Name: Lophorinth
Color: Blue
Appearance: Lophorinth's...a bit funny-looking, even for a baby dragon. His wings are enormous, oversized and ungainly, and his tail is long and thick. His legs are long - particularly his forelegs, giving him remarkable agility on the ground for a dragon. They will always be that way. He'll grow into the wings, but the tail is always going to be a bit long, and he's always going to have a tendency to thump things with it. As he grows, he'll more or less even out into a lean, broad-chested dragon, though his wings will always be quite large. Or maybe it's just that Loph is small - twenty-five feet - and the wings would look better on a bigger blue. They don't offer any particular talent, though, as Lophorinth tends to be suited to short, quick flights from place to place. He's just more comfortable on the ground, simple as that.
As a baby, Lophorinth isn't particularly exciting to look at. Splotched in dark blue, grey-blue, and pale periwinkle, he more or less looks like someone slapped paint on him with no particular regard for how it would turn out. Luckily, it's not going to stay like that. Loph is going to be
gorgeous when he grows up, hide darkening to midnight-blue save for a swathe of vibrant turquoise across his chest.
Personality:Heeeeeeeeeeeeey sexy ladies!
Loph is...a little dragon with a big personality. He's loud, he's proud, and he's totally ready to get into as much trouble as physically possible. All the time. It's not malicious like some of his other siblings, though. Loph doesn't start fights or mischief, and he's not the kind of person going out playing pranks. His kind of trouble is more the "Oh, Faranth, where have you been...and how are you covered in paint? We don't even
have paint at the Weyr" type. The kind that rarely makes sense but is always entertaining. The kind that gets him attention.
Lophorinth
loves attention. He loves being looked at. This little blue has a swagger in his step to rival a bronze, and he's always ready for some new and interesting way to get all eyes on him. Loph either doesn't
know that Warden's is a prison Weyr, or he just doesn't
care. (The latter would be more accurate, since if Loph didn't realize he was in a prison, he couldn't script
elaborate prison choreography in his spare time.) He sees the world as his playground, and he wants to share this view with his rider. The fact that Luka's a prisoner doesn't seem to bother him at all. Rather, it's mildly interesting. The yellow makes her stand out, and Loph loves his rider standing out as much as he loves standing out. Here is his rider, everyone! Look at her! Isn't she awesome?
That's what Lophorinth thinks about most females. They're awesome. Human, dragon, wher...doesn't matter. Loph loves the ladies, and he wants all of them to love him, too. He's a shameless flirt, and quick to puff himself up and show off to try and catch a pretty female's attention. It might be in Luka's best interest
never to tell him that his sire was blue - unless she wants him chasing the new Weyrwoman's dragon when she rises. And Loph would try, too. He'll try with every female dragon. But he's of the mind that it's not just the Flight where you have to impress them. No, they have to know who you are way before they rise. Which is why he will undoubtedly try to woo the ladies with his
sweet dance moves. That's right. Loph dances. Admittedly, he dances badly, but he still does it. Lots of flailing wings and rhythmic tail slapping and generally getting up in ladies' faces. It doesn't earn him many admirers. He's convinced that someday, eventually, it will.
He views other male dragons as rivals. Luckily, Loph isn't really the fighting type. Instead, he's the "puff up and swagger and show off my
sweet dance moves for the ladies" type. Most of his rivalry is good-natured, and it helps that he's small enough that most other males can sit on him if he gets too annoying. There's not much that can dissuade Loph from chatting someone up, though. He's a genuinely friendly dragon. Dragons, people, even prisoners - he's totally interested in everything everyone has to say, and he's the sort of dragon who's always going to have friends in unlikely places. Unfortunately, he doesn't really have a filter. It'll be up to Luka to keep him in check and make sure he's not chatting up the Unstable block while she's not looking. Because Loph has a lot of things, but common sense? Reeeeeeeeeally not one of them.
When it comes to his siblings, Loph likes everyone. Even the grumpy ones. Even Sturnuth, though he wishes she would calm down a little bit. Not everyone has to be so intense all the time, right? He'll hang out with Cyanath and Lasoth equally, talk up Serinuth, and be sweet bros with Haemath and Brantath - when he's not trying to outswagger them for the ladies. And most of them will be pretty all right with him, too - even if he annoys them sometimes. It's hard to hate someone who so genuinely wants to try.
Why me? Well, first and foremost, Lophorinth could
only have Impressed a lady. A beautiful lady - as he will always reassure Luka she is. But it's more than just that Luka was female. In many ways, they're twins: vanity is a major factor, but so is that generally easygoing nature, the friendliness, the desire to
flirt. They're not complementary opposites. Rather, they're more of the same, though Lophorinth isn't quite as opportunistic as Luka - and he's certainly not carrying the same emotional baggage. He'll question some of her darker side, but bolster her friendly and affectionate qualities.
Based On: The
superb bird of paradise and
Gangnam Style by Psy.
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