Grasshopper

*"Did you really think you could stop me?"*

## Basic Information:

Species: Dragon

Tribe: Hivewing

Age:12DY(subject to change, it doesnt really matter)

Gender: Male, he/him

S&S: Straight, sure

## Personality:

Grasshopper works for himself and himself first. He has no fear of speaking his mind, and doesn't set much store by formalities, adopting an arrogant, improvising manner of acting and speaking. He rarely becomes attached to others, but when this happens, he will stop at nothing to protect him. He never really had a chance to develop social skills and maturity, and as a result, he's incredibly immature and childish a worryingly large amout of the time. He also desperately seeks validation from others, even enough to throw an advantageous position sometimes. Rarely, when vulnerable, his arrogant nature falls away to reveal a broken, scared dragon. This is the result ofevent's he'd rather forget, and these are the remnants of his past self that he tries so hard to seal away.

He is commonly seen with an absurdly large collection of balisong/butterfly knives, along with paralytic wrist stingers. He has prodigious combat skill, especially with his butterfly knives.

## Backstory:

He grew up on Pyrrhia with his family, who were deeply rooted in crime, predominantly with smuggling illegal items and dragons, being one of the major players in the scene. Their base of operations was the rainforest, being easy to hide stuff in.With a backround like this, of *course* their only child would grow up to be just like them!

No, actually.

His family wanted to branch out of their one buisness. And Grasshopper was how they were going to do it.

They invested lots of time and money into turning him into the ideal assassin, using him to show everyone that they were serious about it. They had good reasons, but they didn't really know how to say it to Grasshopper, and they never told him the reasons why.

It wasn't exactly fun for Grasshopper though. His parent's philoshipy was do w*ha**te**ve**r i**t **t**a**kes*** to train him to be the best assassin he could.

"Training exercises" were everywhere, all with horrible consequences for failure. At every turn, he was afraid he would be attacked by his family and friends, all part of "training" him.

He was fairly miserable without question, but did as he was told, or else he would be handed a big portion of pain. His mental state degraded significantly during this time. He started to think of his weapons, tons of balisongs, as his only friends, and was frequently seen talking to them when alone.

Quickly, with said rigorous training, he aquired prodigious skill, and at 5, his parents deemed him ready. He was handed his first assignment, kill a rainwing who had found some stuff out.

He completed the task with ease, with no one finding out until over a day after he was gone.  But while he was out there, no one was watching them, and he started to think for himself for once-

He ran. Away from his problems, away from his friends, away from everything. Execpt his balisongs, which he kept a big collection of.

He was declared missing for over 5 days. During those days, he was the happiest he'd ever been.

However, one day he was much too reckless, and one of his parent's age*n**ts f̷̦͚̀̀ó̷̜̄ų̸̘̊ņ̷̇d*** took him fO̶̼͔̍rcefullȳ̷̠̫̚, cha̵̺͚͘ning and a̵̺͚͘b̴̼̣̅ų̸̦̊sin̵͈͂͐ [REDACTED]

Eventually, Grasshopper was able to pick the lock on his chains, steal back his butterfly knives, and kill the agent, just a day before his family was set to collect him.

He started freelancing targeted assassination, and racked up quite a list of sucessfull missions.

He enventually sucessfully completed a high level target many others had tried and failed.

Ironically, the original plan worked, and his family was able to get a bunch of other dragons to work under them using Grasshopper's skills, even though he hated them.

During the time when he was captured, he vowed to hide away his past, broken self, and created a confident, arrogant, non-caring personality to replace it, imitating everything he wanted to be.

During these numerous missions, he got triggered by various things and reverted back to his previous personality, nearly getting him killed on mulitple occasions.

Each time he tried to fix it somehow, but he never could. He kept improving his facade of a personality.

However, he started thinking about everything, and frequently had breakdowns over who he was. The truth was, the facade was meant to fool other dragons, but it was also meant to fool Grasshopper himself. He just couldn't accept this was true.

During missions, he had a lot of time to think. And he thought. About himself, about his situation, about his parents, all while treating his job like a game.

He decided The "facade" was him. That's who he always was. That's who his parents wanted him to be. That's who he was meant to be.

But this hides his greatest fear.

That he's wrong. That he's turned out wrong, and the crazy, broken, insoluable dragon hidden inside him was him.