Dragon Residing at the Ranch

Name: Desert Thorn
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium 9'3" s / 48' l / 84' ws
Colors: body is greeny-olive grey; speckled scales, armor along back, face, and fronts of limbs, along tail of ivory-yellow; belly is lighter yellowish tan from neck to tail tip; scale markings along entire neck, sides, fronts of limbs and tail sides in bold black; wingsails, back spines and webbing, and all claws are brightly sun-yellow; eyes are black sclera with darker tan iris
Features: Leaf-Sand hybrid, very evenly balanced, with leaf wings so 'Leaf dominant'; four muscular legs with 5 and 4 short curved claws; two leaf-veined leathery wings with 4 visible fingers, elbow strut, and short wrist thumb all with short curved claws; body is sinuous and well balanced, with a very long tail having a sharp venomous stinger; body is scaled with even armor on belly, cell-like scales on body, stronger armor along entire spine; neck has spiked frill with webbing, head, body and tail have Sandwing-like low fin; head is angular with sharp beak, prominent eye ridges and face armor scales, two elegant long upturned horns, external ears
Powers: Winged Flight, stronger than many Leafwing fliers, her wingsails are thick and heavier than most and her muscular frame can handle quite a bit of powerful wingbeats. She's able to lift another dragon at least for a short distance, clinging on to them with all four limbs, if needed in a battle she'll get them out though she must rest and not do much flying after an exertion like that. Obviously, she can carry an incredible amount of goods or humanoids, and often will lift refugees out of a location or bring in other humanoid healers to help behind the battle lines. She is fast enough that she generally avoids any injuries from lasers or bullets, but has been known to take direct hits in order to protect an already-injured companion.
Verbal and Vortal Speech, though she cannot really 'speak' in the Vortessence, her presence is noted by anyone who can see Vortal auras as 'strong'. Thus she appears on the scene and can be told apart from other dragons for the most part. Her father's escape from the Othermind taught her to mistrust actual invasive thoughts, though she realizes that there are always two sides to the story: the Vortessence and those who speak in its colorful mental shades are radically different from the Combine who have their own sort of mental network, and are controlled very much like the Othermind's subjects. She has learned how to detect the Combine's taint, and combats it, but also warns that those who may use the Vortessence against others should take care not to abuse their power. Verbally she speaks Draconic, and is learning several dialects of it due to the different breeds she's had to learn how to deal with - did you know that some dragons don't have scales?! She also speaks English and understands most simple Vort phrases, preferring a clearly spoken word or two to a lengthy conversation in combat situations. But that said, she does know quite a bit of technical jargon for her duties, and if it's not an emergency she will sit with keen attention on her patient, asking just the right questions to get solid information about their injury or condition before proceeding.
Venom Stinger, though she's clearly a healer she is also able to defend herself in true Sandwing fashion with that heavy, venom-filled stinger. She would like to be able to merely incapacitate victims, but truth be told that venom is extremely potent and will kill almost anything about the size of a horse or smaller - so she must be very careful around humans and Vorts.
Plant Manipulation, though not as powerful as her sire, Desert Thorn is certainly able to sense and work with plants of all types - living only - in order to ascertain their use, or viability as food or healing, poison, or functional uses like net building or construction material. Those green harness parts around her chest are formed of still-living vines, and inside some of the packets on them she stores seeds, seedlings, bottles of spores, and all manner of other plant matter in order to keep herself well stocked in emergencies. She has consulted with the little Human family of Eden, Jade, and a few others, since they also utilize plants in such a manner, and they've helped her learn more about the plants on Earth and what they can do to or for the natives. She can plant a seed and as long as there is enough water and soil space can grow it to a semi-matured plant in about a day, but this does leave her magically exhausted for a while. She tends to wait until just after any given battle or large event, to work on her extensive garden in the Ranch's foothills, and as it's out of the way and other randomly growing patches of 'weird unearthly plant life' exist around the whole place already it's not like the Combine will notice it from above. It's just another patch of stuff. That patch of stuff, however, houses a growing collection of herbs, beneficial healing plants, even Xenian plants. Those eyestalk light-bearing plants are certainly her favorite from that world, oh wait wait, she also likes those flowering plants whose 'fruit' can be fed to those fish-like creatures... okay they use those as guns, because those fruits explode but still! how handy!
Parentage: Father was a SapWing healer who fled from the Othermind, mother was a nomad Sandwing
Origin: Adopted from HufflepuffHannah, linearts by Luna-the-Nightwing, on Deviantart, Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland