Mooseblight

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Mooseblight, known by IceWings as The Hybrid, is a 5 year-old -IceWing hybrid first indirectly mentioned in "Scales" and formally introduced in Ice on the Horizon. During his 4 year tenure in the IceWing prisons, he became infamous for his violence in frequent escape attempts. After escaping the prisons with the help of Silvana and causing the Mooseblight Massacre, his current whereabouts is unknown. He has uncertain feelings for Silvana.
== Description ==
From afar, Mooseblight kind of blends in with other IceWings due to his predominantly pale blue color palette, but any closer look reveals that he's very distinct. For one, he's built broader than one, something that would be way more obvious past his legs if it wasn't for frequent starvation reducing the rest of his body to a pile of bones. The largest difference is easily his lack of wings: They are substituted by large wing buds just above his shoulders. Mooseblight's tail is incredibly short yet thick, lacking spikes entirely and ending in 3 blue tiger stripes. His huge, dark, menacing eyes are a deep blue. They have a slight seafoam green highlight only visible in brilliant sunshine.
He's seldom seen without any kind of chains keeping him controlled. Mooseblight has many tiny scratches from narwhal tusks, struggles, and IceWing claws over the years. He has a major scars on the right side of his upper neck, left flank, left leg, and his tail, clearly displaying his blue IceWing blood.
No one besides Aeolis and Mildeaa know he is part SpurWing, but they know he looks weird and subsequently refer to him as just a hybrid.
== History ==
=== Background ===
Mooseblight is the only child of Aeolis and Mildeaa as a wingless SpurWing-IceWing cross. He was solely raised by Mildeaa, a timid yet loving SpurWing, all throughout the (Lower Mud Kingdom). He never had a permanent home: They were constantly on the run from SpurWing authority due to an ancient superstition against IceWings. He wasn't told anything about his father, except that he left for their protection.
While they were never caught by SpurWings, they were caught by something much worse. The Hybrid Hunters stumbled upon Mooseblight on accident, and it didn't take long for them to restrain the one year-old dragonet with deception.
=== In Death, Sunshine ===
The Hybrid Hunters brought Mooseblight over to the Ice Kingdom under the guise of a "vacation". After complaining about the cold there, he was told he'd be brought to the kitchens for some hot chocolate. He was curious and asked questions to one of the guards Lion about the unknown land around him. She allowed him to take a moon globe.
Mooseblight entered a door that was apparently the kitchens to ask the chefs for his serving. Unbeknownst to him, he hadn't walked into the kitchens, he had been fooled into imprisoning himself in the IceWing dungeons. He noticed this quickly and tried pounding on the door to be let out, with no avail.
As months passed and tortures were inflicted on him, Mooseblight grew in aggressiveness. Finally after 3 months, he snapped. When locksmiths came by adding more security to the prisoners, he attacked them in an attempt to escape. The attempt was quickly thwarted by a wing of guards, but not without killing 2 of the locksmiths and earning several severe scars on his neck that would never heal. The incident caused Queen Cumulus to start a council meeting the following day on with what to do with the dragonet. Most argued for his execution, yet the commander Ecru argued that he should instead have Lion as a full-time guard to prevent further incidents seeing that he liked her. Lion was brought herself to confirm, and despite Cornmeal's and her own concerns, she agreed to guard him full time.
Lion came to visit him for the first time. He asked why everyone hated him, to which she didn't reply and offered her moon globe as a source of comfort. His moon globe was eventually seized by the time she arrived to feed him and she promised to find him a source of light.
Mooseblight's state deteriorated, and it wasn't long until he escaped again, although Ecru managed to knock him out. That isn't discourage him from escaping though. By his fourth escape, he had two permanent guards, Lion and Fir, instead of Lion guarding him at all times.
Three years since his hatching day rolled by and nothing improved. Mooseblight's escape attempts increased and grew more fatal, killing more and more IceWings in more brutal ways. Soon he was known as just "The Hybrid" and he identified quickly from Lion's and Fir's conversations that no one wanted to deal with him. It became a source of pride for him.
There was finally some change in his fourth year. His cell was renovated to include natural lighting and the ability for him to drink whenever. He had more food. He was more active instead of half asleep constantly. Finally somewhat satisfied, Mooseblight was less insistent on escaping and began trusting Lion more.
=== Scales ===
Mooseblight was indirectly mentioned by Queen Cumulus to Silvana upon recapture as her "most horrible prisoner" who "craves IceWing blood" and the "forbidden hybrid".
=== Ice on the Horizon ===
Mooseblight took an interest in a strange new pink prisoner (Silvana) which he suspected to also be a hybrid, vowing to break her out soon knowing that Queen Cumulus executed her prisoners after a few days. The following day surprised him as both he and the prisoner were pitted against each other to the death in a makeshift arena. Refusing to harm her, he broke off her muzzle in an attempt to make her speak, which allowed her to aim deadly venom at Queen Cumulus observing from a throne. They escaped the arena in the crossfire that resulted.
They officially introduced one another, learning that they were both IceWing hybrids. He began liking her for her radically different and dangerous personality, but also began to overly protect her. While they were trudging along in an argument he and Silvana were ambushed by Cornmeal who offered to include them in his tutor group to hunt. Mooseblight accepted the offer for them as a way to eat and stay under the radar. Silvana was taken away by Cornmeal in order to find her food (she is very loudly vegetarian), while Mooseblight joined Moonstone, Otter, Nevada, Thundersnow, and Overcast. Moonstone noticed his attention to Silvana and lectured him on the consequences of romance for a moment before breaking off. Suddenly, Mooseblight had a horrible concern for Silvana: Several signs pointed to Cornmeal being a SandWing hybrid (IceWings and SandWings were in an active war). After getting directions from Nevada, he found Cornmeal and Silvana sleeping on a hill overlooking the sun. He woke up Silvana, who refuted that Mooseblight was an evil dragon who wanted to control her and knew Cornmeal was a hybrid. He abruptly woke up Cornmeal to prevent her from killing him.
The huge hybrid captured Mooseblight, knowing that he was the queen's most wanted prisoner. His sister Ecru showed up in an attempt to wrangle Silvana, who refused to be caught. In a quick moment, Ecru killed her with her tail barb, sending Mooseblight into complete shock. He was so depressed that he didn't even bother to fight back until he was in his cell. His depression then quickly switched to unfiltered anger. He busted through his cell with ease.
=== Mooseblight Massacre ===
(Covered in In Death, Sunshine)
Mooseblight found his way into the main palace and began killing IceWings left and right. Any attempts to stop him were ultimately futile, including several wings of guards. Soon enough he had the entire place to himself. He sat up on one of the higher floors of the palace expecting Lion to be sent after him.
Sure enough, a lone Lion arrived on the floor declaring her intention to stop him. They argued for a moment about each other's wants, in which Mooseblight disarmed her and told her nothing he did was ever correct and he should've let her be executed. She asked him what he really wanted to do. He said he wanted to locate his mother Mildeaa to learn about Aeolis. She told him she could cover his escape, but he stated that he didn't want to do it alone without anyone he liked.
Their moment of reunion was interrupted by a wing of guards. Mooseblight, furious and believing Lion to be lying the whole time, jumped from the window to get down one story at a time. Lion saw his fall as an attempt at taking his life, so she dove after him to save him. She realized her mistake and Mooseblight realized he didn't want to kill her. He dove after her right as she regained balance, causing her to plunge to the courtyard below. Mooseblight managed to find a ledge at the last second to save himself.
He ran away from the palace afterwards. His current location is unknown.
== Personality ==
"So why when she stared at him he glanced at his own murderous claws and wished he hadn't done any of that? Why was it that he wished he could be anyone else, the queen even, as long as they hadn't killed as many dragons as he had? It was a ridiculous thought that made the IceWing part of his heritage, the parts that were predisposed to the monotonous rules of IceWing society, want to light the other tribal part on fire (if he breathed it) and lock it away so he could feel good about it."
:—Thoughts, Ice on the Horizon
On the surface, Mooseblight is an extremely violent hybrid. Being kidnapped from a young age and mistreated for most of his life, his answer to most problems is violence. He cares very little about most dragons, looking forward to killing anyone who gets in his way or disrespects him. He distrusts almost everyone. Mooseblight is very resilient to anything thrown at him, being accustomed to lengthy periods without food, water, comfort, or heat. He has an unmatched confidence that strikes fear into others—some said the reason he never died of deprivation is because he lived off of fear. As a result of his imprisonment, he hates confined places. The hybrid is very opportunistic, taking any window to escape. He's protective of his infamous reputation and tends to think of himself first before anything else.
On the inside, Mooseblight is shattered. He actually does feel regret for killing dragons, but buries these feelings so deep they don't mean anything. All "mushy feelings" as he describes them are treated the same way. When they erupt despite attempts to drown them, he simply doesn't know what to do. He feels extremely exposed when he feels anything that isn't despair or anger, becoming destructive and impulsive to shake the feelings away.
Mooseblight is so deprived of love that attempts at caring for him is met with immediate denial. He'll admit his reputation and try to prove he's hopeless to care for, resulting in impulsive behavior. He doesn't let go easily of things, and not giving him attention for a while will be met right back with fury. This makes it significantly harder to form a bond. Silvana was the only dragon he has said to actually love, and he was so defensive of her that she called him abusive.
After losing Silvana, he became emotionally unstable and nihilist. His thirst for vengeance was so strong it incited him to destroy his prison cell and start murdering all IceWings in sight. He had no patience for anyone.
He has a low opinion of flight, thinking it as a way to escape problems instead of facing them fearlessly. He dislikes bleeding.
== Abilities==
=== Groundstand ===
Mooseblight is technically a (SpurWing ability), albeit strangely modified as a result of his hybridization. He has the tougher scales/bones and greater strength of one, but lacks the ability to breathe fire. Mooseblight has the unique ability to stiffen his scales for even more bulk. He can become so bulky that javelins deflect off of him—on one occasion he was even able to bust through a metal wall unharmed. The hybrid can't control this ability.
=== Strength ===
Being a Groundstander already makes him nearly indestructible, but Mooseblight is abnormal in the fact that his muscles get stronger over time without effort. No one knows why, possibly the result of a genetic mutation. His muscles need significant amounts of energy to do this, hence his extremely thin frame—most calories go to his muscles and make him hungrier than most dragons as a result. It is very easy to overpower an opponent.
=== Endurance ===
While not any kind of anatomical or genetic ability, Mooseblight's body has adapted overtime to last through the small meals he's given to feel less hungry overall. This is a double edged sword since his feeding schedule is not ideal but always occurs in a certain time span. If he receives more food than he is used to or fed outside of this routine, he will go through calories at an uncontrollably fast and potentially deadly rate.
Prison life has made Mooseblight sensitive to bright light.
== Relations ==
Note: Relations with other user's characters is not canon in Bronze's AU to avoid situations with canonicity.
=== Aeolis ===
Mooseblight's father. Mooseblight hates him because he abandoned him and Mildeaa. He suspects him to be dead and sees him as an idiot who stole artifacts from the royal family. Despite this, the hybrid is interested in learning about what he did.
=== Cornmeal ===
They never officially met until he escaped, and even then was intensely suspicious of him. He did not feel comfortable with his presence around Silvana and hunted him down to find her when Mooseblight realized Cornmeal was a SandWing hybrid. Upon learning that he is Ecru's brother, he had absolutely no trust for him.
=== Cumulus ===
He blames everything on her and believes she has nice things as follies to seem powerful. The hybrid thinks he could kill her easily in a duel and awaits the day when she will stop being a "coward" and fight him. He thinks she kept him to teach him about IceWing aristocracy values through suffering. Mooseblight never addresses her as Queen Cumulus, only calling her Cumulus.
=== Ecru ===
Ecru was one of the first dragons who was first hostile to Mooseblight, so he didn't really see her as any different from a regular IceWing. After witnessing her kill Silvana, his attitude drastically changed and the pure fury he derived from it was the reason he was able to break out of prison.
=== Fir ===
Fir to Mooseblight was mostly just another IceWing. He respected her more than most IceWings because she was responsible for feeding him.
=== Lion ===
"LION! You-"
:—Disbelief at Lion trying to "save" him, In Death, Sunshine
Lion was the one dragon Mooseblight felt he could trust when he was first captured by the Hybrid Hunters. This opinion greatly soured and frequently fluctuated during his time in imprisonment. This was evident by his motive to sit still for just her to arrive during the massacre but then called her the worst dragon he'd ever met a few minutes later. On one talon she feeds him yet on the other talon she keeps him from achieving freedom. He does care about her enough to dive after her after she tried to "save" him even with a lack of wings and from several stories up.
=== Mildeaa ===
Mooseblight's SpurWing mother. The details about her are pretty foggy since he only had a year to be around her, but he wants to find her to learn about Aeolis.
=== Silvana ===
"Trusting anyone was not an option. Mooseblight had let his guard down for just 10 minutes and in that time already lost the one dragon he liked being around. The absolute worse series of events that could've happened. Silvana didn't know about the SandWing war. She probably thought Cornmeal was as trustworthy as her father - he felt a twinge of an emotion he didn't recognize as he thought it."
:—Thoughts on Silvana being taken, Ice on the Horizon
Silvana was the only dragon he felt that he could completely trust. When he escaped, he barely hesitated to take her along even though they had fought each other a minute before. He greatly enjoys her feisty nature, but finds her sometimes impulsive, and thought that one day they could wreck havoc together although he wasn't sure if she'd enjoy the idea. Mooseblight is highly protective of her, seen by him worrying about her being harmed by other IceWings and eventually going after Cornmeal when he took her. Silvana was the only dragon that mattered in his world. He is unsure if his feelings are love.
He was devastated beyond relief when Ecru killed her, becoming so stricken with grief that he didn't even fight back when he was recaptured. That grief turned into anger so great it was channeled into the infamous Mooseblight Massacre.
== Quotes ==
General quotes that highlight Mooseblight's character.
"He was feared by everyone he’d ever met. The sheer mention of his name sent shivers down the spines of IceWings. His presence radiated glacial fury. And attempting to fight him was a one-way ticket to blue death. He was a murderer. A soulless fighting machine."
:—Thoughts, Ice on the Horizon
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"An IceWing was an IceWing, all snotty and haughty about themselves. Guards were replaceable, arriving like snow on a cool morning, and were a pure annoyance. That was all."
:–Thoughts, Ice on the Horizon
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"He wanted the stranger to go out with him, to go kick some IceWing spikes, to tell him she liked her and for Mooseblight to tell her the same back and live happily away from all the IceWings in the world where finally, finally he could know what love really felt like since his loony toon father went out on a suicide mission."
:—Thoughts on Silvana after her death, Ice on the Horizon
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"BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW! Okay?? A weird annoying tingy feeling is in my heart and I think it's love and I hate it, I hate it, all it causes me is pain! I hate this pain because it feels so much worse than starving to death slowly. I hate being in pain! All the things I do to feel right are wrong in the end! Why am I so terrible?"
:—To Lion when asked why he waited for her in the Mooseblight Massacre, In Death, Sunshine
== Gallery ==
Buckle up, because Mooseblight has a lot of history!
=== Current ===
MooseblightReferenceClean.png|Version without gore
MooseblightReferenceFlat.png|Version without shading + gore
MooseblightHeadshotInfobox.png|Headshot and infobox image. Note the large scratches on the side of his neck.
=== Fanon art ===
Awesome art made by other kind users
MooseblightSolarSarss.jpg|Drawn by SolarSarss on the Wings of Fire Fanon Tribes Wiki
=== Old ===
Contains older reference material that is no longer valid
MooseblightSmall.jpg|Reference attempting to fix proportions. This is a couple days newer than the sitting image, but was barely used.
MooseblightLayingDownTraditional.jpg|While not officially designated a reference, this image was used as a one from January 6 2023 until the current reference was made. This is part of a larger unfinished image including Silvana and used to be the infobox image.
MooseblightOldFront.jpg|Mooseblight from the front, SpurWing design. This was a test to see how bulky he should be drawn.
MooseblightOld.jpg|First real reference for Mooseblight, recorded on April 18 2022. This design was notably more SpurWing-centric. Note the spiked tail: In the first writing of Ice on the Horizon, this was the design used and the spikes are mentioned.
SpurIceMini.png|Oldest version of Mooseblight. This concept didn't even have a name yet: It was a random doodle meant to represent a hybrid in the SpurWing tribe. The green orb is a large emerald that was later used in the now scrapped story "Grim".
=== Other ===
WIPs, scrapped content, old non-references, etc.
MooseblightHeadshotInfoboxFail.png|Failed headshot. This was supposed to be the infobox image draft but it was bad proportion-wise and scrapped.
MooseblightHeadshotSemi.jpg|Headshot based on the first headshot and used for the following reference lower in the gallery
MooseblightProgress.jpg|In-progress picture for some Discord bubs.
MooseblightInChains.jpg|A practice drawing with the previous reference featuring Mooseblight breaking out of his chains as he often does.
MooseblightReaching.jpg|Another practice with position that went awry and looks weird.
MooseblightHeadshotTest.jpg|Another headshot testing with angles to see how thick the snout should be.
MooseblightHeadshotOld.png|Headshot of the second version.
MooseblightClawflank.jpg|Mooseblight was originally intended to be a Clawflank, which is essentially retractable spines on certain scales. This was a test to see how those spines would look like fully extended.
MooseblightFullbodyDraftUnfinished.jpg|Unfinished fullbody of Mooseblight using his more SpurWing design. I completely forgot I had drawn this and only found it on July 4th 2023.
MooseblightHeadshotFirst.jpg|The first headshot of Mooseblight
== Trivia ==
* Mooseblight's name is derived from moose, since they probably live in the Ice Kingdom, and blight, which is a detriment that spoils something.
** In SpurWing culture, compound names are common and may reflect personality. "Blight" refers to his hybrid nature kind of ruining his appearance, but also his sour personality and burden on others.
** Additionally, moose are known to exhibit high endurance, have no fear of humans, and may be aggressive if provoked, further alluding to his personality.
* Mooseblight is my first fantribe hybrid OC.
* He's the first character in the new timeline to get a page.
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