Starfire (Sunset the Rainwing 13)

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"Why live life, if not to its fullest extent? Why wake up each morning, if you know what that day brings, and the next, and the next? Life is spontaneous, sudden, and hectic. The only way to truly live is to embrace the chaos of the world, and call it your friend." - Starfire
Coding- mostly c/p by me from the free coding guide and edited, no credit necessary, but the 'stats' thing is by Wheatproduct I think :)
Sunset's note: As I've used her and developed her, her personality has changed a bit, so.just keep that in mind when seeing all the different things about her :) 
==Starfire==
You wander through the busy stalls of night bazaar, colors glinting and gleaming in light swinging lanterns. Around you, merchants wave their expensive cloths at you, calling after you, "Sir? Sir? Lovely silk!" You ignore them all, instead slowly perusing aisles with a soft smile on your kind features. 
Suddenly, a flash of bright gold catches your eye, not out of place in this place full of SkyWings, SilkWings, and RainWings, but somehow... different. You curiously turn towards it - nothing but another silk stall. You continue, feeling vaguely disappointed. But then, again, that gold! This time you whip your head around faster, catching the dragon. 
She is beautiful, dark red with pure black spines and purple eyes. Her underbelly is pale red, with gold teardrop shapes on each segment. Her wings are the same purple as her eyes, speckled with gold, and unusually large. 
You approach her carefully, her large eyes seeming to bore into your soul. Just as you reach her, she gives you a sweet smile and darts away, not a word exchanged. Not quite knowing why, you follow her, watching her long- RainWing? - tail disappear around a corner. 
She leads you deeper into the maze of alleys, the sounds of the bazaar fading behind you. At first, plenty of dragons roamed the streets and bright torches lit the road, but now the dragons are few and far between, similar to the scattered torches. 
Finally, you reach a dead end, and the beautiful dragon twirls around gracefully. Her intelligent eyes meet yours for the second tine, and it feels almost like a curse has been lifted. You glance around at your surroundings, only vaguely remembering the trip. 
"Where- where am I?" You say, bewildered. She leans close, a warm smile playing across her exquisite features, as if to tell you a secret. 
"You know, SkyWings are my favorite." You open your mouth to ask what she means, but all of a sudden you feel a cold, sharp pain. You let out a gasp, glancing down - a sleek silver dagger is plunged straight into your heart, blood pouring onto the pavement. You look up at your killer, and notice more things about her. The glint of coldness in her eyes. The bloodstains on her claws. Another flare of knife-sharp pain, and just as the world fades to darkness, you hear her speak. 
"Dragons betrayed me. And I will get my revenge and reconciliation, one life at a time."
 
"Sometimes, I wish I could be ordinary... then I remind myself that every dragon I kill represents my mother, and every soul I free into the beyond represents my sisters." - Starfire
== History==
Starflight's parents had a forbidden marriage right from the start - the two fell in love when Starfire's mother, Zincite, was visiting the rainforest, and fell in love with a handsome RainWing named Dart. Since Zincite's parents were close to the then-queen, she went to her to announce their engagement and request her blessing, which, while not necessary, made weddings a bigger occasion. 
To her surprise, the queen not only refused to bless the union, but she also forbade it in no uncertain terms. Despite this, the two married in secret, and hid away in the mountains, growing more and more resentful towards the queen who had made them into outcasts, and taking it out on their three dragonets, Heavenly, Rosefinch, and Sunrise. 
Life got worse and worse for the three young dragonets, until one day the queen found them. She threatened to kill the entire family. Zincite and Dart escaped by giving up their daughters to the queen and running away. The queen said that as long a they didn't return, and so long as the dragonets remained hers forever, the couple would be free. None of them knew that Zincite was with egg, and the pair slipped away, free. 
However, the dragonet inside, Starfire, was born sickly and weak. Her father insisted they take her to a healer, the last bit of kindness in him coming out. Zincite and Dart disguised themselves, then snuck into town to the healer's hut, where Starfire did indeed receive the medicine she needed for life. However, on their way out of town someone recognized them, and a troop of the queen's guards chased them, killing Dart. 
Somehow, Zincite and Starfire escaped, and didn't leave their mountain hideaway until Starfire was six years old. But during that time, Starfire's life was barely life at all. Her mother blamed her for Dart's death and so let her leave the cave just twice a week to stretch her wings, fed her sparsely while letting food go to waste herself, and mistreated her daughter. Starfire was always a frail, fragile dragon, and this abuse, both physical and mental, took its toll. When she was finally released on her sixth birthday, she was a wary, paranoid dragonet. If put under too much stress, she would go into a trance-like state and curl into a ball until the danger passed. 
Her mother released her so the two of them could travel to the SkyWing Palace, where the queen and Zincite started having secret meetings. Very few people recognized Zincite, except, of course, her three daughters, who hated life at the palace more than they had hated their former lives. Starfire knew nothing about them, of course, but they knew who she was, and both envied and pitied her. 
Eventually, young Starfire began to make friends - four friends, actually. Her sisters, Heavenly, Rosefinch, and Sunrise, and the prince, Prince Pine. A year passed, and Starfire became an adult, and everyone started realizing something - Starfire was a beautiful dragon, entrancingly so, distractingly so. Pine, just a bit older than her, proposed, and she accepted, finally free from her mother... or so she thought. 
That night, her sisters came to her and told her the whole story, from them being sisters to the rejected engagement to the deal to give away their daughters. Starfire was horrified... and then they told her the rest. Zincite and the queen had been plotting together, forcing Pine to pretend to fall for her. They'd forged a shaky alliance - Starfire would marry Pine, and secure relations to the Rainwings, while Zincite could freely roam wherever she pleased, with absolutely no interference from the queen. 
Just as Heavenly finished explaining, Zincite, the queen, and Pine stepped around the corner. 
"Well, that's some very useful information that you have," Zincite said coldly. She stepped forward, then lunged towards Heavenly, slashing her throat with one move. 
Her other three daughters stared at her, Starfire both the least surprised and most hurt. She had just found her sisters. Sisters. The word felt wonderful in Starfire's mouth. She closed her eyes for a second, warding off the daze that would inevitably follow her stress. When she opened her eyes again, Sunrise was dead, and Zincite was creeping towards Rosefinch. 
Starfire tried to leap forward, tried to help her sister, the kindest and sweetest of the three - she couldn't move. Every muscle was frozen, every limb locked in place. She could already feel herself getting lost in her own mind- no. 
She fought, even as the darkness pressed in. 
She fought, even as her sister's body fell, and her blood soaked her talons. 
She fought, as Zincite approached her, a grim smile across her snout. 
She fought, and broke through. She was in a daze, but not a petrified one. Her claws slashed, her talons moved almost of their own accord. When she finally collapsed, the queen, Pine, and her mother all lay in front of her, throats neatly slashed. She looked down at her blood-soaked talons, then back up at the bodies. Then she fled. 
They would blame her, of course - seven dragons enter a hallway alive, six are found dead, the conclusion is obvious. 
She couldn't feel grief as she flew, only anger, rage, resentment. At last she reached a place to sleep, and spent the whole night in a tight ball, the dead bodies of her family and future family flashing through her mind, repeating over and over with vicious clarity. She cried and cried and cried, and then, she stopped. Something in her had frozen, and she was ready for the world. But she wouldn't, she couldn't, be an ordinary dragon again. She thought of that trance, the death it had brought. She knew it would come again, and she decided she might as well take advantage of it. 
From then on, she was the Siren of the Darkness.
 
Oops, you think I'm in love / That I'm sent from above / I'm not that innocent - Oops!...I did it again, Britney Spears
==Today==
Today, she is the Siren of the Darkness, luring unsuspected males to their untimely deaths. She eventually realized that while in the trance, she could enchant her targets with her gaze, her purple eyes leading them anywhere. 
She travels Pyrrhia, seeking crowded markets or busy cities, then revealing herself just long enough to catch their attention. Sometimes, when she stands over the body of her latest victim, or cleans off her silver dagger once again, she wishes she could have an ordinary life, wishes she could find true love. But then she reminds herself - every death is one more bit of revenge for her sisters, every death is like killing her mother, and the queen, and Pine, all over again.
And that makes it all worth it.
 
"Dragons betrayed me. And I will get my revenge and reconciliation, one life at a time." - Starfire
== Appearance==
She is truly a beautiful dragon, dark red with gold accents. Her spines are midnight black, and her large purple eyes are intelligent and fierce. Her underbelly is pale red, with gold teardrop shapes on each segment. She has no ruff, but a long, elegantly graceful neck and a long prehensile tail. Her wings, the same deep purple as her eyes, are extremely large, lending to excellent flying. Her wings are speckled with gold, and she wears a silver dagger strapped inconspicuously to her front leg. She is still unhealthily thin from her horrible childhood, but somehow this does not detract from her overall beauty 
 
Starfire: Beauty is overrated.
Lantern: Only someone beautiful would say that. 
Starfire: You already have a girlfriend.
==Personality==
======1-5 (her weak years):======
Weak-willed, quiet, paranoid, mentally unstable
======6-7 (her happy years):======
Kind, sweet, loving, happy, eager to learn, in love
======8+ (her Siren years):======
Cold, heartless, cruel, lonely
 
"I don't spend time with other dragons because I don't like other dragons. And that includes you, so if you want stay alive, I'd suggest you immediately exit the premises." - Starfire
==Relationships ==
Canon
=====Lantern • Alive • Positive • Tentative friends=====
She met Lantern on one of his journeys and tried to kill him, but he was immune to her enchantment and had quick enough reflexes to eventually overpower her. They came to a grudging agreement that neither of them will admit to being a friendship. He's the only one who she allows to call her Star, and they regularly meet up. Starfire has reluctantly admitted that his visits probably kept her sane through her worst times, of blood and death and darkness. (Just to be clear - not a ship, just best friends who sorta also hate each other lol)
Crag• Alive • Neutral • Cousins 
Emerald• Alive • Negative • Mutual dislike 
Lynn • Alive • Neutral/Positive • Finds her entertaining 
Fanon
=====Oral • Alive • Negative/Neutral • Acquaintances=====
Astral's OC 
Starfire met Oral in the rainforest and decided to kill her, but changed her mind at the last second, not wanting to kill a dragonet. The two have a shaky alliance, although they both know that if one of them got a chance to kill the other, she would take it.
===== Gild • Alive • Negative • Enemies=====
J's OC 
Gild and Starfire met during their separate travels and despised each other from the start. Both were cruel and manipulative, and if opposite attract, then similarities deter. Both have tried to kill the other on several occasions. Starfire considers Gild her mortal enemy, her nemesis, and vice versa.
=====Pyro • Alive • Negative • Enemies=====
Night's OC 
Pyro, a general in the SkyWing army, heard about dragons - especially SkyWings - disappearing, and decided to investigate. When he found Starfire, she contemplated killing him, but noticed in time his firescales. Unfortunately, she still couldn't leave it at that, and taunted him until he got fed up and attacked her. She retaliated by tricking him into falling into a small pond, which cooled him down enough for her to nick him with her dagger. This back-and-forth retaliation and tricks have been going on ever since, each doing their best to do in the other.
 
==Quotes==
"The only way to truly live is to embrace the chaos of the world, and call it your friend."
"Dragons betrayed me. And I will get my revenge and reconciliation, one life at a time."
Starfire: "Beauty is overrated." 
Lantern: "Only someone beautiful would say that." 
Starfire: "You already have a girlfriend."
"I don't spend time with other dragons because I don't like other dragons. And that includes you, so if you want stay alive, I'd suggest you immediately exit the premises."
"Sometimes... sometimes I think you're the only thing keeping me sane.
Lantern: "No, Star, say it. I will not murder random dragons. Say it." 
Starfire: "I will most definitely murder you if you don't shut your snout. 
Lantern: "ah, ah ah, that's not what I said-" 
Starfire *shoots him a death glare* 
Lantern: "Right. Sometimes it's hard to remember I'm talking to the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia." 
Starfire: "Pyrrhia and Pantala." 
Lantern: "Well, I wouldn't go THAT far..." *sees her face* "Yep, definitely."
"There is no hope left in the world, not for dragons like me. At least, I thought that until you came along."
Lantern: "We are so most definitely friends." 
Starfire: "WE ARE NOT FRIENDS."
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