Basil 🗿

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◉ Basil | He/they | LeafWing-SkyWing | Student ◉
Basil 	Basil
 	
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Creator 	Gale
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Age 	Six years old
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Occupation 	High school student
Novelist
Actor
Tribe 	75% LeafWing, 25% SkyWing
Goal 	Overcome mental struggles (partially succeeded)
Publish a novel (incomplete)
Become a professional actor (work in progress)
Residence 	Sanctuary
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Powers 	Enhanced eyesight
Fast flier
Photosynthesis
Leafspeak
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Love Interests	Shatteredheart (ex-partner, friend, and crush)
Jade (best friend and crush)
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AppearanceBody 
The most notable thing about Basil's body is his height. He's roughly the height of most adults, but not frighteningly tall. He's very skinny, but not in an unhealthy way. He has soft, rounded features, and big talons ending with short, picked claws. He possesses the smooth, plated, leaf-shaped scales of a LeafWing, lacking the tighter clusters that SkyWings have. He has a long, thin, whip-like tail that lacks the distinctive leaf-tip present in purebred LeafWings. They have a symmetrical face with slightly wide-set, big eyes. He has a slightly curved snout with a small nose-spike. His ears are average-sized, and resembles a SkyWing's. Below their ears are extra horns on his jaw. He has, long, curved horns on his head that slightly lean toward each other. Small spikes dot down his neck and spine, all the way to their tail-tip. They have leaf-shaped wings. The wings are partially transparent, with veins in the webbing and rounded edges. His wings are larger than most LeafWing's, possibly a result of his SkyWing ancestry. The claws along his wings are more sharp and hooked than a normal LeafWing's, and resemble that of a SkyWing's. He also has long legs, like many SkyWings. 
Coloration
Basil's main color is a very dark shade of green, dark enough to hide in the shadows like a NightWing would. His underbelly is a slightly lighter shade of green, but still very dark. The webbing of their wings are pale green, nearly white, with sprays of darker green clustering it. Splotches of dark blood-red cover his entire body except his wings, and rings of pinkish-red wrap around his silver horns. He has amber-hazel eyes with flecks of dull green and pale brown. 
Accessories
Basil loves to wear accessories, but he often likes to mix and match what he wears. He has a wide variety of things to choose from, from earrings, rings, clawless gloves, cuffs, chokers, and more. He often enjoys things with a modern Gothic or alternative style, and typically wears darker accessories. He loves to wear dark, oversized hoodies, and it's hard to find him outside of one. They enjoy wearing eyeliner, but other than that they typically dislike makeup. They sometimes paint their claws black too. 
Other Details
Another noticeable detail about Basil are his self-harm scars. Most of these have faded away over time, leaving only slight marks to remind him of his darker days. He has located on both hind legs, hist left wrist, and both of his shoulders, counting up to over a hundred faint scars. He also had some self-harm scars on his neck, however these faded away to nothingness fairly quickly as they weren't deep. He also has surgery scars on his neck from when he was a hatchling, but these aren't very noticeable. 
He has a rather bouncy walk with little skips and a "pep to their step". He usually walks pretty fast-paced, but nothing too difficult to keep up with. He has a smooth flight pattern and seems to sway like a leaf through the air, and he often prefers leisurely gliding over full-out flying. He has very confident body language overall. They are often observed scrunching their nose and "purring" when happy, and he also tilts his head when angry. He usually seen with his front talons near his mouth, whether they're picking his lips or just resting there. 
Onto Basil's scent, he actually smells fairly nice. He smells rather natural, like fresh books, river-stones, forests, and his dogs. He likes fruit-scented soaps, so he often smells of artificial fruit as well. 
A final detail of him is his voice. He was born female, but upon transitioning took vocal lessons to make his voice sound more masculine. Their voice was fairly deep for a female dragon prior to transition anyways, but the voice training made it sound semi-androgynous masculine. It's nothing too low or high, a fairly average pitch. He often has voice cracks (which give him gender euphoria for some reason...) and yells. A lot. He yells, like, a lot. So his throat hurts sometimes. They have a general American accent. 
Also he has red, black, cream, and white furs stuck in between his scales and claws from his dogs. The hairs also get caught on his accessories and hoodies a lot too. He thinks of it as a way to "show off his love for dogs" and doesn't think of is as a nuisance or inconvenience. 
Personality
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HistoryPre-hatching and Family Background 
Basil was born to a LeafWing-SkyWing hybrid named Thrush and a pure LeafWing named Cedar. Thrush's mother, Amber, is a SkyWing who fell in love with a LeafWing named Alder upon moving to Sanctuary, later baring two dragonets with him: Cherry and Thrush. Shortly after the suicide of Alder, Thrush fell in love with local engineer Cedar in her adulthood, and Cherry married a MudWing named Crocodile. The two sisters each bore dragonets of their own with their husbands, the oldest of Thrush's being Basil. 
Basil was an unplanned dragonet, but was welcomed joyously nonetheless. Thrush had been announced infertile many years prior, and never expected to bear her own dragonets, and yet she proved the doctors wrong. Basil was conceived, laid, and even hatched before her parents' eventual marriage. As an egg, she was kept safely in the home nursery, where her parents checked up on her many times a day and her mother incubated almost all hours. No complications were present during her pregnancy or while she was in the egg. 
Early Dragonethood 
Basil's parents married shortly before her first birthday, creating a more stable household for the three. Six months after her first birthday, Thrush and Cedar decided they wanted another dragonet to keep the young hybrid company, much to the loner's contempt. However, by sheer luck, the couple was already pregnant, and soon Fern joined the family. 
Basil lived a fairly normal dragonethood in a healthy household with a stay-at-home mom. However, she had abnormal screaming fits over seemingly little things, which would often be described as "uncontrollable". As a young dragonet, she grew up alongside two dogs, Frodo and Bella. They often describe Bella as a sister and best friend, as the two are the same age and grew up together. Frodo was more maternal towards Basil and Fern, and would often watch them while Thrush would go to the bathroom or make meals. 
School Years
Basil began school when she was two years old. She was persistently a loner throughout the years, preferring to play by herself with animal toys the schoolteacher laid out in the morning before class. That is, if she could stomach asking for them. However, she was never upset in her self-isolation, and was, in fact, more happy creating fake scenarios with her toys rather than engaging with her peers. This behavior concerned her parents, who took her to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist diagnosed the dragonet with major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety, and selective mutism. Despite her diagnosis, she eventually made friends with a new student named Dolphin. Halfway through the school year, she had a fainting episode at home, which doctors diagnosed as a seizure. She was later diagnosed with epilepsy, and given medication to cope with her neurological conditions. Towards the end of year two, she relapsed in her loner ways, breaking off connections with Dolphin to play alone. At the end of that schoolyear, Dolphin moved to another city, filling Basil with bitterness and regret for her irrational actions.
The next year she made friends with an IceWing named Heather and a NightWing named Brighthope. Confused after "losing" Dolphin, the two she-dragons took advantage of this and would bully her. They'd often drag her into trouble and emotionally manipulate her. She also met and became acquaintances with Jade, the future love of her life (even if she thought the SkyWing dragonet was a brat at the time). Halfway through the schoolyear, she became friends with a SandWing-MudWing dragonet named Gravel, who eventually veered her away from the toxic she-dragons. Brighthope had to move at the end of the third year, much to her and Basil's dismay. Basil officially cut off ties with Heather by year four, becoming close friends with Gravel. Basil and Gravel were continuously bullied by Heather throughout the year, ranging from death small shoves and name-calling to empty death threats. Gravel eventually told the principal, and Heather was officially separated, ordered to never interact with the two again.
During the remainder of year four, Basil developed romantic feelings for a female peer named Lily. This resulted in her questioning her sexuality, and would often confide in Gravel for help. She would go to libraries, reading behind the psychology of dragon sexuality and what it meant to take on a label. Eventually, she admitted to her parents she had a crush on Lily, who understood and were perfectly fine with it. In fact, they suspected their daughter had feelings for the young RainWing. After some time questioning, hopping from labels like lesbian and bisexual, she eventually settled on pansexual. Her feelings for Lily faded as the year went on, but she maintained her equal attraction to all genders.
In the summer between year four and year five, Basil began to question her gender identity. She hopped from gender label to gender label, like demifemale, genderfluid, demimale, non-binary, and more. Eventually she came to terms with her gender, telling their parents they identified as, "not quite male, but male enough". He began to transition from female to male, describing himself as a non-binary transgender male, who was "kinda non-binary, kinda male, but didn't feel like labeling it". Shortly after coming to terms with his gender identity, Cedar and Thrush had another dragonet, a boy named Mangrove. 
Come year five, Basil and Gravel had drifted apart. Nothing in particular happened to result in the end of their friendship, it just didn't work out anymore. They still exchanged friendly words, and consider themselves "friends but not best friends". Basil quickly became friends with Jade, who invited him into a friend group made up mostly of queer dragonets. The group of dragonets would all sit together at lunch, talking and playing. Towards the end of year five, he began a romantic relationship with Shatteredheart, a member of the friend group. 
Mental decline
Approaching the end of year five, Basil's mental health took a drastic fall. He began having strong self-harm and suicidal thoughts, and severe body image issues. He began starving himself to grow thinner, and even tried to make himself vomit, which he failed to do. He began cutting himself multiple times a day, often in the school bathrooms with the blades he kept on him in a small container which he dubbed The Cutting Box. Knowing his friends struggled with similar things, he was very open about his self-harm issues. It became so severe he couldn't last a class period without slitting his wrists, so he'd cut himself under the table during lessons. His grades dropped, and he found himself without motivation or the ability to cry.
Eventually, his parents saw his scars, which, after heavy interrogation, they discovered had been self-inflicted. They took him to a hospital, where he received a psych evaluation. They boosted his antidepressants, and they deemed him safe enough to exist outside of a hospital setting, strongly advising his parents to lock away sharps and medications. They did so, and he talked about the issues with his therapist and friends.
Come summer, his mental state was improving, and his grandparents even took him on a vacation to the Claws of the Clouds Mountains to help him. However, after returning home, his mental state took another low dip. Finding that his parents hadn't discovered his Cutter Box, he planned to commit suicide in the middle of the night by slitting his wrists deeply.
A couple of nights later, he flew down the stairs with his precious Box in talon, and began to cut his wrists. Due to the small size of the blade, he couldn't get deep enough to any severe damage, resulting in more emotional suffering. He began crying, and realized his parents had left out some pills and window cleaner. He was about to swallow the two when his mother walked in, roused from her sleep after hearing his cries. Thrush and Cedar took Basil back to the hospital, where he was admitted to the psych ward.
There, he received good care and intensive therapeutic treatment for his suicidal and self-harm tendencies. His parents visited every day, and he played card games with them during their visits. He used the time the better himself and catch up on reading books, as he had plenty of free time. He'd use positive reinforcement to convince himself of his worth, writing encouraging notes on his mirror such as, "I do not deserve pain" and "I forge my own path". He stayed there a total of two weeks before being fully discharged.
After discharge, Basil took part in a two-week long, intense group therapy program at the hospital called partial hospitalization program, or PHP for short. They found PHP to be a humble place where he could relax, made friends, and have fun all the while making important life skills to better his mental health. After ten days of partaking, he was formally discharged with a so-called "marble ceremony" in which a marble is passed around the room and the other patients say positive things about them. 
Current 
Basil is currently attending his sixth year at school. He broke up with Shatteredheart as he simply felt it didn't work out romantically, and continues to talk to his ex. His large group of friends quickly broke up and went their separate ways come year six, but he still maintains a close bond with Jade, and had developed passionate romantic feelings for the she-dragon. He still struggles with the occasional self-harm thoughts and body issues, but he has been clean for months and eats normal amounts (if not more) of food. He is on the road to recovery, and has learned to better voice his emotions to his parents. 
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