Opal

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"Did any of it matter, in the end? Or was it so easy to turn your back on me?"
==I N T R O D U C T I O N==
Opal is Lynx's dragonsona.
Do not steal, claim, or use her in any way without express permission from and/or credit to Lynx (me). If you would like to make art of her, give me a ping! I'd love to see it! However, please remember to credit me for the OC. Additionally, please do not include her in any sort of writing, fanfiction, or roleplay without asking me first. Do not ever post art, writing, or any other use of her without credit to me.
==P E R S O N A L I T Y==
On the outside, Opal is a very shy and soft-spoken dragon. As she is quite small for her age, she is often overlooked at first, though those who get to know her come to admire her intelligence and many talents.
Opal has a lot of social anxiety and fear of rejection. Making friends does not come naturally to her, and she usually waits for others to seek her out first, though she is quite friendly once they do, if rather quiet. Her biggest fears revolve around what others in her life think of her. As a result, she often opts to say what she thinks others want to hear rather than what she actually thinks, a strategy that sometimes backfires on her, leaving her in awkward situations. She is easily embarrassed, and when others embarrass her, she does not forget them easily.
She houses a secret and constant paranoia that a dragon or dragons around around her can read her mind, even those that do not have the distinct NightWing teardrop scales. She can be somewhat jumpy for this reason. When thinking about sensitive or private topics in public, she often backtracks and tries to "censor" her thoughts as though someone is actively listening to her. Though she is half NightWing herself, she tends to avoid other NightWings as she is highly uncomfortable in the presence of possible mindreaders.
In general, Opal tries to distance herself from her NightWing heritage. Her emotionally distant NightWing father and knowledge of the NightWings' twisted history have caused her to reject NightWing culture. She is strictly vegetarian and does not eat meat, even when hunting is much more practical and accessible than finding fruit. This fact, as well as the fact that she does not tend to eat a lot in general, likely contributes to her small size, though she is still physically healthy.
==D E S C R I P T I O N==
Opal is a first-generation NightWing-RainWing hybrid. She is relatively small and skinny for her age. Her snout and talons are slender and elegant, like a RainWing's, but her overall body structure is leaner and slightly stockier. The spines running from the back of her head down to the tip of her tail are also similar to a NightWing's, and she has no ruff.
Opal's scales, like a RainWing's, have the ability to change color and camouflage into their surroundings. She is very skilled at mimicking patterns and using color-change tricks to disguise herself. Typically, her scales are a shimmery indigo-blue color, darker along the spine and wings and paler along the chest and underbelly. All of her scales have a shimmery, iridescent quality, sparkling with hidden colors, like her namesake, the opal. Unless she is camouflaging or color-shifting to disguise herself, they typically retain an iridescent quality even when they change hue based on her mood. However, the sparkling silver NightWing starscales scattered under her wings cannot change color however she pleases. They can shift to camouflage with the rest of her scales, but otherwise remain solid silver.
Opal's eyes are a deep blue-gray hue. Sometimes, they are paler in color, while on other occasions they may be darker; sometimes they are more of a purple-gray or lavender, while other times they are a stormy, unsaturated blue. Occasionally they turn a deep indigo, almost black. Opal can consciously change the color of her eyes along with the rest of her scales, but it is rare for them to turn a color beyond the gray-indigo spectrum.
==H I S T O R Y==
Opal and her sister Prismflight were born to Starsearcher of the NightWings and Clementine of the RainWings. Starsearcher and Clementine both joined the Rainforest Queendom Army at a young age, and although they trained under different divisions of the army, the young soldiers came to know each other well.
When Starsearcher and Clementine were 10 years old and fully fledged soldiers, tensions began to rise between the rainforest NightWings and RainWings. NightWings from the Night Queendom under Queen Silvertongue had been launching raids on their rainforest-dwelling cousins, burning down homes and stealing supplies before soaring off again. The rainforest NightWings urged Queen Firefly to retaliate, but she refused to attack, not wanting to start a war with the Night Queendom. The NightWing divisions of the army began to train in secret, preparing to rebel against Queen Firefly and seize their freedom. Starsearcher and Clementine were devastated, and decided to run off together and live alone in the mountains until the conflict had died down.
The civil war lasted two years before the majority of the rainforest NightWings flew off to join their sister tribe in the Night Queendom. A few NightWings, however, chose to remain in the rainforest, and conflict sparked again between the newly reunited Night Queendom and the RainWings. It was another 3 years before 
==R E L A T I O N S H I P S==
Prismflight
Prismflight, or Prism for short, is Opal's 4-year-old younger sister. The sisters are quite alike in appearance and natural abilities, though Prism's scales are typically set in rainbow-pastel shades. Prism is closer to Opal than almost any other dragon and, though they hate to admit it, the sisters love each other very much. Opal often feels like Prism is the only dragon she can speak to, and she has few great secrets that Prism doesn't know.
As younger dragonets, they would play together almost every day, Opal making up games to play with Prism when their parents were distant. They also tended to bicker very often, and often got into fights. These conflicts became less frequent and violent as the pair got older, and their rocky relationship became smoother. Once Opal went off to study at Jade Mountain Academy, however, they saw much less of each other, though Opal still went home every few weeks to visit her sister.
Prism became lonely attending school in the Rainforest Queendom with her sister gone and, when she turned three, she finally convinced her parents to let her go to Jade Mountain. Six months later, however, Opal got accepted to Celestine Academy, an elite school for gifted dragonets on Claw-Moon Island in the north, near the Ice Queendom. She made many new friends there, and though she and Prism still corresponded often via letters, their lives grew further apart as they aged and matured.
Initially, after Opal went to Celestine Academy, Prism was lonely and miserable. However, she soon found herself making new friends and opening up more to other dragons. She even met a cute SkyWing who flirted with her shamelessly. As her new friends took up more and more space in her days (and Opal's new friends in hers), the sisters found new sources of trust and happiness in their lives, though their close relationship continued through letters and occasional visits.
Kori
Kori is Opal's classmate, friend, and longtime crush at Celestine Academy. She is a bright, cheerful, and smart
dragonet Opal's age, three-quarters IceWing and one-quarter SilkWing.
Although Opal and Kori were in the same class when they both arrived at the Academy, Opal didn't really notice or speak to her at first. She started seeing more of Kori a few months later, when they ended up in the same history class along with their mutual friend, Ash, Kori's clawmate. She was at first a little intimidated by Kori, who was smart, got top grades, and was an incredibly talented artist. Opal wanted to make a good impression on her, and was pleased when she learned that Kori respected Opal for her own intelligence and grades, and trusted her judgement.
As they approached the end of their first semester, Opal spent a lot more time hanging out with Ash, Kori, and their friend group. For the first time ever since leaving the Rainforest Queendom, Opal felt like she truly fit in with this group - Ash; Kori; Truth, Opal's clawmate; and Ava, whom she met later but got along well with. It was the first time Opal had thought to herself, Yes. This is where I belong.
And although the others in the group all had their own friends, and occasionally forgot about Opal, sitting quietly off to the side, Kori always seemed to notice her. When Opal was politely listening to the others talk, trying to find an opening in which she could speak, Kori invited her into the conversation. When Opal was walking with other dragons in the hall and got jostled by the crowd so that she was behind her friends rather than beside them, Kori would turn around, intentionally addressing her as well as the others when she spoke. When Opal was standing around awkwardly, looking for a seat in an assembly, Kori would invite her to sit with her, even though Opal didn't know the friends that Kori was already sitting with. Kori always made her feel included; she made Opal feel as though she belonged.
==T R I V I A==
*Opal's hobbies include reading and writing fantasy and dystopia fiction, as well as drawing and painting dragons and animals.
*Opal is strictly vegetarian and does not hunt. She eats little, and her diet consists mainly of fruit, vegetables, nuts, and other plant-based foods.
*The claws on Opal's front left talon are neatly trimmed off, allowing her to better play the viola. Every few weeks, she trims them down again before they can regrow.
**She has adapted to this fact, learning to quickly climb, run, and fight with her other three talons. Though her left front talon isn't useless, its lack of claws makes it difficult to grip hard surfaces (such as wood, when climbing trees) and nearly impossible to defend herself with.
**Though she does not hunt her own food, she has had to take hunting classes in the past, and therefore learned to hunt without left-talon claws.
*Opal typically identifies as biromantic asexual. Despite this, a more accurate label for her would be omniromantic asexual with a female preference.
*In her head, Opal imagines her favorite color to be a deep, rich shade of indigo blue. However, no matter how hard she tries, she cannot match that exact color with her scales, nor has she ever found it in nature. Though she has seen physical colors that are close to the shade she idealizes, it is always too blue, or too light, or too saturated - never perfect. This has led her to believe that her favorite color doesn't actually exist.
**This is also true of her favorite shade of green - a rich, deep emerald green.
==G A L L E R Y==
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