Redrim

Appearance

Redrim Is a Silkwing/Hivewing hybrid from Bloodworm hive with red, black, and purple scales, and after the burning his scales were permanently dulled. Has missing antennae, a missing eye, and several scars on his chest and back.

Backstory

His mother was a Silkwing botanist and, unbeknownst to her husband and he himself, his real father was Schizura, a music teacher. He suffered from a congenital lung condition that heavily impacted his physical performance, and the presumed father, Threadworm, forced him into unpleasant and experimental treatments against his will. His mother ensured that he knew his real father, signing him up for his music class, which became a refuge when Threadworm became violent. He was soulmates with a Leafwing named Fir and friends with a Hivewing/leafwing named Wormwood. All of these people were with him when the Burning hit the hive. Because of his lack of wings, Schizura carried him out of the hive. While escaping he spotted Queen Mariposa fleeing with the guard rather than helping the other wingless silkwing dragonets, which disillusioned his belief in authority. This group of his friend, Soulmate, Parents, and stepfather survived the first month together, until Threadworm began turning into a rotter. In that time he realized that Schizura was Redrim's real father, and went on a rampage, Killing everyone but Schizura, who became a rotter, and cutting Redrim's antennae off and maiming his tails. After being mortally wounded, his mother carried him into a cave to protect him. He went into metamorphosis, and when he emerged his mother had died.

Alone now in the caves, he resorted to his meager botanical knowledge and craftsmanship to survive, but with few materials he turned to extremely disturbing means, using skin, horns, and bones of rotters and aggressive dragons. He made a Claw katar from his mother's horns out of respect. He made a device to help him breathe in the smokey wasteland with rotter leather, bone, and cave algae. Surviving with the little food he could grow himself, constant threat of attack, and pain from his lungs and injuries, he quickly lost his mind. He forgot almost everything from before the burning, developed a fear of hivewings, and grew to believe that he'd spent his whole life in the wasteland and cave. After an attack from an aggressive pod, he buried a leafwing from which plants quickly sprouted, and theorized that leafwing blood could restore pantala. Because of this he ventured to the greens to attempt to obtain more.

Personality

Though originally timid and fearful, as he grew closer to his podmates and remembered his past, he became more jovial and outgoing. He is still suspicious of most, but lively and kind whenever he can be. He is absolutely chaotic in his disregard for social norms, laws, or respect for authority, but has a strong moral belief system that is almost indecipherable. He believes that violence is justified when it is to protect his family, and will greet someone with a smile and stab them with one too. And when anyone has a crime to commit, he's right there to take part. just for fun.