Bud

**Bud** is a male TreeWing dragonet who was introduced in *Dragon Soul*. He is Blossom's fraternal twin.

## Bud

### Age

Dragonet (suspected to be 1- or 2-years by Maple)

## Appearance

Bud has green scales, brown eyes, brown horns, and no wings. He is small and about the same size as his twin sister.

## Personality

Bud is very cheerful and is willing to help anyone struggling - whether the struggle is physical or mental.

## History

### *Dragon Soul*

Bud first appears in the novel in the Community of Coasts greeting Maple as she contributes the prey she caught to the Community foodpile. Maple tells Bud that she caught a forest raptor for the foodpile, and he says she had the perseverance to catch it.

He is later seen in the late afternoon in the Community eating prey at the Community's daily Feast with his parents and fraternal twin.

He later appears at the end of the second act being kicked out, alongside his sister, from their family's hut for peering into her parent's belongings. The twins find Maple walked around the Community at night and tell her about what happened. Maple then asks the twins to give her books to read, which they give her the next day.

### *Dragon Heart*

Maple mentions that Sun is like Bud (in terms of personality) when speaking to Sand and Cloud about the outcasts.

## Relations

### Blossom

Blossom is a female TreeWing and Bud's fraternal twin sister.

### Parents

Bud's parents are a male and a female TreeWing.

## Trivia

* "Buds" are undeveloped or embryonic shoot that normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem.
	+ Bud's name is derived from flower buds.
* Bud being wingless was inspired by the fact that autism and other genetic neurological disorders are naturally part of the human genome.
	+ In an initial draft of *Dragon Soul*, he was given prosthetic wings to fly to represent the "cures" parents give their mentally disabled children when they do not know how to handle their child's disability. In the final version of the novel, he is pitied by other dragons to reflect responses disabled people generally get when they tell others they are disabled.
* If *FeatherWings* series were to continue, a potential next series would be a spin-off trilogy focusing on the older versions of the dragonets that appeared in the original trilogy (Blossom, Bud, Sun, Wind, etc.); older versions of the main protagonists of the original trilogy (Maple, Sand, Cloud); and the aftermath/repercussions of the original trilogy.
	+ However, because the author does't want their series to be "milked to death", a sequel trilogy is highly unlikely.
* Bud was originally going to have a larger role in *Dragon Soul*, being a character that initially kickstarted Maple's character arc. However, his final appearance in the novel was significantly cut back since his original role would've detract from the novel's main plot and not focus on getting the three main POVs of the series together.
	+ Furthermore, he and Maple would've had a discussion about how others are different and how they do not all fit a society's general mold of citizens. This idea was later saved for *Dragon Heart*, where a conversation of sorts is held by Dune and Sand on the shores of Eukarya's western ocean.

## Gallery

Reference by the authorColoring page of Bud and Blossom by the author (blank)Coloring page of Bud and Blossom by the author (colored, canon coloration used)
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Dragon Soul*, Chapter 2
2. ↑ Bud - Wikipedia
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Luna's outlines and notes for *FeatherWings*