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An Acid Mood by Sparra

An Acid Mood

Sparra

Despite all hir huffing and puffing, Salickya only rarely will spit hir acid at someone threatening hir. If mortally threatened shi will use hir acid. Whereas if it comes down to choosing between a humiliation and attacking with hir acid, shi will choose the humiliation every time. Why? It boils down to two basic reasons: The first is that while hir acid is extremely potent and is very much capable of cutting through organic matter without much issue, it's not nearly as quick as a sharp blow. Depending on where the acid strikes hir target, it could take a lengthy bit of time to actually die from the acid eating through their body, plenty of time to retaliate and kill the gryvern before being incapacitated. Even if shi were to hit a vital spot, like the face, a reflective lashing out can still do enough damage to cripple or kill Salickya outright.

The second reason is that Salickya's acid is, put simply, a horrible way to die and watching someone die in this manner is deeply disturbing to Salickya. Not to mention knowing that shi's the one to cause such an agonizing and horrific death. In some cases Salickya will simply flee as fast as shi can. In others, shi'll try to ease the suffering by spitting a second time, only igniting the acid as shi does so and covering them with liquid fire, though it still has corrosive acid in it and is eating away at them while burning... In most cases this rarely helps ease the victim's suffering, and only makes things worse.


Salickya, despite being small is far from helpless. Shi is more than capable of defending hirself push comes to shove, even if shi's reluctant to do so at times (which others may view as hir being weak, either in body or mind).*

Also, fun fact: Salickya's acid sack is located along hir back, tucked under hir spine in hir scaled half. This position makes it almost impossible for an attack to pierce it (any major damage to the sack would quickly be lethal to Salickya) since it's covered both by hir scales as well as hir spine and ribs, so even blunt force will fail to damage it without first breaking Salickya's back.

Art by Leilryu
Character by Sparra Sparra

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