Ginger

Ginger
❤ he / they ♡ trixic ♡ matchmaker ❤
theme / general idea: really compassionate about what they do, wants to make it all work out in the end. just your average fashion-loving matchmaker who adores helping others. can't keep a relationship with someone themself, but they hope to help others with the same issues they've dealt with. a good friend of cethosia.
GINGER 	GINGER
 	
Art By 	radar
BACKGROUND 	BACKGROUND
Creator 	radar
Attribute 	compassion, nosiness, need to help others
Element 	plastic heart glasses, heart candies, golden rings, fire
Animal 	lovebug
Color 	light pink, magenta, pastel pink, light blue, red
Theme 	
CHARACTER 	CHARACTER
Age 	34 (hy)
Gender 	non-binary
Orientation	trixic
Occupation 	matchmaker, gossiper, journalist (formerly)
Tribe 	silkwing
Goal 	help everyone in need of it
Relatives 	milkweed (mother), 4 siblings
Residence 	travels mostly; mantis hive
Allies 	cethosia, milkweed, most dragons
Enemies 	difficult customers
Likes 	helping others, gossip, the color pink, trendy stuff, success
Dislikes 	failure, things not working out, difficult customers
Abilities 	normal silkwing abilities
Weapons 	glitter, literally anything
Loves 	has so many crushes
Appearance
Striding into view, a pastel pink SilkWing, short and marshmallow soft. A lover of fashion, so it seems, with compassion in their eyes. Ginger is a sight to behold, with a lively spirit and a heart of gold. In addition to their pastel pink main scales, lighter pinks go across their back and the top of their head. To put it into more detail, flat scales go down the large, disc-shaped plates of their main scales. In color, these are a light pastel pink, much lighter than their main scales. Light velvet purple half-circles mark the tips of each scale. These are encircled by two pink-tinted white lines. They also dot the tips of each of their scales in the shape of a circle. 
Along his back, following these pink scales are burnt hot pink spines. Similarly, twisting horns protrude from the back of his head, using this same coloration. Though it does add the light velvet fading at the halfway point on his horns. Antenna sprout from Ginger's forehead, though instead of knobby ends, they are shaped strangely like hearts. In color, they're pastel pink. Perched on the bridge of his snout is heart-shaped glasses with a silver brim. Though they might seem genuine, touching them once proves that they're plastic. The lens are tinted to a light magenta. 
Cream with a tint of pink runs down their chest, acting as their underbelly. This goes from their chin to the tip of their rather thick tail. A very similar color is used for their ears as well. Protruding from his shoulders are two pairs of wings, the first set bigger than the second. In similar fashion to the small scales going across their back, Ginger's wings are magenta with pink-tinted white lines. Well, in a way, anyway. The magenta at the bottom corner of their wings blossoms out and fades into a lighter velvet. The lines mentioned before streak across their wings at the halfway point. 
Ginger's build is short and tubby with soft curves and although they might look big, most of the size goes to their wings, in reality they're quite small. Someone who is quite easy to overlook in a crowd and can easily fade into the background. Though they don't seem to mind this too much, makes it much easier to spread gossip. They don't go too overboard with accessories, though they are usually seen wearing matching heart-shaped plug earrings. As well as the occasion golden bracelet studded with heart-shaped rubies. Though what they're wearing might changes daily as the fashion trends change. 
Personality
*social, enthusiastic, compassionate, and... nosy. obsessed with helping people instead of helping himself because he doesn't know how to help himself.
*hopeless romantic.
*used to have a rather rigid world-view of how love and gender was, as he was raised with traditional ideas in mind. though these ideas would often end up being bigoted and restrictive. tell them the right and wrong ways to love someone or express one's gender.
*after actually meeting people who were from this community that was said to be so bad, he fully embraced it for it made him feel... valid. these "weird" feelings of not belonging because he couldn't find himself conforming with this rigid view that he had previously believed in now giving way to a beautiful, diverse, and welcoming community that had been considered taboo and wrong.
*very determined and resilient. can get unreasonably invested in his work and is incredibly passionate about helping those who want to find love actually find it. it can be a bit... much at times.
* couldn't hold a traditional job, so he turned to more unconventional ones. hated working as a journalist despite how much it feels like it would be down his alley. keeps getting told by his mother to "get a real job," but he's been steadfast in his thinking.
*is so caught up in other people's lives that he can barely focus on his own. finds love for others... not himself. if he ever ends up in a relationship, he'd be... confused more than anything and wouldn't know what to do.
* absolutely HATES being a part of confrontation or heated argument and is an absolute pushover when he is in one. has trouble standing up for himself and his community because he doesn't want to be confrontational. wishes everyone could just chill out and have civil arguments with one another.
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One could easily describe him to be compassionate, excitable and very nosy. With a unrestrained desire to help his clients as best as he can. he strives to do his best at making them crack a smile or even laugh. How he does this is completely dependent on the client themself. Put it simply, he loves what he does, matchmaking and giving out relationship advice. Ginger wants nothing more than to help those who want to find their "other half," and perhaps one day he'll find his as well. Despite this compassion for matchmaking, whenever it doesn't work out, he doesn't quite know how to respond. Handling failure was never really his strong point.
Whenever he is to open his mouth, you know gossip about the latest trends are going to come pouring out. Other than matchmaking, Ginger adores listening in on the latest gossip, different fashion trends, and anything else floating around. Most of these he discusses with his closest friends, whom mostly share the same or at least similar hobbies to himself. The SilkWing loves trying out the "hottest" new fashion trends and while he doesn't go overboard with it, he almost does. Ginger is very peppy and extroverted. And while he likes gossiping with his small clique of close friends, he loves nothing more than to meet new people. 
They have a certain determination and patience that drives their whole job. Trying hard not to jump to conclusions too quickly and understanding their client's perspective and not just their own. This is one of the main things that excites Ginger so much. Listening to someone else's point of view is certainly interesting to them, even if they don't fully agree on it. 
Abilities
Ginger doesn't stray far from the norm, being able to spin silk from their wrists while their antenna can be used to sense vibrations in the air. Whether this is to detect danger or something else is completely up to them. Even then, they don't really make much use of these two abilities other than occasionally knit with the silk they spin. Though this isn't very often and is only used as a way to pass the time. What they mostly excel at, however, is figuring out other's secrets, learning about the most popular trends in clothing, and of course, dealing with relationships.
History
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Relationships
please roleplay beforehand (pantala only)
Milkweed
their mom... the two haven't really gotten along in the past due to conflicting world views and she seems to have not fully accepted ginger for who they truly are. still hasn't told her everything about themself... like how they're non-binary now... but they... don't know how to bring it up to her. so, whenever they talk, they just... don't bring it up and just lets her use the feminine pronouns ginger was assigned at birth, even if they hate having them used on them. thinks she wouldn't understand what a "non-binary" is or even believes she thinks that's a real thing. and they don't feel qualified enough to explain what the definition of that is and just tell her to look it up.
outside of feeling underqualified to speak on the behalf of the community they're in, a hatred of confrontation and a mother who can somehow turn everything political is the main reason they don't bring it up. milkweed also doesn't approve of their new line of work and is constantly sending them different job opportunities to replace the one she deems as "not a real job." they don't really talk to their mother and have started to become estranged from her and her antiquated, narrow-minded, and bigoted world views. it's always their mother that approaches them when they start communicating and they just don't have the guts to tell her off.
doesn't feel unsafe around her, but they feel... trapped when in her presence. forcing themself to conform to their mother's way of thinking and deal with it. saying they hate her is a strong word they'd prefer not to use when describing their feelings towards their mother. it's more so they feel like they have to mask who they truly are as to not cause conflict for simply being. they don't want to have to constantly justify and validate their own existence to someone who, frankly, they think is too stuck in their own ways to change their view.
Mixed - Possibly Negative
Cethosia
he talks with her often and the two have been friends for a long time. while he never was a part of the... community cethosia was in, the two had overlapping... ideologies and world views, something the two have vented to one another about in the past. she was one of his first clients, though he only recently managed to successfully convince her to confess her feelings towards the one who clearly returned her feelings. while both of them are non-confrontational, ginger would consider cethosia much more... capable in an argument. that is to say she actually stands up for herself and, when he is too anxious to, him as well.
the two occasionally visit jewel hive to look at the expansive market and gawk at all the expensive things the two can't afford.
Very Positive
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Trivia
*moral alignment is neutral good.
*was originally going to be a journalist who wrote about all the bad things celebrities did, but this was scrapped. though some of his original concept is still seen.
*uses both masculine and gender-neutral titles depending on which one sounds best. will only allow feminine titles for jokes and jokes alone.
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