Fluffy

Stygian is a NightWing who was born and raised on the volcanic island. His father left to patrol the secret tunnel perimeter on the mainland, only to never return. Soon after that, his mother died of a "broken heart" (it was grief mingled with respiratory problems she'd had since she was young). All this happened when Stygian was four, and he was left with the notion that he was "too much" for his father to handle (causing him to leave) and "not enough" for his mother (causing her to die). This has led him to grow up with the belief that he has to maintain a delicate balance in any relationship he had, if he even had any relations to maintain at all. I think his circumstances led him to become a tunnel guard, but only because he was of age and there was a desperate need for that role to be filled. If there were more NightWings that had survived for that long, then Stygian likely would not have been picked (he's pretty scrawny). And then the island blows up and everyone moves to the mainland, where Stygian has to rebuild his life. Well, what life he had anyway.

Shrimp is a SeaWing who is, well... undeniably and invariably strange. She's quiet, but not necessarily unconfident. In fact, she's quite secure in how she carried herself. She simply does not feel the need to engage in conversations that don't interest her or interact with dragons that would not understand her. Though, that doesn't mean she never speaks up. Oftentimes, she'll sit in the middle of the room (or relatively close to it, it's the best place to listen in on conversations), and if she hears something interesting, she'll put in her own thoughts. Sometimes her words are actually fairly wise and thoughtful (in a way most can understand anyway). And other times it's cryptic and vague and just unsettling enough that it nips at your mind because what did she mean by that. I am compiling a playlist for her at the moment. I will reblog this post when I am done* with it. How these two meet is something I am completely unsure about. But I know they are friends because I want them to be. *when i say "done" with it i mean that it is a respectable enough size that i don't feel guilty by posting a miniscule 15 minute long playlist

(bonus doodle of Them)