Armaleos is most of time described as a male black small dragon. Not a lot taller than a large dog, he has a long tail with fluff on its top and tip, and huge pointy wings for his size. The rest of the details remains foggy and changes according to everyone’s perception, but he uses to have a mix of yellow and pink in his iris, like two buckets of paint gently poured onto a plate. Sometimes, they turn into a dark purple and red tone.
He doesn’t eat like other creatures would. He does have a digestive system however, but only uses it to taste and enjoy the sensation of a filled tummy. Even if he does have gastric acids, he cannot digest a thing in there, not even dust would dissolve.
His only way to feed is to devour dreams. He shifts himself in the dream network, sort of giant cobweb where it always rain. If a drop lands on a link resting above someone or something asleep, they start dreaming. At this moment, the dream drop is filled with the creature's memories and imagination, making it grow in size to take the form of a giant crystal orb bigger than the devourer himself. Maybe his body doesn't make a lot of sense for a normal dragon, but his huge wings helps him protect the food from the rain and his long tail supports the orb so it wont fall. Because the sleeper moves a lot during a nightmare, it can make the drop go overboard the link its resting upon, so Armaleos holds on tight with his hands before biting on it and start feasting. He inflicts unbelievable nightmares thanks to what we could call 'a venom', feeding on its host's horror and worst fears, causing sometimes multiple heart attacks and even death. The most desperate his victim is, the more nutrients he gets. Most who survived almost never recall anything, and if they do, doesn’t remember Armaleos' presence or existence.
During daytime, he roams around the city, forest and other places he likes, relaxing before the next night. The fact that people see him differently, or can't see him at all, is due to his very negative aura. The brain, be it of an animal or a person, hides or modifies what it really doesn’t want to see. If Death existed, Armaleos would be his undisciplined pet, and nobody wants to see Death in person. Only very few cats and persons can see him, but with ever changing details like he was just a mirage.
He can however decide to force someone’s mind to see him through different forms, growing or shrinking at will. He makes the brain think it's real so hard it almost become reality. Once in his stomach, he can make his prey think they are melting out, and if he doesn't stop the vision on time, the creature's brain could make the heart stop, collapsing at the suffering and thinking the body is just goo. However, the physical frame of the poor thing would be perfectly fine, even chewed up.
That's another mystery the tiny dragon must carry with him. He can't really hurt physically anyone, like all was just an illusion. However, he still can carry objects around and even living being, which is conflicting with the previous statement. He doesn't even have a physical body himself, his dragon form is the one he always had, and the size is a personal choice of comfort. He could be considered as a spirit, a ghost or maybe Death, reinforced by the fact he is almost as old as humankind.
Just because of this terrible burden, he lives all alone only spying on nature and how normal creatures lives their day to day life. His dearest wish is to become just like them, far from all this non-sense with the need to hunt and survive for real. The only thing that makes him feel a bit better and forget about it sometimes is to chase and eat tiny creatures, such as mice, being his favorite treat of all. Just by spotting one, a weird hunger kicks in and makes him want to grab a taste. He usually refrains himself though, thinking of how selfish it is to swallow whole a living creature even if it's fake, further more if they can't even see the danger coming to them.
One would discover the dragon, despite his clear negative smell of death, is very gentle and friendly. He only wishes to be a normal dragon, with the need to hunt real preys and having to hide from potential predators. The real thrill of life.
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This is the character's really basic lore. In reality and in RPs, this isn't used much anymore and Armaleos even discovered more about himself by meeting new people. I won't modify the information as this was how the character was intended to be described in the very first place, the origin of the character still being the same. How he works however and his behavior is way different now.
This art is my very first drawing using only the mouse. I used to draw with basic bent lines and shapes provided by the software, but I decided to put my skills to the test! Don't laugh, but I used Paint.Net, and still use it for some handy effects.
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