Legacy

Category:Characters
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Dragonets
Category:Males
Category:LeafWings
Category:Disabled
Category:Subtype (Leafspeak)
Category:Content (X.dragonlynx.X)
This character was created based on an adopt by FxzzyKaede.</small>
Legacy is a blind male LeafWing dragonet.
== Description ==
Legacy is a dark green LeafWing with a thin build and soft talons. He is said to be the color of the shadowy foliage of the legacy sugar maple in spring, although the autumn sunlight sometimes brings out red-gold glints in his scales. He has quite a few scrapes and cuts from injuries in his childhood, when he was still learning how to move around without sight.
His most unusual feature is his eye color, which is a bright berry blue. They stand out against his dark scales and can give him an initially bright, eager impression, although his expression is usually rather emotionless thanks to his blindness. As his bright irises are often shadowed by tired, dark lids, it gives him a very odd look. His eyes also do not typically move, as he cannot use them to see.
== Background ==
=== Hatching ===
Aspen stood in a sunlit clearing, the golden light seeping through his pale green wings and casting a glow over the soft green grass. Sitting in front of his talons was a small, dark green egg. The sound of wingbeats alerted him to Juniper landing on the ground beside him. She had darker green scales and greenish-blue eyes.
"Is it time?" she asked breathlessly. "It's about to hatch?"
Aspen nodded, excited for his very first dragonet. The two waited in silence for about thirty seconds, watching the egg. All of a sudden, a little tap-tap-tap echoed throughout the clearing. Aspen caught his breath.
Tap-tap-tap. Tap-tap-tap.
A crack ran down the egg, and a little dark claw broke through, quickly followed by a tiny green snout. The two adult LeafWings gasped in the same moment as the shell fell away. All of a sudden there was a little dark green dragonet sitting in the clearing. His eyes were of brightest berry blue.
Juniper picked up the dragonet lovingly and Aspen gazed into his unusual eyes. "He's beautiful," he sighed.
"Awrk?" asked the dragonet. His eyes didn't dart back and forth between the two parents, but his ears twitched, and his head moved towards the sounds.
Juniper set down the little dragonet and noticed a dark green leaf lying on the grass. She picked it up and her gaze went to a tall tree nearby that was made up of the same glossy green foliage. "Aspen, what is that tree called?" she asked. "It looks just like his scales."
Aspen, who had leafspeak and had studied plants much in his younger years, tilted his head thoughtfully at the tree. "Sugar maple."
Juniper frowned and shook her head. "It doesn't sound right -- as a name for him, I mean. And don't sugar maples have lighter leaves?"
"Depends on the type," said Aspen. "This one's a legacy sugar maple."
"Legacy," she breathed, looking at the dragonet -- from his rippling dark scales like foliage in the sunlight, to twitching, curious ears, and his unusually still bright blue eyes. "It's perfect."
"Awrk?" asked Legacy, head turning towards the sound of his new name.
"Legacy," Aspen repeated approvingly. He held out one talon towards the dragonet, but the little LeafWing didn't react, just stared. Slowly he reached out one claw and touched one little dark green talon. The dragonet started suddenly and then wrapped his talon around Aspen's claw, gripping it tightly. Juniper's wings rustled and his head turned towards her, looking a bit confused.
"Juniper?" asked Aspen. "I think ... I think his blind."
"Blind?" Juniper joined Aspen in front of little Legacy. Slowly she waved a talon in front of his eyes, but he didn't react. Then she waved it, faster, on one side of his head, to no reaction. Then she picked up a leaf and rustled it. His head instantly snapped toward the sound.
She sighed and looked into his berry-blue eyes, eyes that she now knew couldn't see and never would.
"Oh, dear," she said. "This is going to be harder than expected."
== Appearances ==
Legacy appeared in Distant Thunder as a minor character. He was seen in Possibility, and mentioned as "strange-looking" because of his bright blue eyes.
Despite making an appearance, this is not canon to his actual story, as he was born a full 70 years before Storm.
== Gallery ==
Legacy the LeafWing.png|Base by Battwiink, filled by Kaede
Legacy by Levendrawz.webp|art by Leven!
Legacy Fizzy Fullbody by Corgi Dogs.webp|base by SoFizzticated, fill by Corgi Dogs
Legacy Fizzy Headshot by Corgi Dogs.webp|base by SoFizzticated, fill by Corgi Dogs