Silvana

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Owned by BronzeRattle
Major spoilers for Ice on the Horizon!
Silvana was a 3 year-old IceWing-RainWing hybrid introduced in "Scales". Known for her unusually restrictive color-shifting scales and fiery temper, she lived in the RainWing village with her father Terrace before being subjugated by the IceWing Hybrid Hunters in prison, losing her ability to fly in the process. She managed to escape and was on the run with Mooseblight until she was killed by Ecru at the Outlook.
== Description ==
"You're a bold dragonet for your age, although I say you need more fatty walruses to eat. You're very skinny."
:—Cornmeal to Silvana, Ice on the Horizon
Silvana was a pale pink skinny dragon. Resembling a small IceWing, she featured pointed scales typical of one, bergundy sclera, and a red forked tongue. As a result of being part RainWing, she had larger rounded back scales, much shorter spines down her neck and back, lengthy legs, and a long slender but spineless tail. A small frill was evident behind her head. Two long fangs were visible in the front when she opened her mouth. Silvana had red blood.
Her scales could change color according to her emotions and environment. After being attacked by IceWings, Silvana had many small scratches and a tattered, scarred left wing that hung lower than her right, rendering her flightless to her death.
== History ==
=== Backstory ===
Terrace and Civic, a male and female RainWing, became good partners in the Rainforest Kingdom. After Civic laid her egg, she confessed that she had an assignment out of the kingdom and would not see Terrace for some time. Fast forward to the dragonet hatching. Terrace decided to name her Silvana as one of the names Civic had suggested.
Silvana discovered pretty quickly that her scales weren't very receptive to changing colors and quickly grew to resent them. She was ridiculed for them, being unable to play games, and usually found herself alone.
When she eventually told Terrace, he suggested to instead work on her venom and sleep more throughout the day. Silvana took the former option, training with a mentor named Passionfruit. She had a natural affinity for this and developed a deadly accuracy for venom-spitting even while diving. It was the only thing she was really good at, and it wasn't uncommon to find her aiming at random targets in the lonely parts of the rainforest as a way to channel out her anger. She hated suntime and was known to rarely do it.
=== Scales ===
At three and a half years old, Terrace took her out soaring to discuss her scale issue as they frequently did. Silvana confessed that she was more interested in fighting than figuring it out, to which Terrace stated she was just like her mother. She pressed him for more information. He explained her name, her own scale quirk of changing color according to the time of day, and that she was a dangerous yet smart foe.
Their conversation was cut short when Silvana noted a group of "RainWings" flying their way, calling them healers. Terrace recognized them as dangerous IceWings and forced her into hiding in the forest below. After a distraction by Terrace, she attempted to escape and was caught by the group, who introduced themselves as part of the Hybrid Hunters. She was knocked out and came to light in the Ice Kingdom. Silvana was introduced to their leader Ecru, who got to know her a little, before being taken to Queen Cumulus to decide what to do with her. Realizing her predicament, she managed to slip out her restraints using her tail, fighting a guard soon afterwards. In the fight, the guard slashed through her left wing, sending Silvana in a whirl of pain. She was finally detained by Queen Cumulus, who destroyed her wing further and promised to rip both out later. The hybrid was placed in the deepest dungeon.
=== Ice on the Horizon ===
Silvana was directly across the only other prisoner: A pale blue dragon who was reportedly Cumulus's "most horrible prisoner". The following morning, she and the prisoner were taken out of their cells. They were forced to fight in an arena after being released from their restraints. Silvana eagerly tried to attack, but couldn't get a hold of him. He undid her muzzle as he clobbered her, allowing the hybrid enough time to spray venom at Queen Cumulus sitting ahead of them.
She was carried along. The prisoner formally introduced himself as Mooseblight and proceeded to know each other as they wandered in the woods. All was good until he attempted to drag her to safety in the wake of every unfamiliar noise, which annoyed her and started a dispute about the overprotectiveness.
Their argument was abruptly cut by the arrival of a huge IceWing named Cornmeal chewing them out for interrupting his lessons. Mooseblight convinced him to take them to blend in and for food. Silvana was taken separately to address her vegetarian diet.
In reality, he revealed himself as a SandWing-IceWing hybrid. He told her not to trust Mooseblight in any circumstances since all he would do is try to control her. Cornmeal took her to the hill (Outlook) he and his sister often sat on, and they both fell asleep as the sun began to sink in the sky. When Mooseblight found them hours later, he woke her up and attempted to explain to her that Cornmeal was an evil hybrid taking her to die, but she refused to listen and threatened him to tell her his real intentions.
Mooseblight narrowly avoided telling her by waking up Cornmeal, who then cornered him for arresting. Ecru suddenly showed up, much to Silvana's fright, clarifying that she was Cornmeal's sister. The pink hybrid, in a desperate attempt to save herself from being captured, lunged at Ecru. Ecru retaliated by stabbing her in the stomach with her barb and flinging her off the Outlook, dead.
=== In Death, Sunshine ===
Silvana was briefly mentioned by Mooseblight to Lion to have been killed by him.
== Personality ==
"Then I found out only yesterday that I'm an IceWing! A hybrid! And now I hate myself because my IceWing-ness means I can't change colors properly and my RainWing-ness means I'm too pink to be an IceWing! WHY?"
:—To Mooseblight, Ice on the Horizon
To say Silvana hated herself is an understatement. She was always angry at the fact she couldn't properly shift colors. Even mentioning them could make her strike at the offending dragon. She was very predisposed to violence, something that frightened her father Terrace. Silvana was superb at aiming her venom.
She was known to be aggressively vegetarian, both in a stubborn sense and in a literal one as well, displayed when she attacked Cornmeal for suggesting to eat walruses. She was not well educated on tribes due to Terrace's unwillingness to teach her them, calling IceWings "spiky RainWings".
In the Ice Kingdom, Silvana did what she could to survive. She didn't bother to go by Mooseblight's offer for peace in Queen Cumulus's arena. The hybrid was completedly fine with using venom against dragons. She was internally pained from all the fear she had of the unfamiliar Ice Kingdom and the physical injury inflicted on her wing. Her discovery of being a hybrid hurt her even more, now citing herself as useless and a disaster that couldn't fit in both tribes. She was extraordinarily brash.
In her fear, she trusted Cornmeal and no one else. When she found out she was betrayed, she was extremely quick to prevent her recapture, ultimately causing her demise.
== Abilities ==
=== RainWing venom ===
Silvana was feared for the venom she can eject from her front teeth. Being a 3-ish year-old dragonet, it was extremely painful to be hit by but almost never lethal by itself. What made it dangerous was the unusual amount of propulsion which allowed it to be fired in an incredibly straight arc for greatly increased range and accurary, far superior to any normal RainWing venom. When combined with her skilled venom training, no enemy was safe from being hit.
Oddly, it didn't freeze in sub-zero temperatures, although it hardened on a surface roughly 5 seconds after it's fired regardless of temperature. This only occurred if there wasn't enough moisture on the object for it to stay at a liquid state, such as tree bark.
Like RainWings, she requires the sun to produce venom. Silvana didn't often rest for suntime, so her venom production was slow and rarely at capacity due to her frequent training.
=== Color-shifting scales ===
Among the RainWings, Silvana was well known for her bizarre scale mechanics. Her palette was largely limited to light tints and relied on high moisture to change color to her emotions. Stronger emotions or automatic instinctual camouflage (most prominently when asleep or startled) allowed her to have a greater range of colors and bypassed the moisture requirement. She was unable to willingly match a color, but could match a dragon's colors if they were lecturing her, unwillingly. This mostly occurred with Terrace.
Fear was known to keep her scales at a solid green color and prevent her from shifting until she calmed down.
Her scales were too large to camouflage very convincingly. In other words, it might trick the average dragon from afar, but definitely not other RainWings.
=== Tail ===
Silvana's tail was very long in comparison to her body, yet short for RainWing standards, and strongly prehensible. She used her tail largely for scaling trees. In fighting situations, she took advantage of its light weight and narrow length to lash out like bullwhip to inflict lacerations for both defense and offense. Her tail could be used to grab onto an enemy and vault herself over, although this can and has been used against her.
Its narrow tip was used to pry apart tied ropes once.
== Relations ==
Note: Relations with other user's characters is not canon in Bronze's AU to avoid situations with canonicity.
=== Civic ===
Silvana's mother. She knows little about her because Terrace never really talked about her. When Terrace told her that Civic also had strange scales, Silvana thought her mother would be the only dragon to understand her. Finding Civic was her goal after escaping the dungeons for the truth.
=== Cornmeal ===
Silvana took Cornmeal as a trustworthy adult figure when he took her to the Outlook and to get her fed. Her thoughts of him did a complete 180 when she realized he was working with Ecru to actually capture her.
=== Cumulus ===
It's unknown what her opinion of Queen Cumulus is, but it likely isn't very good considering that the IceWing threatened to tear off her wings after her escape attempt. Silvana appears to take her word for things.
=== Ecru ===
Silvana actually fears Ecru because she was the one who ensured her capture and explained that the IceWings would kill her. She turned pea green in response to her arrival at the Outlook. Ultimately, Ecru ended up killing her.
=== Mooseblight ===
"You're an idiot! You just can't admit it after all!"
:—To Mooseblight, Ice on the Horizon
At first Silvana treated him like a foe when they were pitted against each other. Once he rescued her, she began to gradually trust him until he drove her nuts by hiding at every sound he interpreted as a threat. Under Cornmeal's custody she was taught that he only wanted to manipulate her for his own benefit, leading to a nasty confrontation and loss of trust when Mooseblight located her.
=== Terrace ===
Silvana's father. She saw him as dated and ineffective and was tired of listening to him about her scales. However, she did care about him enough to try to defend him after he was attacked by the Hybrid Hunters.
== Quotes ==
Quotes that detail Silvana's character.
"I don't want to do that. I don't want to waste my days napping and eating bananas. I want to fight!"
:—To Terrace after he suggested more training to make her scales respond, "Scales"
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"Queen Cumulus said you ate IceWings for breakfast."
:—First sentence to Mooseblight, Ice on the Horizon
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"I'm a vegetarian you brat!"
:—Immediately before scratching Cornmeal, Ice on the Horizon
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"No! You won't take me!"
:—Final sentence, Ice on the Horizon
== Gallery ==
=== References ===
==== Current ====
SilvanaReferenceHurtNoGore.png|Ditto but without gore
SilvanaReferenceHurtFlat.png|No gore or shading
SilvanaReference.png|Pre-injury Silvana
SilvanaReferenceFlat.png|No injuries or shading
SilvanaReferenceNoWings.png|Without wings to detail back and belly
SilvanaReferenceNoWingsFlat.png|No wings or shading
SilvanaRefPal.png|The palette used for these references
==== Old ====
SilvanaOutstretchedTraditional.jpg|Silvana standing on her hind legs. This was done as a test to see how large her wings (or wing in this case) should be in future sketches.
SilvanaFullbodyTraditional.jpg|Silvana fullbody with iffy proportions, mostly to readjust the head.
SilvanaFull.jpg|The first sketch of Silvana. She was deliberately drawn without wings here, which is something I very rarely do, partially because of a lack of space on the paper but also to get a feel for the body.
=== Other ===
Non-reference work, old art, etc.
SilvanaHeadRedesign.jpg|I never liked Silvana's head design and actually drew quite a few concepts to fix that. This was the one I was pleased with and referenced it (with some adjustment) for the current fullbody drawing.
SilvanaHeadRedesignFront.jpg|Testing to see how it should be drawn from the front
SilvanaConcepts.jpg|Some fullbody and head redesign ideas
SilvanaHeadshotOldSide.jpg|Headshot on a planning page for a tribe
SilvanaHeadshotOld.png|First coloring of Silvana
SilvanaHeadshotOldUnhurt.png|Ditto but no gore
== Trivia ==
* Silvana is named after a strawberry breed, although it is also the species name of various types of orchids.
** Silvana was actually supposed to be named after Soleanna, a place in Sonic '06, but I misremebered the name and only realized it after I finalized it.
* The basic concept of her scales and Silvana's annoyance with them originates from a failed writing prompt, which was then expanded into "Scales".
* Chronologically by fanfiction date, she is the first and youngest named character to die.
* Some traits of Silvana echo those of Montana who was formerly a dragonsona.
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