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Harlequin

(#6168022)

Level 10 Mirror

Familiar

Iron Golem

Energy: 0/50

Personal Style

Apparel

Skin

Scene

Physical Attributes

Battle Stats

Measurements

Length

7.36 m

Wingspan

8.08 m

Weight

406.81 kg

Genetics

Grey
Clown

Blood
Current

Blood
Crackle

Hatchday

Sep 06, 2014
(9 years)

Breed

Adult
Mirror

Eye Type

Plague
Common

Level 10 Mirror

EXP: 396 / 27676

STR

AGI

DEF

QCK

INT

VIT

MND

Lineage

Parents

Whine
Vaire

Offspring

none

Biography

HARLEQUIN
HARLEY-KINS | LACKEY | BELONGS TO LYN

ALIGNMENT

FAV FOOD

BELONGINGS

HOARDS

BLURB

The dragon backs against the corner, hissing and swiping at the air. Harlequin advances, unblinking and unwavering - an unstoppable force. Behind her cackles the one that controls her, the blood-red spiral known as Lyn.

"Stop!" the dragon snarls. Already they are covered in scratches and bruises, blood coating their scales.

But she doesn't follow anyone else's orders.

Harlequin pauses, her head high and wings spread. Lyn keens loudly and orders her to wait, and so she does. Her body stops, but the various machinery holding her together continue to whir and click, gears rotating in place and electricity coursing to fuel her muscles. Hope flashes across her victim's face, but it is false and Harlequin knows this.

Lyn waits to decide the dragon's fate, then grins wide and whispers, "Disembowel." Harlequin strikes, and Lyn's cackling drowns out the other dragon's howls and snarls of defiance and pain.

HISTORY

Harlequin is a shell of her former self.

She has never left the Plague lands she was born in, thinking herself a ghost destined to haunt the very place that condemned her to limbo. Or maybe it was the fact that she was certain if she stuck around long enough, she would find a place to belong where she once called home. Instead, she found Lyn.

Once a mighty Imperial, Harlequin went by a different name and was happy. She was as well-liked as she could be among a clan taking up residence in the wasteland. Though minimal, she had friends and even a couple of suitors. Not one to pick from the same stock she was born in, Harlequin politely turned down each dragon that attempted to woo her. The last suitor was one dragon too many.

He was a powerful alchemist, drawn to the life she showed in a territory so devoid of it. However, she spurned his advances and he, thinking it because he was a "lowly" Pearlcatcher and she such a regal Imperial, grew to hate her with every fiber in his being. He sought out any way to hurt her, to get back at her for causing him such grief. The alchemist bartered and traded until he came upon a magic spell that would do everything he wanted.

A fortnight after his initial attempt to court Harlequin, he paid the magician he found to sneak into her lair and cast the spell. When she woke up that morning, she was no longer the Imperial she remembered being, but instead a Mirror.

Distraught, she ran to the rest of her clan and begged for answers and aid. The alchemist stepped forth and accused her of being cursed by the Plague Mother herself. He rallied the clan against her, insisting that allowing her to stay would bring upon their deity's wrath. When she wouldn't leave and instead defended herself, they attacked her and cast her out, mortally wounding her when she tried to fight back.

Broken and dying, she traveled as far as she could until she collapsed. As she teetered the threshold between life and death, luck smiled upon her. A traveling scientist happened upon her and saw this as an opportunity. It took him several weeks, but he patched her up and replaced the most damaged parts of her body with robotics, leaving her half-dragon and half-automaton.

When she finally stabilized and returned to consciousness, she was horrified at what she had become. Though grateful for being saved, she fled the lab she had been cooked up in and ran until she could no longer. Again she found herself in Plague territory, drawn to her old clan and where they lived. Harlequin watched them, becoming more and more enraged as she did until she could take it no longer. The rage consumed her and she attacked, killing several of them until she was driven out once again.

But she had finished what she came for. The alchemist escaped her wrath, but she had made her statement and knew not to target him anyway. For months afterward she scoured the wasteland in search of a new clan, but none would have her. They were too afraid of the monstrosity she had become. She was too large to pass for a natural mirror even on a good day, and it only added to the intimidation her machine parts caused. So, she survived on her own for as long as she could.

It is debatable whether or not luck or misfortune was watching her when she met with Lyn.

No matter the cause, Lyn didn't shy away. She was intrigued by the creature she saw. No matter how many times Harlequin attempted to chase her away, the Spiral remained. She teased her, oh yes, but it wasn't out of fear or anger, it was more playful. In her own way, by being so confident in who she was and despite being a monster of a different variety, Lyn taught Harlequin to accept her lot in life.

Lyn was the one who gave her the name Harlequin, and now the Mirror will do anything for the Spiral. She latched on to the one dragon that didn't hate or fear her and will only let go when Lyn decides she is no longer worth the effort.

Their travels saw them grouped with a few unsavory characters now and again, but Lyn never stayed long and so neither did Harlequin. Currently, they're following a band of dragons traveling to the Tangled Wood, led by a dragon named Blitzshadow. Harlequin wonders what Lyn has planned for them, but they are surrounded by strong dragons and she doesn't think she can take them if Lyn decides to attack.

Thankfully, Lyn's mellowed out somewhat since meeting her mate Boco. Now Harlequin is relegated to only doing harmless pranks and startling guest dragons. If she hadn't met Boco, Lyn probably would have sicced her on some dragons and gotten them both attacked. Harlequin also passes as somewhat of an attraction herself - half dragon and half machine.

PERSONALITY

When her body was replaced with machinery, so was her heart and mind. It's as if someone took a spoon and gouged out the happiness and mirth that once brought light to Harlequin's eyes, leaving a hollow stare instead.

There are dragons of a few words, and then there is Harlequin. Her voice used to be her pride, but her throat was one of the pieces of her that were almost destroyed when she was bullied out of her clan. The clockwork that replaced it leaves her vocalizations tinny, raspy, and warped, so she says nothing unless directly prompted by Lyn.

Even then, she follows the order begrudgingly.

Harlequin travels alongside Lyn knowing the things she does are wrong, but she is unable to bring herself to care. She was wronged in the worst way imaginable in her own eyes, and they didn't seem to think on it, so why should she? She walks with a confidence gained from feeding off of Lyn's, and she acts as the Spiral's sentinel and minion without hesitation, fighting for her and killing for her.

It eats away at her insides, but they are metal. And metal erodes so slowly.
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