Crossbow

TITLE: "Number One Animus Hater"

BASIC INFO
Name: Crossbow
Nickname/s: Cross
Species: SandWing
Age: 8 Dragon years (17 In human years)
Gender: Male
Pronouns: He/Him
Sexuality: Pansexual

CHARACTER RATING & INFO
Creation age: 2021
Fandom: Wings Of Fire
My writing that includes this character: N/A
ArtFight link: Here
Theme song playlist: N/A

Design: ✦✦✧✧✧ 2/5
Popularity: ✦✦✦✦✦ 5/5
Lore: ✦✦✦✦✧ 4/5
Uniqueness: ✦✦✦✧✧ 3/5
Roleplayability: ✦✦✦✦✦ 5/5
Coolness: ✦✦✦✦✧ 4/5

PERSONALITY:
He is quite clever, and can be very determined and dedicated to his goals. He's empathetic and usually friendly, but his personality can quickly shift when he's upset or afraid. He is somewhat of a loner, and isn't the best at making friends, but most of the time at least tries to be kind to other dragons. He reads dragons well, and never underestimates others. He has somewhat low self-esteem, and often brings himself down to benefit others. He is immensely terrified by animus dragons, and has a belief quite contradicting to his personality, believing that most, if not all of them, are dangerous.

ABILITIES & SKILLS:
As any Sand'wing does, his tail is quite a useful weapon. He can use it to sting other dragons, although he mostly uses it to block attacks, or, at least, redirect them to where they'll cause less harm. He has basic firebreath, but never uses it.

APPEARANCE:
He has a fairly long tail, and a stinger on its tip that's somewhat larger than normal. He has a short, curly sail and intense orange eyes. His horns are short and straight, and his scales are a dull, somewhat dark yellow, similiar to the color of wet sand. His underbelly is a pastel shade of reddish-orange, and his horns and sail are darker than the rest of his body.

RELATIONS:
Oviraptor [Brother] "I kind of used to look up to him. He was always the one who got us out of trouble, and yet at the same time, the one who got us into the most trouble. I don't blame him for the accident that happened..."
Wingflap [Brother] "He used to be so fun to play with, but now he's...kind of a creep. I haven't seen him in a pretty long time. I wonder what he's up to."

BACKSTORY:
He was born with two brothers, him being the middle child. His oldest brother was Oviraptor, and his youngest brother was WingFlap. The three lived a fairly normal Sand'wing life along with their parents, residing in a medium-sized desert town. The three brothers were quite close, always playing outside for most of the day. Oviraptor, the oldest brother, had the responsibility to watch out for his two younger sibilings, but things went terribly wrong when the three dragonets were out playing.

Crossbow and Wingflap found places to hide as they prepared for a fun game of hide-and-seek. But Oviraptor got distracted, and instead of searching for his brothers, chased after a lizard and accidently tripped over another dragonet. He fell onto the dragonet, and being larger than it, crushed it to death. But the dragonet was a royal, the precious child of the Sand'wing Queen, Oxalaia.  Crossbow and Wingflap watched as it all happened, staying in their hiding places out of fear.

The Sand'wing Queen was furious, and threw the oldest brother into prison. Crossbow and Wingflap now lost their brother, but they would lose more. Their family was soon banished from the Sand'wing Kingdom for Oviraptor's crime, and they were devastated. They had no place to call home. In a desperate attempt to help their child, Crossbow's parents sent him to a school. WingFlap was still too young, so he remained with his parents. And now, all three of the brothers were separated.

Crossbow arrived at the school, astounded by its size, by its scroll, and by the dragons there. He'd never seen such a thing before. The first few days were interesting and exciting, but the school wasn't nowhere near perfect. There were not one, but two animus dragons within its bounds, and the school was clearly unable to control the chaos that was slowly beginning to ensue.

One of the animi descended into madness, causing some dragonets to even be killed, all within the school. The animus even wanted Crossbow and some other dragons to help them with their onslaught, and Crossbow was simply horrified.

Things were going so, so incredibly wrong. The Sand'wing was so intimidated by everything that was happening, that he fled the school. He left everything he had to get out of that terrible place. He never wanted to be near an animus ever again. After he left, he still had no idea what had happened with the school since he left. He felt somewhat guilty for leaving, knowing that there were good dragons there, too, and that they were still living at the school. But he was too fearful to return.

(Backstory not exaclty complete. It's also really old, I just rewrote it and thats about it.)

FUN FACTS, NON-CANON STUFF AND EXTRA (Bonus section)
• He was my very FIRST oc ever to be in a discord roleplay. Also my first Tupper ever, and still the one with the most messages sent despite me having at least like 50 more tuppers now.
• I made him during my The Owl House obsession. He was  basically supposed to be Hunter from that show, who is my favorite character from it.
• His entire backstory is more focused on his brother than it is on him, for some reason. I made the backstory up on the spot in the Riverside Academy discord RP.
• In Riverside, he was once... turned into a scorpion for some reason?
• He used to have a pet talking crow, whose name was Blackfluff.