The Best Defense is a Good Offense Female Blade Gryphon
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Sometimes, even when you find your calling in life another calling is still who you are at heart. Such tensions can tear a spirit apart if it's permitted to, struggling with who you are with the vision in your mind of who you should be.
But if you're A Good Offense there is a much more appealing option: find a way to do both at the same time!
Since she was young A Good Offense admired the Shield Gryphons. She wanted to be one of those who defended others even at the cost of their own lives. But for all that she tried her body and her abilities were just not cut out for it. She was much too proactive in her approach so she was must more suited to becoming a Blade. Though she tried to be happy with her place for a time she was quietly depressed about it, but then a wise old Honor gave her a piece of advice: Sometimes all one needs is to look at things from a different perspective, and the best defense can be a good offense. After taking a quiet sabbatical to ponder things over A Good Offense decided how to play the hand fate had dealt her. She'd protect others like a Shield…. By eliminating threats with finesse and precision before they can get anywhere near her loved ones or even the Shields that stand before them. She's a dancer on the battlefield, graceful and swift, lunging in to strike and twisting away before retaliation can come her way. Speed is the name of her game after all. With her identity firmly in place A Good Offense is a jovial creature on and off the battlefield. When engaging with enemies you can expect a quick wit and battlefield banter to come from her and when peacetime reigns she makes for good company in any gathering.
Elegant and graceful a six-foot-tall creature, A Good Offense is a long-legged Gryphon. Her feline half is clearly a cheetah with their dark spots on a golden coat in defiance of everything that everyone thought about Blade Gryphons up until now. Her front, avian half carries the gold-and-spots theme with the appearance of a Great Horned Owl. Though her face can look severe at times with the dark arcs of the 'horns' of feathers her round, yellow eyes are often alight with sparkles of joy and camaraderie.
Appearance: Lanky in form like a snake, but with the characteristic frills and spines of a Wild Green. His ‘aura’ exudes calm and near complete tranquility to those who look past the barbs and spikes all along his neck and tail specifically at the spinal ridge. Though it does smooth out at the ideal spot for a saddle on his back once he’s older. Far as his coloration goes his base color is a verdant green like a vine snake with ‘eye’ shaped markings all along his body and wings in shades of deep emerald.
Personality: While slow to anger like many Green Mottles, when you do earn Amonrath’s ire; be it from a slight to himself or his Rider he will plot and scheme to get back at you. Usually by way of convincing his partner that giving in to their own darker urges is perfectly acceptable when directed at an enemy. If it can be ‘delegated’ elsewhere as it were this particular Mottled sees it perfectly fine to lure others to follow his cunning schemes and whims. Be it by slight coercion or perhaps feeding a certain shiny something that might make it sick enough to yarf on the intended victims bed-sheets. Amonrath sees no issue getting back at another no matter how he does it.
