Thorax (Angel)

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Thorax was made for IceShadow84's Palette based OC contest! (Palette in picture) Please note this page will have mature themes, such as death. This page is an original page made by Angel Of Madness 001! Do not steal this OC or anything from this page, and don't edit it without permissions! (Moderators are, as usual, exempt from this rule) Thorax is blind, but certainly will try and make a stand for his identity getting stolen. Don't be the dragon who might accidentally get burned by him.
== Appearance ==
"Um...you think I'm...cute? Heh..."
Thorax has light, rosy pink main scales with an even lighter pink/gray underbelly and a streak of darker pink scales along his back. He has dark purple, nearly black spines, and has a large body with small, dark gray wings. His eyes are clouded over and pink-gray, and Thorax seems very small for his age. He almost always is feeling the air with his pale, rose pink antennae, and can usually tell when he's being watched. His claws and teeth are dull and both are a pearly white. His horns are the same near-black as the spines on his snout are, and several white teardrop shapes run down the sides of his back. 
His body is rather small, even for a SilkWing, and he has unusually smaller wings than normal. He is described as having several sharp angles, such as around his elbows and tail, while also boasting a thick neck and a round, curvy head. 
== Personality ==
"I know you're staring. All of you. I know it."
Thorax is a lost and confused dragon who is afraid of himself and afraid to try new things. He moves slowly and carefully, possibly due to his blindness, and he always feels like the spotlight is on him even though he doesn't want it. Thorax uses his antennae more often than other SilkWings, close to constantly even, and he is overall shy and reclusive, as well as having a lack of self-confidence. Thorax is frightened easily, and will submit to anybody as a first resort. He always thinks everybody is talking about him, and that the entire continent is against him. He's a very clingy dragon at times, but enthusiastically loyal to his family and friends. Thorax is too baby to fight anyone, and he never means to hurt them-he sees his own flamesilk as a curse and a punishment for being the way he is in the world.
== History ==
"I want Gemstone. You're not her. Where is my sister? Where is Gemstone?"
Thorax hatched into a low-level SilkWing family in Jewel Hive. His mother and father, Rose and Nightfall respectively, were both servants to high-ranking HiveWings but never dreamed of a better or different life. His sister Gemstone on the other talon was a rebel at heart, though he only knew from private conversations at night. When he was still a young dragonet, struggling to make his way blind in a great big hive, Thorax overheard a conversation between Rose and Gemstone. Slipping closer, Thorax heard the two chatter quietly and anxiously, like an unspoken tragedy had happened that neither wanted to mention. So he waited for Gemstone to tell him later that night, but she didn't bring anything about something sad in their discussion. She didn't even seem sad. Thorax went on, the question of that conversation bearing down on his mind. It wasn't until he started schooling that he learned what happened. 
On the first day, Thorax could hear dozens of small whispers, whispers about a blind dragonet, the large blue dragon who disappeared, and something hung in the air; the same thing that he felt when Gemstone and Rose were talking. So Thorax went up to the first dragon he could sense was near. Though he had no way of knowing who it was, he asked about it, though his voice faltered and he felt so weak that he had to sit down. His answer was devastating. The dragon asked him who his father was, and his name. Thorax responded with Nightfall, the one father he had known. The chatter around him picked up as the other dragon cleared his throat. At least, Thorax thought is was a he, since the voice was so deep, they could also just be older than he was used to. So, the conversation passed basic questions around before the answer was told. Thorax's father was not Nightfall. It was a SilkWing named Swallowtail. 
With such a bad start to school, Thorax didn't even stay for the whole time. He left early on, walking back home in broad daylight without being caught. There, he waited for Gemstone to come back from her work as a shopkeeper and to feel her warm scales, her large, floppy wings surrounding him like a mini ocean. When she came back, she scooped Thorax into a hug and asked him how his day was. When he asked her about Swallowtail, she sighed and said something like she knew it would come up eventually. 
Swallowtail was a very brave and bold young SilkWing. He lived a life on the edge, daring to disobey and break rules just to the threshold before he was punished. It wasn't until he was discovered to be a flamesilk that he was deemed dangerous and was apprehended. But he didn't go down silently, no, he had left behind many eggs from his travel, and he silently hoped one of them would be a flamesilk and free them. So far, all of them were normal. Gemstone and Thorax were both from two of those eggs, and this was when Gemstone told Thorax he could be a flamesilk and explained what it was. Well, Thorax was so scared by it that he tried to stop himself from coming to his metamorphosis day. He said he would sit right there and not eat or drink until his body became a husk so he couldn't set anything or anybody on fire. Gemstone's coaxing stopped that plan, and Thorax's life continued on with bullying and harassment until age 6.
Age 6, his metamorphosis. The day he would hear if he was a dreaded flamesilk or not. His day was different though. The dragonets at school acted sort of jumpy and oddly nice to him. Thorax wondered if somebody had told them he could be a flamesilk and burn them after his silk and wings came in. So, when he came back home to Gemstone, Rose, and Nightfall, he ate dinner, and was falling asleep when he felt his arms lift up and begin to spin himself a cocoon. He wouldn't have known anything if he didn't hear Gemstone gasp twice. The first one, a gasp of awe and happiness, but the second sharp and scared. All Thorax knew was his silk was a warm cocoon of safety, and he hardly felt the shoves that he assumed all the movement was coming from. Slowly, he drifted into what felt like a long sleep.
When he woke up, Thorax felt new and refreshed, and maybe that he should say hi to Gemstone. He tried to sit up and felt his head hit warm silk. Oh right, he was in a cocoon. So, he did the rational thing and gently felt for the silken walls before making a cut in it. Cool air flooded in, and a talon gently wrapped around his for a second before letting go. Thorax cut more and more until he was out, and he tried to spread wings he knew were there, expecting a wide open space. But they bumped against smooth treestuff quickly, and he reached forwards in confusion, finding a doorknob. Opening the door, he stepped forwards a few times before he fell into his hammock. Had he just woken up in Gemstone's closet? Weird. But he expected her wings to wrap him up the second he was out of his cocoon. Instead, he felt around more and touched weirdly cold scales. Cold scales of...
Thorax froze. Cold scales of a dead dragon. Feeling further, Thorax was relived that he thought it wasn't Gemstone. The wings were like a HiveWing's, not her SilkWing wings. But beside him, a tail grabbed his leg and dragged him over. Thorax yelped, but was silenced slowly by talons. Gemstone's hoarse voice cut the stiff air. She had a HiveWing love and was caught with him. The authorities killed the HiveWing, Sting, as Gemstone said his name was, and thought she was dead too. But she wasn't, and she had a plan to take herself and Thorax to a different hive, or out into the savanna, or off the continent altogether. But Thorax refused. He pushed away Gemstone's ideas, leaving her alone with no family who would support her choice and no love to have by her side. So she told Thorax she loved him, hugged him one last time, and then he heard a whoosh of wingbeats and she was gone. The sister he learned to like. The sister he tried to hard to keep. Gone.
Thorax's life became a harder struggle, as it seemed he wasn't a flamesilk and his bullying extended from being small and blind to now not being able to fly well and being a crybaby. He tried to fight back with words, but nothing came out, tried to attack with claws, but they were frozen in place. After most of his life in school and out of it being spent bullied and hurt for things he didn't control, Thorax tried to tie one of the bullies's snout shut with his silk. It would be cut off easily, the hard part was getting close and finding the snout. But Thorax got close enough, and grabbed them by the snout, lifting his free talon to spin a thread of silk. He grabbed the silk as a hush fell over the group, before erupting into screams as he tied it around the snout of the dragon he had grabbed. Dragons pinned Thorax, he was accused of being a killer and he heard smoking scales. He realized in this moment that he should have taken Gemstone's offer and left with her, as he was in fact a flamesilk. Breaking free by a miracle, and a stroke of luck or two later Thorax had managed to flee Jewel Hive, escaping into the grasslands of the savanna. It was there that he started running, trying to navigate blind in order to stay safe, survive, and eventually find Gemstone.
== Relationships ==
"I was only close to a few people. I...I miss them."
(+) means the relationship is positive. (-) means the relationship is negative. No symbol means the relationship is neutral.
=== Gemstone (+) ===
Thorax loved his sister with all his heart, not leaving much room for anybody else to come in. The two were stuck like glue until Gemstone wanted to leave, and now Thorax is trying to find her to rekindle their relationship. He dearly misses his sister and struggles a lot to navigate the world without her guidance. His only complaint about her was the fact she never told him so many things.
=== Rose ===
Thorax thought of his mother as the good thing in his life, besides Gemstone. She was kind and supportive of him, and the two even had similar scales, though Thorax didnt know. It felt nice to know he was cared about by more than one dragon. He didn't fully trust her after the whole flamesilk incident-as at least she could have warned him about it-and was worried she'd turn him in to authorities.
=== Nightfall (-) ===
Thorax liked his dad's company until he discovered that he was not of this dragon's blood and became resentful and spiteful of this face and his father, though Nightfall could do nothing about it. Thorax still unreasonably dislikes his father further for not warning him about flamesilk and the fact he had it. Thorax truly wishes that Nightfall would leave and never return, believing him to be a burden on the whole family.
== Trivia ==
"All of this is...meh. It's boring but at the same time fulfilling. It's dull, but shines like the moons too. It's so hard to describe right now."
-Thorax's name had to be original, otherwise I would have named him 'Beetle'
-Thorax loves sad songs to a point where it's disturbing
-Thorax is only mildly aware he's a flamesilk, so he forgets often
-Thorax's favorite food are honey drops-though if you made him pick something that wasn't a dessert, it would be carrots.
-Thorax prefers nighttime to daytime, as less dragons are up to bother him.
== Quotes ==
"I don't want to be a violent dragon! Please, tell me it's not true!" -Thorax, to Gemstone
"I want to know what everyone sees about me that's so odd." -Thorax, to Gemstone
"We're like roses without thorns, baby-doll." -Rose, to Thorax
"We're still siblings. Brother and sister-together forever, right?" -Gemstone, to Thorax
== Gallery ==
"I haven't seen myself ever. I only know that my scales are rose colored from my sister and family. Would you tell me what I look like?"
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