Mangata
• she / him • dreamy sailor • lesbian •
currently being revamped.
In a small bayside town, near the outskirts, there sits a small cabin overlooking the sandy beaches of the SandWing Queendom. This is where Mangata lives, alone for her parents worked full-time at their jobs to take care of themselves and their daughter. Having said that, they have almost no time to spend with her no matter how many times she tells for them to take a break now and then. Because of this, she lives for the ocean and beach, letting it sweep her off her talons, she became interested in the hobby of sailing the seas for new land, free of any rules. That's how her adventure began, but now with her newfound best friend, Selenophile, a moon-obsessed jeweler and astronomer, her sailing dreams may just come true.
| Mangata | |
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| art by | radar |
| Background Information | |
| aliases | chickadee / little sailor boy / boo / |
| creator | radar |
| attribute | dreaminess / creativity / naivety / optimism / escapism through imagination / |
| element | platinum / sand / |
| animal | corgi / albatross / |
| color | pastel orange / rose gold / sunset pink / |
| song | |
| mbti | isfp-t |
| Character Information | |
| age | 8 (dy); 18 (hy) |
| gender | questioning |
| orientation | lesbian |
| occupation | sailor / artist / dreamer / photographer / creator / |
| tribe | lightwing |
| goal | discover something new / have something named after her / get her stuff together / |
| relatives | serendipity (mother) |
| residence | a bayside town |
| allies | selenophile |
| enemies | realists |
| likes | caramel candies / sailing / painting / daydreaming / creative ideas / selenophile / traveling / calming music / stargazing / sharing her creations / writing / |
| dislikes | hard work / tension / stormy weather / her hard work being ignored / feeling unimportant / reality / important creations being destroyed / |
| abilities | normal lightwing abilities / some navigational skills / limitless creativity / |
| loves | selenophile |
Appearance
Like a melted sunset coming back in the form of a small dragoness, certainly she's something else. With the pleasant scents of ocean spray and sand clinging like dirt to her scales, the figure, Mangata, is but a strange being. Menageries of warm pastel colors ripple with no sense of pattern at all across her body. Her main scales remain a nice saturated / pastel tangerine, this is followed closely by splotches of pastel yellow, dusty in appearance, almost like ink blots.
A darker tangerine underbelly follows her snake-like scales, although this would appear more like her under scales than underbelly. Spines long and narrow run down her back, pale pastel yellow in color. This also follows through with her crown of horns atop her head and the spines protruding from the back of her head. A single horn, longer and curvier than the rest, sprouts from her forehead, longer than the rest of the surrounding spine crown, as though a unicorn, but less majestic.
Her talons remain short and curved, a friendly gesture from her, usually on her snout is an expression of great curiosity and happiness. Something of friendliness comes off of her like warmth from a SandWing's scales. Mangata's ears point straight up, forever perked upward and the insides of her ears remain a hot pastel magenta / sunset pinkish red. This follows a similar pattern for her eyes, round and full of excitement. The pupils remaining the same coloration as the insides of her ears whilst the rest remains a darker color.
Remaining small in size and stocky in build, the LightWing has this certain spark in her, shoulders slouched and rounded, long limbs and tall frame. She matches perfectly with her age, tall and well-balanced out as far as anyone else is concerned. Her wings remain large and somewhat bat-like, although instead of curving inward, the arcs circle outward. And at its edges, silvery tinted, pale pastel yellow mirror scales, incredibly reflective and beautiful. But her stride screams with curiosity and quirkiness.
She always seems to have a little skip to her step, but Mangata is not the key definition of graceful. Not in the slightest, at least she doesn't slouch too often, keeping a tall stance despite being quite small. Paint always seems to stain her talons, remaining a variety of colors, mostly pastel. Or colors of a sunset, as though bits of the sunset itself melted onto her talons. It's always the colors used from her latest paintings, sunsets mostly. But also nice moonlit oceans or palm trees.
There always seems to be a certain blush to her snout, a lighter hue covering her cheeks that makes her appear that way. One may notice the two small spines coming off from the back of her lower jaw, short in size but still showy. Nothing is sharp about her, nor is there anything threatening. Upon touching her scales, one may get a smooth feeling. Surely strange and unique.
Personality
- redoing her personality. this is old.
- prefers male-aligned titles like king and boy. only her friend uses them, much to her disappointment. of course, she pretends it doesn't bother her... because she hates making a big deal out of things she thinks others don't think are. doesn't stand up for herself in regards to her gender identity and just lets people gender her as they see fit as opposed to what she actually identifies as.
- a man of ideas and only ideas. is incredibly creative and finds normal jobs boring and uninteresting... which is why she's unemployed.
- can never keep a job because of this creativity... she's also rather lazy and very dreamy. her head is in the clouds most of the time. finds jobs incredibly restrictive, draining, and boring, so she opts to daydream instead.
- often fantasizes about travelling to faraway fantastical places like a cloud castle or a magical island... something along those lines. gets sad when she has to "be realistic," and understand that those places don't actually exist.
- read one too many fairytale novels.
- everything always looks better in her head than it does in reality. is one of those artists who is disappointed when their artwork doesn't turn out like they imagined it to.
- has trouble with committing to minor stuff that she promised. sometimes fantasizes about work through rose-tinted glasses, but when she actually goes to do it, it sucks.
- she lives in the present and tries not to think too heavily about the future because of how upset it makes her. is surprisingly pessimistic for a social, energetic dragon. socially confident and meshes well with other creative people. is the ultimate ambivert. good at making friends in the moment, but doesn't have many long-lasting friendships because they exhaust her.
- because of this, she doesn’t have very many friends. often fantasizes about going on really fun trips with best friends, but since she barely has any actual friends, she can’t really pull this off. keeps telling herself that she just hasn’t met the right people and just needs to wait.
- as soon as things start turn business-y, she taps out. doesn't care about hard work and doesn't have that much stamina when she isn't passionate about it.
- only real passions are painting, creating, and sailing.
- the laws of physics and reality can burn in her book.
- being lectured by her mother about growing up and being responsible leaves her feeling even worse about herself. doesn't really think she's... a good person and these lectures only make her feel worse about herself. uses positivity and distractions to cope.
- toxic positivity.
- tries her best to be understanding and caring. struggles with supporting others or being emotionally intelligent because of toxic positivity.
- "have you tried just... not being sad?"
- doesn't talk about her feelings with anyone unless she's having an intimate conversation with someone.
- deep down inside she wants to lay in bed and cry into a pillow for the rest of her life. thinks when she reaches a certain age, her life will be over and she’ll never be happy again.
- her creativity is her lifeline, if it is drained or tainted in some way, she becomes incredibly unmotivated and sad, not showing interest in... anything, including things she previously enjoyed.
- fears the thought of losing her childlike wonder and growing older. is especially afraid of the responsibilities that come with it. wishes she could just go to some fantasy land where none of these are a problem.
- loves magic. wishes it was real so badly…
old
A naive being of great wonder, Mangata is certainly an interesting folk on the sea and definitely not something you see too often around the Bay of a Thousand Scales. She has a certain love for exploration of new places, always filled with wanderlust, to travel with her best friend Selenophile. Yet when the time comes, she isn't afraid to spit fiery sass at anyone who tries to hurt her friend. It's from her loving, carefree nature that prevents her from using sharp sarcasm on everyone who talks down to her. Being talked down to is for certain something she hates, Mangata despises others treating her like a little kid.
Even then, she can't help but be a little bit childish and dreamy in her ways, for sometime she's been having mood swings, meaning that her mood is never constantly the same. That's something she likes about everything, it's never always the same, there's always something new to explore. That is what makes life great in her opinion, it's incredible. On most occasions, Mangata may come off as overly positive, someone who always tries to see the best in everyone, even then she's not an incurable optimist. She can, mostly when out exploring, go starry eyed, adding to her naive counterparts.
While she may be optimistic in her ways, she has her doubts and fears, mainly in what will happen to her in the future. Will she forget everything when she grows up? Will her wanderlust run dry like a riverbank in the desert? It's one of the reasons she may act childish at some points in time. She doesn't want to give up her amazing dragonethood by the ocean and become some old, lame buisnessdragon. With that, she makes sure to write down or paint every good memory she ever had of her dragonethood, to make sure she never forgets. One could even go as far as to say she's slightly scared of the future and what malevolent mysteries it holds for her.
With her wanderlust comes thoughts of change, Mangata for one is no stranger to change, it's what keeps life interesting and unique, everyday is different and the LightWing really seems to adapt incredibly easily to change. Yet, if it's life-changing, it may take awhile for her to comprehend it, but she'll quickly adapt nevertheless. Creature of habit isn't the right term to describe her, for she's constantly changing, from mood to creativity to state of mind. And all around her, even more change unfolds. She has extroversion counterparts, for Mangata can easily start and continue a conversation with anyone, to an impressive extent, so it seems.
Mangata enjoys peace, daring the shoot for the stars and for that doesn't like having anyone overworking themselves, her focal point usually being her parents, she has a certain desire to have them stop working as much and spend some quality time with her. Yet even though she desires less working time, sometimes she can be that of lazy and when it comes to dragons she deeply cares about, clingy. The LightWing is known for being a lover of calming music, always busily humming away to beats she likes. While she does have her flaws, she is always something good of the world, someone who enjoys the company of others, respecting them as is.
History
There's a nice story for where this young dragoness came from, while maybe not interesting to all viewers, it's quite a tale. Her parents were of the hardworking type, always working double to pay for the costs of everything, their house, their family, the bills. They never seemed to mind, but Mangata always wished they'd stop for just one day and spend some quality time with her, they of course never did. Perhaps it is only helpful to describe the scenery. The LightWing's family resided in a nice, cozy cabin in the outskirts of a bayside town near the Bay of a Thousand Scales. Rather, it fits perfectly in between the MudWing Kingdom and SeaWing Kingdom.
However, it was still closer to the MudWing Kingdom than it was to the SeaWing's. The family was still a little uneasy with SeaWings, although they were completely fine working with them, they still couldn't help but feel... disturbed. They were busy fisherdragons and while they did come home exhausted and late, it always seemed like they were never home. They never seemed to stop worrying about money and be able to sustain a perfectly balanced life. Everyday, Mangata watched the ocean, listening with keen ears to the waves and screeching seagulls. She felt strangely at home next to that sunbaked shore.
The LightWing was intrigued by the ocean and began painting it on large canvases with oil paints her parents provided her at a young age. So she could paint a world she wished them all to live in. Often times, Mangata's paintings displayed sunset shores with silhouettes of three dragons, two parents and a dragonet. Family, walking on shores basking in the sun like lizards. That's what she constantly painted and showed to her parents who never saw it through her eyes. The message didn't reach them no matter how much she explained it to them. "That's nice, sweety." They'd say once she finished.
Mangata gave up trying to convince them, for they only saw her a dragonet with creativity and artistic skill. Nothing else, so it seems. She began to grow a little tired observing the ocean's shore from afar. One time, she went down to the bay and her soft gold talons touched down on pillow soft sand. It felt like all the warmth in the world was transferred from the sand to her sunset orange scales. Incredible... Mangata thought, breathlessly as a sudden warmth flooded into her very bones.
For hours she walked across the sandy beach, taking in the scenery, playfully chasing the seagulls and jumping over the salty waves. When the sun was roped by the moon and slowly dragged down, it made her think of her paintings. The scarlet and orange sunsets flooding the skies with their light, like flames jumping across the sky. As it got darker, pinprick stars started peeping out from their hiding places and at their heels, the round moon. It seemed to have gone so fast, one moment she was beginning her walk across warm sand, the next under stars.
Moonlight bathed her body and the wind seemed to whisper the end of that one day. Mangata for one had never felt so content at the beach, it was even better than painting it and she started having thoughts on her future occupations. It began to reveal itself after a few weeks spending her time at the beach, painting every moment she spent there. That night she dreamt of mystery and beaches and the distant cries of seagulls. Pinprick stars with their silvery light. Incredible as she thought.
It was after she met with another dragoness named Selenophile who was a jeweler obsessed with the moon and stars did she really get interested. They met at sunset on the peaceful beach shores, fate pulled them together, so it seemed. The LightWing set up her canvas by candlelight at the shore, determined to capture the scene before her. That's when she approached, with a charismatic look in her saturated blue eyes. She almost seemed like a saturated version of the night sky itself, whorls of navy blues and purples with the additional silver specks.
"Whatcha doin' over here?" Were her exact words as she approached the artist.
She turned in a rather surprised way, not expecting to be spoken to. In return, Mangata explained she was capturing this moment, this sunset over the ocean on her canvas. She just nodded in return and introduced herself to the painting LightWing, in a fashion she couldn't help but smile at.
"Howdy, name's Selenophile! Local astronomer and jeweler. Sounds like you could use a partner, ha, ha! In all seriousness, what is your name?"
"Mangata. Yeah, it always seems like there is no one else out there to spend time with."
They became fast friends, it was either because Selenophile was a really loyal and charming friend or Mangata was really good at making friends after so much time dealing with slight loneliness. Either way, they were quite the pair, both had an interest of sailing and soon enough that dream came true. They became sailors by night when the sky was full of stars, when everyone else was sound asleep, they were active, exploring the bay. Perhaps looking for their purpose, perhaps looking for something greater. Buried treasure for example or maybe shipwrecks to observe.
Relationships
please roleplay beforehand
Selenophile
She is a newfound friend and someone he completely trusts and enjoys the company of. He loves this LightWing and shares common interests with her, that mostly being sailing and exploring. With that, they both have come to long for exploring the world together, see what else is out there. Mangata finds her to have an incredible sense of humor and often uses her jokes when he can as opposed to making his own because... his doesn't think he's witty or funny enough. Though he doesn't share her interest in the moons and space like (only really liking it for the aesthetic), he's at least willing to listen to her passionately ramble... after all Selene has no one else to do that with.
Mangata gets that feeling... the feeling that no one is in your corner or is interested in the things you're passionate about... and the ones who are are... never around. He never wants to have his best friend feel unheard, so he's more than happy to sit through long-winded, space-related ramblings because that's what she's passionate about and he completely respects that. Besides, some of the information she shares with him is really... interesting and has inspired some of his own creative works. He loves sharing his creations with Selene as she's very encouraging and is just as creative as he is. Despite their closeness, Mangata doesn't... tell her everything, only really cracking during moments of intimacy between the two.
The LightWing doesn't want to annoy her with his own problems and struggles and, in that regard, he remains silent and allows just Selene to vent. This is especially the case whenever they talk to one another long-distance, as Mangata becomes more careful with his wording as to not accidently say something he might regret later. He doesn't fully understand his feelings, but he does believe he's developed a crush on her... though he's so unfamiliar with feeling this way he isn't quite sure if he... likes it. He's not sure if that type of relationship will go anywhere or if he's even ready for that kind of commitment to another... so he's just waiting for it to die out... but it hasn't.
Very Positive
Serendipity
Their relationship is... strained... to say the least. While it was certainly better when Mangata was younger, as he had to uphold less responsibilities back then, now that he's legally an adult... his mother has been pressuring to take up more adult responsibilities... responsibilities he simply... doesn't want to take. This has caused a lot of conflict between the two, with Serendipity lecturing him that he needs to "grow up" and become an adult. He knows that she's right... and that she's only trying to help prepare him for when he has to live on his own but... he's not... ready. He barely has his life together, working any actual jobs make him miserable, and it gives him less time to devote to things that genuinely make him happy.
When his mother suggested turning his passion into a job, doing paid commissions, he thought that would work... finally some middle ground... but he's... so obscure and overlooked that... no one wants to commission him aside from his own mother. And being a specialist isn't helping his case, only being able to paint landscapes that don't include a lot of foliage or greenery. Despite his mother's attempts at making him more independent, Mangata still relies on her for... just about everything. Food, shelter, and, in some cases, finances, though he's still firm in paying for his own things with his own money. The two don't get time to just... spend together, because Serendipity is busy working multiple jobs while he's busy... being a useless lay about.
When they do spend some quality time together, it's lovely, with Mangata telling her all about his different creations and his mother being an active listener who is interested in what the LightWing has to say. The two also have very similar tastes in aesthetic, both loving the ocean and the beauty of it, and that is something the two occasionally bond over... though it's usually through small remarks. What he really enjoys is learning about sea animals, as his mother used to be a marine biologist before she settled down and her passionate love for sea creatures... has infected Mangata. He loves hearing stories from when his mother used to be a marine biologist and finds them genuinely interesting.
Mixed - It's Complicated
Trivia
- moral alignment is chaotic good.
- name is the word for "the glimmering, road-like reflection that the moon creates on the water" in swedish.
- credits for arrow for coming up with the name.
- originally, mangata was going to be named something else, but i couldn't come up with a good enough name so mangata stuck.
- the third lightwing i've ever made, however the first two were deleted, so this is my first attempt at making a stable fanmade character.
- has a lot of dreams about flying away in the night, exploring the world, and returning by sunrise.
- loves orange cream sodas... but not much else. is said to have terrible food takes because she's a picky eater.
- likes using masculine or gender-neutral titles for herself and prefers them over feminine ones. hates it when other correct her for using masculine titles on herself. just doesn't get what the big deal is.
