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Name: Laopth
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: 'blue pernese sized' 8'6" s 28' l / 46' ws
Colors: Light Court Blue, pale blue with medium-blue wingsails and crest
Breed: Vella Crean Court
Features: Light Court from Vella Crean, with large paws, leather wings with 4 fingers, two long forward pointing horns, small headknobs, jaunty upward pointing crest; no other adornments
Powers: see below
Parentage: none, progenitor
Origin: Vella Crean 'last clutch'
Art By:
Naeodin
Other Information: had been sponsored first by Sasha and then by Charlise at CHS
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| Totem |
Dragon (adult) Serious Business If You're Calling On A Dragon, generally the large and in charge versions that aren't attached to people (yet), not the ones who rain terror on villages. Maybe...
0/+4/+2cmd/+1/+2f/0/+2/+10/+15kks |
| Nut |
Paprika Dusted Peanut, while it's still spicy if you're not prepared, it's also still not like. Hot or dangerous or anything. Unless you're allergic to peanuts. Whoops. |
| Class |
Graduated in 2010s |
| Smarts |
5 |
| Bod/Feet |
7 (strength 6, agility 8, speed 5) |
| Command |
6 |
| Luck |
4 |
| Drive |
(0) Flight Navigation 7 |
| Looks |
5 |
| Cool |
5 |
| Bonk |
14 (6 as teen) |
| Powers |
Winged Flight, while he isn't a race winner all the time, he's always performed well enough to get chosen on teams, and can do quite well in aerial acrobatic courses. He has mastered several 'slow / stall' stunts, and enjoys hearing the gasps and cheers when he pulls out of a 'deadly' falling dive
Teleportation (local, nexus, temporal), he wants to be sure of where he is going, and needs to have visited a place or been brought there, or in some cases shown mentally in a concentrated manner, before he goes through the process. In point of fact he's a bit afraid of the things that are between, he's never admitted it but he's heard so many strangely familiar - dead - voices... he doesn't like going through either time or the void, worried that those ghosts are trying to haunt him specifically (they are not but he certainly thinks they should...)
Verbal Speech and Telepathy, try and try again, is his motto these days. He's got a practiced voice, both mental and physical, that sounds a little like a television game show announcer and a lot like a radio DJ who's got their own show in syndication. He has practiced this on purpose, you know. He doesn't have the telepathic range that some might, but he's still able to connect with minds at 5 miles, and ping them at 10
Unassisted Firebreath, Fire Ball, He's never had to fight a day in his life except that one time that someone else's dragon stepped on his best friend's tail, and MAN did he step up the heat. While his flame breath is close range, under 50 meters to be effective, it burned a hole in one of the metal kiosk walls, and left a permanent scorch mark along the mall's third floor railing... His fireball is entertaining but not deadly, however, and he loves to 'cough up' a few small but brightly burning wobbly balls of flame that linger just long enough to make you wonder whether it's a trick or not
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| Clusters |
Gather 'Round And Listen +5 He really is a good speaker and employs many methods that he learned back in high school to his routines. He could be a salesman, but he has standards and won't throw in with just any sponsor! So that's how you know something is worth having in your home, it passed his rigorous in-home testing! At this point, even if people knew him in school, they would still probably buy whatever it is he's got to sell. Why not, right?
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| Skills |
Dragon-Related Product Testing +5 To prove his bravery in his senior year, he started taking people up on their ideas. Will it blend? Can you crush it? Will it carry this weight? And this has extended into actual, real world skill - he can figure out not just whether your product will withstand dragon use, but how it will fail, or why it won't work for some breeds over others. He knows what sort of questions to ask and how to phrase criticism in ways that marketing people will get it too. Now, he has sustained mostly-temporary damage from some defective or poorly designed products, but that's how you learn, right?
Small Isn't Bad +3 There are dozens if not hundreds of bigger dragons out there. But what you need, what you want, really, is one that isn't going to flatten your entire neighborhood when they turn in their sleep. He extolls the virtues of the smaller-end dragons, also knowing that he's far from the 'smallest' end at all. (put him next to a dragon like Sixth over there on campus... hah, 'that's small'...) He likes making sure that the little guy gets attention as much as the big flashy dragon types, and with a few words can guarantee that the attention will be positive
Win Or Lose, Trying Is Important +3 Learned from his school days of personal relationships (rejection) and group efforts (track and field success) He will encourage and even demonstrate things to those who are struggling. Young or old, big or small, you never know until you try what your limits might be. Don't hurt yourself we have professionals to do that!
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| Knacks |
Is Pretty Chill After Being So Cringe +3 Even if some people do remember his dogged persistence and self-important time at CHS, they all admit that he turned into a reasonably good guy. Now there is still some amount of mistrust or misgiving but generally that's because he is also a salesman, right? |
| Period |
Class / Instructor / Grade (Failing, Passing, Decent, Excellent, Superb) ((Favorites from 2 years)) |
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Naming and the Power of True Names / Akarist / Excellent |
| 2 |
Snappy Comebacks and the Art of Heroic Banter / Wynnah / Superb |
| 3 |
Betting and Odds / Haital / Excellent |
| 4 |
Property Damage Control Issues / Ramrod / Superb |
| 5 |
Speculative Engineering / Valarian / Decent |
| 6 |
Speech / Prescott / Superb |
| 7 |
Crafting For The Thumbless / Kuumba / Excellent |
| 8 |
Exotic Team Sports - Draconic Track / Staff (before separated) / Excellent |
| Other Info |
Currently helps test, market, and promote dragon-specific products, anything from 'housing' to 'child safe claw caps', centered in Talon City |
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| From original clutch/sponsor page:
Name: Laopth
Gender: Male
Court and Color: Light Court Blue
Size: Blue sized.
Personality: 'So, what do you like doing in your free time?' Laopth is the kind of dragon who is spurned so many times that he wonders what is wrong with the rest of the world. Because certainly, it's not his fault. After all, look at him. He's smart, brave, a little bit on the slow side when it comes to flying, but who's perfect? He's the best you have, honestly. So why don't people flock around him in hoards? He's going to have to ask his reflection that later.
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Events or History:
Endlessly egocentric, but a bit mellowed with some classes on self esteem and communication, Laopth has matured into a fair dragon. Still not 'flocked' with anyone, but hey, you can't have everything all at once, right? He'll settle for one or two - and he has those, eventually...
Will be hoping to catch one of the two beautiful dragons flying at Ryslen, Kulixanth or Netearth. So exotic, but hey he's quite the catch himself! He has the full support of his sponsor Charlise though he's not so sure whether little purple Saponith cares for this, she didn't much mind when he did a 'sponsor swap' from Sasha to Charlise...
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