Malaya

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==== Appearance ====
Malaya has been known for being beautiful in all her pale shades of pink along with flecks of gold. She is known to have a prominent gold tooth which shows in her grin, which she jokes around about, stating that she got it because when she was young, she had a habit of chewing bones in her meat, therefore ruining one of her teeth, apparently, to make her mother go more bankrupt than she already was. Malaya's horn that protrudes from her snout is rather sharp, actually, not curving like many other SkyWing 'egg horns'. Her actual horns on the other hand curl as normally as the other SkyWings would, and her claws are practically infamous for being an unnatural silver, 'no matter how much dirt they get on them'. She has feather patterns below her eyes, another key, prominent feature that you're likely to notice. Her eyes are a light shade of 'Hippie Blue', and she has 'star-speckles' of gold on her scales, along with nearly-invisible darker pink specks on her wings. She is known for having a sheepish smile, and her ears pricking up whenever they are excited, on the contrary, flattening when she has a negative emotion. When she flies, despite being shorter than average for a SkyWing (about the height of the average IceWing), she is still an extremely powerful flier and loves soaring over clearings. Her legs seem a little bit short to the average dragon, and despite her best efforts, from afar her face will look unwelcoming due to it's SkyWing features and clash of colors.
==== Personality ====
Malaya is a welcoming dragon, far from the unfriendly SkyWings people usually think about. She is playful, and likes racing people, and despite being a SkyWing, she tends to like to leap through the trees than travel the open airs, probably due to the fact she loves to scare people. She generally comes off as warm and caring, but is in reality erratic within mood - she'll often be turbulent, switching from friendly to paranoid in a second, and most people mistake this for her being bipolar, though she constantly denies and therefore attempts to suppress these mood changes in hope that it will make her seem a bit less 'insane' to the few who would believe her so. When she is upset, she usually breaks into erratic fits, which are passive aggressive, such as sudden glares, random ghosting or just being passively rude to you in a way of implication.
==== Backstory ====
Malaya was born fireless, and for this you would expect her to be traditionally thrown off the cliff, but some suggested making use of her twin, which was practically useless without a tool to be used as bribery - this was the part of the plan where Malaya would come in. SkyWing twins usually had what seemed to be an attachment to each other from birth. This proved to be useless over time though, as the theory of 'birth attachment' had turned out to be false, shown by the clear alienation they had when meeting for the first time at 2. By the time the SkyWings had realized, they were old enough to fly, and though they could be killed, her brother, of course, was a firescales (surprisingly they hadn't figured out any methods, possibly due to disbelief of crowd or tradition), and killing Malaya was pointless, since it had occurred to them an ashscales couldn't do much, if any, harm.
Malaya and Rubellite, once freed from royal grip, had become close fairly quick, and were also fiercely competitive, as their natural builds had nearly always matched, therefore making their original ranks close to one another. They had grown up in a family with little money and no roof to live under, bettering the chances that they would think they had something to prove to the world. Their mother had tried to raise them, but they were troubled kids, always attempting to steal or do something out of the ordinary, as if to give themselves spotlight or advantage over one another. Rubellite, for example, was always the best at fixing things or creating, and unfortunately, Malaya had a habit of destroying them - which proved to be better in their situation, but would come back for a later gnaw, as she would learn later in life. For example, Malaya could sneak in, grab some food, mess up a vase or two and then steal pieces of those to help build them somewhat of a shelter.
==== Environment ====
===== Home Life =====
As stated, they grew up without a roof over their heads, but stayed within boundaries of the Sky Kingdom, though usually in the parts where nobody could bother them. Their mother having a criminal record didn't really help the process of getting a job, and often times they would wander off, with nobody to care about what they were doing - it felt like a blessing at first but proved to be a terrible situation in the many times they got lost in the woods. Growing up within the War, they weren't exactly at liberty to stumble onto another tribe's territory. The environment around their home was generally cold, closer off to the Ice Kingdom, but this didn't prove to be much of a problem, as most SkyWings already lived in cold environments, being so high up in the air. IceWings were often aggressors there, wandering onto their 'territory' for patrols, in which everyone would scatter. Someone would occasionally be caught, usually Malaya, but the foliage proved to be an advantage for them, along with how small she had been growing up, a useful asset when it came to sharp turns or leaping through trees, like she does nowadays. She would often build small shelters made up of pieces of things she had broken, like shards of glass, twigs, and the occasional branch. She was known to collect supplies for their daily hideout while Rubellite would create a small place to sleep for them, leaving any regard of their mother out of the manner, as she seemed somewhat scary to them. Why, though, is not yet disclosed. An unknown fact about firescales was that they were somewhat resistant to fire (possibly because of the fact that twins needed to be in the same egg, and otherwise the other twin would burn to a crisp). She always followed the common instinct of hoarding, usually snatching anything that gleamed in the sun on sight, even if it was something like tin. But what happened next was Rubellite's death- Malaya found his dead body washed up in a nearby creek after a while of searching. After this, Malaya could barely find herself food or shelter, much less for her mother, who often started screaming horrible words to her whenever it happened, making Malaya sensitive to criticism. Later, when her mother decided she didn't want her, she was sent to the Correctional Facility, where she met the other Freak Tower staff. 
===== Job =====
Malaya currently works as a Lurer at the Freak Tower, which classifies her as a 9, or a 9/10 upon danger level. Her position ensures she can go into crowds incognito- minus the stares she gets for her scales- in which she captures freaks which were originally supposed to be guests- sometimes without Gnavigo's command (which she is occasionally reprimanded for)- and knocks them out using poisons available to Lurer's in one of the secret rooms in a dark, winding tunnel that leads from the basement to the main floor. She does not do this often though, and not even for pay, like most of the Freak Tower staff. Instead, she does it in order to be housed, as she has no alive relatives willing to take her in. At her job, when she isn't on order to kidnap anyone (or doing it on her own accord), she is usually found skipping merrily through the halls, or maintaining conversation with the staff- usually Gnavigo, when night falls and the arenas are empty, or even saying hello to the freaks she captures, guiding them around and making sure they know how things roll to reduce their chance of getting in innocent trouble for doing something they weren't aware was allowed.
===== Location =====
Malaya is located in the SandWing Kingdom as of now, on days of work found in the Freak Tower and on days of break, in the courtyard or in a secret room, holding conversation.
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