Cereus

"In this type of business, it's always a good idea to have someone watching your back. Unless they're planning on betraying you, of course."
The tiny dragon barks a laugh, then takes a deep swig from her water skin. The MudWing who'd asked for her advice chuckles nervously as well, unsure whether her comment was meant to be a joke or not.
 
Cereus is an agender SeaWing/SandWing hybrid who goes by any pronouns. While young, he works as a treasure hunter, often on commission. He keeps aquariums and fish in his spare time. Campfire is his partner in both business and romance, and while Cereus is the more field-work oriented of the two, they undertake more dangerous tasks as a pair. He is 12 years old and travels often as a result of his job, but has a home in a Sky Kingdom town.
:Description
Ne looks mostly SandWing, with large, turtle-green scales covering ner body. The yellowish sail on ner back has a shape similar to an ocean wave, and almost looks fluffy, starting on ner forehead and curving and swooping all the way down to ner strong but barbless tail. The hybrid has ivory, curved horns. Cereus has large wings and ears, both almost too big for ner tiny body. The slightly darker spots scattered around ner scales glow faintly in the dark. If one looks closely at ner neck, hard-to-notice gills are visible. Ne can use these gills to breathe underwater for about an hour or so at a time before getting tired.
This dragon can often be seen carrying many pouches and satchels, usually filled with adventuring gear, treasures, items for fishkeeping and snacks. Cereus also carries a large machete that ne is quite proficient with, as it's rather difficult to clear a path through dense woodland bare-taloned without fire breath.
Cereus's vision is poorer than the average dragon's and ne probably needs glasses. Ne refuses to get a pair, however.
:Personality
:Biography
Hatching in 5,188 A.S., Cereus is from an age when Pantala and Pyrrhia are connected, and steam power has revolutionized the world.
Port Starfish, Cereus's hatching-place, is a backwater trading post town in the Kingdom of Sand, left behind as progress marched on. Cereus's mom is a SandWing who grows cacti, and his dad was a SeaWing scout- he left when Cereus was young, and as a result he never really knew him. As the hybrid grew up his SeaWing heritage meant eventually the dry desert heat became too much for him, so despite his mother's protests he moved to a mountain town called Hotspring in the Sky Kingdom upon reaching adulthood. His mother still feels like he betrayed her just like his father, but Cereus knows that he would have been in pain living in the Kingdom of Sand. Now, he lives in a town where the tourist industry is huge, but Cereus got into treasure hunting instead to pay for his newfound interest in fishkeeping because he couldn't bear being a tour guide. The fact that his job entails finding wonderfully shiny things doesn't hurt, too.
The hybrid met Campfire about a year or two after he started treasure hunting, and a shared interest in fishkeeping and treasure hunting caused them to bond quickly. Ever since, the two of them have been partners in the treasure-hunting industry- Campfire finds the clients with their suave social skills, and Cereus finds the treasure with his deft talons and experience in the wilderness. The two of them fell in love pretty quickly but their relationship was and still is pretty casual- they've only kissed a few times and both of them are ok with that. When the risk is too high and the journey is too long for Cereus to go alone, the two of them will go together.
:Relationships
:Trivia
:Gallery
MushrmCer1.png|by Julian
ScrollKereus.jpg|by Scrollreader
Cereus chipper.png|by Chipper
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Category:SandWings
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Category:LGBT+
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