Pollen (NorthestRaven)

Personality:
Pollen is a calm and caring dragon. She has motive behind each and every action, and is extra cautious. Pollen is semi-sheltered, as she was most of her childhood. Pollen cares for her brother dearly, and prevents him from starting up fights. She is the therapist of a friend group, and enjoys the stars. She is very logical and bubbly when it comes to the things she likes. She is obsessed with strawberries. Pollen is very consantrated, and works hard. Pollen is the one who can also be rather oblivious, and doesn't mind being left out on a secret. However, she dislikes surprises and is sort of jumpy. Pollen loves animals, especially birds, as she has a pet bee eater named Kiwi.Fears:
Pollen fears abandonment, as her mother left her and her brother before they hatched, and was forcibly taken from the only home she'd ever known- even though it was an abusive environment. Pollen also has a fear of drowning, even though she's never been in deep water.
Hobbies:
Pollen loves stargazing more than anything. She could stare at the universe above her all night. Pollen also loves being around her girlfriend, Venus (despite what it seems, her name was a total coincidence). Pollen enjoys time in nature, and finds high views in trees to be breathtaking. She's quite good at tree gliding, as well. Pollen loves studying with books and scrolls, and could spend hours in the library curled up with something to read.
Backstory:
Pollen’s father was a HiveWing explorer named Locust. He sold his findings in hive Mantis’s secret black market frequently, although even to the other dealers, he wasn’t well known. Locust ventured into the outskirts of the Poison Jungle on one expedition and found a beautiful LeafWing. He caught her off guard and managed to paralyze her with his barbed tail. Upon bringing her back to the hives, nobody believed him. Many said he was a fraud, who had just painted a SilkWing green and hidden the extra wings. Locust didn't give up. Night and day he tried desperately to convince others, even to the point where he started noticing himself gazing at her beauty for too long. Catching on to Locust’s infatuation with her, the LeafWing, named Sepia, bargained a deal with him. She proposed that if she gave him eggs to sell, he would set her free. Locust obliged, and after a while, she bore two eggs. Upholding their promise, he let her go. He purchased a 3-year-old SilkWing slave named Skipper, who would help him take care of the eggs so he could continue his black marketing career. 
When the dragonets hatched, named Pollen and June bug, Locust manipulated them into believing they were there to serve him, by performing for other HiveWings in the black market. They would dance, show off, and wear jewels and silks to attract an audience. But with a crowd came suspicion. Soon, HiveWing guards who worked for the queen were at his doorstep, interrogating him about his “performers” over the past few years, Locust had grown quite fond of his dragonets, and knew he couldn’t give them up. So, he explained that their mother had carried a genetic mutation altering the color of her scales, and therefore, her dragonets had inherited the genes. Fortunately for Locust, the guard bought it. Realizing how close he had gotten to losing his precious merchandise, he decided to put them off the table for purchase and instead uses them as ploys to entice other dragons into buying his items. Pollen and June bug were getting more confused and manipulated as they aged. Soon, Locust even told the lie about their mother to them and seethed about her being a horrible dragon and abandoning them. He demanded they repeat the story to anyone who challenged their upbringing or appearance. 
As they reached their 4th hachday, the dragonets had begun to catch on to their father’s lies. Conspiring with Skipper, they tried to escape. Attempt after attempt, their efforts failed as Locust kept catching them in the act. He began to trust them less and less, and chained them to their beds after many foiled plans. June bug was getting angrier by the day after he saw how bad his father was treating Skipper, who he had fallen in love with. Pollen desperately asked him to stop, so his father didn’t find out his feelings for Skipper. Despite her coxing, June bug lashed out every time Locust would glare at her, or lay a talon on her scales. One night, Pollen was startled awake. There was a strange dragon, with his talon clasped over Pollen’s mouth, and made a “shh” motion- his claw to his lips. Pollen was frozen in place, as she saw her father being knocked out as a dragon smashed their tail against his head. They freed the three dragonets, explaining that they were LeafWings, and there to rescue them. They hurled themselves out the window and flew as fast as they could to escape. Unfortunately, the raucous had stirred several guards to investigate. After spotting the escaping band, one managed to catch up to Skipper. He tackled her to the ground, making June bug roar with alarm, and circle back to her. The HiveWing stabbed his barbed tail in her neck- an execution-style death. June bug tried to scream with grief, but one of their rescuers shoved a cloth in his mouth, carried his fighting body away, and fed him a plant to keep him unconscious. Pollen tried to mute her cries as she was carried away, but tears were bursting out her eyes, so she was given the same plant.
Pollen woke up a day later. She had been taken to the SapWing village and had been laid gently in a treehouse, with a tree’s leaves filtering the light above her. One of the dragons who had kidnapped her explained where she had been taken. As Pollen had never laid eyes on a tree in her life, she gasped at the number of them and immediately fell in love. The LeafWing told her that it had been her mother’s idea to rescue her. Pollen threw him a confused look. He sighed and said whatever her father had told her about her was most likely a lie. When Pollen asked to see her, the dragon’s eyes became watery. He said that he was her sister, and she had died a few years earlier before they could find an opportunity to take them back to the jungle. Her uncle’s name was Ginkgo, a softspoken and brave SapWing- passionate about his work as a writer. Her brother had apparently still been sleeping. As they waited for him to wake, they caught up on almost everything. Ginkgo revealed the lies HiveWings had poisoned them with and sympathized with her stories of being her father’s slave. 
After June bug had been woken up, he was hostile at his new surroundings, still broken after he had been informed of Skipper’s death. He wouldn’t let anyone near him for a week, and stayed in his treehouse most of the time, only coming out at late hours to eat what had been left on his doorstep by Pollen. Eventually, Pollen grew to know the jungle. She had a few friends, learned about her obsession with strawberries, and met a Bee-eater bird that she called Kiwi. Pollen left insects out for Kiwi, and would sometimes even get perched on! As June bug became more confident, he gained a more angry side Pollen had only seen occasionally back at their hive. She had to keep him from starting fights with passersby, and tried to guide his feelings to become more peaceful. 
After a year, June bug was much better. He regained his comedian side and was more energetic and kind. Although, he would crumble back into his previous state if provoked enough. Pollen was growing closer to one of her rescuers, a tiny LeafWing named Venus. She was powerful, brave, and stubborn. But, she had a soft spot for Pollen and her outer shell would melt when they were together. Pollen realized her sexuality after sensing her butterfly feelings around Venus, and one day asked if they could become more than just friends. Venus was ecstatic and embraced Pollen tightly. They fell asleep in a heap after a night of giggles and whispers. Venus was even overprotective of her girlfriend at times, which Pollen adored. On their 6th birthday, Pollen and June bug felt safe in a place they could call their home, with no manipulative fathers, no cruel HiveWings, or precarious environments.
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