ERROR

7th generation descendant of the Gatekeeper
Naomi---> Willow---> Fia---> Ammutseba---> Hastur---> Cypir---> ERROR

The first Naomi descendant in this lair, she gets the blame? credit? for the explosion of other descendants since then. She seems to have developed a siren call of sorts.

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ERROR wasn't meant to exist. Definitely not.

ERROR, or [ERROR 404] as her full name goes, used to be a kind dragon, but no one saw her that way.

Her name, her lineage.

She was descended from the Gatekeeper herself. Queen of the Exalted.

Naomi from 21 Chump Street.

She wanted nothing to do with her.

All dragons shied away from her, afraid they would become exalts. Fodder for the Gatekeeper. This resulted in ERROR growing more distant from society, and more dragons misjudging her.

All she ever wanted to be was loved.

She eventually decided if she couldn't join them, she'd beat them.

She knew that it was all a game. Only a few dragons did.

She messed up the code.

She messed up her code.

She became feared.

She became ERROR.

Now she is proud of her lineage.

Her clanmates will fear. They will fear like they never did before.

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Sent into exile, she wandered the barren wastes, often getting into fights with the beast clans.
This was how she came to be in Nightrain's rag-tag clan. She had been found one night while Nightrain and Ruru were on patrol, her wounds keeping her grounded. Between the tundra and the mirror, they managed to fly her to their home. Here she was greeted with warmth and compassion, something she hadn't known since that other life.
Once healed, she moved off to herself in a dark corner of the lair. She thought over all she had been through since her exile, a tiny piece of her longing for more of what she had been missing all this time. Bit by bit, she began to socialize with and trust the others around her.
Nightrain would come and speak with her about the clan happenings, and occasionally would ask about her past. A few days of being asked and ERROR took Nightrain off to the side and spoke with the leader at length about her lineage. ERROR made sure to skirt around the truth of why she was found wandering the wastes, after all, she was trying to fit into this new home.
Unconquered and Aine would often come and speak with her, and always brought her meals to her. (Though her code had been messed with, she still couldn't shake that hatred for the water.) The hatchlings would come to play near her, some even included her in their games, or at least tried to, on those days she was in a sour mood.

Then Jewel showed up, a faint familiar scent clinging to her.
Upon speaking with Jewel, ERROR discovered that this dragon had been in her father's lair. A flood of memories came rushing in. She took to the skies, her tears blinding her as memories of being truly loved and safe crashed through her mind. She landed on a rock outcropping to let them play out, and wondering why she had snapped to become what she is now. All it would have taken was leaving that clan, finding another clan then that would have loved her and accepted her.
As she fell asleep, her thoughts turned to the new clan, wonder filling her that they would accept her despite her lineage and what she had made of herself.

As ERROR made her way home the next morning, Aine called out to her. The pair made their way slowly to the lair, ERROR taking part of the morning catch from Aine so it was easier for the coatl to fly. When ERROR asked Aine why Nightrain had accepted her, Aine smiled sweetly. "Your past doesn't matter here, only the now. Looks, background, lameness, wildness," she added with a chuckle, thinking of the howlers as they had become known, "none of that matters."
They flew in silence the rest of the way, ERROR thinking on what Aine had told her. Was it possible that she could be loved for herself, not feared for what or who she was?

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Having learned that, yes, she CAN be loved for herself, ERROR has mostly left her days of messing with codes behind. She still gets in a mood now and then though, and a dragon's breed or colors may randomly change without warning.

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