The Dust Devil

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== Appearance ==
The Dust Devil is a mysterious SandWing, and while myth may vary, his appearance is always that of a tired eyed dragon with ever-bleeding wounds. While his body is strong, his spirit is weak, and in most stories, this is shown through eye bags so terrible they've permanently stained the scales around his eyes bruise-black color, a broken posture slumped like that of a slave or a grieving widow, and a stumbling gait like a desert wanderer thirsty for water and desperate for the cool embrace of shade. ~ Historian Ibis of Green Wall
== Personality ==
In most myths, The Dust Devil's character is more often than not a mere caricature of the typical evil outclaw, serving only as a warning to young dragonets of the dangers of kindness in a ruthless land like the desert, but deeper investigation into older accounts of the Devil reveal the possibility of a real-life dragon of whom the Devil's character may have been based off of. Most 'modern' accounts are often just claims to seeing distant bloody figures or meetings with suspicious, skittish dragons. These can usually be dismissed as combinations of paranoia, mirages, dehydration, or simply mistakes, but more older accounts, the oldest of which originate from the reign of Queen Scorpion about two-thousand years ago, include a malicious, vicious and cunning trickster who while violent and cruel. While this may seem like cut and dry outclaw caricature, these older and more ancient accounts included dialogue. Every line can't be contained here-that would simply take too long-but they can be summarized as wild and manic. They often involved demanding questions regarding topics such as existentialism, morality, justice, and freedom, and oddly enough, always seemed to be directed at the world itself, the very universe, and occasionally another dragon's whose name has been lost to time (maybe some ancient deity). So, while these accounts seem like the myth originated perhaps as a story to explore more deeper subjects of a more ruthless time which then evolved over time into a warning myth for dragonets, there was in fact a figure from Queen Scorpions reign, the era of the first known accounts, who may be the source of this myth, the infamous assassin Dust of Scorpion's Court. ~ Historian Ibis of Green Wall 
== Abilities ==
=== Natural ===
* venomous stinger 
* fire breath
* high endurance
* sharp senses
* sand camouflage
* heat resistance
* dehydration & starvation resistance
* flight
=== Learned ===
* assassination
* stealth
* weapon wielding
* tracking
* desert survival skills
* bargaining 
=== Cursed ===
After killing Moon Glade, the lover of Quick Silver, he was cursed by the animus. The Curse comes in four parts, first the curse leaves Dust undead and the wounds that killed him unhealable by normal or magical means. The second is that he's also cursed to never be able to sleep, and for his thirst or hunger to never be quenched no matter how much he ate. The third is to never feel the soothing touch of night or shade, to do this, the curse traps Dust in the Sand Kingdom and eternal day. The curse achieves this by teleporting Dust forward in time to the next day the moment the sun sets, because of this, to any other dragon, Dust appears like a cursed spirit that only manifests during the day, which is functionally what is happening. The fourth and final aspect of this curse is that for each life Dust snuffed out, the years of life that those victims would've lived are added to Dust's undead life. Essentially, Dust 'lives' longer her kills, but his 'life' is a never-ending nightmare, something very ironic given his previous occupation as an assassin. 
== History ==
== Relationships ==
=== Paint - Very Positive ===
Paint is the beautiful SilkWing who stole a heart he didn't know he had. The first time he laid eyes on her he was smitten. He'd never seen a dragoness like her before. Literally. Her wings were like the dyed glass of the Sand Court and her scales like a mosaic. Dust was never one for flowery poetic arts but in that moment, he had no doubt that his mind would be similar to early springs of Mud Kingdom (at least he though, he hasn't seen a flower in over a millennia). While courting her was incredibly difficult (he's an undead being that only manifests under the sun), their relationship worked out incredibly well. Paint keeps Dust grounded and he keeps Paint from going crazy. 
=== Dusken - Positive ===
His adorable daughter. She's intelligent and creative, but she's not as street smart as he would like her to be. While he's not worried about her ability to take of herself, he's extremely concerned about her safety given her gullibility. Dust hopes that he taught her to be strong enough, because he has a feeling she'll be getting into lots of trouble as she grows, especially since she inherited his attitude and her mother's size.
== Trivia ==
* Dust is loosely based off of Gaara from Naruto. 
* If you didn't catch on, Queen Scorpion's Reign was Darkstalker's Era. Since this is a SandWing Historian's account, time is labelled based off the current reigning monarch, so Darkstalker's time would be remembered by SandWings as Queen Scorpion's Reign, shortened to SCO.R, aka Scorpions Reign.
* Also loosely based off my dad 
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