Tortoise

Template:CharboxTortoise was a female SeaWing and the representative of the dragonet care position of Queen Coral's council. Queen Coral brutally killed her for eating an octopus that Commander Shark had given her, instead of guarding Auklet's and an unnamed dragonet's egg in the Royal Hatchery, which led to the death of one of Coral's heirs.

Appearance 

Tortoise has emerald green scales with some instances of olive green scales along her gills and edges of her wings, the tip of her snout, and on the edges of her webbing. Her wings, webbing, and aquatic scales are both colored in a worn, murky, yellow. Her underscales are a bleach-white color.

Biography

The Lost Heir

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

Queen Coral later arrived with Tsunami and Anemone to check on the eggs. When Tortoise saw the queen, she shrieked and dropped her octopus. One egg remained unharmed (Auklet's), while the other had been destroyed and the dragonet inside throttled. Tsunami then vowed that nothing would hurt Anemone. Queen Coral confronted Tortoise, who spotted Shark in the crowd of watching SeaWings and pointed at him, explaining in Aquatic that he had offered her the octopus. Queen Coral violently killed her in front of an audience as punishment for letting one of her unhatched daughters die, first by ripping out Tortoise's teeth one by one, and then clawing open her underbelly and smashing her head against the floor. Tsunami averts her head at that point. Tortoise's remains were later cleaned up by Moray. This led to Tsunami promising to guard her younger sister in the last egg that hadn't been destroyed since no one else was doing it. Anemone was horrified as a result of that, and Tsunami realized that if she didn't protect her sister, then Coral would kill her too, just the way Tortoise was killed.

Trivia

• A tortoise is a species closely related to turtles. One of the differences between a tortoise and turtle is that a tortoise lives in dry areas such as the desert, while a turtle is an aquatic animal, making her name extremely ironic.
• She, like all the 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 or killed (and that almost always happened, thanks to Orca's enchantment) it would enrage Coral and she would kill them very violently in public as shown in The Lost Heir.
• The graphic novel version of Tortoise is depicted with yellow wings and yellow bioluminescent stripes, a trait not commonly found in SeaWings, whose colors usually stay in the blue to green range. The only other known SeaWing with yellow wings and glow-in-the-dark stripes is Snail.

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
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  SeaWing Sigil 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
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  Tortoise Ref- QueenClam
• Tortoise, By PhoenixTheAnimus
  Tortoise, By PhoenixTheAnimus
• An actual tortoise
  An actual tortoise
• Dead Tortise BY FISH
  Dead Tortise BY FISH

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References

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