Cutthroat

Cutthroat was a male NightWing who was partially responsible for getting the NightWings independence from the RainWings and the South Pyrrhian Empire. He was born to a low-class NightWing family in the NightWing village, where he grew up before attending the rebuilt NightWing school, which was renamed to Nightshade Academy, where he joined the independence movement for the NightWings. 
He, alongside Fatekeeper and the next NightWing queen, Half Moon, gained independence for the new Night Queendom in 5,961 AS. He was married to Dreamwatcher, and had three dragonets, Ghostseer, Soulcrusher and Duskbringer before dying of a disease spread by lizards.
==Appearance==
Cutthroat had an intimidating, sturdy and strong build with black scales with lighter grey dapples on his tail and storm blue undertones. His eyes were a bright orange and were always fixated on multiple things at once. His tail is long and thick, and he seemed to drag it around rather than having it curled gracefully. Cutthroat also had blue stars under and over his wings and some on his underbelly too. Cutthroat's face was painted with a tired expression shortly before he died, and his starry wings occasionally drooped. Many anti-NightWing propaganda say that his horns and spikes look like malicious and unpolished basalt spikes, with sharp, menacing teeth and a false expression of neutrality when he was scheming. 
He occasionally wore a pale amber and onyx necklace that resembled a half-moon, a tribute to his friend and the NightWing independence movement, and a simple platinum wedding ring on one of his right claws. 
==Personality ==
Cutthroat was very intimidating, prideful, motivated, cruel, stealth and cunning. He often thought with his claws before his mind and was very standoffish. He was always very loud and opinionated, even at a very young age, and cared greatly for tradition, especially NightWing tradition. However, Cutthroat was also fair and brutally honest with those he was around and was very prideful and protective of his tribe. He is seen as heroic and brave, putting his tribe and family before himself. He would be more than willing to kill in the name of justice, and Ghostseer describes him as eerily emotionless in many situations where one should have emotion. Despite his violent tendencies, he is more than capable of negotiating things.
Cutthroat was once insecure when he was younger, especially before he joined the NightWing independence movement. These insecurities still affect him, such as with a chunk of the RainWing tribe seeing him as a genuinely bad dragon and worrying how the other tribes would think about him and his tribe, and a desire for things relating to him that were abnormal to be normal. He often tried getting Ghostseer to see what he wanted her to see, such as living dragons' minds, and was constantly disappointed by her ability to see and read souls and spirits. He was very overbearing on his dragonets, and strict too, and wanted them to be raised in NightWing circles. 
==Biography==
Note: This takes place in the 5900s. See here for a clearer timeline.
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|-|Pre-Hatching=
Cutthroat's parents lived in a slightly more expensive town closer to the RainWing village a few years before he hatched, and both of them had jobs. His mother worked as a farmer and his father was a guard for the village. They had a dragonet before Cutthroat, however, shortly after the dragonet hatched, they wandered off and got taken by a panther, which devastated Cutthroat's parents. However, Cutthroat's father was outed for sneaking to the NightWing island, and he lost his job. They ended up moving to the NightWing village, and they had Cutthroat's egg.
|-|Dragonethood=
Cutthroat hatched in the NightWing village in the South Pyrrhian Empire where he was raised in a low-class family. He hatched with mind reading abilities and weak foresight and lived a relatively unhappy life. His mother was extremely overprotective, and barely let him leave to go to another room. She frequently took him to work, and had a harness attached to him similarly to Queen Coral and her daughters. He showed very violent tendencies as a dragonet as well, constantly shrieking, clawing and biting others, especially his mother whenever he was upset.
His father was not allowed to take on any guard-like jobs for a few years and had to work as a fruit gatherer. Because of this, Cutthroat's father drilled a resentment of the RainWing tribe in Cutthroat from a young age. Cutthroat went to a local school starting at the age of two, where he excelled in athletic classes that required physical activity. He made many friends at school and was even elected as class queen (In his case, class king) in his second year of school. Around the age of five, he applied for Nightshade Academy, where he was accepted.
|-|Education=
Cutthroat was one of the many students joining Nightshade Academy, an intercontinental and intertribal school in the old Night Queendom. Here he met one of his friends and the dragon who introduced him to the NightWing independence movement, Fatekeeper. Cutthroat joined one of Nightshade Academy's athletic teams, because of his excelling in sports and his strength. Cutthroat was also very involved with his extracurricular activities and clubs, and eventually decided that he would spend his career fighting in the NightWing independence movement. 
During one of his later years of university, he met his future wife, Dreamwatcher, who transferred from another school, Diamond Spray Academy because Empress Mango ordered it must be so. He really enjoyed her presence, and the two got along very well, which caused Fatekeeper to tease them about being a couple. Cutthroat also recruited Dreamwatcher into the independence movement, and during his last years of school, said independence movement took over his life. 
Although he was never dropped from his sports team, he came close to it, and he was quickly judged by others in Nightshade Academy. Fatekeeper eventually dropped out and convinced Cutthroat and his girlfriend Dreamwatcher to meet Half Moon, the unofficial Queen of the NightWings and leader of the movement for one of the meetings of the higher-ups. Fatekeeper was among the youngest of the "highter-ups" of the NightWing independence movement, and Half Moon, as well as many of the others, took a liking to Cutthroat and Dreamwatcher, and saw potential in them. Eventually, these meetings became regular, and Cutthroat missed a lot of time at school.
Cutthroat graduated from Nightshade Academy after five years shortly after Dreamwatcher. Shortly after, Dreamwatcher proposed to Cutthroat and he accepted, and both of them moved to the outskirts of the old NightWing palace, not too far from the school.
|-|Independence Movement=
The old NightWing palace was taken by force at some point when Cutthroat was at Nightshade Academy. After the newly married couple moved to the outskirts of the palace, the NightWing independence movement saw a surge of new members, and Cutthroat as well as Dreamwatcher were moved to the palace. Also at the same time, the independence movement was no longer peaceful; Battles started to occur more frequently, especially at the Winding Tail River. When Cutthroat heard this, he told Dreamwatcher that he was going to join the militia, which caused him and Dreamwatcher to get into arguments.
However, Dreamwatcher eventually allowed him to go, and he was immediately sent into battle, where he had countless victories. Over the next few years, he rose through the ranks of the NightWing independence movement, and had his first dragonet, Ghostseer, who was blind. Shortly after Ghostseer hatched, Cutthroat had another dragonet, Soulcrusher, who he immediately favored. Dreamwatcher treated the dragonets indifferently and was disappointed in Cutthroat. Cutthroat also took on a role as an assassin and mercenary, taking out targets such as taking out RainWing commanders who were planning attacking the NightWings and the small handful of traitors.
One day, years after Ghostseer and Soulcrusher hatched, the NightWings gained independence and their own Queendom, with Half Moon being recognized across Pyrrhia and Pantala as the new queen of the NightWings. Cutthroat was promoted as the general of the NightWings, and he had his last dragonet, Duskbringer.
|-|Later Life=
Cutthroat and his family lived a relatively peaceful life in the palace. Cutthroat lived long enough to hear the news of the first animus LeafWing and IceWing as well as getting vague visions of the SkyWing Civil War and Queen Crescent's reign of terror over her tribe. However, when Cutthroat and his family went camping, Cutthroat was bitten by a lizard and fell ill.
He was sick for about a week before he died a slow and painful death, and his family and friends grieve for him. His family and Queen Half Moon dedicated many memorials and tributes to him, and he is credited as the first NightWing general ever since the NightWings got their own queen again.
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==Gallery==
CutthroatTemplateLuni.png|Reference by The Lumino Wolf
File:NightWingBase.png|By Joy Ang
File:NightWing Sigil.png|By Platypus the SeaWing
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