Papillon

PAPILLION
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- My memory refused -- To separate the lies from truth -- And search the past -- My mind created -- I finally see what -- You knew was inside me -- All along -
Papillion 	Papillion
 	
Background 	Background
Creator 	Delta
Artist 	Celestial
Photo 	Ahmed Nishaath
Coder 	Jack
Code Base 	Himmalerin
Attribute 	Naive / Sweet
Element 	Sunshine
Color 	Golden orange
Animal 	Puppy
Song 	
Character 	Character
Nicknames 	Papi, The Life Weaver
Age 	15
Gender 	Female
Orientation 	Lesbian
Occupation 	Nurse
Tribe 	SilkWing
Goal 	Have her whole family together again
Residence 	The Ten's House (Formerly)Great Gears Boarding House (Currently)
Relatives 	Her adopted siblings
Allies 	Father Calamity, her siblings, Miss Tebbs (rip), Beach (rip), Gale
Enemies 	Dragons who get in the way of her goals, dragons who keep her between her family, rude dragons, loud dragons, dragons who hurt her family, Miss Mosquito (her landlord), dragons who keep secrets
Likes 	Everything! Just kidding . . . sunshine, the beach, nice dragons, helping others, the rest of her siblings, Father Calamity, Miss Tebbs, food, lemon tea, playing with her dolls, getting her siblings to play with her, scavengers, daytime, dogs, jokes, peppermint, the smell of apple pie, flying
Dislikes 	Nothing! Kidding . . . being called “dangerous" or “a freak", nighttime, loud noises, the rest of her siblings (sometimes), Father Calamity (it's complicated), waiting, patience, bugs (especially mosquitos), social interactions, dragons who try to hurt her and her family, secrets no one ever shares with her
Powers 	Has the ability to manipulate life force, silk
Weapons 	Silk, her powers
Love Interests	Gale
Quote 	“HI! I'm your new neighbor Papillon! I like sunshine and animals! But I'm not good at social interaction since I spent the first ten years of my life locked in a house with my Father and siblings. Bye!”
APPEARANCE
Papillion is slightly plump, looking like she's eaten one too many mangoes and is about the average size for a dragonet her age. But despite her plumpness, she is constantly vibrating with excited energy and never stops moving. Her tail is long and is constantly lashing back and forth, often knocking things over or tripping dragons. She always has a bright smile on her round, slightly puppy-like face, having a sweet curve to her snout. Her scales are smooth and round, but they are occasionally interrupted by the occasional scar. She has several scars slashed along her palms, several across her tail, and long claw marks along her face and wings, though they are nearly invisible against the color of her scales. Her wings are long and graceful, and are flapping all the time, propelling her into the air for a few seconds every minute or two.
She has very light orange scales like the brightest of sunsets, starting dark orange at the tip of her tail and moving slowly to pure light white at the tip of her snout. She has dark, blood-colored crimson horns and spines, with a slightly lighter underbelly. She has two circles of pure, dark, almost-black gray encircling her eyes and the same color cheetah like speckles running from her face down to the tip of her tail and spiraling down her legs. Her claws are a light sunset yellow, and they are long and sharp, and always on the move, tapping or twisting together.
Her eyes are by far the most dazzling, being a bright orange color like someone had melted a sunset and flung into her eyes, and they glow a bright sunset yellow when she uses her powers. They are almond-shaped and soft, and they crinkle at the edges when she smiles (Which is basically all the time). Her pupils are dilated all the time, large and round, which allow her to get away with pretty much anything, but when she uses her powers, they shrink until they are almost non-existent.
She rarely wears jewelry, she finds it too heavy and confining, usually only a beaded necklace of amber, the beads small and irregularly shaped, sometimes perfect and round, sometimes a strange lumpy shape, with a golden butterfly hanging delicately off of it, and a golden nose ring embedded with tiny rubies. She can occasionally also be seen with a small leather shoulder bag, always holding at least one book, and the tiny woven dolls of Father Calamity and Miss Tebbs.
PERSONALITY
Papillon is sweet and gentle, and she can be very outgoing and cheerful. She always tries to find the bright side to everything, much preferring the bright side to the perhaps more dark reality. She loves to read and considers herself an amateur author and poet, her room constantly full of unfinished works, and she tends to understand animals better than she understand dragons. She is very naive sometimes and believes in the best of all dragons, no matter how rude they've been to her or her siblings. But of course, there is a top to that sweetness, as she firmly believes any dragon who hurts or attempts to hurt any of her siblings, Miss Tebbs or Father Calamity will pay dearly.
Despite her chatty and cheerful nature, she has a dark and angry streak (likely coming from Father Calamity) that is awakened very rarely, but when it is awakened, you probably wouldn't want to be in her eyesight. Due to the nature of her powers, Papillon can be very dangerous, able to kill with just a look, but she prefers to use her powers more for healing, hating having to take life, much to the disappointment of Father Calamity. She can be quite chatty, though only with dragons that she knows, and very persistent when it comes to her goals. If she sets her mind on something, she will continue until she's done it, no matter what she has to do to do it. She doesn't have many friends, as when Father Calamity vanished and her siblings went their separate ways she had no social skills, but is always trying to make new friends, even if she fails miserably at talking to them, coming off as very awkward.
She has gone over her memories with Calamity and her siblings so many times in her head that she had caved into denial, glossing over the bad parts, mixing and matching memories in her head until even she doesn’t know which memories are real and which ones are fake anymore, believing that Father Calamity was training them to help dragons, refusing to believe that he was anything but a helpful teacher and (relatively) kind father figure.
Papillon is a rather strong example of a chaotic good/chaotic neutral person. She has always been the mediator of the family (well as much a mediator as possible), always attempting to solve small arguments and disagreements within the family, though she always does stop just short of picking a side, often letting the conflicts play out with just a bit of nudging that would help her sleep better. Often she will play to both sides of the argument, trying to stay neutral, though internally she may pick sides. She does have a rather strong sense of morals, but having been taught and raised in an environment where there was little to no consequences for for her “bad” actions, as long as they aligned with her fathers needs, when her emotions are heightened, though morals can get warped and she can become dangerously unstable and the line between right and wrong can be blurred. 
Though she is quite loyal towards Father Calamity and believes in the best of him, and though she tends never to pick sides, she does believe deep down that if it ever came to her choosing between her father and her siblings, she would always choose her siblings. Of course she will never admit this out loud and barely acknowledges it in her thoughts, hoping that it will never come to that. 
ABILITIES
With many years of isolation, with no one but Miss Tebbs to keep her company, Papillon has developed multiple abilities that helped keep her entertained for those years. She has become a talented author, using whatever paper she can to write small poems and stories, most of them dealing with her family, talking about her perfect family and perfect life. She also is very talented at origami, and quite good at painting designs on the small paper butterflies and flowers that now hang from practically every inch of her room. Papillon is also very talented with her silk, learning how to weave it into complicated designs, though when it comes to combat or really, anything besides art, she prefers to use her main power.
Papillon's powers reflect her personality, able to be both healing and extremely dangerous. Papillon has the ability to manipulate life force, the spirit or energy that give creatures life, the soul of something. Using her eyes, Papillon can either forcibly take life force from another living creature, potentially killing them if she remains in eye contact with them for long enough, or give some of her own life force to heal other creatures near instantly. There is a danger to this power, as if she gives away too much of her own life force, it could seriously injure her, perhaps even permanently. This power also reflects her emotions, so if her emotions are very intense, like if she is really angry or sad, her powers will be much harder to control. Papillon usually attempts to suppress and hide these emotions, as she fears hurting someone on accident. Her powers are not perfect though, as she must retain some level of eye contact when manipulating one's life force, to maintain the connection between them, and if it is broken, then she can no longer give or take life force.
Papillon is also very graceful and agile, able to move quickly, despite being a bit plump and not very small. Though these skills never translate well with combat, as she gets all nervous and her mind gets fuzzy and worried when she is experiencing heightened emotions. One moment she could be balancing perfectly with one talon on the windowsill, but if you attack her she’ll trip over her own talons. The same goes for her mental state. She is very quick and clever, and she is able to process situations almost instantly, her brain moving at the speed of lightening, allowing her to make quick decisions and split second movements, but again, if you attack her, her brain moves too fast, and that often distracts her. 
HISTORY
Papillon's parents were normal SilkWing's like any other dragons, high school sweethearts, looking forward to having a family together later in life. But then their life fell apart. Her mother got pregnant, and both knew that their parents would be furious and wouldn't pay for anything, so Papillon's father was forced to drop out of their prestigious high school to get a job and pay the expenses, as he couldn't do both full time. Unable to take care of a child, as he couldn't get a job, they put their egg up for adoption. Then they walked out of Papillon's life forever. For seven months, Papillon's egg sat alone in the Sunnyside Orphanage, taken care of by the headmistress, with the other eggs, watching as one by one, they were adopted, until it was finally Papillon's turn. A few days from hatching, Calamity walked into Papillon's life. He looked over the remaining eggs, before resting a talon on Papillon's sunset colored egg and decided she was the one he was looking for.
So he brought her to the Ten's House, put her next to the other eggs, and waited until they began to tremble, and their shells began to crumble. Papillon was the seventh egg to hatch, but when Calamity watched her egg crumble, a shock awaited him. Two dragons sat in the eggshell, one with dark red scales like blood, one with lighter yellow-orange scales, both with matching golden eyes. He leaned down and looked at them, deciding which to keep. One had a fire in her eyes, which may one day burn down the world. But fire is dangerous and hard to control, and she may turn on him one day. The other, the smaller of the two, was much more passive, with no fire in her eyes, but there were sparks, which, if fanned correctly, would become fire, but this time, it was fire he would control. So he reached over and snapped the red dragon's neck, setting Papillon with the rest of the Ten.
She was raised with the rest of the dragonets, though right from the start she was different. As she had no wings, so she couldn't fly like the rest of the Ten, and the Ten would constantly keep secrets from her and even avoid her because she was loud and chirpy and terrible at keeping secrets, so she was more isolated and antisocial than the other Ten (at the beginning), keep company by books, Miss Tebbs and her own imagination. This was the start of her problems, as she let her imagination run wild, imagining that Calamity was a perfect father, and that he loved her and her siblings, shaping him perfectly the way she read in stories. When their training and classes started, she would escape from the abuse by vanishing into her imagination. But when she got her wings at five, she (both literally and physically) came out of her cocoon, a sunny side breaking through her shyness, starting to connect with each of the Ten, though their connection was fractured and built on a foundation of false hope and imagination.
But when she got her powers, her outlook on the world shaped forever. Calamity, unimpressed by her weak fighting skills and athletic abilities, gave her a power that would make it easier for her to kill, perhaps wanting to shape her into a darker dragon. As training went on, she attempted to continue to escape into fantasy, but as the training became more and more physical, Calamity determined to unlock her anger, it became harder and harder.
Then came the fateful day, two weeks after her seventh birthday, when she pledged her loyalty to Calamity and promised to stand with him, igniting the fire within her. Papillon rarely left the house of the Ten, and only with Miss Tebbs, who would often take her to save her from the harsh training she endured. One day, they were at the local farmers market, and right before they got home, a member of a local gang of high schoolers stole her favorite doll that Miss Tebbs had sewn for her. She broke away from the SeaWing caretaker and chased them. But she didn't get far before she was tackled by another dragon. She fought back, but she was never athletic, so they overpowered her easy, taunting her and calling her and her siblings “monsters" and “freaks", calling her father “snobbish" and "evil". And in that moment, Papillon snapped.
No one could speak that way about her family that way. She angrily stared up at the dragon pinning her down, and suddenly, light started pouring from his eyes. Just as Miss Tebbs turned the corner, he collapsed, dead. Papillon was horrified, and the rest of the gang retreated instantly, Miss Tebbs carrying a shivering Papillon home and setting her down in her room. Papillon felt paralyzed and cold all over. She had killed someone with her powers. Miss Tebbs told Father Calamity that evening, and that night he came to her room and sat next to her. She flinched away from him as he put a wing over her and cupped her face in his talons, terrified that she would be mad. But the next five words were not what she was expecting.
“I'm so proud of you." She was shocked as he patted her gently on the head, then stood up, the seriousness returning and left her in shock. Then the excitement came. Father Calamity was proud of her! She had known that dragon was in there, and she had brought him out. Then a second wave of excitement hit her. She had scared the gang that had been tormenting her for years. And that fear came from Calamity's powers. He had made her strong. And for that strength, Papillon promised her Father that she would always be by his side. The next few years passed in a blur, Papillon determined to bring back the gentle dragon that had been shown to her, but no matter how hard she trained and perfected her skills, he never returned. And then, when she was ten years old, he vanished. Without a trace. Just gone. Overnight.
Papillon was crushed, and angry for a bit at everything. She had pledged her loyalty to him and he abandoned her! But again, her imagination warped reality, as she convinced herself that it was part of his plan, and that he wasn't really abandoning them, this was just another step of him plan. And then she was furious at her siblings, who all left, one by one. She was angry at their lack of loyalty, and she was one of the last to leave, with nothing but a bit of money Miss Tebbs had given her and a bag of books and her dolls. She didn't want to go too far in case Father Calamity ever came back, so she rented a room at the boarding house across from the Ten's house, and spend the first year living off nothing, waiting every day by the window for any sign her siblings or Father was returning. But it was only after Miss Mosquito threatened to evict her that she decided she needed to get a job.
So she searched, and eventually found a job as a nurse at the nearby hospital, and began to rise in the ranks, as she used her powers to help every dragon who came along. Though she knew killing made her Father proud, she enjoyed giving life more as time went on, and her memories and time with Father Calamity and the Ten slowly began to fade, with the help of her best friend (and possibly girlfriend?) Gale. But she never let herself forget. And she never let herself see the truth behind her memories, continuing the charade of her perfect family. She never stopped waiting.
Then, five long years later, news of Father Calamity sightings began to circle the hospital. Papillon heard it from her best friend Gale, who was a big gossip girl at the nearby tavern, and her hope instantly returned. Papillon began to visit the Ten's house every single day after work, waiting for any sign, anything that would prove the theories were correct. That would prove that her Father had truly returned.
RELATIONSHIPS
:FATHER CALAMITY
:Papillion has a bit of mixed feelings about her father figure. She understands that he never was a wonderful figure in their life, and he could be cruel, but she justifies all of his actions, saying “oh, he was making us strong", or “oh, I'm sure that he didn't mean it like that". She has a strange, desperate obsession with trying to make him proud and love her the way she tries to love him, willing to do practically whatever it takes to get him to genuinely care for her. She tries to overlook all the bad things about him, and believes that if she's kind enough to him, he will eventually soften and be kind back. Years of isolation and reading caused her to imagine Father Calamity more as a book character than a real dragon, attempting to imagine him as a perfect father, living with their perfect family, so many of her memories of and with him are fractured and broken.
:MISS TEBBS
:Papillon and Miss Tebbs had a much stronger relationship than most anyone else in Papillon's life, right next to Beach, and unlike the other dragons that Papillon grew up with, she rarely had to imagine Miss Tebbs into the perfect dragon, imagining only that Miss Tebbs was her real mother. Papillon grew up cared for by Miss Tebbs, and since she was one of the more naive dragonets, she often needed Miss Tebbs' help and guidance with practically everything, and during this time, the two developed a very strong bond, the pair often confiding in each other, Miss Tebbs comforting Papillon the best she could when training got rough. Papillon sees Miss Tebbs like a mother and always tries to help her out in any way that she can, whether it's helping to clean up the kitchen after dinner or embroidering a silk handkerchief for her birthday.
:TARDIGRADE
:Papillon is rather indifferent towards Tardigrade, as the two never interacted much, Tardigrade often standing behind Father Calamity, taking notes while Papillon trained with her father. Like the rest of the dragons in her life, Papillon attempted to be as friendly as possible towards Tardigrade, but they lacked the fluffy, rosy imagination “bubble" Papillon created for everyone else. There were no parallels to any story that Papillon could use to shape Tardigrade into the dragon she wanted in her mind. Everyone else was relatively easy, Calamity as the father, Miss Tebbs as the mother, and the rest of the Ten were her siblings, but she never could find a spot (with the limited books that she had and managed to keep over the years) that matched the role of Tardigrade. So they were always just a strange figure lurking in the background to her, never really anyone whom she enjoyed being around.
:BEACH
:Beach was Papillon's pet scavenger from age 3 to 7. She found him attempting to steal food on one of her midnight kitchen raids, and thought he was adorable. She brought him back up to her room and did research to see what he was. Unfortunately, Father Calamity discovered her (though she had hidden Beach) and burned her book, saying that she shouldn't be wasting her energy reading during the night, as they had training in the morning. So she never found out what he was, but that didn't matter to her. They developed a best-friend relationship over the four years he was with her, comforting and helping each other, until Father Calamity discovered him while she was on a picnic with Miss Tebbs and ate him, though Miss Tebbs covered it up by saying Beach found his family and left. And though Papillon believed her, it still destroyed her to let him go.
:GALE
:Gale is probably one of the only dragons that Papillon has been able to get very close to and have a healthy relationship with. Gale and Papillon first met when Papillon moved into the Great Gears Boarding House. Gale was living across the hallway and for the first few months, almost took a Miss Tebbs like role with Papillon, helping her get used to the outside world. After a year, Gale recommended Papillon to the hospital where she worked, and it is because of her that Papillon got the job. Over five years, the two became incredibly close, looking after each other, often going out drinking or for picnics on the beach (as Papillon knew the best spots from her time with Miss Tebbs). As the years passed, Gale's level-headed nature mixed with constantly being busy helped Papillon slowly begin to leave Father Calamity in the past, and as she began to move on, their relationship began to blossom into something more than friendship, though neither were very good at romance, so they never really realized how the other felt about them.
:VJERA
:As with all her siblings, Papillion sees the best in Vjera and tries to gloss over the negative things until Vjera is almost perfect in her mind. She has a bit of passive agressive-ity towards Vjera though, since Vjera clearly hates Father Calamity and Papillion looks up to him. (Plus, she is still a bit mad about Vjera telling all their other siblings about Vjera's secret rock band visits except for her, probably because they were scared she would tell Father Calamity. They were probably right . . ., and about how Vjera once blew up her favorite book.) Papillon does genuinely love Vjera though, and even though she may not always agree with her motives, she does always attempt to care about the IceWing and see where she's coming from, despite Papillon despising Vjera's “disloyalty" towards Father Calamity.
:BUMBLEBEE
:Papillon and Bumblebee didn't know each other very long, they only met a few times when Bumblebee came and did some gardening at the house across the street from the Ten's house. Papillon met him one day when she was eight, when she came outside to play with her dolls. He was resting on the side of the road, eating some lunch. Papillon had never met many other dragons so she was excited with the prospect of talking with him, as he reminded her a bit of her sister Vespula. They quickly got talking about themselves and though they were both wary at first, after a bit of chatting, they connected. They quickly became friends, and though they could only see each other a few minutes per day, when Papillon wasn't training and Bumblebee was eating lunch, they grew relatively close.
TRIVIA
*Parts of her are low-key based off a bunch of other characters
*She loves peppermint, and her favorite food is Miss Tebbs' cherry scones
*She is very talented at origami
*She is terrified of bugs, especially mosquito's, which is ironic, since her stuffy landlord is names Mosquito. Coincidence? I think not...
*She owns tiny woven dolls of her entire family, and still often plays with them, imagining scenarios and scenes from “their perfect family"
*Her guilty pleasure is lemon and peppermint tea, a mixture that her other siblings think is disgusting, but Papillon loves
*Her name means “butterfly" in French
GALLERY
Reference by WildLoner
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