Icecap (Bronze)

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This page is undergoing a major revamp as of May(the) 4th, 2022, so most information is outdated(anything after Backstory)
Icecap is a 3 year old animus IceWing dragonet born to Albus and Graupel in 5,069 AS. She currently is exploring under Queen Cumulus's company. Icecap is BronzeRattle's OC.
Please do not copy ideas or especially the design. You may be inspired though.
== Description ==
Icecap is absolutely stunning. In a somewhat similar fashion to Opal, she isn't 100% white, but rather, a mixture of predominant mint green imbued here and there in white, aqua, and purple. The purple is most prominent down her neck where it lightly decorates nearby scales. The spikes on her body are mildly brighter than she is, with hints of purple at the tips. Her eyes are a dark daring teal, and a bronze ring tops her right horn. Her horns and talons are rather small(she is a dragonet after all) and are a green color with a small tan shine in the sun. Icecap has strange blue wings reflecting lavender at certain angles. The membrane is abnormally bright blue, immediately making her presence noticeable anywhere. She is small and neat, lacking visible scratches or harm on her pristine scales.
She is similar in shape to her mother Albus, although she's been noted to be more relaxed and have a shorter face. When Icecap is angry, her expression of rage looks somewhat like her father's. She has a large toothy grin which rarely shows on her face.
Icecap makes a cameo appearance in the short story "Scales" and even more briefly in The Night Rising, created by TempestMidnight. She was given written permission for usage.
== Backstory ==
Icecap had a high reputation to hold since she was born, and not just because she was said to be the prettiest IceWing around. Her mother, Albus, had gotten into some hot water previously with one particular IceWing whose acts came dangerously close to exiling her from living in the IceWing Palace. In Albus's mind, Icecap was the one to redeem the family and prove that she wasn't some yucky IceWing associated with a backstabbing traitor.
Unfortunately, this didn't fare well with the dragonet, who turned out to be the worst IceWing at obeying instructions. Icecap refused to directly fight other IceWings in training sessions, only dodging their attacks and pinning them to the ground. She became quite good at avoiding attacks like this, infuriating Albus immensely. Icecap was sent to her room as punishment frequently. She'd spend the time by doing random activities.
In one of these times, Icecap decided to write random words in the snow that covered her rock floor. She wrote two words: Create icicles. Instantly, icicles began to form on the ceiling, growing in length before suddenly collapsing. The dragonet flapped out of her room quickly before she was crushed.
== Personality==
Icecap is very mild, and not as prideful as most IceWings. Her confidence fluctuates as a result of verbal abuse from her father Graupel, although she is pretty confident as long as you don't mention anything funny about her appearance-wise. She can be bossy occasionally and be controlling, but this only happens when she's in a bad mood or needs to lead. Icecap frequently talks about her ocean adventures to other dragons. Unexpectedly, she is an ace fighter, but remains in the Sixth Circle only because she always dozes off during hunts. The IceWing doesn't prefer to fight, so everyone overlooks her fighting skill and usually describes her as an incompetent walrus.
She quickly gained a sharp tongue within her first year from her yelling mother. 
It's not just her scales that cause Graupel to dislike her. Icecap doesn't like the IceWing culture very much. While yes, she's good at hunting on land, Icecap always returns to the ocean. For some reason, she loves the ocean to nearly the point of a SeaWing. She can swim very quickly toward aquatic prey with deadly talons and has no issues catching food, even without flying at all. Icecap often considers her own wings a burden, for the fact she can't ever sneak around in a snowstorm, and that they also get in her way while swimming. She just doesn't like to fly like other IceWings do, running and climbing to whatever destination she needs to go to unless it absolutely can't be accessed by foot or is very far. This makes her slow to get anywhere, which can annoy impatient IceWings such as her dad.
==Traits==
===General===
Icecap is mostly normal in IceWing physique, besides being slightly vertically challenged. Her legs are noticeably stronger than usual, allowing her to run for much longer than a typical IceWing. She's also a little faster doing so and is a swift, strategic swimmer. Icecap's wings are weaker however from little use.
===Frostbreath===
Icecap doesn't like to fight, only hunt. Her frostbreath is not so far reaching simply because she stores less frost, but is still deadly for an opponent dragon. It is still very cold. She often exhales small fumes when annoyed, and sometimes briefly blasts it at a wall to let out steam.
===Stealth and Senses===
Her bright coloring deems it unsuitable to camouflage anywhere in the snow. Her vision is typical: She can see in bright light well and also can see decent in the dark as well. Her sense of smell is rather advanced, useful for detecting prey miles away in the water. 
===Fighting, summed up===
Like most IceWings, Icecap is great at fighting, just refuses to do so. Years of hunting slippery prey in the ocean has made her amazing at grabbing squirming dragons attacking her back. Her signature move is landing on a thrashing dragon, clinging on with her razor sharp talons, blasting frostbreath at its limbs, and finally finishing it off at the neck with some more frostbreath.
==Animus==
In addition to Icecap's strange ocean obsession, she recently found out in her exile that she was an animus. Like with other animuses, it was found on accident.
As she was exiting the Ice Kingdom, Icecap was thinking about the IceWing Gifts she'd been taught about from Albus, the gifts made from IceWings with animus powers on the behalf of their tribe. She wondered if she could do something similar, but thought nothing else of it.
The thought remained in her head a few days later as she flew, exhausted, through the desert. She settled down by some mountains, shifting every second or so to prevent from the scalding sand. She grabbed a nearby rock and desperately tried the only thing she had on her head: "Enchant this rock to please cool my burning feet." To her surprise, the rock turned into a cool lake where she delightfully dipped in for some time, and flew off.
Once she was near the rainforest, Icecap began enchanting rocks with enchantments just to see what she could do with this newfound power. She noticed only some of her enchantments would work or had a delay in working. For example, if she told a rock to turn into dust, it would only sometimes obey her. After some time experimenting, Icecap decided not to get too carried away and made one last enchantment: For her horn ring to provide vision in water when submerged and if the horn ring was tapped, to prevent her scales from aging, and that they would regenerate at a normal pace if they were damaged. She decided on these 3 things because she had a hard time seeing in water sometimes, the second part for all those times Graupel told her she'd be better off aging so her colors could fade, and the third for in case Icecap got in a serious battle so her scales would remain beautiful and bright forever. Icecap was quite pleased with it, so she continued exploring, feeling much more confident now with her newly discovered animus powers.
== Relationships==
(Will add more with time as I make more OCs)
===Albus===
Icecap is pretty neutral against Albus, her mother. Albus was never the comforting type and was usually gone to monitor hunts and manage in the IceWing Palace, so they never really had the time to grow a real relationship. Icecap never knew why her mother never made fun of her, probably for her nature of never mentioning anything to her.
===Graupel===
Icecap detests Graupel with every ounce of her being. Graupel saw her as a failure of an IceWing the instant she was born and brought up her colors and ocean obsession every single day. Icecap's confidence has been destroyed because of this and now she is mildly nervous around other dragons unless they give her a reason not to be. She tries her best to remain assertive around her dad.
===Pomelo ===
Icecap loves Pomelo(although not romantically quite yet) because he's never given her flack about anything. She finds his anxiety charming, and she's also glad that both of them don't like to fly. The IceWing is entranced by his expert venom shooting.
==Trivia ==
*Ice caps in real life are domes of glacier ice covering no larger than 50,000 km²(31,068.6 miles), where they are considered ice sheets.
*Long before even making a fandom account, her design was in mind. She was originally going to be called SlushRush. This makes her my first OC on the wiki. Cool beans!
* Icecap was the first IceWing and Joy Ang base I colored. That should explain a lot about the old design. It's also the first base I edited, to a small degree but edited nonetheless.
* Icecap before the revamp was 12.5% NightWing because her father Graupel was 25% NightWing, making her a 3rd generation hybrid. She didn't exhibit any physical NightWing traits.
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