Maldives

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Maldives is a male SeaWing. He is an important character in the fanfiction Third Antinomy and is one of the original characters of FourFlames.
He has a son, Harper, from his previous marriage, and a NightWing husband named Hegemony.
==Description==
Maldives is a middle-aged, cornflower-blue SeaWing with aquamarine underscales, azure wings and iridescent glow stripes that appear to be many different shades of pale blue. His eyes are a beautiful sea-green color.
Maldives is on the hefty side of dragons (having a bit of a "dad bod" or being curvy in shape). He is known to have curly fins, a round, friendly-looking face, and huge hammy paws with very delicate fingers for working with small parts.
His eyesight has weakened with age, so he wears a small pair of wireframe spectacles on his snout. He also has a wedding ring given to him by Hegemony, but refuses to wear it out of fear that he may expose it to some corrosive materials in the lab.
== Personality ==
Before signing on as Head R&D for the Foundation, he was a breeding consultant and studied heredity.
Maldives is sympathetic, intellectual, and uncomfortably chatty, but has always had trouble with coworkers, relationships, and authority figures because he takes everything personally. An oblivious busybody (he has a few emotional blind spots) and a small bit cowardly, if he has a grudge then he won't let on, and if he must disagree with his husband then he chooses not to express it. He has a habit of rushing into commitments and overusing negotiation tactics.
He is insufferably abrasive in the rare event that his temper explodes, sometimes forgetting that he is not as intimidating as he thinks.
==Abilities==
Like all SeaWings, Maldives can breathe underwater and has bioluminescent stripes which he can use to communicate.
Maldives has a weight advantage over most dragons; if he were to land on someone, he might break something, and so is extremely meticulous with his equipment (unlike Hegemony, who will knock things haphazardly as he moves around). He is not a fighter, but this thick skin serves as a natural defense for if he were to be attacked.
Maldives has weaker night vision than most, in part due to his excessive bioluminescence. Though it is not visible in the daylight, Maldives' luminosity is always slightly brighter than other SeaWings' (even without his stripes lit). When completely submerged and swimming at full speed, he somewhat resembles the phytoplankton phenomenon which naturally occurs in the Maldives-- or blue "fire". He is very difficult to camouflage because of this.
== History ==
Maldives was raised in the terrestrial Kingdom of the Sea (construction mentioned in canon).
Maldives's parents were guards for one of the Sea Kingdom's many, many unmemorable princes, who happened to be musically inclined and a terrible scholar. Upon realizing that the queen had decided that this prince would be made head of the scientists' council seat one day, Maldives determined to take up the position himself-- the prince didn't like his destiny, so it would make sense to replace him. Maldives's parents overheard him before he could get accidentally get into trouble and, knowing that the queen was not a suggestible dragon, apprenticed him to a lower echelon chemist. 
Maldives was primed by the Sea Kingdom's library and access to this chemist's small lab, which encouraged him to get creative and only made him stronger in the career. But he craved something that his gift couldn't satiate, and that was the wealth of knowledge on exotic sciences that only the NightWings had yet been able to touch. Curious, he applied for an internship with a research guild.
After his internship was over, Maldives returned home to the Sea Kingdom, where the prince had become councillor of the scientists' bureau. Bitter from a destiny he hadn't wanted, the prince assigned Maldives to be the personal assistant of an unscrupulous, disorganized genetic counselor-- not even the correct field for Maldives-- where he acquired a hatred of authority and natural sciences. Maldives began waking up with anhedonic thoughts regarding science. As his pleasure with work decreased, he was motivated to seek it elsewhere. 
That was how he found his first wife. Morwong was a particularly angry architect, forced by an aesthetically-minded noble to work on pointless buildings that were quickly abandoned. Maldives's love for Morwong was fueled by their shared hatred of bureaucracy, and they quickly found themselves married and saddled with an egg. It wasn't until Morwong's boss was killed (and swiftly replaced) that she ran out of people to blame for her lot in life, and eventually it was Maldives's fault.
Maldives reflects on this as a dark time, stating that he had lost faith in himself and in his passions, and it took years of doing something he was comfortable with-- working for the Foundation-- to regain that confidence. 
He finally worked up the courage to quit his job and leave his unstable wife. For the dragonet's own safety, Maldives took his son, Harper, back with him to the mainland. Although still dealing with the stress of single parenting, he was accepted as one of the Foundation's geneticists.
Maldives's colleagues knew that he was under some kind of duress and introduced him to the interdisciplinary consultant Hegemony, who was initially the SeaWing's financial and behavioral advisor. Maldives grew to appreciate the cerebral NightWing, falling in love with and later marrying him. Together they raised the dragonet from Maldives's broken marriage and supported each other intellectually.
And then the prophecy came.
==Relationships==
Harper: Maldives cares about his son's wellbeing, but rarely has time for him anymore; the older SeaWing divides most of his attention between Hegemony and their Pyrrhian Defense Foundation. Instead, Maldives usually entrusts Hegemony with giving Harper something to do.
Hegemony: Hegemony is Maldives's loyal husband and confidante. He perceives Hegemony's thoughtful composure as something genuine but only specific to himself, and admires the NightWing's courage. Maldives appreciates having an authority figure on his side, but Hegemony's determination sometimes resembles that of the enemy, which occasionally scares Maldives or causes him to regret their union.
Terra Nova: Maldives wishes someone more enthusiastic about Terra Nova's job would just replace her already, but defends her in front of his less sympathetic husband.
==Gallery==
Little Bluefire.png|Little Maldives by me
Bluefire.jpg|Bust by me
== Trivia ==
* Since he was raised terrestrially, Maldives never fully learned Aquatic grammar.
*The Morwong is also known as the Jacka**fish
*His voice claim is Harry Shearer (Timestamp 8:03-8:15)
*He was previously named Bluefire.
Category:SeaWings
Category:LGBT+
Category:Males
Category:Content (FourFlames)
Category:Occupation (Scientist)
Category:Characters