Echospeaker

Echospeaker, also known as Echo, is a blind female NightWing of six years, although she is nearly seven years old. She is one of SevenStars78’s OCs. 
She grew up with her mother near Talon Peninsula, until they were ambushed by a SkyWing battle group. Echospeaker managed to get away, but unfortunately her mother Opalvision didn’t, and Echo as of today hasn’t seen her mother since that day. After being attacked, she hid in the Claws of the Clouds mountains, where she met a fellow runaway dragonet SkyWing named Apollo, a SilkWing named Dewdrop, and a HiveWing named Beetle. 
However, she was soon separated from her new friends when the SkyWing queen finally found her (SkyWings and NightWings are at war at this time) and take her and Apollo hostage. Echo is thrown in a prison cell, and Apollo was taken to a mysterious location, presumably to see whether Queen Volare could convince him to get him on her side. 
== Appearance ==
Echospeaker is a small-ish NightWing with very dark green-teal scales. Despite being born blind, her eyes look completely normal, like most other dragons, being a bright cyan-green color. She has a black underbelly and black horns and spikes, with extremely dark, nearly black, green wings that are speckled with bright cyan-green starlike scales. The same cyan-green color is dotted down her neck and tail. She has a long neck, a thick, long, graceful tail. Her wings are wide and smooth. 
== Abilities ==
Like most NightWings, she is able to breathe fire, blend into the shadows, and is quite nocturnal, as NightWings are when they aren’t obstructed by the volcano. As an addition to that, she seems to not need a lot of sleep, or barely any at all. However, unlike some NightWings, she lacks any prophecy or mind-reading abilities, including the toxin that developed among NightWings when they lived on the volcano. Because she is blind, she cannot see, but she has excellent hearing and uses that to locate around, while also using the different vibrations in the ground. 
== Personality ==
Echospeaker has a very… what some would say ‘cutting’ personality. She doesn’t like it when dragons underestimate her or think she can’t handle herself, which can cause her to say some snappish or sarcastic things in retaliation to something someone said. Other than that, she is mostly very quiet and doesn’t talk much, staying in the shadows of groups most of the time. After she ran away from the SkyWing group who captured her mother, most of her time consisted of sighing at how immature Dewdrop and Beetle were and casually spending time and talking with Apollo until she got captured. 
== Relationships ==
=== Defiance ===
Echospeaker has always been bitter about her father and doesn’t talk about him. When she hatched, Defiance was deeply displeased that Echo was blind, and seemed to hate her for it. He always commented on how bad she was at something or how she should’ve done something differently or better. His resentment of her never went away, and slowly he started getting into more heated arguments with Opalvision about her. When she was around three years old, Defiance suddenly got up and left, and neither Echo nor Opalvision ever saw him again. But Echo’s fine with that. 
=== Opalvision ===
Some would say it was cruel irony for Opalvision’s dragonet to be born blind, but Opalvision didn’t think so. She loved her just as much if Echo were not blind, and Echo loves her mother just as much. In fact, in Echo’s early dragonethood, Opalvision was probably the best thing in her life at the time. The only problem Opalvision had was that she couldn’t seem to take a hint that Echo could take care of herself. Opalvision constantly worried about Echo because of her blindness, which is one of the reasons what caused her to be so self-conscious about her blindness. 
=== Apollo ===
Apollo is Echospeaker’s one romantic interest, and despite both having feelings for the other, none of them have mustered up the courage to talk to the other about their feelings. Their romantic relationship isn’t official, but it is going somewhere. Ever since Echo was captured by Queen Volare, she worries about Apollo and what the queen might do to him if he didn’t follow under her orders. Or if he did follow her orders, and then what would he do to Echo and what would Echo do?
=== Dewdrop ===
Although Dewdrop is Echospeaker’s friend, Echo does sometimes feel jealous of her. Dewdrop is an animus SilkWing, and Echo can practically feel other dragon’s opinions on her beauty. She doesn’t need to see Dewdrop’s scales to confirm it’s true. When this happens, Echo just seems a little grumpier than usual. Other than that, Dewdrop is a good friend of Echo and they both enjoy hanging out together. 
=== Beetle ===
When Echo first found Apollo, Dewdrop, and Beetle, Beetle seemed like the leader of the friend group. She was the one making the decisions and deciding where to go. Although this sort of ranking wasn’t very serious and Apollo kept on teasing Beetle on how he would make such a better leader. One day, while out collecting fruit with Dewdrop, Apollo and Echo were captured by the queen that day and are still at the palace to this day. 
== History ==
=== Failure in her Rivers ===
Coming soon
== Trivia ==
* It took Echo until she was five to learn how to fly because she has to rely on scent and sound to know where she’s going. 
* Despite having difficulty learning how to fly at first, Echo found she really enjoyed it once she got the hang of it. 
* It has been confirmed Dewdrop and Beetle will make an appearance at some point in the series.
* Echo is known to be surprisingly conversational and sarcastic to guards. 
* Echospeaker was originally going to have her own book titled Darkness in the Sky but SevenStars78 found it much too difficult for her to write an entire book from a blind POV. (Disclaimer: This trivia statement is not meant to shame those with blindness. It is just a fact about SevenStars78 writing Echo). 
== Gallery ==
File:Echospeaker74.jpg|Echospeaker full body 
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