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Koa

(#8300763)

He/They

Jepsa

Peacock Firebird

Energy: 50/50

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Measurements

Length

5.69 m

Wingspan

4.26 m

Weight

784.11 kg

Genetics

Midnight
Iridescent

Steel
Shimmer

Banana
Circuit

Hatchday

Dec 03, 2014
(9 years)

Breed

Adult
Skydancer

Eye Type

Light
Common

Level 1 Skydancer

EXP: 0 / 245

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QCK

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Offspring

Lumen
Kyras

Biography

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K O A
{ koh-AH }
Speaker of Knowledge

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We may grow weary and frail,
but it is always our duty to persevere.

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As a hatchling, Koa was often alone. He was a singular egg in his mothers clutch. It was often considered a laughable parallel to how he was growing up, a talkative ball of energy. As a child he refused to make friends, but growing up in his birth clan he eventually grew to have many companions.

His clan was made of scholars, as most Light dragons were fond of study and research. Koa was no exception, and before he even knew how to fly he had a quill in his claws. Always writing, always keeping his thoughts to the page. Most Light dragons could argue that they love scrolls and ink more than any other, and Koa's voice was just as loud as any others.

Knowledge was important to his clan, thus rank's were decided by how beneficial one could be to the gathering of information for the group. While their were many potential candidates for who Koa's rivals would be, in the end, it was narrowed down to his close friend Thelio. The two were of the same age and often shared thoughts on ideas and theories, helping each other in their studies.

The two often butted heads in friendly competition as they climbed to the top. There were still many spots open for ranking and both were confident in each others abilities that they would rise up together, as friends.

As all things go, this didn't quite work out to plan. The list was shortened, the spots were filled, and soon the friendly competition boiled with more heat. Their friendship was strained, but they both kept at an arms length from each other, relying instead on building up their own armory of scrolls and relics rather than turning to sabotage.

Thelio, Koa's closest friend and companion, wanted the position with a passion. That much was evident. When it became clear that Koa was going to outrank him, the Imperial became resigned in his studies. Only a week before the celebration where Koa would receive his new title, the two met each other after hours.

"You're a bright mind," Thelio admitted, head tilted to the stars as he rested beside Koa. For any other, Koa would have felt awkward. He was going to become Thelio's superior, after all. But they had been friends for years and Koa wasn't going to let that disrupt what they had.

"As are you," Koa replied, both out of courtesy and genuinely meaning it. He always saw them as equals and believed they should have ranked up together; the competition angered him in that way. That it even had to be a competition.

Thelio scoffed. "You don't need to humor me, Koa. We both know you are more talented than I." Koa went to speak, but Thelio talked over him, "Your words have always been moving. You're far better with a quill."

And isn't that what their duty was? Anyone could read a scroll and learn from it. Writing new ideas down, creating whole new theories and phrasing it in a way that would guide later readers in the same thought process was something else entirely.

Koa didn't reply and the two lapsed into silence. Until Thelio spoke once more.

"I would never have beaten you. I realize this now. I think I've known for quite some time." His voice was lowered in defeat and Koa almost thought he should pretend he hadn't heard, as if Thelio's resignation was too personal for his ears.

"I'm sorry," he replied back, because all the knowledge he had couldn't supply him with something more meaningful to say.

Thelio huffed out a humourless laugh. "I am, too."

It took Koa a second to register the apology. "What for?" he asked in confusion, head tilted. He could only just see his friend's light pelt, yellow eyes catching the moonlight.

Thelio didn't respond, but he didn't have to. He moved so quickly, a surprising feat since none in their clan relied on physical abilities. Koa was caught by surprise, but he also was wary to act against his friend. Perhaps if he did nothing, he would learn that Thelio moved not in violence, but in some other manor that could be explained away. Perhaps if he pretended that he didn't see the light change in his friends eyes, he could turn back to the stars and the night would continue as it had been.

Koa would not fight his friend, not even when his friend took to Koa's eyes with his claws. Not even when his friend hissed an apology while Koa bled into the grass, wings crushed beneath him under the Imperial's greater weight. Not even when his tears of pain - both physical and emotional - mixed with the blood from his blind eyes.

"You're my friend," he rasped, words fragmented even as he spoke them. "My friend." There was no sound. Where was Thelio? He couldn't tell. And even as Koa's heart beat with fear and adrenaline, he refused to die that way.

The silence was deafening, so he spoke the words aloud. "I am not going to die this way." A mantra to break the silence as he scrabbled on the very soil - so familiar to him only moments before - that now felt alien in his blindness.

The journey back to his clan was a harrowing one, made worse by paranoid fear over Thelio, and brought no relief when he was finally home. Thelio was nowhere to be seen; he had not returned. The council was relieved to see him alive and helped heal him over many days, but Koa had no relief. He knew what waited for him once he was healed.

His clan was one that sought knowledge. Reading, writing, studying. Those were important things. If Koa could not see, what could he offer? He'd be too slow. He was at a disadvantage. He was not worth their resources.

"You are to find another clan." The words were spoken to him by one of the council, tone level and remorseless. Koa was silent; what could he say to such a thing? How could he match the listless tone of his once peer? He swallowed. He spoke: "Okay." And he turned and went to pack his things.

Death was almost a certainty. It was not a question of if, but when. Would he fall and never get up? Would he stumble upon something deadly? Or would the chill take him in the night?

Meeting Evangelos was chance. On Koa's part, anyhow. He thought he was alone - which was nothing different anymore since now Koa always assumed he was alone - and then the older dragon spoke. It was sudden and surprising and Koa nearly fell over at the break in his silent reverie.

"Can you see?"

Koa turned towards where the voice had come from and tensed. He was always tense, his muscles weary from the constant worry that something would strike. "No." There was no sense in hiding this fact; no doubt the other dragon could tell.

"Have you eaten?"

Koa shook his head. Finding food was not something he was used to doing in the first place. Being blind only made it impossible.

"And you are hungry? Without a clan? Without a place to sleep?"

This time the wariness came in a new form, a new flavour of distrust. "Where are you going with this?" he asked, disliking his own frail voice and his inability to see this other dragon.

"Answer the question."

"Yes."

This was followed by silence and Koa tried not to move just to disrupt the anticipation. Already doubt crept in and Koa began to suspect that the other dragon had simply left. Finally, blessedly, he spoke again.

"You will join my clan."

Koa had nothing. No home, no food, nothing on his back. Was it so unreasonable to trust a strange dragon he couldn't even see? To follow this dragon leagues away by his voice alone to a clan he had no familiarity with?

And, after it all, when Koa was fully welcomed as one of them, was it so unreasonable that they made him a Speaker of Knowledge?

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— ♫ "Not In Vain" by Alex Care

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