Copper Lantern

Copper Lantern is a male, and uses he/him pronouns, but they/them can be used as well. Copper is a hybrid (Sky-Sand).
=== Appearance ===
Copper is a bright red color, like a fire engine red, with darker, carmine red stripes. His scales always look polished to perfection. His horns, claws, and spikes are white with a golden tinge. His spikes gather in a ruff on his neck, oddly like an IceWing, and continue down his back to the tip of his tail. His topscales are a darker red, and his stripes almost bleed out from it. His underbelly is a metallic gold, and instead of skin, his underbelly is coated with scales. His wings are a darkish carmine red on the topside, and a paler red (cardinal red) with a golden fade near the edges. His legs, tail, and snout also have a golden fade near the edges. Copper's eyes are red, with a black iris and metallic gold pupils. He has a marking on his chest that looks like a lantern. It glows faintly in normal light, and glows brightly in low light, acting as a torch of sorts. It is colored metallic gold, but shines with the same light and color as a fire in low light.
Copper's snout is angled and sharp, and so is the rest of him. He isn't really plump, or fat, but isn't skinny, either. More in between. His horns curve down, and end in a point. He has large ears. His claws and teeth are long and sharp. Copper is physically large, towering over others his age, and far older dragons. His wings are extremely big, and he can fly quickly, and for a long time. His tail ends in a somewhat venomous barb, and is long and whiplike. His legs are also long, and so is his neck.
=== Abilities ===
Copper is able to breathe fire, and fly quickly. He has a lot of stamina, and his tail has some mild venom. His lantern markings shines like a fire in low light, and is warm to the touch.
=== Lifestyle ===
Copper is pampered a lot. He has a large house near the SkyWing palace, is an aristocrat, and is quite rich. He has 3 dragonets and lives with his wife, Oya.
=== Personality ===
====== Positive ======
Copper is very charming and handsome. He constantly tends to his looks, and not a scale is ever out of place. He can easily get his way, and knows how to wrap a dragon around his claw. He is caring to those he loves, and is very kind, when he lets himself do so. He is a very good businessman, and, surprisingly, is good at calming dragons down, and soothing them. Copper is very passionate about what he loves.
====== Neutral ======
Copper is quite sly, and would be perfectly happy to trick, dupe, or prank someone. He is spontaneous, and says whatever he wants. whenever he wants. Copper is slightly biased, but not by a lot. He is good at staying calm, and is very patient, and patronizing. He loves annoying dragons, and is very good with words, saying the right things at the right times, though this does clash with his spontaneous trait.
====== Negative ======
Copper is manipulative, and won't hesitate to attack someone if they wrong him--physically and verbally. He is also notorious for cheating dragons out of deals, and is a bit greedy, often hoarding money. He's very ambitious, and won't stop at anything to have his plans accomplished. He looks down on other dragons, thinking that they are useless if they don't help him. He will guilt trip dragons into doing dangerous or ridiculous things for him.
=== History ===
====== Pre-Egg ======
Anubis was a rich businessman. When he met Dove, and aristocrat in the Sky Kingdom, he fell head over heels for her, and the two quickly developed a relationship. Anubis was fierce and rough, and Dove was light and elegant. While the two were polar opposites, they were destined for each other. Eventually, they had an egg, and Anubis moved in with Dove.
====== Egg ======
The current queen, Queen Warbler, only saw a future feud. She attempted to break the two apart in many ways, but all failed. Soon, Anubis found out Queen Warbler's plan, and convinced Dove to move to the Sand Kingdom.
====== Baby Dragonet ======
From the moment Copper crawled out of his shell, his parents had high expectations. He was taught by Anubis and Dove when he couldn't go to school, and quickly learned to read, write, and talk. One day, though, he was out playing in the streets, when a group of older dragonets came up to him, and started picking on him. It soon escalated into punching and kicking, and every day that Copper went outside after that, the same group of dragonets bullied him every day. Copper's mind soon became based around the ideas that you had to stay on top to survive, and that everything was out to get you. Copper worked on schoolwork, and got increasingly suspicious of his parents, thinking that they were using him for something. So, that became one of his ideas, too. That everyone was using you for something.
====== Dragonet ======
Copper went to school, and immediately started gaining dragonets on his side, in case someone ever tried to bully him again. He had over 20 friends that were in a buzzing group around him. Copper became the talk of the school, and everyone loved him. Copper started to realize the power of words, and began to ignore his school, instead making nerds do his work for him, sneaking out of school and pickpocket for the pleasure of it, and mock the teachers because he felt like it. Copper liked how he could simply sit back and relax. He had an iron grip on his school, and wasn't planning on loosening it. Every time someone crossed his path, they were shamed, and transferred schools quickly. And Copper liked the power. He started to rebel against his parents and school, making teachers resign, and his parents frustrated and sad. Copper basically ran the school.
====== Teen ======
Copper left his home as soon as he could, and started an illegal business, with his school friends as the workers, since they pretty much adored him. Copper made heaps of money within days, and bought himself a lavish home in the Sky Kingdom. His business grew fast, and he attracted the attention of a beautiful but dumb dragoness named Oya. His power began leaking into the SkyWing government, by bribing and manipulating high-ranking officials in order to put his dragons in the government.
====== Current ======
Copper has since had 3 dragonets named Chunjie, Lion Dance, and Nian.
The future is now!
=== Relationships ===
====== Anubis ======
A pale yellow SandWing male with black patterns on his back.
"He repressed me. Frankly, I'm glad he's away from me now."
====== Dove ======
A beautiful female SkyWing with crimson scales and a pink underbelly.
"Don't like her. At all. Don't know why she took Anubis as her husband."
====== Oya ======
A female SkyWing with sunset orange scales.
"An idiot, but a pretty one. Ha."
====== Chunjie ======
A male dragon with golden and dawn pink scales.
"He's a bit too nervous for my liking, but he is my son."
====== Lion Dance ======
A male dragon with bright orange and yellow scales.
"Rebellious. I need to teach him a lesson someday."
====== Nian ======
A male dragon with bloodred and dark red scales.
"Exactly the son that I wanted."
=== Trivia ===
Copper was based off of Chinese lanterns.
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Category:Characters
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Category:Hybrids
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