Aubergine

unable to assimilate into either tribe, they have spent the last seven years alone...art by lee!
appearance
If you were ever assigned a venture outside of the Hives, you might have seen them; a violet-blue creature, head swaying in the grasses. With their gentle, smooth scales and golden antennae, there is no doubt that they are a SilkWing. However, the strange, relaxed webs that run along their back and their chest –– so different from the small hard spines of the fellows of your tribe –– suggest that they might not be entirely that.
None of your fellow SilkWing workers are sure what they might be, to be honest. No HiveWing possesses such frills; even then, the dragon has no black scales. They are a foreign thing, to be sure, but –– they leave it alone. There is no need to harm another of their own.
Mainly a vibrant violet and plum, smaller, pale-green scales overlap on top like the flaking skin of taro and continue down their body. The round markings just below their eyes is the same color, as is their underbelly; running alongside that is a line of even lighter green scales, so pale it's almost white. Their horns are a stony grey; their strange frills a deep sage green. On the tip of their tail is a webbed round thing the same deep green, fading into gold.
And yet, their wings. Strange and swooping, they possess only two, and instead of being ovular in shape are totally irregular. One of the workers sworn that she's seen such wings before, but the rest are all clueless. Her eyes grow wide and she shakes her head. No, she says. Forget it. It must be some sort of genetic defect, those wings. Vivid gold, the same as on the tip of their tail, fades into an unassuming grey-brown.
Despite their constant whispers of the creature, they have never approached them. They've seldom seen their figure in the fields more than once; if they do, it is only after months have elapsed that they have seen them again. Perhaps with those striking violet scales encasing the majority of their body, they have learned to hide; have learned to live life in motion, away from the Hives.
If they had lived in the Hives in any point in their life, it is unclear. Most of the workers certainly don't think so; even with the natural vibrancy of their colors there is a dull, unwashed quality to their scales; additionally, even from such a distance they could discern their sallowness, the hollows of their cheekbones. Perhaps not starved, not yet –– only, barely getting the minimum of nutrition. As a result, their figure is lean, and yet somehow rather tall as well. If the workers had not been monitored so closely by the HiveWings watching them, they could have brought them their spare yams and okra.
They are a young thing, is the general consensus. Even with their height –– quite a few centimeters above the average –– they have an air of inexperience with life. The workers, especially those newer to the job and those in the Chrysalis, tend to murmur worriedly about their health when there are no HiveWings around to overhear.
history
*poisonwing & rebel silkwing parents mayhaps
**Jequirity (cae/caer) & Tortrix (she/he?) ?? lesbians???
** accidentally abandoned as an egg? tortrix was tracked down by queen wasp; jequirity launched a one-man rescue mission that didn't work out
** managed to get caerself back to the poisonwing village where they had been staying for a few years but couldn't find caer egg agh as it had taken caer a few weeks to get out. aubrey had hatched already
*found by some sapwing idk none of this makes sense. some old lady that lived by herself in the middle of nowhere. hell not even poison jungle out by the hills north of beetle lake. Althea she/her with her children all passed during the Tree Wars or something idk abt the timeline
** ofc she named them eggplant. jequirity about to be MAD mad
** althea's a little unhinged but genuinely thought that the egg was abandoned. idk how she just came across it but old ladies are magical tbh things just Happen
** eventually she passes away from old age as u do and Aubrey has literally no other contacts in the world except for the mail carrier, Rowan
* ok whatever i'll work on it
* eventually they're a total cryptid creature just wandering around pantala, enjoying the peace of nature like Althea taught them to
* blah blah they become an accomplice in the SilkWing revolution -- eventually a treestuff gatherer approaches them or smth and they get convinced to do stuff idk and leafwing blah blah war battle idk i didn't read the books. okay
* i'll workshop it
gallery
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I hate drawing legs.png|by lee
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aublucybase.png|base by revek
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Category:Characters
Category:Work in Progress
Category:SilkWings
Category:LeafWings
Category:Hybrids
Category:LGBT+
Category:Non-binary
Category:Content (ForeverFalling712)
Category:Occupation (Traveler)
Category:Subtype (Leafspeak)
Category:Status (Rebel)