Rott

==Introduction==
You've always liked walking through the forest. Ever since the war, though, most of the Poison Jungle is gone, so you've ended up going farther and farther into the wilderness, towards the wing of Pantala. You've been wandering for a while when you stumble upon a clearing, wide and utterly devoid of trees. Strange statues, both of wood and stone, line the edges. Animals and dragons alike, all frozen in strange positions. A chill runs down your wings, but you step closer to get a better look. In the center of the clearing sits a dragon, slowly carving a block of wood with short, expert swipes. 
You think this strange dragon before you must be a hybrid. He looks like a Hivewing, sure - dragonfly wings twitching violently as he works, the stinger on his tail leaving deep divots in the soft dirt around him. There's something off, though, about his scales. The very tips of his horns, his spikes, are a deep green, unusual for a Hivewing, sure, but not impossible. His mainscales, though, are paler, a strange green-yellow, the color of sun-dappled leaves on a forest floor. Towards his underbelly, the scales are pure, unblemished white, almost glowing as you stare at them. It takes a moment before you notice his horns. His real horns are cracked and stained. They almost look rotted. Affixed to them, however, is a pair of pearly deer horns, bleached white from the sun. Something deep inside you shivers, and you take a step back. You have a strange feeling that this dragon - whoever, whatever, he is - is dangerous. 
Suddenly, a branch snaps underneath your claw. The dragon's head snaps towards the sound and his eerie, beetle-black eyes lock onto yours. You stand there, frozen for a moment, before you finally start to run. It's too late. The dragon lunges towards you, claws outstretched. He pins you to the ground, unnaturally sharp claws digging into your chest. On instinct, vines erupt from the ground around you, pulling this crazed dragon back. You scramble away and start to run, your heart pounding. You spare only a single glance back. The vines around the strange dragon has receded, but he just stands there, staring after you with an expression you can't read, eyes glinting in the sunlight. 
You haven't been back since. 
==Personality==
*maybe a little crazy
**doesn't mind it though
*completely disconnected from the world
*artistic soul
**never found a good way to express it
*serial murder
*uses his victims' bodies as inspiration for his next statue
*also a cannibal
==History==
Rott was born to Fluke and Cerana, two wealthy Hivewings. Before he hatched, a Silkwing servant named Vestal with a grudge stole him and took him deep into the wilderness, far away from any Hive. She rose him there, away from any other dragons, until finally a group of Hivewings found them. It wasn't too hard to connect the dots, and Vestal was killed while Rott was taken back to his real parents. He didn't take the change well and his parents pulled a few strings to get him into the Wasp Hive university to train to possibly serve in Queen Wasp's elite guard. He absolutely despised everything about it and tried several times to run away - failing each time. He took solace in one thing - every once in a while, his parents would take him to Jewel Hive for art classes. The instructor noticed he was talented and tried to convince his parents to send him to a full-time art school, but they declined and never took him again. Rott was annoyed by this, to say the least, and started sneaking away to a nearby sculptor's shop. The owner, a Hivewing named Tristis, tolerated him, but the Silkwing servant that worked there, Cerise, was the one he developed a real connection with. 
One day, as he was coming back from school, an all-Hive command was issued. He was able to avoid notice due to his strange coloring - the others thought he was a Silkwing - and managed to slip away and hide until it was over. The next time, however, he wasn't so lucky. Ironically, his father, Fluke, was the one that caught him as he was coming back from the sculptor's. Fluke stabbed him with his tail stinger, incapacitating him. That's when Cerise jumped in, using her silk to bind his wings and then proceeded to jump off the Hive. As far as he knew, they were both dead. This gave Rott just enough time to flee into the savanna, badly shaken and more than a little traumatized. 
Rott ended up travelling for days, far away from the Hives. He eventually found himself in the small forest next to the Poison Jungle, where he settled down. Cerise's death had something of a negative affect on his mind. That, along with the absolute isolation and aftereffects of Fluke's paralysis, took a toll on his mental state. When an unlucky Hivewing wandered into his little forest, accidentally destroying one of the small carvings he had been working on, he snapped and brutally murdered them. Furious over the destruction over the carving, he decided to use the Hivewing's mutilated body as a reference for his next statue. 
Over the years, he murdered several dragons, mostly Silkwings and Hivewings, though once, he caught a stray Leafwing. He's mostly content living out there and his mind has deteriorated much too far for him to ever return to a real society. In the later years of his isolation, he started to eat his victims once he was done with them, as he had hunted all the animals who lived in the area previously. Back at the Hives, especially Yellowjacket Hive, he's known as something of an urban legend, some kind of monster that haunts the forest, eating any unlucky dragon who happens to come a little too close. 
==Relationships==
====Vestal====
For the short while Vestal was alive, the two had a good relationship. Despite dragonet-napping him, she took pretty good care of him. The Hivewing guards who killed her told him that she was evil, but he never believed them and took her loss hard. 
====Fluke and Cerana====
Rott only saw his birth parents as strangers and never developed a real connection with them. He grew to hate them after they forced him to go to the Wasp Hive University, and his hatred only deepened when Fluke caught him after a full-Hive command. 
==== Cerise ====
Rott basically owes his life to the Silkwing and still mourns her death. Even before her sacrifice, they were good friends and bonded over sculpting and art. 
==Trivia==
*named after the rottnest bee
*reason for his strange coloring - genetic mutation
Category:HiveWings
Category:Males
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Characters
Category:Occupation (Criminal)