While there's a lot of different stories attached to the different friends, families, and individuals in my clan, I suppose one of the longest threads relates to my progenitors.
This is Averrose - the first dragon and leader of the clan. She's always had humble aspirations for her clan and her family, and that it's grown to be so big is just a happy coincidence. Regardless of how her children and descendants turn, she's just happy to watch them grow and find themselves and help them out when she can.
This is her mate, Colarre. He's a quiet type and significantly less involved in the clan's day to day affairs. Like Averrose, he's invested in their bloodline, but he's also a lot more judgmental of his children and descendants. He wants strong Guardian descendants like him, and so he's been frustrated that so many of his children were Faes, or that one even became a Skydancer. This disappointment has taken a toll on some of them as well.
Addrach is from Colarre and Averrose's first nest. He was born a Fae, and because of that, he was never able to live up to his father's expectations. He spent a lot of time changing his breed, colors, and genes to try to live up to those expectations before finally becoming content with himself as a Pearlcatcher.
Ling also felt ill at ease in the clan, but remained there as he was to try to prove himself. He's more content nowadays in the company of his friends Tygarr and Saabi, but he still dreams sometimes of becoming a truly terrifying dragon renowned for his power.
Summerclaw, on the other hand, has always had a lofty attitude in regards to clan politics, merely roaming the countryside with his friend and distant cousin, Voskarre. The fact that he has the most descendants in the clan - with Palan, Palarrose, and Sunsola coming from his line - and all of them being Skydancers, Colarre couldn't help but be a little annoyed.
Colarre, while distant from his children, has always been highly devoted to Averrose, perhaps to an extreme degree. He tends to get extremely jealous when she takes other mates. The first time she did so, taking up with a wandering Tundra, Colarre intimidated him into leaving. Averrose and the Tundra's daughter, Novera, still lives in the clan though.
Due to Colarre's attitude towards Averrose's other children, she has spent a lot of time feeling unwanted within the clan.
The situation was not helped when the clan's seer, Amelie, predicted that a descendant of Averrose and Mufflin, a Snapper in the clan, would help bring peace to them. The two of them had a nest that hatched Riptide.
Riptide was an extremely kind and gentle Snapper, especially compared to some of his relatives. He worked very well as a peacekeeper within the clan, and seeing how well-loved he was by his clanmates, the best Colarre could do was ignore him in agitation.
Eventually, Averrose and Colarre had another hatchling who they named Coro.
Coro was everything Colarre had wanted in a son. He was a Guardian, he was strong, and he wanted to fight. Ironically, around the same time, Riptide had a son too - a Guardian named Perseus.
Hatched around the same time, Coro and Perseus trained together and were rivals from the start. However, while Perseus saw it as a friendly competition and was able to maintain good relationships with the clanmates he was protecting, Coro was driven single-mindedly by the will of his father that he be better than Perseus.
The rivalry between them grew so strong that even the clan was divided on the matter, based on whether they supported Perseus or Coro. The watched their progress eagerly, waiting for the tension to break. The break came in the form of what started as a practice fight between them, but was escalated by Coro into something much more. With the eyes of much of the clan on them, Coro and Perseus had a bloody brawl that was said to shake the entire territory.
The fight might have ended in one of their deaths, but Averrose arrived at the scene. She, asked both them and Colarre to reconsider what they were doing to each other, to the clan, and to themselves.
The heat of the moment gone, Coro could see clearly what he'd done to Perseus, and fled to the edge of the territory. Lying in the roots of a massive tree, he waited in silent shame as he was visited one by one by the rest of Averrose's children and descendants, trying to comfort him with stories of how they'd come to terms with their own place in the clan. But despite their efforts, Coro was still inconsolable and even considered leaving the clan over hurting Perseus.
Then along came Clara.
Traveling from another nearby Nature clan, Clara stumbled across Coro. Instead of trying to console him, she merely began to tend his wounds before gently asking what was wrong. For the first time in his life, Coro was able to verbalize the expectations and demands heaped on him by his father and how that had made him feel so angry before. Able to talk to Clara about this free from judgment and bias, he was able to start to heal.
Eventually, Coro returned to the clan with Clara at his side and made amends with Perseus. Instead of bitter rivals, they became like brothers, guarding the clan together and becoming all the stronger for it. And it wasn't just them who changed. Seeing that his demands, jealousy, and resentment had nearly broken the clan, Colarre realized that he was the biggest threat to the clan and began to try to move past these feelings. He was still never so loving as Averrose, but he tried to be accepting of all his clanmates, whether they were his children, hers, or of another line entirely.
Recently, Averrose has even taken a shine to another Tundra, Isaac. Their daughter, Rococorose, has never once felt out of place in her home clan.
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