Imperius

Imperius is Dewdrop's entry for the Song OC contest, and may be used as an NPC in a fanfiction WITH permission.
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Imperius is a golden SkyWing, and current marine biologist.
== Appearance ==
Golden, rounded scales coat his body, contrasted by chocolate-brown overscales, and a lighter, cream coloured underbelly. A lighter shade of gold, his wing membranes are solid.
A black set of scales runs down his sides, separating his under scales and regular scales. Dark-brown horns are shaped simirarily to a deer's, and his eyes are a shade of purple-red crimson.
== Personality ==
Imperius is rather aggressive on the surface, snappy and short-tempered. However, to dragons closer to him, Imperius still tries to act how he usually does, but he does have trouble keeping up the image. He can get particularly violent when the time calls for it, however. When it comes to other thins, Imperius is very patient, which lead to his discoveries.
== History ==
Imperius doesn't remember his early life, or his original family. All he remembers is being sold to a merchant, specifically a crimson red SkyWing. Imperius doesn't remember being treated properly, as all the SkyWing merchant cared about was his golden scales. Although the neglectful SkyWing only cared for Imperius' appearance, he was fine with it. But, that was until this merchant's sales started. His smaller midscales were plucked, and shaped to be chunky. The merchant sold these scales, claiming they were real gold.
And his customers believed him. Imperius' scales always grew back in the end, which continued to lead to the merchant making profit from the scam. This continued until Imperius was about a year old, when the golden SkyWing ran away. He became one of many homeless dragonets in New Possibility. Imperius was, however, kidnapped off the street again, by a MudWing hybrid known only as 'Emperor'. The MudWing didn't neglect Imperius, but oh, how he wished he did. Emperor constantly taunted Imperius, bragging about how she was going to sell him to a crimelord in Fidelis.
One night, right when Emperor arrived in Fidelis. In her excitment for being paid, she had left Imperius' cage door unlocked. When she had fallen asleep, Imperius had escaped, but instead of flying off into the night like how he usually would have, her found one of Emperor's many knives, the length of an adult dragon's foot. The authorities found Emperor's throat impaled with a knife. Imperius was long gone by then, carrying guilt and regret on his shoulders.
As an orphan in Fidelis, he was much more cautious when it came to surviving, and had lived a usual street-orphan life, stealing food from the occasional merchant for about a year or so.. But that didn't stop him from encountering a melanistic SeaWing going by the name of Abyss. Abyss wasn't like the merchant or Emperor, instead, he was kind, and had adopted the golden SkyWing. Up until then, Imperius simply called himself Curse. Abyss, however, gave him a name he thought would suit him much better, his current name, Imperius. Abyss, as it turned out, was only visiting Fidelis for his journalist career, He returned to his home, Silverbay, with Imperius at his side.
At Silverbay, Imperius met his mate: An IceWing named Lupus, and their dragonets, Porpoise and Beluga, both younger than Imperius by about a year. To say the least, Imperius got along well enough with the two hybrids, although he found them rather odd. When he was of age, Imperius had attended the school in Silverbay, raising to the top of his biology and history classes. Everything was fine for four years, until they came. He still remembers what the residents of the neighborhood called "The Murderhood of Southern Silverbay". A group of firebreathers, NightWings, SandWings and the like, broke into countless homes, each of them containing the parents of a hybrid. Abyss and Lupus, having two hybrid dragonets, were some of the first.
Imperius woke to Lupus' and Abyss' screams in the middle of the night, and only made it in time to protect Porpoise and Beluga from a SandWing assassin. Along with all of the orphaned dragonets, who's parents were murdered by the Firebreathers, Beluga, Porpoise and Imperius were transferred to an orphanage in Silverbay. However, Porpoise and Beluga mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night, likely having run away, leaving Imperius alone. He lived in the orphanage for three months, before being adopted by a supportive SeaWing couple. He lived with them happily, raising up in his grades regarding biology.
Once he was old enough, Imperius enrolled in a college, in order to increase his skill in marine biology. He got through it relatively quickly, and went on to become a well respected marine biologist, discovering the deadly venom of a Stonefish, and discovered a semi-deep dwelling species of coral, named Hydra. He still wishes to this day to swim underwater, and visit the magnificent SeaWing cities.
== Relationships ==
=== Merchant ===
Imperius' earliest memories of Merchant were pain and neglect, and he couldn't care less if the SkyWing died or not.
=== Emperor ===
Imperius hated Emperor with a burning passion.
=== Abyss ===
Abyss is possibly the only dragon Imperius ever felt was family. He was devastated by the SeaWing's death.
=== Lupus ===
Imperius thought of Lupus as rather nice and fierce, and he still values the lessons she taught him about fighting.
=== Porpoise ===
Imperius was rather annoyed by Porpoise initially, but slowly warmed up to her. He still misses his adoptive sister to this day.
=== Beluga ===
Beluga, Imperius felt, actually understood him, as he too, as a dragonet, was used by other for their profit. He misses his adoptive brother dearly.
== Trivia ==
* Imperius has a photographic memory.
* Imperius is a pessimist.
* Imperius has a pet pelican named Vinegar.
Category:SkyWings
Category:Characters
Category:Males
Category:Occupation (Scientist)