Pele

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op what the hell is this
* one of the nightwing representatives on the rainwing queen's main council
* has been through a lot of bs on the volcano
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pele
pele was one of forest's dragonsonas, although i have retired her. however, she remains her own character. there is no reason for you to be editing this page, so i ask that you refrain from doing so.
this page does have censored cursing and mentions of murder. you have been warned. lowercase is purposeful, and i will not tolerate people who edit it.
i'm tired of getting struck down. this time, i strike first 
lorde // still sane (explicit)
renee rapp // i'd rather be mean (pronoun showdown)
dodie // monster (explicit)
billie eilish // bad guy 
marina // oh no!
lorde // tennis court (explicit)
PELE 	PELE
 	
Artist 	pearl
background 	background
Creator 	🔥
Code 	-
Attribute 	distance
Element 	diamond / amber
Color 	bright red
Aesthetics 	neon lights / magma / bright reds / street lights at night / poison
Song 	<soundcloud url="https://soundcloud.com/lordemusic/still-sane" color="#000" height="20" width="20"></soundcloud><soundcloud url="https://soundcloud.com/user-853041162/renee-rapp-id-rather-be-mean-pronoun-showdown" color="#ddd" height="20" width="20"></soundcloud><soundcloud url="https://soundcloud.com/billieeilish/bad-guy" color="#000" height="20" width="20"></soundcloud>
character 	character
Nicknames 	-
Age 	19 (hy)
Gender 	female
Orientation	demisexual
Occupation 	student/hobbyist writer
Tribe 	nightwing
Goal 	rebuild her life
Residence 	possibility
Relatives 	type here
Allies 	joy
Enemies 	type here
Quote 	people act like just because we're "really good friends" i won't ignore them because i'm being moody like lmao i absolutely will cut you off because i don't wanna talk.
appearance
: pele is not graceful, not lithe, not lean. not the perfect aesthetic of a beautiful, cold-blooded assassin, as deadly as a slender python. slender pythons can be crushed underfoot. pele is a ram, built thickly, with new layers of fat starting to line her muscles. her jaw is strong and square, unforgiving, but the brutal edge has been softened with her time away from the volcano.
: she typically appears cold and harsh, distant and removed from you and your petty, mundane issues, as if she has much more important things to worry about. her expression tells you to shut up, she doesn't care, even when she does. she holds herself tall and her chin up, making her even taller than she usually seems. she's been trying to soften her rigid posture and cold exterior, but it's not working very well.
: dark grays over darker grays, accented with streaks of fiery scarlet and bright amber, as if her fire were breaking her scales into pieces. as if she might fall to pieces at any second, and fire might come flooding out.
: her main scales are dark and ashy, darkest gray lightened by soot and dust. they're dull, instead of shining under the light, as if they absorbed it. her wing membranes are lighter, a dark gray. her spines are even lighter, as if her colors were washing out one by one. only her horns are dark, solid black.
: despite how dark her coloring appears, no nightwing is solid darkness. her coloring is tinged red and maroon, washed with red. almost as if it was stained with the blood she has on her hands.
: red streaks her scales, in crackled lines comparable to magma cracking. the same shade as her underbelly, as if that was the furnace and her red lines are just waves of heat fading off of it. they're scattered, not clustered in one place. one line creeps a branch under her left eye. that's her warpaint, as she calls it.
: an excellent liar and a better actor. pele's talons are perpetually stained with pigments and ink, turning her dark gray scales darker. they're from a lifetime of covering up who she was, erasing her dark nightwing scales to turn them to brown, maroon, indigo, anything but traditional nightwing black. all to avoid suspicion. 
"sometimes i think i'm inherently a terrible person and i can't be redeemed then i realize it's just my teenage bull**** talking and i go eat some spaghetti"
personality
: pele constantly struggles not to disguise herself as someone else. after a lifetime of needing to pretend and act as someone else, not a nightwing, someone gentle, someone harsh, someone demanding, someone empathetic. anything to kill the mark and return home successful. she's learning how to present as herself- it takes effort not to sweeten her words and soften the blow of truth that she wants to give, and not to complain about something she doesn't really care about, just to make a reputation for herself. she softened herself and hardened herself at different intervals that she doesn't know how she really thinks and feels any more
: sort of self-centered and she knows, but it's hard to change. now that she's on her own and she's excited about all these things she's doing and trying and learning. it's hard not to ramble about them to anyone she knows. before she would have let the other lead the conversation, making them like her through letting them talk and talk until she's perceived as a good listener, or someone who shares an enthusiasm in an arbitrary topic.
: blunt and the devil's advocate. she will always give you the full truth, or maybe exaggerated a little more. she will argue over anything: perhaps it was her mistake, but she will argue for the sake of a little fun. some people shop when bored, some people eat. pele will debate and argue until she puts herself into an angry mood.
: she also might be the most loyal friend you've ever had. pele tends to give herself completely and fully to her friends, usually bending over backwards to help them. they ask and pele delivers, even if she doesn't want to. even if she's not a good person, she can be a good friend.
: super distanced from everyone else. pele acts like she doesn't care because she's afraid shes going to care too much and be dropped like she has been before. if she doesn't show others her vulnerabilities other people won't realize she's a mess, they won't realize what terrible things she's done that she's pushed under the carpet. 
: life has always been a contest for pele. the survival of the best, the strongest, the cruelest. the one the superiors liked the most. and pele has always been the best. it's hard for her to give up the competitive streak now.
: pele's anger does not simmer inside her for long. she is a boiling pot, and anything might spill her open and allow her frustration to spill everywhere. she is a volcano, ready to erupt. and when she erupts, pele's love for her friends is washed away, and she turns on them like an enemy.
: she is angry, and she has reason to be. although it seems like a lifetime of anger she spills out each time she blows, it is not. the deepest hatred she holds is for the life she had before, and the fire that you see is just the surface.
: some people are compared to an iceberg- deeper than you know. pele's anger is this iceberg. you will never truly understand the depth of it.
: she seems cruel, cynical, uncaring- and she is. but she's also a romantic at heart. maybe things could get better, and it's fun to dream about them being better. but they probably won't get much better.
"punk is kinda a cool thing to be called, isn't it? sTOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT JOY"
history
: pele has not had it easy. life has dealt her a bad hand, and she has struggled to play with it.
: being born on the nightwing volcano puts one at a severe disadvantage already. it' almost certain that you will be malnourished and despised for most of your life. but you learn to live with it.
: when she was four (dy), pele was chosen among a handful of other dragonets to begin training to be an assassin. it was the fire in her eyes and the smirk she wore like a weapon that influenced the choice. every day pele considers- if she hadn't seemed like such a promising candidate, if she hadn't acted so strong, maybe she would be in a better place than she is now.
: but then again, she might not be.
: it was always hard for her. pele had always found it hard to interact with other people, and being an assassin in training that was only allowed to talk to a specific few people didn't help. but then pele met someone. she was slender and graceful and honed a razor-sharp mind. pele loved her.
: her name was apate. another nightwing child named after a deity. the personification of deceit. fitting, for what happened to her.
: pele loved apate with all her heart. apate was quick and cunning and brilliant, but she was also magnetic in a way that drew others to her. she made you feel like her best friend when you talked to her. apate introduced pele to her worst enemies and best friends. apate shone in a way that pele only ever dreamed of.
: so when apate subconsciously labelled pele her second-in-command, pele was obviously overjoyed. she'd never had many friends, but people flocked to apate like moths to a lamp. and pele soaked in the attention.
*former assassin
*found a father figure in an older nightwing
*trusted him, showed him her vulnerability
*he would have killed her to escape from the exploding volcano- but he was too slow
**he had her hold a collapsing cave opening to help him out, promising to help her out once he got out- but he left her there. he left her to struggle under the weight of a mountain with fire at her back
**she caught up to him and killed him and disposed of the body discreetly
**the nightwings assumed he'd died in the eurption
*she fled and she hasn't trusted anyone with her weaknesses since him
:now roommates w joy, lives in a big city somewhere,, exists in post-canon au
i don't care about 99% of the things you think i care about. and the 1% i care about is bagels
trivia
* left handed
* lawful good
* ravenclaw
* hobbyist writer/artist
* collects journals but rarely uses them
* adores cinnamon + spicy foods
* smells like sweat and soap
* the name pele comes from that of a Hawaiian volcano goddess.
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Category:Characters
Category:Content (ForestFire28)
Category:Work in Progress
Category:Females
Category:LGBT+
Category:Occupation (Writer)
Category:Occupation (Student)
Category:NightWings
Category:Mature Content
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