Harmonia (Silver)

please do not steal this character or i will personally send my army of emotional support okapis after you. and also, this contains themes of mature content. read at your own risk.
Made for the pixel gif inspiration contest (tied for second place)!
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Harmonia 	Harmonia
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Background 	Background
Creator 	Silver
Attribute 	Hopefulness, deception, phantasmagoria
Element 	Water, sand, trees, sunsets, nighttime, masquerades, fountains
Animal 	Peacock
Color 	Blue, green, and aqua
Character 	Character
Age 	28
Gender 	Female
Orientation	Lesbian
Occupation 	Carnival owner/manager, making dreams come true for one night only
Tribe 	LeafWing/SeaWing
Residence 	Dayspring Island in the Bay of a Thousand Scales
Likes 	Kindness, magic, wishes, dragons trusting her, her power, doing good things, extravagance, animals
Dislikes 	Not being trusted, dragons judging her before meeting her, passive aggressiveness, being insulting, boring things
Abilities 	Animus enchanted to make wishes come true and take them away, can hold her breath for up to two hours
Weapons 	Dragons' trust in her, if she chooses to use it
Quote 	"You can let go around me. Trust me. Just because I have the power to betray you doesn't mean I will."
In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me brokenhearted...
In Greek mythology, Harmonia was the daughter of Aphrodite (goddess of love and desire) and Ares (god of warfare and tempests). She enchanted everything everywhere she went, and she was the goddess of harmony and concord.
appearance
"I can make your greatest wish come true in an instant. Now, who wouldn't want that?"
On a small, insignificant island in the Bay of a Thousand Scales, a carnival lights up the night with the cheers and screams of dragons and dragonets alike. The stars glow down happily on the joyful scene as a beautiful dragoness watches it all with a lovely, bright smile. It is perfect, so perfect one might think it wasn't real.
But that was always her way.
Welcome to the Dayspring Isle Carnival, where everyone's dreams come true.
Harmonia is a tall and lithe creature, very noticeable in a crowd. She has been fabled to be like a fallen angel, a thing of such exquisite beauty that there are no words to describe her. Her slender LeafWing build is coupled with SeaWing fins and glowscales, and she is fit but not very muscular. She looks delicate, but not in a fragile way, more in the way that a wisp of smoke looks delicate, as if she cannot be touched. Her horns curve up elegantly, and everything about her seems to be made of pure grace, because she never missteps or makes mistakes.
Her glimmering scales are polished so carefully that they seem to shine as brightly as her bioluminescent scales, and their colors are beautiful and vibrant. Her scales are a vivid grass green, her glowscales being an aqua blue. Her underbelly and wing membranes are sky blue, as are her fins, spines, and horns. She has blue sapphires inlaid between her scales so that whenever she walks by, she catches the light, but if you look closely enough you can see some scrapes and bruises on her otherwise impeccable person. Those bruises are a result of the sapphire decoration, as it is an incredibly painful and expensive process.
Harmonia's eyes, however, are the things of many dragons' nightmares. No one normally looks directly in them, and she likes to keep it that way. She uses her shininess and beauty as a means of distracting from them, as she is already quite suspicious in Pyrrhia because of her ability to grant wishes. The eyes are voids of black, where no light can reach them. They look as if they have no irises, and they seem to bore into the unlucky dragon's soul who looks into them. Harmonia is forever ashamed of them, as they are the thing which has always estranged her from other dragons. She would do anything to change her eyes.
Harmonia is often bedecked in elaborate accessories and jewelry, but she has two staples: a veil that is mostly forest green embroidered with little blue circles, and a beautiful bird-of-paradise named Daydream that is always near her. She has many different styles and has always been one to put on a show, even with her appearance. Because of this, she carries herself like a queen might, with her neck arching up and her head held high. She will strut about on silent talons, the jingle of her jewelry nonexistent as she walks forward. She always has a kind expression, whether it is a front for something else or not.
She is purely enchanting, her voice high and musical like the clinking of crystal glasses. Her laugh is like a song, loud and contagious, and everything about her is easy to empathize with. If she is sad, any dragons around her will find themselves feeling down. She seems to radiate light around others, as if she feeds off of her energy.
After all, the legends could be true.
She might just be a fallen angel.
personality
"We could all do with a little enchantment in our lives"
Harmonia is an interesting character, mostly because of her enchanting nature. Whenever she spends time with someone, they tend to fall under her 'spell', so to speak. Even if they absolutely hate her at first sight, everyone is fascinated by her.
Harmonia loves to be trusted. Even if she is only trusted to give someone the wish they desire, she will be ecstatic; since her powers are so strongly rooted in deception, she wants to make dragons believe she can be as good a confidant as the next dragon. Trust gives her power, even if she refuses to admit it. Trust and hope are the real basis of the Dayspring Isle Carnival, not her enigmatic powers. So, Harmonia looks the prettiest she can. She shines her scales and went through the diamond inlaying process so she could shimmer like her carnival, in the hopes that trust will come more easily to her.
She is very exuberant. Her energy is contagious. There is never a time when she doesn't smile or laugh in front of others; she is always cheerful and happy in public. That is perhaps why many dragons love her so much; she is always upbeat and optimistic. After all, her profession is running an amusement park. It should be everyone's favorite place to go, and it is Harmonia's job to make them have a good time so they want to come back.
She is confident in her own skin; she never falters or acts awkward, and always knows the right thing to say and when to say it. She is brilliant, a star shining brighter than all the rest in the night sky. She seems to be perfect. So perfect she might even be fake; at least that's what the skeptics say, but there really can't be many skeptics, as Harmonia has enchanted everyone around her just as the Harmonia written about in Greek myth did.
She is kind and generous. She likes to live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. She wants everyone to feel at ease with her and to think that they can tell her anything. She wants to be the dragoness that everyone thinks on fondly, and that everyone has something kind to say about. And so she is willing to sacrifice nearly everything for a cause she believes in or for dragons she is close to, and she wears her heart on her sleeve. She is always upbeat and energetic, and she is an optimistic dragoness.
With all of these descriptions, Harmonia sounds perfect. A true angel. But many dragons, the wary few, believe that her saintly exterior is a front for something else, something more sinister.
And they're not entirely wrong.
Harmonia isn't sinister, as the skeptics say. She is definitely not evil. But she lives for trust and power. Those are the things she deals in. She loves to have control over others, even if she doesn't admit it, and she does find a sick amusement to play with others in order to get what she wants.
Her personality is not entirely a facade, and she isn't power hungry, as some might say of her after learning these things. She is simply filling a void. She finds shallow joys in tricking others into loving her, but she still feels empty after it all. She just wants to repair a hole that she created in herself a long time ago.
Harmonia is insecure. She doesn't like her eyes and makes herself beautiful in order to hide the fact that she is simply ordinary, not anything special. That is her greatest fear: that she has no more meaning or purpose or importance than the average dragon. She wants to be special, for everything to rest on her shoulders. She dreams about what most heroes lament. Which is probably why she hides it. She doesn't want to seem anything less than perfect, which only adds to her insecurity, as she is completely imperfect. It is a vicious cycle.
She wants to prove something. Years and years ago, she was told that she would crack from all the power, that her soul would turn directions and she would not be the dragoness she once was. And so she wants to show the world that she is good, she truly is, and that she is not the wicked creature dragons thought she would turn out to be. She feels hurt by dragons assuming things of her, and she is independent and a go-getter, although she is doubtful and worries too much for her own good.
She is frozen. Not physically, but mentally. Harmonia is stuck in the same loop of do they like me? do they like me? DOTHEYLIKEME? that prevents her from actually moving forward. And burying all of that under her smiling, happy exterior whose only care is to make others' wishes come true is not healthy. Sooner or later, Harmonia will crack, just a predicted. She will break down and simply cry. She will wallow in pity for days and emerge a different dragoness than she once was.
But maybe that would be for the best.
backstory
"I am not a liar. I just have a rather large imagination."
before hatching
Harmonia's parentage is quite remarkable, as hybrids have never been an incredibly common occurrence. Her parents met on a small island marking the halfway point between the two continents.
Her mother, a SeaWing called Lari, was an explorer 
who had been blown drastically off course by a monstrous storm. She was tossed by the currents of air and crashed into the ocean, washing up on shore, her body broken and soon to die.
That was when Harmonia's father, a LeafWing named Granit, found her and took her in, nursing her back to health. He had been trying to run away from Queen Wasp after being caught and ended up on the island. As the years went by, he found a way to make a living.
Lari healed quickly, but had broken her left wing so terribly that it was beyond repair, and she could never fly again. She planned to build a house of her own and create a life as Granit had done, and as their years on the island together continued, they began to fall in love.
They had a clutch of eggs together, but two of the three dragonets were sickly and in poor health, perishing from diseases that they caught from the island. Harmonia, the last to hatch, was the only dragonet left.
dragonethood
Harmonia lived an unconventional dragonethood, as she spent the entirety of it on the island her parents called home. She was educated in maths, science, and craft by her mother, while her father taught her language and writing, as well as art.
While she grew up a well-rounded dragonet, she felt entrapped in the life she lived in. She was always on that island with her parents; she had never known anything else. The only social interactions she had were with the same two dragons every day. Harmonia languished in the life she was born into, and she longed to flee.
Lari and Granit were growing anxious, too. The explorer longed to feel the wind under her wings or to at least leave, but she felt obligated to stay behind with her dragonet and help her former love raise her. Granit found it hard to deal with his two great loves' anguish; he was a gentle dragon and could not bear to see them suffer in the world he felt he had created.
And so, Harmonia's dragonethood was marked by a tenuous grasp on family life as the three dragons on the island tried to make their way of life work long-term.
And that was when the animus came.
Harmonia clearly remembered the day. Warm and humid, as all the days on that small island were, but with especially good hunting and harvest. As she brought in the fishing nets heavy with bounty, the dragonet dreamed of the wonderful eating they would have that afternoon.
Then, suddenly, as she was heading back, a broken dragoness fell through the leaves. Harmonia's first thought was to scream, and scream she did until the dragoness got up and muffled her cries.
"Please, be quiet. Please." Harmonia would remember those words for years after, not because of what they meant or how they were said, but the feeling that came with them. When the newcomer pulled her talon away, Harmonia realized she was unable to speak. Her vocal chords were burning, on fire, and she couldn't extinguish them. She wanted to cry out, to make it stop, but she was unable to, and the dragoness looked in horror at the tears streaming down the LeafWing hybrid's cheeks.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" the dragoness cried, and quickly undid the spell. Harmonia could see her clearly for the first time. Another LeafWing hybrid like herself, but part IceWing, with glimmering scales. The thing that struck Harmonia the most, however, was how much she shivered despite the warm sunlight. The dragoness tried to smile. "My animus magic never really works out the right way. Heh," she said.
"What's your name?" Harmonia asked.
"Arboreal," the dragoness replied.
And ever since then, the two were friends.
~
After that day, Lari and Granit separated. It was especially hard for their daughter, who had to deal with her two arguing parents living on the same island, both unwilling to leave yet wanting the other to go. Harmonia retreated to the treehouse she built with her parents as a dragonet more and more often, and soon began to live there full time. Arboreal, her best friend, her only friend, moved in with her to keep her company.
As time wore on, Harmonia and Arboreal became closer and closer, and they began to share dreams and hopes and fears and facts about their lives. They fell quickly and recklessly in love with each other with every passing day. They began to dream of starting a life together, as many lovestruck dragons had done before.
Harmonia had bigger hopes than Arboreal, who had already lived through what many dragons would never experience in a lifetime. Much of her family had died due to her own broken animus magic, and she wanted to live the rest of her time in a quiet way with those she loved most around her.
Harmonia found herself longing for Arboreal's power. She wanted danger and to actually taste life, not this small, innocuous version she was spoon-fed by her parents. She wanted to leave the island for good.
"Arboreal," she said one night, as they lay stargazing together on the beach.
"Yes?" the hybrid asked, turning her head with a smile. She was always smiling around Harmonia, and Harmonia around her. Despite their love being so new, they made each other truly happy, something neither of them had ever experienced.
"I want to run away. We can start a new life together, just you and me. We can escape this small island forever, and live with other dragons for once. We can leave my parents behind for good, and we don't have to listen to their shouting matches anymore. And we don't have to move to the Ice Kingdom. We could go somewhere warm like the rainforest and find an animus to fix your magic. We could start over," Harmonia said. Her eyes shown with conviction as she spoke.
Arboreal could only look shocked and dumbfounded. She struggled for words and the smile dropped off her face. At last, she found what she wanted to say. "You know I love you, Harmonia. With all of my heart, I love you. But-" she broke off as she tried to figure out how to continue. "I can't leave. I can't go back. Being here, with you, that's all I want to do. I don't want to live that life anymore. And I don't want some animus to fix these moons-forsaken powers. I just want you."
Harmonia's face fell. She suddenly realized what had to happen. She couldn't stay here, she knew that. But she also knew that it would be unfair to force Arboreal to come with her. And so her mind was set, and she picked up a smile again, but this time it didn't reach her eyes. "Okay," she whispered. "I can stay, for you."
Arboreal smiled softly, and slowly they drifted off to sleep, tails entwined, under the starlight.
~
Harmonia woke up when the moons were at their peak. She checked to make sure Arboreal was still asleep and, under the guise of rolling over, unwound her tail from her girlfriend's. She heard a faint mumble, but Arboreal was too deeply asleep to notice Harmonia's leaving.
Harmonia packed a bag with necessities, filling it with food, water, and her mother's old wind-battered traveling cloak. At last, she was ready. She thought it best to leave without saying goodbye or leaving a note; it would make her seem like more of a villain and thus make her departure less heartbreaking for Arboreal.
young adulthood
Several years had gone by since Harmonia had fled the island, and her heartsickness had been eased with time. She initially landed in the Rainforest, just as she had planned to do with Arboreal, but she had found nothing of value or interest. At least, not until she learned of the animus.
There were whispers of a dragon that went by the name of Laurelwearer, a NightWing animus who lived in Possibility. He was said to have blessed many with gifts, but everyone who spoke of him said that he demanded a price.
Harmonia, of course, still lusted after power. She had dreamed of being magic since she had met Arboreal with her broken powers. She had wanted those accursed abilities; here was an opportunity to do much better.
She set off at once for Possibility, a journey that took two weeks in all. She at last landed at the town and was blown away by the bustle, so much more active than anything in the Rainforest. She was overwhelmed with the smells and sights, but there was only one thing on her mind: find Laurelwearer.
She at last came to his home, a den covered with treasures both old and new. He sat alone on a lush carpet, delicately eating a plate of scorpions. When he heard Harmonia's soft talonsteps, his head snapped up. He had the most horrific eyes, dark black and lightless. Harmonia had to look away before they could suck her into their voids. 
"Laurelwearer?" she asked quietly. The dragon nodded.
"And who might you be?" he asked, though Harmonia had a feeling he already knew.
"H-Harmonia," she said, suddenly feeling small in the hulking NightWing's presence.
"What do you want, Harmonia?" The dragon asked, not unkindly.
"I want power," she said.
"You'll have to be more specific than that," Laurelwearer chuckled.
"The power to..." Harmonia didn't want to be an animus; she had heard stories on her travels of how animii went insane if they used their powers too often. "To grant wishes," she finished.
"Well, that will come at a price," Laurelwearer said slyly. Harmonia had been expecting that.
"What do you want? More riches? My servitude?" she asked, ready for anything.
"No, darling," the NightWing said. "I want your one great love. Arboreal." He said her name dully, his bravado falling flat on its face in an ominous way.
Harmonia was taken aback. "Never," she said. "Never as long as I live."
The NightWing looked about ready to take the broken animus himself, but stopped. His eyes met hers, and Harmonia shivered as their cold gaze swept over her body. "A trade then," he said, his grandiose tone back again. "I will give you half of what you ask in exchange for less."
Harmonia was afraid to lose the opportunity to finally gain power. All of her wits went out the door as she said, "Anything."
~
Laurelwearer had kept his word, at least. Harmonia was gifted with the power to grant wishes for one night only. But at a terrible cost.
When she opened her eyes after the enchantment, she gasped. The animus had brilliant blue eyes, beautiful large blue eyes, quite like her own. How had she mistaken those eyes for the black holes she saw earlier?
She walked outside, feeling the new power course through her blood and swirl around her. An elation built up within her. She went to a bar to celebrate, grabbing a drink. When she looked down at the liquid to drink from her straw, she gasped.
Her reflection was different.
Instead of her eyes, her beautiful, cherished eyes, were two black voids with no sclera.
She growled low in her chest.
The animus had tricked her.
adulthood
Soon after gaining her powers, Harmonia set up a wish-granting business in Possibility, earning her bird Daydream from one of her richer clients. she quickly became wealthy as more and more dragons came to her for a night with their greatest wish, and she bought an abandoned island in the Bay of a Thousand Scales with gems and gold to spare, calling it Dayspring Isle.
She hired the best animii to build the carnival for her and recruited magicians, anomalies, and carnies alike to help her get more attraction, and soon her carnival was one of the most popular places in all of Pyrrhia or Pantala.
But some things never changed.
Harmonia still pined for Arboreal, left behind on that island with her parents.
She still resented Laurelwearer, that tricky NightWing animus, who wore her eyes like jewelry.
And, most of all, she still had that void. That need for danger, for life. The need for power and glory.
So yes, maybe she is a fallen angel.
But if that's true, then she fell all the way to the Devil.
relationships
"Love is a worthless investment. Fate is much more reliable."
Arboreal
Positive and deteriorating
"I want to spend the whole night with you, curled up under the constellations."
This broken Leaf-Ice animus was once Harmonia's best friend and girlfriend, and they were thick as thieves. However, after Harmonia left her, Arboreal began to resent her and soon moved on, always with a bitterness towards her former love in her heart. Harmonia wishes things could have been different, but Arboreal remembers their relationship as toxic and is glad she is gone.
Lari
Positive
"I wish you weren't injured so we could travel the seas together."
Harmonia always looked up to her mother, as she was an explorer before her injury and thus very worldly. She always wanted to know more about her earlier life, and she was incredibly interested in everything her mother had to say.
gallery
"There is nothing more beautiful nor more volatile than a dream."
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credits
Here is all the credit for the sources from which I got some of this material! There's probably a better way to phrase that, but apparently I am incapable of Englishing today. Anyways, here is the credit:
*Poetry verses at the beginning- A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
*Infobox image- ●passive○thoughts°• on weheartit.com
*Soundcloud link #1- City of Stars by the La La Land cast
*Soundcloud link #2- I Put a Spell on You by Annie Lennox
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