Terminus

Terminus is an IceWing-RainWing-NightWing hybrid who lives in the Scorpion Den. Though young, he holds a deep-seated grudge against the Mambas, the city's most notorious criminal group, for having caused the death of his mother. He can't do anything against them on his own, but is searching to ally with others who have their sights set on taking the group down. His father is Howler, whom he has a strained relationship with.
:Description
Terminus is gorgeous, no doubt about it. While he mostly looks like his IceWing mother, he does not have the spiny tail or winter-cold scales most IceWings have. It's unknown whether he lacks the latter feature due to his mixed heritage or the fact that he was hatched and raised in a relatively warm climate and cannot afford to draw in heat.
Most of Terminus's scales are very pale in color. However, he has a color point pattern on his face, talons, and tail, almost like a cat. These patches of dark scales sometimes have faint bands of color that ripple across them like auroras in a night sky, always changing in intensity and location.
:Personality
Most of the time, Terminus is very passive and prone to keeping his head down. Nine out of ten times he will take the easy route, and this type of thinking has kept him alive in the Scorpion Den even if he has lost a great many valuables to getting mugged. However, even a doormat like Terminus has his limits, and when pushed too far he starts planning incredible machinations. The problem is, most of the time the revenge he plans is too complex to effectively be executed, and so it has to remain within the realm of fantasy.
:History
Terminus was a mistake. His parents, Snowpack and Howler, never intended for anything to result from their brief fling as coworkers on a digsite, and when they learned they were going to have an egg it was enough to shatter what little affection remained between them. Howler wanted to smash the egg the minute it was laid, but Snowpack felt pity for the child. And so, they worked out a deal; they would stay together until the egg was laid, and then Snowpack would take it with her back to her home in the Scorpion Den, but if she was ever unable to care for the dragonet it would live with Howler in the Night Queendom until it was seven years old.
Snowpack was not the most morally upstanding of dragons, and made a living smuggling artifacts from the Night Queendom's archeological sites and selling them in the Scorpion Den. She felt no need to move anywhere else despite now having a child, and so Terminus grew up playing with SandWing and fellow hybrid dragonets in the Den's scorching heat. Despite his meek nature, Terminus was surprisingly not a target of many bullies, likely because he was too boring and would just stand there and take any insults thrown at him.
When Terminus was five years old, his mother ended up crossing the Mambas. He doesn't remember the details of what Snowpack did, but he does clearly remember the day she was taken prisoner by them, as that was the last time he ever saw her alive. Though this ignited a burning desire for revenge in this dragon's heart, he knew he had to follow her wishes and live with his father in the Night Queendom until he reached adulthood.
Howler was less than impressed with his son. Even after several years had passed he still wanted nothing to do with Terminus, and only took him in out of duty. The tail end of Terminus's childhood was lonely indeed, as he had left all of his friends behind and his father preferred to bury his snout in his work rather than give him any time of day. He was more than happy to be kicked out by Howler on his seventh hatching day (though it still stung. A lot), as now he was free to plot his revenge and the downfall of the Mambas once and for all.
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