Civet the SandWing

Civet is Chipper's OC. You may not use her.
==APPEARANCE==
Civet is a [fairly small SandWing for her age, with a serpentine frame mismatched with long, lanky legs, the kind of proportions some might expect from an adolescent] (<- change this). She tends to slink close to the floor when indoors, carefully twisting around whatever objects are in her way, though her way of movement is often described as clearly being designed for running. Her main scales are a pale, dusty yellow colour, with deep gold-ish striped patterns (which are, despite her name, more comparable to a tiger's). Her overscales and underscales are both darker than her main scales. Her tawny frill is slightly shorter than average, and fairly often held flat against her spine. The underside of her wings is a similar colour to her frill, though slightly lighter, and outlined with the dark gold of her stripes.
Civet's claws are slightly more hooked than usual, though otherwise normal, and her scales are typically exceptionally clean. Her eyes are large and a deep brown, with a brighter ring around the thin, slit pupils. Her black horns are quite long, and curve upwards, polished much like her scales are. Her long tail ends in a strange, gold-ish stinger - abnormally straight (but slightly curved), almost like a spear. She can use it for injecting venom, though not quite in the same way as normal SandWings, and she tends to be left with a greater reserve of venom than the average SandWing. In general, her tail is oddly straight for a SandWing, and often held more stiffly - there is some unauthorised speculation as to whether she has hybrid blood (a SkyWing grandparent, perhaps?), or if this is simply an ancient trait that has happened to resurface with her.
The strangeness of her tail has led to her donating herself to be placed in Burn's weirdling tower after her (hopefully natural) death, though that's more of a formality. She is, other than the tail and awkward proportions, almost attractive by SandWing standards - although, even ignoring physical traits, some might say this is balanced out by her personality. Civet would refuse to comment either way.
Overall, if you know what you're looking for, Civet is very recognisable, which makes her rather glad that not many actually knew of her.
== PERSONALITY ==
Civet is far from intimidating, or, she tries not to be. Intimidation doesn't fit in with her appearance, or with her goals. And, in this case, as Burn's taxidermist, she's become much more...subservient, seemingly docile and willing to do anything she's told, no matter how petty or sanguinary it is. Not that she actually does care much about blood and exposed flesh, having seen more than enough of it in her lifetime, once being somewhat of an anatomist, and, obviously, a taxidermist. She did, however, become less docile as time went on - and, certainly, something there changed when Burn died and she realised she'd lost her job.
Civet has, despite her demeanour, always been genuinely loyal, almost to a fault. She is exceptionally unlikely to betray the dragon she's loyal to, til death... but certainly not after. In the worst cases, she'll pretend she never knew the dragon, certainly no mourning to be found. (This isn't related to her being a taxidermist at all, no matter the rumours. Civet herself is just like that.)
Civet has a smooth, almost slick way of talking to those who are her equal or below her, and is surprisingly good at haggling and negotiation. She tends to gain this irritating smirk on her face when she is certain that you aren't as skilled as her at something - one could describe her as having the skills but not the attitude to be a teacher. On average, she tends to be somewhat pessimistic, in a sort of sardonic way.
Civet also has a tendency to try to induce guilt in others if she can't win any other fight with them, but if it comes to a physical fight, she isn't afraid to use her spear-like tail. Bites and scratches are normal for her, and anyone who expects her to fight fairly has clearly completely misunderstood how she works. On the other end of the spectrum, she is unusually sweet to those who she actually likes, and her favoured forms of affection (to both give and receive) are physical affection and gifts. Unfortunately, to many, she is generally not a great acquaintance and a terrible friend.
Civet, as is expected, is interested in anatomy and taxidermy. She is excellent at crafting things, being quite the skilled seamstress, and has a large amount of knowledge on the process of taxidermy, on what beasts are easiest to taxidermise, and on what tools would be needed. She is good at posing the taxidermy mounts, and takes pride in her ability to make them very convincingly realistic. Civet finds badly-done taxidermy infuriating rather than amusing, and frequently starts clawing at the ground at the mere mention of rogue 'taxidermy'. If it isn't how it was in life, what's the point? She is nowhere near as interested in bizarre creatures as most assume, mostly having just found that working in the weirdling tower was a good, well-paying job.
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== RELATIONSHIPS ==
=== BURN: ===
Civet worked as Burn's taxidermist, carefully stuffing the corpses and posing them, in particular focusing on the dragons. When she didn't do it all herself, she at least prepared them for stuffing, and gave what help was asked of her. She worked in this position for most of her life, and was extremely careful to make sure she didn't end up in the tower at an earlier point than expected. Of course, whenever she died, she'd probably shortly end up a taxidermy anyway - before Burn's death, there was a place specially picked for her to be posed, and everything was arranged...just in case. Civet was very loyal to Burn, and very aware of what would happen if she didn't obey her queen. If she was ordered to drop out of the sky right there and then, she'd do it, for fear of what worse things could happen instead.
Civet never really cared a great deal about Burn, further than about what would happen to her job. She was infuriated by her death, of course, but that was mostly because she liked her job (and hated all the other possible options for queens).
[WIP]
== HISTORY ==
[WIP]
== TRIVIA ==
* Civet is specifically based on the small indian civet, and is actually the first of my OCs for a long while to be so closely based on a type of animal.
** However, her patterns are also nothing like said civet.
* She seems to have a hatred of young dragonets, although how much this is just her not being sure of how to interact with younger dragons is unclear.
* Curiously, Civet tends to prefer pubs over other locations such as cafes, despite the fact that she doesn't drink alcohol, and in fact doesn't particularly approve of it. Supposedly she just likes the atmosphere and the smell in the air. The fact that the smell and atmosphere are because of the alcohol doesn't appear to occur to her.
** Those who have met her at any public place claim that she's never really particularly social, prefering to sit alone and drink (usually water or something with caffeine), or write, or even just stare out of the window.
* [WIP]
== GALLERY ==
File:Civet ref 2024.png|alt=Ref sheet for Civet, a SandWing. She is thin, with a long body and tail, along with horns that curve upwards. Her scales are pale yellow, with a darker golden underbelly, and she has dark brown-gold tiger-like stripes going down her body and limbs. Her stinger is unusually straight, like a spear. In all parts of the ref, she looks tired or stressed.|Ref (by Chipper the Crow)
File:Civet 2.png|alt=A digital uncoloured headshot of Civet, a thin SandWing with long, curving horns and dark stripe patterns. She has been drawn with large, shiny eyes, and many ostrich-like 'hairs' and 'eyelashes', as well as whiskers. She is holding what appears to be a SandWing's head (bloodless), and stares to the right with a slightly nervous expression.|(by Chipper the Crow)
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