Niki

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Niki is a MudWing, a retired soldier who fought in the War of SandWing Succession. When it ended, she retired and moved to Warscar, a town that she helped to found. During the war, Niki rose through the military ranks and became an important general, and is quite wealthy from her time serving under Burn.Appearance
The MudWing has chocolate brown scales, with different shades blended together like melting candy. Her underscales are a light amber, nearly the same as her wings, which are paler and glisten in the sunlight. The eyes of the MudWing are a deep amber, with flecks of gold and black. She has garnet drop earrings, and a scar from the left side of her face to her forehead. Niki is tall and broad-shouldered, the bigwings of her group of sibs. With a long, thick tail and wide wings, many dragons turn to Niki in emergencies.
Usually, she's smiling and her face looks open; however, after years of serving in the war, Niki makes herself seem as large as possible to intimidate possible attackers. Her wings are always at least halfway extended, and she twitches them slightly forwards and up. In a room, Niki is quite the presence, and most dragons listen to her instinctively.
Personality
Commanding, brave, smart- these are words that come to mind when you ask the MudWings that were under her command what they think of her. However, if you ask the inhabitants of Warscar, they say she's generous, warm, good at being a leader. Honestly, it depends what Niki is doing. In a battle, the MudWing's brain goes rapid-fire and she begins shouting out instructions, leading her troops unscathed through fights. When Niki is with her siblings, she's warm, kind; the type of dragon you'd lean on.
But twenty years of fighting gave Niki a sharp edge. Despite her warm smile and comforting gestures, she's constantly scanning her surroundings, checking exits, categorizing dragons into "dangerous", "not dangerous", "suspicious", and "friend". Though she'll welcome you into her home, Niki will keep dozens of weapons stored around the house, not to mention the clear bulges of knives and who knows what else in her pouches, as well as her natural thick scales and sharp claws. Caution taints all of her actions, though she's not wary often.
Backstory
Just like any other normal MudWing, Niki grew up with her three siblings- Antelope, Ore, and Sandpiper. On the outskirts of a large MudWing town was where they grew up; when the war hit, they were five years old. Niki trained intensely, taking the survival of her sibs very seriously, and made sure they were all well drilled. She was extremely consistent, waking up every day at daybreak, training to noon, lunch, exactly one hour later was more training to sundown. They fought it hundreds of battles over the course of the war, and in the last few months, Sandpiper died in the same battle Ore disappeared in. 
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Category:MudWings
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Category:Occupation (Soldier)
Category:Content (Shimmer Animus)