness, Tiger Lily, and assumed she had done something wrong under the conditions of her banishment. But Tiger Lily only extended a talon of support. Offering to let the wide-eyed dragonet stay with her as she showed her the ropes of living in the unfriendly Scorpion Den. This was an offer that Peony accepted with her whole heart. 
Despite her advice, Peony neglected to live stealthily as if she was a SandWing. Afterall, in a pinch, she could simply sneak away unseen, couldn't she?
The one time this plan didn't work was outside of a tavern, where she had been performing her magic for a handful of watchers. A dragon had exited and had been startled by her tricks, spouting superstitions and fear of the supernatural. They tried to attack her when two of her audience members jumped in and helped her. While their attacker was down, they brought her to safety and introduced themselves as another set of performers: Pika and Peccary. They had offered her a safe place to stay in case her attacker felt so inclined to look for her again. 
Upon coming home with Pika and Peccary, their mother, Playa, was enamored by the RainWing they brought home. What was she doing so far from her home? What was she doing worth getting attacked? And would she like to stay for a meal? Would she like to stay for the night? Needless to say, she had almost been adopted into the family shortly thereafter (and soon after, Playa and Tiger Lily had become fantastic as friends).
When Peony had considered her gender identity and had come out as trans to her new family, Playa had offered to formally bring her into the Playa family by giving her the name Peony, based upon Tiger Lily's name and the conventions of Playa's family. It stuck and Peony had felt she had truly found herself a place in the Scorpion Den.
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