Lepidoptera

holds her gently in my hands,,, sunset’s now 
Lepidoptera	Lepidoptera
 	
Artist 	InterGalacticFly!
Background 	Background
Creator 	Cloud
Attribute 	Rebellious
Element 	Fire
Animal 	Old World Swallowtail
Color 	Yellow, hints of dark blue
Song 	-
Character 	Character
Age 	8
Gender 	Female
Orientation	Lesbian
Occupation 	Spinning tapestries
Tribe 	SilkWing
Goal 	To show the HiveWings how screwed up their world is
Nickname 	Lepi
Residence 	Cicada Hive
Relatives 	Emperor, Silkspun
Allies 	Her parents, Meadow, Argus
Enemies 	Most HiveWings
Likes 	-
Dislikes 	-
Abilities 	Shooting silk, some knowledge on healing, detecting vibrations
Ship 	-
Quote 	-
.appearance.
She seems too pretty to be a troublemaker.
Buttery yellow scales dimly shine, with her underscales being a bleached color of her overscales. Her crest is a darker yellow color, with two large, round, sparkling dark chocolate eyes. She has a sharp face, the edges going into shard edges and pointing into a very abrupt smooth snout at the end. Curling deep blue antennae and horns sprout from the dragoness' head, curling upwards elegantly. 
Dots of a blue color are scattered all over her scales, along her neck, arms, legs, and finally ending at her tail. Her wing membrane is a bright, golden color, with splatters of a blue color all over them, like it was thrown carelessly across her wings. 
Deep blue spines line her back, going down her neck, tail, and finally ending around four fifths down her tail. Her talons are a washed out purple, with scale crests lining her arms and her wings. These crests are a darker color than her main scales, yet lighter than the crest on her head. 
Lepi's build is quite lean and a bit muscular, due to flying a lot between the hives. Her wings are large, a bit unnatural looking, due to her large wingspan. When she's not flying, these large wings usually flop to her sides, with her tail slithering behind her. 
Her arms are long, allowing her to spin silk better than most SilkWings. She moves with precision; she always walks her head high, wings flopped, slithering tail, and a grin that could destroy HiveWings. A hidden smirk and a toothy grin, showing that to a HiveWing would be awful, but Lepi does it anyways. After all, once you go to Misbehaver's Way once, you’re bound to go back there. 
.personality.
SilkWings aren't usually rebellious. They're quiet, obedient, kind, stuff like that. Lepi is on the absolute opposite of most SilkWings.
She used to be like them, yes. Quiet, obedient, sweet, gentle. Her teachers told the HiveWings about her absolute great personality traits, and she was rewarded. Now? The SilkWing is completely different. 
Lepi's quite spunky. The dragoness is determined for take risks (even if they’re a bit too risky) to get freedom. She's also quite courageous; speaking up for SilkWings, helping SilkWings even if it gets her (and if she's unlucky, the other dragon) stuck in Misbehavor's Way. Mischievous, always causing trouble in any shape or form.
Lepi's true motivation is her tribe. Being selfless, all she wants is freedom and for her tribe to be free. In her mind, SilkWings let their dignity be drained away. She wants the dignity back. Her sense of what's wrong and right is quite strong as well, well, atleast most of the time. 
She's always active in some way, whether it be protesting, doing her job, or being stuck as a statue in Misbehavor's Way. Her ability to persuade others is quite good as well, many SilkWings join her in her numerous protests. Lepi is reckless, however, resulting in her having numerous injuries over the years from protesting. Though, the injuries healed, and she was able to get back to doing what she loved. 
Throuhg her reckless and mischievous activities, Lepi is quite soft and gentle to other dragons, as long as they aren’t HiveWings. She has been seen taking numerous injured SilkWing dragonets under her wing, caring for them until they got better. Though, this action may have gotten her another day in Misbehaver's Way, but she did it for the dragonet, no need to mention her false punishment she didn't even deserve. 
.history.
Lepidoptera was born and raised in the Cicada Hive. Her parents were Emperor and Silkspun, two dragons perfectly shaped to fit in with society. They were quiet, obedient, polite. Everything a SilkWing should be.
So, Emperor and Silkspun taught her everything she needed to know. Where to go when HiveWings got their pearly eyes and spoke in unison. What to do. Hive expectations. Finally, how to behave in school when she was old enough.
That first day was a big leap in Lepi's life. She went from being a small, easy to harm, frail dragonet to being a full-on-dragonet, now being in school. Lepi knew that she needed to pass school, so she followed her parent's advice. She stayed quiet in school. The dragonet raised her talon to answered questions. Lepidoptera never looked at any other dragonets' paper when they took a test. She even reported troublemakers, which, though gave her a frown a few times, otherwise, nothing got in her way.
The first year of school flew by like the fastest birds on Pantala. Lepi... didn't have a main friend group, but she did have a few acquaintances. When the school year ended and dry season came, Lepi's parents were a bit worried for Lepi's social activity. So, while the dragonet doodled in her room about peace and harmony, her parents organized times for her to play with other dragonets in her class.
One dragonet in particular caught her parent's eyes; a pale rose colored dragon, with streaks of a light brown on her scales like paint. He lived across the street from Lepi, so, after contacting with his parents, Lepi and him were all set to interact with each other.
His name was quite odd.... Meadow being his name. It didn't sound elegant or beautiful... just standard. However, Lepi's family ignored the odd name and one day at sunhigh walked the yellow SilkWing over to the other SilkWing's house.
Lepi knew it was coming, but she was a bit nervous about suddenly going to this random dragonet's house across the street. Though, once she was inside, her thoughts instantly changed. The smell of chocolate and caramel hung in the air, and his mother and father radiated a kind, warm aura. Lepidoptera immediately felt at ease, and walked into Meadow's room that was tucked in a corner of their house. 
It was a medium sized room, with a normal leaf bed at one end, with a hammock at a corner, which was hanging from two loose iron barbs. Lepi immediately jumped into the hammock, which was made out of leaves, and looked at Meadow with a grin. The other SilkWing gave her a shy smile back, and the two began to have a conversation.
She didn’t realize how much the two had in common. A good student in school? Check. Interest in science and art? Check. Good grades? Check. Little friends or acquaintances at school? Yep. So, the two immediately hit home when they were talking and playing games with each other. 
By late evening, Lepi had to go, and she had to be dragged home since she didn’t want to leave that much. 
The next few years flew by like a blink of the eye. Lepi was praised by her teachers; even a few HiveWings for her gentle, kind and obedient behavior. As her fourth hatching day rolled around, Lepi seemed a bit more... outspoken then usual. Flaring her wingbuds in a barely noticeable way when anyone annoyed her, even HiveWings. This didn’t give her any punishment or anything, just an odd look from other dragons. 
She seemed more talkative. Talking to a lot of her classmates during class, but immediately shutting her snout when her teachers told her to stop. Alas, this odd behavior slowed when she turned five, and she became less outspoken. One could even say she was even more quiet. Her teachers accepted this as just a phase, and when the end of school neared her parents and teachers talked about her possible career opportunities. 
Lepi's teachers told her parents she would be well fit for silk weaving, and her parents agreed, describing her drawings that were magnificent, even if they were just a sketch. So, summer passed, and into the new school year the dragon dove. 
She and Meadow still talked throughout the years. However, with Meadow pursuing a more scientific path rather than artistic, this caused them to be a bit more busy than usual. Meadow took biology and dragon anatomy classes, while Lepidoptera taking art and weaving strategies classes. 
They were still friends... just a bit more distant than usual. However, Lepi discovered a new friend; Argus, another SilkWing. She was also taking the same classes as Lepi, and the two were placed at the same table at each other one day while they were sculpting. Out of boredom, Lepi started a conversation, and throughout the entire class period they bonded. 
Finally... a few years later it was the day where Lepi would weave a cocoon and sleep for six days and emerge with four wings. That day she could barely contain herself. She spent the day with Argus and Meadow and her parents, eating food, looking over the vast savannah where she could fly and fly to the edge of the continent. She thought of the grass that would gently move under her gusts of wind that were caused by her beating wings. 
And as the sun set over the horizon, Lepidoptera sleepily made her way into the Cocoon where she could spin her silk peacefully. As she stepped into place, she could hear the muffled voices of her family and friends cheering her on. She didn't hear them clearly, it sounded like she was underwater and everyone else above water. 
A velvet red SilkWing shuffled to one of the other sides of the Cocoon. Another one, a mint green color was on the other side. Wonderful. Only two other SilkWing dragonets. Minus the four HiveWing guards and the visiting dragons, she wouldn't have to worry about what other dragons saw as she spun her cocoon. 
After her train of thoughts, the velvet SilkWing began to spin their silver cocoon. It surrounded them like a snake curling up the neck of a dragon, and they made quick, elegant movements. Within seconds they were covered in the silk, and all that was left of the dragon was a quiet velvet color inside. 
Then the second dragon began. Their navy blue speckled scales were disappearing by the second as the silk marched up them. 
.relationships.
.trivia.
.gallery.
Lepiart.png|By Galax!
Better Lepi!!.png|By IGF!
Lep Headshot.png|Gift from Feath, by Pastel!
Lepi for Cloud.png|Ref by Kindred! Es perfecto
Lepidopetra.png|By Pink!
Lepi.png|By SaltyShaker! She’s looking nice!
018DEBD6-C754-426F-A066-219E8357C6F3.png|By Lacey, she's gorgeous!
Lepi!!!!.png|essence!! i wish you luck in your arting endevours!
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1D697159-3BB3-47B0-A8E9-791971DED31E.jpeg|tundra!
Sketch-1585838816097.png|kiwi!!
C854CE05-0DD9-497B-898D-BA1BED28FED9.jpeg|moosie!
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