Prince Atrox

Prince Atrox is a male SandWing dragonet and the only child of the oldest Princess, Tigris. Due to circumstances Atrox has to pose as the Golden Princess to help his mother reach her goal. Having been born wingless his mother gave him enchanted objects to make up for that.
== 📀 APPEARANCE ==
Rather short for his age, and scrawny to the bones, it's hard to believe that this dragonet comes from a rich house if it wasn't for his accessories. Prince Atrox has strong bags beneath his eyes, a chipped ear, a scar on the left cheek, and a tooth gap. His right arm primarily, but also part of the left, is covered in scars, but typically gets covered by gauntlets, fitting with his golden mask, and golden shoulderplates. Additionally he wears a white cloak, covering his lack of wings and a few further scars. He wears a brooch on his cloak. The rattlesnake-like tail tip marks him as a noble. 
Golden scales, reflecting the light of the sun like a gemstone, and a near white short fancy frill on his back with a sort of jagged forelock, make Atrox' nickname of the Golden Prince all appropriate.
== 📀 PERSONALITY ==
 MBTI - Lawful Neutral 
 + loyal + obedient + easygoing + 
 - vain - easily irritated - self-doubting - 
Atrox is somebody that respects authorities and nobility, and stays loyal to his mother. He is very obedient, and tries to convince himself that he is doing the right things, believing that the word of his mother is absolute and truthful. However, deep inside he also has some doubts regarding his mother, but wouldn't bring that up as he fears his mom, the one person he does not want to disappoint. Because of his need to be perfect for his mother, Atrox gets annoyed when things don't go his way, and his plans may get jeopardised. He's an opportunist, and would even go as far as manipulate people in order to get what he wants.
Sols general attitude in front of others is laid back and easygoing, but occasionally you can see his inner brat come out. He can be a goofball, and enjoys teasing people. Atrox is slightly vain and often gives snarky comments to Rat and the others, whom Atrox sees as below himself. He's also short tempered, so it's not uncommon to see him scowling. Atrox tends to see anybody who doesn't belong to the palace as a pawn for him to use, and he doesn't feel bad when using them, usually because he is convinced that it will help his mother, and that he only does it for her.
There is a soft side to Atrox, which he dislikes to show as he feels it would take away from his authority. He is notably caring for his pet bird. Though he does show kindness towards other nobles, none of it is genuine, besides the kindness directed at Prince Cardinal, whom he gets actually along with. This may be because Cardinal is one of the few fellow dragonets he ever gets to interact with. Atrox notably struggles to relate and talk to commoners.
== 📀 SPECIAL ==
* Tribal: Prince Atrox has all the abilities a regular SandWing does. His fire is a reddish colour.
* Flightless: Having no wings, Atrox obviously can't fly naturally.
* Mask: Cast with a concealment spell, the mask allows Atrox to hide his presence if he wishes to. His mother gave it to him to ensure that her only dragonet would survive. 
** Weakness unknown
* Brooch: An enchanted brooch his mother gave him. It gives Atrox magic skills, particularly teleportation and the ability of flight, to make up for the lack of wings. The brooch is powered by a fake lumenstone.
** Using the stone takes energy from the user. Teleportation seems to be limited within a radius.
== 📀 RELATIONSHIPS ==
=== King Cobra ===
* neutral to neg | grandfather
Atrox has been raised to dislike his grandfather, although King Cobra is probably one of the better members of this family. Atrox believes the current king doesn't deserve the throne because he is a man, who doesn't even descend from the royal bloodline - more propaganda he got fed by his mother, but also his aunt, so it must be even truer. In order to keep that relationship the way it is, Tigris minimizes the contact grandfather and grandchild can have, because she fears that if they spend too much time together, her father might "brainwash her child", and dare to make Atrox believe that King Cobra is in any way a good dragon. Cobra also seems to have seen through the ruse and might be aware that Tigris didn't give him a granddaughter but rather a grandson, something Cobra takes no issue in, but also doesn't address for his grandchild's safety.	
=== Princess Tigris ===
* it's complicated | mother
Given that she is his mother, Atrox should love and respect her. It was the way he had been raised by her. Atrox truly believes in the things his mother says, and wants to make her happy, because when she is happy, so is he. But he is also notably fearful of his mother, which seems to be a result of her manipulating and using her own child. She has been noted to punish her child whenever sol didn't do as she wished, and she uses force and intimidation to make her son believe and share lies that would benefit her and her status as princess. It's unclear how much she actually loves her dragonet, or whether she just sees him as a tool to secure the throne from her father and sister.
=== Prince Cardinal ===
* pos | love interest
Ammon does not have many allies, and it also doesn't have many young dragons, especially among nobility, so Atrox never got to meet many dragonets in his age range outside of his cousins. One of the few dragonets he did meet was Prince Cardinal from Celestia Fortuna, one of the allies of the sand country. Fortunately both also were the same age, so it was easier to get along. But it wasn't exactly their closeness in age that brought them together, but rather their common interests and their similar ways of thinking. 
Atrox rarely got to see Cardinal, only when he was visiting with his family for business matters, but Atrox was happy whenever that happened. Sol can't exactly explain why Cardinal made sol so happy, while not feeling the same way about the IceWing princesses. It's a subject he does not talk about, so he can't ask people for advice. Sol is also not ready to open up to Cardinal about sols feelings or who sol truly is. Right now Cardinal sees Atrox as a princess of the Sand Kingdom as everybody else did, and because of his mother, Atrox cannot bring himself to tell Cardinal anything. Though eventually he will have to choose between his love to Cardinal and his loyalty to his mother.	
=== Chons ===
* neg | royal advisor
Chons is the man that provided his mother with the animus enchanted objects. He is a foolish man that obeys the royals like a trained dog, despite having such amazing powers. Atrox dislikes Chons' gullible nature, and thinks that a man like him doesn't need to be here in the first place, and that Chons could easily live in freedom elsewhere, but at the same time he likes how obedient and loyal Chons is. Clearly Atrox is unaware of the situation Chons is in, which sol isn't to blame for as sols family has been keeping secrets from the younger generation, a necessity for upholding their status, and how the younger ones view them. Another aspect of Chons Atrox dislikes is his tendency to suck up to the royals. Atrox also finds Chons' eyes creepy.
=== Princesses Frostflake and Frostquake ===
* neutral
Two other royal dragonets Atrox gets along with. They are pretty okay in his eyes, but he wouldn't exactly consider them good friends. They don't know each other well enough for that.	
=== Ex-Prince Crypto ===
* neg | grand uncle
Atrox has never met him in person, but his family has told him things about uncle Crypto, and most of these things were negative. Being told all this it was natural for Atrox to conclude that Crypto was a completely terrible guy beyond redemption and that sol should hate that man, whom he has never met, and might never meet (ehehe).
=== Rat ===
* negative
Hate rat	
=== Lotor ===
* negative
=== Rorschach ===
* complicated/negative	
=== Apus ===
* complicated
=== FAMILY TREE ===
== 📀 SYNOPSIS ==
Princess Tigris used to have a husband with whom she got her first and only dragonet, Atrox. He may have hatched male, but Tigris didn't bother much about it, as she planned to get more eggs with her husband, and with that get a potential heir. However, that plan was destroyed when Tigris heard the news about her significant other's death. Atrox' mother was reasonably upset, not just because she lost somebody, but also because she was not able to produce a female heir, and that was problematic if she wanted the power of the throne.
For a while now Ammos had been ruled by King Cobra, Tigris' father. The previous queen, her mother had died without being challenged, and so the throne was given to her still living husband - a move some supported, and others criticized. One of the people that opposed that was of course Tigris, who thought that she should get the throne. But also get it without a challenge. The problem was just that she had a sister, who had just as many rights to the throne. Unlike Tigris though Cerastes has no children, and as long as it stayed that way, Tigris might get the throne when Cobra dies.
Actually, Tigris had not cared much for her son prior to his father's death. Though it was clear that she didn't entirely forget her son as she gave him a magic brooch, enchanted by Chons, in order to make up for his lack of wings. Tigris didn't want others to know. And then when her husband left her she tried even more to not lose Atrox as well. She gave the dragonet a mask that would ensure his safety. Little did he know that the mask didn't just have invisibility skills. It also convinced others that Atrox was a girl, finally finding a purpose for her son. Tigris always had wished for a daughter so she would do anything to make that true. Atrox was asked to play along, and because of his love and loyalty to his mother he abided by her orders. Tigris wanted to ensure that Atrox could be better than his cousins.
Remarrying didn't seem like an option. Tigris just couldn't get over her late husband. She tried to find a new partner but without success. Maybe things would be different if she just had another dragonet with another dragon. But what if that child also turned out to be a boy? Would she have to try again? Yeah, Tigris didn't think that would be good enough for her.
Atrox had wondered: "Why didn't Chons just magically give Tigris an heir?" "If I did that, wouldn't the others also ask for it? It wouldn't solve everything. And also I was told not to get too involved in family things. You gotta solve some things yourselves." Atrox accepted this answer, although he wasn't entirely sure if Chons really was staying out of the family feud as he claimed.
...
Since Atrox was a prince and his mother a princess, it was not surprising that they got to meet the monarchs and nobles of other nations. Usually it was out of political reasons. It wasn't uncommon for some of the guests to bring their dragonets, although many of these dragonets were either much younger or much older than Atrox, and he generally had no interest in them to begin with. This was also how he met the royal Icewing dragonets Frostflake and Frostquake (who at that time was not out yet). 
And then he also met Cardinal. 
Celestia Fortuna had quite the tense relationship with Ammos, but both Queendoms try very hard to keep their peace. So the elders had the idea of maybe engaging a prince or princess of the Sand Queendom with one from the Sky Queendom. The initial idea was to choose a SandWing princess and pair her up with any of the many SkyWing princes, and Atrox being perceived as a princess would obviously be one of the chosen ones. At that time however Atrox was not so keen on that idea. He was still very young, so even the idea of marrying anyone wasn't really something he had thought of or wanted at that time. 
...
* start of the quest
== 📀 TRIVIA ==
* He has a pet bird.
* Named after the crotalus atrox - the western diamondback.
* Though winglessness and pseudo wings aren't rare in the Etheriverse, Atrox being born this way as a royal was actually considered a bad omen.
* He is invested in animus magic and elemental manipulation.
* He's partially based on Hunter from Owl House.
== 📀 GALLERY ==
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