Pyrenees

Pyrenees is the main protagonist in the fanfiction "Third Antinomy". He was created by FourFlames. 
===Theme Music===
:::::Icarus - Bastille
:::::Silhouettes - Sleeping at Last
thumb|477x477px|Pyrenees by me
== Description ==
:::"The white hatchling had a soft, doughy face, and his tail and wings were striped with marbled streaks of charcoal brown like exposed snowmelt."
Pyrenees is a male particolor dragonet. His dominant scale color is alpine white, with graphite-brown accents, and so he is generally referred to as an "IceWing mutt" or just "IceWing".
Asymmetrical whorls of dark scales, in the milky brown color of washed coffee stains, are present on his wings, down his spine, and covering his face in a hood. He resembles melting snow near the base of a mountainside. 
He has black almond-shaped eyes that are described as "attentive, inquisitive, and warm."
His youthful face possesses the breadth, softness, horns, and pressed nose of a MudWing, but with the sharp head spines of an IceWing. He has angular wings, long smooth foreclaws, and a lean tail ending in two recessive IceWing spikes that are thickened to bludgeoning stubs. 
As of Third Antinomy, he is six dragonet years old. He is not expected to reach full size due to complications linked to his mutation, so he's physically short, wiry and frail.
== Personality == 
:::::"Ignorance had achieved the proper effect of making him afraid, but only in the primitive manner that one could fear something useful like fire."
Pyrenees is problematically curious (read: fatally easy to manipulate) and eager to look for answers where his guardians' are unsatisfactory. He has a great determination to learn information that is forbidden to him, but is also eager to please. He's often told by his enemies that he's fatally easy to manipulate for his earnest and trusting nature.
His sporadic scales trouble him-- for their unpredictability and the danger they might potentially pose-- and they come with the guilt of knowing that other dragonets had to die before he manifested them. He has complicated feelings towards power, because he knows it is capable of creating things which are inherently good and beautiful, and struggles to comprehend the balance due to his carefully curated upbringing.
==Abilities==
:::::...[his scales] were all squirming in microscopic unison, like the back-and-forth motion of pines... while indecisive winter gales battered them this way and that. It always started with the leaves, and more violently the branches would viciously beat one another, and sometimes a storm would even split the trunk wide open. This is what it reminded her of as shale shards pushed their heads out from between the dragonet's scales. The juvenile's frail exterior-- at least where the shale plates had punched dents into it-- was armored with asymmetrical, cruel spikes of shale ready to impale any dragon foolish enough to attack."
=== Mutation: Darkscales ===
The brown scales on Pyrenees' body can change to that of any solid, nonliving substance they contact with (such as rocks, ice, ores and metals; etc), when involuntary pain responses are triggered. Unshaped, unformed, and mutable, they are something to be molded, like dark reflections or shadow doubles of the objects that assail them-- yet there is also an aura of darkness in the angry sense. They carry an unsettling instability which engenders fear: a dread of the volatile, unknowable consequences of attempting to control and weaponize something that is not understood.
The size of the growths is determined by the velocity at which the other inorganic substance makes contact with him. It occurs almost instantaneously, and he can do this a single time with each scale. 
Until he sheds the molecularly restructured scales, they are stuck in this form, which can affect his weight, durability, speed, and neural activity. He is also not immune to the long-term damages caused by those materials-- i.e. toxic metals like mercury will still hurt him. 
====Logistics====
Pyrenees' power comes from a linked gene sequence. The dragonet is guaranteed to inherit the first gene in the sequence / permanent hormonally stunted growth, but there is a low probability for the positive manifestation of the second gene, which is functional darkscales. In most trials the engineered dragonet bearing his gene would only hatch with the negative genetic traits, resulting in the dragonet being terminated.
Overall, the weaknesses associated with this gene include
:::~no breath weapon
:::~chronic exhaustion
:::~brittle bones
:::~high adverse sensitivity to the environment
:::~inability to reach full maturity
:::~adolescent wingspan preventing long/continental flights
==Relationships==
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TERRA NOVA - He sees her very similarly to a mother figure, and knows her as the dragon who protects him from harm, but seeing as she is very sparing with real affection and is often afraid to allow him to experience life, his emotional needs are often not acknowledged enough.
HARPER
HEGEMONY - The mastermind capable of engineering an entire prophecy and mobilizing a whole intertribe organization to do it? The whole reason Pyrenees was born? Pyrenees has every reason to be terrified of Hegemony, and feels perhaps a little resentment.
MALDIVES - Maldives was responsible for personally performing the crime of creating Pyrenees-- Hegemony merely signed the paperwork-- but at the very least shows some remorse for what happened to the other experiments. It seems pretty obvious that Hegemony holds a lot of control over his relationship with Maldives and how the SeaWing communicates his opinions, so Pyrenees can't help but feel bad for him; for this reason he holds Maldives at an equal level to, or perhaps even better than Hegemony, since he is compassionate enough to have raised a son (albeit disobedient) and clearly cares about other dragons in the program rather than what they can accomplish for it. Still, Maldives seems oblivious to the pain he causes most of the time, rather than apathetic.
CLOUDFIRE - tbd
SUPERIOR - tbd
== Gallery ==
Little Pyrenees.png|Little Pyrenees by me
Pyrenees_by_Dewstar13.webp|Pyrenees by Dewstar13!
Pyrenees on Coast.png|Pyrenees flying near the Pyrrhian Defense Foundation's base
Pyreeeneee.png|Pyrenees by Celestialfyre!
PyreneesMB by SnowdropdALT.png|Moodboard by FrostdropdALT!
== Trivia ==
*Pyrenees is the smallest of the replacement dragonets.
*He is the only surviving member of his biological siblings; the other dragonets sired by his parents were killed off by Hegemony for being defective and not manifesting the powers associated with the otherwise weakening gene.
Category:Characters
Category:Males
Category:IceWings
Category:MudWings
Category:Hybrids
Category:Dragonets
Category:Artificially Created
Category:Content (FourFlames)
Category:Work in Progress
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