Arrogance

arrogance"what will make you remember that it's over?"
☾ she / they ✩ demi ✩ lonesome seer ☽
character belongs to radar
a small revamp.
born in the shadow of their older sisters, arrogance was always overlooked for not having any moonborn ability to their name.
Background Information	Background Information 	Background Information	Background Information	Background Information
attribute 	exasperation, apathy 	 	element 	stardust, silver shavings, ice water
animal 	rabbit, magpie 	 	color 	silver, dark purple
song 	an empty bliss beyond this world • leyland kirby, fighter • jack stauber 	 	mbti 	intj-a
Character Information 	Character Information 	Character Information 	Character Information 	Character Information
nicknames 	starlight (aegletes) 	 	age 	29 (hy)
tribe 	nightwing 	 	gender 	non-binary
orientation 	demiromantic demisexual 	 	relatives 	contempt (mother), bane (father, deceased), foresight (older sister), providere (older sister)
occupation 	huntress, seer (formerly) 	 	residence 	nightwing queendom
allies 	themself 	 	enemies 	contempt, foresight, providere
likes 	trust, isolation (mixed), rainfall, moonlight, nighttime, fairy lights, comfort foods, warmth	 	dislikes 	their sisters, betrayal, isolation (mixed), warmth (in excess), bright lights, mosquitoes
abilities 	normal nightwing abilities, can foretell future disasters 	 	loves 	aegletes (formerly)
introduction"it's idiots like you that are going to get us all killed..."
The rainforest, you think, continues in a vast expanse of greens and browns, you've been walking for hours on end, trying to find someone, something. You don't remember their name. All you remember is that they're one of the only few left in the world who can see into the future. And that's all you really needed right now, you need to find out what happens, it haunted you to this very day. Your talons slip swiftly through the dirt, the need to know growing stronger and stronger.
You spot it, a silver being glittering just a few feet in front of you, although you almost took no notice of them and trampled over the beautiful seer. "Ah! It's you! The one I've been looking for." You shout, even though they would very clearly hear you if you just talked normally.
They turned their head, mildly concerned dark purple eyes stared back, they seemed to start from your sudden outburst. Meek eyes darted back and forth, as though checking to see if anyone else was there before they began talking in a soft voice. Starting out by scorning you for startling them and then they continued to go into a small introduction. The name clicked back into your head when they said it. Arrogance... not exactly the name you expected.
Continuing they did, Arrogance asked why you sought them out and why exactly you were in this blasted rainforest. After all, it belonged to hybrids now and it was no place for a purebred NightWing and SandWing. That makes you question why THEY are here in the first place, but you don't bother answering. You go straight to the point of why you sought them out. "I wish for you to tell me when it will happen. I want to know, I need to know, I must know..."
Arrogance didn't answer for a long while, then they said they weren't the one you should've sought. They saw many possibilities, but in all the futures... you never believed them one single bit. You'd come back more doubtful and wondering then when you came in. Then they disappeared while you try to comprehend this, wondering, what did they mean by that?
Just this one encounter with the NightWing seer, brought you more questions than you did first talking to them.
appearance"i float on a rickety boat called life, sailing forever into an endless sea..."
A strange being Arrogance most certainly is and the most naïve at such an age where they should've learned by now that trust is earned, not given. Yet the most eye-catching part is that of their scales, metallic silver in color. Change of pace from the black, dark blues, ash greys and darkest purples of other NightWings. Although dark colors do appear here and there, embedded upon their scales. Like the dark purple teardrop scales running down the sides of their body?
Or their underbelly as a whole, remaining like a lake of black-purple next to mounds of metallic, flashy silver. It appears almost as though her scales were covered in a sheen of silver itself, so reflective and eye-catching from how the sunlight bounces off of them. No one knows how these scales came to be, for they were only seen on them. Whatever the cause is, Arrogance stands out in the crowd. A sea of inky blackness with one silver shaving placed in it whilst lush green sunlight comes through the window.
Other than their scales, everything seems completely normal about them, their build is stocky and tall. With that slight add of plumpness due to living in the rainforest instead of the old NightWing kingdom. In fact, only their parents knew what the old NightWing kingdom looked like or what it felt like to live there. Of course, they'd never talk about it, the experience was too much for the both of them.
Straight horns protrude from the back of their head, the same dark purple that flows down the stream called their underbelly and the teardrop scales on the sides. This also seemingly appears covering the front of their softly curved snout. Spines running down their back look merged together, the color remaining lighter than the original purples. They run down their back much like the sail of a SeaWing or SandWing.
Across their face under their eyes are little dark purple scales, separating themselves from the original coloration at the tip of their snout. Upon large ears with pink insides are two black earring studs that are circular in shape. This remains the only jewelry on their entire person. One may spot a little black dot on the bottom half of their ear, a little mark of their family. Wings spread out on either sides of them, the membranes similar in color to the "sail" going down their back.
Scattered like stars in the night sky, little silver stars that produce their own little lights swirl in shapeless patterns across the bottom of their wings.
personality"time is an unchained beast. it cannot be controlled, but it can be tamed."
*is decently well-put together and is calm in most situations. is too apathetic to really care about the future or their prophecies anymore.
*just looks out for themself now since no one believes them anyway. rather jaded and quiet. craves the concept of being alone, but whenever they actually achieve it, they crave company.
*rarely feels awed by the world around them, it takes something really special to make them feel that way.
*rather pensive and spends quite a lot of their time pontificating philosophical questions.
----Much like what their name may imply, they are quite arrogant and condescending when it comes down to it. They have a great sense of purpose, to be a disaster detector for themself and themself alone. Arrogance seems to be a bit closed off from society as well as a bit embittered when they fail to make someone believe their predictions. The need to be helpful once flooded their soul, a determination to prove the dragon who cursed them wrong, that they could turn this curse into a blessing.
For a long time they tried to save dragons from disasters, attempting to prevent so many casualties. But every time they try to announce their concern, every time they try to prevent other dragons from getting hurt they are met with aggression. Just as the dragon who cursed them had said, "every disaster you shall see, but your warnings shall fall upon deaf ears." Over the years they gave up trying to be the preventer and just become the bystander, overviewing the aftermath of disasters they predicted to happen.
Despite having a once positive outlook towards others, they've soon become embittered and cynical as well as condescending and arrogant. They always think they know better than others because of how far they can see into the future. Because of that, they are considered very rude and unfriendly, driving dragons away from them. Arrogance is distant and doesn't have attachment towards anyone, something they were taught from a young age by their parents.
They seem to have very strong yet somewhat conflicting opinions on relationships, not at all eager to have one themself but not fully against it. Arrogance sees having a relationship as a waste of time, too hard and time-consuming to ever interest them. Despite seeming so against having a partner or friend, they do seem to crave at least a friend to keep them company. They're just too caught up in thinking they're a waste of time to actually admit this.
It's because of this that the NightWing finds themself so lonely, though they try to ignore it through writing. Arrogance is very adamant about respecting the time one has left and they even seem to personify time itself as though it were some kind of wild beast that can be tamed. This appears to be what brought upon their distaste towards technology, seeing it as a waste of the precious time one has on the planet. They don't seem to understand relationships and their purpose too well, as they never had any worthwhile relationships themself.
abilities"i see tornados tearing the land, tsunamis washing away buildings. if only they would listen..."
Arrogance would appear to have just have the fire breath of a NightWing at first and that would mostly be the case. It's their shiny silver scales that give away their ability to hide in the shadows easily. However, there is one ability that truly defines the dragon, it's their ability to foretell the far future. More specifically, they can predict when disasters are going to occur. When it comes to how far they can see into the future, it appears to be even more powerful than the likes of even Clearsight.
Despite this phenomenal ability, it comes with a price that sometimes drives Arrogance to the brink of madness. No matter what they do, no one will believe the predictions, even though they are guaranteed to occur. This has brought down their mood and made them much more cynical and hopeless towards actually helping others. It's gone to the point where they've given up on helping entirely and just remain distanced from society. This curse that has been inflicted upon them has broken them over time.
In addition to their curse and fire breath, they have an amazing sense of time and prefer not to waste it. Just by looking at the sky and the position of the sun or moons they know what time it is. Despite the world quickly modernizing and any challenge of knowing what time it is is old news, it's new for them. They don't gaze fondly upon the use of technology, seeing it as a waste of precious time.
history"to think that i am the most powerful seer in history, yet none will remember my name when i'm gone."
Years and years after the downfall of Darkstalker, the former RainWing and NightWing queen Glory perished to some kind of illness that, strangely enough, only affected her. In her place stood her only daughter Firefly, who hesitantly picked up the old reigns carried from one queen to the other. Hoping to create a better world filled with peace, she tried to change the world Glory took years to make and completely smashed it to bits by accident. With that, the entirety of the Rainforest Kingdom didn't quite know how to respond.
This was the "lovely world" a newborn NightWing was hatched into, taken care of by their supposed parents, Swana and Kaptor, in whom, in return for taking care of this little dragonet and their older sister, taught them about life's greatest lessons. They dubbed the younger one with the name Arrogance for their, well, arrogant behavior, whilst they dubbed the older one Bavink for reasons. Of these many lessons, there is only one they remember loud and clear to this very day.
Never get too attached.
Although other lessons included the world doesn't revolve around you, you can't always get what you want and to stop stealing things, something the NightWing dragonet was prone to doing. These now lurk in the back of their mind, like creatures stalking in the shadows, waiting for the right time to pounce. With these lessons came a deep hatred towards hybrids, although an explanation behind this fell into the very roots of this family.
Therefore, a hatred for hybrids did Arrogance learn, it rubbed off all over them, although they'd never admit any of this out loud, but it was always stored up inside them. It burned at the sides of their throat like fire. Then it got pushed down, it didn't become as hot, it couldn't boil the water anymore as it died away. Yet there was only one cure to that... time. It stalked around them like a pack of wolves, having its eyes sharp.
Before leaving the world, their parents taught them how to hunt so they wouldn't have to do it themselves anymore, they kept pushing their lessons into Arrogance's mind, making sure they remembered. Then one thing led to another, a very short series of unfortunate events occurred.
First, it started with Bavink leaving due to love, love for an annoying hybrid named Simko. This is what the NightWing called their older sister's greatest betrayal of the family itself. A few years after this "betrayal," their parents died, one after the other tumbled down the hill into death, Swana and then Kaptor. All in the matter of one year, although Arrogance wasn't too fazed by this, after all, they were the ones who told them not to get too attached to anyone or anything.
Then there was the day of their curse. And it involved a certain SeaWing animus that they'd met a few weeks ago. This dragon went by the name of Zurak and while whimsical in his ways, Arrogance never found much interest in him. Or at least they didn't like him as much as he liked them. Upon confessing his love to them and, after hearing that they didn't like him back, he cursed them.
They became a powerful seer, but no one would believe their predictions, not even the most gullible dragon in the world, not even the most trusting friend, no one would believe them. And it drove them crazy knowing how far into the future they saw, but no one could see it. You see, at this point in time, there were hardly any seers and / or mind readers anywhere in the world, they all just faded from the world just like animus magic did years ago.
Being one of the last seers on the planet meant that there was no one else to share predictions with, no one else who had the slightest possibility of believing them. Now here they are to this day, a lonesome seer, cursed by the gods above, wandering the world from end to end, although, occasionally, dragons would approach them and ask about the future. And then come back with more questions than they did before engaging with Arrogance.
Usually, they are found spending the rest of their days writing down predictions, their visions of the future on long pieces of parchment, or perhaps reading books to get their mind off of the motto their parents taught them. Never get too attached. Or just to get their mind off of the slightly steaming hatred they have for hybrids, that has been cooling for the past months.
relationships"may the bonds you break make you stronger."
please roleplay beforehand
aegletes: their ex-lover, whom they used to be very fond of. they met years ago when he was still a traveling actor. they were enamored by his charms and his liveliness, a trait they couldn't assign to their home life. the two of them were actually quite close in the past, for as fun-loving and rowdy as he could be, he was also very grounded and serious when he needed to be, which they appreciated. have grown estranged from him ever since he cursed them with the ability to see future disasters. neutral
contempt: nothing more than a selfish and vain dragoness who wishes desperately to go back to her glory days. she didn't really interact with arrogance outside of just caring for them, instead spending all her energy spoiling their older sisters and living vicariously through them. they never really had the best relationship with their mother nor did they ever try to mend it, figuring they could spend that energy on someone who actually matters to them. negative
bane: had a slightly better relationship with their father than they had with their mother, which isn't saying much. he was absent for most of their dragonethood due to hostility between him and contempt as well as "health complications" that were never explained to them. he taught them most of the basic life skills such as how to cook and hunt and he wasn't half-bad at teaching them either. they'd sometimes bond while cooking dinner or when out on hunting trips together. neutral
trivia"i scream as loud as i can warnings of disasters yet to come, but they all fall on deaf ears."
 
*moral alignment is true neutral.
*uses feminine titles.
* right-handed.
gallery"sail dear sailor, sail far and shall you not be worn by the waves of time."
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