Liska; Western Dragon

[liska]

[atrb=border,0,btable][atrb=width,414,btable][cs=2] LISKA "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the realization that there is something more important then your fear."
[cs=2] [style=text-align: center; font-family: century gothic; font-size: 16px; border-bottom: solid 2px #222222; margin-bottom: 4px; text-transform: center;]FULL NAME Liskiarinara, shortened to "Liska" for ease of pronunciation. ORIGINS Liskiarinara was born around 1,300 years ago on the island of Berk, long before the reign of the Dragon Queen. As a young dragon, she was always curious about the world and explored whenever the opportunity arose. As she grew, her parents worried about the lack of heat her fire provided. Eventually, they noticed the tactical advantage she employed with it, and stopped worrying aloud. At the age of 150 years, she left her parents and tackled the wide world on her own. For many decades, life was good. She hunted deer for the most part and stole the occasional yak, but mostly stayed out of the way of the Vikings. After Liska reached maturity- the long years have hazed the memory enough so she does not remember exactly when, the Dragon Queen rose to take control of the dragons on Berk. Sent on dangerous raids and assigned as the queens guard, she, like many dragons, had deserted and fled when the Vikings engaged her in battle, the scars from her many battles giving her no reason to fight at her side. At the age of 1,000, she was finally free. For the next 300 years or so, she flew wild. The years in the Dragon Queen's service had done her some good though. As Vikings thought up new ways to defend themselves, she in turn created new flying maneuvers and tactical advantages. One of her more complicated "tricks," usable only over water, is to twist her neck, leading into a forward spiral with her wings pulled in, then, using the downward momentum to plunge straight down into the water, gliding forward and then rocketing upward, straight at her opponents underbelly, crashing into it, and either locking her jaws around their neck, if aiming to kill, or knocking them out of the air. This technique was perfected during long years of combat with other dragons, dutifully following the Queen's orders to kill "traitors" in a fight to the death. Another tactic, tailored to combat Vikings specifically, was most useful under the cover of night. Using her fire, she would set alight one end of the town, before speeding away stealthily- at least, as stealthily as she could- and dive-bombing to snatch what was needed. To dodge incoming missiles- rocks, boulders, arrows -she often used her wingspan to create a "false target" then dipping down or rolling to the opposite side and dropping down quickly. This was much less effective in the daytime, when Liska preferred not to engage in combat because of her great visibility. This technique was perfected over the years on raids for the Queen. After the reign of the Queen had ended, Liska spent much of her time over the next 100 years reflecting on the actions afterwards. Coming to regard to Berkites as the pioneers of harmony with nature, at least in some ways, she withdrew more and more until tales of the huge Western- if there had ever been any- faded into the back rooms of legend. Having traveled to Birth Island, Dragon Island, and Berk many times, the old landscapes began to wear thin. At the age of about 1,250 years, Liska left the peaceful shores of Berk and wandered the Barbaric Archipelago. This is how she came upon Hysteria soon after they turned anti-dragon- about 20 years to the present. She came and watched them, and found them to be nothing like the people of Berk. These were angry, vicious creatures, evident from the merciless stones they sent towards her whenever she drew too near. Soon enough, she got the message- they hated dragons. Quickly, she flew away and spent about a year away from Berk before returning at the age of 1,297. For three years afterwards, she settled down in the mountains of Berk. Any Berkites who came looking for a dragon that she came across were snatched up and carried down again, and cautioned against returning with a deep growl of Dragonese. Whether she encountered any young Viking more then once was unknown to her, she rarely, if ever, paid attention to the faces of the Berkites. There she remains to the present day. BREED & STANDING WESTERN DRAGON; WILD TRAITS [/style]
[atrb=valign,top][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,207] POSITIVE TRAITS: ▪ Wise ▪ Patient ▪ Calm ▪ Good conversationalist, though she finds young dragons irritating if they behave like human teenagers...	[atrb=valign,top][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,207] NEGATIVE TRAITS: ▪ Looks down on young dragons. ▪ Too patient...will pass over an opportunity that she shouldn't have. ▪ Not too great at getting angry. This is problematic when fighting... ▪ Her size, she is a hard target to miss.
[atrb=valign,top][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,207] LIKES: ▪ The sound of running water. ▪ Being alone with her thoughts. ▪ Peace and quiet. ▪ Learning new things.	[atrb=valign,top][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,207] DISLIKES: ▪ Noise. ▪ Battles and war and bloody messes in general. ▪ Snooty or know-it-all dragons. ▪ Young dragons. (Liska considers any dragons under about 850 years old to be "young")
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▪ Hysterians.
▪ Mice, in large hordes.
▪ Loosing the ability to fly, whether due to injury, frailty, or sickness.
▪ Beef is not on of her favorites, she prefers pork or fish.
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Calm, composed, and thoughtful, her 1,300 years of life granting her a resource of knowledge and wise sayings. Her reactions are not what they once were, slowing her down in a fight, and her extensive life experience leaves her less willing to kill, even when directed towards Hysterians, and especially other dragons. However, if she ever manages to bond with a viking, she will remain loyal to them until either their death, or her own. Also, she holds little fear for eels and will eat them if there is no other food immediately available, though she prefers not to, often tossing them away if she can find other food.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Scarred by her long lifetime, mostly from the reign of the Dragon Queen and the many years of fighting the vikings of Berk, Liska's scales are hard and black-colored, with solemn yellow-gold eyes. Her wings are slightly ragged at the edges, but her flying is not too impaired by this. Her exact dimensions are 17 feet high and 38 feet long from head to tail. (Not the most accurate picture, buildwize, but the color is accurate. Her wings are a lot less ragged and she is less muscular.)

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FIGHT TO THE DEATH

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ABILITIES:

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▪ As an older dragon, she has many tricks up her proverbial sleeve, including complicated flight patterns and innovative attacks.
▪ Her fire, however, is a bit less hot then most of her kind, though she can use it to tactical advantage when she has a mind too. Her fire is an pale golden-yellow, and behaves like a normal Westerner's fire, but provides a little more light. [/div][/td][/tr]


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KEYWORD IN RULES

HYSTERIA

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[PIME2]

Firstly, sorry for not reviewing your app up until now, I personally avoid doing it and Red only has limited time on weekends to do it. So I’m finally bucking down and doing some proper apping.

Now for the nitty gritty. Firstly I’m not too keen on the preciseness you have, she was born exactly 1300 years ago, the queen took over exactly 450 in, the hiccup stuff happened at exactly year 1000. I’d say be a bit less presise on dates, though if things took say 3 years than you can still say that.

Also, as far as Hysterians were concerned, I’d say that by 100 years after Hiccup Hysteria would be neutral/pro, it’s only been the last 21 years that they’ve been anti dragons and probably anytime within 50 years and before Hiccup. As far as your actually choices in timespans, since we haven’t ever really thought that much about things pre-Hiccup, so I’m willing to accept the timespans you stated provided the rest of the staff think it’s fine.

While they aren’t exactly the same, wise and her experience are close enough that I think you should think up another one to replace one.

Finally, while will not count the size as something that should be changed, I will at least voice my concern about using one. We’ve found that big dragons are harder to rp with so we’re generally causious to accept them. Don’t take this as a ‘we won’t accept big dragons’, it’s just worth mentioning that we are generally more critical of them due to the difficulties caused by size.

[liska]

Appreciate the warning. I'll keep it in mind, but I think I know where I'll go with this- the only problem will be if she ever becomes tame! Poor viking. xD But I'm pretty sure that won't happen.

I fixed the dates, tried to make them a more vague. I wasn't exactly sure on the post-Hiccup dates, so I just took a swing at it.

The wise/experienced thing has been fixed, but I'm not sure if that counts as a positive trait...I did my best to set it up without conflicting other aspects of her personality.

And no worries. This isn't my first character here, I don't fault you for making stuff realistic.

[REDKITEBAIT]

Rescanning through your app, I think i was a little bit of a noobtart and didn't notice one of Liska's special tactics, involving diving underwater and attacking from below.

Could you clarify how this works? I'm not sure a dragon of this stature should be going into the water, since they will most likely not be able to get out of it again, unless the water is shallow and land is nearby, lol

Also since in the httydverse dragons cant make fire when their head is wet, so there's that to consider too.

But then again since I highly doubt these techniques are going to be used in RP (since we haven't really planned anymore major epic battles yet), I might let them pass... i guess it depends on your answer to my lil' question haha

[liska]

Of course.

I actually figured that Liska's momentum would carry her back out of the water, since the path would be something of a shallow U-shape (more or less, anyway) and once she's in the air again, I figured it would be kind of easy for her keep flying. Also, they're two different tactics- I promise no wet-head fire. Steam, maybe. Fire, no. Hope that words- and she was younger (therefore smaller) when she made them.. and hasn't used them for about 300 years. So that could be interesting.

Hope that works for you.

[REDKITEBAIT]

Sounds good.

Accepted! Remember to stick your character in the Who's Who!