Arroyo (Kindred-Heart)

This is Kindred-Heart's sona. Only I am entitled to use Arroyo in any way, shape, or form; including changing anything about her. Being my sona, much of her personality, and aspects of her history, follow and resemble my own.
==Appearance==
Arroyo's body follows the shape of an IceWing, like her father. She has the scale pattern of her SandWing mother and has more jagged SandWing scales, rather than smooth IceWing scales. She has a tail like a SandWing, and thus a SandWing barb, but it is harmless, save for the sharp point. She also has a few IceWing tail spikes around her barb. On her spine, instead of long IceWing spines, she has a SandWing sail from head to tail. Also unlike IceWings, she has a nose and jaw horn/spike.
Her scales are mainly a pale, sand-yellow on her face, ruff, legs, wings, and along her tail and body. She has reddish-brown on the top of her head, along her spine and tail, the front of her shoulders, and front talons. The second row of scales along her back is a taupe colour, they can also be found on her shoulders and talons beside the first row of scales. The third row of scales is a darker, sandy colour, like a blend between her main scales and the taupe colour. They are found beside the taupe scales on her body, shoulders, and her knuckles. The top of her face is also a dark, sandy colour. The front of her hind talons boasts taupe and dark-sandy scales.
Arroyo's horns and talons are a silver colour, with faint white speckles, like snowflakes. Her wings and belly are white; her belly fades to silver on her neck closer to her head, her wings fade and speckle to silver closer to the arms of her wings. Arroyo's sail is a pale, orange-sandy colour. Her ruff of IceWing spikes is tipped with reddish-brown. Her ear is a pale silver-tipped with reddish-brown. Her barb is reddish-brown, and her tail spikes are tipped reddish-brown; while her barb is tipped with the pale, sandy colour of her sail. The scales on her barb are taupe. Arroyo's eyes are a dark grey-blue, with a ring of cerulean blue.
Arroyo also has a mild affinity for shiny things, and her accessories include an ocean-blue teardrop moonstone earring attached to a small hoop on her left ear, and six small, round amethysts embedded in her scales on her neck, three on either side. Aside from her jewels, Arroyo also has tattoos on both sides of her neck, further down from the amethysts, both being five small, black rings that trail down beside her scales; signifying the rank her father used to have in the Ice Kingdom, Fifth Circle.
==Personality==
Arroyo has often jokingly described herself as an anxiety-filled ball of rage, although it is far from false. Arroyo has a fair amount of trouble trusting others and her surroundings. She doesn't struggle with intrusive thoughts all the time or extreme anxiety, but she undoubtedly faces a plethora of worries and thoughts that most don't struggle with.
Despite her social anxieties, she has gotten better over time with socializing and making friends. She never thought she'd be able to make friends, but she has one close friend and a connected group.
Growing up wasn't easy for her, despite being a mild dragonet, and having many positive experiences. Her father often treated her harshly, causing distrust between them. Her family also took in an IceWing dragonet as a second daughter. Arroyo always felt her father favoured her sister, Cirque, over her; both of them being full IceWing.
Arroyo is surprised at her parents ever becoming and staying mates, her mother is much sweeter towards her. Honey still had a bit of anger in her, but it was more of motherly, yet still sometimes misguided, anger.
Arroyo used to be quite angry as well, quickly getting upset with anyone who she disagreed with. She has softened over time due to the influence of her friends, discovering herself, and becoming exponentially more accepting.
Other than her anger issues, Arroyo was mostly very kind and has become even kinder, especially towards more different dragons. She grew up very quiet and often only spoke when spoken to, as speaking out of line would have unwanted consequences. She's always desired close friendships and even relationships, but she realized over time that she had no true friends that she grew up with.
Her friendship with an IceWing named Cloudburst, often just called Cloud, has been more than fulfilling for her. She showed Arroyo a true kindness that Arroyo had been unable to find up until meeting Cloud in her winglet at JMA. Arroyo even grew feelings for Cloud after an especially strong connection, making Arroyo realize she was demiromantic. A while later, however, Arroyo found out that Cloud had found a SandWing boyfriend, which surprised her, and forced her to forget any feelings she had for Cloud.
Arroyo never let any feelings she had for Cloud hinder their friendship, but Arroyo does make attempts of regular affection towards her. The rest of their friend group has also been good for Arroyo, being a winglet together wasn't easy as first, everyone dealing with varying personal trauma, but they grew closer and got to know each other well enough.
== Other Qualities ==
Being a hybrid, there are many powers and abilities Arroyo could inherit from both IceWings and SandWings, but Arroyo got the shorthand of the pool. She has neither fire nor icebreath. Her scales aren't naturally warm or cold, but she has poor circulation, so her extremities tend to be cold. She also often feels cold in general and would rather be cozy and warm with her furs. Her pale scales are also sensitive to the sun's rays and she overheats easily in the desert.
Her SandWing barb is only a little smaller than usual, but it has no venom. Her talons aren't as sharp as an IceWing's normally are, and they also tend to look a little rough. She also has poor scales, being dry and uncomfortable quite often. Long or frequent exposure to water worsens this, so she's not a huge fan of swimming. Another special thing is that she has purple blood; her parent's red and blue causing a blend.
== History ==
Arroyo grew up in a small town called Opportunity, located a twenty-minute flight Northeast of Possibility. Her parents had two sons before her, Alluvium and Arid. Unlike her parents' harshness towards her, Arroyo had a better bond with her brothers. However, as she grew up, experienced trauma, and realized Alluvium's instability, she became wary of him.
Early on in her childhood, she experienced physical trauma from an older dragonet in Opportunity, who Arid was friends with. She knew it was wrong, but didn't think much of it at the time. As she grew older and thought back to it, she realized how bad it was and it began to affect her. Other experiences with her father and older males only grew her distrust for them.
Growing up with other dragonets was hard and she struggled to find friends. Any that she would find never stayed or made her feel wanted. Then she went to Jade Mountain Academy in the Gold Winglet. Many of the dragonets there understood what it meant to experience trauma and not be able to trust others. Of course, this meant it was hard to connect, but the IceWing in their winglet, Cloud, reached out to Arroyo.
She wasn't sure what to make of actually trusting her, but they both had a conversation of disclosure regarding dark thoughts; and it was the biggest step into becoming close friends with her. After that conversation and connection, Arroyo grew feelings for Cloud. It took her by surprise, and she knew she would never be able to tell her, she was afraid of the great friendship she now had to be fragile.Category:Characters
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