Shelf (Bronze)

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===Appearance===
"I'm the center of attention? What a scary thought."
Shelf is a rather colorful SeaWing. Mostly teal, he has a gradient to navy blue on his head with a couple of lighter bands at the front, fading back to the teal color on the neck. The lights on his snout are light green, becoming lighter higher above his eyes. The lights under and beside his eyes alternate from green to purple. Shelf's eyes are orange, and his ears are studded with 2 small pink gemstones each. His horns alternate from teal to a darker teal, and the scales underneath his head are darker.
The gills on Shelf's neck are prominent with their dark teal and purple colors. His underside is pale blue with every 3 stripes being the main teal. Like the eye gradient, the small light bits on his neck fade to a desaturated light green, starting to alternate with light purple at the very base of the neck. The long fin on and below his neck has pale green webbing, with the rays themselves switching from dark teal to lighter teal.
Shelf's legs are short like any other SeaWing. On the front legs, the stripes on the first half of the legs are green and blue, paling the lower down the leg. The last three stripes on the bottom half of the legs are green and still desaturate. His left leg has a strange dull golden bracelet(informally referred to as an auklet) with a russet clock-like face and a large pink crystal imbedded in the clock. It is adorned with a couple skyfire gems and emeralds. The back of Shelf's legs are dark cyan. He has a scratch on his upper right shoulder(not seen at this angle). The webbing between the toes is dark blue and his talons are charcoal gray. His back legs are relatively similar to his front but the two stripes at the bottom of his leg are green and blue instead of pure green. A gold ring can be seen on one of his toes on his left back foot.
Shelf's wings are big, starting off as dark cyan for about a third of the lower half. He has a row of lighter larger scales above his background teal ones. An emerald and two smaller pink gems line the outer part of his wings, accompanied by 3 tiny sapphires on top. The fingers are dotted with pale blue, darker blue near the tip. The webbing on the wings is light blue, similar to the foot webbing, but lighter.
His body is lean. The portion of the body above the wing is lined with purple and green alternating stripes, running down the length of his tail. A thin pattern of scales of 2 dark cyan and one pale blue is located just under the fin. Underneath the wings is the continuation of his neck underside, but with 2 pale blue and 2 teal. The strips are green, desaturating until at the last strip which is light purple. His tail is thick and long, decorated by small bits of alternating purple lights of different hues. The teal parts of his underside are slightly lighter beginning at where the tail starts.
Shelf has small scales of very light blue sprinkled throughout his body with small areas of dark scales every so often.
==Backstory==
Shelf was known as the outcast of his family, that is, until the Talons of Power Ceremony, where he managed to make his assigned coconut levitate in the air. From that point onwards, it was all requests and close monitoring to ensure he wouldn't do something bad. He grew tired of it pretty quickly so he developed an interest in plantlife in the meantime. Any bit of downtime he would have was spent in observing aquatic plants, sketching and scribbling them down in a scroll. Other SeaWings called this pretty pointless, but Shelf didn't care. He was amazed by them. 
Eventually, after being babied for 5 years, he had enough. He enchanted a ring on his back right foot to cause all dragons concerned with him to suddenly forget he existed, just so he could see some of the outside world. Shelf took the opportunity to tour over Pyrrhia, get himself some fancy jewelry since he only had that ring at the time, and most importantly, note all the plants that lived there. He wasn't quite sure where to store all of his information, so the SeaWing enchanted a ring on his front right foot to be an "anklet"(although it's actually an armband) able to store any scrolls he wrote about in a small compartment. 
He soared over near the Scorpion Den, taking note of various kinds of cacti, when a sensible SandWing approached him. She introduced herself as Massasauga, and the two quickly became friends, sharing memories of their life together. Eventually, Shelf trusted her enough to tell Massasauga that he was an animus. She was highly supportive of this, and became a very loyal friend. 
Leaving the Scorpion Den however was a more complicated task, with multiple SandWings catching wind of this fact and secretly stalking Shelf. He was inspecting a cactus very quickly when a SandWing leaped right at him. Shelf barely evaded the attack, only getting scraped on the right foot. In desperation he grabbed the cactus, recited a quick enchantment in Aquatic, and put down the SandWing and its group, flying out of there as fast as his wings could take him. He flew nowhere in particular, but just kept flying north, accidentally bumping an IceWing. The IceWing demanded what he was doing out here, but didn't attack him instantly. Shelf introduced himself and so did the IceWing, known as Albus. He offered to enchant her for getting in her way. She told him her enchantment and they then parted. 
Shelf finally returned to the Deep Palace after years of exploring, happy with the fact that nobody cared about him because of the enchantment on his ring years prior. He took the rest of his scrolls he had in his room, fit them into his hammerspace anklet, and flew back to the Scorpion Den to spend time with Massasauga. Because the enchantment meant any dragon with even a lick of concern for him would forget of his existence and that Massasauga was starting to have feelings for him, she didn't acknowledge him in the slightest. Once Shelf realized the enchantment was the cause of her forgetfulness, he discarded the ring and she suddenly remembered the SeaWing again. He didn't like that feeling of being forgotten at all, so he tinkered with the anklet to create a clock-like face, and created a unique enchantment to monitor and restrict his animus power(see section #Animus for exact details regarding the enchantment). 
But alas, he encountered Albus yet again, now wanting more enchantments done on her and furious about the current ones. Shelf refused, and the two got into a battle. Shelf used his animus powers to be immune to the enchantments he cast on her years ago and got a few scratches in. When he inflicted a particular nasty one on Albus's leg, she suddenly retreated. He wasn't sure why, but he swiftly made it back to Massassauga. 
Afterwards, he and the SandWing flew to the Diamond Spray Delta to study, stopping briefly at Possibility, where they currently are to this day. 
==Personality==
Shelf doesn't like attention. Most of his time is spent reading and observing plant life, and since many dragons aren't interested in the topic he had no friends before Massasauga. He is an observant dragon, noting small details of other dragons and able to keep them for long periods of time. Shelf is highly cautious SeaWing who avoids using his animus power for any need, even if it's a minor thing. He is fiercely protective of his animus powers and friend, using up his enchantment for the day to save her scales from danger. Shelf is easily manipulated however, shown by how easy he was to enchant Albus when she threatened him, and he may get into peer pressure.
==Traits==
=== General===
Shelf is taller than average and has large strong wings. His tail is shorter than most SeaWings. Despite being a SeaWing, he's not that fond of water so it's harder to drive him mad with no water. The SeaWing does like rain and has no issues flying in tougher stormier weather.
=== Lights===
He has both green and purple lights which can flash independently per both color and section. They're usually faintly on even in dark conditions, but they will be made brighter if he needs to read a scroll in the dark. When Shelf is annoyed he tends to flick his tail forwards to insult in Aquatic. Most enchantments he casts are put in Aquatic and not said out loud; additionally he can flash his stripes very quickly for fast communication.
=== Stealth and Senses===
Shelf is rather quiet when taking off and landing, the only noises being his wings flapping, tail, and claws clacking against the surface. He has an acute sense of smell but has bad hearing.
===Fighting, summed up ===
He has little experience in fighting, and if he gets into a sudden fight he's not afraid to use his animus powers to stop it as soon as possible peacefully. That said, if Shelf's on cooldown with his anklet, he's dead meat, although thankfully this scenario has not happened to him yet.
==Animus==
"Using my powers to protect you and your expected children seems like a bad idea. Don't get me wrong Massassauga, I like you, I truly do, but I've already had an enchantment go wrong which nearly made you forget I even existed! I'm sorry, but I'm not taking the chance."-Shelf talking to Massassauga about using his animus powers
Shelf is pretty secretive about his animus powers. He absolutely despised using them for the smallest things his family ordered him to enchant, and now that he's free from their wrath, Shelf swore to only use them to protect himself or to do a fast thing that would either be impossible or very difficult otherwise.
===Enchanted Objects/Dragons===
Shelf has enchanted himself once, 3 objects, and one dragon.
====Anklet====
Shelf's main enchanted object is his anklet. The anklet was once a used golden ring, but was enchanted during his adventuring to become large enough to snugly fit his leg and to store all scrolls he wrote in an infinite expanse that wouldn't lose any scrolls tucked inside and they would be easily findable. Years later, after realizing his poorly worded enchantment on his ring, he decided it would be best to improvise it to control his animus power. Shelf performed some work on the anklet, adding some carvings along with a clock-like face where he reinstated the main pink gem in. After thinking about how exactly to word the enchantment for multiple days and nights he spoke outloud:
"I enchant this anklet to store the wearer's animus power, if any, and to only be able to taken off by Massassauga and any offspring she may have. It may not be taken off normally or by any other animus enchantment. It may be modified by enchantment as long as it doesn't void any principles. When this pink crystal is turned the wearer may use their animus powers, but only for a small, yet appropriate time, a time that allows for at max one complicated enchantment, after which this crystal cannot be turned until 3 days exact have passed. There will be a visual cue of the crystal turning dark when used. Should the enchantment affect a dragon or be directly on a dragon, the wearer will feel that dragon's amplified emotions during the 3 day period, unless it is for or on the holder. The last exception is exempt should it be to harm a dragon, in which the amplified emotions apply while the wearer's heart beats. Prohibits any immortal spells on self."
(The exact time allotted when activated for an enchantment to be told is 60 seconds)
And so that's it. He was quite happy with how it turned out, now that he was going to have to think about which enchantments would be good and helpful. The anklet is also able to block mindreaders because of the skyfire, although Shelf doesn't know that. It can still do it's original function of storing scrolls in its vast expanse, but just must be done from behind.
====Ring of Ignorance====
A ring that used to be on his back right leg. It was enchanted to make all who was concerned in him to forget and ignore his existence. It only works while being worn. It was removed 5 years later after he realized it made Massassauga, his only friend, forget him too as she was concerned for him. It was left somewhere in the desert.
====Cactus====
While being attacked by a group of SandWings, Shelf picked up a portion of a cactus and relayed an enchantment into it in Aquatic. If its tuna fruit is tapped it will fire a needle forwards, hitting any SandWing(and only SandWings) in between 2 scales with perfect accuracy. If the dragon is not a SandWing it will always miss. The needle is harmless but will lure the SandWing into a 30 minute sleep(in the enchantment, it was described as a "good enough" time). The needle will disappear once the SandWing stirs. Shelf left it behind while trekking back to the Sea Kingdom, somewhere in between the desert and rainforest. It may be a grown cactus by now if it thrived, which likely kept the enchantment for the whole plant.
==== Conch shell ====
A conch shell which served the purpose of his ring but in a different manner. When blown, it would attract the attention of other dragons who heard it to somewhere else and keep them occupied for a while. However, Coweye, who is a deaf older SeaWing, discovered it and tossed it away. Shelf got an earful afterwards.
====Albus====
To keep Albus quiet, Shelf offered to enchant Albus when he accidentally bumped into her. He enchanted her, as per her request, to have claws, horns, and tail spikes that freeze and turn anything they impale into pure ice, plus having very strong frostbreath. He also added, in secret in Aquatic, to make her leave to her home. Affected parts are bluish as a result. Unknown to either of the dragons, this would cause much pain later for her later.
====Shelf(Himself)====
Shelf enchanted himself to be immune to the enchantments he put on Albus during the second encounter he had with her, just to avoid harm. The SeaWing forgot to set it as a temporary enchantment so it is permanent until he remembers later on.
==Relationships==
===Mother, Father, most Siblings===
Shelf had a bitter relationship with most of his family members because they always nagged him to enchant random garbage. Not only that, but he was isolated from everyone else and monitored at all times to ensure he wouldn't lose his soul. He got out of the environment with the help of his enchanted ring.
===Massassauga===
Massassauga was the first and only friend Shelf ever had. They get along extremely well, so well Shelf trusted her with his animus secret. Since then they've been exploring and talking about their not so pleasant upbringings.
===Albus ===
Shelf doesn't like Albus much and thinks she craves too much power and recognition. He doesn't hate her though, but tries to avoid the IceWing because he knows Albus detests him back.
=== Princess Gulf ===
Shelf and Massassauga encountered a SeaWing fishing while exploring the Diamond Spray Delta. The SeaWing introduced herself as Gulf, and helped lead them to Possibility. Shelf thinks she's a little too loud, but thinks the seaweed on her horns is rather attractive.
==Trivia==
*The name Shelf comes from the term continental shelf, which is a part of a landmass submerged in shallow water.
*Shelf is the OC with the most jewelry, with small gems on his ears, the anklet, 2(previously 4) rings, and jewels on his wings.
*Shelf is the second animus OC I have, and arguably the most careful with his magic.
*Shelf has Color Specific Glow Scales(Scroll up).
*There was some thought in making Shelf royalty, but decided against it. There is even a ref I made of Prince Shelf.
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