Echosong

Ref by WildLoner, edited from NightStrike's and Joy Ang's art.
This is Morpho’s OC, obtained from Wild’s adopt center a very long time ago (don’t worry, I asked to use her now after such a long time). She is in the canon WoF timeline.
NOTE: This character has no affiliation with the TempestWings whatsoever, despite the Spark wing lineart used in the ref.
I had a dream
I got everything I wanted
Not what you'd think
And if I'm being honest
”What power would you like, my dear dragoness?” Darkstalker asked theatrically.
”I don’t want a power, exactly,” Echosong replied. “I would like to be beautiful, healthy, and shiny, a perfect specimen of a dragon. And, furthermore, I would love to have beautiful, feathery, star-speckled wings, which will be so beautiful, that all the other NightWings - nay, all the dragons in Pyrrhia! - will envy me.”
Those were the words Echosong still regrets saying.
It might've been a nightmare
To anyone who might care
Thought I could fly
So I stepped off the Golden
== Appearance ==
=== Before the Enchantment ===
Echosong was pretty much a normal NightWing, although she was noticeably more clean than the others in her tribe. She had dark gray scales, which were less ash-covered than others living on the volcano, but even she could not clean off all the ash caked in between her scales. Her underbelly was black, as well as her forked tongue. Her teeth were slightly yellowish, worn off at the ends. Like other NightWings, she had bad breath from eating rotten flesh, and a raspy voice from the smoke on the island - both facts that she hated.
She always kept her silver star scales polished and shiny, and took care to not tear her black wing membranes. Her horns, claws, and spines were black, and she kept them polished as well. Echosong tried to keep herself as healthy as possible, even to the point of stealing food that wasn’t rightfully hers. However, with the little food on the volcano island, she still looked malnourished, with her ribs being visible under her scales. She had dull, dark purple eyes, which were slightly bloodshot from living in such an unhealthy, ash-filled environment.
All in all, it was clear that Echosong tried to keep herself as beautiful as possible, which is a very difficult feat on such a poisonous island.
=== After the Enchantment ===
Echosong’s colors remained almost the same after the enchantment, save for a few details. However, she is now a strikingly beautiful dragoness, with a body that is both plump and sleek, and scales that shine like polished obsidian. Her bad breath and raspy voice are gone, replaced with a smooth, crooning voice and herb-scented breath. Her scales, horns, spikes, and claws are now shiny and devoid of any dirt or ash. However, her sudden good health is by far not the most striking change.
A crystalline blue forked tongue rests inside her mouth, darting between sharp white teeth. Her eyes have black sclerae, and are the same bright blue as the waters in the Sea Kingdom. The scales under her eyes and the teardrop-shaped ones on her sides have turned brilliant shades of morpho butterfly blue, and flowery purple, and icy cyan.
However, by far the most dramatic change is her wings.
The standard starry bat wings of a NightWing have been replaced by huge, feathered wings. The feathers are shiny, and covered in patterns mirroring the night sky, splashed in multicolored nebulas and bright white and glowing green stars.
Echosong can’t blend in anymore. The only thing she can do now is stand out.
== Her Enchantment ==
Echosong‘s enchantment did more than just change her looks, although she wanted it to only change her appearance.
Looking back, she thinks she should have been much more careful with the exact wording.
Whenever another Pyrrhian dragon looks at her beautiful wings, they will be overwhelmed with a sense of jealousy, even if they aren’t typically a jealous sort. This does not affect Pantalan dragons, as she specifically said “all the dragons on Pyrrhia,” not knowing about Pantalans.
This curse-in-disguise has led to dragons being blinded by their envy, hating Echosong for her beauty that they couldn’t ever receive. Some dragons have even tried to kill her, wanting to have her wings for themselves.
Nobody cried
Nobody even noticed
I saw them standing right there
Kinda thought they might care
== Personality ==
=== Before the Enchantment ===
Echosong was a very vain dragoness, doing anything to try to be beautiful, as a means to distract herself from the horrible conditions of the NightWing Island, and make her feel special among her tribe.
=== After the Enchantment ===
The enchantment didn't directly change her personality, but the experiences that it has brought upon her have. Now, Echosong is more humble, and tries to hide her appearance, for fear that others will become jealous of her. She still often has vain thoughts, and wishes she could be beautiful without being the envy of everyone. However, unlike before, she tries to control these thoughts. She thinks they make her a fool, and is embarrassed of who she was before. Honestly, Echo sort of wishes she still looked like she did before the enchantment, albeit much healthier and shinier, just without the feathery wings and shimmering colors. She believes she went a step too far for beauty.
I had a dream
I got everything I wanted
But when I wake up, I see
You with me
== History ==
Echosong was hatched to two NightWings on the Night Island, named Horrorslayer and Ashclaws. Her father, Ashclaws, died soon after Echosong was hatched, so she barely remembers him. Horrorslayer was forced to raise the dragonet alone, and wasn't very good at being a mother, so Echo was left on her own sometimes. She constantly longed for a brighter place, a place where ash wasn't always scraping the inside of her nose, where her talons weren't always being scraped on the lava rock, and where she could look up and see the sun spilling rainbows of bright color into the world.
She lived a fairly normal life for a NightWing, up until the NightWing Exodus. While many NightWings complained about the uprooting of their lives, it was a dream come true for Echo. The rainforest was the place she had dreamed about for her whole life.
(Ideas:
* a SilkWing befriends her after the Leafs and Silks escape from the Othermind, and Echo befriends the dragon, finding that they have a lot of common, being forced to flee from their homes, but finding the new place to be better; also, the Silk is not affected by Echo's jealousy curse due to not being a part of "all dragons in Pyrrhia"
)
And you say, "As long as I'm here
No one can hurt you
Don't wanna lie here
But you can learn to
== Gallery ==
F12CC80A-4C8B-4214-BDB7-6F9A3C5140EF.png|By Coast, from the Sketch The Dragon Above You thread
If I could change
The way that you see yourself
You wouldn't wonder why you hear
They don't deserve you"
 
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