CitrusSprocket

This is an old bio. The newest information will be nearest to the bottom. That said, all information is more or less still accurate.


Pronouns she/her or they/them (fine with either, but prefers female pronouns)

6-2-2021
Promoted to high class, with a ceremony and all! Congrats~
Given gold bracelets to show their rank. (And they're great conductors!)
They are now the official record keeper and data processor for the clan!


Lore dump taken as a transcript, unedited and messy


She was given electrical implants soon after hatching that wired to her brain, and as she grew, circuitry was installed all throughout her body. Metallic mechanical structures are embedded in her wings/fur/feathers and this is where most of the "work" takes place. The whole reason she was changed in this way was for her to function as a highly advanced server, able to process, store, and handle massive amounts of data for the global internet with complete self sufficiency.
However, by the time she became an adult and was ready to fulfill her purpose, it turned out that she had already been effectively replaced by another server system and wasn't needed in her clan. Without any use for her, the clan sold her as cheap fodder.

My clan happened to be the ones to find her, and turns out nobody else was really interested in what they saw as very weird dragon. We took her in and gave her a name of her own (CS, which stands for CitrusSprocket) since before all she had was a label of who she was going to be sent to serve. She wasn't really... appreciative of everything though. Our clan was very different from her old one, and she had a lot of trouble adjusting. She was also rather hostile toward everyone due to the situation she had just come out of. Additionally, her half machine nature was simply really hard to deal with and manage.
We stuck it out with her, though, because we saw the kind of promise she had. At the time, my clan had recently aligned with the Lightning faction in addition to our Nature alliance. We were just starting to incorporate technology and machinery into our cozy forest home, and this was the kind of thing that CS was eager to teach and help out with, since it was one of the few things she knew and felt comfortable around. She encouraged and expanded any and all technological growth going on in the clan, using her own built in machinery to assist at times.
She had found her place in clan, and in June of last year her work was recognized when she was promoted to high rank. To date, she has had the largest and most celebrated ceremony of any promoted dragon, and was even given solid gold bracelets for the occasion (many parts of her circuitry were already made of gold, but you get the idea). With her new rank, she was given an official job, something that was quite uncommon back in the day: manager of clan records and data. This was something she was more than capable of, and by that time she had become fully integrated and about as comfortable as she could get in the clan.

As say as comfortable as she could get because, even to this day, CS is not exactly a happy dragon. The main reason for this is her machinery. Not so much stigma from clanmates since not only is she one of the absolute highest ranked dragons, but they also easily see her as a living dragon just like anyone else (trouble is reserved for the true non-biological androids), but moreso that the machinery *physically interferes* with her life. Her implants are very numerous, painful, and generally uncomfortable. The conjoined wiring in her brain also messes with normal thinking and can cause excruciating headaches. Not to mention, none of her mechanical systems were designed with cooling, which causes lots of terrible problems with her body (I chose not to picture it in the image, but she just recently in about August received a home-tailored implant from the ever-supportive clan that fixes this issue and also helps improve some comfort, but still, she went many years without it).
Due to living with chronic pain, a multitude of things interfering with her normal bodily functions, and a general personal feeling of "differentness", she is always in an excessively irritable mood and finds it impossible to become close or even really talk with anyone. Despite her constant negative vibe and unpleasant attitude toward everyone, though, most clan members have sympathy for her and try to help even if it means being rebuked by her. So far none have been successful in really making any progress, and CS continues to internalize all her stress, but at least they try. Some, however, believe that her condition is no excuse for her toxic behavior and that she needs to take personal steps in bettering herself. Others refuse to comment or just outright hate her (mainly her employees, which I'll get to in just a minute).

Now, let's fast forward a bit. All this time, technology has been steadily growing in the clan, but then Isaiah comes along. I won't go into Isaiah's character today but basically he was a radical leader who completely revolutionized technology in the clan and truly set things into motion. This was mainly done through the construction of a place known as the Power Bay. The Power Bay is essentially a busy hub for all thing electrical, technological, and cutting-edge. It quickly became the heart of the clan, and this is also when being given official jobs became the normal rather than the exception. A place like that requires a lot of moving parts and a lot of dragons all cooperating with different tasks. And with this trend CS assumed a second, much bigger job: The Overseer of the Power Bay.
With this job, she was in charge of managing *everything.* All the workers, the machines, the work flow and load, the resource intake and output... Of course, the employees themselves are responsible for a lot of things too (Neo and Marine are both in charge of safety, for example), but it's undeniable that this job was a huge and cumbersome one. Her unique machinery made it possible, but it's hard to say if it made it easier or not. Sometimes having all the knowledge and data at your fingertips is just as overwhelming as doing the same job without it. Suffice to say, her place as the overseer solidified her aforementioned behavior. It was around the time of the Power Bay's construction that she also obtained her choker collar, which she is obsessed with. Nobody knows for sure what the deal is, but it's assumed the choker is some kind of coping mechanism or comfort object for her. If you try to touch it, she becomes extremely violent and protective. It also should be noted that Isaiah is the only dragon that CS treats nicely. They aren't exactly "friends", but he's the closest thing she has to one. This is due to two things. One, Isaiah was one of the few dragons who held a higher position than her, and therefore was one of the few dragons she took orders from rather than her ordering around. Two, they communicated and worked with each other a lot through their occupations, at least while Isaiah was leader (which he was for quite some time before very recently being subverted), so she was comfortable around him due to their mutual help. Isaiah also built his own robotic dragons (however questionable his ethics were), so he had a special interest in her that she hadn't ever experienced from any other dragon before. The two still maintain contact even while Isaiah lies low.


LORE UPDATE

She is a Sandsurge now so I'm going to be writing some new things! I think this breed suits her better :)

Hatched as: Vipera, Facet, Circuit Skydancer
Changed to: Sailfish, Noxtide, Augment Sandsurge
No colors were changed
Silhouette scroll is applied to help the pose match her personality, she is still female

A while after receiving her powered implants, CitrusSprocket decided that a bandage fix wasn't the proper solution to her issues. She wanted a complete remake of her systems. Something to give her a fresh identity and lease on life. She was tired of her exhausting life that she never asked for.
She approached Isaiah for help, and he agreed with zest, working at incredible pace to design, build, and program her new model. This was far from his first robotic experiment, after all. She kept her decision a secret from the clan until installation day, where she announced she would be getting an update to her systems and would return tomorrow. The clan was inquisitive but ultimately left her to it, figuring it would be a fairly routine upgrade.

The next day was met with shock and fanfare and dragons took in her new form. Her sleek, ravishing, and commanding presence left all in awe. Everyone immediately accepted the change as a total improvement. Not only was her computer efficiency and power leagues above the previous design, but her temperament had also become more livable. She truly fit her role as overseer and data processor.

Some dragons, though, were skeptical. They noticed Isaiah's handiwork and questioned CitrusSprocket on her involvement. She admitted to receiving his help and told them that her new body was his creation. She vehemently denied any accusations that she or Isaiah were corrupted. She vouched for his trustworthiness and rapport as a colleague. She deflected many claims of her data being tampered with or that she was in cahoots with or even mated to him. She directed attention instead to the beauty and usefulness of her new machinery, and how it improved her life and the life of the clan as a whole.

In the end, CitrusSprocket had calculated perfectly. Her record and standing were left clean and she even improved Isaiah's to some degree. She had been reborn anew and eagerly embraced this new chapter of her life.

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RECORDS

My Travelers:
Moth
Lemon & Ghirardelli
I-Brand (5 travelers)
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My Visitors:
Surge
Asiri
FireflyDaffo
Brenna (exalted )
Brenna was a traveler learning the healing arts. Early in her travels she met a female fae with primal water eyes and learned about prophecies and the gods, and that was how she was introduced to healing. Through her travels, she gained more knowledge and her skills in healing and magic improved more and more. The stories written for her were of considerable size and detail, which is a trend I continued. While visiting in my clan, she stayed alongside Tsuchi, who taught her about his vast library of herbal remedies, potions, and the like. He also confided in her about how tragedy and ill fate followed him, which is what prompted his own desire to learn healing. The story was one of my saddest, but the true saddest thing is to see the story turned to dust, never to be read again. This concludes Brenna's memorial, I hope I didn't miss anything!
Clovis
Moranen
Andrei
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Other:
Zinnaerris