Consensus

Consensus is a female AviWing. She tends to be cold and a bit calculating, isn't social, and would probably prefer to be at home with her numbers. She loves numbers more than dragons; numbers don't try to trick her or act outraged when she beats them at debate. Not that they're very good debaters; she finds them very easy to manipulate.
Consensus is part of the Talon Court, high up in the AviWing government, and she does tell herself she likes having a high-up position like that, even if she has to interact with other dragons more than she'd like. She likes long walks and drawing golden spirals in beach sand, and she will always take a chance to go swimming when she has the time. 
However, there is another side to her, but she won't let you see it; inside her house is an enormous mess of everything she's working on. Papers to sign, invitations to be dealt with, letters from her brother, and sketches she's made, trying to deal with her past and still hang on to the present. Her sleep schedule is as much a mess as her house; sometimes she sleeps at night like a usual dragon, but often stays up late trying to work by the light of whatever fire she can get her talons on, and then nearly runs late to meetings she has in the morning. 
Still, it's life for her, and it works... sort of. She's pretty sure it'll all fall apart at some point, but she doesn't have time to keep that from happening. She's just trying to hang on as long as possible before she finally misses a day because she had too many flamesilk lanterns and memories to fall asleep the night before. 
Don't tell her her schedule is falling apart, though. At best you'll get a low hiss and raised tail darts, at worst you'll end up kicked out of her house with one in your leg. 
== Appearance ==
Consensus is mostly a brownish color all over, with some areas of lighter or darker brown. However, there is one large flash of bright blue on each wing, rimmed with dark gray and white. Her voice usually sounds like she couldn't care less about whatever she's talking about, although it does periodically crack and show that she really does care about things. Consensus sometimes wears a small silver anklet, although she usually does not, since it reminds her of her first boyfriend. Since she can sometimes be overwhelmed by too many memories coming back to her all at once, she doesn't wear it anywhere she can't mess up. In these situations, she'll sometimes wear a copper armband instead; she got it recently enough that it carries few memories. 
== Personality ==
Consensus always keeps her personality from others. She has had a lot of practice holding back emotion from her face and voice, so that it hardly shows in her thoughts. She has a fair sense of morality... usually. It will occasionally break down if she's been trying to hold back memories and emotions for too long. She is an introvert and loves math, along with swimming. 
On the inside, Consensus is slowly falling apart into what she's been calling her "abyss", where her emotions and her memories of her old home are enveloping her. She needs someone she can really reach out to, who can help her with the abyss, but right now she has no one except for her brother Opaque, and he lives far away from her. They write letters to each other quite often, but she doesn't usually see him; going back to her old town feels like plunging into her memories, tearing her mind apart. She'd rather stay in her house, hiding from her past while she inches along through the present. A good swim usually helps clear her head a bit, but not all the way. 
Much like the rest of her family, she considers herself religious, but in reality it doesn't play a big part in her life. She has considered trying another relationship, but never very seriously. Partially because she doesn't see herself as being very good at it, and partially because she's afraid of it going as badly as her first one did. 
She would like to think about the future, about what would happen if she left the Talon Court, but she feels like she doesn't have time. She's only half right. 
== Backstory ==
Consensus hatched in a small, obscure town in the East. She remembers her childhood home quite clearly- the simple stone walls on the outside, decorated with her father's paintings on the inside. He was an artist, and her mother was an accountant. The Winding Tail River was nearby, but she and her brother were forbidden to play in it, as there was a large waterfall not far downstream, and their parents were afraid they'd get washed over it one day. Still, she practically grew up half outside, and was pretty persuasive from the start. 
When Consensus was ten, she had her first brush with romance. Another AviWing that she really liked. He bought her the silver anklet, drew her pictures, hung out with her on late nights. However, Consensus's passion for debate would push between them when they argued, and once, when they were hanging out in his apartment, her taste in fruit turned out to be quite different from his. After a lengthy argument, he flew off into the raging thunderstorm outside. She never heard from him again, and two days later got a letter saying that he was dead, killed by lightning. 
Consensus was heartbroken, to say the least. Everywhere in the small town they'd lived in, she had memories of the two of them walking, wing to wing, ordering drinks from the little restaurant-tavern, doodling in sand or dirt, looking at jewelry they loved but knew they couldn't afford. She moved away barely two months after his death, and threw herself into work to try to get away from it all; she lived on her own for a while, hunting and gathering for herself every day, then moved on to the Wood Throne. She rose through the ranks of the government there within ten years, and when she was twenty-three, she became a member of the Talon Court. 
She still lives in the East, but has done her best to get as far away from her old town as possible. She now lives not too far from the Ivy Temple, although she has never interacted with it. 
Category:AviWings
Category:Females
Category:Occupation (Government)