Cloud Drop

Last Updated: February 2023
Physical Description 
Cloud Drop is a mainly dull yellow RainWing-Nightwing hybrid with a pale orange underbelly, blue side scales and pale blueish-white gemstones in their necks and arms that gradually turn into a purple color. Her spine and limbs are lined with red scales, with the scales turning into a green color towards her dark grey nose horn and grey beak. Her spine spikes are a dark red-tinted grey, shortening around her tail. Deep reddish head horns, wing claws, and scales around her eyes. Vibrant violet eyes. Wings are sparsely dotted with stars, subtly transitioning between greens. 
Backstory 
Cloud Drop was born within the RainWing's forest, with her mother, CrystalFruit, telling her that she was born underneath the moons. She started to question the validity of that, however, as Cloud Drop had yet to see the future or read minds. While still young, she would help her mother out with picking fruits, weaving, and other activities around the forest and home, as her father, Blue Gem, would help her read and write during the short times he was around. Her life was as peaceful as can be expected, filled with relaxation, food, and comfort. However, around the time she was 4, Blue Gem was increasingly disappearing for longer and longer periods of time; it worried both Cloud Drop and Crystalfruit. One day, after playing with the other RainWing dragonets, Blue Gem took her away from the RainWing Village and into the NightWing Village. Blue Gem never explained why he moved her away from their original home, and avoided any question about Crystalfruit's whereabouts. After a while, Cloud Drop had concluded Crystalfruit had gone somewhere to help as a healer.
Now living in Blue Gem's original home, Cloud Drop had found herself becoming more and more self-conscious about herself and her actions, as he would comment whenever she would leave to collect fruit or play with the other dragonets. Over years of these passive-aggressive notes, Cloud Drop had confined herself to the home, taking care to eat more meat, despite the volume of it upsetting her stomach. Although her scales were already dull, her being shut-in caused her scales to desaturate even more, at some points being grey. During this time, Blue Gem continued to leave her alone for hours to days, which Cloud Drop did take this time to expand back out into the forest to play, eat fruit, and saturate her scales again. For a while, she was fine with this, but as Blue Gem's comments and demeanor became more violent and derogatory, Cloud Drop was reaching her limit on dealing with him.
One night, after a major argument, Blue Gem stayed in his bedding the rest of the next day. Cloud Drop say this as the time to confront him, but as she got no response, she saw this as a sign to leave the home for the day, spending it hunting with the NightWings and sunbathing with the RainWings. As she returned, she noticed that Blue Gem hadn't moved from the bedding. Cloud Drop asked him again about his reasons, causing Blue Gem to reanimate from the bedding and try to bite her, just barely missing her. Seeing that he was planning to kill her, she ran from the house and into the sky, noticing that he was hot on her tail. She tried to get other NightWings to help her, seeing that her shouting was just enough to drive some out of their homes, with a few getting into the air to help; Blue Gem's violent and thrashing body and claws, however, kept them grounded as Cloud Drop continued to fly through the air and into the dense forest. Blue Gem was able to catch up with her, throwing her against the forest ground as she turned back around for the NightWing forest. Cloud Drop doesn't know if it was out of instinct or out of a conscious choice, but as she felt pinned, she spat her venom in his face, giving her enough time to get up and back into the NightWing village. While the others were checking that she was alright, Blue Gem reappeared, focused on only Cloud Drop. She consciously used her venom once more, catching his mouth and killing him in the NightWing Village for most to see.
Cloud Drop found herself to not needing to convince the village that she wasn't guilty, as many admitted to seeing how Blue Gem was acting recently and that she was being chased and harmed. Almost unanimously, they agreed to not talk about that night, burying Blue Gem in an unmarked grave, and making it a goal to make up reasons on why he was missing. However, Cloud Drop continued to feel guilty and distressed from knowing that she had killed another dragon, let alone it to be her father. After a year filled with guilt and depression, Cloud Drop left the NightWing Village during the day, traveling deeper into the Rainforest. At first, she was worried about her survival, now not having villages to get help from, but was able to find herself a safe clearing and tree to reside in, living and hunting by herself here. She would employ ways of knowing that someone was approaching, such as a tripwire that rung rocks in her house, letting her hide with ample time. 
During these years, Cloud Drop started to slowly come to terms with Blue Gem's death, clawing her way out of the hole of grief, guilt, and distress she had built. However, realizing that the villages most likely thought of her being dead herself at this point, Cloud Drop didn't make an effort to go back; she reinforced her living space and made it luxurious with plants, DIY Terrariums, and other knick-knacks. While living here, she saw a large IceWing-NightWing hybrid that did not trip her alarms, leaving Cloud Drop to make up a reason for the dragon to leave. Not working on them, the dragon in-turn offered to show Cloud Drop the rest of Pyrrhia, making her wonder if they had heard about Blue Gem and that she had left. Nonetheless, Cloud Drop took the opportunity, taking many of her items before closing up the tree to go with them.
Ever since, Cloud Drop and Galaxy traveled Pyrrhia together, frequenting the various mountain ranges and SandWing territory, helping Galaxy with getting up to no good, proposing that they should get a settled home somewhere together. During the times that Galaxy suddenly disappears, Cloud Drop spends her time preparing for her arrival with plates of fruits, meats, and any new gifts she learned how to make.
Trivia
* She inherited the NightWing's mouth bacteria, seemingly making her venom magically stronger in it's strength and allowing it to corrode inanimate objects partially.
* To this day, she is not aware about any ability to read minds or see the future.
* She's aware that Galaxy is Animus through her usage of the Cowhide and her constant disappearance and reappearance. She wonders if any of the gifts Galaxy got her were Animus-Touched.
File:D4f682204a657945d87bce252f337c5e86dd1c5e hq.jpg|September 2017 art by Cloud Drop featuring Cloud Drop
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