Nori (Angel)

Nori was made for Diamond the SkyWing's Food Based Character Contest. My food was Sushi.
== Appearance ==
"I'm sorry, are my wings distracting? I'll close them now."
Nori has seaweed-green mainscales that line over each other in a neat and orderly way. There is a slight bit of dark ocean blue at the tip of her snout and near her chest as well. Her underbelly is the same dark ocean blue that is around her snout and chest, but a slight dab lighter. Nori's top scales are a deep, much darker green than her mainscales, more like the color of ocean moss. Her chin tendrils are a soft, light yellow. Nori's eyes gleam a precious white, like that of freshly cooked rice, as does her non-forked tongue. All of her bioluminescent scales glow a soft and warm off white color like Lead White. Nori's horns and the oft, flexible spines that stretch her soft green frill along her back are a pearly pink. Her wings on the outside appear exactly like her mainscales with the bluemore pronounced at the top of her wing. It's only when you go to the inside of her wings do you see her true beauty. Nori's wing membranes on the inside are several rings that fade and blend together. Those rings, from innermost to outermost go as the pearly pink on her horns, to the soft yellow on her chin tendrils, into a bit of white, next into the soft and light green of her frill, and finally into the ocean blue of her underbelly. Should Nori bleed, her blood has rings in a slightly different arrangement but with almost the same colors as her wings, those being from the middle to the outside, green, yellow, pink, and then white. 
== Personality ==
"B-but, all I w-wanted was to h-help you!"
Nori is a sweet, sensitive and kind dragon. She will try to help anybody in any and every way she can, even if it means it hurts her, disrupts her schedule, puts her in danger, or gets her in trouble. Pushing her away is like stabbing her with a knife, and she'll likely run off to cry somewhere if you kept pushing her away despite her attempts to help. Nori tries to make a name for herself as the kindest and least self-preserving dragon in the seas, but it keeps becoming harder and harder as dragons push her away more and more. She enjoys the company of other people, but after three others she starts to feel surrounded and scared. Nori has anxious ticks such as clenching her teeth and twiddling her claws, and nearly anything can and will make her start to feel anxious. If you keep running into her, or if you talk a lot, she might do them, or if you have a name as violent or mean they would trigger too. Nori is not a good fighter at all, clumsy on her feet in a fight and would end up turned around. Instead she tries to use water or other terrain to hide until her attacker gives up, loses sight and she can escape, or they find her.
== Backstory ==
"Oh, my parents. I-I'd rather have had no parents, looking back on what they did."
Nori hatched kept safe in a tangle of moss and reeds, half submerged in the water. Safe was how her parents thought she was, anyway. As an egg, Nori still had to fight everything a dragonet would, except with her only defense being the eggshell. Leeches would attach to her egg, and the leeches attracted fish which in turn attracted sharks. Luckily or unluckily, her egg blended in so well the sharks didn't notice it. When she did hatch, she saw many things. A bright light, the sun. Pale sand was one way, sparkling blue ocean the other. Down were her very own webbed talons. But a shadow cut off half the sun, two shadows actually. Upon looking upwards, Nori saw the most terrifying thing a new dragonet could have: Two wickedly smiling dragons, both sinisterly snickering. Her brain didn't even have time to process what was happening as she was grabbed, and then she felt salt water all over. Stinging her eyes, burning at her gills, wedging in between every scale and feeling like grubby, hard leeches. She tried to scream as she was dragged down, but was dismayed when she saw only a cascade of bubbles carry her garbled and distorted screams away from her, and to the light. 
When Nori could rest, she took in her surroundings. She was in a most basic room, laying on a woven mat made with course sea grass. Looking around, the only things in the room were a small rock ledge for a bed, and the mat she was on. Worst of all, but best to her, she wasn't in the water anymore. A small pool, barely big enough to dip an adult dragon's head under, was the only bit of water in the room. Just then, a door she didn't know was there opened, and a small, raw fish was tossed in, smacking Nori's face. After recovering from the initial shock, she leaned down to sniff it. The fish smelled rotten and disgusting, but it didn't look like any other food was going to be available. Nori ate the fish, and gagged. It tasted worse than it smelled. She looked up to see if the door was open, but she couldn't figure out where it was. The only light that trickled in was through a small, claw-sized hole in the wall. It was then the smell of the room itself hit Nori, a smell of mildew, dampness, despair, and worst of all, death. She panicked, and it was only in that panic did her scales light up the dark room for the first time. From then on, Nori tried to be her own night light. For the next 5 years, Nori rotted in that prison room. Not enough food, no light, and now she realized just how bad that small water pool was. But on her 6th hatching day, she counted, the door opened and she was dragged out. Then she saw how bad she looked. Tired, skinny, weak and frail. But then a voice spoke up, a voice that made her scales feel like they were being rubbed with sandpaper. "Puny. Weak. I am not taking this pipqueak as a sister for my child," she saw another dragon walk in and nod. Nori was grabbed and harshly thrown into a different room. This one was luxurious, there was a large, soft, spongy bed big enough for two full grown dragons and then some, half the room was a deep pool of water, and there was plenty of space to store shells, coral, jewels, etc. And then Nori saw the owner: A deep green, nearly black dragon with scales hard as diamond a soon she would discover. "I'm sorry about Seaweed," they said. "I'm Leatherback, your sibling. Seaweed and Conch, our mother and father, won't let me have a real brother or sister until they find somebody as special as their first child, me." Nori anxiously spread her wings, ready to fly off. "Oh! Your wings, I'll call you Soosh! You look just like my favorite food, sushi!" Leatherback wrapped Nori in a big hug. Nori let it happen, as Leatherback was warm, dappled with bright jewels, and pearls that were draped around their neck tangled in Nori's horns. 
"My name is Nori," she spoke in barely a whisper. 
"Oh, I'll still call you Soosh. Anyway, you're supposed to serve me, but I think Im done with using my little siblings. Plus, you're too cute to use." For the next couple of years, Nori and Leatherback bonded, while Nori would pretend to serve her sibling if Seaweed or Conch came in. Then the SandWing war rolled around, and Seaweed had to fight.
"I hope he dies a brutal death for treating you like this, Soosh," Leatherback had whispered the night before.
The next day, the family was informed of Seaweed's death by slow and agonizing burning. Conch blamed it on Nori, claiming their father only went to war so he didn't have to look at Nori's ugly and psychedelic wings. Her mother beat on Nori, clawing her and snapping sharp teeth. It was only when Nori squeezed back into the room she was first in did Conch give up. "Learn your place, sea slug." Later, when Nori was trying to both tend to her wounds and sleep, the door opened a crack. "Leatherback?" the dragon rushed into the room. It was Leatherback, no doubt. "Oh Nori, I can't believe I let this happen to you! We're getting out of here. Both of us." Nori trembled. Escape would make Conch furious, and what if they were caught? But Nori just nodded. "Great. I have to go, I'll come back." and with that, Leatherback disappeared. 
Later on, Nori was sure Leatherback had forgotten about her. It had been hours and no sign of them. Just as she gave up hope, Leatherback rushed in. "Quick, while mom's asleep." Nori grabbed onto her sibling's back, and they ran out of the room. Once outside the house, they saw lights flicker on followed by a rumble of furious anger. They quickly took to the air. On the flight to be closer to the palace, Leatherback told of how Conch had killed 3 of their siblings before Nori. "Starfish, Ridley, and Green. All of them were my brothers, but all died after Conch's harsh punishments. If we hadn't left, I think you'd have been next." Nori shivered, and buried her head in their shoulder. "But you're safe now."
== Relationships ==
"I only say anything more to Leatherback. We go way back, waaaaaaay back."
=== Seaweed ===
Nori, even though she and her father never really talked or interacted, hated her father and even through a few tears, was glad upon hearing of his death.
=== Conch ===
Nori hated Conch so much, but only told anything to Leatherback. She hid from the pale and pink SeaWing as much as she could, but overall didn't have any love in both directions. 
=== Leatherback ===
Nori loves her sibling to death. She views Leatherback as the only dragon she can trust everything with. If Nori killed somebody, Leatherback wouldn't spill, but the opposite is not true.
=== Queen Coral ===
Nori views Coral as a second mother, sometimes. She adores the queen and hopes someday she'll get adopted by Coral, since that had better protection than next to the palace, it would ensure her health, and would make her much more than just another SeaWing.
=== Aleutian (Eternal) ===
Nori ended up in Rime's foster care while waiting for Leatherback to be old enough to take care of her. There, she met Aleutian and the two hit it off from there, bonding over their tough pasts and any common interests. It hurt them both when Leatherback came back to get Nori.
== Trivia ==
"A lot of people think I'm 'cool' or 'amazing' but, in truth, there's nothing special about me."
-Nori is an ingredient in sushi, and so is seaweed
-Leatherback is a very large and tough species of Turtle, hence why Leatherback is so tough
-When Nori eats raw fish, it triggers minor PTSD if the fish was even a second rotten
== Gallery ==
"My mother, Conch, said I had 'ugly and psychedelic wings' and even said they were what killed my father, Seaweed. I know how wrong she was now."
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