Stone

Stone

## Personality:

Stone, while they logically understand it, has never really truly grasped the idea of dragons thinking differently from one another and coming from different perspectives. They know that’s how the world works, but they don’t feel that way, and find themself expecting automatically for dragons to think the same way that they do. Because of that, along with Stone being in general a kind and honest dragon, they are led to be gullible and generally believe everyone. Stone is very impressionable, and their state of being forever a five year old sentient statue has caused them to be obsessed with belonging with any peers. They feel alone and like they don’t belong though, due to how their life experience differs so greatly from their mental age, leaving them with no one of the same age and maturity to relate to. Stone has lost many dragons, and understands that they can’t keep anyone forever since they are essentially immortal. Because of this, they are clingy to anyone who they form close bonds with, and are left scared that they’ll be abandoned by the dragons that they love, whether the dragon left them or because the dragon died. Stone also is very picky about who they let form close relationships with themself, and often label anyone they meet as ‘acquaintances’, because they don’t expect to hang out with them for long.

## Description:

Stone is a stone statue, created, and then enchanted by an animus to be sentient. Their wing blades are thin, and are able to fold over each other, which allows them to open and shut their wings. The tips of the blades are sharp, and can technically be used for self defense, while hard for Stone to maneuver due to their lack of any fighting experience.

Stone is hard and cold. They cannot grow, eat, breathe, fly, smell or feel, while they can sleep, hear, see, talk and think. The inside of them is not hollow, but just solid rock. Their ‘teeth’ are really just jagged points coming up from their jaw.

## Positive Traits:

Stone is fairly patient when it comes to having to explain their entire existence to every single new dragon they meet.

They are essentially fireproof and immortal. They cannot cease to exist unless an animus disenchanted them, they were eroded enough, or if they were melted.

## Negative Traits:

Stone is gullible, and tends to believe everyone and assume what they’re saying is the truth. Not only that, but Stone is also impressionable and will tend to subconsciously follow the crowd and do whatever anyone they look up to or are around for a long enough time are doing. Stone views themself as inferior to dragons due to them not having to do things such as eating and breathing, while dragons do. Because of this, they often will shove away their own wants and needs to try to appease others, since to Stone’s perspective, they have it harder and therefore are more deserving.

Stone cannot fly, and if they fall from a great enough height, they will crack into pieces. Falling is their most prevalent danger, and so they developed a fear of heights.

## Reason for Chosen Role:

The circus placed a bounty on their head when they escaped. Not only that, but once they got to the hunters camp, their bounty was unofficially cleared since many of the hunters agreed that it was immoral to bring Stone back, and so there were enough to protect them.

Later, Stone got a bounty yet again, this time for being a missing dragon.

## Backstory:

Stone was created by a bored five year old animus one day, who imagined them into existence and made them sentient. They were left alone, abandoned by the animus once they got tired of Stone (which didn’t take long), and soon enough they were found by a circus. Stone was a spectacle for being a sentient statue, and they were kept in a small cage for a long time. About two years after joining the circus, a performer, Peony, pitied them helped them escape.

## History:

Stone was found by a hunted, Meerkat, out in the forest. They chilled around for a while until a NPC hunter found them and took them by force back to the hunters camp. Grasshopper, a hunter and an interrogator, took charge of interrogating Meerkat. Grasshopper decided to sell Meerkat and Stone over to Darksteel, who was a hunted pretending to be a hunter, for the a larger price than Grasshopper would’ve gotten by just collecting their bounties. However, that interaction never really progressed, and so Meerkat and Stone sorta ended up existing around camp. Stone talked to White Tip, Aquamarrin, and Spider, when the two SeaWing dragonets came back to camp to visit Spider. They conversed in the prison for a while, although Stone felt left out and like they were just being a nuisance, so they left the prison to hang out with Meerkat in camp.

Stone managed to convince Aquamarrin to go outside with them and hang out and explore while White Tip and Spider were busy doing something else. They went swimming in Sugarcreek Lake, where Stone jumped in and sank to the bottom and walked around since technically they couldn’t swim. They eventually went back out when Stone couldn’t understand Aquamarrin’s Aquatic. Stone was covered in mud and dirty lake water stuff, which scared Aquamarrin who had mysophobia. Stone felt like they weren’t welcome anymore, and so they left Aquamarrin and began walking around in the forest. Stone soon became lost, and a hunter, Verglas, found Stone and chatted with them casually. A long good while later, Mongoose, another hunter, came across Stone and tried to take them back to the hunters camp, recognizing them from before, as they had had a couple interactions previously in camp. Stone, who had a fear of heights, freaked out and bit Mongoose on the arm to make them let go. Stone fell to the ground and cracked in half, along with their right hind foot falling off.

Stone was lost in the forest, unable to really travel that far with how they were severed in half, with them not even knowing how to work their rear end to walk around. Eventually, two hunted, one of them being Dim, came across them and helped put them back together with some tree sap, which only temporarily helped them, as by the time they made it to Temperate Town by walking around, they fell apart again due to falling over. A hunted dragonet by the name of Rose-gold stole some glue and gave it to Stone for them to put themself together, but they couldn’t, and with the other dragonet being uncomfortable with putting them together, Stone just stayed fallen apart for the time being.