Firefly

A fae with a passion for storytelling and a reputation for naivety, Firefly is certainly a good friend to have! She can usually be found reading a book or spending her time with one of her new friends.

Appearance
Firefly is an unusually small black and green fae who glows like a lantern from multiple points on her body (most notably, her eyes, capsule fluid, and 'wrists'). She struggles to be stealthy in any situation because she can't turn it off, but has often found use as a flashlight!

She wears a skirt sewn of rare leaves with the skulls of smaller animals attached as a memory of where she's been and the creatures who'd touched her life. She carries assorted herbs and wears leather gloves as well. In a pinch, she's able to muster together armor, but it's too heavy for her to fly in.

Personality
Firefly is painfully optimistic and has a very black-and-white worldview. She sees things in terms of "good guys" and "bad guys". Firefly thinks everyone who pays any attention to her is her friend, and always has some kind of plan -- even if it's a really bad one. She loves stories, history, and flying long distances.

Firefly has trouble remembering names and the complexities of intense situations, but does well enough with the basics. Her summaries of events tend to be over-simplified, but she likes to be helpful and is quite good at it when she's not asking millions of questions and writing down the answers.

Firefly gets quiet when she's upset, is always true to her word, and fancies herself as a collector of knowledge and stories.

Bio
An adventurer and collector of knowledge, Firefly seeks to tell every story she can and make sure nobody's story ever dies. She believes in information from the source and believes that a person or a people are only truly dead when their story is forgotten.

History
Firefly's father, Chipper, fought in the Shade War, and died less than a month before the Shade was defeated. She was her parents's first and only hatchling. Her mother, Sayelu, raised Firefly as best she could but clammed up every time the Shade War or Chipper came up. Firefly grew up knowing very little about her father except that he deserved to see victory and that he'd died to bring about a better future for her and every other dragon born after him.

When Firefly was young, she found work using her unusual powers to help other dragons. A weathered old Imperial who liked to collect lore and history hired her to work as a book light for a few coins a night, and Firefly ended up reading his old books over his shoulder. She fell in love with the stories, and decided that she wanted to go see the world and collect stories of her own.

Firefly adventured into the relative unknown, meeting peoples who she learned quite a lot from... though none of it was particularly relevant to life as a whole. She returned to Rat City to visit her mother, only to meet a group of dragons who were making a all-hands-on-deck call for help in a quest of theirs. Firefly jumped at the opportunity, and ended up helping them save the world... which was apparently not an uncommon occurrence for the ragtag team!

Glowy
Firefly glows! She can't flick it off, and it's about as bright as a glowstick. She can be covered up with armor, paint, or a heavy blanket to disguise it, but not very well. She's fond of her oddity, and nobody knows exactly where it came from. She affectionately refers to her power as "my glowy".

The Stormblade
A relic from her help in the fight against Typhon, Firefly wields a shard of his bone that has been fashioned into a fae-sized falchion. It has mild tempest-summoning powers that seem to be somewhat linked to her emotions, but just like the weapon itself, the storms it summons are very small and not useful for much. The blade itself is the real trouble.

Magic
Firefly has recently been learning magic. She's able to heal minor wounds, fly for greater distances than is typical or allow others to do the same, make voices louder, or create small objects like pens or puzzle boxes (though this takes significant energy based on the size and complexity of the object).

Trivia

 * Firefly is the only creature in the world who speaks Mikreen, a language she personally invented.
 * Firefly is the only creature in the world who knows her father's beetle cake recipe.
 * While nobody knows IC why Firefly glows, it's a mixture of innate Arcanist oddities, Rat City magic, and a dash of Shade fuckery.
 * Firefly has hidey holes all over Scyria, which she calls "outposts". They're small, fae-sized storage spaces with trinkets and a place to sleep (and occasionally pets). All of them are labeled as outposts!