Tumbleweed

Birthday
November 24th/May 24th
Name Origin
“a plant of dry regions that breaks off near the ground in late summer and is tumbled about by the wind, thereby dispersing its seeds”
Sexuality
Bisexual
Gender
Male
Sex
AMAB

Purchased traits
None
Size class
Miniscule
Weight class
Tank
Plot Death
Yes
Alt
Crushed in a landslide
Appearance
Tumble is a small Avus with a hard shell on his back as well as tough scales upon his head and tail. His color is a consistent dusty-brown with large claws on his front and hind legs.

Nestling-Fledgeling
Tumbleweed’s mother, Alpine, came from a very wealthy family. She had lived in the laps of luxury for as long as she could remember. She left that life behind when she met Spruce, a low-class gryphus. Her father, Yarrow, heavily disapproved of their love. He insisted that if she left, she would be banished from the family. She didn’t care, leaving with Spruce to create a new life together. They had settled down in a small town, having 3 clutches. Tumbleweed is the youngest of 7, the only egg of the 4th clutch. He doesn’t remember much except for the noise of his older siblings playing around in the house, with one of them keeping him warm on the chill spring morning.

As Tumble grew, his siblings would teach him how to use different plants and where the best places to find them were. Most of the time, that's just what they told Alpine so she would let them go outside and play. Tumble followed his siblings everywhere, often sneaking his way out to follow them to school. It’s surprisingly hard to sneak around when you're a small ball of armor, so he’d quickly be ushered back into the safety of his home.

Sub-adult
Tumble was in school when his father was drafted into the war. While Spruce wasn’t a large Avus, he could consume toxic bugs that others couldn’t, and produce that same toxin through his feathers to poison any harpy foolish enough to come in contact with it. While Spruce was off to fight, Tumble continued to excel in school and learn under his mother’s guidance on herbs.

After 4 months, tragedy struck the family. It was Tumble’s eldest sibling who ran into the house “Father is to be killed!” they cried. As everyone scrambled for answers, Alpine had approached with the truth. She explained that he had been accused of helping harpies and killing his fellow soldiers using the toxins in his feathers to poison the broth. “But father would never do that!.” Exclaimed Tumble, every bit of him shaking. He never wanted to curl up into a ball so much in his life, he wanted so much to believe it wasn’t true. The evidence spoke otherwise, as two remaining soldiers of his division had proclaimed Spruce’s betrayal, seeing him put the feathers in the stew and the soggy remains of it. For this betrayal, he was to be executed. When the time had come, and Spruce was in the center square, Alpine had pleaded for his life, begging to find some speck of empathy for her mate. Tumble’s eldest sibling had enough of begging, and lunged at the executioner. Tumbleweed couldn’t remember much after that, the second the fight broke out, he had curled in on himself and wished for it to stop. It took several minutes for the fight to calm down, but in the end Spruce had been killed and his siblings arrested. All that was left of his now broken family was him and his mother.

After his siblings were taken away and left alone with his mother, she was having trouble making enough copper to both feed her family and pay off the taxes they owed. Tumble did his best to help his mother, but it was just too much for her. She started growing sick, making matters worse. She worked through her illness, for they would have nothing to give if she had stopped. After a month of illness, she passed away, leaving Tumble on his own.

Adult
He quickly left his life behind, becoming a petty thief in the streets of Uptown Baraahn. He did try a life of honest work, he swears! But nobody wanted to hire kin of a traitor apparently. He learned how to hide in plain sight, how his small and bulky appearance would often be overlooked as something to be suspicious of. It was easy for him to make off with small things like jewelry, berries, etc. He’s unsure of what happened to his siblings, they should have finished their sentences.He wonders where they’d gone after they were released. Who knows? Maybe he’ll see them again one day.

Elder
N/a

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Height
20 cm
Length(W/ Tail)
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Length(W/out Tail)
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Weight
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Wing Span
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Average MPH(On foot)
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Average MPH(In flight)
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