Calico (Delta)

Calico is a female SandWing who works in Queen Thorn's Palace!
== Appearance ==
Calico's main scales are . . . well . . . calico! Her scales are a pale, near-white yellow
== Personality ==
Calico is a gentle and sweet dragon. If you ever need someone to talk to, or a shoulder to cry on, she will be there in an instant with a tissue.
She is a very good listener, perhaps because she doesn't talk very often. But she won't just sit there, and wait for you to stop talking so that she can give her opinion. If you are talking with her, and you stop to see what she has to say, she will just continue to sit there for a very long time, until she nods, and says something totally random and off-subject. (Example - Other dragon : So I was walking through the palace halls today, and smelled some delicious dates. So I ate one. But I'm not sure if they were for me. Do you think I shouldn't have eaten it? Calico : Ever notice how the day gets darker when the sun hides behind the clouds? Maybe the sun is scared of darkness.)
This leads most dragons to think of her as strange or weird, but in reality, it's just because she doesn't know what to say. Calico can also be quiet and shy, not really into making conversation.
Though she is usually kind and shy, she also has a streak of ferocity. I mean, you can't grow up in the Scorpion Den with two assassin parents and expect to come out being sunshine and rainbows. She can give a good, hard whack with a scroll, and even once attacked a dragon when they burned a pack of scrolls she had been carrying.
She has a little bit of a temper, but usually about very small things, and it fades rather quickly. Calico really doesn't care if dragons called her "bigwings" or "scrollworm" or anything, she's heard it all from her parents and brothers.
Calico is extremely forgiving, as shown when she forgave her brother Venom. But its not instantly. Oh no. It depends on how angry she is at you, or how much you've hurt her. Venom was not as cruel as the older brothers, so it didn't take a very long time, but still, quite a while.
== History ==
When she hatched, she was automatically launched into training by her family to be an assassin, just like her three, dangerous, well-trained older brothers had been.
Her parents had hoped for a girl for a very long time, they had tried four times. But in their eyes, Calico turned out to be nothing but a disappointment.
But they didn't know that yet. As soon as she could walk, they shoved a knife into her talons and tried to make her stab a venomous snake that was slithering towards her. As soon as she could talk, they would shove her into a market place and tell her to steal something and then if she was caught, sweet-talk her way out of it.
But as much as she tried to do it, there was always a distraction.
Scrolls. Little did she know that scrolls saved her life.
Calico still doesn't remember who gave her the first scroll. Maybe it was the old librarian that lived down the street from her family. Maybe she stole it in one of her "training phases". Maybe she just found one on the street. But whatever the reason, the moment she read the first one, she was hooked.
She loved all scrolls. Scrolls about heroes. About villians. About epic battles.
If she could get her talons on it in the Scorpion Den, that's what she read. Her parents, and her three older brothers disapproved strongly.
Her brothers would tease her every day. They would steal her scrolls and pound her into the sand when she tried to get them back. Her parents never did anything about it. They claimed that it would make her stronger. And maybe if they did it enough, she would get the message and leave behind the whole "Scrolls" thing.
But she dealt with it. She would suck it up and never complained. Every night, she would simply sneak into her brother's room, grab the scrolls that they stole (She just happened to know where they hid them), hide under their bed and read. Then when he brothers started to wake up, she would rush out of there as fast as possible.
One night, she was out. She snuck out of the house to go to the library and get a scroll. It was called "The Eye of Onyx", and was the third scroll in her favorite series. She asked her mother to get it for her with some money, but her mother had thrown a plate at her.
That night, there was a gang fight. Her parents and siblings weren't exactly in the fight, but their house got caught in the fire, and was destroyed. Calico returned home in the morning to a pile of ashes. Her older brother was missing, her parents were dead, and her oldest brother, Venom, was left outside, gaping. Calico hugged a scroll to her chest, and her brother put a wing around her, the first kind gesture he had ever showed her.
Together, they ran away from the Scorpion Den, and slowly forgot. The memory of their parents remained, but they skipped around the Sand Kingdom so much, working little jobs, that she soon began to move on, and her nightmares subsided. Eventually they got a job at the palace. Calico cooked and hauled water, and Venom trained as a guard for the palace.
During the War of SandWing Succession, Venom considered signing up for Burn's army multiple times, saying that she would be safer in her stronghold than out on the desert sands, but she would always beg him not to, saying that she wouldn't be able to take it if she lost another family member. Her last family member.
It was their third year in the palace when she met Verbena. It was a sweltering day, like every day, and Calico was trying to haul water and read a scroll at the same time, which, if you've tried it before, doesn't really work. So when she hit a rock and tripped, the bucket of water flew out of her talons and plunked straight onto Verbena's head.
Verbena worked as an apprentice seamstress for the queen, so Calico didn't run into her often. When that bucket fell on her head, Calico expected her to be very angry. She expected Verbena to yell at her, but when Verbena lifted the bucket off her head, instead, she started to giggle. She just kept giggling and giggling, and her laugh was so contagious, that eventually, Calico found she was giggling too.
That was the start of their friendship. After that, practically every day they would meet, talking about scrolls, talk about life, about opinions on politics. Calico felt comfortable talking with Verbena. She was her first true friend. WIP
== Gallery ==
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