Crimson

Crimson is a native to the Scarred Wasteland, and once was part of larger pack of mirrors that roamed the land. That was until a fight with another in her pack left her too injured to continue following them, and she was left behind on her own.

She kinda just expected that she'd find a nice place to curl up and die somewhere until a Fae fell on top of her head and said some vague nonsense before claiming her as a comrade. Crimson had never met a dragon like Patience before, and felt herself oddly enamored with this weird little guy. To the point where she just sorta shrugged when he asked for her companionship and went "I'm like halfway to death's door already so why not" and was the one to suggest they have hatchlings in order to further along his weird idea of fate.

She always wanted hatchlings. She thought she'd never get a chance when the pack left her for dead. But now, with this so-called miracle... Maybe it was meant to be.

Genuinely, she does respect his sense of duty and perseverance; a tiny, boastful thing like him had somehow kept himself alive in this hell, after all. Who's to say he doesn't have some weird prophesized cosmic purpose, or whatever he's on about?
And with survival on the front of everyone's mind around these parts... Well. Paired with his eccentricity, what's not to like? He's strange. But in a good way. And she likes that. He makes her laugh.

Also she clearly survived after this. So for all she knows, fate is doing some weird things rn. And maybe it's Patience's fault. Who knows.

Outside of her relationship with Patience, Crimson comes across as a blunt, cold dragon with little interest in entertaining every little issue or tragic backstory dragons come crying to the Incompetence about. She was born in raised in this hellhole, and damn it, if you were too, you should not be crying about it. Toughen up. Except for Patience he's allowed to be annoying because she thinks he's funny.

She otherwise can and will kick ***. Absolutely no qualms with bloodshed and murder and will not back away at a threat. She already had a meeting with Death and went on to live, so now it's your turn. And you shall pray you aren't provided the same mercy she was, as she herself is NOT merciful. And You Will Know.

Would try and fight the dragons of the Loyalty head-on and would probably die but she would have a great time doing it and it would be a valiant effort.

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Divorce Arc
Yeah. I figured it was about time I wrote this down in here, lmao. This'll be copy-pasted in both Patience and Crimson's pages!

Patience and Crimson had two clutches of eggs. In the first batch, two children - Foolhardy and Zekrin - disappeared as hatchlings, leaving Crimson utterly distraught. She spent hours, days, perhaps even weeks searching the coast for them, and was about to start flying inland towards the Wyrmwound before Patience stopped her.
Patience, not too great with emotions and much more comfortable repressing them, offered up the worst most possible reasoning for their children's disappearances: Perhaps Fate meant for this to happen. The Universe Itself willed it. Also they are most likely dead, and it would be best if we just accept that now.

This was not very comforting to Crimson, reasonably, who grew very irritated with Patience for quite some time afterwards. She was convinced not to run off for the sake of Virdikan and Marrow, her remaining children, but once they were grown... she was hesitantly willing to try again.

Then the same thing happened, but far worse. One child was lost to the claws of a shade-touched Harpy and the other vanished in a similar manner (according to the remaining child of the second clutch, Omen). Crimson was HORRIFIED, absolutely DECIMATED that the same cruelty was dealt to her again, and reacted to this by lashing out at her family and anyone that came near her.
This was worsened by Patience using the same reasoning again, amplified by their remaining child being "extra special" with his abnormal number of eyes, until Crimson finally had enough and broke all ties with Patience.

She's still in the Incompetence as of the current arc, which is great considering she's the only one that actually enforces some semblance of order, but is extremely distant with Patience. They're constantly tense around each other, with Patience trying desperately to earn her trust and forgiveness again, and frequently get into arguments about the Incompetence's "structure."

The clan is wary but hopeful this will blow over soon.

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