Ascend

“I can’t help it that you’re weak and pathetic and weak and pathetic and weak and pathetic and that I’m better than you’ll ever be!”
-Ascend
== WARNING ==
This page contains mature elements, such as death, murder, and eeriness. 
This page also belongs to Popsicle. I will not tolerate anyone stealing this character or editing this page without my permission. If you want to make art of this character, then please go ahead. Just credit me for the character.
you have been warned…
== INTRODUCTION ==
You walk along a dirt path, looking for the noise you’ve been hearing…you see flashing lights, and there’s cheering and laughing, and as you walk closer you see a blue dragon who doesn’t seem to belong to a tribe, and they’re casting all sorts of spells. Maybe they’re an AllWing? Or maybe not.. you can’t tell. You step closer and suddenly there’s a buzzing sound, and everything goes quiet. The blue dragon looks at you. “Welcome to the magic show!” They say in a way that makes them sound like they’re better than everyone. “You weren’t invited, but I do suppose you’ll make for a great prop…”
Prop? You leap back in shock. You suddenly start floating into the air, higher and higher, until a bright red light grazes your scales. You look down at the dragon. You suddenly think you know their name: Ascend. Your wings begin to feel numb, you feel yourself hardening, and then you start to fall. Ascend catches you in their talons—and then you look at your own.
they’re made of wood now.
Ascend is smiling, as if they think they’ve won. They’re not just a magician, they’re more powerful than you can comprehend. And they drive fear into you, but you also feel a fierce sense of loyalty towards them…like you’d do anything they’d want, even if you didn’t want to.
”Now,” Ascend says to the audience. “On with the show!”
== Appearance: ==
Ascend is a slim, tribeless dragon with electric blue scales. They have teal underscales, and their head armor is the same color. It also has long, purple antennas behind It’s ears and on the tip of its tail. It’s almost like a Rainwing rough, but without the membranes. On their shoulders are two thin green fins, and their wings are basically the same, but much longer. This makes it hard to fly for Ascend, but this is where magic comes in handy (see “Abilities” section). 
They have a big scar across their leg and over their eye, for unknown reasons. They wear a deep red cloak with white lace when performing on stage to hide their scars. 
If you look into Ascend’s eyes, you may find yourself drifting away. Their gaze can immediately intimidate anyone they choose to make eye contact with. Many young dragons find themselves wanting to crawl up to the stage with them simply because of Ascend’s scales. Ascend talks in a deep, hypnotic voice that either draws dragons in or drives them away. 
When using magic, Ascend’s eyes normally glow a blinding green color, the same color as the swirls of their magic. They have emerald jewels embedded into their teeth to match. 
== Abilities: ==
=== Ascending ===
Ascend got their name from the fact that they can make things float, and also that they can float through anything. Because their wings don’t work as well as you’d expect from a dragon, they’ve learned to use magic to get around that.
=== Light Magic ===
It takes a lot of concentration, but Ascend has learned to create blue blazes of light that can dazzle the audience. It is also very risky to use, as it can instantly kill anything—plants, animals, and even dragons.
=== Smoke ===
Any magician learns to use this power the moment they’re recruited. Ascend uses this smoke for disappearing acts.
=== Invisibility ===
Ascend can go invisible, and this part is now a WIP bc I’m lazy =) 
== Personality: ==
To say Ascend is “Prideful” Would be an understatement; in fact they think of themselves as a perfect dragon with such high standards that not even a SkyWing could fly high enough to reach them. Because of this the other magicians dislike them. In fact, Ascend has been treated like an outcast since day one. Although they were taught magic, it was in such a cold in bitter way that it felt like the others were drilling the lesson into their head. 
Ascend will easily snap if someone says something that annoys them just a little, often abusing the magic they’ve learned to show the other dragon that they are not to be messed with. More often than not, this ends in a fight between the two. To put it lightly, it’s unusual for Ascend to not stand up for themselves’s. 
Perhaps they picked up this attitude because they were bullied frequently by the other magicians. They always felt the need to prove themselves worthy of being a magician. The only reason the other magicians kept them was because they couldn’t get rid of them. Ascend had to learn how to defend themself, and so that was the main reason they became highly skilled in magic.
Despite their cocky nature, Ascend can be generous to dragons. If a SkyWing’s kite got stuck in a tree, they’d get it down. If a couple dragons got into a fight, Ascend would break it up (using their very safe blaze-magic). Ascend likes to help other dragons, even if they make it all about themselves in the process. 
Ascend has a bit of a habit when it comes to their confidence (or in this case, lack of confidence). If they ever feel ashamed or the slightest bit insecure they force themselves to shove those emotions down, then go make a snide remark to another magician or dragon about their demeanor (though Ascend may call out dragons on their feelings or accents, they don’t make fun of any dragon’s looks, since they have scars that add to their own insecurities.) and walk away. This makes them have a mindset of “Im better than everyone.” 
== Backstory: ==
YOUNG DRAGONETHOOD
Ascend’s story only began once they were abandoned in the forest. They can’t remember much, but all that they know is that they were found and rescued by magicians, then lived in the Magician’s Quarter’s in the Queen’s palace for a good amount of years. They learned that if you could perform magic tricks, you’d be paid more money than any guard or warrior. At first this didn’t make sense to them, but many years later they were allowed to hide with the other magicians, and watch a magic show. They were in awe of how one dragon could dazzle the kingdom with wonder. And that’s when they knew, they were destined to be a magician as well.
It took a whole year of asking before the magicians finally agreed to train them. It first began with a simple smoke trick, then they gained the ability to float up high, and they even learned how to float through ceilings. Ascend managed to learn a particularly powerful spell that almost took out half of the Magician’s Quarters. The Magicians were shocked at Ascend’s powers and knew that they’d have to train them more before they could perform on stage for thousands of dragons. 
THE MAGICIANS AND THE PUPPETS 
So, after 3 and a half years of training, Ascend finally was able to perform for the dragons they always wanted to. After a year of magic shows, the other Magicians let them see a secret room. When Ascend stepped inside, it was full of dragon puppets, all carved out of wood. Some of them also had features that looked similar to some of the other magicians. Suddenly, the puppets started to move. “It’s too early,” One of them said. “leave us alone. The light hurts our eyes.” 
The Magicians then explained to Ascend that a day would come for any magician where a dragon would turn up uninvited, and then the magician that was currently performing would turn that dragon into a puppet. But not just a normal, lifeless puppet, it would be a puppet that was alive, and so loyal to the one who turned them this way that they would never leave. And each year, they would put on an extraordinary puppet show with everyone’s puppet that would wow the audience. 
“That will be what you do, someday.” One of the magicians told Ascend.
And, a couple months later, a dragon walked in. And Ascend turned them into a puppet, with golden stars for eyes, and cloth that looked like the furling thing behind Ascend’s ears. Ascend put their puppet with everyone else’s. And then they waited for the end of the year, when they could put on their best show yet…
But suddenly there was screaming. Lights flashing. Blue fire burning the stage. The magicians were yelling something at Ascend. Ascend could also never forget the SeaWing that screamed at them and scratched them across their right eye, and swore to someday kill them.
What had happened was, Ascend managed to set the stage on fire when Ascentello bumped into them and misdirected their light powers. Ascend had run before anything could happen to them, hiding in the forest. So they left before anything could happen, taking Ascentello with them as a sort of punishment for making Ascend set the magicians show ablaze. 
Traveling Pyrrhia 
(Spoilers from here on out for “Ascend’s beginnings,” an upcoming fanfiction written by Popsicle.)
The next day after the fire, Ascend heard someone in the bushes, calling out to their thoughts. This turned out to be a NightWing animus named Sentinel, who could also read their mind. She agreed to help Ascend find a new place to call home as long as they helped her solve the mystery of her origins. 
WIP 
== Inventory: ==
Puppet Strings—This was one of the first things Ascend earned when they created Ascentello, as a way of controlling their puppet. The strings are silver with a creepy aura around them. They’re used to keep puppets from saying anything their master doesn’t want them to, because even though puppets are obedient, they are bound to ask questions. The strings prevent this.
The Mask— Ascend is required to wear an enchanted mask, shaped exactly like their head’s structure, to make sure the audience likes them. When they put it on, the mask will become invisible, and any dragon who looks at them will see exactly what the want to see Ascend as, weather that be a gorgeous sparkling dragon, or dead. Ascend never quite liked this mask, because they feel like hiding themselves’ is a problem. Nevertheless, they do it anyway.
== Relationships: ==
=== Scratches (Neutral) ===
Scratches is a female NightWing who was “kind” enough to help teach Ascend magic. However, her way of doing things would be rather harsh, summoning wasps and scorpions (which her powers allowed her to do) to chase Ascend into obedience. 
Though she used her menacing powers on Ascend most often, she also defended Ascend with them. She once slipped five scorpions into one of the magicians pouches for locking Ascend in a room, and often found herself reading bedtime stories to them about anger and vengeance, setting some pages of fire.
Eventually, Ascend was able to get back at her using their smoke powers and blazing light.
=== The Sand Sorcerer (EXTREMELY negative) ===
The Sand Sorcerer was one of the most powerful magicians Ascend knew. But Sand wasn’t that welcoming to Ascend when it first arrived. With anger and hatred, Sand would trap Ascend in his sand tornados and turn the floor into quicksand to sink him. They always saved themself or had a magician rescue them, but Sand was extremely dominant and usually told the others to “Leave the runt alone. It would figure out how to save itself.”
Ascend grew to fear and resent Sand, but eventually, they had enough. They would start fighting back at The Sand Sorcerer, slashing them and biting them, receiving a couple scars and one long cut along their wing membrane. Until, well, you decide who was in the wrong here; Ascend found out how powerful their blazing-powers were when they tested it out on The Sand Sorcerer. The SandWing had dropped dead, mouth open and an open wound across his side. Ascend hid Sand Away, and nobody knew or suspected that Ascend had murdered him.
=== Wax (Positive) ===
Wax was a humble candlemaker who never cared to follow the HiveWing rules. For some unknown reason, she went to live on Pyrrhia and found herself coming to lots of magician shows. When Ascend met her, She was immediately kind to it, easing its anxiety. Eventually Ascend came to trust her, and then told her about their light powers which had killed the Sand Sorcerer. They asked her not to tell anyone, and she never did, instead helping them train to control the blazes, having them light candles with it and heating her wax cauldron. For some time now, Ascend had been training with her, until one day she stopped showing up to the magic shows.
=== Ascentello (Negative) ===
Ascentello is Ascend’s puppet. She has stars (or what looks like stars with multiple points) made of gold for eyes, a spruce colored wood for her body, small horns, and cloth mimicking the things behind Ascend’s ears. When she was turned into a puppet (as shown in the introduction) she felt an overwhelming loyalty to Ascend, but also fear. The more she spent time observing them, the more she realized how much she hated dragons like them. Not much is known about her transformation into a puppet, but she was likely older than Ascend.
Ascend views Ascentello as a tool—as a way to show off its worth. Ascend would secretly practice for the puppet shows by using Ascentello. Eventually, the puppet fought back, only to be burned with Ascend’s blazing powers. To this day, she still has a giant burn mark on her chest because of them.
=== Axe & Axel (Neutral) ===
Axe & Axel are in the same section because they are conjoined MudWing brothers (meaning they are two heads sticking out of one body). The two have become accustomed to making fun of Ascend for the fact that they can’t fly. However, Ascend never holds back and has made the two float through the ceiling and dropping them on the ground. However, the three of them make an excellent trio in magic shows, as the twins can teleport objects to them and throw them to Ascend, who makes the objects float in the air. 
=== Oyster (oh dude this is so negative I can’t even label it as EXTREMELY SUPER DUPER negative) ===
Ascend and Oyster have a very complex relationship to say the least. After Ascend set the stage on fire, a wood beam fell on Oyster’s siblings, and Oyster threatened to kill Ascend. Thirsty for Revenge, Oyster stalks Ascend’s every movement. Wherever they go, Oyster is following, the desire for vengeance drenching every thought he has.
== Fanon Relationships: (open!) ==
=== Rain (neutral positive) ===
Ascend met rain on a tour to Possibility. The two sort of became friends and Ascend would help rain get revenge on those who hurt animals. Once, Ascend managed to cast a summoning spell which summoned a bunch of morpho butterflies for Rain. Even though Ascend is extremely cocky and thinks that they’re the best, they have a soft spot for Rain and makes it clear that Rain is “almost” as great as them. 
=== Fern (negative) ===
the first problem with Fern is that she’s a human, which Ascend hates. The second is her overall personality, and that she loves fruit instead of vegetables (see “fun facts” section). Ascend feels a big disdain towards her and chooses to make fun of her and practice magic on her.
=== Coalesces (idk if I spelt that right lollll) ===
WIP
=== Spectrum (Neutral) ===
WIP
== Weaknesses & Strengths: ==
ooo nice 
=== Strengths: ===
* Clever
* Confident 
* can use magic fluently in battle
* Persuasive 
* Can be smart when they need to
=== Weaknesses ===
* Can’t fly
* has anger issues
* annoyed easily
* Obsessed with themself
* Disgusted by humans
== The Magic Show! ==
Note that this is soon to be a short story fanfic. The link is here.
“Do you think Ascend is going to be apart of the next puppet show?”
”I hope not. They’re kind of crazy. Not to mention their creepy floating magic.”
”But we LOVE Ascend for their Creepy Floating Magic! It’s iconic!”
”Love is a strong word. But yes, it is iconic.”
”OH DONT TELL ME YOU LIKE THAT WEIRD THREE-HEADED DRAGON MORE THAN ASCEND!”
”Three moons, stop shouting. And Axe and Axel only had two heads.”
”Whatever, its still weird.”
”Guys, shhh, we’ve almost made it.”
…
== Playlist: ==
Digital Silence by Peter McPoland
Carousel by Melanie Martinez
Maybe more coming soon lol
== Quotes ==
“On with the show!” -Ascend after turning a dragon into their puppet 
“Ah yes, The Sand Sorcerer. What a tragedy! What will the audience do without their beloved SandWing? Well, great news, I can take your place.” -After killing the Sand Sorcerer 
“This is my puppet, Ascentello! Sound’s a bit like my name, eh? Let’s see her in action…” -To the audience about Ascentello 
“Look at this little creature… no claws, no tail, how can you have a pet like THIS?!” -About humans
“Look at me! I’m better than you. And even if you did try to live up to my standards, you wouldn’t last long. So go ahead and run off, and maybe I won’t see you again and throw you out.” -to a dragon that wandered backstage
“I never asked for your opinion, because all that matters is mine.” -Being Sassy
“Now I know what you’re thinking—how is a six-year-old dragonet supposed to do magic? And to that I say—sit back, relax, and watch me.” -to the Audience
“Wait, dragons EAT mushrooms?” -learning about mushroom soup lol 
“Being the greatest magician of all time doesn’t mean I’m happy. I only act like I am. I’m carrying the weight of killing my audience around—and wondering if i should be a magician at all.” -to Sentinel 
“I’m not weak. I’m the opposite, in fact.” -to Oyester 
== Very fun facts that you can tease Ascend about ==
* Ascend hates fruit. They’re very much a vegetable dragon, but if they had to choose a fruit to tolerate it would be dragonfruit. Their favorite vegetables are lettuce, cabbage, and cauliflower.
* The first time Ascend ran into a scavenger they were very young, and they didn’t sleep at all that night.
* Ascend views itself as a skilled flyer (or levitation master, since they have to use magic to fly,) but is TERRIFIED of tree gliding. It tried to do tree gliding with RainWings once, but started to feel sick and had to stop, although as soon as it landed it passed out for a brief moment.
* Ascend really likes candles, since they trained with Wax. Their favorite scent is vanilla or peppermint.
* Ascend wants to own a mushroom garden, and they’re even planning on carrying a box with dirt and mushrooms growing in it for when they travel.
* Ascend has ADHD and if you ask them to sit still they’ll say no repeatedly.
* Ascend is extremely smart, but their cockiness overshadows that.
== Gallery: ==
File:Ascend by Popsicle .jpg|good ol Ascend by ur local popsicle
File:Ascend but macanut23 drew them.jpg|By macanut23
File:Ascend art by Star.Streaked.Nightmares.jpg|By Star.Streaked.Nightmares
File:ANOTHER ASCEND HEADSHOT!.jpg|Another Ascend Headshot
File:Ascend full-body (I hate fullbodies).jpg
File:Ascend does an eye roll GIF.gif|ascend rolling their eyes and not having any shading (By TIWP btw)
File:Le WIP of ascend surrounded by mushrooms..jpg|Ascend loves mushrooms. (WIP)
File:Ascend by BoiledPotato1.jpg|By Boiled Potato
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