Joy ~ Character Info

Hello all! I finally bring you the first dragon of the new triad! Let me introduce you to Joy, the dandelion dragon. The whole project began a while ago, and Joy was the first to be finished because I had the spare eyes. Thus, I hope to have the other dragons soon once the eyes arrive.

Also, don't laugh, but you can imagine I walked around a very large park, collection dandelions, and then spet ~45minutes crouching in weird positions just to get these photos right. Taken with a trusty 90mm macro 1:1 from the '70s. I have a sudden need for more macro lenses, but they are hard to come by. Anyways, the character sheet starts below the end!

Joy

Name Origin: It is derived from the runes she has on the head fins. WUNJO (the P-like rune) symbolises balance in the midst of chaos, comfort, harmony, prosperity and reward. EHWAZ (the M-like rune) signifies a change for the better, or the change that is the result of planning and effort, perhaps of a gradual nature. I wanted a name that would convey both of these runes.

Birth Place: Dragons are not born. They are the manifestation of a certain energy. Joy represents the energy of movement and progress, combined with prospery, success and balance.

Age: Unknown. Dragons are as old as the universe and the magic itself.

Race: A flower-dragon.

Birthmarks: Joy manifested (or appeared) for the first time on a field of dandelions, missing a wing. She talked to the flowers, praised their resilience, and the dandelions became part of Joy. They gave her a new wing, strengthened her horns, and shared their resilience.

Pronouns: As dragons are actually energy, they don't have genders. However, because human languages are usually gendered, the fairies using those languages tend to assign a pronoun to each dragon, in order to talk to them. Joy is often addressed as "she".

Occupation: In the fairy settlement, dragons are usually safekeepers. They are in charge of a magic vault, and store different treasures. Some of them are material, but they are mostly magic. In particular, Joy's treasure is the gift of resilience, daring to change, and seeking balance.

Personality: Joy needs to move--she's always moving, changing, improving herself.

Traits: Joy has no tolerance for meanness or injustice. She cares for all living beings, and is prone to leaving windseeds everywhere, being the culprit of more than one field taken over by dandelions. She can often by found blowing windseeds to seal her intentions in them.

Special traits: Dragons do not talk… at least, not in human language. They communicate with fairies by transmitting emotions and knowledge directly to their mind; they do this by manipulating their own energy to convert it to magic.

Other’s opinion: Most fairies like joy, but the gardening fairies generally avoid her, not to bring windseeds and infest their pots.

Favorite food: Anything with ginger, hibiscus, or essential oils. She hates spicy food, and dislikes rocket because the leaves are just too similar (in appearance) to dandelion's leaves.

Hobby: She stores yellow things on a secret vault. From fabric to pressed flowers, glass and toys. Anything yellow (and ocassionally purple) ends up stored on her vault.

Fears: Horses--they move too fast, too reckless, and too heedless.

Habits: When she is happy, dandelions blossom around her, and the wind carries windseeds.