Sandstorm

Sandstorm 	Sandstorm
 	
Background Information	Background Information
Creator 	Formula-9
Adopter 	Jack, later 🦌
Artist 	Base by Marx
Attribute 	Intelligence
Element 	Earth
Animal 	Fennec fox
Color 	Sandy yellow
Song 	
MBTI 	ISTP-A
Character Information 	Character Information
Age 	6 DY (hatched 5129 AS)
Gender 	Male
Orientation 	Bisexual/Biromantic
Occupation 	Writer, “part-time adventurer"
Tribe 	SandWing
Goal 	To discover his true origins
Residence 	Rainforest Kingdom
Relatives 	Unknown mother and father
Allies 	Soil, Brightsky, Blanc, Stargazer
Enemies 	N/A
Likes 	Writing stories, being in the sun
Dislikes 	Fighting, being left alone, swimming, the cold
Powers 	Traditional SandWing abilities
Weapons 	Venomous barb; claws and teeth
Quote 	“Quote"
==Appearance==
Sandstorm is very much an average-looking SandWing. He has scales that are primarily a sandy yellow, although his underbelly is less saturated in color, and is instead a more creamy hue. The dragonet's secondary scales are a golden-orange; his sails are a slightly darker color than his underscales. Most notably, he lacks a pair of wings.
His horns and claws, meanwhile, are an off-white, and his eyes are a very dark brown. Sandstorm isn't extraordinarily muscular, but has a wiry build. 
==Personality==
Sandstorm is fairly introverted and tends to keep his thoughts to himself. He likes to imagine worlds and stories about everything and anything, writing about them on scrolls he shares with his friends and other dragons. When he isn't writing scrolls, he is searching for clues about where he came from. He's figured out pretty quickly that as a SandWing, his presence in the rainforest isn't normal. Sandstorm has deduced that the fact that he's so far from his kingdom means that something happened to him in his youth, and he is looking to uncover the truth behind it. With no adults to keep an eye on him, and only his friends to care for him, he often goes on adventures and has already ventured as far as the Sand Kingdom.
He doesn't like to fight, but if provoked, can and will defend himself. Otherwise, he usually tries to consider people's opinions and feelings, but will favor logic over feelings, which makes him come off as cold at times. That said, his analytical and projection skills are usually good enough to allow him to solve most problems. His behavior around others causes him to be seen as somewhat closed off, as if his true personality is hidden somewhere deep inside him.
==Abilities==
===Stats===
*Strength: 5/10
*Dexterity: 6/10
*Constitution: 5/10
*Intelligence: 9/10
*Wisdom: 8/10
*Charisma: 7/10
==History==
Sandstorm's history is about how an egg travelled through nearly all of Pyrrhia through a series of mishaps.
Little is known about his parents. They could have been from the SandWing royalty for all anyone knows, but what we do know is that his egg was found in the Scorpion Den by a group of scavengers. Through a carefully crafted plan, the scavengers managed to steal away with the egg. Why a group of scavengers would steal a SandWing egg is still a mystery. Some would say they would try to tame the dragon that hatched, for such things had happened in the past; some would say that they would use the dragon to infiltrate the kingdom and cause another war, others would say they would use it to steal riches from dragons. Perhaps it would be even be cooked into a strange meal that scavengers consider a delicacy.
However, the scavengers' plan for the egg never came to fruition. On the way back to their hideout, they were ambushed by another group of scavengers, who then obtained the SandWing egg. The new group of scavengers in possession of the egg retreated to the Ice Kingdom. 
Things began to look bleak for the SandWing egg. The Ice Kingdom was certainly no place for it to hatch, as it was the polar opposite of what SandWings enjoy: a cold, desolate, and sunless place.
The group of scavengers were then attacked by an IceWing patrol and perished, leaving the SandWing egg in their talons. The IceWings had no intention of taking care of it, and they believed that they could sell it to the neighboring SkyWings for some good money. After all, they would likely enjoy a newborn SandWing that could be trained to fight in one of the Sky Kingdom's many back-alley fighting rings. Thus, the egg was secretly traded away to a SkyWing who planned to turn the SandWing into a born killer.
Except that no matter which word you used, whether you called it coincidence, fate, luck, destiny, or anything else, the SandWing dragonet was not planned to be a tool for illegal SkyWing entertainment. 
The illegal arena was hidden in a forest by the Diamond Spray River, but was inevitably raided by the SkyWing queen's guards. With most of the dragons behind the management of the arena captured or killed, what remained was up for the guards to seize. The enslaved dragons were to be brought to the SkyWing capital for medical treatment, the various treasures were confiscated, and the egg was accidentally knocked into the Diamond Spray River amidst all the chaos.
Once again, the egg was in a dangerous situation, especially since it had started to rain. The river had been seized by violent currents, and the egg was rapidly drifting away. It rapidly continued to float on the surface of the water until it reached the Diamond Spray Delta; by the time it did, the rain had stopped and the currents had mitigated.
The egg was then discovered by a MudWing that was passing by, a young one at that, and a bigwings. The MudWing, however, knew that his siblings had already hatched, and thus had no intention of helping the dragonet inside the egg hatch. In fact, the egg was nowhere near ready to hatch. But leaving the egg on the river bank was too dangerous, and SandWing or not, it certainly didn't deserve such a terrible fate. With the egg in hand, the MudWing ventured back to the southern Mud Kingdom, where he lived.
The MudWing decided to care for the egg, and this was perhaps the first time that someone didn't attempt to do anything that could have harmed it. In order to ensure its safety, MudWing made sure that none of his rough siblings approached the egg, fearing that they could break it or even lose it in the nearby swamps. But no matter how hard one tries, there is no such thing as "completely safe", and while caring for the egg one day, the MudWing was pushed by one of his siblings, sending the egg flying right into another river. 
The MudWing began to angrily shout at his siblings and later tried to fetch the egg from the river, to no avail, for it was already far away from its starting point by the time that the bigwings' lecture was done. The egg was heading towards another territory, the Rainforest Kingdom. The last way the river would threaten the egg's safety was the with a waterfall located near the rainforest.
Luckily enough, with no rocks protruding from the cliff and no drifting trees in the river, the egg safely landed in the water and slowly drifted to the riverbank. A small animal fetched it and brought it back to its RainWing mistress. The RainWing, surprised by the egg, inspected it with caution. The egg was still viable, still radiating some heat, and despite all the misadventures it had been through, it still retained its golden coloring.
A decision had to be made: the RainWing certainly didn't want to leave the egg in the open, knowing that it would likely be destroyed, but... she didn't exactly want to be the adoptive parent of a creature that likely wasn't even from the rainforest. Not knowing what to do, the RainWing flew back to the village and deposited the egg into the hatchery.
There were already four eggs in the hatchery: an egg that looked like an hybrid between a MudWing egg and a RainWing one, a SkyWing egg, an IceWing egg, and a strange one that looked like a NightWing egg with some IceWing traits and even some strange characteristics that weren't found on eggs from the tribes of Pyrrhia. Regardless, the RainWing left the egg in the hatchery, and decided to drop by from time to time just to ensure sure that it was safe.
Again, the RainWing had no intention of raising a child that wasn't her own, but she couldn't help but feel like this egg was different. There was something... mysterious about it. As if the egg was never meant to be here in the first place, as if the dragonet inside would likely have had a better future somewhere else. Yet the RainWing quickly shrugged off this feeling.
Under a full moon, the egg eventually hatched. Not on its own, however, because it was the MudWing-RainWing hybrid dragonet that had done most of the work. The curious, newly-born dragonet had cracked the egg's shell open, revealing a sleeping SandWing with tawny scales. He continued to sleep in the remains of his egg until the MudWing hybrid pulled him out onto the hatchery floor--and it was there that he opened his eyes for the first time.
It was dark, but the moonlight allowed the young SandWing to distinguish shapes and colors, albeit dark ones. There was one dragonet with white scales, a dragonet that had likely pulled him out the egg, with scales a shade between the red and the brown, a dragonet with clear, red scales, and another one that he couldn't make sense of. 
But every life starts with a few steps. As the other dragonets resumed their first activities, the young SandWing started to get used to his legs--not too well however since it tumbled and rolled right into the white dragonet, tripping him. It seemed like there weren't any real reason to try to make sense of what was happening, or even try to understand this world on the first night. The SandWing dragonet decided to curl up against the MudWing-RainWing dragonet that had fallen asleep on top of that strange, dark dragonet. Feeling comfortable, he quickly drifted to sleep.
When the RainWing that had brought his egg to the hatchery came back the next day to check on him, she was surprised to see a SandWing with such radiant scales. However, she being the only "parent" the SandWing had, she had to find a name... and the RainWing's only idea was of the first time she ventured to the Sand Kingdom and saw what would become the SandWing's name: a sandstorm.
Nowadays, Sandstorm still lives in the Rainforest Kingdom and is attempting to discover more about his origins and about what he wants to become. When he isn't trying to find out about his parents, he's taken to writing stories: sometimes adventure stories, sometimes sappy romantic ones that would make more than one dragon laugh, or even stories with a moral.
He doesn't have any real relatives and instead usually stays with his "siblings," as even the RainWing that brought his egg back to the hatchery and named him didn't stick long enough, disappearing too fast for Sandstorm to even get the chance to ask for her name.
==Relationships==
===Soil===
Sandstorm's “bigwings." She looks for him as much as she looks for her other siblings, and often tries to help him whenever she catches him thinking about something. When Sandstorm opened up to her about him wanting to learn more about his past, she smiled and told him that she would help him find clues together, and told him that he should also ask Stargazer for help.
===Brightsky===
One of Sandstorm's friends, this female SkyWing only thinks about becoming the leader of the group. Sometimes tries to get in fights with Sandstorm to try to make him attack her to see who is stronger, but her plans always fail. She believes that Sandstorm is boring, but she do loves reading Sandstorm's stories, especially when involve strong SkyWings as protagonist or important characters.
===Blanc===
One of Sandstorm's friends. The IceWing loves to try to play tricks and set up contraptions to prank Sandstorm, though they fail most of the time, either by Stargazer inadvertently activating them, Soil disabling them, or Sandstorm avoiding them by sheer luck, which annoys Blanc greatly. Since Sandstorm doesn't really know that Blanc is the creator of the pranks and traps, he sees him as a strange, but endearing IceWing.
===Stargazer===
One of Sandstorm's friends, and a fairly shy and introverted NightWing-IceWing hybrid. Enjoys reading all the stories Sandstorm writes in his free time, including the sappy ones, and gives him feedback on the stories he writes. They both seem to get along.
===Prymrose===
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==Trivia==
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==Gallery==
===Updated Design===
Sandstorm ref.png|Base by AGoldfishWithAnxiety
Sandstorm_nep.png|Drawn by Nepetune
SANDSTORM 2020 fear.png|Drawn by Fear!!
===Old Design===
74AE366C-B8C0-4000-9E01-F8C1BC4AEB78.jpeg|Drawn by SevenOutclaws
SandwingSandstorm.png|Drawn by Ninja
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