Paradox (Bronze)

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Paradox is a 23 year-old SkyWing-IceWing hybrid introduced in "Until Tomorrow". Hatched in the middle of an IceWing attack, he was adopted by Hooktail and had much of his early memories erased by Dulcify. He currently lives in the Claws of the Clouds Mountains.
== Description ==
Paradox's form is mostly that of a red SkyWing with a salmon underside. He has large IceWing scales tipped in yellow and crimson down his sides. Spikes are notable behind his head and back, the latter being a magenta-ish color. His wings are orange, lined in aqua blue scales. Paradox's tail is short and ends in a bunch of tail spikes.
He often has slight vapors of frostbreath emerging from his nostrils/mouth.
== History ==
=== Background ===
Paradox was born to unnamed IceWing and SkyWing parents during quite literally the worst time. IceWings were attacking Possibility, and his parents were prime targets. After the attack, with his parents nowhere in sight, a NightWing named Hooktail took an interest in him. Perplexed by his hybrid nature, she gave him the name Paradox and fought for custody of him. She achieved it a year later.
Paradox was deeply traumatized by the destruction and calamity of the attack. Hooktail's partner Sandpaper suggested bringing him to a dragon he knew who could purge memories. After a month of debate, they eventually decided to pursue that option.
=== Until Tomorrow ===
Sandpaper met with the dragon Dulcify while Paradox and Hooktail remained out. The latter two were eventually called in, and Hooktail took out the traumatic memories of the attack but not before collapsing until the next day as Dulcify said.
==Personality==
As a dragonet, Paradox was known to be mortified from the IceWing invasion he was born in until Dulcify purged those memories. Otherwise, he appeared to be playful, obedient, and trusting of strangers.
== Abilities ==
Paradox resists cold temperatures well and exudes coldness from his scales, albeit not as cold as an IceWing's chill and more like the sensation of a soda out of an ice chest: Cold enough to startle if touched accidentally, but not straight up ice. He has SkyWing stamina and air speed.
=== Breath ===
Paradox's breath is excessively smoky. Just by huffing a few times he can easily cloud a small room for a moment. This breath is cool enough to leave a thin layer of harmless ice on whatever it touches. Paradox can store the coldness to use as a weaker, warmer frostbreath that spreads slower and takes more time to charge compared to conventional frostbreath. It is still dangerous and can cause permanant frost damage.
Strong emotions, especially rage, can cause the hybrid's temperature to increase to the point where he can't form frostbreath until his temperature drops again.
His breath gravitates upwards which causes Paradox to almost always have misty vapors emanating from his nostrils and mouth when opened. His teeth is notably glazed in ice from it.
== Relations ==
=== Hooktail ===
Paradox considers Hooktail to be his mother and sticks closely to her. She yelled at Dulcify after Paradox fainted, indicating that she cares about him back.
=== Sandpaper ===
Paradox considers Sandpaper to be his father and sticks closely to him.
== Gallery ==
ParadoxRedesignIdea.jpg|Redesign concept in proportion
ParadoxTransparent.png|Paradox reference (old)
Paradoxhead.png|Headshot (old)
ParadoxheadAlt.png|Alternate headshot using original spine idea (see Trivia for details)
==Trivia==
* Paradox's name is derived from paradoxical reaction, a reaction to a chemical that makes it do the opposite of what it was intended to, used in the realm of medicine.
** His old nickname was actually Paradoxical as a direct reference to this.
** The reasoning for the name mainly has to do with the fact he mostly looks and acts like a SkyWing, yet breathes frostbreath, unlike a SkyWing, which is the opposite of what one would expect.
** The original name for Paradox was going to be somewhere along the lines of Iceburn or Frostburn, but I thought those were lame, did some digging, and discovered the paradoxical reaction which I thought was more unique.
** Seeing that the name breaks both IceWing and SkyWing naming conventions, I justified it by having Hooktail, a NightWing, coin it since it sounds most like a NightWing name.
* While Icecap is the first OC I made on the wiki, Paradox is the first OC concept. The idea came on the return trip from California to our house. It was notably different because:
** Paradox was a dragonsona.
** Paradox was female.
** Paradox absolutely loved rock music and shredded on guitar (which is funny today: IRL I enjoy it but don't love it).
** Paradox was blue.
* Paradox is the second OC to be colored (in Pixlr out of all things), the first to be derrived from a traditional sketch, and the first hybrid OC.
* Paradox's back spikes were made too short and skinny in the original ref. They were supposed to be fatter and almost twice as long, going down the first half of his neck (similar to hair in a way), but I never bothered to fix it and didn't, even in the portrait I made much later. The spikes also had a gradient like the tail spikes; I decided to keep them completely dark red. 
* He is the first OC to be drawn by someone else.
* Much of Paradox's old personality was adopted by Mooseblight.
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