Hessonite(VanquishedHydra4844)

Appearance:
Hessonite is smaller than most SkyWings, with dark orange-yellow scales, and obvious stubs where his wings ought to be, but never appeared. He has bright orange eyes, and a medium peach underbelly. Hessonite has light brown horns and claws.
Hessonite’s right horn is snapped near the base, and his bottom jaw is crooked and misaligned with the rest of his face due to being broken and fixed semi-badly as a dragonet. Due to this, Hessonite has a difficult time speaking. He is also missing the end of his tail, as it once held a small venomless SandWing tail stinger, which was cut off. 
Backstory:
Hessonite hatched, unwanted and unplanned for, to Accipiter and Magpie of the SkyWings, the latter of whom hated Hessonite from the moment he crawled out of his egg. 
Magpie wanted to do what all self-respecting SkyWings did when faced with a dragonet who was even the slightest bit different in the tribe: throw them off the top of a mountain to die. Accipiter, however, convinced her to keep the dragonet, and raise it as a normal SkyWing, minus the wings and the flying. 
Magpie reluctantly agreed, stalking out in a huff to go hunting, not bothering to look back at her dragonet. Accipiter, left alone with the newly hatched dragonet, named it Columbidae, as he’d always thought the more unique name a dragon had, the more they could stand out from their peers. 
Columbidae grew up with the rest of the noble SkyWing dragonets in the palace wingery, and was teased relentlessly for her winglessness and inability to fly. Columbidae made up for her lack of flight by teaching herself to climb trees and branches extremely well, which most SkyWings weren’t really able to do. 
When she was two years old, Columbidae’s mother came to the wingery to take her home, like normal, since Magpie didn’t want Columbidae to have any more interaction than necessary with the other dragonets, not to mention Columbidae’s obvious hybrid genes, present in the form of a small, venomless SandWing tail barb. 
While carrying her, Magpie casually commented that Accipiter was dead, as he had died fighting an escaping SandWing prisoner, who had stabbed him through the heart with their tail barb. 
They got home, and Columbidae offhandedly asked if it was normal to feel like she wasn’t the gender she hatched as. Magpie snapped that Columbidae wasn’t normal, and told her to go to bed. 
Over the next three months, Columbidae read whatever she could find on the feeling that she was a different gender than the one she hatched as, and eventually came to realize that she felt she was actually male. Columbidae then went through a list of potential names for SkyWings, eventually settling on the name Hessonite. 
Now renamed, Hessonite ran home, where Magpie was waiting for him, and told her what he had found. Magpie became angry at the news, and ordered him to drop the matter, but when Hessonite refused, Magpie attacked him, yelling that it was undragonlike to change one’s gender. 
Hessonite adamantly refused to take back what he’d said, and Magpie, enraged, snarled that she should have gotten rid of him the day he hatched, lunging for him and pinning him to the ground, stomping down on his tail hard enough to snap off his tail barb, and clawing his snout several times deeply when Hessonite tried to fight her off. 
Magpie dragged the still struggling Hessonite into the air, toward the peak of the highest mountain she could find nearby, and dropped him. 
Hessonite fell like a stone, clawing at the air, trying to stop his fall. It was futile, and he had a sinking feeling that he was going to die as he saw the tree line coming up below him. 
Hessonite smashed into the trees, pain searing through his bottom jaw and his right horn as he heard them crack in response to his slamming sideways into the side of a tree, falling limply to the forest floor, his vision going black. 
Hessonite woke up to overwhelming pain, mainly in his horn, part of which felt like it was missing, and his bottom jaw, part of which jabbed against his upper jaw. His snout and chest were wrapped in bandages. 
He was in an unfamiliar cave, and he stood up slowly, ignoring the pain in his face. A clanging sound sounded from nearby, and Hessonite looked around to see a dark burgundy, nearly black SkyWing, who was beating a piece of red-hot metal on an anvil. 
He attempted to speak, to ask where he was, when the SkyWing looked up and stared at him for several minutes without saying anything before telling him that he shouldn’t be up at this time. 
Hessonite stood there stubbornly and asked where he was, pushing the words out of his mouth despite the pain. The SkyWing slid out from behind the anvil, telling him that he was in the SkyWing’s home, that the SkyWing had found him, unconscious, with a broken jaw, horn, and claw marks on his face, along with a few potentially broken ribs. The SkyWing has brought him back here, tended to his wounds, and that brought them to the present. 
Hessonite asked the SkyWing what his name was and the SkyWing responded with, “Fang”. Fang asked him what Hessonite’s name was and he gave it. 
 
Over the next few months, Hessonite grew to enjoy Fang’s company, with the older SkyWing even teaching him how a few of the basics of smithing. 
Hessonite eventually became Fang’s apprentice/adopted son, with Fang even crafting him a pair of false wings and teaching him how to fly. 
Other Facts: 
- Hessonite considers Fang to be the father he’d never had, growing up. 
-Hessonite hates being wet. 
-Hessonite does not know how to write. 
-Fang is teaching Hessonite how to read and speak Scavenger/Human, along with how to write both Scavenger and Dragon. 
 
 
Category:Characters
Category:SkyWings
Category:Males
Category:Occupation (Artisan)
Category:Occupation (Student)
Category:LGBT+
Category:Work in Progress