Carrot (OverlordStarlight)

Category:MudWings
Category:Occupation (Soldier)
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Males
Category:Characters
Note: This is an entry for Diamond The SkyWing's food based OC contest.
and now this belongs to overlord. Transferred from me to Siren.
==Appearance==
Carrot is short but stocky, with thick muscles yet fairly small wings. Most of his scales are an orange-brown color, which is how he got his name, Carrot. He has light brown wings and dark brown legs. He has short, dark horns that curve back slightly, with tan brown spines. His tail was recently sliced off in a battle with the SkyWings, and as a result he's perpetually unbalanced while walking and can't fly very well.
== Personality ==
Carrot doesn't have very many opinions, or, at least, he doesn't express them very often. He follows whoever acts like they're in charge and does what everyone tells him to. There is one thing that extremely annoys him, and that's when anyone remarks on the fact that he has no sibs, even if it's somehow a compliment.
== Backstory ==
Carrot hatched around the beginning of the War of SandWing Succession, in the highest part of the Mud Kingdom, barely a stone's throw from Queen Moorhen's palace. His parents were one of the few MudWing couples that stayed together, and they had high hopes for their dragonets. But for some reason, Carrot was the only one of the eight eggs in the hatching that hatched. 
Because of this, Carrot's parents were scorned and demoted, and made to live in the lower MudWing swamps. Ashamed and ridiculed, Carrot's parents yelled at their dragonet a lot and made him train much more than all the other dragonets did. 
So when a mysterious dragon, covered by heavy armor that covered all identifiable features, showed up, offering to take Carrot off of their talons, his parents jumped at the offer, handing the confused and scared dragonet over without a second thought.
The dragon took Carrot down into a system of deep tunnels under the Mud Kingdom and introduced himself as Caiman, the leader of a secret rebellion to overthrow Queen Moorhen and step out of the war. Carrot wasn't exactly sure what he was supposed to do, but Caiman had several very sharp weapons that he looked fully prepared to use, so Carrot decided to join the rebellion.
He lived and trained underground for ten years, until Caiman decided that he was finally ready to go on a mission. Carrot ambushed a group of SkyWings with a few other MudWings, and mostly succeeded in killing all of them, until the end of the battle, when a SkyWing managed to spear Carrot's tail, severing it. The other MudWings had to carry Carrot back to the cave, and he's been there ever since, healing from his wound and adapting his fighting style to fit the loss of his tail.
== Relationships ==
=== Sparrow ===
Sparrow is Carrot's father, and for the year that they'd lived together, they'd had a negative relationship. Sparrow yelled at Carrot whenever he was angry, and the young dragonet often had nightmares where Sparrow shouted at Carrot until he could hear nothing but the sound of his father's loud fury. Every now and then, Carrot still gets these nightmares.
=== Coypu ===
Coypu is Carrot's mother, and Carrot doesn't have any fond memories of her either. Coypu was the one that pushed Carrot to train even harder, often leaving him gasping for breath and bandaging wounds, then telling him that she expected more from him. Ironically, the memory of Coypu was the thing that helped Carrot get a good position underground in the revolution, because he kept hearing her voice telling him to work harder every time he wanted to take a break.
=== Caiman ===
Carrot isn't entirely sure how he feels about Caiman. Sometimes he thinks of the older MudWing as a trusted mentor, and other times he thinks that Caiman is too secretive and must be hiding something. Carrot keeps his opinions to himself though, as usual, and just keeps his head down and follows Caiman without questioning him.
=== Queen Moorhen ===
While neither of them know each other personally at all, Carrot has a few thoughts about Queen Moorhen. He doesn't like that she's risking her tribe in a war that has almost nothing to do with MudWings, and even then only for a promise of peace that he knows will not last if Burn wins the war and becomes queen. But he does his best to stay open-minded, especially since he's aware that a lot of his thoughts have been planted by Caiman and the revolution members.
== Trivia ==
* Carrot was based off of the food (wait for it, this'll be a shocker) carrots! I know, astounding right? Not like it's his name or anything. . . .
* The whole tail-getting-cut-off thing was not actually in my plans for Carrot, but I got lazy while doing his Joy Ang ref and just decided to obliterate the tail and work it into his backstory.
**Why yes, I am diabolical to my characters, thank you.
*If Carrot had sibs, he would be the second-oldest of them. 
**Hmm, maybe his next owner (after I auction him) will write a fanfic where it's revealed that he does have sibs after all (HINTHINTHINTSTORYIDEAOVERHERE)
*For some reason, I wasn't working on Carrot's page for a month at all, then when it was literally the day of the due date, I wrote more than half of his page
**Yeah, I'm a master procrastinator
Category:Content (OverlordStarlight)