Luscinia

"All I ever wanted to was to be a big musician, playing my violin and singing for kings and queens with an symphony playing behind me. All anybody ever saw was a freak dragonet with a stupid dream. Why should you be any different? " 
~Luscinia
L U S C I N I A
: Coding base by Moonwatcher908, coding edits by Dotholly.
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She/her; Straight - ESFJ - Musician
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A P P E A R A N C E
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Dark as the night, Luscinia looks unlike any purebred SandWing. Though she has the body of a SandWing, her coloring is more like a Nightwing, though she has not a drop of NightWing blood in her. Her scales are a dark-off black color. Golden arrowheads that have a sort of metallic sheen to them, as if the were real gold embedded between her scales line her sides and travel down to her tail-tip. They're true scales though, just adding to her strange figure. Her wings are a deep maroon, barely distinguishable from her dark mainscales. Her sail, unlike most SandWing's, is sort of poofy, like a black cloud floated down and landed on her spine. If you look closely, you can see what looks like tiny pieces of stars that fell with the cloud. Her eyes are a golden yellow, like a field of wheat when she's happy, but when she's angry, those golden eyes get a glint in them like the sickly yellow that foretells a storm.Luscinia loves jewelry, particularly pieces that contain both gold and silver, or even diamonds. She can't afford any true precious metals, so jewelry remains just out of touch. 
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age 	6 DY
gender 	Female
orientation	Straight
tribe 	SandWing
hobbies 	Singing, practicing her many instruments,
likes 	text
dislikes 	text
family 	text
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A B I L I T I E S
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Despite her dark scales, Luscinia is a fairly normal SandWing. She has fire, though it's tinged blue. She can go for long periods of time without water, and can survive in the heat. Her dark scales radiate her, just like a regular SandWing. The only thing remarkably different about her natural abilities is affected by her scale color. She can't blend into the desert like a regular SandWing. In terms of learned skills, Luscinia as most proficient. She had lots of time on her talons after escaping the orphanage, so she took up the flute. She found this tiny flute- a glorified stick, really, and messed around with it until she learned how to play it. After acquiring a guitar, she learned how to play that as well, then violin. She taught herself to sing and harmonize, too.
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H I S T O R Y
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Luscinia was hatched under three full moons. Not that this matters, but some dragons speculate that this is why her scales look so different, but no one knows for sure. Almost as soon as she hatched, her mother decided that having dragonets wasn't all that it was cracked up to be, and deposited the squeaking dragonet in the nearest orphanage. Luscinia, unnamed back then, was taken care of by a grumpy RainWing who constantly complained and a MudWing who hated dragonets but was stuck with community service. Luscinia hated it there. When she was two years old, she ran away from the orphanage, never to return. She flew all the way to a small SandWing town called Cacti, where she lived, running amuck, for the next four years. However, a lone dragonet in a small town was bound to attract attention, and she was almost constantly running away from well-meaning dragons wanting to keep the free spirit in a cage. One day, after running away from a kind old dragon trying to coax her into her home to feed her a meal and give her a bath, she stumbled upon a small, wooden recorder. Entranced by its simple beauty, she picked it up and pressed it to her lips- and from it came a loud, ear-splitting caterwaul. She loved it. She carried that recorder everywhere she went, learning to play 'The Dragonets are Coming' among other popular tunes at the time. She fell in love with music, and after acquiring a guitar from a neighbor who no longer wanted it, she was sure: she wanted to be a musician. She busked all over the Kingdom of Sand and even ventured into the outermost towns of the Sky Kingdom. She didn't make enough money with all her music to really thrive, but dreamed of buying a violin. She pinched her pennies and when she finally saved enough for it, she bought one from a wandering SkyWing trader. She poured her soul into that old, beat up intrument. One day, while traveling, she met a SkyWing named Spinel who played the cello and an IceWing named Icecap who played the flute. The three of them decided (though it took a few months of them travelling and playing together for Luscinia to agree) to join together and create a band. Luscinia was voted to be the leader, much to her surprise, as she was the youngest there. They called themselves 'The Nightingales'. Their band wasn't very successful, but they're continuing to travel and build of their popularity.
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R E L A T I O N S H I P S
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| SPINEL.
Positive.
Luscinia is absolutely smitten to Spinel- at first she didn't like him, his big form intimidating, but slowly she fell for him. They're keeping up a dating relationship as they travel.
| ICECAP.
Positive.
Luscinia really likes Icecap. She's a runaway former First Circle IceWing with a taste for fashion and music. While Luscinia feels bad for making Icecap a major third-wheeler, she admires the quiet strength and courage beneath the IceWing's slightly haughty but ultimately kind personality.
| STARFISH.
Positive.
Luscinia and Starfish were friends at the orphanage that they were raised at. Luscinia likes his kind personality and writes to him frequently, much to Spinel's concern. 
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T R I V I A
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*Luscinia is latin for 'Nightingale'.
*Luscinia is based a little bit on Lucy Grey Baird from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
*Luscinia briefly appeared as a background character for The Lost Animus	
*Luscinia doesn't eat meat- she prefers fish, vegetables, or fruits.
*Luscinia can play the recorder, the guitar, and the violin, as well as sing.
*Luscinia's flames are tinged with blue and black.
*Luscinia isn't actually pitch black; she'd really a dark maroonish brown color.
*Icecap is blind
*Luscinia is majorly crushing on Spinel- and he crushes right back. Icecap won't let either of them hear the end of it.
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G A L L E R Y
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^For reference; by Tinytalons. Click the [Expand] below to see the gallery.
File:Luscinia by Cloud of the IceWings Transparent.png|mezepheles
File:Luscinia Spi.webp|Ailurophobia
File:LUSCINIA by JpodTM.png|JpodTM
File:Luscinia by Rambunctiousdragon.gif|RambunctiousDragon
File:Luscinia-HAL.png|Kamiano
File:Luscinia by Tinytalons.jpg|Tinytalons
File:Luscina Headshot APIF.png|base by aperegrineinflight
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