Anodyne

rainwing firebug except he's a GOOD firebug. arsonists have it rough okay
on the wikipedia page for "hero syndrome/firefighter arson" there's a ref of anodyne
anodyne belongs to me, fathom; id appreciate not using/editing this character (unless you're fixing spelling/adding and/or removing categories)
i am a patient boy
i wait, i wait, i wait, i wait
my time is like water down a drain
everybody's moving, everybody's moving,
everybody's moving, moving, moving, moving
please don't leave me to remain
~fugazi, waiting room
code coming as soon as i learn how to code whole pages
Anodyne flicked a match across the side of its matchbox and watched it spark, a small fire slowly burning down towards his fingers. He slowly moved it under a leaf and watched as it combusted into flame.
Shaking the match vigorously and dropping it into the brush beneath him, he watched as the fire spread to more leaves. Soon, a RainWing would notice and put it out, but for right now, this fire was his, and under his control.
This concept, he was pretty sure, was called a “controlled burn”. It made the forest more resistant to fires, or something along the lines of that.
Anodyne stopped thinking for a moment to appreciate his handiwork. He was making the forest stronger. He was doing something good.
He stabbed a warrant for his arrest on a branch and watched as fire consumed it.
===history===
Anodyne was not the model dragonet.
He paid attention, he did as he was told, but it seemed everything he attempted he failed at, while other RainWing dragonets succeeded naturally. His venom shot slowly, short, and unreliably. He could not get used to the vines and platforms that were omnipresent around the kingdom, constantly tripping over them. He could not befriend a sloth for the life of him, and he couldn’t control the emotions showing on his scales as well as the other dragonets. Upset by all this, he set on a rebellious streak- but stopped extremely soon, feeling bad about not obeying.
This feeling of inadequacy followed him into his adult years. He got a job as a fruit gatherer, but even this he did a bad job of. The other RainWings were nice, though. That was a plus.
Then, one fateful day, the forest lit aflame.
Anodyne was out fruit gathering with two other RainWings when they saw smoke, and, they reasoned, where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
They were wrong, though. Where there’s smoke, there’s hell.
As soon as they could, the trio reported back to the RainWing queen as emergency conservation efforts were made. These could not save the entire forest, though, and large parts of it were decimated. As the fire burned out, Anodyne, along with the other two RainWings, rose to hero status. They’d effectively saved what was saved, and because of them, the RainWings could rejuvenate their forest.
Anodyne, who could do nothing special, was a hero. And from his heroics he learned something.
The forest, by living in splendor and ease, grew no stronger. It would have to be burnt to learn how not to burn.
Anodyne started to burn down the forest, bit by bit. The fires, thanks to preventative measures, were put out quickly by other RainWings, which is what Anodyne wanted. He didn’t want the forest to burn down again.
Nobody could realize this, as Anodyne went from hero to outlaw, but Anodyne himself.
Anodyne struck another match and let it fall.
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