Sand

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SAND
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Creator 	Siren 	Coder 	Jinx 	Artist 	text
Gender 	( ) 	Pronouns 	They/them 	Orientation 	
Tribe 	text 	Occupation 	text 	Age 	15dys
Residence 	text 	Abilities 	text 	Song 	text
 
Appearance 
WIP
 
Personality 
Sand is a complicated dragon. At any given moment, they could be totally confident and social, and five minutes later they could be starting a nasty fight.
When they're the latter, they're more than a little over the top. They act like they're drunk all the time, even though usually they're not. They could walk into a bar where they know absolutely nobody, and walk out drunk on drinks paid by somebody else, supported by virtually everyone there. They're not great at keeping these friends though, and often end up slipping into their more grouchy mood and scaring them all away.
They're also a terrible flirt when they're in a good mood, going up to dragons they often don't know and starting up a conversation that gets slowly more intimate as Sand turns on the charm that they seem to keep stashed in their back pocket for moments like that. These conversations often end with an offer for a date, which Sand has a 100% chance of saying yes to, and a 50% chance of showing up to, depending on how they feel. Sand isn't very loyal at all, and gets distracted easily, so sometimes they lose track of how many girlfriends and dates they have, and often ends up getting caught, which sends them right back into their bad mood.
When Sand is in a bad mood, their actions are even more random and drunken than they are when they're not. They often lash out in fights because of a little comment that they didn't like, or for no reason at all. They can be rude to their friends, and are more likely to go to a bar and get drunk. Sometimes they forget to eat, or go on a thieving spree, stealing anything they can find. Sand has often ended up in jail for a short time from their escapades, and is bordering on the line of being thrown in jail for a few years.
What causes the changes in Sand's personality can change quite a lot, but usually if something or someone reminds them of Arid, a dragon they once actually fell truly in love with, or their parents, they'll start getting very angry and grumpy, which leads to their drinking, fighting and stealing.
 
History 
Sand's parents never really wanted a dragonet. They never really actually loved each other either; they mainly got married to help their big business grow even bigger, and were both rather surprised, and annoyed, when Sand's mother Cactus had an egg. But since neither of them were murders, so they didn't want to kill their unhatched dragonet, and they couldn't send them to an orphanage since Queen Pear had yet to set one up, they grudgingly decided to keep them.
When Sand hatched, neither of them really felt the need to come up with an actually creative name for their dragonet. They couldn't have named them Bronze, or Gila, or even Desert. They just named them Sand, and then they went off to work, leaving their five-minute-old dragonet in the house.
Yep. Best parents of the year, those two.
Over the next few years, Sand was left at home a lot. Sometimes their parents would forget to feed them, and they would starve for a while until they figured out how to get outside and hunt. By the time they were six years old, they had had enough. They ran away from home. Their parents never even noticed.
For a few years after that, Sand traveled around the Sand Kingdom, going from job to job for work. They were a shopkeeper's apprentice for a while, but that ended when they picked a fight with a customer. Then they were a jewelry maker's assistant, but after Sand got greedy and stole several priceless items, they were thrown out and forced to return the stolen treasures, but not before pocketing a gold chain necklace.
They tried one more job, a tattoo artist. This one they actually enjoyed, and was able to work themselves up through promotions and eventually opened their own tattoo parlor, giving themselves a small black phoenix tattoo on their wrist to celebrate. They had a steady stream of customers. They weren't the most popular or well known tattoo artist, but they were able to scrape together enough coins to buy themselves a decent house in a small town in the Sand Kingdom.
Life was good.
And then it all came crashing down. Literally.
Sand was walking through the town, when a female SandWing a little bit younger than them crashed into Sand, knocking them to the ground. She helped them up, apologizing profusely. She noticed that they had a twisted ankle, and took them to the doctor, despite Sand saying over and over that they were fine. The doctor fixed Sand's ankle, and they admitted to the dragon, who introduced herself as Arid, that it had needed to be fixed. Then, since she was pretty and Sand felt obligated to do something nice for her, they took her out to dinner.
Dinner turned into several dates, which turned into Arid moving in, which turned into a proposal ring, which Arid accepted. Everything seemed even more perfect than it had been before.
Then, one evening, Sand came home drunk. They'd had a drinking problem for a while, but Arid knew she couldn't do anything about it, so she kept her mouth shut and supported Sand. But this night was different. Sand was an angry drunk, and they hit Arid. It didn't leave a mark, and it didn't hurt that much, on the outside. On the inside, it was a huge blow. Throughout the two years Arid had known Sand, they had ranted about their terrible parents and how hard it was to own their own business, and had also gotten drunk a lot, and didn't help at all with the housework, but she still supported them. But she was done. She loved them, yes, but she couldn't keep pouring energy into a relationship with someone who wouldn't change.
Sand passed out, and when they woke up, Arid was packing her bags. She handed them the ring and said that she was done. Sand begged her to say, and promised that they would be better, but she refused and left.
For the next year, Sand sunk into a state of depression. They drank too much and ate too little. They closed their shop and got evicted from their house because of it. They got into dozens and dozens of fights, all of which they lost, which ended up with them in jail for half a year. That was the only thing that turned their life around.
When they got out, they were fourteen years old, and they had completely new priorities. They set their tattoo parlor up again, but they had to start completely from the bottom. They bought another house, but it was smaller and in a much worse neighborhood. They never saw Arid again, but they heard that she had changed her life around too, and got married to one of Queen Pear's nephews, which made Sand angry enough to punch a wall, which they did. And they stopped drinking so much, which helped too, although they still drank whenever they felt angry or just because.
Now Sand's gotten back on their feet, mostly. They have a tattoo shop again, and it's going pretty well. They've had about a hundred girlfriends, although they've never really felt anything like what they did for Arid. Their current goal is to stay out of trouble and avoid going to prison.
Relations
WIP
*Sand's gender and sexuality was inspired by a close friend of mine, but thankfully, nothing else about them relates to them in any way
*Sand has astraphobia (fear of storms), although they're trying to work on overcoming it
*They're a terrible swimmer, and could probably drown in the shallow end of a pool
*Although Sand will never admit it, the tattoo on their ankle really hurt, and came out looking terrible; so they'll never get another tattoo, even though they want to
*Sand has a pet cat named Not-Dinner to remind their guests that the cat is indeed, Not Dinner
Trivia
 
Gallery 
 Base by Joy Ang, design and base fill-in by Jinx 
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