Cleopatra (Gravity-loves-writing)

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== Appearance ==
"How do I have so many scars? Well, that's just what happens when you grow up on the streets and happen to hate authority!"
Cleopatra has a typical SandWing appearance with pale, sand-colored scales. She has even paler underscales, and darker wing membrane. She has bright amber irises in her obsidian-black eyes. She has multiple scars from scuffles in the Scorpion Den and failed assassinations, including under her left eye, on her neck, on her bottom lip, on her left shoulder, on her right ear, and multiple tears in her wing membrane and both ears. Most are minor, but the most noticeable scar is the one on her shoulder. She wears a belt with multiple camel-skin pouches, in which she stores her weapons and poisons.
== Personality ==
"Be quiet, or you'll get us killed."
Cleopatra has an overall very wild and untamable personality.
Cleopatra is very brave, possibly too much for her own good. She literally laughs in the face of danger. However, alongside this bravery, she is also very reckless, and tends not to think much before she does something dangerous.
She is cocky and overconfident, and follows the logic of "any dragon who messes with me will end up dead". 
She isn't the brightest dragon when it comes to things such as reading and mathematics, as she was never taught properly, but what she lacks in conventional knowledge she makes up for in street smarts, always knowing just the right dragons to pickpocket, the ones to offer her card to or strike up a conversation with, and the dragons to stay away from. She knows the Scorpion Den like the back of her talon.
== Abilities ==
"Cleopatra, professional assassin and thief, and the one who just stole your jewelry off of you while we were talking, at your service!"
Cleopatra has all the typical powers that come with being a SandWing- warmer-than-usual scales, fire breathing, and a venomous tail barb. She has no additional powers.
Cleo is incredibly skilled in her weaponry. She can handle Dragonflame cacti in a way that won't hurt herself, she can throw her throwing stars with deadly precision, and can correctly use poisons and knows what type will cause immediate death and what type will cause temporary paralysis. 
On top of that, she is very sneaky, hence her choice of becoming an assassin and thief. She can tread as quietly as a small mouse in the sand, and move as quickly as a striking cobra. 
== Weaknesses ==
"I work alone. So, no, you can't come with me."... "Okay, now you're following me. Go away."..."Do you even know what the word 'alone' means?!"
Cleopatra has a tendency to be blinded by hate and anger, willing to do anything when she's in that state. She is easily distracted and not very good at focusing. She has trouble accepting help and holds the belief of "depending on others makes you weak".
== Background ==
"... I don't want to talk about it. Don't make me remember her."
=== Hatchling ===
"Dad? Where did Mom go when she died?"
Cleopatra hatched in the Scorpion Den with no mother in sight. But her father was with her. Cleo's father was a kind SandWing named Caracal, and an old soldier. Her mother had been killed in the War of SandWing Succession. She started her childhood on the right talon, learning the basics of reading and mathematics early.
=== Young Dragonet ===
"Arroyo, please, I don't know where to get food!"..."Steal? But Dad taught me to never..."
Around the time Cleopatra was a year old, Caracal remarried to a SandWing named Arroyo. Arroyo was an Animus, and didn't have good intentions. At her marriage to Caracal, she gave him an enchanted necklace was impossible to take off and would tighten around his neck if he disobeyed her. Using this, she forced him to stop Cleo's education. Arroyo slowly began to deprive Cleo of food and water, telling her to steal, training her in thieving.
=== Dragonet ===
"I HATE YOU!"
Cleopatra became more and more skilled in thieving, gaining skills on her own and coming up with clever tricks. By the time she was 3, Caracal, the one who comforted Cleo when she cried, the one who stood up for her, even if it was immediately shut down by Arroyo, the one shed of hope in her miserable life, was taken hostage by SkyWings while fighting in a battle, leaving her in Arroyo's care. Now that Caracal was gone, she could do anything she wanted to the dragonet. She would have Cleo pickpocket the rich and bring her back the treasure and valuables. And with the threat of Animus magic, Cleo couldn't stand up to Arroyo with more than an "I hate you" or "you're the worst". 
=== Young Adult (present day) ===
"Where's my father? Caracal? Male SandWing who looks like me? He was captured by Queen Scarlet 6 years ago?"
The moment Cleo turned 9, she left Arroyo in the night. She was finally free of the abuse she had endured as long as she could remember. She packed her things and went to find her father in the Sky Kingdom. But when she got there and began to ask around in the post-war world, she was told that Caracal was killed by Ex-Queen Scarlet's champion, a fire scales named Peril. Heartbroken, she fled to the Claws of the Clouds mountains. She lived there for a little while before she decided it was time to get a job. She became an assassin, and has been travelling Pyrria ever since.
== Trivia ==
* If Cleo was human, she would be banned in 48 different US states and multiple countries around the world! :D
* Cleo's favorite food is camel heart.
* Cleo's one wish is for the world to be rid of Animus magic and fire scales.
* She once stole a chocolate bar and ate it in one bite when Arroyo told her to give it to her.
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