Scorpion (FiteMeM816)

For the Mythical Creature Based OC Contest
== Appearance ==
Scorpion's main scales are a pale brown color. Along the side of his his light, dust colored belly, legs, and wings are lines of shimmering dark brown scales, giving off the similarities of the exoskeleton of a scorpion. On the dorsal of his back, in between his primary scales and on both sides of his ridge, lay a set of blackish scales, a sign of his HiveWing ancestry handed down from his mother.
Like other SandWings, Scorpion has glossy obsidian black eyes, which often make his expressions far more grim than they truly are.
What sets him apart from the rest of his family, other than Scarab, are the trademark four thin and segmented wings of the HiveWing tribe, his a pale reddish-orange, very similar to his mother and sister's wings. Additionally, he possesses the small, ax-like ridge on the tip of his snout which is the same shade of gold as his SandWing ridge.
== Personality ==
Scorpion has the personality of a true protector, being described as loyal, responsible, and protective by his younger siblings. Regarding the safety of his family, he would do whatever he could to ensure that no one was harmed while he was around. When provoked, Scorpion naturally acts out, being quite aggressive to whatever dragon is acting as the threat to him. The only dragons that he is known to not act hostile against are those in his immediate family, with the exception of his father. His protective and loyal nature really shined through when his father had seemingly abandoned his newly hatched sister and Scorpion had been the one to name her and raise her.
== History ==
In the year 5003 AS, Addax, a Sand Wing, and Centipede, a Sand Wing-Hive Wing hybrid laid a clutch of four eggs. Of these four eggs, one of them contained a male Sand Wing-HiveWing hybrid that would eventually be named Scorpion. Scorpion was the first one of his siblings to hatch, thus he was titled the eldest, although his siblings enjoy pointing out the fact that he had only hatched mere minutes before his sister Petrel. In the middle of 5006 AS, his parents laid another clutch, this one only having two eggs.
A few weeks before the eggs hatched, Centipede was out scavenging when she was attacked and killed, leaving behind six dragonets and her husband. Until the eggs hatched, Addax essentially left his already hatched dragonets to fend for themselves; these eggs would be the last thing that he would have of his one true love. Thankfully Sand Wings do not have a large appetite as it was hard for four dragonets to find enough food for a fully grown adult and themselves; oftentimes the siblings would exert most of their energy trying to find something for their father, leaving them to either eat his scraps (which was rarely around) or go searching for small lizards or fruits or vegetables. During one of their trips into the desert, Scorpion actually lost one of his younger brothers, Pronghorn to be exact, for about three or four days. It was no ones fault, really, Pronghorn had gotten separated from his siblings by a large sandstorm, but thankfully he knew his way back home.
The next few weeks would play out very similarly as time drew near for the eggs to hatch and Addax grew more and more restless. The silhouettes of the dragonets were quite visible now and as soon as one started cracking, Addax called for his children to bear witness to their sisters' hatchings. The first of the clutch to hatch was Kowari, a pure Sand Wing; while Addax looked over Kowari, Scorpion kept an eye on the remaining egg, alerting his father and siblings when he saw cracks forming.
A smile began to creep on his face as the dragonet's beady black eyes peeked out of the cracked eggshell. As the eggshell fell away from the dragonet's face, Scorpion noticed that she had the same facial structure as him- she had the sharply upturned horn on her long snout, something that he only saw in himself and their mother, and the long ridge that he saw in the rest of his family. It didn't take long for her to break free of the remainder of the shell, but upon exiting, Addax snarled realizing that he was indeed stuck with another hybrid, but this one a lot smaller than Scorpion was when he had hatched. He immediately turned on his heels and retreated back into their cage, disgusted by the fact that he would have to raise another disgraced hybrid. Yes, his wife was a hybrid, but he figured that her HiveWing history would have been cancelled out. Upon his father abandoning his sister, Scorpion figured that it was his duty to protect his little sister and named her Scarab.
== Relationships ==
Centipede
Centipede was Scorpion's deceased mother. Being a young dragonet when she disappeared and was presumed dead, Scorpion doesn't have many individual memories of her other than the few times that she would read scrolls to her children, her eldest always finding his way to the warmest section of her scales.
Addax
Addax is Scorpion's father and frankly, because of recent events, he does not have the most positive opinion of him. His only positive memories of his father that he keeps are those of when he was being taught how to savage, so that he may teach his sister and potentially his own dragonets in the future.
Cobra, Kowari, Petrel, and Pronghorn
These four... Scorpion just adores his siblings, and even if he does look different then them, they never fail to include them in whatever scheme they're planning, even if they know that as the eldest he is likely going to turn down the offer and scold them... that is unless the scheme is against Addax.
Scarab
Scorpion would give his stinger and four wings just to ensure that his youngest sister was safe. When Scarab hatched, Scorpion could see the resemblance between her and their late mother, which may be the reasoning behind his sudden burst of despise toward their father although the same could be said about his reaction to Addax turning his back on the newly hatched dragonet.
== Trivia ==
• Scorpion was created for the Mythical Creature based OC contest in March 2020, based off of the manticore!
• When I first started on his character, I was talking to Marx and joked about killing Centipede with a rock and her dying kind of stuck
• He hatched 1 minute and 15 seconds before Petrel
• Scorpion is definitely a Momma's Boy
• He's also the first Wings of Fire OC of mine to actually get a page!
• I had gotten permission from Marx prior to coloring/creating Scorpion's headshot to modify her HiveWing
and SandWing bases so that it could fit the Joy Ang base that l had initially used! (Permission Found Here!)
== Gallery ==
Scorpion joyang.png|Scorpion's Joy Ang reference, base by Drachen Hybride
Scorpion-glamoroussneaking.png|Base by Marx, edited with permission by Bri (FiteMeM816)
Scorpion jada.png|Scorpion's Jada reference
Scorpion-color-scheme.png|Scorpion's color scheme, compiled by Bri (FiteMeM816)
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Category:Males
Category:HiveWings
Category:SandWings
Category:Hybrids
Category:Characters
Category:LGBT+