Rock Dove

☁rock dove belongs to draconicbeans, kindly do not edit her☁
☁for the new beginnings contest!☁
☁ wa'rning: possible violence, blood, mental health, other triggers, etc. mature warning☁'''
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===☁appearance☁===
 ' ' LOOK AT HER, YOU KNOW WHAT SHE IS! ' ' ~ PIGEON
Faded scales with red stains like warning signs. Delicate talons that can crush a dragon's head. Haunted blue eyes. The word rings in your mind when you see her: fireless.
The fireless dragoness is built slim but muscled, with rippling tendons and cords beneath her thin rosewood scales; she could be beautiful in another life, with her long, elegantly curved neck, slim waist, and delicate talons, complimented by her sharply boned face and perfectly curved tail. Her wings are large and often lay curving against her sides, fluttering lightly like fallen leaves ~ more often than not in previous years, they were dusted lightly with ashy-colored arena sand, bleached white like dragon bones.
The long spines down the dragoness' back are a dim pink, nearly white, her horns a deep contrast with their near-black, dark ruby color. The fireless' eyes are a haunted blue, deep and nearly gray, faded, not like a firescales' electric blue but like a deep pool, nobody knowing what lurks at the depths.
The SkyWing's scales are a faded blush tone, like a washed-out Polaroid; her under~scales are a bleached redwood color, looking almost like a tree's inner bark, its heart ripped out to the world. Small accent scales dotting her body are just a claw away from her main scale color; a dark burgundy. The fireless dragon is covered in scars, all over her, and lots of burns, old and recent.
And all over her, dotting her talons and face and wings, are spatter and spray stains of red.
===☁personality☁===
 ' ' SHE'S A MONSTER! ' ' ~ HARPY EAGLE
Before her 'awakening', the SkyWing was led to believe by a manipulative queen [actually Queen Scarlet's mother, she treated Rock Dove similarly to how Queen Scarlet treated Peril] that she was born for the sole purpose of being the champion and brutally killing dragons. Queen Imperial treated Rock Dove like something between a daughter and a tool for killing dragons. Due to this, the SkyWing didn't feel any remorse [as she had before her brainwashing] for her previous murders and for those she continued to commit. She was in fact proud of her capability for killing dragons efficiently and entertainingly, and assured herself with the queen's words whenever she felt any twinge of guilt or doubt.
She subconsciously began to see most dragons as prey, like goats or cows, and treated them as such, acting superior because of her apparent 'specialness' to the queen, this fake appreciation being generated by the queen's compliments, which were meant to make Rock Dove see her gift for violence as a talent, and not realizing that she was merely a tool to the queen. The dragoness was competely unaware of most dragon's silent, mutinous hatred of both her and the queen. Whenever dragons openly insulted her or offended her, the queen, or just irritated her, she would instantly attack them and often kill them, unless the queen commanded her not to.
After her 'awakening', Rock Dove was completely and utterly floored by what she had done to so many dragons, and not just on orders - how she had maimed and killed dragons just for having their own opinions or irritating her. All the pride and self-assurance she had before, and her emotional and mental security, utterly crumbled around her. As she began to reflect on the many dragons she had injured and killed, she finally started to see Queen Imperial as what she really was, but still, no matter how many dragons tell her Queen Imperial was horrible and manipulative, she still treats her like a goddess and honors her memory, acting worshipful of the dead queen.
The way she had treated dragons, like mere prey, and her complete and total brutality, was devastating to Rock Dove, and she immediately went into seclusion when Queen Scarlet took the throne, lest she begin to use Rock Dove as a killing tool again. Rock Dove's mental and emotional states are still shaky and she is extremely sensitive, feeling guilt about the slightest act of violence or any feeling of anger or violence - oddly, feeling like she had done enough to living things, Rock Dove became a devout vegetarian, a strange thing for a SkyWing and a habit that persists to this day. 
Rock Dove's state of mind is horribly conflicted, torn between the queen's deep and poisonous roots in her mind, telling her that she was born to kill and to just keep going, and her newly awakened conscience, which is a disruption to her mind's comfortable position and something that is tearing her apart inside - her feelings of guilt for any minor sin cause her to almost break down internally, and she is a devout perfectionist - not for other dragons, but for herself, and she is constantly letting herself down, which is causing a horrible internal cycle of self-hatred. She also feels like she cannot repent enough for her actions, and so is constantly mentally abusing herself with slouices of insults, and has a twisted sense of what atonement is, thus leading her to burn herself with lava from the NightWing volcano - she feels like she is atoning, and refuses to believe it when other dragons tell her that this is bad and she needs to stop. She has horrible night terrors, deep-seated, twisted fears about all the ways she had killed dragons, said nightmares usually involving the arena. 
===☁history☁===
 ' ' SCARLET WAS NOT THE FIRST ARENA QUEEN..AND PERIL NOT THE FIRST MONSTER ON ITS SANDS. ' ' ~ QUEEN RUBY
Rock Dove was hatched towards the beginning of Queen Imperial's rule - her parents were paired in the pairing program, and had the general relationship aura of not really caring about each other that much; they didn't actively fight with each other or anything, they just...were indifferent. Similarly to Peril and most dragonets with too much / too little fire, she hatched in a twin egg - her brother was a firescales, and like most twins, they expected him to become the queen's champion and to possibly kill his sister - instead, when they were first hatched, Rock Dove pushed her brother off of the peak from which they hatched. He died, and Harpy Eagle + Pigeon began to reconsider their fireless dragonet. When Rock Dove was two, Pigeon decided to kill their fireless daughter, who he thought was a danger to the tribe. He planned to kill her in her sleep by strangling her; when he began to strangle her, his daughter, already nearly as big as fat, short, and lethargic Pigeon, attacked him back, violently ripping his throat out, driven by some strange and deep instinct. Harpy Eagle figured out what had happened, and she immediately told the queen.
Queen Imperial was like her future daughter, manipulative and sadistic, and she decided to, 'for Harpy Eagle's safety', to take the dragonet off her talons. She had been looking for a champion, and she knew this powerful dragonet, born with unnatural strength, was the one. She began to train and persuade the dragonet, flattering her with compliments and making her crave Imperial's affection. When Rock Dove was just 5, she was released into the arena, killing countless prisoners of the ongoing war with the SeaWings and IceWings, which was soon to be swallowed in the larger conflict of the War of SandWing succession. The fireless dragonet was also used to kill traitors...and one of those traitors was her mother, who was caught in a torrid love affair with a SeaWing general. At this point 8 years old and deep into the queen's persuasive brainwashing, Rock Dove bodily ripped off her mother's head. 
When she turned 12, the SkyWing met a dragon unlike any in the palace - a commoner, a simple healer who was plump and sweet and did not worry about status and whether he would be pitted against her, unlike every dragon she'd met in the royal courts. They met by chance, when she was flying the peaks and he was gathering herbs. She hid who she was from him, and he thought she was the leceustic daughter of a minor noble named Skyfox. One day, he was looking for a dragon in the palace and he saw her in the arena, everything clicking into place in his head. Shocked, he refused to meet with her for months, until she tracked him down - then the sweet dragon she had fallen for fell away, and he screamed at her, terrified and angry, telling her how she was a monster and how could she kill dragons like that and that he never wanted to see her again - and he flew away the next morning, and when she dared go to his house, his father screamed at her - she had never realized until the father yelled it at her that one of the traitors she'd killed had been her beloved's mother. 
This awakening and revelation coincided with Scarlet's challenge to her mother - Queen Imperial died, and Rock Dove fled into the mountains, buried in grief, regret, and guilt. There she began her self-enforced exile, residing in the upper mountains, near the coast and the NightWing island - she lived in a cave system similar to the dragonets', and began flying around, which is how she found the NightWing island - the lava sparked an idea in her destroyed mind and she began to burn herself with lava, believing it to be her atonement for her crimes. She knows very few dragons, and most who remember her hate her. 
===☁skills☁===
 ' ' ROCK DOVE, YOU ARE THE MOST TALENTED DRAGON I'VE EVER MET... ' ' - QUEEN IMPERIAL
☁Strength ☁  ~ Rock Dove is one of the strongest dragons in SkyWing, indeed, in Pyrrhian history. She was already strong and big at the age of just two, and was and still is capable of ripping off a dragon's head with her bare talons, killing her fully grown father at the age of two and being capable of killing countless formidable opponents during her years in the arena. 
==='☁relationships'☁===
 ' ' YOU'RE A MONSTER! ' ' ~ APEX
☁Sparrowhawk💀☁  ~ She barely knew her brother, as she pushed him off the hatching peak when they were just born. Her parents gave her the benefit of the doubt and assumed it was accidental.
☁Harpy Eagle💀☁ ~ Her mother was already wary of her dragonet from the hatching, and she was terrified of her after she killed her father. She was horrified in her last moments that her daughter was so brainwashed that she would kill her own mother and indeed seemed to enjoy it.
☁Pigeon💀☁ ~ Her father distrusted her from the moment she killed her brother and eventually decided to 'put her down' for her and the tribe's sake. He was fat, lethargic, and resentful. She killed him easily. 
☁Apex☁ ~ Apex was the only dragon she ever loved, and she's still grieving the loss of him - she's simultaneously grateful for awakening her and hates him for ruining her perfect mindset.
☁to be added☁ 
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