Slingshot

Slingshot • It/They/She • Sapphic • Paired with Richter.

The Shopkeeper

Slingshot is a travelling Spiral merchant, finding most of their goods in abandoned caves, or simply by stealing from unsuspecting dragons. Due to the agility of her species, She's able to slip by quick enough to avoid getting caught (most of the time, anyway.)

Residing in a hollowed-out tree, she managed to gather enough items to build a small shop that resides at the very top, resting in the branches and leaves. While it's very easy to see during colder times of the year, sometimes the plants get in the way, making the shop almost invisible to dragons flying by. After a long period of time where it remained unnamed, she dubbed this store; "Slingshot's Stupendous Shop".

She struggles with customers due to having an erratic behavioral pattern, but she does try her best to stay on task. Slingshot can very easily fall off-task even while exploring, picking up trinkets she wasn't even originally looking for. Although if she wants to make a quick buck, these extra items do come in handy.

Her familiar, a brightly-colored Untertide fidget toy, remains on her desk, which she very often holds in her hands if she isn't busy at the moment, or is having a casual chat with a visitor. She dubbed this familiar with the name 'Katamari', and it's never planned to be put as a purchasable item in her inventory.

Personality wise, she's very outgoing and talkative. Possibly to an annoying extent, she likes to talk about her adventures in great detail, sometimes exaggerating her stories to any hatchlings she babysits to make it more entertaining for the younger ones. Despite being horrible at staying focused, her high energy and ability to multitask to a great degree allows her to babysit hatchlings in an acceptable manner, as she often takes care of her friend's hatchlings while the parents are away at the Coliseum, gathering resources and food, or are just needing a break from parenthood.

However, Slingshot is also prone to procrastination, and aided with her less-than-ideal memory, often forgets to do things before their deadline or until something happens in consequence. Because of this she has a list of to-do's near her resting place.

She takes great pride in the skeletal pattern that paints her scales, paired with the red eyes of originally being born in the Plague Flight domains. Occasionally, she likes to fly out to the Rotrock Rim to visit her birthplace. Often being advised not to by other dragons she knows, such as Osore, and her adoptive parents, Rudimer and Pascal.

As for her relationship with being adopted, she views a positive look on both of her adopted parents. Even if they aren't her biological blood, she still appreciates the fact that she has someone to call family. Slingshot does struggle slightly with the fact that she isn't in the flight she was supposed to be in, but she always says to herself; "It can be worse."

Slingshot is very close friends with Perkeo, and is often pulling pranks with, or on him. She has discounts for him specifically because she appreciates the Tundra's advice and matched energy levels of mischief.

She met her partner, Richter, whilst trying to find potions to sell at her own shop. The two formed a business relationship for a few months before Slingshot started to fall HARD. eventually she confessed, leading the two to become partners. While she doesn't plan on having hatchlings, Slingshot is perfectly content with helping raise the hatchlings of other dragons.