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Name: Swallow

Reason: Due to her tail being shaped similar to a swallow’s.

Species: Magic crafter

Element: Blood

Gender: Female

Height: really Smol

Personality:
Swallow is quite shy, really. She’s one who isn’t going to approach another dragon very often, or, if she does, it’ll probably be in a rather hesitant way. Once she gets to know someone though she probably won’t leave them alone if she has free time, and will be quite happy to be near someone, chatting with them, staying close, being very chipper. But add someone she doesn’t know to the conversation and she’ll suddenly be a little wallflower off in the corner and letting the others chat. And then chipper and chatty once the unfamiliar party left. Despite this she does tend to latch onto others and consider them friends pretty quickly. It’s just hard for her to be forced into chatting long enough for that. Uncertainty is another factor to consider for her, she’s been uncertain by a lot of stuff. Firstly being unable to find an element, then actually finding out her element... She doesn’t particularly like it and as such is kind of uncomfortable with herself. Aside from it being something with dark implications, she also dislikes it is due to how ‘unfair’ it feels. You can’t easily dodge lightning, but at least you can see it coming. This may be why what she can do with her powers is rather limited, she has little desire to go further than she has with them.

She enjoys reading, be it fiction or factual information, though stories interest her a lot, especially those with a happy ending. She loves complex mechanical puzzles and things similar to that, be it a rubix cube or three dimensional puzzles, to even untying complex knots. She’s quite clever with her hands and planning, able make neat little mechanical objects, even if they’re just toys or silly things that serve no real purpose. She quite enjoys things like chess and other board games as well.

She can be a bit of a romantic, though not to an extreme degree, just getting a bit more enthused than the average in relationships. Due to this and her easily becoming friends (or at least seeing others as friends) quickly she develops crushes quite easily as well.

Life at the academy:

It’s been… interesting for her so far, having been shuffled between each of the keepers. Having no element kind of bothered her for a while before she began to accept that she might just not have one, as depressing as that was to Swallow. But then again some other dragons had discovered a unique element that there wasn’t a keeper for so maybe she’d be lucky and happen to find one as well?

Well, as it turned out, she ended up discovering her element when near having a panic attack after almost breaking her legs after taking a tumble down a mountain, being able to heal her own cuts, as well as slow her heart rate incredibly swiftly. Though it took a bit of time to figure out that blood was actually her element, and not some element that could be used to do what she had.

Now with her new keeper she’s… getting used to him. And butting heads a bit. Well. Head to knee. … to ankle. … to toe…

She’s really not that happy with her element, to the point where she’s sort of unsure whether or not she would have rather just not discovered her element. It just bothers her wielding something with such disturbing possibilities, and she would’ve much preferred easily a dozen of the other ones.

She hasn’t made the largest number of friends, because for her, being moved once a month really isn’t long enough to be around others to work up courage to chat to them.

Relationship to Keepers:

Charredan – She liked being in his presence and looked forwards to when he was her keeper, given the closeness he displays to those in his charge.

Trocutia – Swallow enjoyed her time with Trocutia as well, taking encouragement and trying her best, though it began to get a bit annoying or tiring from time to time, seeing as no amount of effort seemed to be solving her lack of element. Overall she does like the electricity keeper.

Blizaree – A similar case to Trocutia, though she didn’t like the ice dragoness as much due to the distance. And even with significant effort in the beginning, Swallow ‘s lack of progress through effort began to make time spent in the ice keeper tiring, even if it was just overhearing conversations with other students.

Venomor – Despite being somewhat creeped out by poison and the effects it can have Swallow really enjoyed her time with him, the unique proposed situations and thoughts challenging her mind and making her consider things from many angles. He sort of also inspired some of her craftsmanship and artwork and whatnot with his way of teaching.

Zephyro – She somewhat enjoyed his teachings, mostly due to the fact it gave her hope for the future, though… Being accepting of a rather major flaw that had her shuffled between keepers was kind of difficult.

Petrifus – Nope! Nopenopenopenopenopenope! All joking aside, she doesn’t like being around him, fear is bad enough but the sarcasm and everything kind of just… Made things not a pleasant experience.

Mossyla – One of, if not Swallow ‘s actual favourite, keepers, feeling very calm and relaxed, and not having to worry about finding her element too much when around the earth keeper.

Ebonyss – Another keeper she enjoyed being around, liking the reading and being somewhat left to her own devices, though the detached, quieter sense had her quite happy to be around Ebonyss. Even if it was just quietly reading a book nearby.

Hydrus – Cheerfulness that is contagious is a wonderful thing, and she had fun when with Hydrus. Really, not much more to say, he’s been a great keeper for her.

Banshee- Swallow more felt like the keeper than the student in some cases with Banshee, wanting to help and try to calm her down or just… something! Though sometimes she did feel that Banshee could do with backing off a bit and giving her some space. Not to say she didn’t appreciate the attention and care, of course, just… sometimes all Swallow needed was some time to be alone and by herself.

Houron – His stories were the high point, sparking Swallow ‘s imagination. However, how long things took could get tedious. She’s somewhat on the fence about Houron, she wants to like him more, but at the same time she just can’t bring herself to with how long he takes with stuff. You’d think a time dragon could speed things up a bit!

Lumina – Lumina’s enthusiasm had Swallow really enjoying her time with the light keeper, especially games and whatnot that she was happy to come across. Here was one of the places that she cared the least about her lack of an element since there was always something fun to do.

Haemish – While not her worst relationship with a keeper (worst being just wanting to hide away and not be around them, she doesn’t actually hate anyone), Haemish is still someone she’d rather not be around too much. Another case of wanting to like someone more, but being unable to. His view of the world clashes a bit too harshly with hers, and while she agrees that making things perfect is pretty much impossible, still aiming for perfection isn’t a bad idea in her mind, as it will get you as close to it as possible. That and her notable uneasiness with her element has her somewhat at odds with her new, permanent keeper.

Mental Attributes:

Swallow is quite smart. Fast to figure out puzzles, and smart in scholarly matters as well as a great memory, and has a love for puzzles and strategy games. If you have a problem she’s a good choice to come to and figure things out, be it an actual puzzle, or an emotional problem or something similar. She’s great at giving helpful advice, even if… well, she sucks at following her own advice she gives herself. She’s a bit of an inventor, though for the moment it’s just little fun things without much practical application. Without being in an awkward situation she’s great at keeping the general mood up.

Mental shortcomings:

Nervous and shy are two good words to describe her, at least around strangers, making it a bit hard to strike up conversations of get in chats with others and making friends. In unknown or tense situations she doesn’t exactly collapse or panic, but she isn’t someone who’ll be thinking very clearly, and prefers running to fighting.

Although she’s shy, she does have a breaking point, and if you annoy and push her past that her fight instincts take over from flight, and she will be fierce. Not backing down even if severely outmatched, to the point where a rough and tough peacekeeper would say “okay you’re going too far with this, maybe back off.”

Physical Attributes:

Being small and rather flexible allows for great agility, though she’d need to practice more if she wanted to fly loops around some other dragons. She’s also a fairly fast flier, and her small size can be an advantage to getting through tight places. Having hands is another wonderful boon, being able to very delicately manipulate different objects and create complex little mechanisms.

Physical Shortcomings:

She’s small. As much as an advantage as her small size can be, it at the same time is also a major disadvantage. One thing being that her claws and beak, while not under developed, aren’t exactly big enough to be doing serious damage to something her size or larger. Being a magic crafter she’s already lacking in strength, now add that to being somewhat weak for one of her species, and, well... She’s also poor at long distance flying, or anything that requires a lot of endurance, being much better at sprints and the like, short, quick bursts of speed and agility.

Breath Abilities:

Hemokinesis – Controlling blood and the movement of it, to a minor degree. This is limited to things like increasing or decreasing someone’s heart beat (not stopping it or accelerating it insanely, just between points of sleep / relaxation and heavy exercise), as well as being able to make the veins and arteries on her wings show a bit more or less, being able to make images. She can also control any blushing fairly well with this ability, though that’s about the limit of it. If another dragon is being influenced they'll be able to feel it, like a hand touching their heart softly.

Decompression – Swallow is able to cause the bends in her target, though the target has to be relatively close, similar to the distance dragons that project their element, like ice, lightning, etc, can send their attacks. The symptoms she can cause are: localized pain in joints, general dull pain, headache, fatigue, dizziness and nausea. Swallow's eyes and mouth light up faintly when in use.

First Aid – While not exactly what normally encompasses first aid, she can speed clotting in wounds. Used in conjunction with her hemokinesis she can completely stop bleeding for minor cuts and reduce it significantly for major cuts, enough to get the one who was injured to help at least. The wound will take a faint red glow when this is in progress.

Heart to Heart - Swallow can focus and sense the heart beats and flow of blood of living beings nearby, able to feel them through walls, water, and whatever else is thrown in the way. Her eyes shift to a red colour when using this, and anyone that she's specifically focusing on and not just generally sensing will be able to sense someone is watching them, and hear a second heart beating just as loud as their own. This sort of echolocation-esque effect requires that Swallow not be moving at any notable speed to get a precise location beyond 'over there'. The maximum range is about a hundred meters.

Relationships:

Irtyu - Seems nice, overall, and was quite positive to her. She's talked to him more and he's stuck out as a noble and kind dragon who she enjoys the company of.

Swain - Having made things up with him, Swallow's quite happy to be around Swain at the moment, and moving their relationship forwards.

Claritt - She'd prefer to avoid this falx cauda, which, with his nature, isn't too hard. After seeing the aftermath of a fight with Irtyu and the other dragon, as well as being placed against him in a sparring match, he really scares her. So unless she's forced to be around him she'd much rather avoid him.

Arath - She's torn between enjoying his presence when he's talking in riddles and making jokes, and despising him when he's teasing her or being his usual prankster self. Sometimes he's fun with his interest in her things and telekinesis even more nimble than her fingers helping with some creations, and sometimes he's a jerk.

Brutus - Swallow doesn't necessarily hate the dragon, but she has no love for him either. She'd much rather never come by him again if possible. His abilities are unpleasant and, despite their last encounter being something of a draw, she'd much rather avoid another confrontation.

Important belongings:

Puzzles - A variety of puzzles and whatnot that Swallow has been given or made herself.

Completed Memes:

Ship

Head canon

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Description

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Name: Swallow

Reason: Due to her tail being shaped similar to a swallow’s.

Species: Magic crafter

Element: Blood

Gender: Female

Height: really Smol

Personality:
Swallow is quite shy, really. She’s one who isn’t going to approach another dragon very often, or, if she does, it’ll probably be in a rather hesitant way. Once she gets to know someone though she probably won’t leave them alone if she has free time, and will be quite happy to be near someone, chatting with them, staying close, being very chipper. But add someone she doesn’t know to the conversation and she’ll suddenly be a little wallflower off in the corner and letting the others chat. And then chipper and chatty once the unfamiliar party left. Despite this she does tend to latch onto others and consider them friends pretty quickly. It’s just hard for her to be forced into chatting long enough for that. Uncertainty is another factor to consider for her, she’s been uncertain by a lot of stuff. Firstly being unable to find an element, then actually finding out her element... She doesn’t particularly like it and as such is kind of uncomfortable with herself. Aside from it being something with dark implications, she also dislikes it is due to how ‘unfair’ it feels. You can’t easily dodge lightning, but at least you can see it coming. This may be why what she can do with her powers is rather limited, she has little desire to go further than she has with them.

She enjoys reading, be it fiction or factual information, though stories interest her a lot, especially those with a happy ending. She loves complex mechanical puzzles and things similar to that, be it a rubix cube or three dimensional puzzles, to even untying complex knots. She’s quite clever with her hands and planning, able make neat little mechanical objects, even if they’re just toys or silly things that serve no real purpose. She quite enjoys things like chess and other board games as well.

She can be a bit of a romantic, though not to an extreme degree, just getting a bit more enthused than the average in relationships. Due to this and her easily becoming friends (or at least seeing others as friends) quickly she develops crushes quite easily as well.

Life at the academy:

It’s been… interesting for her so far, having been shuffled between each of the keepers. Having no element kind of bothered her for a while before she began to accept that she might just not have one, as depressing as that was to Swallow. But then again some other dragons had discovered a unique element that there wasn’t a keeper for so maybe she’d be lucky and happen to find one as well?

Well, as it turned out, she ended up discovering her element when near having a panic attack after almost breaking her legs after taking a tumble down a mountain, being able to heal her own cuts, as well as slow her heart rate incredibly swiftly. Though it took a bit of time to figure out that blood was actually her element, and not some element that could be used to do what she had.

Now with her new keeper she’s… getting used to him. And butting heads a bit. Well. Head to knee. … to ankle. … to toe…

She’s really not that happy with her element, to the point where she’s sort of unsure whether or not she would have rather just not discovered her element. It just bothers her wielding something with such disturbing possibilities, and she would’ve much preferred easily a dozen of the other ones.

She hasn’t made the largest number of friends, because for her, being moved once a month really isn’t long enough to be around others to work up courage to chat to them.

Relationship to Keepers:

Charredan – She liked being in his presence and looked forwards to when he was her keeper, given the closeness he displays to those in his charge.

Trocutia – Swallow enjoyed her time with Trocutia as well, taking encouragement and trying her best, though it began to get a bit annoying or tiring from time to time, seeing as no amount of effort seemed to be solving her lack of element. Overall she does like the electricity keeper.

Blizaree – A similar case to Trocutia, though she didn’t like the ice dragoness as much due to the distance. And even with significant effort in the beginning, Swallow ‘s lack of progress through effort began to make time spent in the ice keeper tiring, even if it was just overhearing conversations with other students.

Venomor – Despite being somewhat creeped out by poison and the effects it can have Swallow really enjoyed her time with him, the unique proposed situations and thoughts challenging her mind and making her consider things from many angles. He sort of also inspired some of her craftsmanship and artwork and whatnot with his way of teaching.

Zephyro – She somewhat enjoyed his teachings, mostly due to the fact it gave her hope for the future, though… Being accepting of a rather major flaw that had her shuffled between keepers was kind of difficult.

Petrifus – Nope! Nopenopenopenopenopenope! All joking aside, she doesn’t like being around him, fear is bad enough but the sarcasm and everything kind of just… Made things not a pleasant experience.

Mossyla – One of, if not Swallow ‘s actual favourite, keepers, feeling very calm and relaxed, and not having to worry about finding her element too much when around the earth keeper.

Ebonyss – Another keeper she enjoyed being around, liking the reading and being somewhat left to her own devices, though the detached, quieter sense had her quite happy to be around Ebonyss. Even if it was just quietly reading a book nearby.

Hydrus – Cheerfulness that is contagious is a wonderful thing, and she had fun when with Hydrus. Really, not much more to say, he’s been a great keeper for her.

Banshee- Swallow more felt like the keeper than the student in some cases with Banshee, wanting to help and try to calm her down or just… something! Though sometimes she did feel that Banshee could do with backing off a bit and giving her some space. Not to say she didn’t appreciate the attention and care, of course, just… sometimes all Swallow needed was some time to be alone and by herself.

Houron – His stories were the high point, sparking Swallow ‘s imagination. However, how long things took could get tedious. She’s somewhat on the fence about Houron, she wants to like him more, but at the same time she just can’t bring herself to with how long he takes with stuff. You’d think a time dragon could speed things up a bit!

Lumina – Lumina’s enthusiasm had Swallow really enjoying her time with the light keeper, especially games and whatnot that she was happy to come across. Here was one of the places that she cared the least about her lack of an element since there was always something fun to do.

Haemish – While not her worst relationship with a keeper (worst being just wanting to hide away and not be around them, she doesn’t actually hate anyone), Haemish is still someone she’d rather not be around too much. Another case of wanting to like someone more, but being unable to. His view of the world clashes a bit too harshly with hers, and while she agrees that making things perfect is pretty much impossible, still aiming for perfection isn’t a bad idea in her mind, as it will get you as close to it as possible. That and her notable uneasiness with her element has her somewhat at odds with her new, permanent keeper.

Mental Attributes:

Swallow is quite smart. Fast to figure out puzzles, and smart in scholarly matters as well as a great memory, and has a love for puzzles and strategy games. If you have a problem she’s a good choice to come to and figure things out, be it an actual puzzle, or an emotional problem or something similar. She’s great at giving helpful advice, even if… well, she sucks at following her own advice she gives herself. She’s a bit of an inventor, though for the moment it’s just little fun things without much practical application. Without being in an awkward situation she’s great at keeping the general mood up.

Mental shortcomings:

Nervous and shy are two good words to describe her, at least around strangers, making it a bit hard to strike up conversations of get in chats with others and making friends. In unknown or tense situations she doesn’t exactly collapse or panic, but she isn’t someone who’ll be thinking very clearly, and prefers running to fighting.

Although she’s shy, she does have a breaking point, and if you annoy and push her past that her fight instincts take over from flight, and she will be fierce. Not backing down even if severely outmatched, to the point where a rough and tough peacekeeper would say “okay you’re going too far with this, maybe back off.”

Physical Attributes:

Being small and rather flexible allows for great agility, though she’d need to practice more if she wanted to fly loops around some other dragons. She’s also a fairly fast flier, and her small size can be an advantage to getting through tight places. Having hands is another wonderful boon, being able to very delicately manipulate different objects and create complex little mechanisms.

Physical Shortcomings:

She’s small. As much as an advantage as her small size can be, it at the same time is also a major disadvantage. One thing being that her claws and beak, while not under developed, aren’t exactly big enough to be doing serious damage to something her size or larger. Being a magic crafter she’s already lacking in strength, now add that to being somewhat weak for one of her species, and, well... She’s also poor at long distance flying, or anything that requires a lot of endurance, being much better at sprints and the like, short, quick bursts of speed and agility.

Breath Abilities:

Hemokinesis – Controlling blood and the movement of it, to a minor degree. This is limited to things like increasing or decreasing someone’s heart beat (not stopping it or accelerating it insanely, just between points of sleep / relaxation and heavy exercise), as well as being able to make the veins and arteries on her wings show a bit more or less, being able to make images. She can also control any blushing fairly well with this ability, though that’s about the limit of it. If another dragon is being influenced they'll be able to feel it, like a hand touching their heart softly.

Decompression – Swallow is able to cause the bends in her target, though the target has to be relatively close, similar to the distance dragons that project their element, like ice, lightning, etc, can send their attacks. The symptoms she can cause are: localized pain in joints, general dull pain, headache, fatigue, dizziness and nausea. Swallow's eyes and mouth light up faintly when in use.

First Aid – While not exactly what normally encompasses first aid, she can speed clotting in wounds. Used in conjunction with her hemokinesis she can completely stop bleeding for minor cuts and reduce it significantly for major cuts, enough to get the one who was injured to help at least. The wound will take a faint red glow when this is in progress.

Heart to Heart - Swallow can focus and sense the heart beats and flow of blood of living beings nearby, able to feel them through walls, water, and whatever else is thrown in the way. Her eyes shift to a red colour when using this, and anyone that she's specifically focusing on and not just generally sensing will be able to sense someone is watching them, and hear a second heart beating just as loud as their own. This sort of echolocation-esque effect requires that Swallow not be moving at any notable speed to get a precise location beyond 'over there'. The maximum range is about a hundred meters.

Relationships:

Irtyu - Seems nice, overall, and was quite positive to her. She's talked to him more and he's stuck out as a noble and kind dragon who she enjoys the company of.

Swain - Having made things up with him, Swallow's quite happy to be around Swain at the moment, and moving their relationship forwards.

Claritt - She'd prefer to avoid this falx cauda, which, with his nature, isn't too hard. After seeing the aftermath of a fight with Irtyu and the other dragon, as well as being placed against him in a sparring match, he really scares her. So unless she's forced to be around him she'd much rather avoid him.

Arath - She's torn between enjoying his presence when he's talking in riddles and making jokes, and despising him when he's teasing her or being his usual prankster self. Sometimes he's fun with his interest in her things and telekinesis even more nimble than her fingers helping with some creations, and sometimes he's a jerk.

Brutus - Swallow doesn't necessarily hate the dragon, but she has no love for him either. She'd much rather never come by him again if possible. His abilities are unpleasant and, despite their last encounter being something of a draw, she'd much rather avoid another confrontation.

Important belongings:

Puzzles - A variety of puzzles and whatnot that Swallow has been given or made herself.

Completed Memes:

Ship

Head canon

Grades