Peccary (EnigmaTheHybrid)

Belongs to Sebastion. Peccary is the sister of Pika and Dandelion and the honorary sister of Peony.
:the rightmost (imagine them with sandwing barbs shh
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SandWing, she/her, non-binary, performer, lesbian
The end of the SandWing war was relief to some and a time of great dissension for others. Peccary's family, the SandWings under the matriarch Playa, were safe in the Scorpion Den under Thorn's protection for the most part. That was, until Thorn's leave as Queen, leaving behind Vulture's Wake to violently take over the Den. Peccary had to take things into her own talons if she intended to protect her family. But in her attempts to prevent a hypothetical scenario, did she doom her family instead?
==appearance==
Peccary is a dragoness of bulk and strength. She's the strongest and most well trained of her siblings, and her height rivals that of her mother. Her dark brown markings are that of a collared peccary and are her name sake as a result. Her adorns herself in glittering pigments and face paints.
==personality==
Peccary was raised to be fierce, crafty, and exceedingly cunning. Her mother, Playa, needed her oldest daughter to help her protect her siblings in the face of the Scorpion Den. She knows not only how to steal, cheat, and con, but more importantly how to get away with it. With wide sweet eyes and a voice like honey, she needed to be arms-length from the guards but right under the noses of the leaders of the den.
Since her childhood, Peccary learned how to keep her mouth shut. She has a way of communicating without her voice that can intimidate Onyx herself. Her rippling muscles under her scales don't clash with this presentation of strength at all. Peccary is a family individual. She only cares about the well-being of her loved ones and typically only speaks for them, aside from her songs. She only confides in her mother, who's the only one in their family who can keep a secret as well as herself, and vaguely when she's writing with Pika. 
Peccary is authoritative and blunt and somewhat rude when she does speak. But she knows how to sugarcoat her meanness as it's the language of the dunes. She can con and trick for what she deems necessary. She often tricks people out of jewels for Pika and her brother, Dandelion, into eating odd candies. 
All things considered, she's a bit of a defeatist. She has little hope for the future and doesn't have all that faith in herself to make an impact on the dragons around her. All she will prioritize is the safety of her siblings and the security of their home as best she can. She's learned that changing the world doesn't necessarily mean changing it for the better.
==history==
For the first few years of her life, Peccary was the only successful egg that hatched for the dragons Playa and Dingo. Despite all their failed eggs before, Peccary made up for the losses with her strength and spirit. Her parents, as (mostly) retired bandits and fighters, taught their dragonet how to survive in the rough and tumble land of the Scorpion Den. Peccary picked up on these skills quickly and fit into the landscape like a glove. 
Then, Peccary watched the leader of the Scorpion Den leave them for the sake of the SandWing Queendom. Queen Thorn's rule brought about controversies over her protection of the "brutish and criminal" Scorpion Den city. To leave the Outclaws in the city for the protection of the dragons there would be to give the "criminals" special treatment, but to take away such support would be to lose the support of those who had given her power in the first place. 
She wouldn't have to make the decision, however, when Peccary watched Vulture's followers overtake the Scorpion Den, in a polity named Vulture's Wake. He seized control of the Scorpion Den and had amassed enough followers that trying to fight for control of the city once again would risk too much controversy and more importantly too many lives, especially with the innocent citizens practically being held hostage. 
Playa and Dingo had pledged allegiance to Vulture and his new ally, Onyx, in order to protect their Daughter and their new clutch of eggs on the way. As a result, Playa had become something of a housemaid alongside Peccary and Dingo had become an errand boy. But Vulture's sights didn't end at the Scorpion Den. They intended to seize the throne itself. After all, if a dragon of no royal blood had no stake to the throne, why couldn't a direct descendent of Oasis?
Vulture's Wake conspired over boisterous parties as they tried to attract more allies to support them in the Scorpion Den. Peccary overheard the plans and feared what Vulture's plans would entail as the puppeteer of Onyx as a queen and figurehead. So when she was attending the party, passing out drinks and cleaning up after the dragons he had called to attend, nobody noticed when the unassuming dragonet had stolen suspicious vials and slipped them into Vulture's drink while he was distracted. 
When morning came, Vulture was discovered dead, leaving his second in command, Onyx, to take over the Wake. The authority of the group quickly fell apart when the dragon they were supporting was killed as quickly as he rose to power. Onyx was left in a position of power with no one to guide her and canceled the coup to get her bearings in the Scorpion Den. The dragons supporting Vulture disappeared into the desert, but Scorpion Den still had to live with the impact Vulture had left behind. 
Including his consequential death. Months passed, but eventually, the owner of the poison that Peccary had stolen realized it was their vials that went missing and were being accused of killing Vulture. To clear their own name, they had called their first suspect into question. Peccary's father, Dingo. Dingo was not the fighter of the family, and despite promising Peccary and his newly hatched dragonets that everything would be okay, he perished as quickly as he entered the fray. Peccary entirely blamed herself.
Her siblings were ignorant of what she had done or the fact she was partially responsible for the world they now lived in, but Playa did. She never blamed her daughter for her husband's death for a moment. But that didn't stop the irreparable shame that Peccary inevitably felt for bringing about this reality. 
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