Appledusk

Appledusk is a male NightWing and the main protagonist of "Appledusk's Desire" After being exiled from the Rainforest Kingdom he flew over to Pantala, and now resides in the Poison jungle. he is technically the "father" of Mapleshade
==Description==
Appledusk is colossal sized and wrinkled, he has bright crimson primary scales, claret colored secondary scales and a dark purple underbelly, wings and inner ears. his horns, spikes and claws are a tree oak brown. stars on his wings shine like diamonds, he also has light green eyes.
==Personality==
Appledusk is brave, protecting, caring and a compassionate dragon, depending on how beneficial you are to him, yeah.. Appledusk is quite the loner, only interacting with dragons if they were useful in his eyes. LeafWings in the poison jungle thought him as careless, quick to jump to conclusions and outlandish, saying he had the temper of a Venus flytrap. 
==Backstory==
Appledusk was born to Crookedwish and Allstar alongside his siblings Batflight, and Nightwhisper, when escaping a flood that ran through the rainforest, both Batflight and Nightwhisper drowned, only he ending up being the only dragonet who survived. Because of this, this tragic event sent Appledusk down a spiral of grief and despair, after he saw the "ghosts" of his siblings, he desperately tried anything to bring his deceased brothers back, and by Clearsight does he mean anything. 
Later on in his life, Appledusk learned he has animus magic by enchanting a rock with life, he started to go on a power trip and enchant various non-living things in nature to rise, such as the wind, droplets of water, and soil, but became a bit too curious once he realized that items enchanted by animus magic last forever, even if it's creator has gone the way of the dodo bird. 
So he conducted an experiment, he stole eggs from various animals in the rain forest and patiently waited for them to break free of their eggshells; However, the first breath of fresh air did not last long for the newborn creature, as once they hatched, Appledusk quickly took their lives by brutally forcing them in a container of water... only sparring the life of one, sickly, lonely lizard on the brink of death. 
Yet the spirits of the woeful beasts lingered, their souls wandered around, in which Appledusk harvested the remnant from them. these spirits from them was used to essentially give the sickly lizard a "second life" as once Appledusk gave it the remnant, the lizard hopped, ran around and chased it's tail, as if the lizard wasn't nearly dying a few seconds ago. 
However, the NightWings and RainWings did not take this abnormal behavior lightly and banished him from ever stepping a talon in the rain forest again, but this did not stop his cruel plans to interfere with life and death, as this only made him take his projects somewhere far away from the rain forest. before he left forever, he stole an unknown egg from a nest like a hawk swooping down to catch a hare, and flying all the way over to Pantala, where landed in the Poison Jungle.
The Poison Jungle looked inhabitable and he considered it a place where "all hopes and dreams go to rot away like a decaying carcass" but life was flourishing there. There were snakes, deadly carnivorous and poisonous plants, and surprisingly foreign dragons, which called this nightmare of a place their home in villages. These foreigners had rough, tough but loving families, with members who deeply cared for each other with the passion of a jaguar, it reminded him of when he had a loving family.
At a final attempt to create a brood of his own, he carried the unknown egg to a nearby hive and gently placed it down on the lengthy grass growing around the building. saying this future dragonet should decide what it wants to be, leaving the egg to be raised by the dragons inside, checking up on the egg and maybe talking to it every now and then, the dragonet inside grew up to become Mapleshade
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==Relationships==
===Mapleshade===
Appledusk is compassionate towards his daughter, but only when times of visit. Once Mapleshade hatched from her egg, papa hastily flew back into the poison jungle, checking in every now and then to make sure she is alive and well. Appledusk thinks of her the same way a scientist thinks of their live experiments, she's simply a dragon that he needs to make sure stays alive, and hopefully have some (technically) granddragonets, continuing the bloodline.
===Crookedwish===
Crookedwish feels she is cursed by Ghost not because Batflight and Nightwish passed away, but because Appledusk survived the flood. Crookedwish is... harsh and bitter towards him because she believes out of the 3 dragonets she had, she is stuck with this... monster. She frequently refused to care for him, and simply told him to move on or forget about the catastrophe that took away his brother and sister. 
===Allstar===
Allstar is chill as ice towards Appledusk, but in the best way possible. Allstar is often very goofy, laid-back and caring towards him, he often saw his father as a way to get 10987 miles far from the neglectful heathen that is his mother, as he would say "Not bad, little dragonet" 
===Minecraft===
Appledusk despises him for the fact Minecraft simply embraces death, as seen in his taxidermy and oddity collection. Minecraft tells him that you can't run from it, but who cares, that he should enjoy his life and he should be grateful that he is still here even after all the things he has been through. In Minecrafts' words, death is how life flourishes. Grasshoppers feed the frogs, frogs feed the sly, slithering snakes, snakes feed the swooping hawks ready to strike for their meal, decomposing material feeds the soil which feeds the plants that feeds the grasshoppers, and the cycle continues on and on. Taxidermy and oddity gathering is simply turning that into an art form, but Appledusk still denies it. 
===Batflight===
Batflight was social and love to get that sweet, juicy interaction with other dragons, but quite lazy compared to his 2 siblings. As he would rather stay in the nest than go something productive for the family. 
===Nightwish===
Nightwish was a daring, quick and fierce for a dragonet, but also a loner. Often keeping to herself and prefers to do things all on her own. When Nightwish asked him if he wanted to go to the understory with her, he excitedly answered yes; However, the two where nearly caught a trio of pesky preadtors before their parents stepped in, lucky for her, that did not kill her, but something a bit more.. brisk than her did. 
==Quotes==
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==Trivia==
Appledusk may or may not be immortal, this is debatable, honestly. 
Appledusk pretty much found the "cure" to death, but refuses to share the cure with anyone else. 
Appledusk has unique colors not because of genetics, but because he modified himself to look like that, through.. cruel and unusual means. 
He can play the violin 
He has zero association with any weird, ugly beasts known as "cats" especially if said cat happened to be in love with a.. thundergroup cat? 
==Gallery==
All art here is created by MamaJoeee, Marikuri and Joy Ang!
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Category:Mature Content
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Category:Males
Category:NightWings
Category:Animus