Invention

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== Appearance ==
Invention is not very big or strong. She's a small, thin little dragonet, with suprisingly large wings for her age, and medium-length horns and tail. Although she's mostly thing, she has a very round face, which usually makes adult dragons squeal and go on about how "adorable" she is. This annoys Invention. A lot.
Her scales are the color of a thunderstorm, swirls of gray and silver inside a sea of black, with dots of dark blue and green speckled throughout like flower petals on the wind. 
Her talons are always dull and covered in gray and brown dust. She likes to make up stories about how it's because she was fighting off some monster or defending her home bravely, but everyone knows it's because she was working on yet another unfinished project.
She always wears a belt, on which she's clipped little bits and bots, parts of various things she took apart, little plants and rocks she found interesting, half finished inventions, random pieces of scrap metal, and who knows what else. If you grab something at random from Invention's belt, you are almost guaranteed to find something interesting.
Her scales are also scraped up and bruised, probably because she's always getting things stuck in them and then being "too busy" to pry it out afterwards. So she's always rather dirty and scraped up, and usually stays that way until one of her parents forces her to clean her scales.
Tied around one of her claws is a little bag, a scroll-bag, which she firmly insists that she invented, even though something very similar to it already exists. She usually has at least two scrolls in there, with another one in her talons. 
Her large wings are speckled with starry scales, and because they grew before the rest of her, they can make her off-balance, and she has trouble flying with them.
She's not the most noticeable dragons, aside from her odd attire. In fact, she's actually pretty average. If it wasn't for the belt and the scrolls, you'd probably never pick her out in a crowd. But she's okay with that. 
She doesn't like a lot of attention on her anyway.
== Personality ==
Invention wouldn't seem odd. If you saw her in a crowd and waved, she'd probably smile at you, say hi, and then go on her way, her nose stuck into a scroll. She'd seem like a perfectly normal, pleasant dragon. 
But there's a lot more to Invention then that, although she usually doesn't show her true self to anyone but her parents(because she's around them so much) and her close friends. 
Invention has a very over-active imagination. She loves making up stories, whether in her head, or written down. She also has a ton of ideas, and will sometimes spend hours just babbling them at her friends, not caring whether they actually understand what she's talking about.
She's also very empathetic, which can sometiimes hurt her when she starts getting emotional over a baby bird. Her room is covered in all the small animals she's managed to smuggle in and try to help. She usually ends up making a story about them afterwards, and in fact has a whole journal filled with her animal stories.
Because of how empathetic she is, she often wants to help others, which was why she decided that she wanted to be an inventor, because she could help her tribe, and make cool things as well. She often feels disappointed and angry at herself when an invention fails, because she feels as though she's let down all the dragons counting on her.
Invention is a self-confessed perfectionist and loathes getting things wrong, especially when it's something that she feels like she should know already. She also doesn't like getting things wrong and then finally getting them right, although she prefers that to never figuring it out. She really just wishes she could do everything perfectly with no effort, but she knows how ridiculous that sounds.
Although Invention is a perfectionist, she doesn't particularly like others pointing it out, especially when it comes in the form of a lecture about how "mistakes are how we learn." She especially hates those. She knows that everyone makes mistakes, but that doesn't mean she has to like them. 
She has a lot of anxiety, which probably has something to do with her over-active imagination, since she can imagine all the possible scenarios that could go wrong. Specifically, her anxiety is often "catastrophizing," where she blows a relatively small problem way out of proportion. She doesn't like it when people call it overreacting though, because it doesn't feel like overreacting to her, it's just how she feels.
Invention needs things to make sense, and spends a lot of time picking things apart to figure out how that works, as well as pointing out the flaws in logic in scrolls, stories that she's told, as well as other dragons. This does not make her a ton of friends, as dragons are often telling her that she's "too negative" and her parents are getting really tired of picking up the pieces of old machines that she leaves lying around her room. 
She's an introvert, which means she needs her space, and she can get really annoyed when other dragons barge in on her while she's having her alone time. Sometimes she'll snap at them, and then later feel bad about it and apologize about twenty million times, while the other dragon keeps telling her that it's really alright. 
She loves debating, as its basically picking apart other people's logic, except in a setting where she's allowed to do it, and no one will get mad at her. However, most of the dragons she knows don't want to argue with her, so she'll try to argue against everything they say, even when she actually agrees with it. This also generally makes people annoyed at her. She doesn't understand it when they say that she's trying to argue. They say it like it's a bad thing, but that is what she's trying to do. She wants to argue with them! Why is that so wrong? 
Invention doesn't have a lot of patience, which is probably why she has so many unfinished project lying around. Since she has so many ideas, if she gets frustarated or bored with one, she just moves on to the next one. She knows she'll never be a real writer that way, but she hates working at something when she stops feeling inspiration for it. It's boring and tiring, like clawing through rock or chasing after those slippery little fish in the rainforest pond. 
She likes being in control of things, and when she gets nervous, she'll often try to grab what others are doing and do it herself, or to take control of a group. This can make other dragons think she's bossy, but she's really not, she just hates it when dragons are doing things wrong, and wants to correct their mistakes. She did actually grab someone's pencil out of their hand once. She got in big trouble with the teacher, so she tried to restrain herself next time she saw that dragon misspelling words. 
== Abilities ==
Invention doesn't have any special natural abilites, but she does have some unique skills. She's not very strong, or very good at fighting, probably because any time she actually manages to hit the dragon, she'll rush in, shouting, "Oh three moons I'm so sorry!" and start trying to heal their wound. 
She's actually quite good at healing, and could probably be a doctor someday if she wanted too, although the few times she tried, she found it rather boring. She can also only heal small wounds, because if there's too much blood, she freaks out and has to close her eyes and take deep breaths. 
She's not a very good artist, althought that doesn't stop her from trying, failing, smashing her project in a fit of rage, and then trying again. She's not very fast, and bumps into things a lot when she tries. However, there are a few things that Invention is really good at.
For one thing, she has an exceptionally good memory. Although she can't really choose what she remembers and what she doesn't, if her brain decides to remember some random tidbit in history class, she'll always remember it, even years later.
She's also a good writer, although, because of her lack of patience, she usually doesn't finish her stories, unless they are particularly short. She has a lot of ideas, and enjoys brainstorming, just shooting ideas back and forth with someone, coming up with something fresh and new and exciting. She always feels reinvigorating after brainstorming with someone. 
She's a decent singer, although she doesn't like singing on her own. She doesn't have a fear of public speaking when she's with other people, but she doesn't like being on a stage on her own, with all those eyes watching her. She doesn't know if it's stage fright so much as it is fear that others will judge her, that they'll hate her work. 
She can be impulsive sometimes, although she almost always regrets it later. She's usually too nervous to do anything, especially when around new people, but it does slip out occasionally. Probably the most infamous example was when she ran up to a mindreading dragon and knocked them to the ground while asking them what the dragons in the room were thinking. It had taken some fast talking to keep the guards from arresting her. 
== History ==
Invention's father was an explorer, and his favorite thing to explore was the old NightWing volcano. Her mother never joined him, as she was busy, working as the NightWing ambassador to Queen Glory. Basically, she told Glory what was happening in the NIghtWing village. As well as doing that, she also caught the food and got things ready around the house when Invention's father was away exploring. Shadowbiter, Invention's mother, wasn't a very good cook. Charred was a lot better, but since he was always away gathering artifacts, she didn't really have much of a choice but to do the cooking. 
When Shadowbiter found out she was with egg, she asked Charred to stop going on the expeditions. There had been reports that the old volcano might erupt again soon, and all museum workers were ordered to stop gathering artifacts from there for the time being. But Charred, being the stubborn dragon that he was, insisted on keeping going. 
He came back with burns covering his face. 
He survived, but he was never quite the same. He quit his job at the museum to take care of Invention, and although at first it seemed like he had done it out of resentment, it turned out that it was because he was worried that something might happen to his daughter like what had happened to him.
Charred loved Invention more then anything, and she loved him too. She grew up on his cooking and his smiles and his songs. He loved her, but he was also very overprotective, and more then a little paranoid. He didn't even get her glasses until she was one and a half, even though she clearly needed them earlier, because he thought the glasses owner might be a spy from another tribe. (He was not. He was a perfectly normal, pleasant dragon.)
Charred's paranoid attitude got on Invention's nerves more then a few times. She could take care of herself. She was already a year old! And besides, it wasn't like she was going to climb a twenty foot tall tree or something. She just wanted to walk around outside without someone holding her talon the whole time. 
Since Charred refused to let her go outside for herself, Invention began to fall into a routine. She would sneak out at night, feel incredibly guilty about it... and then do it again. Rinse and repeat. Almost every night.
She didn't get a lot of sleep, but she didn't really mind. It was so nice outside, especially when she was allowed to wander farther, and could go wherever she pleased, without someone pulling her away. 
At first she just wandered around the town, the way she normally did with Charred, and then one day, she decided to explore the woods. She waited until she was certain Charred and Shadowbiter were asleep, and then she climbed out the window and into the woods.
That first night was like a dream. The fresh night air smelled so good, and it was full of the scent of fresh growing things. Leaves and sticks crunched underneath her talons, and every so often a sharp stone would poke her, but she even smiled when that happened, because it could happen, without someone rushing to clear all the debris out of her way, or pulling her to a safer, more boring spot.
Sure, it made her nervous. She'd jump at every loose sound, wonder if branches were going to fall onto her head, and occasionally almost get her scales pecked off by an annoyed owl that she got just a little too close too. Doing all these things scared and worried her, no doubt. That was just part of the fun of having anxiety. But she enjoyed it anyway, despite how much it worried her. So she kept doing it. 
She wanted to tell someone about all the things she had seen, but she couldn't, due to the "sneaking out in secret part." So, she began to keep a journal. She'd learned how to read and write earlier then most dragonets, so she knew how to write in the journal. 
Her life continued in such a way until she turned two. The age when all NightWings had to start school. 
Invention didn't like school very much. Some of the classes were too easy, while others were too hard, but none of them were very intesting. Her parents couldn't understand why she kept getting bad grades in her classes, because whenever they quizzed her on language arts, she seemed to understand everything just fine.
Her parents told Invention that they were dissapointed in her for not trying, and she hated the feeling that gave her. So she vowed to try as hard as could from now on. Although she'd always been a perfectionist, this was when she especially started to hate ever making mistakes.
Three was an important age for Invention, as two life-changing events happened. She signed up for Inventing Class, and she got kidnapped.
Invention had really only signed up for Inventing because everyone expected her too(her name was Invention, after all) but she found out that she actually really enjoyed it. She'd spend hours in her room each day practicing, and although she still wasn't the best at it, she loved doing it anyway.
The kidnapping thing took a little longer to pan out as a good thing, but it did eventually lead to Invention making her first true friends, even if it also scared her out of her mind.
== Relationships ==
=== Moonlight ===
Moonlight is agender and usually uses they/them pronouns, although they don't really care what pronouns people use. They are friendly, calm, and rather sarcastic, often getting annoyed by their much less level-headed friends. They are often the voice of reason among their friend group. 
=== Siren ===
Invention met Siren when she went on a trip to Luster, the capital of storytelling in the Sea Kingdom.
== Trivia ==
* Invention is my dragonsona.
*Invention lives fifty years after canon.
*She believes that scavengers are intellegent, but thinks that scavengers and dragons should just live seperately, and those that want to interact can without all these "learning to understand each other" programs and learning to speak Scavenger in school.
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