Scythe

Sassy ✦ Mysterious ✦ Tomboy ✦ Tease

"'Call me babe again, and I’ll slit your throat,' she said, the sweetness in her voice a direct contradiction to the daggers she gave him."
― Katherine McIntyre

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Scythe’s life had a rather rough beginning. She was the only female out of a four egg nest, hatched in the Starfall Isles. Through some miscommunication and other unfortunate events, she and her brothers ended up separated from her parents when they were only a few days old. Barely able to walk, let alone fly, Scythe found herself utterly on her own in charge of feeding not only herself but three others.

The quartet of dragons roamed freely for a couple of days, managing to survive on whatever food they could scavenge off the ground. However, on the fourth day after her parents’ disappearance, her youngest brother fell into the water between the Isles and Dragonhome. They’d been playing around, hopping from one tiny island to another, when it happened. Scythe had never imagined something so harmless could end in tragedy - but her brother’s death was her second experience with the harsh realities of life.

Her other brothers were traumatized, making her feel even more protective and responsible for their care. They made their way to Dragonhome and began moving inland - as far away from the sea as they could get. Little legs, of course, didn’t travel very far or very fast. Even as they began to learn to fly (which was quite awkward without training) they were unable to cover much ground. Despite thinking they were “really far inland” they were only just a couple miles away from the sea.

Food was scarce, but hunting grew easier as they began to attempt flying. The three grew wiry - all legs and wings with no meat on their bones. They were fierce, feral fighters from their youngest days and only grew more isolated and distrusting of the rest of the world as the days marched on.

Scythe did what she could to tend to her brothers. She developed a knack for creating simple illusions to make them feel more comfortable. She even began disguising her own figure to hide the fact that she was much smaller and thinner than either of them. Her mastery of illusions grew and she found more and more uses for it. She could camouflage herself and her brothers, a protective measure against predators and a cunning one against prey.

Everything was going well, in Scythe’s opinion, on the night she met Seiro. Sure, they were hungry. Sure, they were a little scuffed up. But they were alive, weren’t they?

Still, something about Seiro caught her attention. She hadn’t meant to cause the pebbles to alert him to her presence. She certainly hadn’t meant to begin their encounter on sour terms. But, hey, she had little to no socialization to that point in her life, so it’s hard to blame her for the events that transpired. It all worked out well in the end, and that’s what matters!

After going home with Seiro, Scythe and the “twins” flourished. Their growth was still stunted, but they gradually filled out, grew stronger, and approached a more reasonable adult size. Screech and Scratch never did learn to communicate much, but they are friendly in their own right. Scythe, on the other hand, is still a spitfire - quite a contrast to her rather ‘cute’ looks.

Unimpressed with her size and wanting to feel fancy, Scythe began using illusions to make herself appear a Skydancer. It amused her endlessly to look so much larger than her brothers. She enjoyed how other dragon’s eyes tended to follow her when she stepped out of the shadows into the moonlight. And so it continued - illusion growing stronger each day until it became almost a permanent shapeshift form. Now she rarely takes on her true Fae form and, outside of a circle of close friends, many don’t even know she’s a Fae at heart. (Or is it Skydancer at heart?)

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Fun Facts!
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Connections!

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Seiro Adoptive Father

Scratch Brother

Screech Brother