Ribbon Seal

Queen Ribbon Seal is a former IceWing queen. She was progressive for her time- and even progressive by today's standards- for not seeing animus powers as something to worry about. Her indifference was a driving factor in her attempt to end the tradition of the IceWing gift, yet her radical beliefs were ultimately her downfall.
Ribbon Seal was made for Revek's Historical Ruler Character Contest by Link.
==Appearance==
Ribbon Seal is a light indigo, with her back scales being darker. It has white markings which resemble her namesake animal on her neck, torso, and tail. Her eyes are a deep blue, and they could be described as sapphires. Despite her natural beauty, the most noticeable thing about her is the almost revolting amount of accessories she wears. 
She has piercings of whalebone in patterns of three on her chin, nose, arms, wings, and tail, along with a nose ring. She's also dripping in chains of silver, making it a wonder that she even moves with the sheer amount of metal hanging from every bit of scale. The chains are attached to bands (also made of silver) that decorate numerous places. Her crown, also made of whale bone, has three prominent spikes, each adorned with an amethyst. Additionally, the crown contains two tusks by her chin. 
*light purple overall
*markings akin to a ribbon seal
*blue eyes
*a DISGUSTING amount of piercings and jewelry
==Personality==
*when she was young, she was real shy
*shy but determined
*after becoming queen she was a lot more confident and outgoing
*
==Story==
Ribbon Seal was hatched to Queen Hoarfrost and King Skua, around 250 years before Darkstalker. The kingdom adored Ribbon Seal, for her innocence and perceived foolishness. Ribbon Seal also quickly formed a tight bond with her uncle and Hoarfrost's brother, Prince Muskox. Muskox was an animus who, in his own words, "wasted his gift upon war reparations," a regret Ribbon Seal internalized and remembered well.
Two years after her hatching, her younger sister Harp Seal hatched. Harp Seal and Ribbon Seal had a relatively calm relationship, rarely ever getting into disagreements. To be fair, this is because they didn't usually talk to each other. Harp Seal was nothing more than a dragon she happened to be related to. 
At the age of five, Ribbon Seal realized she was not a boy. It wasn't huge news, apart from the fact she was now eligible to be queen. But no one thought she'd ever be getting there, considering she was "too sweet" and "could never even hurt a flake of snow."
Unsurprisingly, the condescending press and her minimized freedom had an affect on her. How she was able to do it without getting caught was a mystery, but Ribbon Seal began to get piercings. First her ears, then her nose. She also began to start wearing a chain on her tail, which many people started to get confused by. It wasn't useful, and it wasn't pretty, so what was the point?
As she got older, Ribbon Seal got increasingly fed up with her mother's politics, and the rancid ideology behind them. 
----She rose from her now-still mother. Her purple claws were stained with blue, almost as blue as her eyes. The chain she wore for merely cosmetic purposes now wrapped around her mother's neck, only causing more blood to pool. Sweet Ribbon Seal, the dragon they swore would never harm another soul, had just killed the one who gave her life. And she couldn't bring herself to feel bad about it. 
She looked at her father, his face contorted in horror. She killed the love of his life. She then turned to her sister, who was handling the situation much better. It was crying, but still nodded at Ribbon. It didn't need to say anything to communicate her feelings, it needed to be done.
Ribbon finally raised her head, facing the small audience of family and guards. "Tell the people that Hoarfrost has fallen, and tell them their darling princess Ribbon Seal took her life." 
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*born to two dragons i'm too lazy to make names of. thats a lie actually her moms named hoarfrost
*when she was two harp seal hatched
* when she was 5 she transitioned me thinks
* the queendom overall loved ribbon seal
* they babied her and were basically obsessed with her. she was the press's favorite
* she felt like she didnt have much freedom in her life with the press, so she started getting piercings
* she also had an uncle, muskox
* he was an animus
* his gift was the gift of forgiveness, some random magic statue for a different tribe because of a war
* muskox wasnt happy he wasted his gift on some wartime reparations, and it only made him more mad that he was basically forced to do that
* seeing this, ribbon said that one day she would make it so that every animus wouldn't have to worry about everyone else's perceptions of their powers
** muskox would never live to see her become queen, as he died when she was 8
*at the age of 10, she grew disillusioned with her mother's rule, and how absolutely racist she was
* so at the age of twelve, she challenged her mother
*she only wore one chain around this time (the one on the top of her tail) which she used to choke and kill her mothe
*after this everyone waz DUMBFOUNDED. wdym their perfect princess would kill her mother, and not her rat of a sister?
* with her newfound freedom, she got even more piercings
* all was fine for a few years
* ribbon seal was relatively tame, not getting into any conflicts really
*however. she was loud about her thoughts on animus powers
*ppl didnt realy like that
*there was a group of dragons, mainly nobles, who had an issue with ribbon seal
*icefish was the son of a dragon in this group
*and if ou know, harp seal is icefish's friend
*anyways
*harp seal fell in love with icefish and they had a son
* his name was tern and he was an animus
* people around him were always like "omg tern you should start thinking about your gift to the icewing tribe!!!!"
* ribs did not like this
* and she became real close with tern
* harp seal was MAD
** harp seal is more of a believer in the icewing gift stuff
*"RIBBON STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM MY SON
*damn
*anyways
*tern. tern used his powers for something
*harp seal saw
*and was very very mad
*so harp seal conspired with the group against ribs
*and went into her room in the middle of the night
*had nothing but a dagger
*This situation sucked actually, because her room had a huge window she couldve flied out of
*but uh
*all that jewelry weighed her down
*ribbon was. not fully awake when harp attacked her
*so thinking she could fly
*she jumped out the window
*and then she plummeted
*down, down, down
*into the courtyard
*and she died.
*well. damn
==Relationships==
===Harp Seal===
Princess Harp Seal is Queen Ribbon Seal's sister. They used to be extremely tight-knit, until Harp Seal got into a relationship with an IceWing noble, Icefish. Icefish's father was a key leader in a group opposing Queen Ribbon's rule, which only caused Harp and Ribbon to grow apart. The birth of Harp Seal's son only heightened tension between them, as Harp Seal felt
=== Tern ===
==Trivia==
* She had a high preference for whale meat; if she had lived longer she might've completely eradicated the whale population around the kingdom due to her own demand. 
* She loved seals, and for her era of rule it was forbidden to eat seal around or in the IceWing palace.
==Notes==
OUR GOALS:
* canon complicit backstory 
* canon complicit design
* political drama
* familial drama
* assassination
* slightly put together writing
*2 / 6 goals met
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* harp seal doesn't have pronouns. you can only refer to harp seal as harp seal
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