Bede

Bede
he / him • witch-in-training / mechanic • demi
belongs to radar, please don't steal.
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Bede 	Bede
 	
Art By 	radar
Background Information	Background Information
Creator 	radar
Attribute 	confidence, pride, desperation
Element 	desert sand, gold, frazzled wires, lit lanterns
Animal 	dingo, fox, sheep
Color 	pale yellow, brown, white, gold
Song 	
Character Information 	Character Information
Nicknames 	b-b, beads, sport
Age 	23 (hy)
Gender 	male
Orientation 	demiromantic asexual
Occupation 	witch-in-training, mechanic
Tribe 	sandwing
Goal 	bring magic back for rose
Residence 	lost marsh; sandstone (formerly)
Relatives 	unnamed parents, rose (adoptive father)
Allies 	rose, strawberry cake
Enemies 	most dragons
Likes 	praise, admiration, technology, success, himself, tea
Dislikes 	being picked on, failure, blood, his past, burnout
Powers 	normal sandwing abilities (minus venom), weak magic
Weapons 	talons, fire, tail barb
Loves 	n / a
Appearance
The prideful and snarky attitude of Bede is reflected in the dragon's appearance. From the smug smirk on his snout to the confident glitter in his light purple-blue eyes. Pale yellow scales color his body and while shiny and well-polished they are otherwise rather unremarkable. A brownish grey coloration goes across a good chunk of his back and higher row of scales. It looks dusty, like sand that stained his scales. Again this color is seen on the front of his snout and across the crown of his head. Bede's platinum blond mane is his most iconic feature, the curliness of his mane is seen mostly on his head, as it evens out farther down. A small membranous ruff of the same color is seen underneath his ears, a small dark sandy brown spine accompanying it.
Dark sandy browns like the spine with the ruff are seen at the thick horns coming from the back of his head as well as on his talons and wing spurs. Bede's underbelly is a light grey coloration with a dark color coming messily splattered onto the front of it. From the elbows down and from the shoulders up the wings is a stronger yellow coloration. This is dotted with a few of the main scale colorations going down the front of his legs. The darkest coloration is seen on Bede's wing membranes, a very dark brown coloration covers them. Playing along this color is a much lighter brown that only colors the underside of his wings.
The SandWing's build is slim and lean, with a quite tall stature. His tail incorporates swooping curves and a tail barb poised menacingly at the end despite it being virtually harmless. The wings are proportionate to his body, not too big and not too small. Bede's eyes are round and showy, but do keep their cat-like sly look to them. Often he is seen combing his talons through his fluffy mane, adjusting it when something is out of place. Usually he holds himself with a great air of authority, though this can sometimes be shattered once engaged in a conversation. While annoyance usually flashes through his eyes when conversing, they sometimes soften when around people he's close with.
Bede has quite an assortment of accessories in his possession that he wears on a near daily basis. The most seen are his iconic magenta and violet coat and gold wristwatch. Starting with the outfit, its main colors consist of magenta, violet markings, light pink rims, and a silver logo on the back. Magenta makes up most of the coat, with the violet falling behind. It mostly crawls up the sides of the coat, highlighting the pockets and covering the bags attached to it. One of these said bags is on the side of the coat, the other sat a bit awkwardly on his back. The wristwatch, given to him by Rose, his adoptive father, doesn't seem to fit properly and has a habit of falling off, much to his annoyance. An amber teardrop earring hangs in his right ear while a small nick decorates the other. Bede walks with a slight limp due to the injury endured on his right hind leg. Some of the scars can still be seen, though most of them have healed.
Personality
Most first impressions aren't the best, an overly prideful and rude attitude matched with an ego, it's hard to criticize him when he holds such masterful mechanical skills. Bede's confident, smart, and skilled in addition to being very close with Rose, one of the most powerful and richest dragons in the entire Sand Kingdom. While his prideful and rude behavior has been toned down from interactions with Strawberry Cake, it still shows through every once in a while. Still he remains confident in his abilities and determined to impress those he looks up to. Despite bragging about how important he is to his adoptive father's company, he has doubts and copes with them by putting more and more on his plate.
In truth, he has a tendency to overwork himself to prove himself competent in Rose's eyes, willing to go to desperate and unhealthy measures to try and impress him. Usually he takes on huge and challenging projects in a self-set time limit to attempt to achieve this. Though, despite his efforts, he still gets the same response from the older SandWing, a thumbs up and a "good job, Bede!" Nothing more, nothing less. This response doesn't seem to satisfy Bede however and gives him the clue that he needs to work harder and better. He wants to feel important, validated, and have his hard work being noticed by the one dragon he admires the most. When confronted by failure, he'll do everything in his power to fix it.
However, when you peel back his pride, rude demeanor, vanity, and frustration when projects don't go his way, Bede is a kind and loyal individual and deeply cares about those close to him. He just wants to be recognized and seen as important to someone, no matter what it takes. The SandWing is closed off and tends to like working alone rather than in a group, though he's slowly beginning to accept outside help. Often he attempts to stifle or dismiss his personal issues instead of acknowledging the elephant in the room. He doesn't seem to have the best social skills and the only thing he can truly talk about with stuttering is himself and how important he is. Despite this, he does seem to be much more socially confident when with close friends or family members.
There is nothing he loves more than being praised and not feeling like he has standards to live up to. In a casual conversation he can be light-hearted and humorous, actually attempting to make the other people in the conversation laugh. Often Bede finds himself getting flustered when given presents or receiving kind gestures, feeling as though he has to do something in return in order to thank them. He doesn't like talking about touchy subjects, or at least he can't cover them without being visibly uncomfortable. The two main topics being about the turmoil in his relationship with Rose and life at the orphanage he used to live at. Despite Bede's overly prideful, rude, and snide behavior, he does seem open to changing himself for the better and genuinely does want to be the kind of person deserving of being admired and proud of.
Abilities
Bede's skillset doesn't rely too heavily on what is provided to him by his tribe. The only things provided by such is his fire breath and ability to withstand long periods of time without water. No venom is in his tail, making it less of a lethal weapon, though it still can be used as such if desired. This is balanced out by Bede's talent with fixing and building machinery, and it goes to a quite admirable point. All of this stems from his persistence and determination to anything he commits to. The SandWing is a rather fast learner, and is even faster to take what he's learned and improve upon it more and more.
Perhaps the newest addition to his skillset is the use of witchcraft. Though he still has much to learn about it, he's mastering it quickly under the guidance of Strawberry Cake. Even if magic use doesn't come natural to him as it does for his SeaWing mentor, this didn't stop him from finding an alternative. This alternative being an old training wand in Strawberry Cake's closest that they used to use themself to practice magic when they were beginning. Despite sometimes getting ahead of himself, leading to some misfortunes, he's still hesitantly opening up to cooperation with others, something he isn't used to.
History
* used to work with his adoptive father, rose, as a mechanic. used to live in sandstone, the capital of the sandwing kingdom. rose is one of the most powerful, richest, and famous dragons in the kingdom (the queens are the only ones who are more powerful than him), owns the biggest power plants and factories in pyrrhia.
*kinda got lost in the biggest swamp in pyrrhia where he met a kindly dragon named strawberry cake. currently lives with them and is training to become a witch. it is working, but the process is slow. magic doesn't come natural for him as it does for strawberry, so he and his "mentor" are finding alternatives.
*when raised in an orphanage when he was younger since his parents didn't have the financial stability (or something like that) to care for him. often got into fights and never really got along with others.
*one day rose arrived at the orphanage and when the sandwing saw the dragonet tinkering with old machinery, he saw potential in him becoming a mechanic.
*rose got him enrolled into one of the best academies in the sand kingdom for aspiring mechanics, welders, electricians, and basically anything to do with working with machinery. much to the excitement of bede who admired the sandwing very much after that fateful day.
*unfortunately, because of the attention he received from this powerful dragon, his ego started to blossom. often bragged about how he got enrolled into this school because of rose.
*not a very well-liked guy, but he was of high status and he was incredibly gifted. pretty certain that also fed his ego quite a bit too.
*often got teased for not having any venom in his tail barb when he was younger. now has kinda accepted his fate.
*after hearing about magic the resided in the depths of the swamps, he was determined to get some to impress rose. got trapped in the swamps and was attacked by the crocodile that injured one of his hindlegs badly.
* was saved by a young adult witch named strawberry cake. they took him in and started healing his leg with their magic. though at first distrusting of the seawing, trying to leave the their house, they refused to let him go back out in his current state and get himself killed.
*decided to stay, he didn't really have a choice, it was either stay or die at this point. was intrigued when he saw the seawing healing his leg, though it didn't completely heal it, their magic at least stopped the bleeding.
* knowing this was the magic he was looking for, he decided that he wanted to stay with them and learn how to use magic like them. they agreed on this, starting to grow lonely in their intense isolation from the rest of the world.
Relationships
please roleplay beforehand
Rose
There is no one else in the entire world who is more important to Bede than Rose, who has become something of an adoptive father to the SandWing. Despite his intense devotion and admiration towards this dragon, he has a strained and conflicted relationship with him. Ever since Rose got him enrolled into one of the best academies in the Sand Kingdom, he's been desperate to prove himself worthy to him. All he wants is to pay him back for all he's done for him and make him proud to have chosen him specifically. To do this, Bede usually takes on huge and/or challenging projects on his own in an attempt to impress him, and while all attempts have been fruitless, he still continues to do it.
Despite being grateful for everything, he still wishes he would notice his hard work, or at least give some sign that he's impressed. Rose was the reason Bede went to the marshlands in the first place, and the SandWing's desire to impress someone is what made him stay. He isn't as close with his father as he used to be, and the more time he spends away from him, the more he starts to notice the holes in their relationship. Often recognizing them by contrasting his relationship with Rose to the one he has with his mentor, Strawberry. Sometimes when he's alone he wonders if Rose actually cared about him at all and if he'll actually go looking for him or if he'd already given up and replaced him.
Mixed - Mostly Positive
Strawberry Cake
Much like Bede's relationship with his father, Rose, the SandWing is thankful that this dragon was willing to stick their neck out for him at his worst. Over the several months, they've been through thick and thin together and are very close. Even if the two might argue every now and again, Bede considers them a close friend of his, a rarity for the typically introverted SandWing. He finds them much easier to impress than Rose ever was and he isn't certain how to feel about that. While he still tends to fall into the unhealthy mindset that if he doesn't get an impressed reaction from them that he hasn't worked hard enough, he's starting to relax a bit more.
Strawberry has managed to bring out the best in Bede and encourage him to put his pride aside and act out of kindness or the desire to help rather than out of the need to impress others. They are one of the few dragons he's actually open with and acts more casual around them.
Very Positive
Trivia
*left handed.
*takes heavy inspiration from the character bede from pokemon sword and shield.
*once interested in training animals, but after his pet accidently got eaten by rose he gave up on the idea.
Gallery
please follow reference; base by joy ang
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