Springsinger Appearance
Basic Traits
Colours: blue, green or purple with warm-coloured, black or white markings Subtypes: none Height: 2’6 average (2’ - 3’6) Base: here |
Physical FeaturesSpringsingers are the smallest of all dragons. Their backs are covered in very small, soft iridescent scales. These fall off often, but can grow back just as easily unless the tissue below is scarred. Springsingers have short, slender bodies and a very long prehensile tail. On the bottom of their tails are flexible, grippy scales to aid in holding onto things. Springsingers have fluff along their spines like that of a bee or moth.
Springsingers have very narrow and somewhat short wings, similar in shape to a hummingbird’s. This shape, as well as their flexible shoulders, allow Springsingers to make aerial maneuvers other dragons would find incredibly difficult. These include hovering, incredible precision, flying directly up or down, and even flying sideways or upside-down. By the base of their wings, Springsingers have two flexible fins that can aid in maneuverability in flight, as well as being used to express emotion. Springsingers are blue, green, and/or purple with warm-coloured accents or markings. Their eyes are typically the same or similar colour to these accents. They can also have near-black or off-white markings. Springinger horns have 5 prongs each, all of which (including the main branch) have pheromone sensors on the end. This makes them very perceptive to emotions, even of other species. They have a waxy texture, but don’t test that for yourself, as they are very sensitive and touching them is likely to get you bit. Springsingers are amazing climbers and incredibly dextrous. They have 6 digits (4 fingers and 2 toes) on each hand and foot. They can balance and (with practice) walk around on just their back legs to free their front up for easier use. |
Life StagesUnlike any other dragon, Springsingers have several life stages. They are hatched from eggs like other dragons, though young Springsingers are wildly different from adult Springsingers and are called larvae.
Larvae are hatched very small but quickly grow to be much larger than adults, and they don’t have scales, horns, wings or fins. Instead of wings they have a 3rd pair of arms with only 5 long digits. After 10 years of eating ravenously and generally causing mayhem. Larvae create hollows in trees and cover it with chewed up leaves and bark that solidify into a hard and very well hidden shield. There they incubate for 2 years. After this Springsingers emerge looking like adults, just a bit smaller. Adult Springsingers grow very slowly, but never stop. This results in most of the population being similarly sized, with the exception of the very old and the very young. For about a year or longer after their incubation Springsingers are incredibly curious, and explore, sometimes moving between colonies for a while before settling down. |
A springsinger skull. Art by MetaphysicalMonsters. Only the upper jaw is shown.
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