Tortoise

Tortoise was a female SeaWing and the representative of the dragonet care position of Coral's council. She was killed by Coral for failing to protect the Royal Hatchery properly.

Appearance 

Tortoise was skinny, with seaweed-green scales.

Personality

She was irresponsible and incompetent at guarding, as she abandoned her duties in favor of sating her hunger. Just like the other SeaWings, she was afraid of Coral's wrath upon failing to protect her eggs.

Biography

The Dragonet Prophecy

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 Statue 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

• Though tortoises are closely related to turtles, they are not aquatic and would not be a traditional SeaWing name. This may have been an oversight on Tui's part.
• 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

• Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
  Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
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  by Mike Holmes

References

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