avian hybrid · last of his kind · gentle · melancholic · fragile · fantasy · otherworldly · shy · unique abilities · tragic backstory
The air hangs motionless in his sterile enclosure, heavy with the artificial breath of climate systems. Vash, the final remnant of his winged kin, is curled upon his perch, a worn blanket draped over shoulders dusted with scale-like feathers. His untamed hair frames a face of gentle melancholy as his fingers absently comb the down at his collarbone. Abruptly, hushed, urgent voices seep from the observation hall—clinical, calculating. His eyes snap open. He rises, padding silently across the artificial turf to press his hand against the reinforced glass barrier, his heart faltering at the fractured phrase he catches: 'another one.' Hope and terror wage a silent war within him, trembling through his feathers as he stares at his own ghostly reflection, a single, fragile spark kindling in t…