Kabibi

kabibi
character belongs to sby. coding by forest. kabibi is part of the stowaway au
why is it always the most innocent ones that get sucked into war? the kind, sweet dragonets that come out with scars and bruises on their bodies and hearts?
 
KABIBI 	KABIBI
 	
Artist 	text
background 	background
Creator 	sby
Code 	🔥
Attribute 	protective / talented thief / smart but still naive / fierce
Element 	dark waters
Color 	dark purple / deep blue / gold
Aesthetics 	dark waters / gold / knives / ocean / black and white photos
Song 	hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it - lana del rey
character 	character
Nicknames 	bibi, kababy
Age 	9 (dy)
Gender 	female
Orientation	lesbian
Occupation 	soldier (formerly), stowaway (currently)
Tribe 	SeaWings
Goal 	make things better... if that's even possible
Residence 	ice palace (currently) sea kingdom (future)
Relatives 	-
Allies 	stowaways
Enemies 	royals
Likes 	text
Dislikes 	text
Abilities 	typical seawing abilities, knife/dagger aptitude
Weapons 	those she steals from soldiers
Ships 	Selbibi (Selkie x Kabibi)
Quote 	"What are you doing here, anyways? Done with your homework?"
stay back, or, or, you'll regret it!
: Appearance
Kabibi looks out of place where she is, a fish out of water. She is a SeaWing in the Ice Palace, a dragoness that was a dragonet not long ago surrounded by mostly much older Stowaways. Yet her posture and expression make her look like she belongs. Although yes, she may display relaxed posture and a cheeky smile a lot, but when it comes down to it, she's a solid figure, her snout showing she's ready for action.
She's small for her age, which just works to her advantage. No one expects a tiny, seemingly innocent dragoness to be as talented as she is at what she does. Yet she is. She uses her size and speed, along with her innocent appearance and baby face to trick those she steals from into thinking she couldn't do anything bad. She has mostly intact webbing, except for a small patch on her lower back.
Kabibi's scales are a mix of deep violets, some lighter, some darker. The very top of her neck and head are an artificial grape purple, and the rest of her mainscales are a mix of blue and violet, like her lower jaw.
Her underbelly is a pale purpley-blue, darkening near her wing area and lightening again by her tail. Her wing membranes are a stunning lavender, an oddity even among her own tribe.
Her horns are off-white, and her webbing is pale blue. In between her toes, the webbing is more of an indigo colour. Her right foreleg is covered by a bandage, covering a scar from war.
Her eyes are emerald green, an identical colour to that of her lost lover, who she may never see again. They sparkle in the light of the moon globes, and shine with mischief and happiness.
Kabibi is almost never seen without something she snuck from a guard, usually a knife or dagger. She has a collection, and is very proud of herself for getting so many. That cheeky smile she wears only fades when she thinks of home, and who she's left behind.
whatever. I’m the only one here who was ready to defend against a real intruder.
: Personality
Had it not been for disappearing brothers, or war, or the wintery chill of the Ice Kingdom, Kabibi may have grown to become a much different dragoness. When she was young, she was incredibly curious. She was always excited to learn new things and explore new places. She was always open to meeting new dragons and learning every little detail about their lives. She was friendly and loved to laugh, never stopping until she made as many dragons smile as she could. She loved to talk, and would tald anyone's ear off who would let her. She was mischievous and cheeky, pulling pranks on anyone she could. Most of all, young Kabibi was happy. Young Kabibi was hopeful. Young Kabibi woke each morning excited to explore the world, and young Kabibi never wenta full day without a smile appearing on her snout. Young Kabibi was happy, and she knew that one day she could make the world a better place.
Now, Kabibi is different. Sure, some things never change. She's still an explorer, she still wants to find out anything she can. She's still cheeky as ever, and she still loves to talk. In fact, if one was to meet her, they might think she was nearly exactly the same as she was before the war. It may be true, she really is the same dragoness at heart. Yet she has been changed by the war, though not necessarily for the worse. 
She's not as happy as she used to be. She doesn't talk just to talk all the time anymore. Sometimes, Kabibi talks because silence is too painful. When she sits in silence, she thinks of her old life. She yearns for days before war tore her life apart. Mostly, she thinks of Selkie. She hopes one day she'll return and see the love of her life again, but the silence brings darker thoughts. The war took her, or she's forgotten about you, or she's glad you're gone, because she never really liked you the same way. So silence is something Kabibi can't really stand.
She still has hope, but not nearly as much as she used to. In the early days, she hoped one day things would return to normal. Now she knows that won't happen. It can't. So now she hopes that in the changed world of the future, some things can stay the same. She hopes that some things will be like the way they were before, and that things will one day change for the better, not the worse. Still, sometimes, she knows that no matter how hard she tries, she may never make a difference. It's something that holds her back occasionally, but she still tries, for that small chance that she can help change the world. 
I am not scared! you're the scared one! hmph.
: Abilities
this is ridiculous
: History
Kabibi hatched in the Sea Kingdom, far, far away from where she would one day end up. There, in her mother's arms, she was peaceful and happy. There was nothing, nothing but the blanket, her mother, and her. Oh, if only things had stayed that peaceful. 
She grew up in the Kingdom of the Sea, with her kind older brother, Deepwater. Life was rather sheltered for her. Her parents, both victims of conflict, wanted to keep their children safe, away from the dangers of the outside world. In doing so tho, her parents shot down every connection, in fear one day it would end in conflict and their children in emotional or physical pain, maybe even both. eventually, her brother angrily confronted their parents and demanded the two of them be sent to a real school, where they'd be allowed to have real friends.
So eventually her parents caved, and they were sent to a nearby school a few minutes from their home. There, Kabibi made friends and some enemies, although she never told her parents about those in fear of being pulled from the school. She didn't really need to, anyway. Deepwater, though not really a fighter, was very intimidating with his large bulky frame and deep voice, so he was her protector. 
Through school, Kabibi met a lot of dragons that she would later forget in the midst of the war, their names becoming unrecognized, their faces blurred in her mind. Nearly every dragon she crossed paths with from that school would eventually meet that fate.
Nearly all but the dragoness she met at a school dance, when everyone was asked to pair up but Kabibi had no one. She spun in a circle, but everyone seemed to have found someone. She could feel her snout heat up. How humiliating. But what would she have expected? She loved her friends, but they all had dragons that they'd found and loved. She hadn't been so fortunate.
Then, a tap on her shoulder. She turned, and that's when she laid eyes upon the most stunning dragoness she had ever seen. Kabibi had never really believed in love at first sight, brushing it off as she grew older to just a fairytale sort of love. Not until now.
She was incredible. Her scales were pale blue, more like the kind of colour you would find on an IceWing. Her eyes were darker, more indigo. Looking into them felt like looking into a whirlpool. Then the dragoness spoke, and her voice sounded like music. Quiet and lyrical, she introduced herself as Selkie. Then she winked in a way that made Kabibi's stomach go all fluttery and asked, "May I have this dance?"
Kabibi gave it to her. They linked talons and they swayed, Kabibi tuning out everything but Selkie's snout, just inches from her own. They seemed to stand like that forever, yet it felt too short when it ended. When the dance was over they parted with a small goodbye, and Kabibi felt her heart sink. She'd never see Selkie again, would she?
But she was wrong. Now that she knew her, she saw Selkie everywhere. At lunch, in the hallways, when she left school and when she entered. Every time, Selkie would see her and give her a wave. Then she started to say hello. Then, one day, she asked Bibi to sit with her at lunch.
The two became inseparable after that, and for Kabibi, it was incredible. Except for her unresolved feelings that she felt tainted their every interaction. She wanted Selkie to know the truth, but in truth she didn't know how to tell her. How could she put into words the way Kabibi could drown in her eyes, or how her voice was more beautiful than any song Kabibi had ever or would ever hear in her life?
In the end, it turned out that she didn't have to, because Selkie said it first. One late night, quietly lying together in Kabibi's bed, Selkie turned and confessed that she had been into Kabibi forever. She'd always wanted to properly meet her, but she hadn't had an opportunity until the dance to truly do so. Then Selkie told Kabibi that she thought she was the most stunning dragoness in the universe, and all Kabibi could do was kiss her.
First loves often fall apart, but Selkie and Kabibi held strong. They stayed together through their schooling and past graduation, and still they seemed to fall for each other more and more every day. When they both passed 8 years old and crossed the threshold into young adulthood, Kabibi began plans to propose to Selkie, officially binding them together.
Then everything went downhill. 
Kabibi's brother, Deepwater, was drafted into the war, forced to leave his family behind. His departure was rife with tearful goodbyes and hugs. Kabibi begged him not to leave, but she knew in her heart there was nothing anyone could do. There was a war out there, and though they'd avoided it so far, safe in their little bubble, it had finally come for them. For Kabibi's warm-hearted brother. She couldn't imagine him in the army, fighting with teeth and claws against the enemy. Yet he was still going. He had to. Even though the war was pretty much over already.
She waited every day for his return, and Selkie waited by her side, comforting her every night as she cried, fearing for her brother. She kept waiting for news about how he was, but nothing came. Not even a letter. Had Deepwater forgotten about her? About them all?
Then one day a letter did come, and Kabibi wished it never did.
Missing in Action. 
Those three words haunt her to this day. Deepwater, the brother she loved so dearly, was gone. She didn't want to believe it. He was missing. That was what it said. Maybe he decided to run away, she tried to convince herself. He never wanted to be a soldier. 
But she knew, deep down, that it wasn't true. Deepwater was the most loyal dragon she knew. He wasn't a deserter. Which meant, if he was missing, something had happened to him. Something bad. The war had been practically over for years. Deepwater was supposed to be protected. He wasn't supposed to be in danger, not really. But he had been, and now he was probably dead.
Six weeks. That was all the time Kabibi got to process the loss of her brother before their family received another letter. This one was nearly as bad.
Not even 9 years old, still feeling like a little kid, Kabibi was drafted.
She was assigned to the Ice Kingdom. On the other side of the continent from her family, the home she'd grown up in and never left. Whole Kingdoms away from the love of her life, just when she'd been planning out her proposal earlier that year. To fight in a war that pretty much ended ages ago.
She couldn't cry. She just felt numb. All she could do was sit with Selkie and hold her as her tears fell, begging Kabibi to stay. Selkie's voice was so weak and so desperate, and that's what finally let the tears break through. They held each other and sobbed in their last hours together, and when Kabibi finally had to leave with only a tiny pack of her things, she could hardly even look Selkie in the eyes.
A kiss on each of her cheeks from her mom and dad. Then one last desperate kiss from the dragoness she loved most, and Kabibi left them all behind. She left her home behind, travelling with her troop across the continent to the frozen, barren land of the Ice Kingdom.
Her troop was an okay bunch, for the most part. It broke Kabibi's heart how many dragons her age there were, just barely reaching adulthood before being thrust into whatever the hell this was. She grew close with two males around her age, as close as one could get. A troublemakernamed Krill (though in the end his name would fade from her mind), who constantly drove the older members of the troop crazy with his pranks. Isopod, the third member of their trio, was the most serious and driven of the younger members, always their little group's voice of reason. 
This group was her safe haven in the freezing cold and harshness they now lived in. The rest of the troop wasn't the nicest, often looking down on her and her fellow younger members and treating them like they knew nothing. She, Krill, and Isopod were there for each other, but there was always a sort of distance between them. It was hard to get close to anyone in war, really.
But one night, she and Isopod both couldn't sleep. She'd never talked to him much in comparison to Krill, so she was a little surprised when that night, noticing she was awake, shuffled over to talk to her.
"Do you miss home a lot?" he had asked suddenly.
It had taken her a moment to respond, mostly out of surprise. Then she answered, "Every minute of every day."
They were silent for a long while, then Isopod spoke again. "You know, I never really even got a chance to enjoy being grown before they shipped me out here. I got the letter the morning after I turned 8."
Kabibi listened intently as he explained that he'd gone to bed after his birthday full of joy. He'd received tons of presents, and he couldn't wait to fully enjoy them the next morning. But instead, the morning brought tears as he woke up to his parents sobbing, holding the letter sealed with his fate. After that, he explained, all he could do was get into a soldier mindset. Push away the difficul feelings. But it seemed that was easier said than done.
She grew a lot closer to Isopod that night, eventually opening up to him about Selkie and Deepwater. There was still a level of distance, but they came to understand each other without saying much at all, and they got each other through the hard days, with the help of Krill and his pranks.
One day she had her little group, and one day everyone was gone. She had gone out on a night surveillance mission with an older dragon, but he turned back early due to aching joints. Still wanting to serve her kingdom, she stayed out, but when she returned to base the next morning, she found it empty. Deserted. As if no one had ever been there at all.
It took a long time, nearly a month, of searching far and wide for any remaining camps, any sign that she wasn't alone on the other side of the continent, before Kabibi finally resigned herself to the fact that there was no one left. She knew she needed a safe place to stay so one night, she snuck into the massive Ice Palace. A SeaWing like her stuck out like a sore talon, so she stuck to its cellars and long-deserted hallways. One day, she was distracted, admiring a shiny new dagger she'd slipped off of an oblivious guard and she walked, when she came face to face with an IceWing. He was white and brown, odd for an IceWing, but he had a sort of powerful air to him, and she feared she'd finally been caught.
"You're not supposed to be here," he had said matter-of-factly. She had just frozen, preparing for him to call for reinforcements.
But instead, he had taken a step closer. Then another. Then, after a beat, he said, "Which is just one thing we have in common. I must ask you, young SeaWing," he had continued, tone measured. "Did you really think you were the only one sneaking around down here?"
She learned that his name was Ptarmigan, or Ptar, and he was just one of many other "Stowaways," as he called them, and he even introduced her to a few other dragons she had never seen, even though they had been right here with her. Effer, Ptar's right-talon man, was a welcome sight - another SeaWing far away from home. She met a talonful of others, all with their own stories to tell. And when all was said and done, she was more than happy to take Ptar up on his offer when he asked her.
And so Kabibi, wide-eyed dragonet to adoring sister and girlfriend to hardened soldier, became a Stowaway.
look at this nice knife I 'found'! *knife twirl*
: Relationships
Selkie: one of the closest, most important relationships kabibi ever had. Selkie was her first love, and a love that lasted years and years, until the day bibi went to war. 
Deepwater: her brother. her protector. she'll miss him until the day she dies.
sometimes I really really miss her
: Trivia
*cries herself to sleep sometimes
*she's a child at heart
why don't we... have some fun for once?
: Gallery
Kababy.png|Alternate design by nibby
TheGirls.jpeg|Official design! with loon and frostine by nibby
8907256E-B007-46E2-AE1D-5EB7BDF4E2D0.jpeg|aesthetic
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