Lute

“obsessed, pah. i'm not obsessed. they're always saying that. they're always saying that i'm obsessed with music. in which i'm not...”
~ Lute
Lute
she / they • violinist • lesbian
now that existence is on the wakelet's see what we can make...
Most know of Lute, the lucky ones who got to know her are countless, although she was known to be incredibly strict, arrogant and somewhat overly confident in her leadership skills, it's still lucky to have known her. Now she exists as a ghost simply haunting the hives, playing melodies everywhere she goes. Although she doesn't seem to do live concerts anymore, she was never really fond of them anyway. Being popular wasn't exactly what she had in mind for just playing a violin and having dreams of music.
Hatched to upper class cartographers who were carefree and laid back by nature, you'd expect her to become much like them, chill, easy going, not completely arrogant and high in standards. After finding her calling of music, it quickly became her obsession (in which she objects that she isn't obsessed with it). In which she unintentionally became a celebrity by just playing a violin her parents gave her all the time in public. The encouragement she was given made begin to love music even more.
Growing older, Lute started directing an orchestra that would perform now and then in various hives, usually sticking to Wasp Hive for its population. And now and then, she'd perform solo herself, wowing crowds, although she does this more for her own entertainment than her audience's. But they don't seem to mind at all, for they simply sit there and listen to the melancholy melodies of Lute's music. In death, she continues her works, although not in public as she once did.
Lute 	Lute
 	
Art By 	radar
Background Information	Background Information
Asethetic 	cities at night, violins, conducting batons, sheet music
Creator 	radar
Attribute 	disappointment, envy, superiority, perfectionism, judgement
Element 	violin strings, wood, electricity
Color 	purple, silver, dark purple
Animal 	unicorn
MBTI 	istj-a
Character Information 	Character Information
Nicknames 	lulu (sardonyx)
Age 	43 (hy)
Gender 	demigirl
Orientation 	aroace lesbian
Occupation 	violist, lutist, orchestra conductor (formerly)
Tribe 	hivewing
Residence 	wasp hive, travels
Allies 	herself
Enemies 	pretty much everyone
Likes 	flowers, obedience, orchestras, perfection, professionalism, her violin, playing music, formal parties, herself
Dislikes 	performance slipping, errors, dragonets, itchy clothing, sardonyx, rowdiness, cowardice, jokes
Abilities 	normal hivewing abilities, incredibly talented violinist
Weapons 	words, tail barb
Loves 	does a celebrity crush count?
Appearance
Everyone has heard of Lute, the strict orchestra director and violinist who once lived on Pantala. Although it is said that she has gone to Pyrrhia at some point. Those who remember her only describe her in one word, intimidating. Light purples flow across gently laid down plates, seen as main scales. Her entire palette is just multiple shades of purples blended together. Out popped a unique HiveWing with amazing violin skills. Always she was humming a tune, lyricless or not, it was always to be heard from her.
The only thing she ever loved in her life, music, her pure obsession that she'd die for. Dark purple spines run down her back, long and thin, whilst the horns protruding from the back of her head are curvy. Not just that, but pastelish purple in color, with withered roses with dark purple petals wrapped around them. The vines, a dark purple so dark that it is almost black in color. This same pattern is found on the long horn protruding from her forehead.
Music note patterns of the same color as her horns can be found all over her body. Two of them on her ears, one around her nose and another at the bridge of her snout along with lining her back. They also seem to sprout up from her legs and on every plate of her underbelly. Speaking of which, Lute's underbelly is a dark purple, a bit darker in shade to the color filling her spines. A shade of eggplant purple runs down the flat scales upon her legs.
Lute's build remains tall and only slightly chubby with judgmental pastel purple eyes that are narrowed to slits. A disapproving scowl splaying her snout. Her tail, delicate and long with a dark purple barb like all HiveWings. Four wings, long and buggish, spread out on either side of her back, membranes transparent. Like stained glass, they mix with colors of light purples or darkish purples. Two earrings clip into her largish ears. One thicker than the other. But both are a dark purple similar in color to the rose's vines.
A nose horns perches itself at the end of her short and delicate snout, as though looking over a cliff. In color, it is same as the rest of the spines running down her back. Dark purple, lighter than her underbelly is color but darker than her main scales. At touch, her scales remain smooth, almost soft and cold. Like a flower petal almost. Although Lute's voice is strict, the smoothness of her scales makes up for it. It is still highly unlikely she'd let anyone touch her, though. 
Mixtures of floral scents drift off from her soft scales and fill the air around her. Rose, lilac and other various flowers. Of course, now that she's a ghost, the only scent given off is nothing. Although her purple scales are now slightly transparent. A look of disappointment now pierces her snout just like it used to. 
Personality
*mean, older woman who is intimidating archetype. she is NOT kind and that should be apparent from the very first time you meet her.
*blunt, judgemental, and very serious. has a really hard time separating professional and casual settings, so she tends to just... act like she's always on duty. doesn't know how be "casual."
*hates jokes, unless it's dark humor, which she likes. just make sure you don't make too many jokes.
*hates people who aren't serious or professional or are rowdy in any way. also finds talkative people to be emotionally draining to interact with.
*she's a very private, quiet individual who prefers to speak through her work rather than her voice. prefers people who are just... quiet and not chatty.
*egotistical and arrogant. thinks highly of herself and her abilities. is also very condescending because of how skilled she is. thinks no one who isn't as good as her or better deserves overwhelming praise or attention. especially doesn't respect many in the talk show space because of sardonyx, someone she hates.
*has a chip on her shoulder. still doesn't justify how much of a jerk she is to others.
*has high standards and while she isn't very patient with other people internally, she knows she just... has to deal with it in order to keep them obedient. still has a commanding air to her that demands respect.
* closed off and keeps her feelings to herself. isn't very emotional... at least in public. she keeps her composure and doesn't let those pesky emotions get the better of her when on the job.
* perfectionist. also is constantly trying to prove to herself that she's better than others. is prone to comparing her performances to others and gets envious and bitter when others get more praise than her. the only exception is if the person who is receiving more praise than her is someone she respects or admires.
*gets a lot more awkward and shy around the very few she either looks up to, admires, or respects. this is the only time she ever seems less confident in herself. self-destructs if she makes a fool of herself in front of them, has a bad first impression, or if the conversation sours. at that point she becomes too anxious to even look at them and will refuse to interact with them in any way, whether that be attending their concerts or actually interacting with them face-to-face.
*self-reliant. if someone can't do something, she'll do it herself because she can trust herself to do things.
*very passionate about music and has found it to be her emotional outlet as a means of getting her feelings out. enjoys playing both the violin and lute, though she is better at the violin. has been seen being enamored or straight up entranced by orchestras.
*seems to care a lot about how other people think of her. or, at least, how the public perceives her. most of the people she worked with... didn't like her because of her high standards, bluntness, and arrogance. but the public seems to like her... if not only because she doesn't talk to them.
*tends to judge people by their cover. if someone has an annoying personality trait, she will hate them.
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----Known throughout time to be strict, lacking of emotion and easy to disappoint due to high standards. That is until her death, which no one knows how it occurred, it just did. Up until her death, she was always said to be "literally obsessed with music." Although she'd refuse to believe that herself saying that she had other hobbies. It seemed as though music was the only thing she really talked about, it became her whole life career. She wouldn't go anywhere without it and it corrupted her mind.
Lute had complete confidence in her leadership skills, she had to in order to lead the orchestras that played. Whenever someone was in need of a leader, she'd always push her way into being one. Yet one of her biggest flaws was getting too cocky, too overconfident. And then letting that destroy the entire team when she leaves them for dead. Something she usually does when something or someone is a lost cause, because she has no time to wait around for their end.
She can be a bit snooty at times, thoroughly arrogant and sometimes just plain rude. And she has no regrets about it. Like mentioned, Lute is incredibly easy to disappoint, for she has high standards. "I only do the things that are perfect." She'd say, attempting to make everything in her wake perfect. The HiveWing seems unable to recognize that it's physically and mentally impossible to be perfect. She ignores those of course, because she wants everything to be just the way she likes it.
Once she's been introduced to something she's really into, she'll be hooked and will never let go of it until the grave. Which is literally what happened to her. Although her biggest obsession (although she says she's not obsessed) is music, the thing that calms the soul. Lute is always seemingly strict on what genre of music she likes. And only specific songs tickle her fancy. Yet this always changes so it seems, one day she'd say, "I only like orchestra." Then on another day she'd say, "I only like electro swing."
Lute isn't one for jokes or "funny business" as she calls it. Mainly due to her strict and serious personality, she doesn't quite know how to handle immature or childish dragons. Having said that, she puts it at the top of her list to avoid those types of dragons. But, most of all, her personality is made up of shades of black, white and grey. Not much fills the space in-between. Lute can sometimes act emotionless or completely blank, other times, just completely disinterested. It happens more often than you think, actually.
Now that she's a ghost, she seems to be more reclusive, refusing to play in public anymore, although she still seems obsessed with it. Anything that has to do with the cause behind her death is not to be mentioned, too embarrassing to even be mentioned by Lute herself. She does, seem to be mischievous, especially towards the dragoness Sardonyx who she'll purposefully steal from to mess with her. Even despite being dead, she still remains their rival and they'll sometimes mess around with her in that way.
Abilities
For someone as strange in appearance and personality, Lute's abilities are nothing above average from the normal HiveWing abilities with a few more twists added on. Like any dragon from her tribe, she has the abilities of both hovering midair and the ability to paralyze others with an immobilizing toxin in her tail barb. Well, those were the abilities she used to have, now that she's dead, she can't really use them anymore.
Now being a ghost, Lute is capable of walking through walls and floating, yet she still has the ability to hold musical instruments or anything that has to do with music (a baton for example). Everything else phases right through her, which is somewhat unfortunate, although she doesn't seem bothered by it too much. Really the only thing that bothered her is the very fact that she's dead. Then again, the perk of being immortal makes her feel ever so slightly better about the condition she's in.
Lute was always known for her leadership skills and also being able to lie pretty well. Leadership skills are what is needed for an orchestra director anyway. And she is quite confident in those skills, so don't try to convince her otherwise, she has nerves of steel. She was always one to never change her mind after a decision has been made and there was no convincing her to reconsider the situation. Then again, when she is leading a team, if something turns it into a lost cause, she bails and waits for it to destroy itself.
Softly curved talons work the violin with great amount of skill, perhaps that's why she performed for the hives for a living. And even in death she still plays playful melodies on a violin, although she doesn't seem to perform in front of a live audience like she used to. The biggest weaknesses Lute has is her arrogance and somewhat snooty ego, not just that but also her high standards of how a tune should go. One mistake and you'll have to restart the entire song is how she seems to work.
Other times, Lute seems to take things way too seriously, this is mainly aimed at her "rivalry" with Sardonyx, which in the comedian's case was just stated as "friendly competition." She's always so determined to be the best sometimes that she loses track of what is really important. Revealing an overly competitive side to her, often times this makes her even more strict than she already is. Other times, it just makes her look more obsessed in "beating" Sardonyx, so much so that she can't really focus.
That doesn't really seem like a problem now, ever since her death, Lute has only been focusing on her music and watching time go by as slow as it does. She's not obsessed with anything but music now, the thing that kept her going all those years til death.
Biography
planning on redoing this a little bit.
Lute hatched into a normal world, filled with ghosts and sky pirates maybe, but that was normal the in the world she lived in, a world full of adventure and excitement. Then again, that wasn't exactly what she was into, she wasn't one for adventure, but rather she'd settle down. Her parents in themselves were carefree cartographers that weren't around most of the time so she usually got the entire place to herself. Her family was in the upper classes, although most of them never bragged about it, Lute would occasionally do so, just to rub salt in the wound.
Soon enough, the HiveWing found her calling after going to a concert in Hornet Hive and that was, of course, music, after all, it was expected of someone who had music note patterns on them. Her parents, in finding out about her newest interest, gave her a violin to play on. Lute's world seemed to work in strange ways, for after practicing for a few years she started going out in public to play. Not to intentionally let others listen to her music, but because she didn't really want to practice at home anymore.
This is how the arrogant, somewhat snooty HiveWing known as Lute became an unintentional celebrity. By playing her wonderful music to the world although she was mostly doing it for her own enjoyment. The crowds seemed to grow a little bit larger everyday, packs of HiveWings, SilkWings and LeafWings would listen carefully. Hum her tunes softly to themselves afterward. All because she wanted some new air to play in other than the stifling and often times musty wooden walls of their small mansion.
After a year or so, her talent was recognized by just about everyone in Wasp Hive and Lute started actually paying attention to the audience instead of herself. Just a little bit, however. She'd play at concerts now and then, show the world what she was made of. Life was perfect for her, everyone seemed to love her violin music or at least impressed with what high skill she had at such a young age. In a few more years, Lute started directing an orchestra, compelled by her prideful and somewhat overly confident in her leading skills.
Moving from hive to hive, she got to see everything, from the grand towns and fairy lights of Jewel Hive to the sweet shops of Cicada Hive. Although during one tour to Jewel Hive, she met someone, someone who'd forever change her life as she knew it. Sardonyx. A snazzy, swanky HiveWing with a horrible sense of humor, or in Lute's case, their mortal rival. She approached them in a friendly manner, laughing at her own jokes and doing annoying things like that.
"Oh, what do we have here? Another stage performer, another glorious musician with awning skill?"
"Yes, that would be the case." Lute responded, tensed talons and muscles.
"Fabulous, fabulous. Isn't this just perfect? Two celebrities in the same place? Surely an encore would be needed for this grand action! Oh, ha, ha, ha!" She laughed merrily (and annoyingly).
Just this interaction with this obnoxious celebrity was enough to make Lute feel a need to show off their skill to her, rivalry somewhat blossomed forth just by a mere interaction between the two. Or perhaps they're just sensitive and don't want Sardonyx to be the one to take their spotlight. This rivalry lasted for so long, they were always so determined to beat her, but they never did. Mainly because they couldn't convince the orchestra she was leading to go to Jewel Hive very often. Even then, she still continued to do her best of the best, to beat that Sardonyx.
Then it happened.
It was time Lute said goodbye to life.
At the age of 32, borderlining 33, she died all of a sudden, the cause was unknown, no one knew how she died or why, but she still died nevertheless. Now she doesn't play for live audiences anymore, she doesn't lead any orchestras. But if one was to go the the grand theater in Wasp Hive, one can hear her ghost playing the violin for herself, just like she did before. Although sometimes, sometimes she'd go to Jewel Hive and steal things from her rival, who remains that same status in both life and death.
There you have it, the story of Lute in just a few paragraphs. From a high-ranked nobody of Wasp Hive, to a well-known celebrity heard by all the hives and Sardonyx's "friendly competition."
Relationships
please roleplay beforehand
Parents
Never really were that interesting, even if they did support her interest in music, providing her with her first violin which she played til death. Now they are nameless nobodies, Lute doesn't really remember them that well and when mentioned, all she says is simply, "yeah, they helped me, I guess." So much time has past since she last saw them that they kinda faded into the back of her head. Rotting away as time goes on. The HiveWing doesn't have that much emotional attachment to them, as they weren't very interesting.
All she really remembers is that they made maps for the queen to help with further exploration of the island of Pantala. Although she does seem to remember that they were the ones who gave her the violin she played, so Lute guesses they were somewhat important. Though she wouldn't really admit it, the HiveWing is glad she got all that support for music at a young age. Which was one of the real reasons she got super into music in the first place, not just because of the concert she went to.
Positive / Neutral
Sardonyx
Lute genuinely hates this dragoness. A hatred that has built up over the years ever since the two were dragonets. Though the flashy HiveWing hasn't done anything to purposefully upset them, they've always been jealous of her popularity. Despite doing horrible in school, she did remained one of the most loved and popular icons at the school. While Lute on the other talon did incredible, but never received popularity of any kind. They hate her laugh, they hate her smile, they hate her popularity that she still retains into adulthood.
Though the two are cutely referred to as "friendly rivals," Lute sees her as anything but that. They always strive their best to be better than her and to act nothing like her. Even after death they still try to sabotage her, try to hurt her in any way they can. To try and break that stupid ego of hers and wipe that smug look of her face for once. Alas, none of their attempt to break her have worked... for now.
Negative
Name
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Trivia
 
*moral alignment was lawful neutral.
*love languages are quality time, acts of service, and words of affirmation.
* was originally going to be named either viola or violin. this was later scrapped for i wanted a name that was original.
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