Rink

Category:Characters
Category:Hybrids
Category:IceWings
Category:SandWings
Category:LGBT+
Category:Non-binary
Category:Dragonets
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Content (Chickendragon)
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Introduction - Appearance - Strengths - Weaknesses - History - Relationships - Trivia
== Introduction ==
You hold your head high as you enter the school, with your obnoxious, yet lovable, son. He's flapping around on your back, thank the moons you decided to wear your armor. His talons clink uselessly, writhing around like an excitable snake. The school you're sending him too is still relatively new, established to bond Pyrrhia and Pantala, making paths that are both better for your assistants travelling back and forth. You can tell, for it has glittering gold arches and quartz pillars lining the sides, that just gleam and sparkle in the sunlight.
Two massive guards flank the sides of the ebony entrance, and your mind is already profiling them, taking what little info you know, picking out key features and weaknesses. The one on the right is a hivewing, three stripes on the neck, a splotched tail, orange to yellow fade over the body. Scar on upper lip. The left is a leafwing, reddish splotches on the wings and tail, pale green head and front body. Missing a talon on the bottom left foot. Muscular and tense. Of course, you don't say these, and your eyes move so fast, no one could possibly tell what you were doing. Of course they wouldn't. Secrecy was the key to your success, which meant separating those you love from your work, even if it meant sending your dragonet to a boarding school. 
"WE'RE HERE! WE'RE HERE! DAAAAD LOOK WE'RE HERE!" Your dragonet cries in your ear, causing you to flinch. He can be really loud sometimes, always catching you when you're the most off-guard. Again, obnoxious, but lovable. 
When you step inside, you start looking around. There are large supports connecting the ceiling to the ground, but the beams don't appear to be connected to the support pillars. A structural weakness. Bright red rainwing to your left, with a small frill and looped horns, pudgy and missing their tail, trying to stand on their talons while falling over. Blue and orange sky-silkwing, with long antennae and four sets of dragonlike wings, adjusting their golden, lapis inlaid necklace and holding a talonful of new scrolls. A small pale blue icewing dragonet with deep diamond-pattern scales, thin and wearing a large black cloak, head trailing as they crossed the halls. A white mudwing, with pinkish eyes and faint tints around the-
wait.
You look back at the thin icewing. Yes, your description was correct. Gastly thin, pale blue, with deep diamond patterns along the neck and tail. Why did you remember that description? You must have seen this icewing before, somewhere, somehow. They didn't look particularly familiar, so maybe you were told about their description from one of your members. But who? And why?
Your dragonet is writhing furiously now, flapping around and trying to scramble over your wings. You look back, lifting the sandy dragonet off your back and letting him go, where he shoots off like a bullet, running full speed into the halls and scaring some poor dragon. He'll get lost, surely, but you know he's safe, or safer, in this school, and maybe he'll learn not to take off into strange places. It would be best to leave as fast as possible, you've already been standing in the entrance for a good twenty seconds. You look for the dragonet again, but to no avail. 
As you walk away, your mind races around the dragonet you saw. Who are they? Why do you remember them? What potential use could they have for you? One thing's for sure, you'll find out who this dragonet is. And you will use what you know to your advantage. 
== Appearance ==
Thin, pale blue, with deep navy diamond patterns along the neck and tail, wearing a thick black cloak covering the midsection. Icewing. Well, at any rate, Telltale was almost correct. This dragonet, Rink, is not all icewing. They bear some traits of their sandwing father.
When you do encounter Rink, as a passerby or some oblivious dragon, the first thing that may come to your mind is, By the moons, what happened to that dragonet? Rink's pale blue coat is covered in scars, near the face, tail, back legs, and there's one long scar that runs down the left side of their chest, under an arm. The diamond patterns look a bit like scars as well, many of them being thick bands that cover the snout, legs and tail.
Another thing you may notice is just how thin this dragonet looks. They're practically a skeleton, maybe even less. The strangest parts are the bulge at the end of their tail, which serves no function and has no purpose. There's also a strange, very strange depression on the left side of the chest, above the scar, where the ribs hang lower and more to the inside then normal, instead of sticking out like the rest of the upper rib cage, which is visible through their skin. When Rink speaks, a weak and hoarse voice, one can see that inside their deep purple mouth, they have missing front teeth.
Both sandwings and icewings have triangular scales and areas of exposed skin, so it's difficult to tell where the sandwing starts and the icewing ends in this little dragonet. Rink, however, is distinctly more icewing then sandwing, having the face and tail length of her mother. Rink does not have the bare shoulders of an icewing, but their arm is. One distinct feature of Rink is their sandwing claws, which do not have the serration, meaning Rink will slide around on any slippery surface. Their tail is long and thin, but lacks the extra spines. Rink also has no extra horns at the base of their head, instead, Rink has a jagged frill that shows at the neck and the back, like an icewing. Their eyes are deep blue, but paler than the typical icewing's, with the pupil more easily visible. 
Rink is always wearing the big black cloak, made of a thick wool material, but you might have been able to tell. It's always covered in dirt, nicks, and loose threads from wear and tear. It's held in place by a gold medallion, inscribed with the image of a fish of an indeterminable species. Rink's name is also carved on the edge. The sleeves, however, are new, bearing no such marks, and cover Rink's forearms to their fullest. If removed, the various scars and bruises that cover Rink's forearms can be visible, until Rink hides them from you again. 
== Personality ==
The main word that comes to mind when one encounters this dragon is, "sadly odd." Rink is very asocial and apathetic, making little move to interact with other dragons, but won't try to actively avoid them. They also suffer from severe depression, to the point where Rink will rarely engage in activities, has a very, very irregular sleep schedule, where periods of sleep rarely exceed 8 hours, and can happen at any given time of day. Rink's mood and personality also make drastic mood swings, from apathetic and passive to aggressive and stubborn, but they've never lashed out at anyone, except for once. 
Rink gets hostile when confronted about their scars, or when dealing with things they despise. Rink refuses to acknowledge traumatic events from their past, as a means of trying to move on and forget it. However, some of these "events" are still going on currently, which Rink will try to pass it off as normal or outright not acknowledge it. 
Somehow, Rink is also rebellious, but typically not in a traditional, fight the system sense. Often, it's Rink's apathy that makes them disobedient. Rink never contributes to anything, much to the rage of their mother and any hope of being in the circles. 
Despite rarely acting upon any hobbies or activities, Rink does have a few. Rink enjoys drawing, filling up their notebooks with sketches of strange, often confusing images, filled with themes of loneliness, ignorance, and cruelty. Rink has also learned to use a blowgun, and sometimes practices alone with trees and rocks. Rink would formerly enjoy exploring, swimming, and picking on their little half-brother. However, these enjoyments are rare for Rink to do, due to current situations at the school they go to. 
== Strengths ==
Rink has a weak and constant frostbreath. They can stop it by breathing slower and holding their breath. This often causes the inside of Rink's mouth to be lined with frost, and causes issues when eating. This also causes Rink's teeth to stick to things they bite, which doesn't help if they bite a dragon. This is actually how Rink lost their front teeth, that had to get yanked out when they became frozen to the dragon they bit. 
The bulge on their tail is actually a venom sac from their sandwing half. When punctured, it will not only poison any of Rink's exposed veins from the puncture wound, but it can be used to fling sandwing venom onto other dragons, but it only has a damaging effect if it gets into the eyes or open wounds, like how rainwing venom kills only if it hits eyes or open wounds. 
Rink's biggest strength is their heat and cold resistance. Rink can go much longer periods without water, and survive in both extreme colds and heat, like icewings and sandwings respectively. 
Rink is also rather intelligent, but can be slow to respond due to the depression. However, this intelligence is better shown when Rink gets hostile, often being able to respond with wit and clever comebacks.
Due to their thin and stunted size, this dragonet is also better at stealth than most would believe a bright pale blue dragon can hide. Rink will and does cover themselves in dirt, and use their cloak to better hide in shadows. 
== Weaknesses ==
Rink suffers from malnutrition, meaning that they don't have healthy levels of fat to protect from blunt force. Thus, Rink can bruise really easily, where causal punches to the shoulder can result in purplish bruises. Also, when Rink gets sick, they stay sick for longer than a normal dragon would. This malnutrition also contributes to Rink's apathy, where they often lack the energy needed to do things. This can also disorient and confuse Rink, slowing their mental process even further. 
Rink also has no strength, stamina, or speed. This is mostly due to their malnutrition, and the fact Rink was never a particularly fast or powerful dragon.
Rink also has a unique problem where they are very, very sensitive near the area above their left-side scar. So much as poking it the wrong way can excruciating, crippling pain. This is because their former friend, Parakeet, a master assassin and ametuer organ harvester, removed the bottom half of Rink's lungs to repay her debit. Rink, fortunately, didn't die, but this did reduce Rink's oxygen intake, and has made the ribs and area under their chest very sensitive to touch.
Rink's depression makes them apathetic and sad. They can't react as quickly as they normally would. 
== History ==
Rink's father, as you may have guessed, was a sandwing named Saguaro. He met Rink's mother, Frost, on the border of the icewing kingdom, after the cannon events. Frost was a guard, patrolling the territory. The two would repeatedly see each other, and eventually fell in love. 
Frost was obsessed with being in the circles and becoming powerful, but had a deformed foot, which disabled her enough to keep her out of the circles. She still wanted power, and she knew that loving a sandwing wouldn't end well. So they would meet in secret, where no one could find them. Worse still, Frost already had a mate, a respectable dragon named Gelid, who had no knowledge of their love.
When Frost learned she was with an egg, she cut ties with Saguaro, leaving him with no explanation as to why she up and ran. Lucky for Frost, the egg looked like an Icewing's, and Gelid believed it was his.
It was a slightly different story when RInk hatched. While Frost could attempt to ignore the frill and bulge, it was harder to explain the dark blue stripes, as it's not normal for icewings to have dark blue marks. Frost managed to convince others, Gelid and their friends, that she had a great Nightwing grandfather, and that hybridization was why Frost had a deformed foot, and Rink had dark blue marks. 
Somehow, this stupid ploy worked, and no one really questioned Rink's strange appearance, but for about the first three years of Rink's life, Frost forced them to wear a black cloak and neck wrap to hide the frill. 
Frost didn't like Rink, who was the result of her own mistake and foolishness. She would keep trying to push Rink to be the best dragon they could be, so that no one would care about their appearance, even going as far as getting them into the circles for a short while. Frost would blow up at Rink over small infractions, in particular, dropping objects, bad talonwriting, or even just tapping their talons. This would cause her to act out in violence, grabbing Rink's wrists, often clawing them and bruising them when she slammed them into walls. She would also whip Rink's feet and tail with her own, spiked tail, to get them to stand straight and in a royal fashion. She also contributed to Rink's malnutrition, so they looked "attractive" to potential suitors (of high circle ranks). Truly toxic.
Rink never wanted to be the circles, and would spend as much time being a wild and rebellious dragonet in their early years. They would slide around and crash into objects haphazardly, throw snowballs at others, and steal. Rink could rarely be seen at home, and even had a few friends in their first 3 years, who were older and more rebellious than Rink was. Their wild behavior got Rink kicked out of the circles on blame. This infuriated Frost, who took out her rage at Rink, scaring them and led to Rink hating royalty.
Gelid took on a more passive role in Rink's life. He didn't support Frost hurting Rink, and was the one to trying to keep Rink out of the house. But he never tried to correct Rink's behavior or outright stop Frost. While he still loved his daughter, he loved his partner more. 
Rink's relationship with their family degraded exponentially when Cryo, Rink's younger brother, hatched, three years after Rink had hatched. The abuse turned harsher, and the neglect got worst. Cryo was obviously better cared for than his older sibling, while the pressure put on Rink to be better became worse. No matter how hard Rink tried to be perfect, it was never enough for Frost's harsh standards. This bred a need for escape, and a sense of hopelessness.
When Rink was 5, barely a dragon, they were introduced to Brumal, a third circle icewing. Frost had intended for Rink to be Brumal's mate, but Rink was having none of that. Brumal wasn't a nice dragon, and was already dissing Rink for their scars and strange appearance. Rink lashed out, for the first and pretty much only time. They lunged forwards and sunk their teeth into Brumal's leg. As has been mentioned before, when Rink bites things, their frostbreath will freeze their teeth to things. This happened with Brumal's leg, and the stress and panic induced by said event got Rink's two large canines ripped out of their mouth.
This pushed Rink to running away in the first time. The first time, they ran away to Possibility. They were approached by Cidcada, a sandwing-mudwing who often acts kind and caregiving, but is easily frustrated and can have outburst of rage. Cicada tried to help Rink, mostly by trying to give them a home and food, although mostly forceful at first. Rink, however, being terrified by the outside world and the strange dragons, because at this age, Rink had only seen other tribes in pictures, and was wary of dragons trying to treat them with pure kindness. This stubbornness infuriated Cicada, who took her anger out on Rink, and stabbed her talons into Rink's venom sac. Rink, until that point, didn't know that they were a hybrid. Frost had never told anyone, Rink included,That's when Rink learned that they were a hybrid and not a deformed icewing. Cicada, however, was horrified that she clawed a dragonet's tail, switched to a much, much more passive role, only leaving shelter and food for Rink to take, rather then trying to force them. 
Rink was going through a bit of a crisis, questioning everything they knew about their life. Rink figured out, through the process of elimination, that they must be part sandwing, and started to question if that's why Frost hated them. Rink felt more comfortable being in Possibility, which had a lot of hybrids. They started to trust Cicada more, and started to regain their lost weight, and picked up drawing again. 
That was, however, until Frost found Rink. Frost was starting to loose her good graces in the social circle, given the incident Rink had with Brumal, and the fact that it had seemed Frost was capable of getting unruly dragonets under control, but Rink running away started to prove otherwise, and some were starting to question how good of a mother Frost was. Keep in mind, Frost had taught Rink to not speak up in public, and had brushed of the scars on Rink's back legs and tail as minor accidents, while forcing them to wear the cloak and sleeves to cover the other scars. Frost had used the help of old friends to contact other icewings, who tracked down Rink to Possibility. That's where Rink was captured and brought back home. 
Frost was beyond enraged at Rink, threatening to, "smash Rink's wings so she could never fly away again." However, Frost barred Rink from leaving the house, refusing to let them outside, even to go to an icewing school. For education, Rink was simply given reading material and a time limit to learn it. Meals once again became scarce and few in between. Once again, Rink was hell bent on escaping from what had turned into their prison. 
They had chiseled through the walls of their room and escaped mere months later, now six years old. They flew, much, much farther than possibility, where they landed into the rainforest. For the first few months, Rink set up camp and lived alone in the rainforest, learning to hunt and harvest food for themselves, as well as deal with injuries and other necessities. 
That's when Rink met Condor and Parakeet.
Neither Condor not Parakeet could be classified as particularly good dragons. Condor's work specialized in organ harvesting, for a variety of causes, both good and bad. Parakeet was a notorious and powerful assassin, possibly the best of Pyrrhia. The two were partners when they met Rink. Parakeet took a fondness for Rink, believing that there was something in Rink, a starved ice-sandwing dragonet managing to survive weeks in the rainforest, after coming all the way from the icewing kingdom and not dying. Condor was just a pushover and went with Parakeet. 
They took in Rink, who was far more trusting of dragons who just weren't rude icewings, as a sort of adopted child. Parakeet taught Rink how to use a blowgun, and the combined income from Condor and Parakeet kept the group well cared for. A year later, Parakeet's only egg hatched, who was named Strato. Rink helped to care for Strato, like an older sibling, in particular, taking care of him when Parakeet and Condor left to do their dirty work. It seemed to be going well. The obscurity of the rainforest kept Rink hidden from Frost, but not from a certain dragon.
This is where Parakeet's backstory becomes relevant. When Parakeet was new at the whole assassin business, she got into a contract with a dragon named Telltale, who was responsible for running a large and powerful crime ring. Parakeet, being a rainwing, living in a more obscure part of the kingdom, didn't know how to read. Thus, Parakeet didn't know that her payment, for borrowing tools (she didn't even know that they were borrowed, Telltale was very misleading in that regard), would compound, with only one contrived and near impossible means of escape without paying the remaining amount. Normally, the payment would become unbearable within months, but Telltale had waited years before collecting payment. Parakeet basically owed more than all ten kingdoms could provide. That's where the incredibly stupid, and effective, means of escape came into play.
Telltale had four options for Parakeet, either she bound herself to him and permanently worked for him and no one else, she pay the hefty payment, bring Telltale the lung of a friend, or, if she refused, have her family and friends attacked and killed by Telltale's worker. Telltale had anticipated for Parakeet to join him, as she had no means of which to pay the fine in the time limit, and he knew that Parakeet wouldn't dare mess with the immense power Telltale had. 
What he hadn't anticipated was the third means of resolving the debit. Most assassins couldn't muster the courage to attack their own friends, who were likely allies, or even partners in crime. Many were also unskilled in the act of organ harvest, and were too afraid to even try, knowing that such attempts could kill their friends. And even so, doing this would show Telltale that the assassins feared Telltale more than they loved their friends, setting up future means to control them and eventually force them into working for Telltale. 
Parakeet, however, the mate of an organ harvester, saw this as a viable means of escape. She knew, from the skills she picked up from Condor, that she could successfully take a dragon's lung and have a far higher chance for them to survive, not as much as Condor, but enough to give Parakeet enough confidence to pursue this means. She led Rink into the forest, knocked them out, cut open the left side of their chest, took the bottom half of Rink's left lung, and resealed the wound. She ran away before Rink would wake up, leaving a note that explained why she did what she had to. 
Rink didn't take this too well, in immense pain, and they ran away, never forgiving Parakeet, and by extension, Condor, and ran back into the desert. A few days later, when Rink was 8, they got captured (again), by Frost, and taken back to the kingdom.
At this point, having gone two years without seeing their daughter, came to the conclusion that she couldn't be as harsh on Rink, (wrongly) accepting that they were "unfixable," and that the best path forwards is to remove Rink from Frost's image and life as best as possible. Thus, Frost enrolled Rink in the Pantalan-Pyrrhian school, as to distance herself and everyone else she's connected with from Rink.
Rink, however, has completely given up. They can't run away, they can't escape, and when they do, it changes next to nothing. Rink has become extremely untrusting and depressed from their traumatic life. Rink has lost the motivation to do most anything, including eating, drawing, even interacting with others, just living in a drowsy, apathetic state. No one knows Rink's fate in this new school, but if anything, Telltale knowing where Rink is can't be helpful...
== Relationships ==
(In order of appearance)
(Neutral indicates a little known, former, or neutral relationship)
=== Saguaro = Neutral ===
Rink doesn't know who their real father is, only that he was a sandwing. Frost never told Saguaro that she was with their egg, so he doesn't know he had a child with Frost. He does, however, have two dragonets with a mudwing, and they are, technically, Rink's half siblings. 
=== Frost = Negative ===
Frost has been the main dragon responsible for Rink's abuse and unwell state. She is an uptight dragon, one who hates imperfections and misbehavior. Two traits that Frost believes Rink has. She is a snobbish dragon with an entitled mentality. 
=== Gelid = Neutral ===
Rink's father played a passive role in Rink's life, unwilling to stand up to Frost, but smart enough to know what she did was wrong and keep Rink away from Frost as much as possible. He shares some of Frost's perfectionist values, but to a lesser extreme than harming a small dragonet.
=== Boreal, Kalt, Polaris, and Husky = Neutral ===
The four wild friends who got Rink in trouble after blaming their defection of the icewing palace (covering the entire thing in bloody seal carcasses). They grew apart from Rink after Rink was confined to Frost's place. 
=== Cryo = Negative-Neutral ===
Rink's younger half-brother, who follows in his parent's footsteps, and likes to degrade Rink by stating how much better he is. Rink and Cryo mutually hate each other.
=== Brumal = Negative ===
After their disastrous first meeting, Brumal has refused to meet up with that "crazy dragon" ever again. He is doing well.
=== Cicada = Neutral ===
Cicada had managed to make a sort of weird bond with Rink, but after they were captured, she never saw them again.
=== Condor = Neutral ===
Rink doesn't hate Condor, but can't be friends with him, because he's the mate of Parakeet
=== Parakeet = Negative ===
Rink hates Parakeet for taking part of their lung to repay a debit. Parakeet understands, and doesn't expect Rink to forgive her. 
=== Strato = Positive ===
They haven't seen Strato in a while, but they don't hold feelings against him for the actions of his mother.
=== Telltale = Neutral ===
Rink is only aware of Telltale's existence, but Telltale is very aware of Rink's, and their relationship with a certain assassin. 
=== Ask if you want your character to have a relationship with Rink! Positive, Negative, or Neutral ===
== Trivia ==
* Rink's favorite meal is seafood
* Husky was the only one of the four friends to give Rink a gift, that being a sketchbook they filled with art. 
* Rink's art is strange and deformed, often where sizes and anatomy are skewed to create surreal art.
* In an older version, Rink had a venom scar and a harpoon through one leg as they tried to flee. 
* Rink has an attachment to their cloak, despite it being a means of which Frost would hide Rink's nature, and abuse to the world.
* While researching for some of Rink's various aliments, I learned that you can remove a lung with relative safety, and you can even donate a lobe of your lung. Fascinating. 
* Strato considers Rink to be a big sibling, and even calls them, "big sissy"
* Cicada once kidnapped Rink to get them to sleep under a roof and eat something
* Rink doesn't have serrated icewing claws, so they struggle to stop themselves on the ice. 
* Frost's relationship with her friends and Gelid are falling apart very quickly. 
* Rink was going to be a night-icewing, and could have powers. But I made them an Ice-sandwing.
== Reference Sheet ==