Mahogany (Matpat FT)

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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.-Audrey Hepburn----Appearance The first thing that catches your eye about Mahogany is her eyes. Dark and large, they contain horrifying memories, beautiful innocence, and floating dreams. When they look at you, you can feel your breath leaving in one go. You drop your eyes away from her shockingly calm gaze to look at her scales. You note her dark mahogany-colored overscales, which have a beautiful ombre into lighter mahogany for her underbelly. Then for a second, you think that she doesn’t have wings. It takes a few minutes of careful scrutinization to see a tight, folded line of feathers running along the sides of her body, where wings usually go.Now you’re really confused. Wasn’t it the strange TempestWings that had feathered wings? Huh.Anyways. Next, your eyes wander down to her weirdly long tail. It looks like a RainWing IceWing kind of tail- long and thin and prehensiley. Weird kid, huh? Their tail also looks kind of warped- its spines are strangely small. And she looks nervous constantly- all eyes darting and searching, fiddling with her talons.But you can always see the hope that shines at the core.
PersonalityShe thinks of herself as a metal.
Very specific metal, actually.
Titanium
Whaa? you ask. Titanium, she says, eyes shining. They sense your confusion and shrugs. I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose, fire away, fire away....
Mahogany prefers to think of herself as titanium. What? you ask, confused. Titanium, she says, eyes shining. When she sees your confusion, she explains, Titanium. I've got nothing left. I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose, fire away, fire away...AbilitiesMahogany can branesurf. By this I mean rip holes in the universe that are invisible to all but other branesurfers, and these holes lead to other universes much like her own. Need a pencil? Rip. Here. Lunch? Rip. Anything? Rip.
The downside to this is the energy. Each rip sucks away half her energy. And when the universe throws a tantrum and creates thousands of rips at a time, she is suddenly supercharged.
No, she didn't ask for it.
History
Mahogany was born like any other normal dragonet. Her LeafWing mother fretted and made a nesty-type bed around her egg, her MudWing father panicked and nearly stepped on her several times. Mahogany's older sister Ghost Orchid giggled and ran around the egg excitedly.
They really weren't prepared for what came next.
The egg seemed to balloon out and inflate, collapse in and deflate, float, sink, fly, fall-
The egg was ripping apart the very membrane of the universe.
Three minutes, several random creatures from other universes, and mucho screaming later, a tiny, perfect looking dragonet scrambled out of the egg.
Mahogany's parents stared and stared and stared and stared and stared.
Then they stared some more.
I mean, who expects their kid to suddenly pop out of its egg like that? I certainly don't. And Mahogany's parents clearly did not.
Mahogany stumbled over to her parents, but, disgusted, they moved away. She looked up with giant, confused Bambi eyes. Her parents finally relented and allowed her to clamber onto her mother's back. Mahogany rode back into Possibility on her mom's back, happy and content like she rarely ever would be again.
...So of course her mother decided to put that into action. As soon as Mahogany got home, expecting to be warm and snuggled, was put inside a cage with a scruffy blanket. Confused, Mahogany tried to butt her head out. Her father tossed a peice of zebra jerky into the cage, despite the fact that Mahogany wasn't even vaugely old enough to be weaned, much more eating hard food.
Well, the poor baby tried to eat it, but her teeth were much too weak. For the first few weeks of her life, her parents broke her. No food. No love. Cold. Anger. Fear.
All this anger inside the house was taken out on Mahogany- screaming, yelling, hitting. All this escalated when her father left, throwing the house into a more dismal place than it used to be. Mahogany watched him leave. He took all the money, food, and happiness.
Eventually, when Mahogany was half a year old, Mahogany was already barely alive. She didn't move, laugh, or even know how to talk. She basically just laid on her terrible blanket until a scrap of food was tossed in, then ate and laid some more, until somebody got angry and came to yell and scream at her.
Ghost Orchid was now 5 years old, and old enough to realize that Mahogany was not just a thing sitting in the corner to vent one's anger upon. So one day, at exactly 1:05 AM, she carefully unlocked Mahogany's door. She had to force Mahogany out of the cage and outside. Mahogany screamed and cried, not liking the sudden change in her life. Ghost Orchid brought Mahogany to a local RainWing healer, who agreed to look after Mahogany.
The RainWing taught Mahogany how to speak and act like a normal dragon. She taught Mahogany how to fly, run, and enjoy life. She also taught Mahogany the basics of healing and herbs.
Three years later, Mahogany was almost completely better- but nothing would erase those terrible months in a cage. The kind RainWing healer took care of Mahogany, but only Ghost Orchid was motherly.
One day, Mahogany suddenly snapped and decided to leave. Without telling anyone, she had been carefully cumulating and perfecting her powers of shaping and bending the universe to her will. Now, she packed all her worldly belongings in a bag- A small knife, a feather pen, a blanket, a small locket from Ghost Orchid.
She snuck out of the RainWing's house, making her way towards an academy she heard was very inclusive- Jade Mountain Academy. She enrolled and managed to live there peacefully for two semesters. She made friends with students, especially with another feathered dragon.
That is, until her powers exploded.
Mahogany hadn't used her powers for so long, trying to fit in. But this turned out to be a severe problem. The universe had been trying to touch her, reach out, talk. But she shut it out. And like a toddler having a tantrum, the universe warped and split.
Crazy creatures spilled out of hundreds of gaping gashes. The membrane of the universe split, sucking up students and teachers left and right. Suddenly there was chaos and panic. Mahogany ran outside onto the top of the peak, concentrating. Slowly, slowly, she plugged each fissure in the universe and destroyed the gaps.
It took over an hour to finish, and by the end, only four survivors remained. They refused to let Mahogany back inside, so she had nothing left at all. Just herself and her depression.
The incident was publicized, and Mahogany was shunned from everywhere- shops, schools, shelters...
Against her better judgement, she returned to her old home with the RainWing healer, who cautiously let her stay. The RainWing helped disguise her and found another powerful magic wielder, who, despite not having the same powers, was quiet similar. The magical tutor helped her rein in her powers.
However, her mind went on an endless loop. I should have used my powers. I shouldn't have let it explode. I should have saved everyone. I killed dragons. Innocent dragons. With families. More than I had. More than I had to lose. I'm not worth them, worth their deaths.
She eventually found a smaller academy who didn't recognize her, thanks to the disguise. She stayed for nearly a year before a dragon caught her using her powers. She had been letting the universe flow freely, to prevent another mass murder. But when the dragon caught her, another panic formed, and she became so upset that the universe linked to her once more. She stood in the middle of the school as raging exotic winds whipped through the rooms, giant membrane gashes sucked up everything in its reach, and she cried. She cried for the fact she could never be happy again, for all the dead dragons she'd killed, their families, and for everything. Everything.
After that, she left all civilization. She made her way deep into the mountains, hiding and waiting. Waiting for people to forget. Waiting for her parents to love. Waiting for a life. Waiting for love.
She's still waiting.
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