Illumination

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Illumination 	Illumination
 	
Background information 	Background information
Creator 	.oOEclipseOo.
Infobox Artist 	A lonely noob
Main Attribute 	Awkwardness
Elemental Attribute 	Air????
Theme Color 	Dark Teal
Theme Animal 	Dipper
Theme Song 	Stressed Out - Twenty One Pilots
Here - Alessia Cara
MBTI Personality 	She isn't quite sure, although most likely INTP
Character information 	Character information
Age 	7 years old (14 in dragon years)
Gender 	Female
Occupation 	Student
Tribe 	RainWings
Goal 	To become an astronomer, possibly an author or artist as well
Residence 	Jade Mountain Academy
Relatives 	Her brother
Allies 	Her brother, all of those dragons down in the Relationships section
Enemies 	Very few
Likes 	Having her alone time, talking to her friends, reading, writing, drawing, listening to music, cashews, darkness, her cats, fish (as pets, not food), astronomy, science in general, being in control, the cold, watching her favorite shows
Dislikes 	Dancing, singing, being forced to be social, ignorance, bigotry, the heat, those who dare insult her friends, chocolate, writing about something she doesn't want to write about, not learning new things, feeling like she isn't in control, uncertainty
Powers and abilities 	All typical RainWing abilities
Weapons 	Claws, teeth, venom
Ships 	None
Orientation 	Doesn't know, doesn't matter to her
Quote 	"I do not speak too quickly! You just all speak too slowly!"
How Illumination is Feeling Right Now	How Illumination is Feeling Right Now
Mood 	Yay a day off from school
Stress Level 	35%
Chance of Procrastination 	55%
Chance of Sassiness 	19%
Chance of Wanting To Be Left Alone 	80%
Boredom Level 	25%
Song She's Listening To 	I Saw the Dead - Villagers
"Oh, don't pay any attention to me. I'm nothing really special, just your typical dragon."
~Illumination
NOTE: ILLUMINATION IS MY ORIGINAL CHARACTER. IF I CATCH ANYONE PLAGIARIZING ANY OF MY ORIGINAL WORK ON THIS ARTICLE, YOU WILL BE BANNED.
Illumination is a female RainWing dragonet who goes to the Jade Mountain Academy and she is one of .oOEclipseOo.'s OCs.
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Description
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"Hey, I know I'm not the most attractive dragoness out there. I know it's plain to see I don't put a whole lot of effort into my appearance. But I'm fine with the way I look. I'm not trying to impress anybody, so what does it matter?"
~Illumination
Illumination isn't the most attractive young dragoness in Pyrrhia, especially compared to the extravagantly-colored RainWings she lived with before going to Jade Mountain Academy, but she's okay with that. Beauty was never one of her top priorities, and she likes to convince herself that she at least looks fairly decent.
Her build is fairly average, not as slender as many RainWings' builds, but then again, RainWings are known for their slenderness. She isn't skinny or heavily-built, but she's somewhere in between. Despite the fact that she's not very thin, she looks more slender than she actually is because she has a long torso, long legs, and a long tail for someone her age. This combined with a lack of coordination means she's pretty much the opposite of graceful. Her friends often tease her, telling her she has "twig fingers" because of how thin and long her fingers are.
Illumination has a slightly larger frill than most of her RainWing peers, and she usually keeps it gold. Her horns are silver. Her spines and claws are silver as well, and although her the claws on her back talons are very long, the claws on her front talons are fairly short because she has a bad habit of biting them. Illumination's eye ridges are slightly thicker than normal.
Her main scales are usually kept pitch black like the night sky, which really sets her apart from the other RainWings, since they usually have very bright, colorful scales. Her love of dark colors is rather ironic, considering her name. Her underscales are usually either navy blue or a deep teal. Her wing membranes almost always match her underscales. She has golden spots running down her sides.
You'll probably never see her running around with hot pink and highlighter yellow scales though. That's just not the kind of dragoness she is, even if her darker scales make her considered not very attractive among her tribe. She has gotten good at making sure her scales don't give away her emotions.
Illumination has bright golden eyes that match her frill, which stand out quite a bit against her pure black scales. Because she has very bad vision, she is almost always seen wearing narrow-framed glasses that tend to slide down her snout. She's practically lost without them. Despite the fact that she's a RainWing, Illumination doesn't get cold easily, but when she is, she usually slips on a hoodie or occasionally a scarf.
She often has earbuds in her ears when not at home, using them to drown out the rest of the world with the music she listens to. When at home, she usually has her headphones on. She prefers her headphones over her earbuds, but she doesn't want to lose her headphones. Because of that, she puts up with earbuds when not at home.
"Wait, what'd you say?"
~Illumination, with her earbuds in
Illumination has no piercings, tattoos, or really any body modifications.
She has learned to adopt a bipedal stance if necessary so she can carry her books while walking through the halls of Jade Mountain Academy; it's quite helpful. There is one problem with this though. She has a hard time balancing on two legs, so she's likely to be even more clumsy than usual when walking around like this.
Though Illumination hardly ever dresses up formally, when she does, she actually puts some effort into her appearance. When dressing up formally, she usually keeps her scales a dark gray color with light gray underscales. Like when she isn't dressing up formally, the color of Illumination's underscales matches the color of her wing membranes, but unlike when she dresses up normally, she'll put a white paisley pattern on her light gray wing membranes.
She'll make her horns, spines, and talons a shimmery, pearly white. The spots on her side will become a teal color that looks like a deep emerald green depending on the lighting. Her frill becomes the same color as her spots. To go along with her colors, she'll usually put on a white scarf almost completely covered in a teal and green floral pattern along with a couple of silver bracelets.
Personality
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"Um...I don't know? I'm an awkward weirdo who's very indecisive? Yeah, I might not be the best person to ask..."
~Illumination, asked to describe herself
Illumination, she's definitely not your typical dragoness. She's a big mix of contradictions and in no way can she be predicted. Depending on the dragons she's around, she can act differently. Sometimes she seems like someone else entirely. She's not easy to understand, described as an anomaly, different, or unique by many. It's difficult to understand her, and she doesn't even understand herself.
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If there's one thing that is undeniably true about Illumination, it's that she's an introvert. She absolutely has to have her alone time, and if she doesn't get it, she'll make her own alone time. Not letting her be alone is an awful idea. One might not guess that she's an introvert at first though. When she's around her friends, those she's familiar with, or if something she is highly interesting in is being discussed, she talks on and on. This leads to people being astonished to learn she's introverted. When surrounded by strangers or those she doesn't know fairly well though, she's surprisingly withdrawn and quiet.
When she does talk though, there's usually lots of enthusiasm in her voice and she can be rather loud, especially when excited. She can often be seen using hand gestures when she speaks. Oftentimes when she talks with her friends, her quirkiness becomes fairly obvious. After all, she does tend to make really weird similies when in conversation and comes up with the weirdest things to talk about.
She also tends to be quite loud around her friends and not care what others think when she's goofing around with them, which often leads to the embarrassment of her friends. She tends to be rather loud as well, and she cuddles a lot with her friends, whether they want it or not. She's very enthusiastic when around them, sometimes a little too enthusiastic for their liking. She also makes a lot of weird jokes. Her friends are honestly quite used to how strange she can be by now and appreciate her unusualness, even if they sometimes don't understand it.
When she talks with those she knows but isn't necessarily close with, she tries to be funny by making jokes, but usually, they're really bad to everyone else and she just tends to make the situation awkward. She's also more likely to use sarcasm when she's with these people. That's not to say she doesn't use sarcasm with her friends; she just uses it with acquaintances more often. She has a hard time recognizing when someone else is being sarcastic unless it's plainly obvious or she has the chance to get to know them better.
She's just not the best in most social situations in general, like going out to eat at a restaurant or going to party. She's often very quiet, awkward, serious, and doesn't talk much. She's usually the one to avoid being social when she can and usually doesn't know the right thing to say. She tries to be kind and polite, but usually, it doesn't work. When she's around people she's more familiar with, she's less likely to be awkward, but she still might be. She avoids talking to those she doesn't know like the plague, and when she does have to talk to those she isn't familiar with she starts panicking on the inside.
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Although she may not be the most fun dragoness to be around if you don't know her well, she gets things done. If she doesn't completely loathe a task and she isn't feeling too lazy, expect her to see her work like an efficient machine to get it done. She'll become highly serious and focused when like this, and it's a bad idea to break her concentration.
"Don't talk to me. I'm focusing!"
~Illumination
If she's feeling rather lazy though or she completely hates the task she's doing (homework, for example), she'll procrastinate. A lot. She'll do whatever she can to put off the task so she can spend her time doing her hobbies instead of actually being a productive dragon. When she's like this, it takes a lot of encouragement to get her to start a task she despises doing. Once she starts it though, she should become concentrated and get the task done.
When Illumination works, she gets into her focused mode, comes up with her own plan, and basically shuts out the rest of the world. This is not good when she works on group projects in school. She likes to do her own thing. Once she gets an idea, it's not easy to change her mind. Her stubbornness and independence means she has a hard time listening to other group members. When she's not so serious and focused, she usually isn't so closed-minded, but once she's in her zone, she acts like an entirely different dragoness.
Not only that, but she can be very bossy at times. When she has a goal, she figures out the most efficient way to get that plan done. She tends to give everyone in her group a job to do to reach that goal, and then once they've done that job, she gives them another. She likes being in charge, but when someone doesn't listen to her, things don't go as efficiently as she wants them to, and she gets extremely stressed.
Speaking of stress, Illumination doesn't handle stress well one bit. Some dragons work better under pressure. Illumination is definitely not one of those dragons. When she's under stress, she starts panicking. Her thoughts bounce all over the place and she has trouble focusing. Her mind jumps from one thought to the next so quickly that she doesn't have any time to explain what's going on up there. Her work tends to be of poorer quality when under stress, and she second-guesses herself a lot more than she usually does when she's under a lot of pressure. She doesn't think as clearly and has a harder time coming up to solutions to problems. Basically, stress is Illumination's worst nightmare.
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She likes freedom with her work, and deadlines and rules and such just make her absolutely miserable. That's not to say she isn't a hardworking dragoness; she just doesn't like to be restricted. This is one of the many reasons she loves to draw and write, for it's a way to let her let her creativity run wild without any rules holding her back. She believes that she produces better work when given fewer restrictions, which is fairly true. She may work at a more leisurely pace when she has less rules she has to follow, but the quality is usually better.
Illumination loathes rules and guidelines, but one would have a hard time realizing this at first. This is because when she's given a task, she always asks questions and make sure she follows the guidelines perfectly. She doesn't stray for them and makes sure she understand every rule placed before her. Oh, she hates having those restrictions placed upon her shoulders, she really does. This leads others to wonder why she follows guidelines given to her so carefully. The answer is fear. Fear of failure. Fear of not meeting someone's expectations.
This is one of Illumination's greatest fears. Her fear of failure constantly plagues her like a disease, a disease that she simply cannot cure. She has to succeed at almost everything she does. She has to be excellent. She has to exceed expectations. She has to be above average. She can't allow herself to be anything less. She has high expectations set for herself and she is extremely ambitious. She will do whatever it takes to reach her goals, but when she bites off more than she can chew or sets unrealistic standards for herself, the results are considered unacceptable to her. When this happens, she becomes very frustrated and upset. She can't accept the fact she can't be perfect.
She never lets her fears shine through though. She'll have her moments where she panics, yes, but she's very good at not letting anyone know about how afraid she truly is. No one knows. Even if they did know, they'd just give her a pat on the back and tell her she's on the path to success. She doesn't want sugar-coated responses and a fake smile. She wants the truth. She wants someone to tell it to her, because she doesn't want to admit it to herself. She isn't as perfect as she tries to seem.
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Despite the fact that she usually excels in school and is described by others as extremely talented, she brushes off any compliments given to her because she's very modest. She's afraid of becoming condescending and arrogant, so she doesn't really talk about her accomplishments. The only time she really gives herself credit for anything and isn't modest is when she's joking with her friends, and even in these cases, it's obvious she doesn't mean a word she says. She also tends not to believe the things people tell her. She doesn't think she's wonderful and creative and intelligent and kind. She just sees herself as mediocre, not good enough, and she doesn't understand how others don't see that.
"Why does everyone think I'm so smart? I'm honestly really, really not smart. I appreciate the compliments, but they're not true."
~Illumination
Illumination believes that she's just average, but she tries to change that. She constantly tries to make sure she's above average in as many ways possible, although she feels like she's failing. She believes has to excel in life, so she has left herself no room for failure. She feels trapped by her own high expectations and her unwillingness to accept anything below perfect. She just wants to breath, not feel the weight of the pressure she's placed upon herself, but she's trapped in her own chains.
Because she's so afraid of failing, Illumination is not the dragoness to take risks. If something could go wrong, she thinks it will and won't have any part of it. When she's with her friends, the sort of acts like the "mom" of the group, making sure no one does something too stupid. If her friends do decide to do something that's a bad idea, Illumination will refuse to even be around her friends while they go off doing what she thinks is a bad idea. She doesn't live life on the edge. At all. She's also afraid of making a dumb or irresponsible choices, which means she tends to be quite indecisive.
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Despite the fact that Illumination has an extensive list of flaws, she has some good qualities as well. She is extremely loyal to her friends, and she cares about them very much. She cares about them so much she cannot describe it in words, but she often has trouble showing it and doesn't think she shows how much she loves them enough. Even the ones she's closest with she has trouble expressing her feelings to. Though she's not always the best dragoness to come to for comfort, since it takes her a little while to come up with a soothing response, she'll try her hardest to be there for her friends.
She also tries her hardest to be kind around those she's less familiar with, like her acquaintances, although usually, this doesn't work out very well, since her social skills aren't the best. Even around those she doesn't like she tries to be relatively nice to, but once again, that really doesn't work out well either. If someone agitates her in some way or she's just really cranky, her attempts to be kindhearted to those she despises or doesn't really know will pretty much be thrown out the window until she calms down. It's not that she is intentionally being rude or mean to them when like this; she just doesn't keep in mind that she has to be polite. Even though being kind to others she isn't friends with doesn't always work out, Illumination has good intentions.
One of the things others admire about Illumination is that she is almost always honest. She rarely ever lies, since she feels like she usually doesn't have to. After all, if  she doesn't want to talk about something, or she feels she might end up lying about a topic, she simply doesn't bring it up. This usually works, and Illumination highly values sincerity. She also looks for this in others, expecting the cold, hard truth from them without any sugar-coating. She personally loves constructive criticism and doesn't understand why others don't want it. Sometimes she's a little too honest, which leads to some problems, but her honesty is more of a positive than a negative trait.
Despite the fact she can sometimes be a little too honest, she usually doesn't like stating her opinion of others. She has no qualms stating her mind about an object or something that won't get offended, but a person? Nope, she doesn't like to do that. She really, truly hates gossiping, and avoids it whenever she can. Illumination is disgusted by the amount of gossip among her peers, and even her friends do it sometimes. When her friends do it, she won't hesitate to scold them.
"Here's the thing about rumors: they're either not true, not true, or so exaggerated they're not true. Don't trust solely what other people say."
~Illumination
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History
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"Oh, uh, my past? My brother and I hatched, I grew...and those are basically the only really significant things that have happened to me in my life. I'm boring."
~Illumination, asked about her past
Illumination and her brother were the only two eggs in their clutch. Although Illumination's egg was larger than her brother's and her parents expected her to hatch sooner, they hatched around the same time.  Illumination is technically older than her brother by two minutes though, and she enjoys rubbing that in her brother's face.
She grew up in a small RainWing village for the first few years of her life, and she enjoyed it very much there, even if she wasn't a big fan of the heat combined with the humidity. She and her brother would often bicker, but she still cared about him. When she was younger, she was very fascinated by the tropical birds that lived in the rainforest and decided she wanted to be an ornithologist.
When she was about 3 years old though, her family decided to move to the Northern RainWing kingdom. It was a small town near the southern border of the kingdom that they decided to move to, relatively close to one of the most well-known SkyWing cities in Pyrrhia. At first, Illumination and her brother were very upset about this, but once they moved there, they grew to love their new home very quickly.
There she made a couple new friends, but not tons. She did have more friends than she did back in the Southern RainWing Kingdom though, where she found a lot of the RainWings to be rather shallow and unintelligent. She did enjoy her new home very much though, even if she didn't have the most friends there.
Not long after she moved into her new home though, she decided that she wanted to go to the Jade Mountain Academy. She was quickly accepted into the school. There she made lots of friends, more than all the friends she made at her new home and old home combined. She grew to love it at the school, and she strived to do the best there as she possibly good. She quickly became known for being the "smart dragonet" even though Illumination doesn't think of herself as intelligent as all.
She has lately been having to cope with increasing levels of schoolwork and stress placed upon her, yet she still manages to make sure her grades are good. Whenever the school offers a break, she goes back to her small town in the Northern RainWing village to spend time with the rest of her family.
Abilities
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"You'd have to be insane to think I'm fast or strong or physically fit or any of that stuff. I'm not destined to become an athlete. At all."
~Illumination.
Illumination is definitely not the most athletic dragon. She has very little stamina, she's not very fast, nor is she very strong. She certainly isn't very flexible or agile either. She's also very clumsy; she's the kind of dragon who can trip over their own feet. This is not good when she's trying to navigate the hallways of the school she goes to.
Like most RainWings, she's able to change the colors of her scales, although she usually doesn't change her scale colors except for when she's trying to turn invisible, trying to look more formal, or a little splash of emotion appears on her scales before she can stop. She also has venom as well, but she hates using it. She isn't exactly the most accurate venom-spitter.
Other dragons can often be found praising her for her art of her writing. They will tell her how skilled she is at drawing and how they wish they could draw like her, or how they think that she should become an author someday. Illumination just shrugs the compliments off an insists that she's not at good at these things as everyone else claims she is. One would think that one who likes to draw and write would be a talented singer and dancer, but she is the exact opposite of that.
"Haha, if I sang, I'd kill you all with my terrible singing voice."
~Illumination
She's also often told that she is very intelligent, and is treated like the "smart one" by her peers, but she denies this as well.
Relationships
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"Ugh, I'm too tired to socialize..."
~Illumination
Awe- Illumination thinks Awe is absolutely amazing. She adores Awe, and she thinks that Awe is really kind, funny, talented, and sweet. She loves to spend time with Awe and thinks that she is really fun to be around. Illumination would consider her a very good friend and is indescribably glad that she had the chance to meet her.
Illumination thinks her art is simply too incredible to describe with words. Her mind explodes every time she sees something Awe drew, and every time Illumination sees one of her drawings, she must fangirl over it. She thinks that Awe is a brilliant writer as well, and she loves to read Awe's writing pieces. She also thinks that Awe is super intelligent. Illuminaton often wishes that she was as talented as her.
Like her, Awe is very interested in astronomy, although Awe definitely knows more about it than Illumination does. They both like similar music, and they both love cashews. Awe is a dragon that Illumination doesn't end up feeling awkward around, which is somewhat unusual for her. She thinks Awe is fantabulous in every way possible.
Ione- Illumination thinks of Ione as a cool and fab person. She believes the RainWing brings joy to anyone who is around her, and she really loves how find and funny she is. She finds Ione's sense of humor to be really great, and she often finds herself laughing when she talks to her. She also thinks the RainWing is super kind and sweet. She just loves Ione's personality too much to describe with words. Unfortunately, she doesn't know her well, but she'd like to get to know her better
Ione's talent is also something Illumination admires. She thinks that the RainWing's art is absolutely stunning, especially Ione's drawings of scavengers, which Illumination struggles to draw decently. Not only does she wholeheartedly believe Ione is an awesome artist, she thinks her writing is beautiful as well.
Karai- Illumination thinks Karai is super duper awesome and a great friend. She really adores Karai's art, and she thinks it's really unique and pretty. She sees Karai as very talented as well as creative, and she's slightly jealous of Karai's ability to make the beautiful art that she does. Illumination just loves Karai's art.
She also thinks Karai is really kind and funny. She loves to chat with this friendly SeaWing because of her likable personality. Illumination thinks she's really good at making others smile and become happy because of how enjoyable she is to be around. She thinks Karai is a really awesome and fun dragoness overall, and she'd really like to get to know this SeaWing better because of her awesomeness.
April- Illumination thinks April is super super duper great. First of all, she thinks April's art is incredibly amazing. Second of all, Illumination thinks her writing is somehow even more beautiful than her art, if that if somehow even possible. Whenever April something new, Illumination takes a moment to comprehend the sheer amazingness of it. Then she adores it while simultaneously being very jealous.
She considers April to be a good friend and greatly enjoys being around her. They get along fairly well, and Illumination can relate to her unhealthy rate of Tic-Tac consumption, for she eats an unhealthy amount of Icebreakers. She wishes she knew April better, for she seems very kind, friendly, funny, intelligent, and talented to her.
Spiral- Illumination thinks Spiral is really, really awesome. She thinks Spiral is kind, funny, helpful, and a very fun dragoness to be around. Sometimes she wishes she could be as tough and bad as Spiral is, but Illumination is just a big, rule-following nerd who never lives her life on the edge, so that's not going to happen.
She is envious of Spiral's art, and she wonders how she is even able to produce such awesome work. She also enjoys reading Spiral's writing quite a lot. She really likes talking to Spiral because  Illumination thinks she's an interesting dragoness and because of her friendly, likable personality. Overall she thinks Spiral is a really cool dragoness.
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Trivia
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"Let's just say I have a lot of weird...quirks."
~Illumination.
*Illumination is extremely ticklish.
*She doesn't have a favorite color.
*Her peers describe her as a very fast talker, especially when talking about something she's highly interested in.
*She is an emetophobe.
*Unlike most RainWings, Illumination is rather fond of the cold, but she's nowhere near as fond of it as an IceWing though.
*She is not very tolerant of the heat.
*She is a very bad cook.
*Illumination is supposed to be the dragon version of her creator, but her creator feels like she could've done a better job with her.
*She has two cats.
*She is left-handed.
*Illumination, unlike most RainWings, does not like the sun.
Gallery
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Loomy.png|Beautiful picture by Luster! 
Omg i love these colors o3o.png|Amazing drawing by A Lonely Noob!
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