Marica

PROFILE FINISHED:
SUN AUG 21 4:05 PM
Marica is a 31 year old female SandWing who hatched in the Kingdom of Sand.
==Appearance==
Marica is a huge and brawny SandWing with an unnerving air around her.
Her rugged scales are mostly ivory, but she also has cornsilk yellow scales, Bone colored scales, and Khaki colored scales which are scattered along her whole body.
Her wing membranes are beige, and her sail is dutch white. She has eerie black eyes.
She has waves and swirls tattooed on the inner part of her wing membranes. It has been described to look like sand dunes, with sand being pushed around due to wind. It was tattooed in a darker beige compared to her wing membranes.
She has shimmering red rubies between the spaces where some of her scales overlap each other. It runs in a straight line along both her sides and stops before the last 1/3 of her tail.
She has a brown leather pouch strapped to her left upper arm which contains BrightSting cactus juice in 2 glass vial, and a few other glass vials with unknown liquid in them.
She has a black scarf around her neck, which is large enough for her to pull over her head like a hood. It's mostly kept folded in on itself when she's by herself and there are no untrustworthy dragons nearby.
She has scars, but nearly all of them have healed over.
She has four silver rings on each claw, she changes their setup sometimes.
She has one silver ring slipped over her tail barb.
== Personality ==
Marica is a secretive and cautious individual. She has a good ability to adapt to situations, even if she has to make something up on the spot. She doesn't like revealing too much about herself to strangers.
She doesn't like getting aggressive, but if it's needed, she won't back down. She dislikes being forced to talk to strangers unless it benefits her. Being forced to talk to a random dragon you've never seen before does things.
When speaking, she has a rough and deep voice, but it's not her real voice, and it's used for intimidation or to show respect. She only uses her real voice sometimes.
She cares nothing about anyone's health during anything, unless it includes hers or her family's.
She has a habit of moving her left arm a lot, whether it be speaking, or doing anything, really. Because her pouch is on her left arm, and it having glass vials, it makes a lot of noise. All the time. It's annoying, but what can anyone do about it?
==Abilities==
Marica is extremely well trained in combat. But other than that, she has normal SandWing abilities.
==Backstory==
Marica hatched somewhat close to the scorpion den, near an oasis a bit away. It wasn't a large oasis, so it wasn't that popular. Her parents Stripedtail and Maurus had been longtime residents of the scorpion den, because they knew of the dangers, they decided to live there until Marica's egg hatched so they wouldn't have to spend so much time looking behind their backs to see if she was safe.
Before Marica hatched she had two older siblings, Mammillaria was one of them, she was 5 years older than her. Cereus was her brother, and he was 3 years older than her.
When Marica did hatch, they moved back into the scorpion den, and started Marica's battle training as soon as possible. When she just barely turned one, she started her training. Her battle training was mostly done by her mother Stripedtail. However, whenever Stripedtail or Maurus couldn't, Mammilaria would instead.
Marica loved spending time with her older siblings, and they enjoyed her company too.
Her parents shared responsibility in teaching Marica everything else, like bringing her to different places to try hunting in different terrain, or bringing her to different towns to try socializing with strange dragons.
Kit hatched into the family when Marica was 8.
When Marica was 18, she had rubies implanted between her scales, and when she was 19, her parents gifted her the leather pouch she has now.
They were a normal family, although Marica always thought they had... interesting morals. It was mostly "Follow tradition most." and "Care for only yourselves and family.", until Marica was 29, nearly 30. Around the time when Thorn had been crowned as queen. Her parents were a bit stiff about the... interesting way Thorn had been confirmed queen with the eye of onyx and all that. They thought that tradition would be followed and pure blood royals would prevail, so they couldn't help but want someone else to be queen. 
It's been a while, and her family has mostly accepted Thorn as queen. But Marica isn't so convinced yet. She disappeared from the scorpion den a while ago, and her family is worried, and confused. 
She currently works with an organization which plans on bringing Thorn's reign down. 
==Relationships==
=== Stripedtail ===
Marica has a positive relationship with Stripedtail, after all, Marica has looked up to Stripedtail her whole life. Stripedtail taught Marica how to defend herself. She doesn't believe that their relationship seems more like a teacher to a student.
=== Maurus ===
Marica has a postive relationship with Maurus. Maurus was a key part in helping Marica learn how to talk(at least try) to different dragons, and learn key body languages they use to communicate feelings.
=== Cereus ===
Marica has a neutral-positive relationship with Cereus, it's not that Marica dislikes him. It's just that they were never too close, and Cereus only interacted with Marica when Mammillaria, Maurus, or Stripedtail couldn't train with Marica. But Marica trusts him well enough.
=== Kit ===
Marica has a positive relationship with Kit. Marica thinks Kit is an adorable little brother. Marica uses her normal voice around Kit.
=== Mammillaria ===
Marica has a positive relationship with Mammillaria. Mammillaria had a positive attitude when talking or interacting with Marica, so they grew up close.
==Quotes==
"This... I don't think I can accept Thorn as queen."
- To Mammillaria about Thorn as queen
==Family tree==
Marica's family tree
==Trivia==
- The other glass vials that aren't BrightSting cactus juice are different poisons that Marica wanted to test to see how well it could be hidden in food and how long it would take to act.
- If Marica's actions were caught, she would be charged with conspiring against the queen.
==Gallery==
File:Marica.png|Marica w/ accessories no extra shading
File:Maricanoaccessories.png|Marica no accessories + no extra shading
File:Maricaextrashading.png|Marica w/ extra shading + w/ acc
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