Goldie

"*How can I do it?! [...] Why, you don't know me at all! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M CAPABLE OF!*"

—Goldie to Kagayaku after she asked how he could corrupt souls, *The Poisoned Oath*

## Goldie

* Normal
* Glamour

### Nickname(s)

The Golden Star Golden brat (Aire, Mepuru, Armani)
Darling (Honey)
Golden boy (Rascal)
Gold (Humans)
Sweetheart (Era)
Honeybun (Era)
The guy who breaks his arm a lot (Jadis)
Diligent soul (Astra)
King Goldie (Himself)
Little flamboyant golden servant (Aella)
The Hateful Star (Holly)

### Age

1000+ (chronologically) 19 DY - 28 HY (physically, at death)

### Class

**Normal** spirit **Blessed** spirit (formerly)

## Appearances

### Appears in

*The Poisoned Oath* *Sincerity*
*Burning Gold*

### Mentioned in

*The Game of Life*

**Goldie** (pronounced ‘Goal-dee’, or in ancient Pyrrhian, ǟʊʀʊʍ) is an iconic historical figure dating back to Pre-Scorching times, starting the famed event known as the Scorching in retribution for the Humans stealing dragon eggs in order to be used for warfare against warring empires in an act of domainance and power. Goldie was killed as a result of the 'Judgement Killer' project (stage backup, to be precise) founded by the Carmine Human Empire, and his 'disappearance' remains a mystery to the general public even in modern times, considering a deceased body was never actually recovered by Mortal talons, only a few shimmering scales that were chipped by some unknown cause resurfaced over years' worth of research and investigations. Now, he resides in the Dimension of Death within Celestial, after a failed attempt to overthrow Head Deity Astra alongside her twin sister Era, he struggles with forgiveness and cannot trust himself anymore.

Formerly an ancient Pyrrhian Overseer in his living years, he is well known for his strong sense of justice apart from his iconic shimmering scales, though opinions on him are very mixed in Celestial, especially after he tried to corrupt the world entirely. He's either well known for his beauty, or fiery temper, and it's a very popular belief amongst the spirits of Celestial that he's incapable of feeling any emotion whatsoever, being unable to smile, or even cry, no matter how hard he tried. This isn't true, though, and he'd turn out to be more empathetic than one would think at first glance.

He acts as the main antagonist of *The Poisoned Oath*, and the deuteragonist of *Burning Gold*.

## Appearance

Goldie is a huge golden dragon, with an appearance that is charming, yet terrifying. His scales are tinted a beautiful vibrant gold colour, shining brightly whenever the light reflects from them. He is lean and graceful, though his limbs seem to stick out at odd angles like drinking straws instead of flesh and bone. Goldie's face is relatively angular and pointy in shape, with a lean snout similar to that of an IceWing. On the tip of his snout is a horn, normally something you'd see on a SkyWing, as well as a horn on both of his cheeks. Two long fangs stick out of his mouth at the back, unable to be hidden no matter what. His eyes are normally half lidded, never fully open in a moody appearance, and are a disturbing shade of bright red that stands out like a sore thumb compared to his normally gold colour scheme. Most of the time, some of his face is covered by his mohawk like fur, which drapes over his head almost always.

In terms of attire, Goldie barely wears anything, only a single golden pendant with a large 'G' emblazoned on the front. This pendant is enchanted by Astra herself to allow Goldie to teleport anywhere he wants. Occasionally, Goldie will wear other things, mostly with a gold or yellow colour scheme.

Goldie, at first glance, would have no scars, but if you removed his pendant, you'd see a long, albeit small, scar from where he was decapitated. He keeps this scar covered at all times as he thinks it looks disgusting and ugly. As for markings, Goldie doesn't have many, only being a single stripe underneath each eye and triangle patterns on his wing membranes.

If you looked at his torso, you'd see he how unhealthily thin he looks. Though he has just enough fat to cover up his ribs, he is strikingly skinny compared to most dragons, especially those around his age. This is because he starved himself to protect Stella while she was still an egg, as well as the fact he wasn't able to eat much in the last few moments of his life ever since he injured himself. His tail is long, thin and somewhat prehensile, like that of a RainWing's, with yellow fur covering the tip.

## Personality

When in the eyes of other dragons, where the public can see and judge every movement of his muscles, he puts up a persona: One that charms, a showman, reserved and angry, but also able to capture the hearts of any females nearby. He makes his presence known and shows off, acting arrogant and egotistical, but also mindful of his own space, snapping at anyone who tries to get personal with him, or even dares draw too close. He makes threats a lot, though secretely, he doesn't mean these, and would feel bad if he ever hurt anyone.

Because of this, opinions on him are rather mixed within Celestial. One side adores him, his beauty, sass, and arrogance captures the hearts of many. The females see him as a mysterious, engimatic figure, attractive in every way. But the other side find him overbearing, even terrifying, and are unsure of why he's so attractive in the first place. Many rumours around him cycle around Celestial, some minor but still hurtful, or some more major, rather extreme and also somewhat silly, ones.

He always makes his appearance known within an area, though despite this, surprisingly, he isn't the loudest unless anyone speaks to him or angers him. In fact, he secretely wishes to be left alone whenever he's out and about, but this usually doesn't happen, so he dislikes leaving his home altogether. He has a very short temper towards other dragons, frequently finding himself snapping at others whenever he's in a public space, finding it really hard to manage his anger at points, as well as other emotions, though he keeps most of his true feelings under lock and key when others are watching.

With the more overt actions of his out of the way, now, if one would watch Goldie closely whenever he's outside, they would notice quite a few odd actions. His eyes always dart around, and is always on extremely high alert, ears perked, area scanned, in case anyone's hiding away, wishing to attack him and take his scales, or force him to use his magic. His paranoia is another reason why he never leaves the house, he cannot trust any other dragons, no matter how sweet or trustworthy they may seem, he refuses to share anything personal about himself, and he most certainly will *not* feel vulnerable.

This anxiety also comes in the form of Goldie fidgeting, biting his talons, looking around the area constantly, or even trembling and twitching, though nobody ever seems to notice this despite Goldie being the centre of attention most of the time whenever he's out. He can't keep the spotlight from falling on him, and he *hates* it. He wishes the world would leave him alone one day.

But something even more problematic would come to light if you observed him even more carefully, and in the likes of areas such as the Celestial Marketplace or Celestial's cafeteria/meetup point. He *steals*. Half of what Goldie obtains within these areas isn't paid for, and his movements are precise, quick and unnoticeable. For such a sore thumb, he knows how to be subtle, nobody even knows about this habit of his. He doesn't know why he steals, maybe it's a natural dragon instinct to hoard, but he knows he doesn't like it, but he can't help it, the impulsivity is too much for him, he can't hold back, especially whenever he sees something shiny, and/or golden.

In conclusion, Goldie is a rather ersatz being, misleading and deceitful in his own ways, but acts only out of terror: He wishes not to be seen as vulnerable, what would the public think? Would they begin to hate him? Pity him? Or... See this as an opportunity to attack him? He can't take those chances. He needs to stay safe from the other Celestials, he'll never know whenever someone's scheming against him, so he remains alert, always. Nobody will attack him, he will not be seen as weak, and he'll make sure of that.

## Biography

They lived alongside the then-dominant species of the Humans, who had sprawling cities, empires, towns and villages all across the continent. They were once advanced, feared, with peculiar devices, science, and even ways to slaughter the dragons which, in these climates, were rather rare. Anything a dragon could count as treasure, the Humans would take, the Dragons couldn't live in peace without the Humans harassing them in some manner. But they wouldn't dare stand up for themselves, no, in fear of their own lives.
On this continent, the myths of today were still to come to fruition, the only paranormal figures that these Dragons really knew were their Deities, but even then, who could prove that they were really real?
But everything would change one cold night in October, under a surprisingly clear sky, adorned with beautiful shooting stars. As the meteorites whizzed through the planet's skies, reflecting off the shell of a certain egg, cracks would appear in the once flawless exterior, eventually giving way to a peculiar Dragonet gilded in blazing gold scales, shimmering even when the moon's light touched them.
This stunned his parents, two Pre-Scorching Dragon thieves named Rook and Jackdaw. This dragonet's contraception in the first place was unplanned, they had only settled into the mountains after finding out, breaking away from a previously nomadic lifestyle. They would frequently steal riches from the Humans, as well as other Dragons, digging up Human vaults underground, breaking into Draconic caves and residences when the owners were out hunting, and hoarding everything they stole for themselves, but now, it looked like they would need to steal for an extra one.
This 'miracle dragonet' was dubbed with the name of 'ǟʊʀʊʍ', an Ancient Pyrrhian word for 'Gold', after the dazzling scales which covered his body.
Believing that this Dragonet was blessed by the Deities above themselves, after all, neither Rook nor Jackdaw had such stunning scales that shimmered whenever any kind of light touched their surface, ǟʊʀʊʍ (now, in the present, known as 'Goldie', as nobody speaks Ancient Pyrrhian anymore these days), was sentenced to a rather sheltered Dragonethood, kept in his cave home all day and not allowed out into the wider world, as his parents were afraid of what the Humans, or possibly even other Dragons, would do to him. As they were thieves, they could tell when something was valuable, and his scales were most certainly valuable, they couldn't take the risk.
His parents would go out hunting to bring back food for Goldie, and would even steal luxuries from the Humans and other Dragons to provide entertainment and gifts for him, wishing to keep him happy so he wouldn't want to leave his home and endanger himself. And, well, it worked. Goldie had no desire to leave the home, as he was always provided with so many fun activities to do indoors: Such as painting, sparking a creative side in the young Dragonet, toys to play with, among other things.
Although he had to admit, he was rather curious about what lay beyond the cave's entrance, especially since his parents were so iffy about him leaving.
Every time he attempted to even set one talon outside, his parents would somehow catch him every time, it was almost like they knew he was trying to leave. It got tiring, so he stopped trying after a little while. After all, did he really need to go outside in the first place? He got everything he needed in the cave.
And yet, curiosity bites. He couldn't hold back the impulse, especially when a perfect opportunity for him to escape came up.
Soon after his parents left to go hunting and to possibly steal something else for Goldie, the young dragonet ran out of his cave. It was nothing extravagant, he simply stepped outside, to admire the world. Everything was, extreme, at first. The sun beating down on his scales, causing them to flash which temporarily blinded the poor dragonet, the grass underneath his talons... Yet, he enjoyed it, the wind whipping through his hair... It made him want to explore even more.
That is, until he figured out that the cave was on a rather high mountain ledge. He couldn't get down, he didn't know how to fly. Despite that, however, he was willing to try, spending a little time attempting to scale the mountain's surface, so he could descend to the ground below. He tripped, scraped and cut himself several times, but he eventually reached the bottom.
Quickly checking his parents hadn't returned, he then ran off into the forests nearby, feeling rather accomplished with himself.

### Main series

He reappears in Chapter 8, where he takes Kagayaku in Aire's dimension, saying that he could come inside since she too was in the meeting, though Kagayaku was skeptical of it. Eventually, Kagayaku and Goldie take interest in the tapestries that are on the Dimension's walls, Kagayaku calling Goldie over to explain several of the tapestries, the first being Dander's story.
In Chapter 9, Goldie and Kagayaku hear Aire returning, and he begins frantically dragging Kagayaku out of the Dimension, before tripping over his bad leg, allowing Aire to catch up to them and confront them. Goldie tries to speak, but is cut off by Kagayaku each time, who is worried that Goldie would only make Aire angrier. Eventually, the Goddess of War lets them go and Kagayaku drags Goldie out into the tunnels, heading back to Makoto's dimension, where she greets the two. Makoto asks Goldie for a hug, which he denies quickly and heads into the Dimension.
Goldie makes a return in Chapter 12, where Era calls upon him after confronting Kagayaku about her plan, introducing him as her accomplice and the one who was actually corrupting the Deities. Kagayaku, in shock, asks how he is able to accomplish such a feat, which causes him to snap and exclaim she 'didn't know what he was capable of'. Goldie then teleported away with Era shortly after she summoned Kagayaku's friends.
In Chapter 13, Goldie appears for a brief amount of time to give Kagayaku a cursed candleholder, which if she smashed, she would become corrupted. Mepuru insults Goldie, and he laughs at her, before teleporting away again.

## Quotes

"*You'd better watch where you're going!*" - To Kagayaku after they bumped into each other, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Duh. [...] Anyways, who even are you? Are you a fresh soul? I've never seen you in the entirety of my time here.*" - To Kagayaku after being asked if he was The Golden Star, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Ah, hate to break it to ya, kiddo, but Makoto's in a meeting that's been on for ages.*" - To Kagayaku after she asked where Makoto was, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Ugh. [...] Fine, but you're to leave as soon as Makoto gets back.*" - To Kagayaku after being asked if she could stay with him, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Yes, they very much were. The funny thing is, they were named after birds, both of them, from the Corvid family, too.*" - To Kagayaku after her remark about his parents, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Of course not, but since Aire's in that stupid Deity meeting, we can do whatever the heck we want.*" - To Kagayaku after she asked is they were meant to be in Aire's dimension, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*What's so interesting about this rugged parchment?*" - To Kagayaku when he noticed her looking at a tapestry in Aire's dimension, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*What a pain! She came back so much earlier than I expected. Well, whatever, I'm going home now, and once I get home, I'm gonna sleep, in bed.*" - To himself once he left Aire's dimension, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Jeez, Era, I'm here! Don't you have any sense of patience?*" - To Era after being called several times, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Oh, be quiet! I was too busy controlling the damned Deities you made me corrupt! [...] I've been hard at work, did you seriously think I'd appear straight away?!*" - To Era after she complained about him being late, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*How can I do it?! [...] Why, you don't know me at all! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M CAPABLE OF!*" - To Kagayaku after she asked how he could corrupt souls, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Oh, she certainly is, but I won't let you see her!*" - Goldie in response to Kagayaku wondering where Era was upon entering her Dimension, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*How could you, you damned dragonet! Now Celestial knows about our plan, we won't be able to take over!*" - Yelling at Kagayaku, angry about his plan being revealed, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Pfft, it belongs to Astra. [...] Yeah right. She can't do anything, Celestial belongs to me and Era now, and I won't let anyone take that away from us!*" - In response to Kagayaku saying that Celestial belongs to Astra and not him and Era, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Okay then. Hurt me! I'm not afraid of you! Besides, what can you, a small weak dragonet, do to me? A Pre-Scorching dragon?*" - Taunting Kagayaku after she said she'd hurt him, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*That's just what I thought! You can't do nothing!*" - To Kagayaku after biting her arm, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Now, pitiful mortals, this is what happens when you cross me!*" - To Kagayaku and her group after defeating Kagayaku, *The Poisoned Oath*

"*Are you going, are you staying? Yes, you're going!*" - Goldie, referencing Honey and Holly's line, before banishing Kagayaku and her group through the enchanted door, *The Poisoned Oath*

## Trivia

* Goldie currently holds the record of the tallest and oldest spirit in Celestial.
* His favourite food is bananas and will eat them all day long if he has to.
	+ He loves them so much he has even cursed the fruit bowl in the Celestial cafeteria to transport all bananas placed inside straight to his home. This has puzzled many dragons who try putting bananas into the bowl only to see them mysteriously vanish right in front of their eyes.
* When teleporting with his magic pendant, he is transported far up into the sky, causing him to drop down, which is why he is often seen randomly falling down from the ceiling.
* According to history, Goldie was the one who named Animus magic in the first place. The fact that he actually had the magic however was lost to time.