✦✦✦✦ read before interacting: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/804855357/ ✦ status: nft possible trigger/content warnings for content containing this character: written or drawn depictions of child abuse. needs: fullbody design, continued backstory. ✦ design notes: earring is not opt. character notes: diamondback grew up in the volcano and, as you would expect, sick and weak. he spent his juvenile years neglected and emotionally and physically abused by his parents, who were both powerful guards and expected him to be the same. after his mother died fighting the rainwings and him and his father moved to the rainforest things got better, with his father luckily spending more time trying to gain back his previous status then he did "training" diamondback. after seeing the attention suncatcher got from being an animus, diamondback just couldn't help himself. he knew had to do something if he ever wanted to be loved, and so he lied. "I have animus magic." diamondback was loved far and wide for his magical abilities; pulling coins out of thin air, making injured dragons capable of flight again, and other such feats. he traveled far and wide to put on shows for nobility and royalty, and nobody ever thought that he could be faking. he soon became close friends with suncatcher, bonding over their shared abilities. one day, diamondback saw suncatcher without his necklace. he was a skywing. diamondback felt lied to and betrayed, and he soon realized suncatcher felt the same way and had found out that diamondback was lying about the magic. the two dragons soon came to an agreement; suncatcher would make diamondback into a real animus, and diamondback would keep his secret. ✦ design and art by islandtheanimus! ✦✦✦✦
