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Melisma, Tropical Dragon

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__________________QUICK STATS
Name Melisma, Melly
Age 236
Gender Female
Species Dragon
Ethnicity Yoreiqi, for the most part
Height 5'8" or 10'6" at the shoulder
Orientation Pansexual
Occupation Being a dragon
Residence Yoreiq, but can be anywhere.



Credit: my awkward sketchbook
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Physical Description
Melly is a riot of color, her base coat a gradient of blues that starts lighter on her nose and darkens toward her tail and paws, her underbelly golden yellow. Her wings are a mix of feathers and membrane, orange closer to her body darkening to red. Her crest and mane are lavender tipped in violet and the fringe on her legs is a mixture of mint and grass greens, and she has bright golden eyes and silver claws.

In her human form, she appears to be a rather typical, albeit colorful, Yoreiqi woman, skin golden tan with those same gold eyes, and silver claws tipping delicate fingers. Her wings are simply feathered, but their coloring closely resembles that of her dragon form, and her hair is literally a rainbow.



Personality
Sweet. Melisma is sweet, and a little shy. She prefers solitude when she can find it, one of those people who can sit for hours just listening to the sound of birds and streams. That said, she's not antisocial, and if in the right mood she quite enjoys company- just not too many people at once, or she feels overwhelmed.

Melly also has a deep appreciation for art in all forms. Her hoard- if it can really be called that- consists mainly of pieces of art or the tools that go into making it; carvings, paintings, sheets of music and poetry, instruments, even a few pieces of stained glass.

Magic/Abilities
Singing!

Yes, Melly can perform small bits of magic by singing, strange as it seems. However, while singing is literal in her human form, as a dragon her "song" is more like the music of whales, but slightly more melodic.

Another than that- y'know, dragon stuff. Breathes fire, her gaze can hypnotize, bla bla bla. When she uses her magic or breathes fire, the red gem on her forehead emits light

Relationships
She's never met another one of her kind, but she will occasionally interact with the locals of the islands, she finds humans to be fascinating, and often amusing.

History
Melisma never knew her parents, or any other creature of her kind. She was found while still in the egg, tucked away in a small cave behind a waterfall- by a hermit shaman who lived as far into the jungles as was deemed reasonably safe. The man was young when he found her, in his mid-twenties, and he brought what he assumed was a dud or dormant egg home to examine.

Once she was exposed to heat and light however, she began to hatch. Raki was quite surprised when the colorful dragon hatchling spilled out of her egg and onto her floor, but he took it in stride. He called her a blessing from nature and took very good care of her, learning through trial and error that she preferred to eat fruits over any other food, and that her infant fire was in fact enough to burn up a few blankets with a sneeze.

Melly loved Raki, and he positively doted on her. The people who visited his hut came to expect the cheerful little dragon to greet them at the door with chirps and song, and she adored just sitting and listening to the stories they told of their home villages or the traders that came to their islands from far-off shores. When she was old enough, she went to explore those places for herself, but she was never gone for more than a day at a time, always returning quickly home to her foster father.

For nearly five decades they lived like this, but eventually Raki succumbed to the ravages of mortality. He lived to the ripe old age of seventy-six, and passed peacefully in his sleep. Melisma grieved, but it had become clear to her over the years, from snatches of stories and lore she'd heard, that she would live a good deal longer than any human; she knew the day would come when she'd have to bid the man who raised her goodbye.

So she packed up the small hoard she'd collected through her life and moved deeper into the jungles, eventually stumbling upon the ruins of some ancient temple where she decided to settle, and has lived there ever since.

It wasn't until she was nearly a hundred and fifty years old that she discovered she could take a human avatar, and once she'd mastered the skill she used it frequently to slip in and observe the humans up close.

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