Queen Baobab (TheSilkWingCakes)

= Queen Baobab =
Queen Baobab is a former queen of the LeafWings, and Queen Sequoia’s mother. She has a small amount of Leafspeak.
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== Description ==
Queen Baobab is a relatively large dragon with brown and green scales. She has leaf-shaped outlines dappled across her scales, and a light yellow-green underbelly. She was majestic, regal, and beautiful. She wears a dark blue silk pouch and a dark blue cape.
Until her sanity… snapped. Then she became disheveled, crazed-looking, with bulging, manic yellow eyes.
== Personality ==
Queen Baobab is strict, eccentric, inquisitive, and intelligent. She was formerly very royal-like and eloquent. She is obsessed with finding answers to things, and will stop at nothing to find answers to her research. 
After her mental crash, she became untrusting, suspicious that anyone and everyone was trying to kill her and steal her research. She is also paranoid, manic, and unstable. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Baobab was born to her mother, Princess Verdant, and her father, Lord Bramble. She was raised in the LeafWing royal palace, learning how to be a princess and such things. Her mother’s elder sister, Queen Eucalyptus, didn’t think too much about the youngest princess. Eucalyptus herself had a daughter who was much older than Baobab, and who was likely to become queen instead. Baobab spent most of her time doing “tests” in her laboratory. She tested plants and their toxicity, among other things.
But suddenly, both Queen Eucalyptus and her daughter died, leaving Verdant as the queen and Baobab as the direct heir. Life suddenly changed drastically for Baobab, who now had to prepare to rule a tribe. Baobab was taught etiquette, how to rule, all sorts that she wasn’t too interested in.
=== Young Adulthood ===
However, as she grew, she became more interested in ruling her tribe, and started making plans for what she would do as queen. Baobab devoted herself to her studies, and became absorbed in her lesions. 
Baobab grew apart from the friends she had as a dragonet, except for two: Gooseberry, and Redwood, both dragonets of a noble. Baobab quickly fell in love with Redwood, but Redwood didn’t love her back. However, they remained friends. Eventually, Redwood began to love her back, and they eventually were married.
=== Adulthood ===
Baobab felt growing pressure about becoming queen, and her ideas on what to do as a ruler increased. Finally, after staying up all night working on studying some kind of plant, the next day she finally challenged her mother to the throne. The battle was long and hard, and finally, after gaining several new scars, Baobab won. 
Not long after, she and Redwood had a dragonet, whom they named Sequoia. Princess Sequoia spent much time with Lady Gooseberry, while Queen Baobab was busy with queenly duties.
Queen Baobab became slowly more and more paranoid. She was sure that everyone, except for King Redwood, was trying to assassinante her or steal her research. She became more untrusting, she stopped talking to her daughter or Lady Gooseberry. She was sure that one of her mother’s former advisers, Pecan, was trying to sneak into her laboratory.
Baobab began spending all her time in her laboratory. She… slightly trusted her old friend, Gooseberry, but was still paranoid around Sequoia.
=== Later Life ===
Baobab was pronounced insane, and Lady Gooseberry began to help rule in her place until Sequoia was ready.
Baobab trusted no one, except Redwood, and only communicated with Gooseberry in letters, as she allowed no one besides Redwood into her labs. In several of these letters, she ordered the execution of several members of nobility, including her own daughter. Gooseberry never carried out these commands.
Eventually, one of Queen Baobab’s experiments went wrong. Baobab was found dead, a green sap-like substance clinging to the scales on her face, and a smoking wooden bowl on the floor next to her. It turns out, Baobab had been trying to find a way to make herself invincible and immortal. Ironic that that had been the thing to kill her.
=== After Death ===
Sequoia took over as queen, and Baobab’s death was mourned by the few who remembered her before she went insane.
Despite her later insanity, Baobab came up with great things, including a multitude of medicines, but also several poisons.
== Leafspeak ==
Queen Baobab had a small amount of Leafspeak, however she was most likely unaware of it. Plants grew faster around her, and grass and other things seemed to almost bend towards her.
== Relationships ==
=== Queen Verdant ===
Baobab had a fairly good relationship with her mother, however they were never exactly close.
=== King Bramble ===
Baobab often went plant gathering with her father. She loved him, however, he had a short temper. In front of the rest of the nobles he was cold and distant, which hurt Baobab’s feelings. She believed he didn’t love her, when in fact he did. Bramble died soon after she became queen, possibly contributing to her mental health decline.
=== Lady Gooseberry ===
Gooseberry was Baobab’s best friend.
The two would play with each other every day as a dragonet, and Gooseberry remained her friend when she grew older. Gooseberry was one of the few dragons she sort of trusted, and Baobab always relied on her for advice.
=== King Redwood ===
If it was possible, Queen Baobab would spend every moment of her life with Redwood.
The two mutually loved each other more than anything, and Redwood was the only dragon Baobab really trusted at the end of her life. Redwood was miserable when she died, and eventually died of old age. Baobab felt suffocated when she was away from him.
== Trivia ==
-Near the end of her life, Baobab started referring to Sequoia as Nightshade. This is because she thought Sequoia wanted to kill her.
-Bao likes carrots.
Category:Characters
Category:Deceased
Category:Females
Category:LeafWings
Category:Occupation (Scientist)
Category:Status (Royalty)
Category:Subtype (Leafspeak)
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