Moonray

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Playlist
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Nightjar, by Cosmo Sheldrake
Missing Letters, by Sleeping At Last
Astronomical, by SVRCINA
The Moon Will Sing, by the Crane Wives
Dance on the Moon, by Aurora
Enabling Environment, by Sleeping At Last
Nightingale Part 2, by Cosmo Sheldrake
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Appearance
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Moonray looks like the common NightWing, with her dark scales and dark wings. She has no other colours to provide contrast, no midnight blues or royal purples that tinge her scales. She's just a plain dark colour throughout. 
Even the bright scales that are scattered across her wings look banal. They have no apparent arrangement, no rhythm or reason to them. They do not form stunning shapes or delicate designs or pretty patterns. They simply look like pale dots that were dropped aimlessly onto her wings. 
The only feature Moonray possesses that she would think to call interesting are her eyes. They are a dull greyish-brown, but they shine with soft silver in direct moonlight, and gain a golden gleam in direct sunlight.
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Personality
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Moonray is cautious, intelligent, logical, independent, and perceptive. She values practicality and function, and favors such over aesthetic quality. She has a curious and investigative mind, and dedicates much of her time to attaining information on the world around her. She is pragmatic, but there is no denying how often her motives are driven by emotion, and not reason. 
However, Moonray knows that emotions have just as much worth as reason. Reason says to leave your friend behind and save yourself. Emotions prevent you from doing so. Emotion gives rise to traits such as empathy, kindness, and loyalty, and these are necessary for dragons to have, if they are to be mentally and emotionally healthy. Each individual comes together to form a group, but the whole group must support each individual, and group support cannot happen without kindness or empathy or loyalty.
Moonray is not an introvert, but she doesn't really belong to a group or have a set of close friends whom she feels she can always rely on. She has no one to tell her innermost thoughts or feelings to, so instead, she records all of them inside of a journal. She has many journals. Most of them are filled with her notes on astronomy or her observations of different chemical reactions. Scribbled into the margins are her personal reflections and musings. 
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History
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Moonray is a normal NightWing who has a normal life of normalcy. All of her family members that were alive at her hatching still live, and they all continue to live in agreeable states of health. Her parents were not exceptionally wonderful, but neither were they abusive. They had a rather distant relationship with their daughter, but they never acted in a cruel or hostile manner to her. They were just...there.
It was perhaps a lonesome way to live, but Moonray learned to ignore that creeping feeling of loneliness whenever it entered her soul. She shoved it deep down and boxed it up, and focused on other things, things that made her happy. She found delight in studying her surroundings. 
Why does a rock fall when it is dropped? Where does the sun go, when it is night? How does a puddle dry up? Questions crowded her brain and slid to the tip of her tongue, but she had no one to ask her questions to, and no one to provide answers for them. She shifted between fascination and frustration, and spent many sleepless nights trying to puzzle out these phenomena. 
Her parents might have been distant, but they were not completely oblivious to their daughter's needs. When they noticed Moonray—with her distraught eyes, exhausted posture, and frazzled expression—they figured something was wrong. With some prodding, they discovered the cause of her troubles, and discussed it. They came to the conclusion that she required guidance, in the form of mental instruction.
Thus, she began school. 
It was a single tutor, at first. The tutor taught her the basics of reading, writing, and math, but Moonray was unsatisfied. She did not want to learn how to read or write, she wanted to learn the functions of the world. Her parents watched her lessons with exasperation as their daughter issued endless challenges to the tutor. Eventually, the tutor taught Moonray that reading and writing were forms of communication; it allowed other dragons to learn more about the subjects they were interested in. 
 
She threw herself into reading as many scrolls as she could find about science. She learned about gravity, planetary orbits, evaporation. She wanted knowledge. She wanted more.
She wanted all of it.
Moonray excelled at her studies, and soon knew more than the teachers could teach. 
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Relationships
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Charisma was an isolated dragon that Moonray met in the rainforest after she, Frost, Dak, and Ridge got lost and crash-landed. Charisma saved her and Dak. 
Dakriet was her first friend, and she's stuck by him, even though everyone wonders why since...Dakriet is sort of unreasonable. And obnoxious. 
Princess Frost was sort of a frenemy, at first? They were a bit at odds because Frost was like "Oh. A NightWing." but it was more like "OHhh. A NightWing." <insert a slightly distrustful glance> then they became really good friends because they bonded over their shared love of science.
Ridge is a reliable friend and a capable ally. His levelheadedness stabilizes the group, which Moonray is super grateful for.
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Trivia
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* Speedruns the periodic table of elements in her head as a way to calm herself down
Category:Characters
Category:Dragonets
Category:Females
Category:NightWings
Category:Occupation (Student)
Category:Occupation (Scientist)
Category:Inspired by Fiction
Category:Content (LivVirtual)
Category:Work in Progress