Submerge

"I don't care. You shouldn't either, if you want to stay alive down here. I don't care about the options no longer available to me. I don't care about the dragons I once almost considered friends but ended up having to ruin. I don't care about my employees and coworkers any more than I have to. And I don't care about you. That's the long and short of it. I. Don't. Care."
It seemed that hir giving that little speech was what had finally gotten through to that idiot who had tried to blackmail the dragon who had hir talon on the pulse of the entire city. Submerge wasn't sure what ze would do in retaliation to him yet, but ze knew it would be subtle, and it would be glorious.
 
Submerge is a transfem IceWing/SeaWing hybrid and possibly one of the most dangerous and powerful dragons in Riftbound. Though she may appear to be nothing more than a simple ice sculptor, she and Platinum, the ruthless leader of the Riftbound mafia and enigmatic patron of the city's underground fight ring, are one and the same. Submerge started her life of crime by embezzling funds from her own family and has not looked back since.
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:History
*oh boy where do we start
*IceWing dad is a mid-ranking noble, SeaWing dad is a long-term ambassador. When the union between Submerge's parents was found out it was actually encouraged for strengthening diplomatic ties
*Ze felt very alienated from society growing up, parents aggressively protected Submerge and hir three younger siblings from the nastier parts of life. While most of the family was fine with this Submerge chafed under the promise of the unknown, which caused hir to try and find out about the world in secret by hirself. surprise! not everyone has as comfortable a life as you do and you only have this life of luxury bc of old money.
*This causes Submerge to become very very scared. Ze couldn't fathom having to live in the comparative poverty that commoners do and instead of hir using hir position of privilege for good, when ze got a nepotism job in the Ice Kingdom bureaucracy ze used it to funnel money into hir own private stash in case "the worst" happens and hir family goes broke
*Eventually, Submerge's sister Ribbon Seal realized something shady might be going on. Before she could confront Submerge about this ze mysteriously vanished. Everyone suspects foul play but is too polite to say it outright because Submerge is the oldest and Ribbon Seal had complained before about not having as big of an inheritance as hir.
*In reality, Submerge fled the kingdom with all of hir money and traveled to Riftbound
*Ze became an ice sculptor and intended to mostly live off of hir wealth for the rest of hir days, but realized it wasn't enough to keep living like ze used to in the Ice Kingdom
*So ze did even more crime. Under the name Platinum to distance hirself from hir noble background, ze participated in giving shady loans, gambling, even extortion, all to keep funding hir aristocratic lifestyle. Eventually Platinum became leader of the biggest crime ring in Riftbound. Everyone on the seedier side of the city knows that name.
*Finally Submerge had all the money ze could ever want, but hir experiences had.. hollowed hir out in a way. Ze needed something more to make money, something with a real kick to it that could get the whole city in hir pocket.
*This became the basis for Platinum funding Riftbound's underground fight club. Hir influence and money turned the fights from something obscure to practically the city's open secret- anyone who says they haven't attended a fight to bet money on it is lying. Even the local law enforcement occasionally shows up just to watch
*This, of course, made Submerge even worse. Ze became even more desensitized to violence than ze already was and gave hir an obsession with finding the absolute limit of the strength of dragonkind in both mind and muscle. Submerge's trail of crime and bloodshed has led to hir quietly studying how much of the fight ring each fighter can take, all of hir observations recorded in little journals that ze keeps locked away where they will never be found.
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