Rusty

***TW FOR TOPICS OF:***

* Death
* Abuse
* Violence

Base by CactusDoesThings

Rusty is an agender hunted RainWing-SandWing-SeaWing tribrid dragonet. She formerly resided near Sugarcreek Lake, but was captured and stayed in the Hunter's Camp for a while before escaping the camp alongside Caterpillar and Tassel. She currently resides in Caterpillar's old home in the mountains.

## Personality

Rusty's personality can only be described as "all over the place". She usually is very aggressive. Despite hating loud noises, Rusty herself is loud not only because of her gas mask that she wears, but also because she just has bad hearing in general. She often acts as if she does not know what personal space is. She also suffers from auditory and visual hallucinations.

## Abilities

### Poisonous Barb

Rusty has a poisonous barb at the end of her tail.

### Luminescent Scales and Frills

The brighter colored scales on her body as well as her frill can glow.

### Color-Changing Scales and Frills

Only specific scales on her body can change color, specifically the brightly colored scales. Her frills can also glow.

### Extra Eyes

Rusty has 10 eyes, 8 of them being on her frills. Her frills are split into sections. Each section has one eye on it.

### Frills

Her frills can open and close on command. They are closed by default.

## Relationships

### Most Hunters in General

Rusty fears that most hunters are serial killers due to the fact that she was threatened to be killed by one.

### Sherlock Holmes

Rusty doesn't seem to like Sherlock due to him threatening to leave Rusty to be killed by Fantasma whenever he walked into Fantasma pinning Rusty down to attack her. However, she is at least tolerable of him.

### Fantasma

Rusty hates Fantasma due to the fact that she attacked Rusty, and also threatened to kill her.

### Tananger

Rusty seems to at least trust Tananger a little bit. She is very sure that Tananger can't help with her hallucinations, however.

### Inkblot

Rusty was aggressive towards Inkblot at first. However, when she realized that the NightWing wasn't a threat, she seemed to calm down.

### Nergigante

Rusty seems to be a little impatient towards Nergigante. Other than that, she doesn't really seem to have an opinion on them.

### Achelous

Achelous was Rusty's father. Rusty absolutely despises her father due to him being abusive towards both Rusty and her mother. It got to the point where Achelous killed Aricoiris in secret, which broke Rusty. She ended up "drowning" Achelous by holding him underwater in a shallow body of water and covering his gills, and forcing his head into the water.

### Aricoiris

Aricoiris was Rusty's mother. Rusty loved Aricoiris despite Aricoiris working as a tracker. Rusty was heartbroken when she found out that Achelous' abusive behavior had gotten to the point where Achelous had given Aricoiris many wounds that ended up being lethal due to them not being treated in time, and getting infected.

### Darkside

Rusty seems to hate Darkside due to the fact that Darkside kept yelling at Rusty whenever she cried.

### Atrax

Rusty hates Atrax due to their lack of empathy, and the fact that they also threw Rusty into a cell.

### Tassel

Rusty doesn't seem to like the fact that Tassel is actually a human in disguise. However, she is tolerable of Tassel.

### Caterpillar

Rusty doesn't seem to mind Caterpillar too much. She finds that she can actually somewhat relate to him. When she first met Caterpillar, she was terrified of him. Caterpillar helped Rusty escape, which made him gain her trust. Rusty sees Caterpillar as a close friend.