Personality: Although being of mixed breed, Xzana is mostly dragon and was raised like one. Her personality is mostly animalistic in nature for it. Her main goals in life is to make sure she goes to bed each night with a full stomach and a safe place to sleep. One day she'd also like to see an ocean, but as dragons live for thousands of years she is in no hurry. Taking her time, issues that don't deal with basic survival she's not the type to be in a rush to complete.
She does have a habit of times speaking bluntly. Dragons tend to do so, but since she has begun to interact with humans a bit more, she's starting to learn that some people don't appreciate that.
Xzana has also been raised to respect her elders and those of pure blood. To those she sees as being her better she can be very proper around. Putting their needs most of the time above her own. Although, there aren't that many people who are older than her and it's not all pure blood that fall in that category. Mostly those of the dying breeds in her world such as dragons, unicorns, and many breeds of non-hostile demons and sprites.
Towards humans and other creatures she feels don't need to be shown the up-most respect she will be respectful to as long as they do the same to her. Those who are rude to her will get snarls back in return. Also she has little patients for stupidity. She will turn and walk away rather than suffer an idiot.
As for her flight or fight response it depends on her location and situation. If she's in or around water she will almost always choose to fight. Having an unlimited supply of ammo gives her a large confidence boost. When she's not near water, while she can get angry if she's insulted she's a bit more bark than bite. She has only the water she has stored in her body to fight with then. She will run if she thinks she might not win. Against most humans though she'd stand her ground assuming she'd win. Luceti will probably give her a shock with that.
While she can have her occasional playful streak most things in her mind fall into fairly basic categories. Activities that are for survival and those that are not. She has a hard time understanding leisure activities like reading. Although Dragons do share stories as it's important not to make the same mistakes your ancestors did, this is something shared at night hours. Or the few celebrations that dragons do celebrate such as a successful birth. Dancing and song is not something to do everyday, as dancing wastes energy and singing can give out your location. Play is reserved only when life is very, very good.
Strengths: Xzana has three forms so for the physical part I'm going to break it up by forms she can take.
First off some things all three forms can do:
If she's able to find a large body of water to hide her body in she can camouflage herself in water. It takes only moments, but her body will become transparent when in water. There's a very faint ripple line as she hasn't actually disappeared, but even other water nymphs often have a lot of trouble spotting this slight ripple that comes from a hiding nymph.
Each form also has a healing property. Xzana can heal almost any injury on her body by simply resting in water. This can range from a couple hours for a small gash to going into a hibernation type sleep for a month for a broken leg. So as long as she gets to enough water with enough time to heal, she's able to recover from nearly any injury.
Dragon Form: The form she was born in and spent most of her childhood in. Xzana is very comfortable in this form. While in this form she is a large several tons, one story tall, blue scaled dragon. Visually, she's a little larger than an elephant. In this form she is very powerful and has been known to snap large trees like toothpicks in her teeth. While she's four pawed in this form she's easily able to smash large boulders with her shoulder and tail. With sharp claws on each toe and two huge rows of sharp teeth, while she may not have had more formal training than dragon scraps - it's not something anyone wants to mess with. They're all razor sharp and hard of rocks.
The only thing stronger than her teeth and claws are her scales. The scales on the top side of her back are super strong and thick. Able to easily bounce spears and arrows shot at it. While her underside is not as thick, unless a good, strong spear is used it is unlikely to pierce her scales.
Neutral Form: The form Xzana typically stays in now that she has left her clan. She's grown very comfortable in this form. The patches of skin that still has scales can resist most knives used at human strength. Partially strong demons with sharp claws could pierce her scales, but she hasn't found that out yet. (Typically fighting demons in her dragon form.) They are still very hard to crack offering some protection to her body.
She has great control over bodies of water near her or even rain in this form. With just a few simple flicks of her wrist or fingers she's able to command waster near her to use as an attack. Or if she's not near water she can call on the limited water resource she has stored within her body. This is also the form that conserves water the best and if she has to can last the longest away from water.
As a Nymph her control over water is at it's strongest. She no longer needs to use any movement at all for her strongest water attacks. She is also at her lightest and nimbleness in this form. She's able to move much like a humming bird in this form changing directions with just a mere thought. Although she doesn't spend much time in this form so she's not as strong as she could potentially be.
Weaknesses: Being a half breed Xzana's powers as both a dragon and a water nymph will never be able to come into full fruition. While her mastery over water magic is impressive she will always be physically weaker than other dragons of her race and not as naturally in sync with water as the nymphs. That's not to say she can't and hasn't worked hard to be equals with others, it will just never come naturally to her and she knows this.
Being a half breed brings other downfalls. Her body is considered a freak of nature and all half breeds grow older faster. Being a dragon her old age is still a long way off, but she will die much earlier from her body breaking down on itself. There is just no way to stop it. Signs of this show even in her youth as while a pure dragon that has the ability to transform can do so easily and painlessly, transforming for Xzana hurts. She can feel the change happening to her body as her bones grow and shorten.
While not a crippling pain, more of an annoyance at this point in her life, it's something she's heard from others that will grow worse the older she gets and the more she transforms. For this reason she typically doesn't change forms often and when she does change she will stay in that form until it become cumbersome. (Try walking around a forest and stalking prey as a giant dragon. It's not easy.) She typically prefers her "Neutral Form" as it balances her two halts the best, although having spent most of her childhood in her "Dragon Form" she does at times prefer to be in her larger, full scaled body.
All forms are extremely weak against lightening attacks. Foods high in salt and beer can make her very ill if she doesn't intake the same amount of water with it. So while swimming in the ocean she'll be fine, eating large amounts of pure salt can be deadly.
Dragon form: As her large dragon self she is slow. She uses her weight and size more than her speed in this form. With her armor she doesn't usually need to be too fast. Her control over water is very limited as well in this form. It needs to be a good size amount of water and even then it's usually just a water blast and nothing very fancy. She also uses up her reserve of water faster when in this form so she can't spend too much time away from the water.
In her neutral form she's lost a lot of the protection the scales provide her. She loses a lot of strength too, but still stronger than a normal human.
Nymph she's very weak. Having very little physical strength at all. This form is also the form that uses the most water to keep active. She can't be very far from water when in this form for more than a day.
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Third Person:
Xzana climbed out of the river, a flopping bass wiggling between her claws as she emerged. She scanned the river before she bite down hard on the fish's back near it's head. Stopping it's flopping. As she began to chew she began to realize that she wasn't hungry, but why would she have hunted if she wasn't hungry.
She moved towards her water logged journal she had left near the shore and flipped through it. Voices of the villages floated through the pages, a magic she still found fascinating. After a few minutes of listening and a couple more uninspired bites at her fish she shut the journal. The humans weren't talking about much that interested her anyway.
She looked down at her partly eaten fish. She knew it was disrespectful to waste life like that and it was a very tasty looking fish. She forced down another small bite and wondered: Is this what the humans called: homesickness?
She had been in Luceti a few months now and never before in her life had she ever felt homesick. Never when Casimir had gone on his long trips, possibly to never return, and never had she felt homesick when she had left her clan. So why now?
Maybe it was because the thrill of exploration was gone. She had already been to the edge of the dome and had even flown to the top. There really was no escaping this place. There was still some places she hadn't been, but it it all seemed so small.
Another bite of the fish, it was nearly gone now. Maybe another trip to the ocean would cheer her up some. It had been amazing to see so much water in one place. Or maybe she could follow that river up towards the mountain.
...
Or a trip to the ocean sounded much better. She finished off her fish and grabbed her journal before sliding back into the water. It would be good to have if she decided to stay out there for awhile. It would dry out eventually, it always did.
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She does have a habit of times speaking bluntly. Dragons tend to do so, but since she has begun to interact with humans a bit more, she's starting to learn that some people don't appreciate that.
Xzana has also been raised to respect her elders and those of pure blood. To those she sees as being her better she can be very proper around. Putting their needs most of the time above her own. Although, there aren't that many people who are older than her and it's not all pure blood that fall in that category. Mostly those of the dying breeds in her world such as dragons, unicorns, and many breeds of non-hostile demons and sprites.
Towards humans and other creatures she feels don't need to be shown the up-most respect she will be respectful to as long as they do the same to her. Those who are rude to her will get snarls back in return. Also she has little patients for stupidity. She will turn and walk away rather than suffer an idiot.
As for her flight or fight response it depends on her location and situation. If she's in or around water she will almost always choose to fight. Having an unlimited supply of ammo gives her a large confidence boost. When she's not near water, while she can get angry if she's insulted she's a bit more bark than bite. She has only the water she has stored in her body to fight with then. She will run if she thinks she might not win. Against most humans though she'd stand her ground assuming she'd win. Luceti will probably give her a shock with that.
While she can have her occasional playful streak most things in her mind fall into fairly basic categories. Activities that are for survival and those that are not. She has a hard time understanding leisure activities like reading. Although Dragons do share stories as it's important not to make the same mistakes your ancestors did, this is something shared at night hours. Or the few celebrations that dragons do celebrate such as a successful birth. Dancing and song is not something to do everyday, as dancing wastes energy and singing can give out your location. Play is reserved only when life is very, very good.
Strengths: Xzana has three forms so for the physical part I'm going to break it up by forms she can take.
First off some things all three forms can do:
If she's able to find a large body of water to hide her body in she can camouflage herself in water. It takes only moments, but her body will become transparent when in water. There's a very faint ripple line as she hasn't actually disappeared, but even other water nymphs often have a lot of trouble spotting this slight ripple that comes from a hiding nymph.
Each form also has a healing property. Xzana can heal almost any injury on her body by simply resting in water. This can range from a couple hours for a small gash to going into a hibernation type sleep for a month for a broken leg. So as long as she gets to enough water with enough time to heal, she's able to recover from nearly any injury.
Dragon Form: The form she was born in and spent most of her childhood in. Xzana is very comfortable in this form. While in this form she is a large several tons, one story tall, blue scaled dragon. Visually, she's a little larger than an elephant. In this form she is very powerful and has been known to snap large trees like toothpicks in her teeth. While she's four pawed in this form she's easily able to smash large boulders with her shoulder and tail. With sharp claws on each toe and two huge rows of sharp teeth, while she may not have had more formal training than dragon scraps - it's not something anyone wants to mess with. They're all razor sharp and hard of rocks.
The only thing stronger than her teeth and claws are her scales. The scales on the top side of her back are super strong and thick. Able to easily bounce spears and arrows shot at it. While her underside is not as thick, unless a good, strong spear is used it is unlikely to pierce her scales.
Neutral Form: The form Xzana typically stays in now that she has left her clan. She's grown very comfortable in this form. The patches of skin that still has scales can resist most knives used at human strength. Partially strong demons with sharp claws could pierce her scales, but she hasn't found that out yet. (Typically fighting demons in her dragon form.) They are still very hard to crack offering some protection to her body.
She has great control over bodies of water near her or even rain in this form. With just a few simple flicks of her wrist or fingers she's able to command waster near her to use as an attack. Or if she's not near water she can call on the limited water resource she has stored within her body. This is also the form that conserves water the best and if she has to can last the longest away from water.
As a Nymph her control over water is at it's strongest. She no longer needs to use any movement at all for her strongest water attacks. She is also at her lightest and nimbleness in this form. She's able to move much like a humming bird in this form changing directions with just a mere thought. Although she doesn't spend much time in this form so she's not as strong as she could potentially be.
Weaknesses: Being a half breed Xzana's powers as both a dragon and a water nymph will never be able to come into full fruition. While her mastery over water magic is impressive she will always be physically weaker than other dragons of her race and not as naturally in sync with water as the nymphs. That's not to say she can't and hasn't worked hard to be equals with others, it will just never come naturally to her and she knows this.
Being a half breed brings other downfalls. Her body is considered a freak of nature and all half breeds grow older faster. Being a dragon her old age is still a long way off, but she will die much earlier from her body breaking down on itself. There is just no way to stop it. Signs of this show even in her youth as while a pure dragon that has the ability to transform can do so easily and painlessly, transforming for Xzana hurts. She can feel the change happening to her body as her bones grow and shorten.
While not a crippling pain, more of an annoyance at this point in her life, it's something she's heard from others that will grow worse the older she gets and the more she transforms. For this reason she typically doesn't change forms often and when she does change she will stay in that form until it become cumbersome. (Try walking around a forest and stalking prey as a giant dragon. It's not easy.) She typically prefers her "Neutral Form" as it balances her two halts the best, although having spent most of her childhood in her "Dragon Form" she does at times prefer to be in her larger, full scaled body.
All forms are extremely weak against lightening attacks. Foods high in salt and beer can make her very ill if she doesn't intake the same amount of water with it. So while swimming in the ocean she'll be fine, eating large amounts of pure salt can be deadly.
Dragon form: As her large dragon self she is slow. She uses her weight and size more than her speed in this form. With her armor she doesn't usually need to be too fast. Her control over water is very limited as well in this form. It needs to be a good size amount of water and even then it's usually just a water blast and nothing very fancy. She also uses up her reserve of water faster when in this form so she can't spend too much time away from the water.
In her neutral form she's lost a lot of the protection the scales provide her. She loses a lot of strength too, but still stronger than a normal human.
Nymph she's very weak. Having very little physical strength at all. This form is also the form that uses the most water to keep active. She can't be very far from water when in this form for more than a day.
Samples (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.)
Q&A Please!
Third Person:
Xzana climbed out of the river, a flopping bass wiggling between her claws as she emerged. She scanned the river before she bite down hard on the fish's back near it's head. Stopping it's flopping. As she began to chew she began to realize that she wasn't hungry, but why would she have hunted if she wasn't hungry.
She moved towards her water logged journal she had left near the shore and flipped through it. Voices of the villages floated through the pages, a magic she still found fascinating. After a few minutes of listening and a couple more uninspired bites at her fish she shut the journal. The humans weren't talking about much that interested her anyway.
She looked down at her partly eaten fish. She knew it was disrespectful to waste life like that and it was a very tasty looking fish. She forced down another small bite and wondered: Is this what the humans called: homesickness?
She had been in Luceti a few months now and never before in her life had she ever felt homesick. Never when Casimir had gone on his long trips, possibly to never return, and never had she felt homesick when she had left her clan. So why now?
Maybe it was because the thrill of exploration was gone. She had already been to the edge of the dome and had even flown to the top. There really was no escaping this place. There was still some places she hadn't been, but it it all seemed so small.
Another bite of the fish, it was nearly gone now. Maybe another trip to the ocean would cheer her up some. It had been amazing to see so much water in one place. Or maybe she could follow that river up towards the mountain.
...
Or a trip to the ocean sounded much better. She finished off her fish and grabbed her journal before sliding back into the water. It would be good to have if she decided to stay out there for awhile. It would dry out eventually, it always did.