Effervescent

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saw a seawing in the icewing palace today... effervescent
effervescent snail shell backpack real
revamp of an old character by rain that ive since been given permission to use for my fic stowaway. enjoy! big wip for now
Effervescent 	Effervescent
 	
Background 	Background
Creator 	nibby
Infobox 	nightstrike's free format
Attribute 	hybrid
Color 	green
Song 	the suburbs-- arcade fire
Character 	Character
Age 	17 (in human years)
Gender 	male
Occupation 	fisherman (former), stowaway (former) traveler/unknown??
Tribe 	seawing + mixed
Residence 	man he just kinda like goes wherever
Relatives 	unknown
Allies 	ptarmigan (former), kabibi , loon, frostine, eos, blizzard, drop, cloud, periwinkle, eider
Likes 	warm weather, taking care of dragonets, reading, fish, wolves, birds, pearls, soft rains
Dislikes 	cold weather, dust, loud noises, blood, responsibility, keeping secrets
Love Interests	cloud
Quote 	wip
==appearance==
(see ref for art specifically. you're welcome to tweak the design a little in your drawings to suit your style, but don't mess with him too much!)
effer has always known himself to be odd looking. but that had always largely been due to him being a seawing growing up amongst the icewings for most of his life. his hyrid, "mutt" nature is almost a footnote in the stowaways, where many others are a hybrid of some kind as well.
effer is large in stature, having a hard time crawling through the secret passageways intended for stowaways such as himself. he's somewhat stocky, but without hard edges or much muscle tone. his muted purple wings are large and rubberlike, a bit uneven and hardly graceful for flight. his tail is thick and short, ending in a dry sandwing barb. his scales are soft and smooth, like a fish, and are colored vibrant emerald green, with a pearly pink stomach and softly glowing light green stripes. he has a sparse row of pale blue icewing spines, with a ribbony sand-colored sail running down his back and under his chest and tail. he has faint, darker green freckles and webbed feet, and his eyes are a warm copper orange. 
==personality==
effer is the designated second-in-command of the stowaways for a reason. he'd quickly earned himself a reputation as the happy-go-lucky, calm deputy, fun enough to be seen as down-to-earth, but serious enough to keep the stowaways in line. he's never particularly liked giving orders on big tasks-- that he usually leaves up to ptarmigan-- but doesn't mind teaching the younger members of the stowaways how to get by. he doesn't mind being the babysitter of the group-- he would much rather spend a day watching the kids than spying on royals, or engaging in much physical fighting. 
despite his smiley exterior, deep down, a nagging anxiety tugs at effer. he's terrified of something happening to the kids and him not being able to defend them properly, or worse, something happens to the kids, and there's nobody left to hold back ptarmigan. he doesn't mind his job-- he truly loves being a part of this strange family-- but he knows the outside perhas better than anybody in the palace. he's traversed the entire icewing kingdom, having been born in the north sea, and arriving in the palace in the south. and often times, in particularly stressful moments, he sits on the roof, in the guard's blindspot, watching the foggy horizon, pretending he can see all his past homes. 
he doesn't view himself as young, something which comes as a surprise to cloud. and as much as he hates being the only stowaway who truly knows ptarmigan, he's never thought twice about carrying such a weight with him. 
==history==
he never knew his parents-- abandonded as an egg in the icey waters on the north coast of the kingdom. it never bothered him too much-- from a young age, he taught himself strict realism and that he had nothing to miss of his parents. he doesn't know if they died, he was stolen, or just abandoned. the only thing that ever truly botherefd him was never being able to answer questions about his ancestry-- he's sure of being at least half seawing but is lost beyond that. 
he was taken in by kindly fishermen icewings that lived on tiny settlements near where he was abandoned. he was raised to become one of them-- he was a great swimmer for his ability to hold his breath for so long and seawing adaptations, and was on track to become one of them. 
one day, soldiers began storming their settlement. he barely remembers it these days, but believes they were probably skywings, or perhaps nightwings. the great war that had ended over ten years ago in the rest of the kingdom was still wreaking havoc on the icewings, and many soldiers, pirates, and rogues from other tribes were plundering the kingdom for what little they could take of it. some where sent by queens, remnants of the war (many of them stranded), while others were a part of organized crime developing in the falling kingdom. whichever these dragons were apatr of, effer doesn't care. he believes either way that they were just following orders and had no choice in their destruction. 
the fisherman that weren't killed fled to far corners at the first sign of danger, and effer wound up left behind due to his weaker flying skills. the soldiers didn't seem to pay him much mind when he dove into the water to flee (he guessed none were willing to douse themselves in the frigid ocean) and found himself safe, if alone, when they eventually left, unsatisfied with what meager things they coiuld steal from the fishers.
he decided to head south. over the course of the next few years, he would traverse the icewing kingdom, always heading south eventually. he stayed in haphazard inns, with small bands of thieves, many of whom were hybrids themselves, and in old villages. everytime, armoured dragons of some kind would destroy it, or signs of the dragons would send the place scattering. and every time, effer set off on his own again. 
in this time he witnessed much of what the icewing kingdom had come to. while the queen shut the doors to her palace and maintained a luxurious and royal facade inside, the world was fastly falling apart beyond. many soldiers that queens had sent to fight were never able to go back home, and often joined criminal groups in the kingdom and fought over what little they could find. factions would form amongst dragons, icewing peasants and foreigners alike, and would quickly fall apart, sometimes in as little as a week. effer tried to stay from as much of it as he could. he saw little hope left for this decaying tribe, one he felt little attachment too anyhow. if the war was still going, it was not a blazing, bright one, with full armies and shining spears, but a sickly, unfair one, more like crows scavenging at dead animals. 
the only thing he truly loved was nature. as he made his way south, he witnessed everything from enourmous glaciers, to flaring auroras, to mountains and forests and vast tundras. he took it all in, fascinated by this natural world that felt so seperate from the primal war below. 
he stayed with a pack of wolves, for some time, in a more just at the foothills of the great mountains that held the palace. he felt rather safe with the wolves-- they were probably the only pack in the area, and tus had no other gangs to wage war against. all they cared to do was hunt-- and once he built up trust with them, they rather appreciated him for his fishing skills and his taking care of the pups of the pack. but after a while, he decided to move on. he never really knew why until he explained it to cloud-- he got lonely, was the simple answer. 
==trivia==
- everybody calls him effer as a nickname, even people he doesn't know very well or who would otherwise insist on using full names
- he's really drawn to water and can always be found hanging out in some fountain 
- his favorite food is fresh raw fish
- if he was a human his name would be "frederic" 
- he like would never spend his life behind a desk but I could also totally imagine him writing a book about wolf packs and his time with one
- he's very clumsy when moving around the palace, but is very adaptable and has learned to move silently enough
== gallery ==
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