Status:
2421: Snowbird
Owned by BendustKas
Island: Isla Pera
Biome: Ashlands [main], scrublands, forest, urban
Diet: Browse, tree nuts, fruit
Faction: N/A
Mate: Eos
Weight: Average
Height: Above Average
Length: Above Average
Delicate, dainty, wary, but dangerous. She has an elegant, almost regal air about her, particularly as she strolls across a space with an almost airy walk on her long legs with an elegantly curved neck. As a featherless theri, winter months are somewhat difficult, and she migrates often to warmer regions on the island to stay comfortable.
Notable Traits: Due to her pale complexion and light eyes, Snowbird spends much of her time being active at dusk, dawn, and at night, or otherwise sticking to the shadows of forests, caves, and other sheltered locations. Her neck is unfortunately marked by deep scars due to an accident in her late adolesence. Her skin has a velvety, soft texture.
Personality
Snowbird lives her life with confidence. Due to her injuries, Snowbird can no longer voice her opinions, so she relies entirely on body language to express herself. She was taught to be strong, and so she is. She enjoys the company and gentle calm of living amonst other herbivores that can help look out for one another, where she can be at her most relaxed. Living with a herd has never appealed to her, however, and so she finds herself alone from time to time.
Quiet confidence only gets you so far when you're alone. Rather, it's caution that guides her thoughts and actions. She has a very "act first, question later" sort of behaviour when traveling by herself, and will lash out instinctively towards those that startle her, either with her claws or delivering a powerful kick.
History & Relations
There was once that Snowbird would do absolutely anything for her father. What happened between the two of them to change that, no one may ever know. Snowbird cannot speak, nor does she seem interested in finding the pachy that raised her. It wasn't always this way, though.
Snowbird's egg was abandoned by her parents after an explosive volcanic eruption endangered the nest site. Her egg dislodged from the nest, rolling away before hitting a stone and abruptly coming to a stop. She hatched confused, disoriented, and choking on thick, black smoke. Her cries were met by a stranger in the smog - Caldera. At first, he seemed reluctant to raise the hatchling, or to call her his daughter. Their bond grew over time, though, and he taught her how to live and fight. She was a theri with a pachy's fighting spirit.
A fighting spirit that was tempered when she was attacked randomly in the fog of an early morning by a carnotaur that very nearly took her life. Her life was saved when Caldera drove the carnotaur away. She remembers little of what happened after that point. Who tended to her wounds, who helped her while she recovered? All she has to go on are hazy memories.
For now, she merely walks the land, traveling from place to place either on her own or in the company of a few others from time to time. She seeks those that helped her, so that she might thank them for their kindness. She owes them her life.
Fun Facts:
- Due to being raised by a pachy, Snowbird has what others may consider a "bizarre" fighting style for a theri - she's a kickboxer, as well as using her long claws to fend off enemies.
- Snowbird is still capable of making a few harsh vocalisations, and it's unknown if the injuries she sustained took her voice, or the trauma of the attack.
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