Liatris

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"Nice to meet you, I'm Liatris!"
==Introduction==
A small dragonet bumps into you, an amaryllis in their right talon as they skip along the path. Startling and looking up at you suddenly, they grin, breaking out in a smile before offering you the flower.
"Here, take this! You look like you could use it!"
The dragonet runs off soon afterwards, bouncing off towards a group of dragonets just past you, not minding the loss of the flower.
With a habit of moving his antennae before going places, Liatris likes to make routines and stick to them, not changing them unless completely necessary. With that, said routines are often vague, only detailing the barest of outlines, leaving room for quite a bit of deviation within them.
A romantic at heart, Liatris will oftentimes sneak in bits of flowers not part of the requested arrangement due to their extensive knowledge of flower language. However, most times it goes overlooked, due to their reputation in the area having been there since starting up the business when he was barely seven.
==Appearance==
Liatris has smooth, almost sparkling scales. His mainscales are a soft magenta color, followed by a deep veronica flower purple along his spine. Their underscales are a soft baby blue, tinted with pink. Matching his best friend’s wing color, their eyes are a striking cerulean blue. His horns and antennae are a pale magenta, matching the base, though they slowly fade to pale blue and cyan at the tips. 
He has a single set of wings not unlike a LeafWing's, yet in every other aspect Liatris can be considered a SilkWing. This often causes confusion within other dragons when their wings are folded, which no longer causes him as much distress as it used to.
✿ Red ✿
Best friends, they've been together since Liatris was three. Red found Liatris in the forest on Pantala when Liatris was lost, and they have been stuck together ever since. Some say that they're two halves of a soul, finally rejoined. 
==Personality==
Liatris is calm and intellectually bright. They attempt to give their shop a positive aura to give those who need it a positivity boost for the day. They strongly believe in the theory that happier surroundings make flowers bloom faster and brighter, and they make sure that the surrounding atmosphere stays just as vibrant and cheerful as the flowers themselves are. 
Liatris is a mellow person, free from harshness. They are proud of what they have done in life, especially about the grand opening of his shop in Possibility. 
Of course, every dragon has their negatives, and that doesn’t exclude Liatris. They are clumsy, with a tendency to run into or knock things over accidentally. He is known to be a little bit obsessive over things, especially things that they own. 
==Skills & Abilities==
Floral Recognition
From several years as a florist and a flower lover, Liatris has learned to easily recognize a plant without a handbook.
Conversation Skills
As a more extroverted dragon, he has learned how to easily strike up a conversation and how to not awkwardly end one.
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Leafspeak
Although it is weak, they are able to make things grow faster than usual. He also will instinctively know if a plant is sick, or if it needs more water/sunlight.
Silk Production
Liatris’s silk production rate highly depends on how much sunlight they receive. The more sunlight, the more silk and vice versa.
Photosynthesis
Liatris can absorb minor energies from the sunlight around him, storing small amounts for later usage. This ability also allows them to transfer those small amounts of energy into their silk, to transfer or for long-term storage.
== History ==
Born in Vinegaroon Hive, Liatris grew up without ever knowing his biological parents. Their egg found alone in the rainforest, Liatris was thought to be a regular SilkWing, if a little odd. With the Pyhrrian dragons arriving when he was 4, their metamorphosis was anything but ordinary. Finding not two, but one pair of wings, along with the fact that he had a relatively weak leafspeak, left him as one of the first hybrids on Pantala. 
Raised by a pair of SilkWings, they lived as a regular SilkWing all through the Pyhrrian dragons' arrival and subsequent chaos. After their metamorphasis, however, Liatris was looked at with curiosity due to his LeafWing traits becoming more prominent, until he couldn't take it anymore. They decided to move to Pyhrria along with some of the other SilkWings that felt they could no longer live within the Hives.
In Pyhrria, Liatris still received odd looks, but all the Pantalan dragons did, so it wouldn't bother him as much as it did before. Living in the Sand Kingdom for much of their time there, Liatris heard about Possibility, and it intrigued him. 
After that, Liatris followed another group of dragons there, and as they say, the rest is history.
== Relationships ==
Glyph
A fellow flower friend, Liatris admires Glyph for her perseverence, for still trying despite all odds.
Character by Crowji
Flamereader
Meeting through Glyph as a common friend, Liatris finds Flamereader amiable, and looks out for them in crowded situations.
Character by Robyn
== Trivia ==
* A Liatris is a type of flower, known for attracting butterflies. It is also known as the "Blazing Star".
* This character was created for Ruby's art challenge.
* Red's wing patterns will change because I can't do consistency.
* Since I keep redrawing Liatris and asking for more art, the most accurate depiction (as of Jan 2023) would be Fantii's art of them.
* I'd revamp his code but I'm too attached to it haha
==Gallery==
Fullbody ref real!!
File:Liatris head sharpthrust.png|Base by Revek, filled by Sharpthrust!
File:Liatris paper.png|Liatris and Red
File:Image3.jpeg|Art by Raffle-Ticket!
File:LiatrisDigiSnowy.jpeg|Liatris fullbody
File:LiatrisHeadGraceful.png|Art by Graceful the Rainwing!
File:Liatris-HAL.png|By Kamiano!
File:Liatris paper 2.png|Again by me, but with a flower!
File:Liatris Fantii.webp|By Fann!
File:Liatris base frenchuranoscopidae, basefill by Le Ice Sunday.webp|Base by Frenchuranoscopidae, basefill by Le Ice Sunday
File:Liatris-ninjadragon.png| art by jae
File:Liatris astral.webp|art by astral!
Category:Characters
Category:Non-binary
Category:LGBT+
Category:SilkWings
Category:LeafWings
Category:Hybrids
Category:Subtype (Leafspeak)
Category:Content (Fish-theWizard)