Sylphina

this character was originally made by Lucy, as well as all of the coding, and I've adopted this character from them.
Sylphina 	Sylphina
 	
Artist 	☁️
Background 	Background
Creator 	☁️
Attribute 	Exhaustion
Element 	Light
Animal 	Gray wolf
Color 	Green/yellow
Character 	Character
Age 	13
Gender 	Female
Orientation	Straight
Occupation 	Mathematician
Tribe 	RainWings
Goal 	To find motivation and happiness
Nicknames 	Sylph
Residence 	Sandswept, tends to travel
Relatives 	Twine, Acai, and Skybyte
Likes 	Sunlight, open air, neat spaces, dimmer light, music, creative arts, rest
Dislikes 	Coldness, large crowds, open areas, bright light, socializing, doing nothing
Abilities 	Venom, prehensile tail, color changing scales
Loves 	None
Quote 	"I'll... get back to you later, I'm sorry. I just, it's... it's been a long day."
Sylphina, or Sylph, is a RainWing and the elder sister to Skybyte. The supposed epitome of what a "successful" life is, Sylphina is a mathematician, working with top tier scientists and engineers to create and discover. Her position is extremely esteemed, fetching plenty enough to support her and anyone else she might want to care for.
Yet Sylphina envys her sister. Her sister, living on the edge of comfort, prone to burning out and sleepless nights spent touching up works. Her sister who didn't listen, and nearly failed. That sister, Skybyte. For despite it all, there's one difference that shows the most.
Skybyte is happy.
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:Appearance
Sylphina does not vary much from the typical mold of a RainWing. She has thinner legs, a longer ruff, a form that generally seems to flow and drape. She's not too special overall, easy go pass over at a glance.
Her scales push this too, with darker green being her main color. This is accented with a bright yellow underbelly, and a more mellow yellow tone along her back. Her horns are a verdant green, her spine dusty gold. Her wings and frills start out almost gold as well, but quickly fade into lime green. The circular RainWing scales down her sides are bright yellow, similar to buttercups in a field. However, her colors tend to shift a lot with her mood, moving more yellow or blue depending on her emotions.
Most notably of Sylphina's demeanor is that she's constantly tired - rubbing her eyes, yawning, drooping. She's also managed to be pristine - clean scales, even talons. She looks almost perfectly put together, except that clear aura of sleeplessness that clings to her like a fog. She's clearly tired.
She always is.
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:Personality
Sylphina's soul is poured into her work. She's incredibly diligent, always focused and concentrating on what she needs to do. And so, she's almost always among papers, whether it be the menial task of sorting them or solving complex mathematical equations.
She still won't go into large crowds, regardless. Sylphina is not used to talking to other dragons, is not used to interacting at all. Naturally, she's a failure in all social aspects of life, and so simply ignores that. After all, she doesn't need to gossip with friends to be successful - and maybe she didn't even need friends.
She's clearly more interested in her work than anything the common social gathering has to offer - or at least, she used to. Now, the RainWing simply trudges through the day, using her ability to keep up on these tasks to ignore the constant boredom that clings to her.
Sylphina is trying very hard, but effort isn't always enough. She combines talent and hard work, yet still messes it. It leads to frustration and sleepless nights, only to be followed by more frustration as her sleep deprived mind struggles to think the following day. She's trying her best to do well, yet she's going to fall short sometimes. She's not ready to admit that yet.
She has a goal, one that isn't readily obvious in how she acts. Sylphina simply wants to be happy. She wants to smile without forcing it, wants to talk to others without trying to immediately find a way out. Sylphina wants to have the elusive, positive emotion that seems to come to her sister so easily.
She works hard for it. Sylphina does so much, tries so hard to get that spark of joy she so wants. She believes that if she just does more, she'll be happy. If she tries harder and becomes more renowned and becomes someone important and well liked, she'll be happy. She just has to work hard, at this job dragging away her sleep and smothering all semblance of motivation she has.
She's suffering, for that hope that positivity would present itself, one day.
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:History
Born to Twine and Acai. Born to two RainWings, two who had adopted that new concept of parents. Yet more importantly, born to high expectations. As the only child, all their attention where focused on her, but also each other.
The two tended to fight a lot, the tensions in their household high. Often, small things led to a yelling match, both dragons refusing to back down. A weekly display of frustration and stubbornness, where Sylphina's parents seemed to disagree purely because they could. Then most times, they dragged her into it. Expected a child to take sides, to tell them who was in the right and who was in the wrong.
The household was divided, and Sylphina would be stuck in the middle. So she tried to dissuade them, finding ways to avoid getting into fights in the first place. And she found it, by working hard and doing well, so pride pushed out all the strife and conflict. They wanted her to prove herself better than others, so she did. 
They were RainWings, believed to be lazy, stupid fruit eaters. At least, according to her parents. Sylphina needed to prove that stereotype wrong - to show that RainWings were capable dragons. Something like that, the need to do well a mantra drilled into her head at a young age. Work hard, do well.
born to high expectations. only child at the time, all attention focused on her. parents fought a lot. generally felt extremely divided. clung onto making parents not fight - by making them proud of her. by working hard and doing well. did that all through school. little sister, persimmon. interesting child. immediately rebellious and sylph envied her in so many ways. wanted to be her, couldn't. sylph had already committed. had friends but not many. didn't bother socially she was supposed to be a good dragonet. experimented a bit in early adulthood with creative arts and such but had already committed to a life of science. entered into mathematics, rose quickly. it was really interesting, at first, but then the novelty wore off. is currently just trying to get through the day.
Sylph, simply put, is someone who pushed herself far beyond her limits and did well. She objectively succeeded and made her parents slightly more proud. However, she finds that she's always not good enough, and so keeps on trying to do better, to claim that nonexistent prize of being exactly who her parents want her to be. Yet she always falls short, because their expectations are impossible. She tries anyway, because she knows success brings pride and she thinks being proud is the same as being happy.
And she wants so much to be happy.
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:Relationships
Twine - father
Acai - mother
Skybyte - sister
Chia - friend ?
Estuary -
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:Gallery
sylphinapixcloud.png
SylphinaRefJoyAngSunset.png|sunset,,
SylphinaBasiliskCloud.png|base by bas
PeregrincellaSylphina.png|base by peregrincella
SylphinaCloud.png
Yellow jungles.png|sunset (again, uwu)
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