Acinonyx (TheSilkWingCakes)

Created for Orpheceunoia’s Myth Contest
Inspired by “The Children of Lir” legend
== Personality ==
“ Knew I was a robber first time that he saw me
Stealing hearts and running off and never saying sorry”
-…Ready For It? By Taylor Swift
Acinonyx is a real piece of work. She is cruel, vindictive, and jealous. However, when she loves, she loves to a fault. She loves to an overprotective obsession.
Acinonyx has been described to have a personality like poisoned honey, seemingly innocent yet disturbingly dark, sweet at first, but deadly. She is used to getting what she wants and will not hesitate to use her powers, or kill, to accomplish her goals.
Acinonyx doesn’t believe in this “lose your soul” rubbish, but if it proves to be true then her soul is long gone. She reached her breaking point and past it when Lugh first married.
== Appearance ==
Acinonyx is gorgeous, and has shiny, polished scales. She is rather large, with sharp, long, curving horns and claws. Her scales are a light muted brown color, and she has a pattern of alternating black and gold scales running down the sides of her neck and tail, as well as under her wings. Her underbelly is smoky black, and she wears a large amount of gold and onyx jewelry, draped across her neck, wings, and horns. Acinonyx’s wings are a darker color than her main scales.
If HiveWings were even a thing when Acinonyx was alive, she could easily be mistaken for a Sand/Hive hybrid.
== History ==
”You belong with me. Not her. Maybe you don’t realize it yet.”
Acinonyx is the dragonet of two nobles, and grew up in moderate wealth. When she and her family found out she was an animus, they were all thrilled. Acinonyx paid no head to the rumor that you’d lose your soul, and used her animus magic freely. Of course, this did have a few weird consequences. She was used to getting anything she wanted at a snap of her claws, and when she wanted something done, she stopped everything else until she achieved her goal. Any dragonets that bullied her in school found themselves the most popular dragonet one day, hated by everyone in their class the next, with no apparent cause…
When Acinonyx grew older, she met a dragon about her age named Lugh. It took her around ten minutes to decide that this dragon was her only true love. She had to marry him. Acinonyx became obsessed with Lugh, until his wedding day.
The day Lugh was married to a dragon that wasn’t her was the worst day of Acinonyx’s life. She wanted to enchant something to make Lugh love her, but couldn’t bring herself to do it. She believed that Lugh loved her as much as she loved him, he just didn’t realize it. Then, Lugh’s wife died. After Lugh and his wife had four dragonets, the wife fell sick, and passed away.
Immediately, Acinonyx set to scheming.
It took a while for Lugh to get over his grief, much to Acinonyx’s annoyance. But when he did, he started to fall for her, and they were married.
Everything was perfect.
Except for one teeny tiny thing.
Lugh’s dragonets.
Lugh loved his dragonets more than anything, perhaps even more than Acinonyx herself.
Well, she couldn’t have that. 
Jealously boiled inside of her. She had everything she had ever wanted, but she wanted more. It wasn’t enough. Acinonyx debated using her powers to kill the dragonets, but that might have… interesting effects if Lugh found out she did it, so, she decided to curse them. But how? And what? Then she had an idea…
One sunny day Lugh’s four dragonets were swimming in an oasis, when Acinonyx found them. She set to work, casting her spell while seemingly just watching them. Soon, all of Lugh’s dragonets were swans. However, Acinonyx left them one piece of dragon; they could sing in dragon.
Acinonyx, being the psycho she was, felt no guilt and presumed that with them out of the way, she would be the only thing Lugh cared about. However, when his dragonets went missing, Lugh was distraught. He searched everywhere for them, paying even less attention to Acinonyx than before.
Eventually, Lugh found his dragonets, who told him immediately what had happened. Distressed and angry, Lugh told his friend Bodb. Bodb has never liked Acinonyx, hating her from the moment she met him, and when he found out that she had cursed Lugh’s dragonets, he got very, very mad.
Bodb had a staff made of twisted oak wood, which had been animus-touched several years ago, and the next time he saw Acinonyx, he cursed her with it, turning her into a wind spirit.
Acinonyx flew away on her ghostly wings, never to be seen again, but there are rumors that she still haunts dragonets’ nightmares.
== Relationships ==
=== Lugh ===
Acinonyx is almost obsessed with Lugh, nearly everything she does is in hopes of winning his love. She has madly loved him since she met him. He is one of the only dragons she truly cares about. 
Lugh has always been frightened of Acinonyx, but did really care about her at one point. He believed that she could change to be less manic, less self-absorbed. However, he was disappointed to find out her true colors.
=== Lugh’s First Wife ===
Acinonyx hated her, and was thoroughly glad when she died. She was always jealous of her, and despised her fervently.
=== Lugh’s Dragonets ===
Acinonyx had a similar feeling about them as their mother. She was jealous of how much Lugh cared about them, and in the end, wanted them gone. They bugged her, and she blames them for her and Lugh’s eventual falling out.
=== Her Parents ===
Acinonyx had a neutral relationship with her parents, she always got what she wanted and saw them more as tools than caretakers.
== Trivia ==
- Acinonyx is really, really, really pretty.
- She is occasionally called Onyx as a nickname, which she hates.
- She wears a shocking amount of jewelry (which Cakes couldn’t be bothered to draw onto her base)
- Almost all of her jewelry is enchanted.
- Acinonyx likes snakes and has several pet venomous ones.
- The Children of Lir mostly inspired her character.
- Dragonets annoy her immensely.
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