Heka

Heka was created for Character-to-Dragon Contest.
Based on Howl from Howl's Moving Castle. If you've read it, good job. :) If you've only watched the animation, then Howl's personality will be vastly different. REALLY different.
Spoilers for HMC. Read at your own peril.
credit to gif creator
H E K A
Male|SandWing Mutt||Chaotic-Good|Animus
Heka smiled that dazzling smile of his. "My dear Wasteland," he said. "You surely don't believe that a pitiful spell like that will get rid of me?"
Also known as the Alchemist Helios, Flare, and Master Phoenix, Heka is a SandWing mutt animus who resides in a moving castle of his own creation. He is one of the only animus known to have adapted their powers to suit them. 
Heka is known for his contributions to the register of SandWing Magical Items and his battle with the animus Wasteland.
R E F E R E N C E
quote or something
hmmm coming soon but this for the moment
Art by the amazing User:Oblivion The Nightwing
Heka 	Heka
 	
Background 	Background
Creator 	Shøck
Coder 	Shøck
Base Coder 	Hey/Forge
Artist 	Foreverfalling712
Attribute 	His tendency to 'slither out' of commitments
Element 	Water
Color 	Blue/silver and scarlet/grey
Animal 	Cat
Song 	
MDTI Type 	text
Character 	Character
Age 	25 HY
Gender 	
Orientation 	
Occupation 	Animus
Tribe 	SandWing Mutt
Goal 	To avoid doing things he doesn't want to do
Residence 	The Moving Castle
Relatives 	text
Allies 	Spark
Enemies 	Wasteland
Likes 	Looking perfect/toffee and caramel/being appreciated/using his magic
Dislikes 	Fighting dragons as powerful as him/getting angry/doing things he doesn't want to do/being bullied into doing things/his tinting going wrong
Powers 	Modified Animus Magic
Weapons 	MaGiC
Love Interests	Spark
Quote 	"DON'T touch that!Are all SkyWings this nosy?"
A P P E A R E N C E
"You did it on purpose! You couldn't rest till you'd made me miserable too! Look at it! It's ginger! I shall have to hide until it's grown out!"
-Howl, Howl's Moving Castle
A SandWing, you think at first. And yes, Heka does, for the most part, look like one of pale, tall sand dragons. But then you see the fluffy tip of his tail, and the faint shimmer to his scales...and you know he's a hybrid of some sort.
Heka is a tall, slender dragon. He's built like a wiry SandWing, with long legs and delicate talons. His perfectly manicured claws are a pearly white, the same as his flawless teeth. Heka lacks muscle, and seems larger than he is because of his height.
He's handsome, with a charming smile that belies a somewhat moody nature, and he speaks with a lovely welsh accent. One long turquoise and copper earring dangles from his right ear, which he occasionally swaps out for a jet or larimar earring.
Heka's face is angular and elegant, with the large, long horns that are usually seen on a HiveWing. Soft, silky white/pink fur replaces the SandWing back membrane, starting out soft and getting gradually stiffer as it progresses down his neck and back. Heka loves to style his fur, and often dyes it with red or pink to give it a bit more colour.
Walking with a up-right, elegant pace, Heka carries himself tall, well aware of his beauty and lithe body. He talks like a courtier or noble, despite coming from a fairly average family. Heka makes and wears perfumes and always smells faintly of flowers such as hyacinths.
Colour-wise, Heka has pale golden/white/platinum scales, similar to the pale yellow/pink colour reflected onto a cloud. Everything about him is pale and soft, with the darkest colours being his eyes, which are a strong green-blue. Some dragons described them as looking like 'glass marbles' but in reality they are bright and shining.
Tawny, pale patterns ripple across his back and neck, blending in rather than standing out. They are a combination of SandWing and HiveWing patterns, looking like an irregular mixture of speckles, ink splatters and half-circles with a circle above them.
He inherited a non-forked tongue, and though he has a single pair of wings, the patterns on them are similar to those of a SilkWing. Heka's wings are well proportioned and the colour of white gold. Between each of the first three fingers is a long oval/diamond shape. Around the edges of his wings, almost too pale to see, are irregular spots and splashes. 
P E R S O N A L I T Y
"Look on the bright side," said Howl. "It could be me it kills."
-Howl's Moving Castle
Heka is a quirky dragon, vain as a peacock and both noble and moody at the same time.
However, Heka is also generous and empathic, good at noticing dragon's problems and doing small, nice things for them, such as making spells to take away unnecessary aches and pains, finding flowers to put on the table, and so on. He's got quite a soft heart, and is really quite kind.
Heka is quite a caring dragon, and he is loyal and protective of those he loves. He may be quirky and special, but he would do anything to make sure his family is okay. He's gentle in his own way, and generally, morally sound.
Most of Heka's flaws are annoying but not harmful. He gets annoyed or upset when things don't go his way, often to the great inconvenience of the dragons around him. He can be extremely charming and noble when it suits him, and loves to be appreciated.
Heka cannot stand by and let innocent dragons get hurt, and he will protect and help the weak or defenceless. He's both very honest and very dishonest at the same time. He's very open about his feelings, and often expresses them quite melodramatically.
Extremely melodramatic and ridicules, Heka hates getting really angry. However, when provoked, he is a force to be reckoned with, and will fiercely defend others (or himself) from the attacker. 
Described by Spark as a 'slither-outer', Heka hates to be pinned down to commitments he doesn't want, and slithers out of answering questions or doing things that displease him by changing to subject or giving himself something else to do.
When upset, Heka can be somewhat childish, creating masses of green slime, sulking, or acting cold. He hates to be ignored, and doesn't like being scolded, either. He's terribly vain, spending up to two hours everyday in the bathroom, and always making sure his appearance is perfect. 
Heka has convinced himself that he is a terrible coward, when in reality he is actually quite brave in most directions. He has to trick himself into being brave, mostly by telling himself that he's not doing the thing he's scared of or making himself so angry that he forgets his fear.
He's terrible at keeping money, as he spends it like water on things like jewellery, perfume, pretty things and plants. Spark and Kalahari are forced to hide some of the money so Heka doesn't go and spend it.
B A C K S T O R Y
"When Howl offered to keep me alive the way humans stay alive, I suggested a contract on the spot. Neither of us knew what we were getting into. I was grateful, and Howl only offered because he felt sorry for me."
-Calcifer, Howl's Moving Castle
Have a good day.
*had this talent from an early age
*parents were nice enough
*sister, very bossy
*trained under under the only other animus at the time (an IceWing??)
*was very talented, modified his own power and created/called a fire (snake? demon? snake-demon?)
*parents died of a sickness when he was about seventeen HY
*he left his sister (Isis) to create the Moving Castle
*but still left a ton of scrolls and stuff at her house in the SandWing Queendom
*the queen of the SandWings constantly wants to use his powers
*he is overcharging her
*and she pays so he's rich
*but he spends the money like water so...
*he's not really
*or would be poor if it weren't for *name* and *name*
*meets a nice Skywing with a curse on her
*'sure, you can live here.'
*so she cleans for him because she is a total neat freak
*he needs to blacken his name
*because the queen wants him to find her missing *insert*
*anyway this other animus goes crazy and wants to steal his life force?? or just kill him before she's killed
*this animus kills his mentor
*he's very upset and scared
*Heka and family move the Moving Castle in the hopes that said crazy animus won't find them
*but Wasteland does
*and there's a big battle involving lots of magic
*the Skywing's curse is broken
*Wasteland is destroyed/turned into a something
*Love...he's always been in love with her
*"We should live happily ever after.."
*and that will involve several violent arguments per day and a magical explosion or two
*but they are inseparable :)
A B I L I T I E S
"I'm a coward! The only way I can do something this frightening is telling myself I'm not doing it!"
-Howl, Howl's Moving Castle
* he lives in a moving/flying castle/ship thing with portals (like the enchanted tunnels) to other places (The SandWing Palace - yellow) (A random place in the mountains - red) (SeaWing shores - blue) (IceWing border - white)
*enchanted a 'pet' for himself (a fire creature to hold some of his magic) or this is an other animus who ended up like this idk
*Sophie is a pureblood SkyWing??
*Michael represented by a SandWing waif
*quite good at singing
Tribal
Heka's magic was the only good thing that came out of his mixed genes. As far as tribal abilities go, he got the worst of it, with a lack of fire and SandWing venom. His HiveWing genes didn't give him any sort venom or natural weapon, and he certainly didn't get any silk-spinning abilities. He's got teeth and claws and that's about it.
However, Heka did get the wiry speed of the SilkWings/HiveWings and uses that to his advantage in any talons on fights. He's also able to survive on very little food, but still needs normal amounts of water to survive.
Other
text
Magic
text
*He modified his own magic so it is more like an innate talent. It involves using his thoughtforms to create effects and the like. His ability to create effects stems from his mind, and it's less permanent that animus magic
*sometimes requires words/drawn circles/runes etc
*other times is spontaneous and effected by mood 
***cough*makes copious amounts of green slime when upset*cough*
**especially if his tinting went wrong
*can't do anything like raise the dead
*deliberately 'weakened' himself by putting limitations as well as his mods
S T R E N G T H S
"I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.
-Howl, Howl's Moving Castle
Have a good day.
Physical
could be fast but is a bit lazy, tall but lacking muscle
Mental
text clever, 
W E A K N E S S E S
"I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying."
-Howl, Howl's Moving Castle
Might not keep this section
Physical
no tribal a
Mental
blah blah
R E L A T I O N S H I P S
You won't find my other suit in the bathroom, Miss Snoop. You're not getting your hands on any of my clothes ever again."
-Howl, Howl's moving Castle
These dfldsjkhfjdkshkjsdhg;djshg; /keyboard slams/
Parents
"My parents died a few years ago, in the plague. They would not have liked a crabby dragon like you."
Neutral/Positive
Text and info on relationship with so and so.
He loved them, but they had a fairly loose relationship. When they died he was sad but not destroyed. Always respected them even if he disagreed violently.
Shard
"Shard would kill me if she heard about this..."
Positive
Text and info on relationship with so and so.
Mentor, animus, and lover of tea.
Spark
"We should live happily ever after."
Generally Positive
Basically Sophie's equivalent. Falls in love with her even through the curse :)
And she doesn't realise for quite a while - heck, I'm not sure he realised he was in love for a while
He does this little nice things for her that she doesn't notice but he's uncharacteristically noble about it
But gosh they fight like cat and dog
Calcifer
"Since when have you ever needed flattery to get you to do something?"
Neutral/Positive
Fire snake thing
they're like, friends but fight a lot. He can only really be bullied by Heka
Kalahari
"Good heavens, Kalahari! I leave you and Spark alone for a day and this happens?!"
Positive
Apprentice. He literally lived in Heka's Castle for three months before Heka really noticed him and decided to make him his apprentice.
Heka is fond of Kalahari, and the two make a good team, for good or for bad.
name subject to change
T R I V I A
"I'm going to bed, where I may die."
-Howl, Howl's Moving Castle
Trivia, also known as the place to find random facts.
*Based on Howl Pendragon from HMC (the book)
*Some other names I considered for him were Flare and Howl
*Heka is the Egyptian god of magic and medicine - basically the Force personified
*Literally the first animus I made
*I brought in some Egyptian stuff in even though he's Welsh
*He has this guitar but can't play it
*He has nicest table manners you can imagine
*Heka always gets a cold when he visits rainy places
*Very unmusical but can sing very well
*I gave him fur because Howl is very particular about his hair, and I wanted to stay true to his personality
G A L L E R Y
Quote here
Thank you for all the art!
Heka
Hekaheadshot.png|Concept by me
Hekaroyalripple.jpg|By RoyalRipple, thank you :)
Hekabyforeverfalling712.webp|by Foreverfalling712!
Hekahuman.png|As a human by me (using Sangled’s picrew)
HekabyOblivion.png|By the amazing Oblivion!!
HekamoobboardbyPetaltail.jpg|Moonboard thanks to Petaltail!
Other
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Danny Lines.png|Credit to Danny Lines
Various
Power Modifications
Name: 	Requires 	Examples 	Other
Transformation: 	Words/Chalked circles	Formshifting/illusions 	The hardest and most taxing
Crafting/Creation	Chalked circles 	Creation of permanent magic 	A range of difficulty levels
Elemental 	Thoughtforms 	Fire creation/manipulation 	Taxing on the mind
Effects/Moods 	An emotional reaction	Making lots of green slime when upset	Often unexpected
Howl's Moving Castle (c) Dianna Wynne Jones
Heka (c) Shøck
Background Image (c) Danny Lines
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