Takahē

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== APPEARANCE ==
On arid sandstone cliffs lies a SandWing, pale, almost white, scales shiny yet scarred, raw yet royal, covered and ornately draped in expensive indulgent jewels, dark amber eyes gleaming. Eyes of silver, horns of ivory. She carries a flame silk lantern, ornately curled glass having a sphere of delicate, bright flame silk - from the dragons of Pantala. Large desert rose earrings hang from her ears, with a copper shined brighter than a Firescale’s scales. The strange thing though, is that, when you look closely, she has two tails. Both barbed. Both dangerous. Hoops of precious quartz loop her tails; she is up to her horns in gold. Lines of it swirl through her scales, lengths of gold rope, gold flowers, golden RainWings– at one point – her posture high, her talons sharp. 
== PERSONALITY ==
This SandWing, Takahē, is cold and harsh, thinking of other before herself. Her job dictates her life leaving her arrogant and blunt. Her emotions are cold, too, anger, emotions that seem null, envy. Her threating doesn’t just stop at her enemies, friends, family and royalty get her arrogance, too. Ages of mistreatment and abuse pile on to her already unstable emotions, she is ready to kill at a second’s notice. Apopis had wrought havoc in Takahē’s life, and he had left as soon as she had sought for revenge, finally realising what he had done.
Apopis has left a lasting impact upon Takahē, her life dictated by what he did long ago, and his eyes and subtle looks are a message to trust no one, not even those you love.
== HISTORY / BACKSTORY ==
Takahē was born to one of the royal SandWing, and a lowly MudWing in an affair. Her egg stolen by Burn, before she abandoned it and left the egg and the dragonet inside to die in the Scorpion Den. Her first few years of life forgotten, clumsily mended with fake memories of love and kindness, none of which Takahē had. Takahē ‘worked’ at a circus, being the freak show attraction, a SandWing with two tails. 
Takahē’s relationship with Apopis - doomed from the beginning. Apopis’ tail barb was weak, but enough to put a dragon to sleep, temporarily. Imagination can take this story – you fill in the gaps, here. She woke up with an egg, Apopis’ egg, and he had left - left her to seek revenge for what he had done. Takahē’s egg, left behind. Until a lowly MudWing found it. She never returned for her dragonet, but if she did, she would find a familiar face.
Many years later Takahē found a dragon who was willing to give anything to help her. She declined before the red dragon jumped onto her back and she fought back – Takahē fought for her life. With a sharp, piercing voice the SkyWing screamed as she drove her two deadly tails into his wing and neck.  Two tails. Too many stares. Whispers flew through the crowd “Is she that dragon from the circus?”, “I could hire her, to kill-” “Not here! Idiot.”, “Woah.”
Gold, silver, and copper flew down upon Takahē, cheering crowds and silk, golden foil, and other rare and rich objects into her talons. She ran only stopping to take off as SandWing guards, Thorn’s gang, chased her. 
Rough stares followed her to the edge of Pyrrhia, it seemed. People bowed down at her talons as she seemed to become an elusive, albeit makeshift, assassin. She loved it. No restrictions on where to go, kill whoever you want – but Apopis still left a mark on her, both physically and emotionally. He still hunted her nightmares, recalling what he did to her in mocking tone and excruciating detail. Takahē doesn’t know Apopis owns a dream visitor, she only believes that these nightmares are figures of her imagination.
After years of being an amateur assassin Takahē decided to train with Whisp, a SkyWing assassin, who, upon arriving, immediately tried to kill her. She managed to win, and ran, deciding that Whisp could do no good to her as a dragon. She trained herself killing many dragons, waiting until she could reach the day when she would kill Apopis.
One day a dragon from Possibility arrived at Takahē’s house with gold, a strange dragon, gold, silver and copper coloured RainWings, and quartz tail hoops. The MudWing forced her way in and sat down before dumping the items on the floor “Let me help you.”
“No. I’m not accepting help from a dragon I don’t know.”
“You’ll regret it then. SandWing.”
“If you want me to kill a dragon, I can do it, you know that.”
“Then kill Apo-”
“Do not ever say that name again, or you get both of my tails in your head.”
“It’s him you want to die, yes?”
“Perhaps.”
“Then take these and-”
“Why?”
“Because I’m hiring every assassin on the continent to kill him.”
“…”
“And you have enough gold to do that, and why would you want to help me anyways?”
“Because you’re famous,”
“And?”
“And you can help me.”
Takahē killed a dragon that day. A dragon named ‘Cliff”.
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Category:Females
Category:SandWings
Category:Hybrids
Category:SeaWings
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