Ipomoea

i p o m o e a
character belongs to radar, please don't steal.
they / her • bi • poet / hoarder
a tree hugging peacelover in whom is obsessed with plants and incredibly possessive of their belongings, they're probably not entirely sane, but oh well. born to lower class sapwings that were never around that much so they'd come to befriend plants and after learning they had powerful leafspeak, they saw plants as their only friends. most of the time, they're a lonely dude who only has plants for company since no one else really wants to talk with them. probably the only leafwing in whom actually wants to know what's happening the hives. one day in the future, they wish to go there without being attacked by hivewing authority and privately executed. ipomoea is probably the only leafwing who doesn't want to exterminate hivewings and possibly silkwings off the face of pantala, they're fascinated by the other tribes of the continent.
mostly shunned for both their obsession over plants and respect for the other tribes, since the sapwings have gotten a little more aggressive over the years now. currently, they reside in the poison jungle, waiting for the time to come when peace spreads throughout pantala. they remain a poet and hoarder for the time being, their possessions growing and growing along with their loneliness. within this world they live in, the othermind doesn't really exist and the poison jungle wasn't burnt to ash. going to work on their ideas sooner or later. they wish to escape the place they live in, the poison jungle, they're getting tired of it, but they're trapped there because of sapwing law and there's no way getting around that.
Ipomoea 	Ipomoea
 	
Art By 	radar
Background information	Background information
Creator 	radar
Coding 	clipsey; edits by radar
Aesthetics 	ipomoeas / plant pots / landfills / jungles / lamps
Attribute 	obsession / loneliness
Element 	nature / bark / trees / lithium
Color 	mint green / light forest greens / dark blue
Animal 	lemur / chameleon
Song 	
Character information 	Character information
Age 	27 (hy)
Gender 	demifemale
Occupation 	poet / hoarder
Orientation 	bisexual
Tribe 	leafwing (sapwing, formerly)
Goal 	get away from the poison jungle
Residence 	bromeliad lake (formerly) / outskirts of the poison jungle
Relatives 	unknown
Allies 	plants / themself / vagabond
Enemies 	everyone else
Likes 	peace / plants / talking / their stuff / the color green / cool objects / meat
Dislikes 	dragons stealing their stuff / dust / carnivorous plants / ugly shades of brown / mud / poisonwings / sapwings / war
Abilities 	powerful leafspeak / normal leafwing abilities
Weapons 	plants
Loves 	n / a
Quote 	if i were to leave, i'd be killed. whether it be from my tribe or the other two.
a p p e a r a n c e
They wouldn't appear much to the normal eye.
Rather, Ipomoea is just your average LeafWing living within the SapWing village, yet even then they still have their strange ways. An obsession for a tribe that tried to exterminate their entire tribe, liking plants more than dragons. Certain traits that no one would see in any typical LeafWing. Vines curl gently around their talons and tail, upon their horns like living decorations. They come in every hue of green one could possibly think of. Their main scales remain a light shade of green, flooding down their fuzzy body, everywhere one can simply look. Like a minty peppermint winter, light forest green scales run down their back, ending just before the tip of their tail. Scattered throughout, medium rare pine green shows clearly with their main scales, complimenting them well.
Upon their snout, across their face and down the sides of their neck and body, freckles, like snowflakes of a powdery greenish white can be seen. It is mostly seen heavily sprinkled at the base of their neck. In a cluster of medium rare pine green scales, these flakes usually hit the center of some of the small scales. Along with dotting the dark mint green upon the front of their snout and nose horn. Building up from Ipomoea's legs are the well-known leaf-shaped wings, giving their tribe their name. The membranes remain a much lighter hue than the front of their snout, a dark mint green as mentioned. With greyer markings, giving the membranes a leaf-like pattern. This is the same coloration seen in their sail as well, which runs ridged down to a certain point. In which it separates into what appears, little leaflets.
Ipomoea's build remains bendy and stocky, long and lithe and yet quite thin, not enough for you to see their ribs, however they're still thin nevertheless. Their tail remains long and somewhat prehensile, not enough to appear like a monkey's or RainWing's. In short, it's not strong enough for one to be able to hang from it, but it does seem to help LeafWings climb trees. This is followed by finger-like paws and slightly hooked mint green talons, for additional help to climb trees. Large eyes sit in their sockets like perched birds, pupils remaining a deep, deep midnight blue. Some lightings, this color may appear black.
Their tail, leaf-shaped at the end with a color identical to the rest of their membranes, followed by a powdery mint green underbelly. Similar in color to that of the "freckles" seen spread out across the entirety of their body. Perhaps a longing, lonely expression casts upon their face. Maybe just a look of being trapped flickers here and there in their eyes as well. With them, a smell of pine and sweet pomegranate, a somewhat nice mixture of scents. A subtle warmth radiates from their scales, smooth and fuzzy to touch as well.
p e r s o n a l i t y
Lonely.
The first word coming to mind when spotting them from the trees and yet they are quite obsessive and overly friendly to plants. Possessive could be another word to describe how they act, hoarding a large pile of stuff in the outskirts of the SapWing Village. Yet anyone who goes near their things may get attacked, for Ipomoea fears others are trying to take their things. Despite being confirmed a peacemaker, the LeafWing will not hesitate of attack other dragons to protect the things they care about. Mostly it's plants, they have no interest in conversing with other dragons, just plants from across the jungle. They tend to have an extensive knowledge of what is happening across the Poison Jungle from just one plant. Ipomoea isn't into gossip, just the facts.
To put it simply, they are a hoarder, a clingy and very possessive one too. However, due to refusal of talking to other dragons, they have started to grow lonely, a heart-wrenching loneliness felt deep within. Tucked deep within their mind, they try to hide this feeling from the world, mainly because they don't like feeling lonely. No one does. For now, they remain the friends of plants and plants alone, in their opinion, dragons are exhausting to be around, having said that, they don't spend most of their time in a crowd. After so much time spent in nature, Ipomoea has grown to love plants,,, somewhat anyway. Plants have been their only friend ever since they learned they were a powerful leafspeak. Careless, I suppose they are that as well when it comes to some things.
While sometimes cold in their ways, Ipomoea is quite insecure on the inside, yet they don't know how to cope with it. For the motto goes, "LeafWings don't do insecurity." And because of that, they wish to never tell another soul about how they truly feel, bundling it all up inside. They don't want to disobey that motto and display signs of insecurity in the presence of another LeafWing, but it seems to be getting harder and harder to keep inside. Mostly, they wonder when those around them will become disappointed in them because, honestly, they're disappointed in themself. Mainly because they haven't lived up to what a LeafWing is supposed to be. They have respect for the tribes outside of the Poison Jungle and constantly wonder what life is like for them. That is what led them to being shunned by the other SapWings, who have grown bitter and colder over the years.
The very jungle feels like a large prison or cage to Ipomoea, mainly due to the LeafWing laws not allowing any unlicensed LeafWings outside the protection of what the tribe considered home. But they never really thought of it as that way, they wanted to leave the hold the jungle had on them. They just don't know how to do so quite yet, but they believe peace between the three tribes would bring that. Bringing peace to the entire continent seems highly unlikely to happen to a LeafWing without a license to leave the jungle. Right now, they're just trying to find a way to escape the place once called home, bringing along with them all their stuff.
h i s t o r y
*sapwings and poisonwings are in the middle of a civil war that's been going on as long ipomoea has been alive. joined the sapwing side because they assumed they'd be nicer.
* lived in a small, sapwing village called bromeliad lake, it wasn't that involved in the war and mostly just stayed out of the way.
* during their dragonethood, they heard tales of dragons that lived in the hives, stories of tall savannah grass and untamable beasts that were wild and free. wanted to leave the poison jungle and see them for herself.
* while the sapwings were on good terms with the hivewings and silkwings, those two tribes weren't involving themselves in the leafwing civil war. as such, it was seen as taboo to abandon either side in order to go live in luxury. most leafwings that wanted to leave were either pressured into staying from society or forced to get a license to leave.
* was mostly just scorned as a dragonet as they all assumed it was just child-like curiosity that drove her to wanting to see them. unfortunately, it wasn't, and as their thoughts on leaving didn't change, her community began to ostracize her.
* all except for one dragon... a kindly up and coming village nurse named vagabond. nobody wanted to go looking for insects with her, but ipomoea was the exception.
* learned they were a leafspeak when looking for insects to use in combat with vagabond. vagabond found a rather rare insect and when she went to grab it, she got caught in a sundew.
*fearful of losing the only friend they ever had, ipomoea pleaded to the plant to let her go and, strangely enough, it responded in a hissing voice. but in the end, the plant let the rattled leafwing go.
*vagabond promised to not tell anyone she was a leafspeaker, because then she'd be more likely to get drafted into the sapwing military.
*currently lives alone in a hut at the outskirts of the poison jungle, away from the fighting within their tribe yet also safe from the hivewings. knows that if they leave the jungle, they'll be killed. even then, they're not allowed out. patrols of sapwings make sure no leafwings from their side leave the safety of the jungle.
* hoards things that they like and will act aggressively towards those who attempt to take things from them. often steals things from other dragons, with the help of plants (and leafspeak) to add to their growing collection.
*their only friends are plants and vagabond, who visits them sometimes to keep them company.
a b i l i t i e s
Compared to that of a normal LeafWing, Ipomoea's abilities don't seem like much. And indeed that is what they are from a normal eye's view. Just another generic LeafWing... that is what you think until you see them in action. They have a rare ability known as leafspeak which allows them to speak to plants and coax them into doing their bidding. Ipomoea in particular has very powerful leafspeak after years of practicing with it in secret with their best friend. Despite all of this great power they wield within their talons, they don't put this power to much use past talking with plants to keep them company. Though they do have a habit to coax plants into doing their bidding and stealing things that catch their fancy. That is, if it is too difficult or/and dangerous to do it themself. On the topic of such, they are quite the talented thief, looking past the parts where they sometimes use plants to do the hard work instead.
And while they can't guarantee a clean getaway, they're still good at what they do nevertheless.
r e l a t i o n s h i p s
please roleplay beforehand (pantala only)
Pinto: Only met them once when she lived in the SapWing village, but just knowing their occupation is what convinced her that they're an absolute idiot. Who in their right mind would go out of their way to study carnivorous plants. Though some might call it bold of them to have such a dangerous hobby, she personally finds it stupid. Other than that, she doesn't really have anything else to say about them.
neutral
Barra: While Ipomoea hasn't met him personally, they've heard of him through the plants. Though at first they thought of him as "just another LeafWing idiot," after hearing his plans, interest sparked. His goal was to enter the hives in a "not very convincing" (as the plants stated) SilkWing costume. 'Idiotic,' they thought, 'he'll probably die before he even gets into the hives. How unfortunate, for I was always interested in going there...' 
At least, that was what they thought. But wouldn't you know it? He actually came back. Alive. And their interest in him peeked. He's been in the hives, he knows what it's like to live there, he could tell them what life is like there, and if the HiveWings really were as bad as everyone said they were. Indeed that could've happened... if they got to him before the PoisonWings did. And, in thinking he was some weird hybrid (hybrids were against the PoisonWing law apparently), threw him into a Dragontrap, thus causing his demise. Despite never meeting, they couldn't help but feel a bit saddened by his death, though it didn't bother them too much. They still wished they'd met him so he could tell them everything about the hives.
positive / neutral
Vagabond: Ipomoea's only friend who isn't a plant. They've known one another for a good duration of their lives, while most shunned them for their controversial opinion on HiveWings and SilkWings. Vagabond was the only dragon willing to talk to them. After all, she was dealing with issues for having a very similar interest in what life is like in the hives. Having said that, the two formed a close bond with one another over the fact that they were both shunned by most of society. And their friendship only grew from there. Often the two would talk about what they thought life was like in the hives. In addition to that, she would help Ipomoea with their leafspeak, ever since saving her life when out looking for insects. In general, they have a very positive relationship with this dragon and consider her a great friend.
As of recently, the interactions between the two of them is rather sparse, Vagabond still visits them every now and again to keep Ipomoea company. Of course, they always enjoy her company and while she's with them, the two continue to discuss ways of escaping the Poison Jungle. Or at least dreams of when peace falls upon Pantala.
very positive
t r i v i a
* in original concepts, ipomoea was going to be romantically interested in vagabond, but this was scrapped. idk why, but if i added it in now, it wouldn't work.
*originally named imopoea. but her name was fixed because this was a typo of ipomoea.
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g a l l e r y
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