Equinox (Chan)

she/her • equinox • icewing/sandwing • wanderer
Equinox 	Equinox
 	
Background 	Background
Creator 	chan
Artist 	chan
Coder 	chan
Code Base 	Himmalerin
Attribute 	Apathy
Element 	Water
Color 	Aquamarine
Animal 	Penguin
Song 	Voice of No Return
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Character 	Character
Age 	10
Gender 	Female
Orientation 	Biromantic Asexual
Occupation 	Wanderer
Tribe 	Icewing/Sandwing
Goal 	A quiet, peaceful life
Residence 	Valley between the Jade Mountain range and the Mudwing Kingdom (former); Nomadic (current)
Relatives 	Tarnima (father), Blomstra (mother), Cactus (grandfather)
Allies 	Chimera, Jormungand, Simone, Oligoclase
Enemies 	Brinicle, the Icewing Queen
Likes 	Blue gems, glass containers, flowers, the night sky
Dislikes 	Sand, overt attention, contempt, sweltering temperatures
Powers 	Faint emanation of heat or cold depending on the surrounding temperature, limited frostbreath
Weapons 	Claws, teeth, spikes, the tip of her tail
Love Interests	None at the moment
Appearance
As long as one isn't looking too closely, Equinox passes as a normal Icewing. Her scales are light blue and her underbelly is only faintly yellowish in color. A ruff of spikes clinks with every step, and her serrated claws allow her to grip to slippery surfaces with ease. She prefers colder climates, as those same claws make each sandy plain a nightmare. A single step seems to clump up every possible pocket, and the feeling stuck sand provides is far from pleasant. The icier side of her blood is already known to have speckles, so the silver dots pocked along her wings and back aren't too unusual either. The upturned nature of her horns could be chalked up to a simpler quirk of genetics as well; perhaps the black horns and mouth could be waved away with similar reasoning.
Upon closer inspection however, her face and body structure give away her Sandwing heritage. Her neck is longer than a normal Icewing's, as her body follows the more serpentine shape of a Sandwing, and she stands higher than most of the stockier dragons she grew up with. That could partially be due to her own posture-- she makes an effort to stand regally, with her head held high instead of cowering away. Besides the top of it, her head also appears closer to a Sandwing's in structure, with extra black horns and higher cheekbones. She's inherited her father's scale pattern, albeit in blue instead of black, as well as the markings around his eyes. While more recent, Equinox has also taken up the scorpion-like manner in which her father's tribe holds their tails. She has no venom of her own-- her "barb", shaped like a splinter, is too mangled to be able to inject anything. Still, that doesn't make it any less capable of stabbing, and she's found that the curling of a tail alone is enough to make some dragons warier of being poisoned.
Both her sclera and irises are pitch black. It's an eerie sight, especially when paired with her usual expression. Most Sandwings are filled with life, whether it be scornful, blistering life or life that shines like warm sunshine, mitigating the uncanny effect their dark eyes might pose. Even Icewings emote, cold as they are, contempt curling the corners of their sockets. Equinox has inherited neither. Her expression on most days can be described as a blank stare, with her eyes imparting onlookers with the impression that they've seen something that they shouldn't have. It's an effect mostly unintentional on Equinox's part, and she's making an effort to correct it with her new family.
Personality
Although she's not a dragon who fosters comfortable silence, her appearance is far colder than her actual self. Equinox is a surprisingly mild dragon. She isn't prone to hard opinions or beliefs, and she typically keeps to herself-- not in a shy or self-conscious way, but in a mutual sense of "I mind my business, you mind yours".
However, she's very much a dragon shaped by her circumstances. The Icewing Kingdom -- the Icewing Palace, especially -- was not the healthiest environment. Even for a normal Icewing, competition was ingrained into daily life. No one could be an ally, as helping another could 
let them bump you down the rankings, and being a hybrid was yet another strike on her already patchy record.
Her childhood in the palace left her feeling numb. She was certainly emotional as a dragonet, but encounter after encounter left her feeling worse, and worse, until something had to scar up in order to salvage her well-being. It was a form of protection. The scathing words of unpleasant nobles wouldn't slide off, wouldn't be pleasant, but they would no longer leave her shivering, panicked, or teary.
Negative experiences still impact her, but it's difficult to process it as more than a deep pain in her chest. She also has a habit of compulsive actions: small things, like tidying her sleeping area and tending to flowers. When in thought, she scratches at her neck, tearing through the skin on occasion. The Icewing ranking system's need to be constantly working, productive, and perfect is the main culprit. She dreads any kind of work more laborious than her "little actions", as even the simple prospect of getting up and weeding the garden is enough to get her to roll over and go back to sleep. Even while questing with her friends, she's the one making them stay extra days, though staying too long with nothing to do leaves her claws itching again. It's almost random, which days she'll almost feel compelled to do everything and which days she feels too tired to do anything. The duality of each side makes it feel like she's being jerked around wildly by her brain.
To this day, she's still trying to fill in her emotional gaps. She knows what to think of as horrible, what to be righteously angry at, and even if her heart doesn't agree she's willing to act on those pseudo-emotions along with her found family.
Abilities
As a hybrid, Equinox's abilities are a bit more unique to her than a non-mixed dragon. 
Her abilities are heavily reliant on the temperature around her. Depending on it, she either radiates warmth or cold. The colder or warmer the surrounding air, the quicker she can reach either side. She personally prefers the cold, but a bit of morning basking is very comforting.
 
Regrettably, having a firebreathing father has hindered her ability to breathe frostbreath. The best she can manage, as long as her body temperature is cold enough, is a burning chill around her mouth. She usually uses it after biting an opponent to maximize its potency.
 
Her poison barb is also too narrow to inject any poison, blending in with the other spikes on her tail. She can still manuever it to stab at enemies however, and keeps her tail coiled like a Sandwing with a workable barb.
History
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Relationships
 Chimera - The first friendly face she encountered after being discharged from the Icewing army. He negotiated with the Rainwing Queen to allow her to traverse the Rainforest freely. It didn't take much effort given the Queen's nature, but Equinox appreciated it anyway. The peculiar Rainwing was also the only visitor to her valley, and the two quickly struck up a close friendship. However, one day he suddenly vanished. When prodded, the Rainwing Queen claimed she had absolutely no idea where he'd gone, as he'd been pretty estranged from the rest of the tribe in the first place. After that, Equinox took his disappearance as a final goodbye, figuring he'd finally gotten fed up with both the Rainforest and her. Cue her surprise when, a couple years later, her once best friend returned with two other dragons in tow.
He explained that he had gone out to find her some other friends, as well as a new place to live: A new place filled with more life and dragons than some lonely, empty valley. The other two dragons were also misfits in search of a true home: an albino Seawing and a twice-moonborn Nightwing. Equinox agreed to join them on their quest.
 Jormungand - She first met Jormungand when Chimera brought the Seawing along to her valley. Out of the two newcomers, she was the hardest to warm up to. Jormungand was physically intimidating, towering over her and prone to wild, potentially-harmful movements. Gradually, Equinox learned that that was just the Seawing's nature: boisterously outgoing. Their journey together proved at least one early assumption though; she was lucky to have Jormungand on her side in a fight. 
Simone - Equinox was more or less indifferent to the Nightwing's addition to the group. Especially in their first meeting, Simone tried to keep herself small. Invisible. Whenever Equinox so much as twitched, she seemed to shrink even further. In her case, it was more a matter of waiting for Simone to warm up to her than the other way around. Once she did however, Equinox grew to appreciate her more. After cutting through the apprehension, Simone had an optimistic, gung-ho aspect to her. In contrast to - or perhaps in spite of - her meek demeanor, she idolized Jormungand. Equinox was able to observe her valiant efforts at fighting, despite not being as gifted in the skill as her hero. Simone always put in her all, something Equinox could appreciate.
Oligoclase - The final member of their merry little band was acquired a bit after their formation. While the four were sneaking through Skywing territory, they passed underneath a cliff that was soon to have an unusual event. Going the way of many an abnormal dragonet was a tiny, grayish Skywing egg, tossed over the edge right above where the group was. After a bit of a mad scramble, Equinox managed to catch it. Her scales - warm at the time - seemed to be exactly what the hatchling needed, as after a bit of frenzied flying to put some distance between whoever had attempted the egg-toss, the egg hatched to reveal a tiny, drab-looking Skywing child. Jormungand named her, as she took pride in her skills in that aspect, and the dragonet was added to the group. There was virtually no time needed to accept 'Cassie', as their first encounter with her had all but impaled Equinox with a sense of fierce protectiveness.
The Icewing Queen - 
 Tarnima - Surprisingly, the Queen was rather forthcoming with information on her father. Through conversation and other gossip, she found out that her father was named Tarnima. The other information she received was stained with disdain, but after some parsing she discovered that he lived in a place known as 'The Scorpion Den', a place that may or may not have been crawling with criminals. His relationship with her mom kicked up a fuss with the Icewings, and while the Den was more or less out of the Sandwing Queen's jurisdiction, the marriage didn't rest well with the head of Tarnima's tribe either. The Den was no stranger to hybrids, but an Icewing and Sandwing one was uncomfortable to have. How the conflict was resolved is unknown to Equinox, but ultimately a war was averted and the fate of the two who started it remains nebulous.
 Blomstra - Equinox doesn't even know her mother's name. All anyone was willing to call her by was "your mother", and no amount of eavesdropping seemed to let her find out more. It was like the Icewings were trying to erase her from history.
Trivia
*Hatched on the spring Equinox, hence her name
*Her favorite gemstone - the aquamarine - is also her birthday gemstone
*The vial around her neck is the same one that Blomstra once wore
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