Gneiss

🪨 Gneiss || || SandWings || Ex soldier 🪨
Gneiss is an adult enboy SandWing. They volunteered in Queen Echis’s army during the MudWing-SandWing War. Being hatched in a high military family, Gneiss has two siblings, Gabbro and Galena.
==🪨Appearance==
*Tuscan tan fur
*Almond coloured neck band marking
*Has a dark stripe near his shoulders
*Stripes near his eyes
*Has a scar on his snout
*Almond “socks”
==🪨Personality==
*ARROGANT
*Articulate and charming
*Patriotic
*Shrewd
==🪨History==
Hatched in a clutch of three, Gneiss broke out the second. His family was highly successful, living in an animus-touched estate on a large piece of land they owned. Dating back during a large war, their ancestors began to create a bloodline of high ranked SandWings, with some of them being as high as generals and advisors to the queen. Perhaps, a respectable dragonet.
Unfortunately, Gneiss’s piblings were killed in a violent skirmish, leaving his young cousins as orphans. As a result, his parents decided to care for them, regardless of what.
As Gneiss aged, he noticed something highly suspicious amongst his cousins. Basalt’s pelt was the colour of magma rocks, not like desert sand. He believed that her ancestors were dishonest NightWings rather than honourable SandWings. She appeared to be nothing but a dark cuckoo over a parch warbler, but he couldn’t help but be mistrustful.
When he was two years old, his parents introduced him to something new. It was called “competition,” which was highly valued amongst the family. Although there are two types of competition, the “healthy kind” and the “stressful kind”, they viewed it as the healthy kind.
Gneiss and his cousins/siblings all raced and play-fought under the vigilant eyes of their parents, who watched like keen eagles if it got too rough.
Finally, he reached the age of three, resulting in his schooling. He attended a school that was meant for SandWings from respectable families. The dragonets there were taught to be formal and serious, as well as how to impress those above them in hierarchy. 
Overall, Gneiss was a successful student, but he had a problem: he took his ego too seriously. His ego was a blindfold for everything else, resulting in him being overconfident, but somehow cautious.
In the school, he noticed one thing: Basalt stood out like a NightWing from far away, especially in a school filled with dragonets with fur that is either wheat, ivory or pale blush. 
At school, Gneiss met one dragon, Kultainen. Tai was the dragonet of a successful miner and an apiarist who was also part of the council.
==🪨Relationships==
Basalt
*Neutral
**Complicated, secretly loves
Gabbro
*Neutral-positive
**Likes
**Nice chill vibes :)
Galena
*Neutral positive
**Likes
Scoria
*Neutral positive
**Likes
**Certified cool kid
Leiurus
*Negative
**Frick you traitor
Celestine
*Neutral positive
**First rocky, now better
***But anyways, they’re not so different from eachother if you don’t count gneiss’s competitiveness
==🪨Trivia==
*Gneiss is a type of rock
*His design was based on a kori bustard
*Voice headcanon: Max Mittelman (Esp here)
==🪨Gallery==
File:Gneiss starscatter.webp|Art by Star
File:Gneiss ref.png|Art by Eden
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