Milkshake

Milkshake's mother was a Hivewing, a rather respectable one at that. Nobody had expected her to be in an inter-tribe relationship, she seemed far too concerned about her reputation most days to risk such a thing.

She was well rounded out: a good fighter, intelligent, wealthy. She focused her life on experiencing as much as possible and as a result she did not have the specialized talent of many dragons. Despite all of this, she was still held to high regards.

Milkshake's Icewing father on the other hand was the opposite of a respected dragon. The only reason he lived in the Hives was to get away from the Ice Kingdom. He figured the structure of the Hive would be the closest thing he could get to back home.

If you asked any dragon of Weevil Hive what the definition of a nerd was, they'd point straight to him. Milkshake inherited their need for glasses from him, and much of their awkward personality as well. The Icewing turned out to be incredibly interested in insects after moving to the Hive, and published multiple of his studies.

The two dragons had met while Milkshake's mother found herself interested in the study of insects herself. It wasn't long before she stumbled upon the Icewing's work, and she had been charmed by his awkwardness. They hadn't intended to become a couple, but she sought him out and they both seemed to click in a strange way.

While Milkshake wasn't entirely planned he was welcome to the interesting couple. The two began to plan becoming a family together, they would raise Milkshake to be an adventerous dragon who always followed his heart.

The first fraction of Milkshake's life was incredibly strange. While his parents were happy together and loved him ever so dearly, there was always a darkness creeping up on him. One thing his parents hadn't accounted for was his hybrid curse, given to him by a long gone animus dragon from eons ago.

For a while, his parents had kept him hidden, afraid at the backlash they would face if others knew what he looked like. His strangley tall and eerily thin bug-like body often made other dragons uncomfortable, though it was hard to notice at his hatching day.

After Milkshake was taken home, his curse seemed to worsen. It looked as though he "sprouted" 2 extra pairs of eyes, though they had merely been closed for the first few weeks. As he grew, he became more and more different from a normal dragon.

Soon, it was impossible to hide this curse. His parents had swiftly become the most unpopular dragons in Weevil Hive. They found themselves excluded from several areas, dragons refusing service to them, even poor Milkshake felt the brunt of the resentment. He was often met with revolted looks, dragons steering away from him whenever he was nearby. He did not understand it fully at the time, but the emotions stuck with him.

At barely a year old, Milkshake's family began to fall apart as his parents weren't able to handle the pressure of society. The moment where his parents lost their title of being kind and caring was when they decided to get rid of Milkshake, handing him off to whoever would take him and then pretending he had never happened.

The couple had never been seen again in Weevil Hive. Any dragon you asked would either say they had locked themselves in a hidden away corner of the Hive or had left to another Hive entirely. Most dragons believe they are still together, but being extremely secretive about it.

Even though most dragons had been disgusted by Milkshake, after he was abandoned quite a few dragons felt sympathetic for him. He might have been cursed and looked nothing like a regular tribe dragon but it wasn't his fault that he was hatched.

Only a couple days after their parents left, Milkshake was taken in by a kind dragonetless Silkwing family. Most Hivewings didn't like him, likely because he was seen as a "corrupted Hivewing," though Silkwings were the more kind and caring tribe of the two and welcomed him with open arms.

It was through this family that he met Zephyr, his next-door neighbor. The two became quick friends, Zephyr never even considered Milkshake to be weird. He thought the spikes, extra eyes, and Milkshakes height were all incredible.

Through his Silkwing family, Milkshake had grown up as normally as he could after what had happened when he was younger. They were still insecure around most dragons that didn't know him, and was always cautious. Over the next 5 years, Milkshake mainly stuck to their family and Zephyr, making only a few friends here and there. When Zephyr went through his metamorphosis the two had become closer than ever before, and decided to leap through their adulthood together.

Nobody was surprised when Milkshake and Zephyr became a couple. They had both been each other's best friends for most of their lives, and would never once put anybody above the other.

Shortly after moving in together, they began to dream about their future together. Milkshake had suggested a bakery and Zephyr gladly embraced the idea. Milkshake often baked him goods and Zephyr was happy to give them the opporunity to make more.

It took a couple hurdles to get through, but the grand opening of their bakery was a success. Milkshake was popular among Silkwings and so was their bakery. Silkwings became their most common customer, though it wasn't too rare to see Hivewings. Other tribes were still more likely to grab a taste of the baked goods however, even though they didn't often live in Hives in the first place.

Zephyr and Milkshake tended to their bakery over the next 5 years or so. They were content in their life, and the two were certain they would stick together for the rest of their lives.

Not too long after Milkshake had been adopted, more and more inter-tribe couples sprouted across Pyrrhia. Within just a few years, hybrid dragons had become somewat more common. Many dragons took a look at Milkshake and thought "it's just a slightly different body, they're still a regular dragon."

The attitude against hybrid dragons became much more positive. One of the hybrids was Frostdew, a Silkwing/Icewing hybrid. She was incredibly beautiful, sparkling pastel scales in every hue. No dragon could have predicted that her Metamorphosis would change everything. Her curse caused the Metamorphosis to go wrong. The parts of her that were Icewing were horribly disfigured, namely her face, claws, and tail tip.

Almost immediately after this, hybrid dragons were in danger. The Icewing queen, seeing what Silkwing genes had done to "corrupt" her tribe, called for the banning of all inter-tribe relationships and hybrids. The Hivewing Queen was quick to join her, seeing the way her subjects felt about Milkshake. Skywings and Nightwings were also behind this cause due to their beliefs about dragonets.

Most other tribes were neutral on this topic, only Silkwings and Rainwings actively arguing against this rule. Ultimately the tribes came to a compromise of allowing inter-tribe relationships as long as they did not have dragonets.

With this new rule in place, the Icewing and Hivewing queen decided that dragons who break the law would be arrested. Since Milkshake was a hybrid, it wasn't long before Icewing guards came to his bakery to seize him. Milkshake couldn't fight back, and urged Zephyr to help them. Zephyr ultimately followed in Milkshake's parent's footsteps, giving up on them once loving Milkshake became an inconvience to him.

Milkshake was promptly whisked away and thrown in the Icewing hybrid dungeon. Not only was Frostdew here, but an interesting dragon that caught Milkshake's eye.

In progress.