Robustus

R O B U S T U S
he / him • magician • bi
belongs to radar, please don't steal; banner art by harvey.
a magician that doesn't actually know any real magic, he just uses stage magic and illusions. he's good at what he does though. got into iris university of witchcraft somehow. stage magicians and illusionists in general are frowned upon for wasting their potential and using magic incorrectly. fallback solution is becoming a marine biologist if things go south in the magic business.
can't actually do witchcraft normally and would have to fallback on using it in the primitive fashion... if they actually taught magic that way at the school. sometimes tries to do actual witchcraft but always fails, much to the amusement of his classmates. only got into this school because he was a very good illusionist and stage magician.
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Background Information	Background Information
creator 	radar
attribute 	optimism
element 	water magic
animal 	grey whale
color 	grey-blue, silver
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Character Information 	Character Information
age 	15 (hy)
gender 	male
orientation 	panromantic pansexual
occupation 	magician, student
tribe 	sea (eschrichtius)
goal 	become a witch
relatives 	basilo (mother), feresa (father)
residence 	black cat academy
allies 	peppermint (formerly), tux
enemies 	peppermint (currently)
likes 	whales, swimming, magic, success
dislikes 	discrimination, envy
powers 	normal seawing abilities, "magic"
weapons 	training wand
loves 	n / a
A P P E A R A N C E
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As though a whale, large and curvy yet surprisingly thin, appearing to be from no true tribe, well when you find out, he's a SeaWing, yet a very strange one in most cases. An almost skin-like row of silvery blue scales rippling across his neck, although fading back near the base of his head. A beak-like snout remaining steel grey with dark highlights of a shade a bit darker, while upon the crest of his head, pale silver, to some even white, ripples across his short snout and upon near the top of his head. Yes, most call Robustus very... abnormal and not one you'd expect to be intermingling with witches or magic in that case, but it's true to say that this whale-like dragonet has done it all for the same cause, to have a true home.
Nonetheless, a SeaWing coloration can be seen within his abnormality, coming down the base of his head lighter and dark hues of steel grey entwine making something or other in between and then fading back to a dusty silvery blue to run down his back, occasionally little clouds of dark hues with storm up around, yet eventually fade back. It's hard to describe this dragon, for one glance at Robustus and you'd mistake him for a winged, walking whale, for that's what he appears to be. While crossing his back, nearing the tail, a darker blanket, grey perhaps although in one glance would appear black, although not one of those darker types, rather a finely part of his coloration, merely a dark grey. These colorations seem to follow throughout the entire body and upon the tail, studding both sides whale-like fins, silvery grey tips fading into the light grey-blue, such a strange dragonet indeed one may comment, might as well run away to the circus.
P E R S O N A L I T Y
 
*compassionate, naïve, brash, and eccentric. generally optimistic and positive. very agreeable and is easy to talk with.
*maybe a little too easy to manipulate. he's just trying his best.
*likes marine biology and is planning on becoming one if becoming a skilled witch doesn't work out.
*determined and not easily deterred, no matter what backlash he faces, he takes it with a smile.
*creative and curious, doesn't think things through most of the time.
*doesn't have a clear sense of what is right and wrong.
* doesn't like being judged for not knowing how to do actual witchcraft and having to do "fake magic."
*hard-working and enjoys impressing others or at least having his work recognized.
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Curious and somewhat child-like, Robustus is actually quite kind and caring towards those he meets, amazed by the magics of the new world he lives in. He gets most of his education from the only book he ever had, the one he got for his birthday, full of fairy tales, for his mother couldn't afford a true school for education and was usually not around due to work, one could sometimes consider him dim-witted. Even before the misfortune occurred, he was rather sneaky yet so affectionate towards his family or close friends, then again he'd gotten slightly colder after the horrible experiences at the orphanage, not used to being taken well cared of or true love ever since the rest of his known family passing.
But altogether, he's quite determined to reach any goal he faces, even if that means staring down a witch or an evil wind wizard, all he wants is a true home and someone to love and anyone who gets that close to him will be protected from any harm, through a powerful thing called... hope. One may consider him optimistic and carefree in a way, always keeping his head towards what will happen, or how something happens, usually why Robustus likes getting his head stuck in magic, something that has always alit his spirit. In fact, he's got quite an eye for some tricks, a observant gaze, although he would be sometimes considered nosy in a way.
A B I L I T I E S
* can't fly, his "wings" are actually fins that help with balance while swimming. is well-known, from where he comes from, for being a strong swimmer.
** these wing-fins are rather stiff and he has a tendency to accidently knock things over with them. also sometimes struggles to get through doors because of how stiff they are to move.
* can also breathe and see underwater. unfortunately, since he doesn't have any luminous patterns, he struggles to see in the dark and used echolocation to "see" when he used to live in the depths.
* because he lives in the deep, he also has high tolerance to water pressure.
* the only reason he left was because of his incredible talent as a magician, is very good at illusions and magic tricks. can't perform any real magic without his training wand.
H I S T O R Y
* hatched an abyssal seawing with no luminous patterns, making him mute for all his life under the ocean.
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During the first times of his life, Robustus lived for a few years in a poor town near the edge of the Mud kingdom, his father had died long before both him and his older brother hatched. The SeaWing was known for reading from a book of fairy tales, his mother remained a seamstress and although they didn't have much of money, they were happy together, managing to scrap up enough money to buy a one-roomed house. During some of the late nights, he'd sometimes sneak out to the front porch and read from the book he'd received for one of his birthdays, a lovely gift he'd received. However, one unfortunate night when he'd snuck out, a fire had started within the house and within, his mother and brother were consumed and perished, Robustus was taken halfway across the continent to an orphanage of dragonets his age. Remaining underfed and poorly kept for ten long years, with no hope of ever being adopted, he'd had enough, one night he'd tried to escape up the stove, through the chimney and get away from all the pain the orphanage caretaker had brought him.
Getting to his feet, he'd gotten to the roof, slinking down, there freedom had gaped before him, sneaking out, of course most would expect him to leave, get out of there away from the pain but there was something in the way, a funnel of wind that had come at that very moment, a short silence between the two as they both stared at one another. "Go on then!" He'd shouted, his heart pounding against his chest, a fear of being caught, yet knowing in the mind... it was too late. Almost as though human-like qualities were added to this funnel, it smashed against the window which, with dread he'd known belonged to the room of the horrible caretaker. As you'd know, she'd awaken, surprised by the racket and, in noticing Robustus had escaped ran out and took him back in, angered scorning and being thrown into the broom closet.
It was the next day, he was adopted by an elderly dragoness, no matter how many times the caretaker had tried to convince her to adopt someone else, her mind was fixed on him. It turns out he was adopted by a witch who originally had planned to eat him, as like in the fairy tales he'd read about, but, with the help of a friend and magical creatures, things turned out right for him, living just out of town, one of the strangest place of scam-artists and magicians, Iris.
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