Aura

Basic Stats

• Name: Aura
• Species: Cartoon Draco-otter
• Gender: Female
• Height: 3'5"
• Antipode: Skita

Heart-Wing Motif

Like Skita, Aura is also a heart-wing motif creature. Unlike Skita, her wings are broken and tattered and her heart is considered broken and weak. Unlike him, she has two pairs of wings instead of two with the second set behind much smaller and equally useless for flight. Aura's motif represents depression and hopelessness, emotions she feels all the time and is constantly fighting against even if at a loss.

Description

Base Description

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Armored Description

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Origin

Quiet Savior

On the day Alex was nearly lost to despair, the very same moment that Skita manifested from his creator's imagination to become a real, if not cartoon animated, being, there was another being brought into physical reality who was no less important to Alex's salvation. Small and silent, she arose from Alex's shadow to stand behind the chair he was sitting in. The female otter lacked the bright colors and attention demanding nature of the dracoferret, and so this little dracotter appeared without her creator ever knowing she had crossed over like Skita. And when Skita took Alex's stylus and began making wondrous, inspiring changes to the home for a fantastic and unbelievable flight that would soon come to be, the otter remained where she was. It was as Alex stood that her purpose became apparent. As Alex stood, her touch was not detected, but the effect of that contact was no less for it. Pulling away and consuming the veil of negative emotion that had been slowly killing Alex, she eased the burden on his spirit to give Skita a better chance of saving him.

Alex's Sketchbook

Evidence of Skita has existed from the time Alex could put a crayon to a wall and draw. A constant, fantastic companion of boundless energy can be found in almost every sketchbook and all over the files in his tablet. Evolving with time, the giant, playful fuzzy noodle dragon changed and matured with his creator to become the dracoferret most now see standing on two legs and fighting crazy battles with whatever evil comes his way. The other being that showed up that day was not an old one, but she was also not a manifestation on her own. Like Skita, she too had her origins in the sketchbooks of her maker, but they were very different drawings.

Aura was never drawn as something large or crazy like some of Skita's shapes. She was always small, always hunched over as if bearing a terrible weight, and constantly suffering from emotional pain. Alex was, in fact, drawing himself in another form in order to offload his own pain onto something he could focus on. Many of her drawings are mere sketched, often incomplete, not out of design but as if Alex just didn't have the energy or inspiration to finish her. She once had wings, but as Alex's mental state deteriorated, her shape became far more disfigured with the membranes of her wings torn to the point of being missing. She was often draw surrounded by a dark aura, the very manifestation of Alex's depression.

I wish someone could just take this pain from me and bury it so no one could find it. So it couldn't hurt me any more or anyone else.

These words are written in a long lost sketchbook with water damage found spattered all over the page such that it warped the paper. The damage came from Alex's tears as he sobbed, turning to his sketchbook to try and escape his pain. This is the page that gave Aura her true form and purpose. She was drawn with one paw outstretched as to reach out of the page. Standing at the edge of still water, her own tears not yet having reached the water to disturb it, Aura was drawn in full. Above the water, she was a ragged looking otter who hadn't enough energy to care for herself. Her fur was unkept, her eyes red from crying, and her skeletal wings, both pairs, sagging so much that they just lay against her side or on the ground. In the reflection of the water, however, was something else entirely. They say that in water's reflection one will find the truth. In that reflection, Aura's brown fur was neatly groomed, her wings heavy and almost better suited to water than air, and she bore the same general gesture as her other image except that her head was up and looking calmly back a the viewer. If one turned the page sideways, it would look like two hands reaching out to take the viewers', Alex's, hands. The image established the dual nature of victim and hero in Aura.

Alex seemed to under stand the nature of the drawing after he made it. It was also an image made just before he began to succumb to the darkness that would have killed him if not for his rampant imagination breaking through the boundaries of reality to save him. It also, however, created a terrible truth as well. There is something worth saving in Aura, which would make her a target of Skita, but her other nature is that of absolute despair and the death of creativity, which would destroy him. This truth makes Aura someone Skita cannot save but will always wish he could, and that made Skita far more real than he might have otherwise been.

Monster in the Attic

Once Alex was tended to and eventually asleep out of physical and mental exhaustion, Skita came back for Aura and found her hiding in the attic. Face to face and only a few feet apart, they both understood that, as they are, they could never touch. He could never save her from her pain, and she could never give up her pain for risk of it finding Alex again. He was large, and she was small. Male to female, a dragon meant to soar upon the winds and a dragon who will never soar but can only fall. They both agreed that Alex should not know about her as the burden on him may be too much at such a delicate time, but Skita also felt he had to do something. Leaving her in the attic where she felt safe that she couldn't harm anyone, Skita poured through all the available concept art Alex had made of Aura. Buried in the pages, he found something of use. She was never drawn in it, but Alex had wishfully drawn the idea that there could be a suit that would protect her, and him, from all the pain outside as well as protect everyone else from being hurt by him. Skita make it come to being using the power of his creator's stylus, but then he went further. Rummaging through the house, he found an older tablet and pen that Alex once used by set aside as a backup when he got the new model, and it had a stylus that the dracoferret stole on sight.

Skita returned to the attic with a fairly tight, thin, armored suit and helmet just Aura's size. Putting it on, she could feel the outside world dampened, and Skita could feel her dreadful aura vanish. It had, thanks to Skita, the ability to let in or out what Aura chose so that she would not be forever trapped inside. Most important was the stylus he tucked into the front pocket. While extremely hard for Aura to use, she could use it to create like Skita does just as Alex did in his times of great pain. Skita also gave her, once she was armored, something he knew she needed: a hug. True to what he was, he had to do the right thing regardless of the risk to himself as much as he could, and the suit protected him from what could very well have been his end. Though she couldn't feel his warmth through the suit, the gesture and the emotion were not lost. When she left, it would be the last he saw of her, though she was never far away in his mind.

Abilities

Armor Suit

The very thing Alex wished was real, the environmental suit Aura lives in can isolate her from the world when she wishes it. It can also let emotion in one way or the other which lets her use her Consume Emotion power based on what the suit does. Her wings remain skeletal but armored, and they are use as emotional antennae that help her control her abilities. Her paws are generally the only part of the suit that ever peels back to expose her body, and she usually only does this to steal someone's sorrow.

Shape Water

While Skita has fire as an offensive skill, Aura has water to aid in her defense. She has incredible skill with it in that she can summon dense fogs to hide herself or walls of hyper-dense water and ice as a defensive barrier. She often uses this as a means to protect herself from everything be it gunshots or hugs.

Consume Emotion

When Aura allows emotions through her suit, she has two main modes with which she uses it. The first is a saving grace in that she can reach out with exposed paws and touch someone to absorb their pain and despair. She does not do anything to the underlying reasons or thoughts, but she can temporarily alleviate their pain.

When used in an offensive manner, she can rip the joy out of others and spoil things such as taking the joy or thrill out of gambling, drinking, or abusing others. ON a more brutal scale, she can strip people of creativity, and, if left exposed to long, she can erode their will to do anything. Able to strip motivation and emotion from others at range when using her most powerful skills, she can take the will to fight from thugs, zealots, and soldiers alike.

In general, victims will recover in time, but the most powerful of Aura's effects can last months. However, if Aura hold on too long, she an risk consuming the will to live itself from which there is little natural way to recover and only the intervention by magic can mend it.

Dispel Aura

Part of her killing of creativity is the ability to break illusions and drive in crushing, painful reality instead.

Bone Blades

The missing finger bones from her lower wings have instead been torn from her body and shaped into small blades. Not as useful against normal beings, they are deadly against spirits and other imaginary beings like herself and Skita.

creator notes

Aura is somewhat like a tonberry from final fantasy in that she is slow, deliberate, and not that hard to avoid. However, if she gets into striking range, she can devastate with a single blow.