Mantid

NOTE: Contains spoilers for my Summons story, also please don't touch
== Appearance ==
Mantid is an average sized female HiveWing, though her black marble-like eyes and her wings are oddly large and she's incredibly well muscled, but besides those oddities, she's quite unnoticeable. She's mainly an incredible dark brown color that appears black in any lighting except direct light, and her main scales are edged with pale gold. Her belly scales are the same shade the fade into a light-yellow color as they approach her tail, and her claws are jagged from constant labor but kept white through great efforts to stay clean. Her spines and horns are actually black, and the membranes of her wings are mainly clear but are tinted light greens that grow lighter as the spiral inwards. Her irises share the same color, but contain flecks of gold the float within, and when light catches them at the right angle they look like embers. 
== Personality ==
Mantid has suffered through many hardships in her life, but she remains kind, believing that others shouldn't suffer from her suffering. Though her trauma has made her reticent despite her empathetic personality, this combination has made her a quiet but approachable figure for many younger dragons throughout her life. She has seen the worst and best of people, so knowing this and her own experiences, she always tries to understand before she judges; and when she has decided on what kind of dragon you are, changing her opinion is hard, and in the case of evil and malicious dragons, she can be shockingly ruthless. Sometimes this can be surprising to others because of her mild and kind personality, so sudden acts of violence or aggression are shocking to those who know her. She also has sawdust dry humor. 
== History ==
Mantid was left as an egg at Lumina's Orphanage where they were cared for by Lumina, the SilkWing-SeaWing matron. She was both incredibly beautiful and kind, and always tried her best to provide for the children, but her outsider status did her no favors and eventually, the Orphanage was torn down and the children were either adopted or sent to apprentice at the different Hives. Mantid doesn't remember the event well, but she remembers lots of screaming and Lumina being taken away crying after hiding her and other orphans in the basement and telling them to stowaway on ships leaving for Phyrria. Mantid being one of the oldest helped the youngers run but she wasn't successful and was found. She was sent to apprentice at the outer factories of Yellowjacket Hive. The fauna and flora were incredibly dangerous, and radical LeafWing communities lingered due being so close to the Poison Jungle. This combined harsh working conditions, weather, and environment made Mantid realize the truth of her fate, but there was a silver lining to her servitude, she made a friend, Minty. Minty's explosive personality was the perfect match to her mild one, and they clicked, though they did argue quite often. Eventually, Minty and Mantid work together to scrounge enough money to escape to Phyrria, both the escape the oppressive LeafWings and Hive factories. 
== Relationships ==
=== Minty ===
* Mantid originally met an officious dragoness, that always tried to say the right thing to fit in. Minty was explosive in personality, and quick to establish her own opinion, but in reality, it hid a core of unsureness about the world around her and a kind soul. Mantid saw this after their originally bad first impression, Minty protected her from other LeafWings, her reasoning being "You're a HiveWing, but you're a Dragon too, I'm not going to let some fake LeafWing talk Sh*t like that" It made Mantid realize that Minty was just trying to reconcile the cruelty she was taught and the kindness she has. They've since become friends and Minty is now a much more confident and kinder dragoness, though she can still be a bit overwhelming. 
=== Lumina ===
* Lumina is like the mother she never had, she prays to the moons and whatever deity out there that her mom is okay, or dead, and spared the pains of whatever evils surely befallen her after the Hive took her away. Thinking about her never makes Mantid feel better, and it always manages to ignite feels of helpless rage and righteous anger, as long as a bone deep fear of sharing the same fate, though she would never tell anydragon. 
=== Kaolin ===
* Mantid thinks he's...quirky, but not necessarily bad. She's not bad but people, but she's not the best either, but she can tell that Kaolin is very, very bad. He seems to manage to get by by being endearing in his oddities, and she can't deny its efficiency because she certainly fell for it, though one is quite odd, specifically that he never seems to be surprised. He can be scared, or caught unaware, but others' actions don't seem to faze him all that much, it's quite weird. 
=== Prominence ===
* She doesn't trust Prominence, while she isn't sure whether Prominence is a good dragon or not, she knows that Prominence is dangerous, and willing to do dangerous things in order to reach her goals. So far Prominence has proven benevolent, but Mantid can recognize a killer when she sees one, and Prominence has a cadence and ideology that seems eerily similar to the Hive Management.
=== Strider ===
* Initially she thought Strider was a Duche bag, but she found that he's truly a reliable and well-meaning person, just incredibly blunt and unwilling to slow down to let other catch up. She thinks he can do with some more empathy and patience, but she understands that his upbringing has sculpted him to be a no nonsense and paranoid individual. She hopes that their friendship may allow Strider to trust someone with his burdens. 
=== Moonglade ===
* Mantid feels bad for Moonglade, she can tell that Moonglade hasn't had a good life and would like to help, but she's not sure how to. Moonglade's problems seem to extend to shadows she's not sure she can brighten, but she hopes that one day Moonglade will be able to let go of her guilt over the calamities that seem to follow her and her loved ones. 
== Trivia ==
* Mantid is just another name for Mantidae, the name one of the family that contain insects considered Mantises
* Mantid is an economic centrist, she dislikes both unrestrained Capitalism and unrestrained Socialism
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