Gnatcatcher

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 Gnatcatcher ☆ she/they ☆ Sand/Sky ☆ Messenger ☆ ISFP
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**Gnatcatcher**, also known as **Gnat**, is an adult SandWing-SkyWing hybrid living in Possibility. She currently is working part-time at a nearby antique shop after the war, due to her job as a messenger for Burn's side of the war - she is still a messenger, however.

## Appearance

Gnatcatcher has mostly the appearance of a SandWing, though she has no SandWing barb and the orange scales running down her neck and tail make her look like an odd SandWing. She has pale, sand-coloured scales with brown scales running down her back, forehead, and tail. Gnat's frill is a light golden-brown in contrast to the darker scales on her body. Her underbelly is pale brown, and her wings are a light pink. She has dark brown eyes, a scar going over her right eye.

## Personality

Gnatcatcher isn't a social dragon, preferring to stay silent and smile in the crowd instead of joining in with the others. She prefers being on her lonesome, due to how she had been raised to be more independent from others. This gives her trouble with making friends, or just talking with other dragons in general - she does try, but feels drained after doing so. Gnat leans on the more positive side of things, trying to look for the good in the situation - it may seem she does this for others, but she really does it for herself.

Gnat has several doubts and worries running through her mind, and reassuring herself is the way she tries to look on the positive side of things - not that she tends to believe herself. Gnat is also determined, and stubborn - it's difficult for her to back down from something she believes she needs to do, and it's even more difficult for her to back down from something she believes in.

## Biography

### Pre-Series

Gnatcatcher was hatched to Simoom of the SandWings and Cerulean of the SkyWings. She lived with both her parents, usually travelling with the other small force of SandWings, SkyWings, and mostly MudWings that was stationed near the Diamond Spray Delta. Gnat was hidden whenever Burn came by, or whenever a battle was approaching - mostly due to her hybrid traits, as well as her age at the time.

Upon reaching the age of five, she was given the task of messenger. Gnat typically relayed messages between the station nearby the Diamond Spray Delta and one closer to the Claws of the Clouds Mountain range. She wasn't pleased about it, but was grateful she wasn't sent out on the battlefields. Gnatcatcher did enjoy the job to some degree, as it did allow her to travel to the mountains, which was something she had been curious about since she was around the age of two.

On one job when she was headed out to a station nearby the Scorpion Den, she had gotten caught in the crossfire between Burn and Blaze's forces, sustaining a several wounds from the battle. Most of them have healed since, though a few still remain. After returning to the Diamond Spray Delta station, she had taken a brief break - in her place, Simoom had delivered messages while Gnat grew closer with her father. However, on one trip, Simoom had returned fatally wounded. She died from her injuries, much to Gnat's horror.

Still, Gnatcatcher tried to push on with her job. She still had her father. She still had her home.

A few months before the end of the war, Cerulean had 'gone missing' after one battle. No one was exactly sure what had happened - Gnat had thought he was perhaps captured, or even killed - though there would have been a body if the latter was the case. The fact still remained that Simoom was dead and Cerulean was missing, if not dead. Gnatcatcher carried on with her duties as a messenger until the war ended. Unsure of what to do since there was no war left to fight, she moved to Possibility, hoping to start a new life and to search for her father, if given the chance.

### *Dragonspeaker*

Gnatcatcher noticed Sky searching for Leaf after losing him in Possibility. Wren joked about her being the golden dragon to Ivy, and helped translate what Gnat was saying for Ivy. Gnat talked to Sky for a bit about scavengers, saying that her father had been interested in learning more about them after realising they were the cause of Queen Oasis' death. She had brought Leaf to her hut after finding him in the streets, and gave him back to Sky. Gnat told him to be more careful with his scavengers, especially with Leaf - noting that Leaf seemed to have a fear of heights.

## Relationships

### Cerulean

Gnatcatcher became closer with their father during their break as a messenger, though the two were somewhat close prior. They had comforted each other after the loss of Simoom, and Cerulean looked out for Gnat. Gnatcatcher felt lost and terrified after Cerulean was reported to have 'gone missing' after a recent battle, months before the SandWing War of Succession's end. Gnat moved to Possibility start a new life after the war, and in vague hopes to find their father, refusing to believe he's dead. They don't eat scavengers due to their father's vague interest in them, and feels that they're respecting his wishes by not doing so.

### Simoom

Gnatcatcher was close with Simoom before her death. Gnat appreciated her mother looking out for them, and regrets never being able to return the favour. They blame themself for Simoom's death - constantly thinking that they should've kept pushing on with their job instead of taking that break. *Maybe she would still be here,* Gnat had thought more than once. *And we'd still be a happy family.* Gnatcatcher pushes on with her job as a messenger to "make it up to Simoom."

### Sky

Gnatcatcher finds Sky a bit odd, but doesn't think much of it, as they think of themself as odd as a hybrid, even if it isn't all that obvious to most dragons. They somewhat bond with Sky a bit while talking about scavengers, though they only really have somewhat of a care for scavengers and doesn't eat them due to their father. Gnat brought back Leaf under the assumption that Leaf was Sky's pet, and told him to be more careful - thinking of Sky as somewhat irresponsible.

## Trivia

* Gnatcatcher was originally made for the sole purpose of being a background character in my fanfic, *Dragonspeaker*, but she kind of became her own character outside of that.
* Gnatcatcher's favourite kind of tea is peppermint tea. She mainly takes it due to various allergies she has, one of them being dust.