Juniper (Contest Entry)

This is an entry for Zera RiverShadow's color palette contest.
==Appearance==
Juniper is short and stocky and her head is a bit too small for her body. Most of her scales are the color of the moss growing on the trees, and her wings and the leaf at the end of her tail are bright green, the color of sundew stems. Her underbelly is tan like birch trees and her horns are the color of fresh forest dirt. Her eyes and a few of her pattern scales are violet, but most of her pattern scales and frill are bright blue, which is how she got her name, Juniper. Her only piece of jewelry is a simple lattice bracelet of silver chains that her now-dead twin sister gave her. 
Juniper is always seen with a smile on her face, although every now and then that smile looks forced, almost like a grimace. Sometimes her eyes glaze when someone is talking, like she's thinking about someone else, and on very rare occasions, her talons clench, the only hint that there might be a real dragon under the smile.
==Personality ==
On the outside, Juniper seems complacent enough, with a pleasant smile always on her face. She agrees to anything and no one can remember the last time she spoke without being asked to. On the inside though, Juniper is a bitter, raging storm, coming up with insults for anyone who so much as looks at her funny, with loud opinions and a headstrong personality. Juniper's mother, however, much preferred an agreeable daughter over one who roared her opinions to the heavens, and forced Juniper to hide her real personality beneath a smile and a nod.
==Relationships==
===Fig ===
Fig, also nicknamed Strangler Fig by Juniper, is very controlling. She wants every aspect of her life to be perfect, and having a daughter like Juniper particularly annoys her. She made Juniper mostly the daughter she wanted, by threatening to take away her one remnant of her dead twin, but in the process she completely alienated Juniper, putting Fig as high on Juniper's list of enemies as PoisonWings.
===Ash===
Ash is Juniper's father, although the two of them don't have much interaction. Ash is Queen Sequoia's chief explorer, and her spends most of his time off in the depths of the Poison Jungle, trying to find helpful plants or new animals, so he's almost never home. But when Ash is home, he mostly just ignores his daughter for favor of reading. Juniper in return doesn't talk to him, so the two of them don't have much of a real relationship.
===Olive===
Olive was Juniper's twin sister and her only friend, until she died when they were both four. Olive was always energized and optimistic, and liked dragging her less sunshiny sister on adventures around the jungle. Olive died when she fell into a trap set by PoisonWings to keep HiveWings away, and Juniper swore vengeance. She feels that her bracelet is her last connection to her sister, because Fig threw away everything else after Olive died.
==History==
Juniper and Olive hatched from their egg in 5,003 AS. Almost the second they hatched, Olive had started laughing and Juniper had started scowling, as much as a baby dragonet could smile anyway. They started going to school when they were two years old, where Juniper excelled and had to tutor her sister before she failed. They were three when they went on their first 'mission' in the jungle, nearly getting eaten by a Venus dragon-trap until Olive talked it out of it with her leafspeak. After Olive died, Juniper closed off and became ruder than ever to everyone. A few dragons suggested going to the PoisonWings, which Juniper violently refused. In the end, when Juniper was six, Fig threatened to take away her bracelet and destroy it if she didn't do what Fig wanted. 
==Trivia==
*Unlike most other LeafWings, Juniper doesn't have a hint of leafspeak.
*One of Juniper's favorite pastimes is lying in a clearing in the jungle, staring up at the sky.
*When she was younger, a few of her classmates called her Blueberry
==Color Palette/Emoji ==
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