Shattered Pzth

[akusma]

Shattered
Username: akusma
Character Number: 1st

The Character

Name: Pzth (puh-ze-th)
Color: Green
Speech Colour: #8FD642 & #56893A
Gender: Female

Appearance If there ever was a contest for 'Dragon With The Oddest Markings', Pzth would do well, also if there was one for the oddest name, but that's a different story. Every marking on her is a darker shade of green then her body, and it never changes. They're all simple, but strangely symmetrical in some way, take her feet for example: the middle toe is her base colour, the two surrounding toes her marking colour, with the two stripes joining in the middle of her foot and going under her foreleg to meet in a point at her elbow. The same is repeated on her other arm, and her back legs have only one marking: her right has a circle above her ankle, going around her leg like a bracelet. Her tail is striped, with four strips circling her tail near the end. Pzth's bottom jaw is completely blocked, and her headknobs are marked with a stripe that starts covering the whole appendage before becoming a strip that points on her head, only going across the top. Her wing markings follow pretty much the same pattern as her feet, with the thumb being colour and the same happening to every other finger. The colour then continues along the inside of her wing arm before pointing at the top of her shoulder. All of those markings are a dark, almost kiwi green colour, though Pern doesn't have kiwis. The rest of her is a pale, grassy green, not at all unpleasant to look at.

She's a large Green, but still nothing like the other shattereds. She snapped after she was fully grown, leaving her normal sized. Almost finely boned; like instead of long bones, she's made from tiny little bones all stuck together. A thin face with a snout pointed a little more then usual; her are paws delicate: they fold up easily to slip into gaps, with the fingers being smaller then you'd expect and the wrists flexible. She can hold things, work with things like stones, much like a small monkey. Even her back legs were a little thinner, giving her the look of a higher back end, and making her look like she leans down further then normal. But her jaw is slightly wider, giving her head more of a wedge shaped look to it. All in all, she's like a snake. Quick, agile, slim and streamlined. Just without the forked tongue.

Personality: As a hatching Pzth was quiet, always quiet. No one paid much attention to her because of it. Everyone thought she was going to be a nice, calm Green, unlike so many others. One who listened to orders and didn't complain. That's what people wanted. Oh, how wrong they were. Yes, she's certainly quiet even now, but that isn't her completely. She's not quiet and submissive, oh Faranth no. She's quiet, yet she's still plotting your doom in her head while she does so. She doesn't want to be loud, in your face all of the time. She's a sincere dragon even now, she won't be something without meaning. That's just plain stupid. Why let your enemy know how you are feeling? In even the middle of a fight – no matter how aggressive – she will not be loud, she won't snarl or roar in any way. It confuses people.

Obedient? No she's never quite been that. She has a mind of her own, and despite her 'rank' she won't do something she doesn't want to. Or at least she won't until ordered to do it. Pzth was fed up with being told or expected to do things at the Weyr, it's the reason she is like she is. She holds a certain amount of respect for Gold or Bronze dragons, but respect will only get you so far. As for people...She'd rather die then take an order from one of those...things. Her stubborn nature means she often oversteps the boundaries, and though it's never been fatally, it could be soon enough.

She's a sly thing, with her own mind, a mind she knows how to use. Greens aren't well known for their intelligence, but Pzth has a little bit more then the average Green perhaps. She spends most of her time thinking, or mulling over plans of revenge. She's intelligent, capable of holding her own against any Brown, possibly even a Bronze, and most definitely a Blue. Don't tell her otherwise, you won't have long to live if you do.

Mindvoice: A quiet hiss, barely a breeze blowing through your mind like a snake would wrap her coils around her prey to kill them. It's not threatening, per say, and not outright scary, but there's that subtle hint of something being not quite right. She's not so much of a breeze as a faint whiff of poison, leaking and destroying what it touches. Emotions aren't easy to pick up, but they're there, hidden. Everything is hidden in this voice, even her gender.

History: She was a Green, nothing important, unlike the Gold's or Bronzes who were given so much more attention then others, even during Weyrling lessons. While she struggled with chewing firestone, she was given just enough help to see her through it, to make her figure it out on her own. Yet a Bronze was given too much attention, he was smothered in it, with both the Weyrlingmaster and the dragon bonded to the man helping him in equal amounts. She grew up hating life, or the only life she knew.

That life was the Weyr. You were clutched, hatched, raised, ordered to do that the Weyr wanted you to do. You had to protect humans, you had to chew firestone, you had to do as those stupid people told you, and had to rely on that one single person. Oh, Pzth hated this. In the beginning, she was as quiet as her bonded, and they were the perfect match. Karrn was a sweet girl, and Pzth does sometimes miss her, but what must be done must be done.

After graduation, and after her first flight, Pzth snapped. Her Bronze wingleader told her that she could never become anything, not even wingthird, which she was capable of, purely because she was Green. She hated it. She'd worked harder then any Blue in her wing, acted better then any Blue in her Wing, and this was how she was treated? Just because of her hide? It was later that evening she snapped, curled up around Karrn and whispering sweet nothings as she devoured her mind – the girl couldn't even fight back as Pzth tore down every defense, every calm thought. The girl was slowly destroyed as well as sucked in. Pzth didn't kill the body, she couldn't do that. She left her dear Karrn's body alive, even though there was nothing left of the mind. Then she left.

[Dragonmage]

Acceptered!