SkunkyArt | Sparsingar — SUNTIDE || PPAU APPLICATION

Suntide started discovering many things about themselves while around other dragonets; how they felt, questioning their gender and where they fit in before, but that questioning slowly grew into a realisation that they were not of the gender they originally thought. Their family was quite supportive, particularly Fran, who helped them through the earlier stages of questioning by doing some research with them (they’re still currently exploring their identity).

Suntide loved to explore, and would constantly go off on adventures after school, with or without members of their family, or other Rainforest dragonets (one of these times was unfortunately when the Hallucination Incident occurred). They would constantly ask to travel to new places, getting their wish when the family went off to spend a week near the Bay of a Thousand Scales in the Sea Kingdom, where they spent the week enjoying the surf with Cascade (Fran and Toco aren’t as big on swimming). They would always talk about the stories they heard of Isle Mezzo to Fran, who never had as much interest but always listened.

Fran was always the one more likely to be approached by other dragonets (as Suntide was often a bit too odd and fidgety), but other than occasional scuffles and miffs (which Fran always stopped) Suntide always preferred being by themselves. They did welcome company from Dewscales, whom they often partnered with on art and research projects, as they both loved to draw.

Suntide and Fran attended the Day City school in the Rainforest, and soon Suntide began to realise their strengths lay more in their SeaWing abilities than their RainWing ones, unlike their sister. They learnt about the ocean, the mangroves and the rainforest rivers in school, as well as life in the other kingdoms, and began to really prosper in their art classes, going on field studies and studying dragon anatomy, often dragging either Dewscales or Fran (or both) with them. Along with help from their father, an artist, they worked on their skills of anatomy and field studies and slowly climbed the ranks of their science and art classes.

While Suntide was at school with Fran and Dew in Day City, an opportunity came up to be presented to the RainWing Queen as a potential candidate for a letter of recommendation to attend the prestigious Pyrrhia-Pantala University, to further cultivate and grow young students’ skills. As Suntide was close to turning seven, as well as longing to explore outside Kingdoms and travel to the Isle Mezzo, they scrambled off home to ask their parents about the opportunity.

Toco, in the beginning, was concerned for their safety, but both Cascade and Fran talked about the positives and encouraged the idea until eventually he agreed to it, only stating (with Cascade agreeing) that Suntide had to be seven by the time the recommendation was written, or they’d have to wait until next year. As this was the case, Suntide (along with the help of an exasperated Dewscales) excitedly began to compile and arrange all of their best personal and school art, biology, anatomy and field work into a miniature portfolio, to hopefully be reviewed by teachers and thus be passed up to the RainWing Queen.

Suntide waited excitedly (and with trepidation) along with Fran, Cascade and Toco for news of a letter of recommendation, and finally received confirmation just after their birthday, while they were working on an art project with Dew. Both were ecstatic about the news, and although Dew was more interested in staying closer to home for now, immediately promised to go out to visit Suntide during the school breaks to have some more adventures and drawing sessions. Dewscales was truly happy for Sun, and Suntide promised to write to them all every week.