Skuld

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SKULD
The Last Visitor/Skua | He/they | IceWing | 94 | Ghost | Carsi AU 
What was that? That flicker in the corner of your eye? You drag your head up, weakening yourself further. There, standing at a distance. It's an IceWing you've never seen before. Why would it come here to meet you in your final minutes? It stares at you blankly, but something about it seems... nice. You try to ask for help, hoping that it had magically come to save you from your imminent death. It reacts, but instead of coming to your aid, it huffs condescendingly and struts away.
Skuld 	Skuld
 	
Background Info	Background Info
Creator 	Aranga
Key Attribute 	Harbringer of Death
Inspiration 	Groundhog Day (movie) + Grim Reaper
Character Info 	Character Info
Gender 	Male
Pronouns 	He/him, it/its (not by choice), they/them
Age 	32 (physically, 94 (mentally)
Tribe 	IceWing
Orientation 	Demibiromantic Cupiosexual, but would now settle for anyone
Likes 	Not being questioned, brave and honourable deaths, leaving a mark on the physical world to mess with the living
Dislikes 	'Unoriginal' deaths, being asked to help, semi-immortality, not being able to go where he chooses, animus SeaWings
DESCRIPTION
There's not much to set Skuld apart from a crowd of IceWings, except perhaps that he has the opposite of the classic IceWing resting b###h face. He's slightly tall and poshly composed, his sharp features amplified by his shining silver scales. However, despite his aristocratic demeanour, he doesn't particularly look like someone to belittle and criticise others; that being a trick he learned over his lifetime to make himself appear more approachable than he actually is. No matter the environment, he appears clean and unburdened, if a bit visually hazy in a ghostlike fashion. His topscales are more silvery than his midscales, of which are powdery white. His underscales, however, are steely grey. His spikes, claws and horns are as blue as old frost, and the underside of his wings are similar, albeit closer to a striking sky blue. That sky blue colour is shared with his ever-unfocussed eyes. His mannerisms are polite and refined, although he doesn't always manage to hide his spiteful and sardonic nature; an unlucky dragon would be met with his unhidden behaviour within a minute of conversation. He speaks with an equally high-bred accent, but his voice drips with barely-concealed scorn and contempt.
PERSONALITY
Skuld's lack of remorse and inflammatory habits are what got him cursed in the first place, and he still hasn't changed much. Within the past few decades, he has learnt how to act like he cares about the ordeals of the dragons that his curse binds him to - and he certainly has improved at least in bothering to act - but it's all a façade; he doesn't try to actually help other dragons since he knows that anyone who can see him will die in the next few minutes. It takes a particularly tragic end to get any real emotions out of him. However, he usually ignores others, especially if the previous target died recently and the current one hasn't spotted him yet. He's extremely spiteful towards the animus who cursed him, but recently he has come to hate his past self for all the mistakes that led to him being cursed. If he ever wanders far away from the dying dragon who can see him, he normally does so in order to pretend he still has a normal life, being able to go where he pleases and to talk with whom he chooses.Sometimes, dragons can get Skuld out of his bitter state, though he'll only ever claim that he answered to shut up their pleas or indignant remarks. Even then, he keeps the conversation focussed on them; asking any personal questions will result in undisguised mockery and abandonment. Truth is, he'd rather hurt a dragon on their deathbed than acknowledge his own loneliness and inexistence. Instead, he tries to convince himself that his inability to leave a mark on the world means that he can act however he wants and it won't matter.
HISTORY
Skuld wasn't always cursed. He used to lead a dignified life that never satisfied his pride. Originally named Skua, he belonged to a Second Circle family and ranked the highest out of his siblings, boasting that it was purely his nature that gave him an advantage. As a young dragonet, his only concern was of the hierarchy and keeping up a reputation that led him to the most benefits, but he grew restless as he got older.At first he mixed with all the wrong crowds, believing that he knew his own boundaries. Whenever his group caused a stir that would've had him demoted in the rankings, he would deny or betray his 'friends' so that his position would remain untarnished, often abandoning them and inevitably moving onto the next group. Since he was practically paranoid about his place in the Circle, he didn't spend enough time to properly know the dragons in these gangs; he just used them when, and only when, he felt like doing so.Eventually, though, there came a time when Skua couldn't charm his way out of trouble. After dropping two Circles and getting a restraining order, he was too ashamed to face anyone he knew. He recovered in the only way he knew; he left the Ice Queendom to start a new life in a new 'group', far away enough so that no one would know how much of a failure he was. At first he stopped by Sanctuary, only to leave a week later due to the "abhorrent interests of the town's IceWing founder." He travelled for a while, being continually disappointed in the cities he had found, but eventually settled for a small town near the Queendom of the Sea. There he managed to return to his former egotistic behaviours, although he often came to blows with the less-than-lenient townsdragons.Then came the day he crossed Sipul. Skua (who by then had already earned the moniker 'Skuld' for all the unrequited damage he'd caused) had expected a normal sort of fight after 'honestly blaming' the tempestuous SeaWing for his friend's accidental, magical death, but instead got cursed himself. From that day, Skuld has only ever been able to travel within a kilometre of a dying dragon, not knowing that the effects of the spell would end after he learned to "give a s### about what the dead had to go through." Although he hasn't achieved that goal, the decades of existing only to those who were dying had made him sympathetic to their suffering, though he'd only bother to comfort them if they were alone. He was present at the deaths of everyone he had known, and now he doesn't even have a chance to find an actual friend if he wanted to.A few regions have local tales that tell of an IceWing who meets only dragons who are on their deathbeds, sometimes saying that it guides the recently lost souls to their next home.
TRIVIA
- Skuld is named after the valkyrie, and the name translates to 'debt' or 'fault'
- Although he's called a ghost, he's technically not dead
Category:Characters
Category:IceWings
Category:Inspired by Fiction
Category:Males
Category:Status (Legend)
Category:Animus Touched
Category:LGBT+