Styx (LadyScarab)

S T Y X
Styx 	Styx
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Background Information	Background Information
Creator 	LadyScarab
Main Attribute 	Justice
Elemental Attribute 	Darkness
Theme Animal 	Screech Owl
Theme Color 	Dark Silver
Theme Song 	All Was Well, by Wintergatan
MBTI Personality 	ISFP-T, usually
Character Information 	Character Information
Age 	6
Gender 	Female
Orientation 	Reluctant Lesbian
Occupation 	Assassin
Tribe 	NightWing
Goal 	Freedom
Residence 	Possibility
Relatives 	Angel (twin sister), Shade (half brother), Lethe (Mother), Acheron (stepfather, deceased)
Allies 	Angel, Calypso
Enemies 	Lethe, Shade
Likes 	Angel, Alone time, Art, Reading
Dislikes 	The rest of her family, Medicine smells
Powers and abilities 	Future-sight
Weapons 	Throwing stars, knives
Quote 	"I don't care what you think, mother. I can't let my sister die."
APPEARANCE
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Styx is dark grey. She has no underwing star scales but has flecks of silver dotting her underbelly and face. She has teardrop scales, but they're pure black instead of silver. Her eyes are different colours- one is bright, twinkling blue, the other is dark purple. She's a smaller, scrawny dragon, and is always slightly slumped to avoid being talked to. When she has to be, she's an excellent fighter, but her wiry, scrawny frame usually doesn't show it.
Styx's base colour is dark grey, with black stripes running down her sides. Her claws, horns and spines are white, meaning she's often mistaken for a hybrid. She hates this, as it reminds her of how her mother hated her.
Styx owns a small arsenal of weapons, and due to her past, always keeps a knife in a small sheath on her wrist.
PERSONALITY
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Styx is a silent dragon, with a biting sense of black humour that came from her years of mistreatment at the hands of her family. She has very few friends and would die for her sister, Angel. On the outside, she's sarcastic, angry, and secretive, but Angel and a few other friends know that inside, she's just a small, scared dragonet. Very few dragons see past her hostile facade, but those who do are either her best friends or her worst enemies. 
Styx is angry with dragons who aren't her friends or her sister but does have a soft spot for underdogs and homeless dragons. She is secretly quite kind but tries to cover it. She succeeds in that.
She hates her family apart from Angel, and never talks about them. She carries out her assignments as an assassin without question, but she is her own dragon and doesn't follow orders easily.
HISTORY
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Styx's mother, Lethe, was a smug, entitled NightWing. When the RainWings took over the tribe, Lethe was horrified, most of all because she was with egg at the time. How could her dragonet grow up a slave to the RainWings? Lethe wanted her dragonet to be a powerful, large dragon. Her wish was granted, with a perfect egg that was a deep, ebony black. It was the largest egg anyone in the tribe had seen, and Lethe was sure her future son (who she had named Shade in advance) would be huge, larger than Morrowseer, and when he grew up he would destroy Queen Glory and bring his Mother to the throne of the NightWings, with the RainWings in their rightful places as slaves. Lethe waited and waited for her egg to hatch, watching it turn silver in the light of two full moons, waiting for Shade to come out of his egg, the largest egg in the rainforest...
Two dragonets hatched.
It turned out Lethe's egg had been so large not because there was a huge, hulking dragonet inside- Lethe's egg had hatched twins, two small dragonets. Enraged, Lethe named the first dragonet Angel, an angel to the RainWings, a weak, useless dragonet. The second dragonet was named Styx, after an old Pantalan language's word for hate. The two female dragonets had stolen Lethe's precious Shade, and they would pay.
Lethe was an angry soul, and Styx and Angel quickly learned to fear her. Lethe obsessed over everything, whether it was Angel's smallest mistake or Styx's tiniest comment. The twins' mother had terrible rages, directing her anger at the tiny dragonets that she felt had stolen her son.
When Styx and Angel were still less than one year old, Darkstalker came to the NightWings. He promised to bring them honour, and the most wonderful home. Lethe agreed to come with him immediately, having been one of the first to gain a new power from him. She ignored her daughters entirely, not even telling Darkstalker that they existed. And when the NightWings left the rainforest, Lethe ignored her children completely, leaving them.
When the new war between NightWings and IceWings was stopped, Lethe was furious. She supported Fierceteeth in her conquest for the NightWing throne, and when the tribe agreed to stay under the RainWings, Lethe took her anger out on her now one-year-old dragonets. Styx and Angel left the house as much as possible, but would always have to come back to their mother's rage.
Years passed. Styx and Angel, now three years old, were living a constant nightmare. Their mother had only gotten worse, almost killing them both on multiple occasions. Styx and Angel were terrified, not knowing what to do. Then came Acheron.
Acheron was Lethe's soulmate. He understood her. He doted on her, seeing the darkness in her and cherishing it. Lethe had found her real love, and soon enough there was another egg, of normal size. Out hatched a baby son for the two dark lovers. Lethe had finally gotten her Shade.
Styx and Angel were completely forgotten. Shade became Lethe's everything. She and Acheron loved their son as they had never loved the twins. They gave him gifts, trained him, fed him the best foods, and utterly ignored Styx and her sister.
Styx and Angel were now four-and-a-half years old. The two had long ago realised that their mother hadn't cared about them, and Shade only made things worse. Lethe and Acheron would punish the sisters for the smallest issues: dropping a book, making a noise in the night. Shade meanwhile could have murdered his sisters and would have received a round of applause.
Styx and Angel had turned five and the situation felt hopeless. Their mother delighted in hurting them. Acheron was even worse. They had received no education, could only read the most basic of things, and were blamed for every single problem. Angel had become very sick, and it was all Styx could do to keep her alive. Meanwhile, Shade, Lethe, and Acheron were the perfect family, not bothering to help Angel at all.
Finally, Styx had had enough.
One day, all alone, she brought Angel out of the house. The other NightWings realized her condition was serious and brought her to the RainWing healers. Angel was given treatment but would need to stay with the doctors for the night. Styx went home by herself to face her so-called family's wrath, heart pumping.
Over dinner, she broke the news to her mother. Lethe was furious. She openly attacked Styx, clawing her side. That was the final straw. Styx, in a fit of rage, kicked her mother in the chest and sending her flying into a bookcase. Acheron was on her with a roar, but after years of being mistreated, Styx was too angry to catch. She bit Acheron and raked her claws down her stepfather's wings.
Shade attacked her, with impossible speed. Styx ran from the house, but Shade flew impossibly fast. He caught up with her much too quickly, and Styx received multiple slashes before she got to the RainWing village. She ran to the healer's hut, rushed inside and begged Angel to wake up and run.
Then, Shade came in. He was wearing Lethe's old bracelet, enchanted by Darkstalker to give the wearer impossible speed. Moments later, Lethe and Acheron entered the room. Angel and Styx would not escape.
Styx tried to look brave. Her mother stalked towards her, holding a steel blade. Acheron leapt on top of her, pinning her to the ground. Lethe came closer. Styx struggled, terrified, as her mother stepped forwards, knife an inch away from Styx's throat. Lethe slowly lowered the knife, Styx closed her eyes in terror-
It never hit her. Styx opened her eyes to see her sister slamming Lethe into a wall with her tail. Angel grabbed the knife from her mother's talons. Acheron grabbed Angel by the shoulders and slammed her into a shelf. Styx choked down a scream. Angel had stopped moving. Was she dead? Without thinking, Styx grabbed Lethe's knife from the floor and plunged it into Acheron's back.
Lethe screamed in rage as Styx pulled the silver blade out of her stepfather's back. Blood pooled around her talons. Shade jumped at Styx with his unnatural speed, roaring with a vengeance. This time there would be no escape. Styx stumbled backwards. She slipped in the blood on the ground, her brother jumping at her-
Angel was up from the floor in an instant, body-slamming Shade to the floor and ripping off the enchanted bracelet. Lethe jumped at the twins, screaming in fury. Styx and Angel stumbled backwards as Lethe ran for them, ready to kill them. Styx grabbed her sister, prepared to go down fighting.
Suddenly, Lethe gasped. Her eyes rolled up in her head. She hit the floor and collapsed unconscious.
The RainWing lowered his blowgun. He was one of the doctors that had treated Angel. Styx stared at him, not understanding.
"Run." He whispered.
The twins didn't disobey. Styx supported Angel, keeping her sister steady as they flew. They made it to Possibility in a day.
The next few weeks were hard- Styx and Angel scourged up food and begged until Angel got a job in an artist's studio. Styx eventually joined Angel, and in a month Angel was doing her own art, and Styx was close to finding a job as an assassin.
Their lives are still hard, but Angel and Styx are well on their way in possibility, and free from their family's legacy.
ABILITIES
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Styx and Angel's egg was hatched under two full moons, but as there were two dragonets inside, Styx gained only foresight, while Angel gained only mindreading. For some reason, Styx can't see Angel's future and Angel can't read Styx's mind.
RELATIONSHIPS
===Angel===
Styx loves Angel so much that she would die if anything happened to her. They formed a close bond in their time with their family, and will always be together.
===Lethe===
Styx's mother hated her, to say the least. Lethe is probably still out there, furious with the twins for killing Acheron, but they're safe from her... for now.
===Acheron===
Acheron was the first dragon Styx has ever killed. He hated her and took great delight in punishing her. She does not miss him in the slightest.
===Shade===
Shade was Styx's brother, but they hated each other from the start. He was fiercely loyal to his mother and father, and probably still wants to murder his older sisters. What a lovely family Styx and Angel have had.
===Calypso===
Styx considers Calypso to be a kind dragon. They have helped each other multiple times, and Styx likes the shy, introverted SeaWing. Angel is best friends with her, and Styx is glad that her sister has found a kindred spirit.
TRIVIA
* Styx, Lethe and Acheron are all named after rivers of the underworld in Greek mythology.
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