Tortoise

"Please tell that one to stop looking so fierce."

— Queen Coral to Tsunami about Glory in The Lost Heir

Tortoise was a scrawny, female SeaWing with seaweed-green scales and blue-green eyes, and was the representative for the dragonet care position of Queen Coral's council. Queen Coral pulled out her teeth and smashed her head into the floor for eating an octopus that Commander Shark had given her instead of guarding Auklet's and the other dragonet's egg in the Royal Hatchery, which led to the death of one of Coral's daughters.

Biography

The Lost Heir

While Tortoise was guarding the Royal Hatchery, Shark offered her an octopus to eat. There was a serious rule against eating in the hatchery because the blood would attract sharks. Tortoise left the room to eat the food provided by Shark. In her absence, Orca's animus-enchanted sculpture destroyed one of the eggs and strangled the unhatched dragonet inside.

Queen Coral arrived with Tsunami and Anemone to check on the eggs. When Tortoise saw the Queen, she shrieked and dropped her octopus. Tortoise spotted Shark in the crowd of watching SeaWings and pointed at him, explaining in Aquatic that he had offered her the octopus. Queen Coral didn't know that Orca's statue was animus-touched. Queen Coral violently killed Tortoise in front of an audience as punishment for letting one of her unhatched daughters die. She ripped out the SeaWing's teeth one by one and then clawed open her underbelly and had her heart ripped out. Tortoise's remains were later cleaned up by Moray.

Trivia

• She, like all other SeaWings, never wanted the job of watching the eggs in the Royal Hatchery. This is probably because if any of the eggs were lost (and that almost always happened, thanks to Orca's enchantment) it would enrage Coral and she would kill them very violently, as shown by Tortoise.
• A tortoise is a species closely related to turtles. The difference between a tortoise and turtle is that a tortoise lives on land, while a turtle prefers to live in the water, which makes her name ironic.
• Though Tortoise had a pool in Queen Coral's Council labeled "Dragonet Care", she was absent due to the fact that she was guarding Queen Coral's eggs.

Gallery

• 
  A typical SeaWing (colored), by Joy Ang
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  A typical SeaWing (lineart), by Joy Ang
• A typical SeaWing from the German publication, by Max Meinzold
  A typical SeaWing from the German publication, by Max Meinzold
• Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
  Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
• by WindstarofWindclan
  by WindstarofWindclan
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  By Sahel
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  Tortoise's death by Sahel the Sandwing
• File:Tortise.png
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  Tortoise Ref- QueenClam
• Tortoise, By PhoenixTheAnimus
  Tortoise, By PhoenixTheAnimus
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  SeaWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing
• A real tortoise
  A real tortoise

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