Sterling

banner by @Woodkid

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• NAME: Sterling
• FAMILIAR: Aquarius
• BIRTH FLIGHT: Water
• CURRENT FLIGHT: Water

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adoptable by @Flutterbree

She could hear the Wildclaws shrieking their pride as she flew over the dusty twilight sky. The air was chilly, gusts of wind blowing her back as she struggled to fly. Where she would go, she did not know. Wherever the wind took her, she supposed. The moon's light filled the night sky, a thousand stars winking as she flew by. She would miss them, her family, but fate had come calling, and Sterling knew it was time.

Her life has been a mimicry, always following what others did, but she never had the freedom to do what she wanted. When she wanted to go right but her clan leader said left, then left they would go. And when an Amarath Moth flutters in the breeze, then she, too, would flutter with it. It was always how they Nocturnes were. They didn't have their own thoughts, their own minds.

It was all thanks to the Guardians that she had seen the true vision of life-how wasted those years she had spent following what who did and what. They-they had a choice. They called it The Search, and because of her life of mimicry, Sterling decided it would be the last mimicry of her life-to do what the Guardians do and follow her own calling.

And so here she was now, above the clouds and free. When the birds squawk, she glares them in the eye. Who says she needs to squawk? No one. No one could tell her now. Sterling reminds herself that she didn't need them anyway, not her loving parents who were like slaves to their old clan's leader-a Mirror called King. Not her twin sister, Aurum, who's life too had been taken over by mindless games. Oh, Aurum, it was her fault she stayed.

Sterling circles the sky, and flies towards the direction the Guardians had told her of: of land beneath the waves where the great Tidelord dwells. They said he would welcome her in his land, and there she could start life anew. There she could start her own clan, in The Sea of a Thousand Currents.

As the treetops of The Tangled Wood give way to the salty winds of the sea, Sterling lets loose a roar. It wasn't much, but for a Nocturne, Sterling let herself believe it was an accomplishment-not only for herself but for her entire species. She looks up into the sky, the moon and the stars, then she turns her head towards the waves. They called for her to answer her search, and here her search would end. She dove into the waves.

Bubbles cloud her vision as Sterling struggles to regain control. But her eyes couldn't help but gaze astoundingly at the beauty beneath the sea. The corals, jutting from the ocean floor like stalagmites in an abandoned cave, were spread out like jewels, gleaming in the ripples of the water. The sand, the purest of white. And rock formations of twisted stone and arches, stood proudly in magnificence. The water, was of the color her wings took, aqua. Beneath the sea, she felt like she was in the Tidelord's courtyard.

"I'm free" she whispers to the ocean. "No more mimicry, no more follow this and that. I'm free." She giggles, and twirls in the water. The current catches her grace, pressure swimming beneath the tips of her wings. Then she stops, and gazes around. "I will stay here" she says to herself. "I will build my new life here, and I will show everyone. This Nocturne can build a clan."


adoptable by @Nirwana

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HUMAN FORM [GIJINKA]
HAIR COLOR: Ice, wavy [one strand is aqua]
EYE COLOR: Blue
SKIN COLOR: pale

CLOTHES: Sterling wears a blue cape over her sleeveless kneelength aqua dress. She doesn't wear any shoes, and she has silver bangles on her arms and legs. One strand of her hair is dyed aqua and is braided and it's ended with an aqua feather, a symbol of her clan.

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amazing art by @Coldlock