#eugloss

Vanessa and Eugloss are mates, though calling them that may feel a bit generous.  Like Melisandre and Aeron, they aren’t particularly close.  Eugloss is busy all the time, and Vanessa can be a bit self-absorbed, so how they came together is anyone’s guess within the clan As Eugloss and Vanessa are both keenly aware, they fell together purely as a result of numbers.  There are very few singles in the clan at any given time, and a dragon actively looking for a partner or mate has few options.  Both Eugloss and Vanessa were looking for someone to spend their free nights with.  Single life suits the pair just fine, but it has its down sides.  And so their relationship began purely out of practicality.  As it so happens, they suited each other well physically speaking, and stayed together because they found a rhythm with each other.  Vanessa and Eugloss know how to push all the right buttons for the other by now and it would just be work to find a new partner, even if the opportunity arose.  And so they continue, mates for all intents and purposes, but with very little apparent emotional connection. The pair does produce eggs, largely because it suits Vanessa to do so for reasons nobody can fathom, including her, and Eugloss isn’t asked to give any particular input or effort.  If given the chance, he wouldn’t immediately choose to be a father, but being a standoffish one that rarely spends time with his hatchlings is close enough for him.  He leaves a lot to be desired in the nurturing category, although Vanessa is not entirely a better mother than Eugloss is a father.  Catherine does a lot of legwork with their hatchlings to try and produce something akin to well-adjusted dragons, with varying amounts of success.    

Eugloss has a Chalcedony Snipper named Orchid as his familiar.  He isn’t particularly interested in having a familiar at all, being much to occupied with his work and family to devote much thought to a pet.  But Kannon was worried that Eugloss would work himself to death if he didn’t take more time to relax, and conspired with Tilney to more or less force the Fae to adopt a familiar of some kind or other.  They basically hounded and harassed him about it until he relented, although he didn’t fail to point out that this was causing him more stress, not less. In the end, Eugloss looked for a pet that was clean, that didn’t shed, and that didn’t have much in the way of energy requirements, special diets, or attention from him.  A Chalcedony Snipper seemed to answer those requirements nicely, and thus came Orchid. To be honest, Eugloss is not a particularly good pet parent, even with Orchid needing very little special attention.  Eugloss could do more than he does to see to Orchid’s needs.  He is dismissive of the crayfish and restrictive of her movements, lest she disrupt his system or get in the way of his duties.  Orchid isn’t all that amazingly happy and would probably prefer going back to the stables and Tilney’s attentiveness.  But Eugloss does just enough in public that Tilney doesn’t see or suspect that.  And with Orchid unable to speak up for herself, she isn’t likely to rat Eugloss out any time soon.  Eugloss would send her back if he thought Tilney and Kannon would just foist another hapless creature on him, and so he keeps her largely out of a sense of self-preservation. Needless to say, having a pet isn’t helping him relax or destress, not that he felt he needed either to begin with.

Eugloss is the clan’s Quartermaster, in charge of keeping the inventory for the clan, as well as interfacing with Lily on ordering new supplies, fixtures, and furnishings as needed.  He also makes recommendations to Morina as to where gathering parties should be sent based on the clan’s consumption patterns.  With so many dragons who accumulate so much stuff, this job is daunting at best, but Eugloss makes it look easy.  The inventory is practically never incorrect, which is a wonder given the presence of so many artisans in the clan.  Clan members are constantly buying tools and materials and selling their handiwork, and yet, somehow, Eugloss manages to keep track of all of it.  Much of that has to do with being physically present whenever Peeta departs and arrives on the Kittiwake, as well as taking notes whenever a gathering party returns from an outing.  The only dragons that really act like thorns in his side are Angela and Ipomoea, who tend to gather their own materials on their own time and can sometimes escape his notice.  But after much harassment of the pair of them, he has convinced them both that it is in their best interest to either report to him or turn in itemized lists for him to file. Eugloss lives and breathes organization and loves makes lists and spreadsheets.  His office is floor to ceiling file cabinets filled with order forms and notes that most dragons didn’t even know the clan had.  Any dragon in the clan could, at a moment’s notice, visit Eugloss in his office, ask how much meat the clan had stocked up, and ask to see how that has changed over the last year, and be immediately furnished with an itemized list of current stores as well as the requested historical data in table form with accompanying graphs that showed not only the total usage, but usage by hunting range, acquisition type (gathering versus coliseum loot), and breed of dragon.  Which is obviously much more data than any one dragon could ever hope to use, but it exists.  Eugloss doesn’t understand the idea of overkill when it comes to data collection and analysis.  He loves this stuff.  And while most of the clan doesn’t understand that passion, they do generally agree that it’s nice to have access to any and all data should they ever require it. What most don’t know is that Eugloss also keeps files on the members of the clan.  This isn’t because he is particularly nosy, but just because he sees it as another set of data that may be useful someday.  He has the general history of each dragon, who they are mated to, their offspring, other relevant lineage data, their likes and dislikes, who they do and don’t get along with, their familiar, their job, their visits to Clarity and why, and any other details he can think of.  He collects this data with the same studiousness he shows for the rest of his work, but is otherwise generally disinterested in the sordid details of the lives of others.  He does, however, keep this information under lock and key, lest it fall into the wrong hands and cause a world of trouble.