Updated 2025 with pairings linked!
Zolpardu and Ataru
With one of the bachelors paired, they waited a bit and found a new place to attend, standing upon the sands at DesCas. The draks that were normally found there were smoother and sleeker than this unusually fluffy pair, and Zolpardu found himself intrigued by their differences.
But he was most pleased with their similarities, too. He had also somewhat gotten used to the presence of human riders and knights, but was still very hesitant to do more than occasionally grunt a response to their inquiries. As he stood in the deep cavern he watched as the tiny fairy draks brought by one of the human aspirants made little fools of themselves, but they would stop soon enough, since the presentation of the draklings was about to begin.
Jasperu, the ore dam of the clutch, moved her children out of their enclosed area, and they dutifully followed. But they were already dusted up with the sand everywhere, my oh my were they just-slightly-too-furry for this warm place!
As she scooted them forward, the trio introduced themselves, looking around at the assembled aspirants. And then... SIlence. They were nervous, as many draklings might be when they were shoved into the real world for the first time.
"Would you like to come with me?" Zolpardu asked of the Water, who had spoken her name as Ataru. "I can offer you a place at Dun Keiba, with my friends." Those friends were watching, and she seemed to mull this over only a moment.
"I'll go with you," she spoke with a little nod.
As she did so, her brothers realized it was their time to shine. But it was all Zolpardu could do to contain his relief and joy at finding her.
Name: Zolpardu
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: medium 9' hip biped / 32' l / 40' and 34' ws
Colors: Fire, dark mottled crimson with lighter orange-flame body; wingsails solidly orange undersides, with brilliant white orange mottling on backs; mane dark orange with crimson pattern
Features: Dun Keiba Drak
Powers: Winged Flight
Portal Production
Verbal Speech, will not use empathic connection with any Human
Acid Spit
Parentage: Wind Zariyapar and Plant Heldiadu
Origin: Dun Keiba nest 1
Standing at: castle Des Cas (of a WindChill pairing)
New Pairing: Water Ataru
They would first learn the basics of Knight training, with Jasperu and the High Princess. Moonbeam was... not human, definitely different than the humans that Zolpardu was used to anywhere else. How to move with other draks in the area, how to get going fast enough to take off from a low spot, when to portal, how to groom.
The drakling carried herself very proudly, but not arrogantly - she'd trip or bump into things just like anyone else, she was hungry or too warm or got a flea in just the wrong part of her fur just like everyone else!
"But you are not like everyone elssse," Zolpardu chuckled, "you are my pair."
"Doess that make you the arrogant one?" She quipped back, with the emotional nudge of a little laugh.
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Aayztaj and Aventeve enjoyed having another pair of slightly-larger slightly-smaller to fly circles around still-single Iiaztaj. That didn't mean they were nasty about it, Aventeve and Ataru got along very well indeed, the slightly-older Aventeve helping the younger one with all that fur.
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: small (normal Drak sized) 7'4" s / 28' l / 34' and 30' ws
Colors: Water, a teal variant, with very greenish teal body, with wingsails, mane, and tail being a darker more mottled greyish blue-green
Features: Drak, DesCas but with Windchill genes for long neck and hefty fur; no visible horns, otherwise pretty standard Drak
Powers: Winged Flight - Ataru's flight is stable and strong, she won't just dart off or switch directions, not like Aventeve...
Portal Production - she knows exactly where she is needed, preferring shorter portal distances within sight of each other, but then with a good sound memory of locations, she can return to different Castles or locations at will
Verbal Speech, weak telepathy/empathy; She has a very good vocabulary and a soothing voice, and laughter like the bubbling of a brook
Acid Spit, her partner will handle that thank you. She can and does spit acid but prefers to be the tactful one helping others get out of the way of anything that requires being spat at
Parentage: Ore Jasperu and Plant Cucurbita
Origin: Castle DesCas
Other Info: Trained by Moonbeam and Ore Jasperu, her mother