Mortality (May Palette Contest 2021)

~This character belongs to Some Person and is for the May Palette Contest, theft of any kind is unpog~
M O R T A L I T Y 	M O R T A L I T Y
 	
Background Information	Background Information
Creator 	Some Person
Main Attribute 	Discovery
Elemental Attribute 	Water
Theme Animal 	Owl
Theme Color 	Deep violet
Theme Song 	
Alignment 	Neutral Good
Character Information 	Character Information
Age 	5,032
Gender 	
Orientation 	
Occupation 	Guardian
Tribe 	NightWing
Goal 	Observe the world and keep peace
Residence 	Undecided
Likes 	The ocean, interacting
Dislikes 	Scavengers, fire, fighting
Powers and abilities 	Animus, infinite knowledge
Quote 	"You wouldn't understand."
===Appearance===
Mortality's scales are a deep purple with a lighter almost pink-ish purple underbelly. Her spines and horns are a dark purple, almost black. Her eyes are dark green and her tail is long and regal looking. She has star-like dots across her backscales, which makes up for her wingless body. One of the most noticeable traits about Mortality is that she has no wings, instead stubs that would've connected to where wings would normally grow. 
Mortality's eye sight is rather poor due to her animus curse, but she managed to fight against it by using small pieces of glass and some wires, creating the very cleverly named glasses (which she's still mocked at by Blizzard for doing so, but in a joking way). She usually has a kind look on her face and speaks softly to her family.
===Personality===
Mortality is shown to be quite soft spoken and quiet, though is lively amongst her friends. She is however quite pessimistic and unoptimistic knowing the fate of both herself and everything in the universe, but tries to stay positive through it all. Mortality enjoys talking to mortals while disguised and finds it entertaining to hear their life stories in person, despite already knowing them. She knows the outcome of every choice she makes, but always tries to make the others around her happy and enjoy what short lives they have. Mortality however can be pretty unkind to those who intend to tip the balance in nature; though despite knowing that she'll eventually correct it. The biggest example of this would be those who inflict blasphemy upon her or Blizzard. Mortality enjoys living a solitary life, but isn't opposed to visiting old friends and watching the new and temporary ones laugh and joke about. She does feel guilt for 'cursing' her own creations with mind reading and seer powers, but tells herself that it'll be better for them. Mortality is quite touchy about using her magic again, a bit scared that she'll go blind if she casts another spell.
===History===
It all started out cold and dark; also wet, though mostly cold and dark. It couldn't see anything, but it could almost hear something. It didn't know what to think, only that it wanted to escape from this dark and cold place. As time passed, it eventually got an idea for what it was. It was apparently a "WL-4", or that's what the quiet voices from around it would say. WL-4 didn't know what it's name meant, but it was just happy to have an identity. Eventually, it felt like it could move something. Like it actually had a body, a physical form. It opened it's eyes to a blinding light and with weird creatures that stood on their back legs and had a lot of hair on their heads. Massive cheers erupted from the creatures, seemingly happy and all clapping; but all this did was hurt WL-4's ears. The second thing that WL-4 noticed that it was in a giant tube full of weird liquid stuff and wires connecting to it's underdeveloped shoulders. Thirdly, it noticed three other tubes around it, each containing a different odd creature. All of them looked scaly and had giant wings, though each had their own unique thing about them. One was white and had a lot of spikes, though it looked really small. Another was a deep blue with weird gill-like things on it's neck. The third had orange and red scales and massive wings. WL-4 didn't really quite know what to think, mostly that it was sick of the tube and wanted to get out. It didn't know how to get out though, so it sat in there wasting away.
Eventually a few days later, WL-4 was taken out of the tube by the weird creatures, much to her pleasure. Even if WL-4 didn't have any wings like the other creatures, it was happy. It could actually breathe normal air and it felt like it was finally free. But, that was short lived as it was swiftly put into a cage in the same blindingly white facility. However, it was not alone. It could actually hear the sound of a non-hairy creature. The walls weren't thick, surprisingly, so it could talk to this creature. This creature called themselves to be WL-3 and when it described itself it matched the white scaly creature WL-4 saw in the tube. WL-3 expressed that it was scared and afraid, a sentiment that WL-4 shared. Both would communicate with each other in the same language the humans would, talking about how they wondered what was outside of those walls. WL-3 also said how it could hear WL-2 and that WL-2 could hear WL-1. Every so often, the weird creatures (that WL-4 came to know as 'Humans' as they called themselves) would come in with needles and inject stuff into WL-4. Most of the time it did nothing, though occasionally it did make her sick and ill, to which she was cared for immensely by the other humans. Then, one injection came and went. It seemed normal at first, WL-4 didn't like it but still accepted it since it knew that it'll get a small biscuit if it did. A fever then appeared a few hours later as well as intense pain in it's claws. WL-4 cried out in pain, to which it was cared for; except this time nothing the humans did would help. WL-3 spoke through the wall too, but the humans overheard and got mad at WL-3 for talking to WL-4 and 2.
One day after the injection, the pain was still there. It felt like small flames were inside of it's talons and was burning her from the inside. The humans came back with another injection, but WL-4 refused and tried to run to the corners of her small cage to escape. It begged for them not to hurt it anymore, to which one of the humans first said what gender WL-4 was by saying "Get her under control!". WL-4, in a last attempt, told them to stop and to leave, to which they did. The humans stiffened up and walked out of the room, almost lifelessly. WL-4 was confused by this, but wondered if it was because of that injection from the previous day. Later that night, WL-4 was talking to WL-3 about what happened. WL-3 said that it was still bleeding and that the humans were mad at it for talking to WL-4. WL-4 explained about what happened to the humans earlier, which almost sparked something in WL-3. WL-3 proposed the idea that if WL-4 (or even all of them) were able to control the humans, they could all escape. WL-4, desperate to try and see the outside, accepted and they waited till the next day to try and test this out. When the humans came in to give her the dry food that she'd normally eat, she told them to stay still and to let her out; which they did. Happy that this happened, WL-4 ran out and saw three other doors to her left. She opened all of them by taking a gamble and telling them all to open, to which three other dragons came out. At this point the humans realized what was happening and were trying to detain them all (some calling them 'dragons'), but all of the WL's overpowered them and managed to escape. They broke out of the facility and into a remote location on the mountains. WL-4 was completely entranced by the view, a beautiful sight after seeing nothing but white walls for all of the months she existed. The red and orange one picked up WL-4 and carried her away from the mountains, knowing that they would've been captured if they stayed. Eventually, they found a small forest to hide in and all of them took turns admiring the scenery. 
Once settled, all of them introduced themselves. Now that they were free they wanted to have a different name. WL-3 went first, saying that it liked the name 'Blizzard'. When asked about where they heard it, Blizzard just responded that it was the name of one of the foods it saw the humans eat and that it could feel the coldness coming off of it. The red and orange one, also known as WL-1, named herself 'Inferno' since she thought it sounded cool. WL-2 named itself 'Oceanus', since that was what some of the humans that took care of him called him. WL-4 didn't quite know what to name herself, but the others were throwing out names. Eventually, Blizzard said 'Mortality', which caught her attention. She liked the name and decided to call herself Mortality from then on. The dragons then decided to test out their new-found powers, realizing that they could do anything. However, slowly Mortality seemed to be able to see things a bit fuzzier, but payed no attention to it. Blizzard also seemed to be a bit bigger than it's normal size, Inferno's scales were a bit hotter, and Oceanus was complaining more and more about being thirsty.
The four friends lived in the forest for months on end, slowly exploring more and more and wondering what they'll do. They were getting older and bigger, Mortality being half as tall as the surrounding trees. Blizzard was still pretty short though, even if it looked like it was growing with each spell it said. Inferno and Oceanus expressed a clear hatred to humans for what they did, and while Blizzard and Mortality also hated them, they didn't want to do things like what Inferno and Oceanus wanted to do. Both creatures spoke of exterminating all of them or turning them into dragons, which Mortality found to be a bit violent. Eventually, the group of friends began to devise a plan. All four of them wanted revenge, but each in different amounts. As previously stated, both Blizzard and Mortality didn't want to kill all of the humans but more so wanted to show that they're a bit of a threat and to treat them nicely; while on the other talon Oceanus and Inferno just wanted to kill them all and to announce themselves as the superior species. Amazingly, all four came to a compromise of just attacking a few of the minor settlements around the forest to make themselves more... Intimidating. They then decided to call themselves something, since they clearly weren't humans. Inferno brought up the idea of 'dragons' since she heard the humans in the lab call them that. They then settled on that name since the rest of them couldn't think of any other names. 
Mortality enchanted herself to be indestructible and incapable of dying, to which everybody else did afterwards after realizing that's a good idea. Oceanus decided it was the best to get more of them, so he enchanted himself to be cloned as an army with lesser power; low and behold a small army of smaller dragons appeared. Inferno wanted herself to be better at fighting and also created a small army of herself. Blizzard did the same, but was coaxed by Oceanus to give them freezing breath because 'it'll be cool and also effective'. Finally Mortality created her small army and gave them the power to see in the dark better. Inferno then brought up the idea of turning the forest around them into dragons, to which the mud became mud dragons, the leaves became leaf dragons, and the vines and grass became rainforest dragons. The now extremely large army of dragons were all rallied up and were sent out in small groups to attack a small settlement of humans, destroying it completely. Mortality felt awful, but just let it happen. 
Unsurprisingly, the humans did not react well; not in the slightest. Search parties went out to try and kill them, only to then fail and either run away or just get caught up in the blast of the army. Mortality, not wanting to do any more harm to anybody else, tried to come up with ideas on how to do it a different way. Oceanus, Inferno, and even Blizzard to some extent all argued back about how now that they fired the first shot they had to roll with it. Mortality, unable to accept that she can't do anything to help, wanted to try and take matters into her own talons. She wanted to see if there was any other options that she or the others couldn't think of; so in a moment of sheer desperation, she enchanted herself to be able to know everything. 
Was it a painful few minutes? Absolutely. Words cannot even begin to describe the amount of sheer mental torture Mortality felt when uttering those words. It felt as though she was being folded into herself and that she was fading out of existence. She could see everything. Not only could she see the outcomes of all of the soon to be battles, but she could see the memories of Blizzard, Inferno, Oceanus, and other dragons she didn't even know. She could see wars between future generations, disastrous hurricanes and volcano explosions, even the death of the universe. She could almost hear the voices of Blizzard and Oceanus run to help her, but she didn't know as she was hearing thousands of voices and noises all at the same time. Eventually, she felt something slip into her talons and all of the intense visions drifted away. She still retained all knowledge of everything, but it wasn't hitting her in the same way it was moments prior. Inferno explained that she enchanted a stick to 'help her in someway oh my moons', which seemed to work. She looked down at the stick and simply turned it into a band that she'd wear on her arm. 
Now knowing that there were very, very few futures where humans survived, Mortality just sat in the forest and accepted her fate. She could see the brutal way Oceanus would eventually die in only a few thousand years, how Blizzard would eventually retreat to the far corners of the land and hibernate, and how Inferno would eventually end her own life after not being able to cure the intense fire around her and being seen as a monster by her own tribe. She spent the entire night and next few days quietly sobbing and mourning the loss of her own life and her friends. However, she also knew that they would eventually be joined by another great and powerful dragon like them, which she did look forward too. She was accompanied by Blizzard whenever Oceanus and Inferno went out on their battles, whom would give her comfort as she knew of the lives and the history all of innocent lives lost in those fights. 
One day, or at least the day Mortality knew it would happen on, Oceanus brought back with him a small scorpion dragon with black and grey scales with dapples of gold. The dragon was introduced as 'WL-5', but they quickly changed their name to Obsidian because 'it sounds so much cooler!'. Obsidian usually acted more carefree and was full of life and joy, while Mortality loved a lot. When questioned on where Oceanus found them, he explained that when they attacked another city they found a lab like the one they were born in and rescued them from it. However, Mortality knew that they weren't as powerful as the rest of them and asked them if they wanted to be 'as strong as us'. Obsidian accepted and Blizzard used a bit of its magic to gift the small scorpion dragon with that power. 
Years went on as the battles progressively got worse and worse. Mortality would help them with battle strategies and the like, though she was regretful to do so since it would remind her of the innocent lives. While it was happening, Mortality was busy trying to find some way to rid herself of knowing everything. She tried enchanted herself to forget, but nothing happened except for her sight getting worse. She tried getting the others to enchant her to be free of it, but it didn't work. In fact, it seemed as though none of them could enchant each other with their magic. Mortality could see in the futures how that future generations of 'animus dragons' could enchant others, but knew the answer anyways. It was because they were all artificially created and the future generation would instead be biological. 
Eventually, it was over. The Scorching (as Inferno called it since the largest battles lit entire cities on fire) was successful, just like how Mortality knew it would. The humans were practically extinct, but Mortality interjected and said to keep some alive and to 'maybe keep them in a reserve'. Oceanus, Obsidian, and Inferno agreed and soon enough they began to split apart. Inferno, now practically on fire due to her animus curse, didn't want to try and hurt the others so she left with her dragons to another place. Oceanus was desperate for water and needed to go in it daily, so he fled to the ocean with his dragons. Obsidian called dibs on the giant desert because it was the largest unclaimed area and Blizzard took the icy tundra. Some of the other dragons left the entire continent itself while the mud dragons and rainforest dragons (now MudWings and RainWings) took the swamps and the rainforest. That left Mortality, who brought her troops over to a small section under the Sand Kingdom (as Obsidian called it) and told them to take care of themselves. She didn't want to give her tribe animus magic like the others and instead opted to give them mind reading and future telling powers like her, but to a much, much lesser extent. She settled herself in as more of an equal to the nobles, but was still viewed as a goddess. Mortality lived in a nice house nearby the castle and would help those who wanted their futures to be told.
Mortality always wanted to visit the others as she enjoyed their company, though only Blizzard seemed to be the one who had the most time on its talons. She'd always visit it, even if it was a bit hard to since it was growing more and more with each enchantment. Mortality herself was having a hard time seeing now, so she decided to take action. She took a small piece of glass from the desert and the band around her arm, turning it into a contraption where she could actually see better. 
A couple hundred years passed and Mortality was getting... Bored. She was leading her tribe greatly, but she hated having to know everything. She would get sick of every task they'd ask her to do and even more so despised how she was hating it, telling herself that she was helping them and it was being selfish not to. She wanted to talk to new dragons that weren't Obsidian and Blizzard without being worshiped or knowing literally their entire history. Then, an idea struck her. She wanted to still watch over her tribe and keep peace, but also desired a life like them. Free of worry, cares, and powers. She enchanted herself so that whenever she'd fall asleep she would experience the life of any random dragon as themselves. She would retain no memory of her previous self and would just live normally. She would wake up when the life ends and return to being the guardian of the NightWings and the general peacekeeper. 
Life was surprisingly good for Mortality from then on. Every so often she'd live the memories of these dragons and experience the wonders of life for herself, even if she did think it was selfish of her at times. She slowly began to take more of a backseat to everything else as she watched the slow march of time, usually drifting off to experience another life. She passed on her love of stars and the moons to the NightWings, who took it as an omen to worship it. However, as time went on more and more of them began to forget about Mortality as Mortality herself made less and less of an impact on their lives, eventually forgetting about her entirely and just worshipping the stars. Mortality was fine with this, knowing that it would happen anyways. She resorted to leaving the Night Kingdom, finding that she had other worries in the other kingdoms to solve now since only Obsidian, Blizzard, and herself were still alive. She would proceed to help with things in a small and discrete fashion, usually disguising herself as a different dragon and would take on a new name. This was how it went for Mortality's life since, feeling responsible for keeping things safe and happy since she was the only ancient animus who could still walk and move around comfortably (which she could not say for both Blizzard and Obsidian as Blizzard grew to massive sizes overtime and Obsidian became physically more only and brittle). She would not take credit for her actions and would always stop occasionally to experience another lifetime of wonders, hopes, and love all over again. Everything was, no, is good; even if she could see the horrible futures she's long since accepted them and have come to terms with them. She is happy. 
===Relationships===
Blizzard (Positive):
Blizzard is one of Mortality's closest friends, being the one who would talk to her when she was still WL-4. While their relationship has grown more and more distant overtime, Blizzard is always happy whenever she comes over to visit; even apologizing for not lightening up the weather for her. Blizzard does seem to have a minor crush on Mortality, which doesn't really mind her even if she doesn't have the same feelings for it. Both of them talk every now and then, or whenever Blizzard wakes up from its naps.
Obsidian (Positive):
Obsidian and Mortality have always gotten along, even if Obsidian has grown a lot older. Obsidian and Mortality still enjoy dancing and pranking the occasional dragon by doing harmless 'pranks' (which is just gifting them a lot of gold and money). They all have a lot of fun. 
Inferno (Positive / Neutral):
Inferno and Mortality didn’t always see eye to eye, but they still got along. Even if Inferno had a more fiery and excitable personality, she still would respect Mortality for being quiet. Mortality feels bad for not being closer to Inferno while she was still alive, but valued the time they had spent together.
Oceanus (Positive / Neutral): 
Same deal with Inferno. Even if they had opposing beliefs, Oceanus and Mortality really did care about each other and valued one another. Being a part of the family, they of course had their downsides, but Mortality cherished what moments they had together.
===Known Enchantments===
-"Please! Leave me alone!" (Enchants humans to leave Mortality's room)
-"Let me out, please." (Enchants humans to open door)
-"Open doors!" (Enchants doors to open up, releasing Oceanus, Inferno, and Blizzard)
-Several small enchantments on sticks to make them hover
-At least four enchantments on her friends to try and help them, only for it to backfire
-"I enchant myself to know everything!" (Gives her infinite knowledge)
-"I enchant this stick to become a golden arm band." (Exactly what it sounds like)
-"Become something that will help me see once more." (Enchanted glasses and band to form the glasses)
-"I enchant myself to be able to experience any random life in any time period whenever I fall asleep, only to wake up when the life is over." (Does exactly what it sounds like)
===Trivia===
*Her voice is mezzo-soprano and she enjoys singing to herself when she's bored on Nix; usually songs the dragons below would sing
*Mortality has tried to make make-shift wings, but none so far have fit her nor have they ever worked
*WL stands for 'Winged Lizard', though none of the four found out what it meant
*Mortality's name in the lab (besides WL-4) would've been 'Kronos'
*Mortality’s animus curse is that with each enchantment she looses her sight more
*Mortality believes in a being that takes on the form of the stars and moons and has god-like abilities, which is something nobody really else believed in; not even Blizzard
*Mortality was taken out of her tube early to see what the effects of a underdeveloped dragon would be like
===Gallery===
(Base by Joy Ang edits by Philip and Sands [I know you said not to credit me, but how but I do anyways?]
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