Balter

This character was created for the Aesthetic Character Contest.
▶ Lullaby -- The Lion King II (film)
▶ Room Where It Happens -- Hamilton (musical)
▶ Party -- Melanie Martinez
This character is listed as Mature Content. Read at your own discretion. These themes may be unsettling: hemophilia (blood disorder), child bleeding to death
Balter Moonlace
I wanna be in The room where it happensThe room where it happensThe room where it happens
The art of the compromiseHold your noseAnd close your eyesWe want our leadersTo save the dayBut we don't get a sayIn what they trade awayWe dream of a brand new startBut we dream in the darkFor the most partDark as a tombWhere it happensI've got to be inThe room where it happens
The Room Where It Happens (Hamilton)
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Creator
Wings-of-Bloodfire
Age
31 HY / 40 DY
Occupation
War General, unofficial leader of anti-Glory NightWings
Alignment
Chaotic Good
Mother
Silence Wispsmoke
Timeline
canon
Gender & Sexuality
 
Hatchplace
Volcano Island, Old Night Queendom
Significant Other
none
Father
Deadeye Ashinar (MIA)
Goal(s)
to usurp Glory as NightWing queen
Breed
NightWing
Residence
NightWing camp, Rain Queendom
Offspring
none
Siblings
Void Wispsmoke †
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Personality
Trait: Authoritative
War General Balter is just as stone-cold as her name. She is commanding and reigns authority, a spitfire for a sprite of a NightWing. This NightWing does not consider Glory her queen (like a majority of her tribe). She believes they should remain separate. Since Greatness is useless, Balter herself has become a reliable figurehead for the NightWings. 
Trait: Intelligent & Cunning 
The war general is strategic and cunning, preferring to know all the facts and details before taking action, a stark difference between her and other soldiers. She is mapping out every possibility with her next challenge against Glory and her chances of succeeding the rebellion.
Trait: Stubborn
She is stubborn and hard-driven, not stopping in her determination to get things done, making her a reliable leader for the rebellion against the RainWings. Balter is dedicated to her cause and will do anything to ensure the wellbeing of her tribe, no matter what.
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Skillset
Claw-to-Claw Combat
Balter was not born in a military background, so she had a disadvantage when she enrolled into military training. Having no experience, she trained by herself until she was broken and bruised and bloody, but she caught up to her comrades. She is skilled in fighting claw-to-claw, and prefers it to fire. 
Firebreath
Since she is a pureblooded NightWing, Balter can indeed breathe fire like her tribemates. She hardly uses this ability since it's too "flashy", not to mention she lives in a rainforest and could burn it all down.
Night Vision
Like all NightWings, Balter has the ability to see in the dark. She counts this as her most useful ability in her field of work. The only other tribe to see in the dark are the SeaWings, so the NightWing war force uses this to their advantage by attacking at night.
Strategy
The main reason Balter was enlisted to war general was because of her sharp skill in strategy planning. She is observant and keen, not to mention quite intelligent, and can predict probabilities of war based on intelligence and math alone.
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Backstory
Silence was Balter's mother, a lonesome dragoness with a bitter heart after her mate, Deadeye, was sent to the front lines of the war, absent from his dragonets' childhoods.
When the two eggs hatched, they hatched alone. Silence later saw that they hatched and was relieved to see her children were healthy, at least on the outside. She named her daughter Balter while watching her tumble gracelessly out of the nest. Her son was named Void, named after the void in her heart.
Silence was a busy dragoness who often left her children alone. Void and Balter would play together in their small cavern. As they got older, their roughhousing became much more real. Play went to the worst when Balter's claws sliced her brother's arm a little too harshly. 
It was only a few scratches but he wouldn't stop bleeding. Once his strength was sapped from his body, he collapsed in a pool of his own blood.
Balter could only watch as he died in front of her.
Silence came back only to see her beloved son in a pool of blood, green eyes glassy. Balter was curled around him, head burrowed in his shoulder as tears rippled down her face. Her mother could only stare in shock. She bent down, roughly moving Balter off her son. Silence gently held him in her mouth, opening her wings to fly out the den. Balter had cried out for her mother, scarlet blood staining her chest and forelegs.
She was silent as she left, leaving her dragonet there. Balter sobbed for two days, curled in the corner until there was no strength left to cry. Silence finally returned, carrying prey. Balter gratefully ate, watching while her mother only lay on the floor, head on her talons. “Mama?”
Silence blinked. “Tell me what happened,” she had demanded quietly. Her daughter broke down, sobbing in her mother's side. When she described how the blood wouldn't stop, Silence shot to her feet.
“You killed him,” she had snarled at her daughter, teeth bared. Balter stepped back. “Murderer!”
Balter tried to protest, tears streaming down her delicate face. She cried out for her mother, but Silence glared at her coldly before hissing, “I am not your mother anymore.” The dragonet watched her mother's silhouette fly away. She never saw her again.
The dragonet lived on her own, solitude shattering her kindness. She enrolled in military training as soon as she met the age requirement, wanting to do something with her life and be useful. Due to her mother abandoning her, Balter ditched her old last name and made up a new one -- “Moonlace.” She wanted to prove to her mother (and herself) that she wasn't worthless. Balter rose quickly through the academic ranks, her brain wired for strategy and puzzles. She struggled with the physical aspect, and being a young female, was not as big or strong as her fellow students. 
She practiced the moves over and over at night, claws bloodied and broken, scales bruised, but filled with determination and pride. Balter graduated military schooling, not on top, but still relatively high. The NightWing stayed in the military under General Tallfang. When he died, Balter was promoted.
When the NightWings moved to the rainforest, Greatness declined queenship. Some nominated Balter to step in due to her high military rank, but she lost to Glory. The RainWings overpowered the vote over the decreased NightWing numbers. She's bitter about it, fueling her hate for RainWings. She is the unofficial head of the NightWing tribe, giving their tribe a sense of hope that they'll break from Glory's hold.
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Relationships
Deadeye Ashinar
 
deadbeat, never met
Silence Wispsmoke
 
mama
Void Wispsmoke
 
lil brother
Renegade Tallfang
 
her general, father-figure
Glory from the Rain
 
text
Greatness from the Night
 
text
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References
balter.png|Wings-of-Bloodfire
Balter-Mezbase.png|Mezepheles (base)
Art
balter1.jpg|CopperWingz
baltergdr.JPG|GloryDaRainwing
67ED2D46-99CF-4E8E-87C3-1C5A9B4BC7F4.png|Moonmoonfoxwolf
balterheadshot.png|Soi-ke
Tearing into me, without teeth.png|Sorapaw
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Category:Characters
Category:Females
Category:NightWings
Category:Content (Wings-of-Bloodfire)
Category:LGBT+
Category:Status (Leader)
Category:Occupation (Soldier)
Category:Occupation (Government)
Category:Mature Content