Ship-in-a-Bottle

*remake of crystal ship, one of my oldest ocs!
*i might change her name again later? i don't know
*exists in some kind of post canon au where animus magic still exists
*also like. boats and glass and stuff exist
*a porcelain mask, enchanted to turn into a dragonet
*just wants to be a normal kid man
*btw sorry if this page changes a lot abruptly i'm still ironing out her characterization
==appearance==
A strange, almost ethereal hybrid dragonet, Ship-in-a-Bottle is primarily SeaWing in appearance; in fact, if it weren't for her lack of fins or webs between her legs and her possession of sharp IceWing spikes, she could probably pass for a purebred, as her only other obvious tells being her straight horns, her serrated horns, and her blue-colored blood. She's lithe and abnormally small for her age, with most of her fellow dragonets easily dwarfing her in height.
It's hard to tell if her pale scales would count as a blue-tinted white or a white-tinted blue, but what's less ambiguous is the bizarre glitter that shines from them, as if her entire body was carved from fine crystals, with the light shining from her striking white glowscales only making them seem more striking. Her underbelly is the same color as her glowscales, albeit lacking their luminous properties, whereas her overscales are a powdery blue. Her claws, horns, and the spikes adorning her body have the unusual property of being completely translucent, as if carved from glass.
Nobody has ever seen Ship-in-a-Bottle's face in full, for she never leaves home without her signature mask; a plain white porcelain mask with small black dots for eyes and blue circle cheeks, held on with thick leather straps. It covers the top portion of her face, covering her eyes but still leaving her bottom jaw exposed, so she can eat without having to take it off. Alongside that, her horns and floppy ears can still be seen from behind the mask. Much gossip revolves around the purpose of the mask, as Ship-in-a-Bottle is immensely overprotective of it and refuses to remove it, even when eating or sleeping. Some believe it's to hide some nasty injury or a horribly disfigured face, and others theorize she has some kind of inferiority complex regarding her face. A common snarky comment is that Ship-in-a-Bottle practically is her mask. 
That last one may be more literal then other dragons may realize. 
==personality==
*Fairly cheerful
*Creative! Loves doodling and writing
*Absolutely a weird girl™
*Is probably in whatever the dragon equivalent of the drama club is
*Rather insecure about the whole "being an animus enchantment" thing and has an absolute pathological desire to be thought of as "just a normal dragonet"
*Doesn't want other dragonets to figure out she's an animus enchantment
*Concerningly existential for a dragonet
*Really overprotective of her mask, absolutely refusing to take it off and getting furious when other dragons make fun of it, mostly because she is fully aware she is the mask
*Clingy and is often paranoid her friends will abandon her forever
*Acts lovesick and soppy whenever she has a crush
*Kind of an edgelord to be honest
*Hates it when other dragonets call her short
*Can be surprisingly sassy and good at coming up with witty comebacks
*Tends to make the weirdest and grossest snacks for herself; I'm talking meat smoothies with crushed crystal in them levels of weird
==the enchantment==
The enchantment placed on Ship-in-a-Bottle's mask was made by her IceWing father, Northern Lights, who was an animus. The enchantment was that the mask would turn whatever it was placed on into an IceWing/SeaWing dragonet, that would age and develop, both physically and mentally, like a normal dragon, and that her aging would stay consistent even if the mask was removed. The mask was also removed so it couldn't crack or shatter, to ensure nothing bad would happen to her if someone dropped the mask particularly hard. That being said, she is not immortal; she can die of injuries sustained while in her dragonet form, and can even die of old age, as Northern Lights didn't want to curse his daughter with immortality. The Ship-in-a-Bottle mask is usually placed on a stone statue of a dragon carved by her SeaWing mother, but it could also theoretically work on any inanimate object that could fit a mask over it's face, animals, scavengers, and even other dragons, although neither Ship-in-a-Bottle or her parents wish to attempt this.
==history==
*erm not super fleshed out right now but uh
*her mothers, northern lights, an animus icewing who sold weird accessories, and agnatha, a seawing statue carver, met in the town of sanctuary
*the two fell in love, eventually becoming partners
*they wanted a dragonet, but they didn't want to adopt, so northern lights came up with the whole weird compromise of ship-in-a-bottle; she was created by enchanting one of northern light's masks and using one of agnatha's statues to serve as the "host"
*ship-in-a-bottle first learned of her origins at around age 2
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