Photilarimas

Also known as
 Age
 Status
 Gender
 Species
 Type
 Element(s)
 Skill level
 Family
 Civil status

**Photilarimas** is one of darker halfers.

She's most knows as Tira, for her weird feature of black "tears" when she dematerializes back from the shadow form.

## Skills & abilities

Tira is a very skilled halfer. However, she is unable to use a shadow breath.

### Shadow form

Her instincts are mastered to the point that she automatically shifts into a shadow form whenever she senses danger. It is possible to maintain this shadow form for a day at maximum without changing back.

The shadow form is immune to all elements (except light) and physical attacks. However, as a shadow, she can't deal any damage.

### Shadow wings

Due to her wings being made of dark energy, she can't be brought down even if her wing arms are broken/destroyed. Dark energy will still allow her to fly.

Aside from that, her shadow wings hurt any non-darker if they are touched by it (feels like a nettle burn if the touch was minimal, can hurt as a fire burn if the touch lasts a lot).

## Backstory

Tira's mother was moving with a group of other creatures to seek shelter
 in Warfang in about 1560 year, when the group encountered a pack of
darkers. They tried to defend themselves, but as the dragoness wasn't a
fighter, she moved to hide to keep alive, hoping she wouldn't be
noticed.

Too bad for her, she was spotted by a darker Korfeo (who
 was just a mere darker back then). He left her to die on her own, as
both blood and the body violation seemed to satisfy him enough. But for
some reason, she didn't die from the wounds in a few hours as it usually
 was. After the screams and roaring faded away, she decided to check the
 place of the encounter, only to find all her former companions slashed
into pieces and partially eaten. She spotted one of healing crystals,
which probably fell from someone's backpack and used it to heal herself.
 She would have to find a way to the city by herself.

Some time
later she felt that she was pregnant with an egg, and it could be only
from that unfortunate encounter. When the egg finally emerged, she was
surprised to see it being fully black, just like the scales of the
darker who violated her. It made her feel so sick that she was about to
smash the egg, but reconsidered as the mother's instinct took over. The
potential hatchling wasn't to blame, plus even if the egg was black, it
was just a colour.

She kept it close, always careful to ensure its safety. And one day, when she was resting in a cave at night, the egg hatched.

The
 dragoness was greeted with a sight of a grey hatchling, who had a skull
 on its head and big yellow eyes. While she was staring at it,
bewildered, it jumped and bit her front paw. The female let out a
surprised yelp and threw the hatchling, smacking it into a closest wall.
 But it turned into a black mass when it touched the wall and fell down,
 dematerializing as the ugly hatchling. The dragoness wanted to do
nothing with this spawn of darkness anymore, yet she couldn't bring
herself to kill it, because it was "just a child". She walked out of the
 cave, only to meet 2 darkers who heard her yelp and came to
investigate. As she attempted to get away, they caught and killed her.

When
 the darkers left, a bit full of the fresh snack, a small grey ball
moved to the remains of the dragon. The hatchling actually followed the
dragoness when she was walking out of the cave, as the smell seemed to
attract her. It calmly watched the entire scene, unnoticed. When it
reached the remains, it smelled it again, then curiously took a bite...
found it eatable and devoured as much as its size could allow. Feeling
full, it moved back to the cave to rest.

Later, the halfer
started to move, but for some reason the growth was stuck for a few
years, so she was appealing as a cute grey hatchling. She ate what she
could find, lizards, birds, anything she could reach with her yet weak
abilities. She could only hide in shadows. A few times she happened to
meet some intelligent creatures who didn't seem to be afraid or
disgusted with her, most laughed at how she tried to kill them, throwing
 herself at them to bite. However, as she learned, her roaring would
always bring bigger creatures from around who would leave her food from
the creatures she met. It worked until her growth kicked in, and she
wasn't appealing as a cute hatchling anymore. She couldn't hide from the
 creatures who answered her roaring, and they were targeting her
instead.

She was their new target. She had to fight. She spent
the following years by mastering her element, so she would be able to
stay alive and not be eaten. Tira didn't care about anything else back
then.  As much as she tried to avoid open confrontations with the others
 later, it never worked 100% due to her colours, therefore she was
beaten, hurt, sometimes so badly she was sure she'd die. But she didn't.

 She did well on mastering her element.

## Relationships

### Tatterwing

Tira's arch enemy, whom she had to fight the most in the past.

## Notes

* Tira was supposed to be used as a darker in "Old Scars", but due to some corrections, she was presented as a halfer. Later she was turned into one.