Cloud (L1quid)

Cloud is a male SkyWing and L1quid's OC. He is the main protagonist of Dragon Wings, the (rough) third/final book of Pern.
==Description==
Cloud has scales in shades of orange, like the sun rising during dawn or setting during dusk, and sky-blue eyes. He is thin, due to Squall's unorthodox teaching methods.
In the LeafSilk Kingdom, he was given a pale blue scarf to look high-end, even though he is not, which he keeps with him.
==Personality==
Due to being subjected to verbal abuse by Squall and other teachers, Cloud has doubts about how others perceive him, and he commonly thinks of himself as a disappointment and not worth anyone's time. He is also nervous/twitchy because of these and other experiences.
As he journeys to Pyrrhia with Maple and Heat from Pantala, he is shown to be accepting of how others see the world, as he has never met non-SkyWings before.
==Species Adaptations==
Cloud is fireless, a rare trait among SkyWings commonly associated with defective twins. Despite this, he has exceptional flight and strength.
==Relations==
===Char===
Char is Cloud's "firescales" twin brother.
===Firmament===
Firmament is a female SkyWing and Sky's sister, making her Cloud's paternal aunt.
===Fog===
Fog is a male SkyWing and Firmament's son, making her Cloud's paternal cousin.
===Heat===
Heat is a female SandWing.
===Maple===
Maple is a female LeafWing, who is the first Pantalan dragon who has shown him kindness. He thinks of her as a good friend.
===Moss===
Moss is a female LeafWing who tends to Cloud's wounds in Dragon Soul and empathizes with him, regarding how the teachers at JMA treat him.
===Rain===
Rain is Cloud's mother and Sky's mate, making her Firmament's sister-in-law and Fog's maternal aunt.
===Ruby===
Ruby, although she is old, is the queen of the SkyWings.
===Sky===
Note: Even though this Sky shares the same name with Wings of Fire's Sky, they are different SkyWing characters from different time periods.
Sky is Cloud's father and Firmament's brother, making him Fog's uncle.
===Squall ===
Squall is a female SkyWing and Cloud's JMA professor who treats him (and other students she deems "unhonorable") like trash.
===Quill===
Quill is a male RainWing.
===Wind===
Wind is a female SkyWing dragonet.
==Trivia==
*Cloud is loosely based off of Cloud (StormWing) from L1quid's These Alien Dragons trilogy.
**If These Alien Dragons were to occur on Pern (WoF's Dragon Planet), the SkyWings would represent continent/planet Eukarya's StormWings and the main events would occur one hundred years after Wings of Fire's third/final arc (books 11-15).
**Even though Cloud in These Alien Dragons has no siblings, Cloud (SkyWing) has a "firescales" twin brother named Char, to stick to the Wings of Fire rule that firescales and fireless SkyWings are twins. 
***Cloud was made fireless to compensate for the fact that StormWings in These Alien Dragons cannot naturally fire anything from their mouths. They can, however, redirect the lightning that strikes their bodies during storms and/or fire said redirected lightning to stun or kill their enemies.
**In one draft of These Alien Dragons, Cloud (StormWing) ended up with Moss (TreeWing) as a romantic partner. This was ultimately cut out of the series, as Cloud's character would still need to grow past the events of book 3 in order for him to have a proper relationship. 
***L1quid also cut the concept out as they do not like the expectation that two characters must be in a relationship at the end of a series. There are relationships seen in the series, but they are primarily within the context of the protagonists' parents (i.e. Desert and Sirocco (Sand (HeatWing's) parents)).
**The original name of These Alien Dragons was "FeatherWings", and the original name of book 3 was "Dragon Wings" before it was changed to Shifting Stars. Cloud has been demoted from "main protagonist" to "background character" due to final changes to the protagonists.
*Cloud's appearance is a tweaked version L1quid's headcanon of Sky (SkyWing's) appearance before the release of Wings of Fire: The Flames of Hope (2022) - canon appearance (muted orange scales and pale blue eyes) and wears a blue scarf around neck.
*Cloud's theme song was originally Midnight by Coldplay (due to the lyrics and L1quid's love of the band), but was changed after L1quid attended one of the band's concert livestreams on 10/28/2022 and saw that they injected statements that L1quid disagrees with into the show's second half. After digging for a good piece, L1quid has changed Cloud's theme song to The Axe - Thom Yorke (due to the lyrics applying to his character).
==Gallery==
File:Cloud (poster, wings of fire (series)).png|Poster (coloring page from Wings of Fire: The Official Coloring Book (2022) by Brianna C. Walsh)
File:Cloud (skywing headshot base by cloud of the icewings (wikia), wings of fire (series)).png|Cloud headshot (SkyWing headshot base by Cloud of the IceWings on Wikia)
==Notes==
On 01/21/2023, Cloud's page will be kept up, despite L1quid changing their original series name from "FeatherWings" to These Alien Dragons. Furthermore, Cloud will be replaced with a different character (dragon, human, or alien) as a perspective in one of L1quid's Pern novels.
Cloud has also been changed from a protagonist to a background character in the final product.
Category:Males
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