Tyrant

**Tyrant** is an adult Mudwing.

## Personality

He's a gruff and stoic old timer, rarely sharing any emotions that may make himself appear weak in his eyes. Despite this, he's still a very supportive listener - often giving bits of advice to people he trusts (which isn't a lot unsurprisingly).

He almost never goes into his own life, wanting to forget everything about the Dragon he once was and trying to get on with life without having to face his own demons.

He's very distasteful of how MudWing society raises their young - disagreeing with the mentality of letting the village raise the Dragonet instead of the parents. But, he has no true reason to be completely against it and never belittles others if they disagree with him - often acting as an uncle figure for young Dragonets.

Speaking about family, that's possibly the one thing he never talks about aside from his own parents - never talking about his mate and Dragonets unless someone he considers a friend stumbles across some of his old letters to them and drawings of the family inside of his home.

He is incredibly aggressive towards anyone who treats him with any disrespect, often smacking someone across the mouth if they speak ill words, or outright fighting them if they try to attack him in any way.

This part of him is in stark contrast to his quieter, more docile side that most people see daily.

## Backstory

Growing up, he was less fortunate than most other Dragonets, as he grew up in an orphanage away from the MudWing Kingdom. His life as a mere Dragonet was poor, rough and violent - as he got into multiple fights almost every single day of the week, resulting in various cuts and scrapes across his body that scarred over and stayed with him.

In his youth, he befriended an albino SkyWing named Moa and his brother Firefly. The trio was pretty inseparable, with Tyrant being seen as another brother in the eyes of the two Brothers - and the three stuck close together when the time came for them to leave the orphanage they grew up in, entering the harsher world outside and having no other task other than to survive.

And so they did.

They became highwaymen in the Mud Kingdom: taking food from traveling wagons, living in the woods and swamps, using wooden masks and half-ruined cloaks to hide their features.

Moa was the brains behind it all, with Firefly and Tyrant being the ones to actually seize as much food as they could carry, and Tyrant honestly felt powerful and in control for the first time in his life; he was feared by anyone who dared take their roads without paying a hefty toll of food.

As they grew older, they decided to quit their life of crime at the age of ten as to not draw too much attention to themselves anymore - with Tyrant getting a job as a miner.

There, he met a strange little red RainWing called Fuego - adopted by and raised by SkyWings, apparently, and was ironically a better miner than the Tyrant - a MudWing.

After a few months of friendship and conversation, Fuego gifted Tyrant a necklace of quartz. Tyrant, in return, introduced Fuego to the SkyWing brothers - integrating him into the gang and allowing him access to a much better life than living in the mines.

After a few years of mining and slight criminal activity, he met another MudWing named Terracotta in one of the many markets, selling various things she had found when out and about in the world. The two quickly got along and eventually ended up becoming mates with Dragonets on the way, with Terracotta convincing Tyrant and Fuego to leave Moa and Firefly behind and to pursue a peaceful life.

As the trio gathered their things to leave, they were confronted by the two Brothers - ending up in Tyrant having to fight to protect his family, ending up accidentally killing Firefly and horribly scarring Moa's face permanently. Before disappearing, Moa unleashed a rare torrent of flames upon Tyrant - permanently scarring his face and shoulder with blackened scales and warped flesh.

The three Dragons quickly fled the scene before they could be caught, hiding away for years upon their own little farm in a small town known as Shadegrove. Opening up more and more as time passed and people soon forgot the tragic, mysterious murder of Firefly - he and Terracotta raised their Dragonets like a traditional family, not relying on (yet never saying no to) the village raising their young. Soon, however, their Dragonets grew up into Dragons and moved away to live their own lives.

Terracotta still traveled around the other Kingdoms that would allow a MudWing to sell their goods, and so Tyrant got used to not seeing her for long periods of time as he tended to the farm he had settled.