Sierra

maybe life should be about more than just surviving.
character belonged to frayfae, now belongs to sby
deep within the desert dunes, the traveler sierra hunts. she has one policy, one moral: survive.but maybe those morals are changing
art is by cloud, click to open
 
S I E R R A
I don’t believe in your gods and goddesses. if they existed, things wouldn’t be this way.
Among the desert dunes, the last dragon you'd expect to see would be a SeaWing.
Sierra always had a thing for defying expectations.
Coding is by Essence!
Sierra 	Sierra
 	
Art 	text
Background 	Background
Creator 	fray, adopted by sby
Main Attribute 	survivor / leader
Elemental Attribute 	desert / ocean
Theme Animal 	idk
Theme Color 	blue / purple
Aesthetics 	deserts / oceans / moonlight / travel / survival tools / goggles / fabrics / blue light / waves / dunes
Theme Song 	(personal)(ship)
MBTI Personality 	text
Character 	Character
Age 	21 (hy)
Gender 	female
Orientation 	polysexual/romantic (attracted to females and those who identify as such + enbies mostly)
Occupation 	leader
Nicknames 	erra, sisi (pronounced see-see)
Tribe 	sea
Goal 	survive and thrive
Residence 	desert, among the dunes
Relatives 	a mother, a father, a sister. all forgotten.
Allies 	those she protects
Enemies 	those she protects her dragons from
Likes 	text
Dislikes 	text
Powers and abilities	text
Weapons 	text
Love Interests 	lobelia
Quote 	we aren’t interested in a new member.
 
A P P E A R A N C E
this isn't enough.
A SeaWing of average height, Sierra stands strong with great posture. A glowing icon in the dark of the desert, Sierra is sure to stand out against the waves of pale SandWings who lurk alongside her. She is rounded, but tough, and has trained herself to fight for years. She is a leader of the least expected.
With deep indigo scales, it's obvious that Sierra isn't from the desert. Her pale purple webbing and deep, blue top-scales help to give that away as well. Her underbelly is a deep lavender, marked by pale pink glow spots. Her horns, ears, and claws are all a very pale lavender as well. Her eyes are a ravaging, bright pink.
Sierra does not tend to wear very many accessories, just the bare minimum needed to survive in the desert. She wears pilot goggles to keep sand out of her sensitive eyes, brown ones with dark purple lenses. She also wears fabric scarves over her gills to keep sand out of them.
 
P E R S O N A L I T Y
there. that's where we'll find the oasis.
Sierra is strong. She is a prominent leader and a considerably good role-model for those who look up to her. She always tries to do what is best for her people and has a good moral code. She often has to make incredibly tough decisions that weigh on her mental health, and she can also be biased about certain groups of dragons, particularly those who live in the city.
Sierra is fairly stubborn when it comes to making decisions. She prefers to listen to her own people and her own guidance, never taking advice from outsiders or those she doesn't trust, whether it be for better or for worse. She's a survivor-- you don't survive by trusting every dragon you meet, sometimes you must cast aside the charming and kind strangers for the brave and loyal ones you already have beside you.
Sierra is most of all principled, dependable, and determined. She never gives up, even when everything seems to fall apart, and living in the desert, it often does. She is always trying to make sure that her plans work, which is part of her weakness because plans fall apart often. She is determined to save her people time and time again, which is tiring, but she works on without rest. A brave soul who does not know when to rest, Sierra will always be a dragoness that her friends can depend on.
 
A B I L I T I E S
follow me. follow me and we'll get out of here.
strengths
physical
*good stamina
*powerful stance
*strong fighter
mental
*strong leader 
*smart
*able to detect things needed for survival
tribal
*water breathing 
*strong swimmer
*see in the dark
weaknesses
physical
*slow runner and average flyer
*size
mental
*stubborn
*stereotypes a lot
*judges too fast
tribal
*no breath weapon
*needs water to survive
*can't speak aquatic
 
H I S T O R Y
sometimes I wish you'd shut up, city boy.
Life started well enough for Sierra. She hatched quietly in an ocean hatchery, welcomed into the world by a loving family. She was loved, adored. She was young, and the family cared about her very much.
Maybe too much, because one sister became much too jealous, after over a year of being considered second best, only made worse by the coming of her second sister. This sister was filled with darkness and hatred, and her methods were extreme at best, deadly at their worst. She was so angry that her little sister had taken so much attention, and she was slowly being forgotten. So one day, she decided to put a stop to it all.
She stole the young Sierra from her bed, and gave her to a traveller she had met up with before. She offered him much money to take her to the desert and let her die, and he agreed. So the traveller did so, but his conscience wouldn't let him leave a young two year old dragonet to simply die. So he took her in, to his home in the city of Barre.
She grew up there, and luckily the city was very close to an oasis. Instead of suffocating and dying, she lived happily enough, travelling to the oasis to keep her sane and alive. The only thing she needed was to live, and breathe the air she could have lost. As she grew up, the dragon told her vague things about her history, but she wanted to know more.
She confronted him one day and made him tell her. She listened as he told her the deal he made, and about her sister. He told her he couldn't let her die. Yet once she truly processed his words, her anger began to cloud her vision. She wouldn't listen when he told her that her sister would have just found someone else who would have really left her to die, but her rage wouldn't let her listen.
Angrily, she stormed out, with only her signature goggles and fabrics to keep her company. She started walking, then running, then flying, until the city was out of sight. Her sister wanted her to die out here? No. She’d live. She’d survive. She didn’t need any help from slimy, sneaky city folk. She was her own dragon, and she was stronger than anyone thought she was.
She flew until her wings were tired, then she began to trudge through the sand. Somehow, she managed to find oases, because without the sense of survival she seemed to have developed over the days after she left the city, she would have surely gone insane and died of dehydration.
She started alone. She was independent. She could do it without help. Yet when she saw the young SandWing curled in the sand, head in his talons, audibly crying, her empathy took over. She walked over to him and asked him what was wrong. It took some work, but eventually she pieced together his story.
The dragonet, who she learned was named Bocton, had grown up in a city like her, and had been wronged by city folk, just as she had. His parents had put their jobs over him so much that eventually it seemed he didn't exist, and he had enough. So he took off, much like she had, for anything other than that life. The similarities in their stories touched her, and she asked if he wanted to join her, to which he agreed. The two of them trekked away together, neither of them to be alone ever again.
Bocton and her grew very close, the two of them forming a sibling-like bond. Bocton was like the little brother she'd always wanted living in the city, and she took care of him the best she could. In return, though she had insisted he owed her nothing, the young SandWing used his navigation skills to find oases much faster and much easier, and he was also able to find them temporary shelters, but nothing that could be used as a permanent home.
 
R E L A T I O N S H I P S
don't be afraid. we can do this.
A R I D
in the beginning, sierra liked arid very much. she loved him like a father, because he was the only parent she had ever really known. in the beginning, the two had great times together, swimming in the oases near the village and telling each other stories, eating and cooking each others meals. then, when sierra finally made him crack, and tell her the truth, everything fell apart. she learned exactly what he had originally planned to do, and no amount of kind words or explanation could change the feelings of hurt and betrayal she felt for him. now, whenever she thinks of him, she just feels bitter and hurt.
B O C T O N
the first dragon who ever joined her.
E R O S I O N
like a sister to her! the more survival-prepared than her city boy brother, and Sierra adores her
P A T A
city boy! only let him join bc he's erosion's brother
L O B E L I A
Their relationship didn't start all that well, and the end result was far from expected.
 
T R I V I A
this isn't something I'm used to... but I love you
*atheist
 
G A L L E R Y 
why do things keep getting harder?
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Category:SeaWings
Category:Characters
Category:Females
Category:LGBT+
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Status (Leader)
Category:Content (Sbyman)