Quartz (B0redrag0n0)

DISCLAIMER::: this is MY oc!!! I'm sorry if it may have the same name as other ocs, but this is my character. You are welcome to take INSPIRATION from it, but NEVER COPY OR CLAIM THIS OC AS YOUR OWN. (If you steal or copy then you don't get the free cookie that comes with reading abt my oc >:( )
== Name: ==
Quartz :D
== Tribe: ==
A regular Icewing, second circle. (As in not a royal bc almost all the important canon Icewings are -)
== Age: ==
Current: 11 DY (born 5001 AS)
== Gender: ==
female (any pronouns)
== Physical description: ==
Quartz is a short, wiry Icewing with large wings, and a long tail. Her spikes are slightly longer than average, and she has smooth, shiny scales. Quartz 's scales are a pale blue in color at her head, but fade into white at her tail and talons, going to a slightly darker shade of blue at the scales on her wings. Her wings membranes are a pale purple, nearly pink in color, and so are her spikes. Her spikes fade to white at the tips, and she also has white underscales. Her eyes are a midnight blue, and they are often droopy and tired, thanks to Quartz not often sleeping. Her horns are pure white, and the scales at the top of her head and along her spine are a pale greyish blue. Quartz wears a silver necklace that contains two rings on it to signify her circle ranking, and she also has a small bearskin pouch on her left ankle that contains an earring copy, and some other random assorted trinkets. Quartz often walks fast, and with a slight sense of suspicion in every step. And though it isn't visible at a quick first glance, she has several small scars along her neck and arms, as well as a torn right ear.
== Abilities ==
Quartz has access to her tribe's natural weapons, though she also has a few extra abilities, such as a skill in combat, and a skill at creating ice carvings. She is also good at reading others through their body language and words, and is hard to trick thanks to her highly skeptical and distrusting personality.
== Personality ==
=== Pre war: (ages 0-10) ===
Quartz is a very stern, cold, and calculating Icewing. She hates failure, disappointment, and mistakes, and is often seen as aggressive and cold. Quartz is also highly skeptical and distrusting, overthinking every decision before ever making one. She is also good at reading others by looking for subtle clues in their words or behaviors to try and best piece together their personality. She also despises orders, but does her best not to backtalk anyone or rebel, thanks to what she has seen with the stricter, bossier Icewings. However, she isn't perfect at this, and tends to let her guard down whenever she decides to trust someone, often revealing her nicer, more merciful traits. But thanks to how Icewing society is, she would drop down to the 6th or 7th circle whenever these kinds of mistakes occured, which has convinced her to never show any weakness, failure, trust, or vulnerability. She hates Nightwings with a passion thanks to what her tribe and parents had told her, and though she often questions their beliefs in secret, she wouldn't dare act on it. 
=== Post war: (ages 11- current) TW: SH ===
Quartz still retains some of her old traits, such as her skeptical nature, and her skill in combat, though with time, she has lost many of her other ones. She still dislikes failures, though she isn't as cold with them as she used to be. She also keeps far more secrets than she did before, such as the many effects the war had on her. She still pretends to have many of her old traits, wearing them as a mask to conceal who she actually has become, as she views it as unacceptable to have any other personality, as that's what the others around her often act like. She is still distrustful, though she yearns for somebody to accept her real self, not the fake Icewing mask she wears to retain a high rank (but now that Snowfall destroyed the ranking wall, idrk what to do abt that-) She takes criticism extremely poorly, and will often create wounds on her own scales whenever others aren't looking after particularly hard days. She's also understanding, and does her best to empathize with others, especially those who have similar trauma to her. She also hates her parents, and the majority of the Icewing tribe with a passion, and although she doesn't often show her true opinions about them, she has been more open lately. She also feels that she doesn't deserve anything nice, and often bottles up her feelings. (Though she will crack if she trusts others) She also hates when others lie, and prefers the cold, hard truth over a lie to preserve her feelings.
== Backstory ==
Quartz was born to a rich family of Icewing snobs, who only had kids to boost their ranking. She has 3 siblings, one older, and two younger, and one aunt. Her parents were extremely hard on their kids as they grew up, expecting perfection, and the same cold, cruel, killers that they were to help in the war. Quartz also often got told that she was the least favorable of her parents' kids, and often caught them talking about efficient ways to kill her so that they would have a perfect image. She also had unrealistically high expectations, and was punished exponentially for even a slight mistake that her other siblings could usually get away with just fine unless her parents were in a particularly sour mood. However, her days of trying to distance herself from her family just so she could be herself without criticism or the fear of punishment came to a halt when her parents forced all their kids into the Icewing army to help win the war of Sandwing succession. At the time, Quartz was barely 5, and her youngest sibling was only 3, but she didn't dare complain thanks to the fear her parents had instilled in her to keep her as easily manipulated as possible. Quartz ended up being highly successful as an Icewing soldier, and barely ended up with any major wounds, often getting her rank promoted before her siblings. This often angered her siblings, but pleased her parents, so she kept going up through the rankings, both in the army, and in the tribe. One day however, near the end of the war, when she was assigned to patrol the borders of the camp her battalion had set up, she met a Skywing that was about a year older than her trying to sneak into the camp to assassinate the Icewing army general. The other dragon assigned to the night watch had simply shot the dragon with frostbreath near instantly, disorienting the Skywing enough for the other Icewing to leave a large scratch on the dragon's side, forcing the Skywing into the woods. Quartz wasn't entirely sure why, or what prompted her to do this, but she had taken the enchanted narwhal horn that the battalion had brought with them in case of any accidental frostbreath injuries with her as she snuck off into the woods to find the injured dragon. Eventually, she did find the Skywing, and had decided to heal it's injuries if it revealed it's motives. The Skywing revealed herself as Topaz, and explained that her battalion, which wasn't all that far from Quartz's had ordered her to sabotage in any way possible, steal supplies, kill the general, injure the stronger soldiers, whatever hurt the most. She also explained that she felt that these tactics were underhanded and immoral, and didn't necessarily want to participate it them. Quartz, satisfied with the information given, then promptly healed the frostbreath wounds, and bandaged the claw mark as best as she could. Quartz then decided to open up to Topaz a bit, and the two had friendly conversation until sunrise, when they were both forced to go back to their battalions. However the two wouldn't just leave each other and move on, they would become close friends throughout the final few months of the war, Quartz having to sneak away from her battalion at night to go meet up when Topaz so they could keep talking, and go flying at night together. However, once the war ended, Quartz believed that she had lost her only real friend because she no longer had a place she could go interact with her. But once Snowfall had left the palace to go deal with the Pantalan dragons, Quartz had seen it as an opportunity, and had left the Ice kingdom to go and find Topaz. She decided to go to the same spot that the two had previously met up at, and after a few hours of looking nearby, had seen a similar looking Skywing sitting alone at the river. A short interrogation conversation later, and Quartz had discovered that this Skywing was Topaz's brother, Peregrine. After a bit more conversation later, Quartz had discovered that Topaz had recently gone missing, and her last known location was on the outskirts of sanctuary. Once Quartz had made it there, she discovered that Topaz was just fine, and that she had also remembered her. The two were reunited, though Quartz wasn't officially free of her parents yet, so she ended up having to fake her death to get away, and go live in sanctuary.
== Other details ==
- Quartz has amazing hearing, and is able to identify most others based on their footsteps alone.
- Quartz journals all her thoughts that she likes to hide away in an empty scroll.
- Quartz is pan.
- Quartz rarely ever sleeps, viewing it as a waste of her time, when she could be doing other productive things.
- Quartz is good at manipulating the ice that her frostbreath creates to make little ice sculptures.
- Quartz stopped wearing her necklace that symbolized her rank in the tribe ever since she left the Ice kingdom.
- Quartz hates young dragonets, and views them as annoying wastes of space.
- Quartz is left-handed.
- When Quartz goes hunting, she always collects shiny rocks to bring home as gifts for Topaz.
- Quartz loves flying and swimming, especially at night.
- When she does sleep, Quartz sleeps really late (she's not a morning person at all)
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