my name is mantis. i’m 6-years-old (dragon years, in human years it would be roughly 18 years). i am a silkwing/seawing hybrid who lives on pantala in a underground cave by the sea, secret from the hivewings, silkwings, and leafwings. my mother is a silkwing, and my father was a seawing who was injured and cast out to sea, eventually drifting up on the beach of pantala where he met my mother (he died soon after i hatched due to accidental poisoning). i look like a silkwing for the most part, except for my gills, spikes, webs, bat-like wings, thick tail, and patches of glow-in-the-dark scales. my anatomy mainly follows a silkwing other than that, having four wings instead of two, antenna, snout and body of a silkwing, and having silk glands. i’m relatively big for a silkwing, favoring my father in that way. i have shimmery bright green scales with undertones of reddish brown and yellow, some hints of blue here and there. i resemble a green june bug. i have dark blue eyes and wear gold spectacles. i use he/him pronouns, am trans (transitioned in social ways and my body resembles that of male dragons purely due to animus magic), bisexual, and ambiamorous. i have animus magic and (regular) silk. i have several pieces of gold jewelry: a small bracelet, armband, a nose ring, and one earring. my mother smuggled them to me over the years. i also have weathered black tattoos resembling smoke and leaves stemming from the left side of my snout, down my neck and chest, and on my underbelly. eventually, when i hit metamorphosis, grow wings, and gain my silk abilities, and after i complete it, i go off into pantala and towards the hives against my mother’s wishes. i find myself hiding in plain sight from everyone in jewel hive, wearing a cape and flattening my spikes down. i bump into cricket and blue, recognizing them as fellow dragons fleeing/hiding, and join them after being confronted. i help save pantala from the mind-controlled hivewings and breath of evil. once we know how to cross from pantala to pyrrhia, i meet qibli and winter, and we end up in a polycule. i live on pyrrhia for the most part, but often make trips to pantala to visit my mother. i’m described as sarcastic, quiet, curious, funny, kind, and intelligent. my signature scent is sea mist, trees, sand, and fresh dirt.
