Hollow (CriticalPoultry)

This page belongs to Critical Poultry. Please do not steal Hollow, or use her for heavy inspiration, and please do not edit this page at all. She is the main POV character in my fanfiction Moons of Power, and I advise you to read it before looking at this page, as major spoilers will be present. I will add more content to this page as I add chapters to the fanfiction. Hollow's timeline does not go against anything canon, like Moons of Power, and takes place one hundred years after the hatching of the Dragonets of Destiny, just before the next brightest night.
Warning: There are deaths that happen, and as I add more based on Moons of Power her story will become slightly darker. Spoilers will be present for all three arcs, including The Flames of Hope, so read at your own risk. 
== Appearance ==
At the first glance Hollow is obviously a LeafWing-NightWing hybrid, though it is clear that she takes after her LeafWing mother in appearance. She mostly has dark green main scales, with paler green-yellow underscales. She has no significant brown scales, unlike most LeafWings, and she is a slightly darker green than could be called normal. Her snout is distinctly that of a LeafWing, hooking upwards at the end instead of being flat like a NightWing's snout. She has a LeafWing frill running down her back and tail, which is lighter than her main scales, and two deep black, perfectly straight NightWing horns on her head.
What is perhaps the most interesting thing about her appearance is the yellow flecks across her scales. Though many LeafWings have them, hers are paler and shinier than normal, and combined with the stars on the undersides of her wings, she looks like an eternal night sky. Hollow has a small leather pouch on a string that hangs down from her neck, in which she keeps money and sometimes small keepsakes. She is usually seen wearing a couple of rings on her horns, because she likes the way they look, but other than that she doesn't wear jewelry and generally dislikes dragons who always have on a lot of bracelets and stuff.
== History ==
=== Pre-hatching ===
When she was an adult, Hollow's mother, Fig, was working on the coast of the LeafSilk kingdom catching fish. She was saving up to travel and see Pyrrhia, and when she had enough money, she made the journey. She saw as much as she could of all the kingdoms, and was a perfectly ordinary tourist. When she was in the RainNight kingdom, though, she fell in love with a NightWing named Feldspar. She gathered the courage to speak with him, and they arranged to meet again the next day. Over time they grew closer, and Fig wanted him to come back to Pantala with her, but Feldspar couldn't leave his job as a seer. Fig's job was less important, and so she made arrangements to stay on Pyrrhia for a year. When she got a letter declaring her great aunt, who had raised her most of the way, fatally ill, she had to return to Pantala. She and Feldspar were sad to leave each other, but Fig had no choice but to leave. However, she did not know at the time that she was leaving with Hollow.
=== Early dragonethood ===
When Fig had Hollow, she immediately loved her dragonet. She secured for herself a better job, still fishing, and raised her dragonet to have a bright future. She taught her basic history such as the tale of the othermind, The Scorching, and some major wars. Hollow was enrolled in school at the age of two, where she made new friends and learned to read. She knew her father's name, but not much more, and knew that she would probably like him if they met. However, she wasn't very curious about him and thought of him with completely neutral emotions.
=== Later dragonethood ===
Hollow continued to learn and grow. She had her mother, her home, and her friend group, and she was happy. She ate a lot of fish, and viewed it as a basic food unit and no more. While she proved herself to be terrible at art, she developed an aptitude for athletics and kept her love of history and books. Her mother took her once to Thrip Hive, the hive named after the current HiveWing president. Coincidentally, she saw the president from a distance, and this remained her claim to fame for quite some time. She remained as normal as one could be while still having a personality.
Not much changed for her until one gigantic accident occurred, when she was six. The Pantalan coast was well-known for its unpredictable weather, and Fig got caught in the worst. One morning while Hollow was still asleep, her mother left for work as normal. A profoundly large windstorm caught the boat that Fig and nine others were on. The worst luck and the worst weather combined, and the unimaginable happened for Hollow and her small village. Two SeaWings survived, and SilkWing later died from his injuries. Hollow and a SilkWing classmate were pulled out of class to be informed that their mother and elder brother had died. With nothing left, Hollow ran as soon as she could to Pyrrhia, without looking back.
(I'll add more as I release chapters)
== Personality ==
Hollow is polite to those she meets, and prefers staying quiet over talking needlessly, valuing the importance of language. She knew she had to be a good student if she wanted to get a good job, so she was one. She had her friends and school rivalries, just as any dragonet, and enjoyed racing other dragons in flying contests. She often won these, and though she enjoyed winning she didn't gloat. She often thinks back to those she met, and frequently thought back to a conversation she had with an older couple, inn-owners Caddisfly and Stratosphere, regarding her life. Since Fig died, she also can't stand fish, to the point that it's a personality trait.
In the way of lots of dragonets, she was for a long time largely ignorant to how horrible the world could be. She of course new the tales of Darkstalker and Wasp, and of the SeaWing-IceWing war that was happening very distantly, but she didn't quite think of these as things that could have happened to her. She wanted to do good in the world, and didn't want any dragon to suffer even things that are small compared to the size of the world, such as bullying or a broken bone.
To sum her up simply, she's glad she is alive. She deeply appreciates little things such as a pattern on a leaf or the colors of a sunrise, and as a dragonet was happy to embrace her role on the planet as a small and insignificant worker. Had she not left for Pyrrhia, she would likely have settled down with a family and an ordinary job, and lived out her life in relative peace, dyeing of old age.
Of course, she did leave for Pyrrhia...
== Talents & Abilities ==
Hollow is naturally physically fit, and likes sports and exercise. This is not to the point, though, that dragons think of her as an athlete. She is slightly smarter than average, and has a good memory for history, but she isn't special because of this. She was fine at making friends while in school, and is good at asking for what she needs.
Compared to most dragons, Hollow is pretty powerless. She can see in the dark fairly well, inheriting part of the NightWings' ability to do so. She always felt invigorated from the sun, though one can't tell whether this is her LeafWing side showing or just her personality. Hollow didn't, however, inherit her father's fire or her mother's slight leafspeak. She was also hatched in a hurricane, which denied her the powers of both foresight and mind reading, despite two moons having been full. In the months to come after leaving Pantala, Hollow would view her hatching both as an early sign of her bad luck and as a message warning the world of the effect she would leave on it.
== Relationships ==
=== Fig ===
Fig was Hollow's mother. They had a very close relationship, and were a crucial part of each other's lives. Most days they wouldn't see each other until midafternoon, because Fig left for work before sunrise. On occasion Hollow would try to wake very early to say goodbye to her, but it was unreasonable to do so consistently. Despite not always seeing each other, though, they highly valued their time together, talking about their days or playing quiet games.
=== Feldspar ===
Feldspar is Hollow's father. They haven't met each other yet, and he doesn't know that Hollow exists. He makes a very good effort to be nice, and is most of the time, but is very unskilled at speaking to other dragons and often trails of or mistakenly comes across as rude.
== Random stuff ==
* She is the subject of The Animus Prophecy, but doesn't know that yet.
* I'm going to say that she was school friends with me as a LeafWing, even though I haven't created a dragonsona for myself.
* She inherited more of her father's traits than most hybrids.
* I'll add more as I write my fanfiction.
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