Cinder Dragneel

**Cinder Dragneel**, or originally Luna Dragneel I, is the daughter of Natsu and Lucy Dragneel, and twin sister to Jude. She was, unfortunately, thought to be dead but was actually in the posession of Howl Caedo since birth. Upon her discovery, she has since rejoined the Dragneel family and become a member of Fairy Tail.

## Appearance

Cinder is a young tween with light pink hair and sharp green eyes. Unlike her siblings, her hair is a much lighter shade of pink, but is equally messy. Her bangs hang in her face while the rest of her hair is kept in a high but loose bun.

Cinder was first introduced during the Grand Magic Games as a member of Team Howl Caedo. During the games, she dressed in mostly red and gold with a pair of tight gray pants. Her top is a red silk pattern with gold accent and she wears a golden crop top bellow it to show her guildmark on the left side of her stomach. She wears a pair of matching fingerless gloves and a red scarf around her neck. During the games she uses the scarf to hide part of her face as to not reveal her true identity to the others.

In her second appearance, inside Howl Caedo, Cinder is dressed much more like Natsu, sporting a black vest with gold lining and a pair of baggy gray pants with sandals. She wears a quarter length black shirt under the vest that similarly to her other clothes doesn't cover her stomach. This way her guildmark is still visible. Her outfit is intentionally designed to match Natsu's familiar aesthetic, as she is purposefully being branded as his child.

However, when Cinder is finally adopted back into the real Dragneel family, she sheds her costume like oufits and wears something more natural. Finally ridding herself of the Howl Caedo guildmark, she instead dons a golden Fairy Tail mark on the back of her right hand.

During winter, she dresses in a navy blue coat with black leggings and a pair of brown leather boots. The only thing she carries over from her Howl Caedo uniform is her red scarf, something she'd been holding onto for some time and wasn't ready to let go of.

## Personality

While at first introduction, Cinder seemed stoic and quiet, after her true identity is revealed in Howl Caedo, her true self comes out as well. In reality, Cinder is rather smart-mouthed and defensive. She's also to some degree full of herself, happy to separate herself from the "real Dragneels".

Being raised in a compromised position, she was constantly fed lies about her family to stop any desire to go find them, so this resulted in her developing a complex about the identities of her family. However, when Jude finally meets her, he realizes how she's just like his siblings.

Like Layla, she's proud and (at times) self-interested, like Nashi she's impulsive but powerful, like Liddan she's moody and hot-headed, and like Jude, she's terrified of lobsters.

She of course resents this observation, even though its true. However, after finally meeting her family, she begins to realize it herself.

Her initial encounter with Lucy was rather violent, in more ways than one. Still on Howl Caedo's side, she fights Lucy and berates her, spouting all the lies she'd been taught by her caretakers in Howl Caedo. Cinder was far too jaded to be won over my sentimental words, so Lucy chose another tactic, parental punnishment.

Strangely enough, what breaks through Cinder's rage-fueled attitude is her mother spanking her in public, making up for lost time. Though this causes Cinder to simmer down, what finally breaks her is her introduction to her three younger siblings, the triplets.

The triplets bring out a softer side to Cinder that her other siblings couldn't. Through them, Cinder sees the life that was stolen from her, and the affection and love her parents never gave her.

This is shown when she finally breaks down in her mother's arm sobbing as she realized she'll never get that childhood back, but is thankful that she's finally with her true family.

Beside the tender moments, Cinder initially struggles to connect with her other family members, only allowing them to see her one at a time, but thanks to their eagerness to get to know her, she fits into the family rather quickly, developing a repor and closeness with them in good time.

Despite finally being with her family, Cinder is still the same person she was in Howl Caedo. She's still a bit jaded, smart-mouthed, and at times just plain rude. But that's okay, because she's not just that anymore. Her jaded nature allows her to understand complex emotions easily, and she uses her smart-mouth to share nuggets of truth with her friends and family.

Cinder is still growing into her family, but she's content to know that they're willing to grow with her as well.

## Synopsis

### History

#### How the Long Lost Twin became Long and Lost

Cinder's history is complicated to say the least, not just because she's Jude's "Long Lost Twin Sister".

Cinder was originally born "Luna Dragneel", the twin sister of Jude. However, she grew sickly within the first few weeks of life and soon died. She was burried and mourned, and Jude was raised without his twin.

What really happened was a rather complicated turn of events.

Howl Caedo, run by Incubus Welch, was created a series of fighters known as the Next Generation Project. Their goal was to take in multiple children of well known mages and turn them into fighters for hire or for sport within the Howl Caedo circuit. The Cinder and Ash Project was not their first attempt at robbing a mage of their child. However it was their first successful attempt, even if they only got one baby.

Lucy, unlike her other kids, gave birth to her twins at a hospital, understanding the labor would be more complicated with two kids rather than just one.

However, at the hospital, her new born children were exposed to Howl Caedo member Dr. Cadmium, who enacted two spells on both Jude and (then) Luna. The first was a donor spell, which was attached to a patry dish of Natsu's blood. With that, each baby was supposed to grow from the dad's DNA within Howl Caedo's posession. Essentially, their bodies were going to be regrown within Howl Caedo's own labs. However, they'd just be bodies with no souls attached.

That was resolved by the second spell, a Soul-Bonding spell that would transfer the infant's soul from their original bodies to the new ones.

Effectively, this would cause the infants within Natsu and Lucy's possession to seemingly die while in reality their souls were just moved into the new bodies. That would result in them genuinely believing their children were dead, thus erasing any suspision they were taken.

This, of course, didn't work as well as planned. Since the spells were complicated, only one of them was successful, resulting in Cinder (then Luna) to be the only one to fully grow a new body and complete the soul transfer. Jude was lucky, as the spell didn't quite take hold, so he was completely uneffected by the attempted kidnapping.

Cinder wasn't so lucky, her new body in posession of Howl Caedo, she was then raised and pumped with Ichor to become a powerful mage completely under their control. All while the Dragneel's were completely unaware their daughter was still alive.

The Cinder and Ash concept was scrapped for just Cinder, and she was set up to be Howl Caedo's greatest mage. However, that didn't pan out well for long.