Adélie

now adopted by Santa! please refrain from taking her! 
adopted by anaphora!!
:what do you do when your family has left you, one by one?
adélie 	adélie
 	
artist 	-
background 	background
creator 	☁️
attribute 	lethargy
element 	ice
animal 	arctic wolf
color 	grays and blues
character 	character
age 	thirty
gender 	female
orientation	straight
occupation 	ice sculpter
tribe 	icewing
goal 	to find a loving family again
residence 	icewing palace
relatives 	iceblink, lace, eira, hydrophid
enjoys 	company, thinking, taking flights, fresh snow, sweet foods, quietness
dislikes 	solitude, loud noises, heat, thick snowstorms, drizzles, insects
abilities 	Whip thin tail, resistance to cold and bright light, persistence.
quote 	"believe me, it's too hard to explain."
.appearance.
----
:Adélie holds the feel of cracked ice, pounded until it fractured. Of age old snow, half melted and streaked with dirt and impurities. A general feeling of weariness hangs around the dragoness. She isn't elderly, per say - in fact, she should be in her prime, but the tiredness of age always hangs near.
:Her form might once have been lithe, an agile fox squirreling through drifts of white. Now, horever, it is less sleek then bony, thin limbs hanging wearily from an aging body. Her posture, once straight an perfect, now hangs like a rag in the wind.
:Her scales were gleaming blue white, now grayed. Clouds shifting from bright and pure to roiling darkness. Her underbelly has held on to it's old brightness, clinging onto the last of the brilliant light blue that had once colored it.
:Her wings are light blue, not quite reaching the blazing iciness of an empty sky. Rather, it is closer to one blocked slightly by clouds, the bright, cold color mixed with ice and stone. A grayed out blue, still darker than her underbelly.
:Her horns and spines should be sharp, needles and knives poking from her scales. However, every last one is blunted, the edges dulled from scraping against stone. Years has pasted since they were last polished, and bits of dust stick stubbornly between the ridges, discoloring the last bits of pure white on this dragoness.
:Her claws are the one exception to the wear and tear. The ridged, serrated edges are still sharpened, polished and free of dirt. The white shines with the gleam of fresh snow, small ridges popping out from the dreary background.
:Small scars lace around her talons, small white and dark blue lines running over her claws and under her front palms. They're old, ancient reminders of when she was younger and inexperienced with her craft. Scars of war are lacking on her body, only the lacing, jagged scars of ice.
:Her eyes are blue, the darkness of ocean depths. Small flecks of pale colors swim in the emptiness, almost unnoticeable, unless someone holds her gaze for a few seconds. Something she simply doesn't do anymore.
:The dragoness holds her wings close, tucked in. She looks down, her head bowed with the deaths she has lived through. The thumping of the single ring on her neck is not enough. She yearns for more.
.personality.
----
*introverted
*kinda grumpy, but doesn't mean it
*wants to help others by sharing her past mistakes
*has made a lot of bad decisions, wished she could change them and blamed herself for a long time. but has realized she has changed and has tried to do better
*over analyzes everything
*istj??
*keeps to herself, but wants to find somewhere she belongs and knows she won't if she won't try. but she's scared she won't so she doesn't try as hard as she wants herself to.
*isn't trusting, but wants to be
*isn't happy with her personality, not the best mental health, but it's better than it was
*not very good at communicating with words, uses her art, which is mostly her ice sculptures
*tired a lot
*patient, but does not waste her time
*relaxed but always slightly tense at the same time
*kinda melancholy 
*wants to be kind but sometimes she just has to speak her mind
*doesn't always take care of her needs
.backstory.
----
Adélie wasn't born to a noble family, but her family was very... "respectable". While not as obsessed about rankings and rules as the royals, they cared about how they were seen by others and wanted to prove that a commoner could be high in the circles. 
As a dragonet, Adélie was always quiet, but happy. She enjoyed being alone, watching the snow fall, thinking about what the other IceWings might be doing. Her parents became messengers for the royal family when she was too small to remember, and it always took a toll on her. They would get complaints from everyone, how the queen didn't like what her brother wrote to her, and how the commander in the IceWing army was upset with his orders from the queen. They would come home and discuss the day, and Adélie never understood why these dragons were making her parents feel that they were responsible. 
So she imagined. When the queen scolded her father, Adélie pretended that there was a gigantic ice monster that was raiding villages. The queen had to fix the problem without admitting to the public that ice monsters were, in fact, real, to prevent widespread panic. That would obviously be very stressful, and when she had gotten a message that there had been another attack, she had lashed out. The commander was actually a poor dragon pretending to be the commander to make his way in life and he had no idea what he was doing and was afraid of being caught. 
This made her a very empathetic dragon. Too empathetic. 
When she grew up, Adélie started to help her parents with their work until she figured out what she wanted to do with her life. Write what the solider who didn't know how to read said. Take these letters and sort through them since your mother spilled them everywhere. 
One day, her parents were sick, giving Adélie the honor of doing their work for the day. And, to Adélie's delight, she got to deliver a letter to one of the head scholars of the kingdom. He was old and silent, and kept to himself. 
Curiosity got the better of her, and Adélie opened the letter. It spoke of things she didn't understand. Monsters from old stories. Plans to use them to dominate the Sand Kingdom after Blaze won the war. Whispers about rumors of magic. 
Adélie wanted to learn more. She delivered the letter (after resealing it properly) and formed a friendship with the scholar. And, gradually, she began to learn. 
.relations.
----
.trivia.
----
.gallery.
----
The regal one of the bunch-1.png|labyrinth
Category:Characters
Category:Work in Progress
Category:IceWings
Category:Females
Category:Occupation (Artist)
Category:Content (Santas-Reindeer00)