History Characters / CodexEquusCobbletown

!!Other Residents
[[folder:Ambassador Sacred Swan]]

Ambassador Swan Song (her entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Heroes-and-Villains-36-900966875 here]]) is a formerly racist Griffon ambassador who uncovered the AwfulTruth about her homeland and eventually repented, defecting to Cobbletown and becoming a genuine 'Sapient Rights' activist.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: PlayedWith: she ''does'' die, but unlike Freedom she [[{{Reincarnation}} comes back]] in a way, which Freedom never did.

* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** The Cobbletowners and their monarchs are friendly and tolerant of each other regardless of race, and welcome anyone who wants to enter their kingdom. That being said, they aren't stupid and are willing to be harsh when needed. They despise all forms of discrimination and bigotry with a passion, as such things stand against everything they believe in.
** Likewise, the Firecrafters are beloved by Cobbletown (and many places in the outside world) for being kind, helpful, and adorable Draconic creatures. Nonetheless, they do not like being exploited and are quite willing to defend themselves with fire, claws, and guile.
** Talon Bàis, [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/900966875/4960097892 a kingdom known for its Dragonslayers]], attempted a genocidal war against Cobbletown and other 'Free Dragon' kingdoms like it. The resulting conflict, referred to as the 'Talon Bàis War', ended with the titular offending kingdom completely destroyed and its forces (which mainly consisted of racist, hardline fanatics) wiped out to the last Griffon.

Pit Viper (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Cobbletown-Bio-Pit-Viper-the-Insidious-Vine-996982791 here]]) is an ancient human king from the First Age turned mind controlling plant entity that's unleashed in the modern day.

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%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: [WIP]

%%* CynicismCatalyst: [WIP]
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: [WIP]
%%* DarkIsNotEvil: [WIP]
%%* DelightfulDragon: He initially wasn't this in his youth by virtue of condoning his fellow Dragons' bigotry and constant raids on innocent 'Tiny' civilizations, even though he was merely an InsufferableGenius. However, after a series of events in which he learned (and relearned) the virtues of friendship, altruism, and coexistence, he came to realize his past bigotry was wrong, influencing him to become an open-minded and compassionate Dragon

%%* {{Forgiveness}}: [WIP]

%%* KarmicJackpot: [WIP]

%%* AssInAmbassador:
%%* TheAtoner:

%%* BadPowersGoodPeople:

%%* CooldownHug:
%%* DefectorFromDecadence:
%%* DeityOfHumanOrigin:

%%* {{Forgiveness}}:

%%* GetOut:

%%* GoodCounterpart:
%%* GuiltComplex:

%%* HeelFaceTurn:
%%* HeelRealization:

%%* ItsAllMyFault:
%%* LaserGuidedKarma:
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: She got kicked out of a diplomatic conference for violating diplomatic protocols with her extremely racist behavior. This leads to her researching her kingdom's history out of desire to support her anti-Dragon racism, upon which she discovers that her kingdom was actually founded on complete lies while her kingdom's founder was nothing but a racist mass-murderer who targeted innocent Dragons out of sheer hatred for them. Her discovery creates a fall-out so bad that her kingdom is reduced to rubble by the end of it, thanks to divine and mortal retaliation.

%%* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:

%%* WhiteHairBlackHeart:
%%* YouCantGoHomeAgain:

Pit Viper (entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Cobbletown-Bio-Pit-Viper-the-Insidious-Vine-996982791 here]]) is an ancient human king from the First Age turned mind controlling plant entity that's unleashed in the modern day.

* BigBad: Pit Viper serves as the main antagonist of the Cottonmind Outbreak in his attempt to 'retake what's his.'

* {{Expy}}: Of [[Literature/WingsOfFire Cottonmouth/the Othermind.]]

* {{Expy}}: Of [[Literature/WingsOfFire Lizard/Freedom.]]

[[folder:Emperor Pit Viper, the Insidious Vine]]

Emperor Pit Viper (entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Cobbletown-Bio-Pit-Viper-the-Insidious-Vine-996982791 here]]) is an ancient human king from the First Age turned mind controlling plant entity that's unleashed in the modern day.

* ForWantOfANail: If the Dragons didn't find the original Cobbletown or didn't have the heart to continue staying in the area, Cobbletown would have become like Abyssinian's [[WretchedHive Kludgetown]], eventually disappearing from history altogether.

* ForWantOfANail:
** He wouldn't have come to the realization that both his resentment and BoomerangBigot feelings towards Dragonkind are wrong if he hadn't heard of [[HumbleHero Blue Suede Heartstrings]] snapping and nearly turning into a Fallen Alicorn during his [[WalkingTheEarth globe-trotting]].
** This is later discussed with Dragon Lord Pyro II. Blacktip [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/871322352/4904787725 notes]] that if he hadn't met good people like Urtica, Moon Ray, and other benevolent Dragons like Arcaniss, he would have gone down a path of villainy that's similar to Valefor's.
---> '''Blacktip:''' [There] was a time I didn't want to be a Dragon, period. After learning of all the horrible things they did to others, including the Changelings, I was sure we were all destined to be nothing but savages.\\
'''Dragon Lord Pyro II:''' Yikes. That sounds like something Valefor would say.\\
'''Blacktip:''' Ugh, really?\\
'''Dragon Lord Pyro II:''' Yeah. I recall him saying something about Dragonkind being destined to be nothing more than the 'beasts' Tiamat made us to be at one point.\\
'''Blacktip:''' Well, that makes me glad Urtica, Moon Ray, and good dragons like Arcaniss snapped ME out of my funk. I don't know where I'd be without them."

* ForWantOfANail:
** Had she not followed Twilight/Amicitia's suggestion to participate in the Convocation of Creatures despite her ShrinkingViolet tendencies, she would not have gained the information needed for Professor Horwitz to find an addendum document that confirms the Ponies' debt to the Griffons was paid, dooming much of Equestria to be seized by Griffonstone (especially its revanchist [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Autorist]] factions).
** If she hadn't befriended Blacktip, he likely would not have come to terms with the hardships he suffered because of his people, or forgiven Dragonkind for mistreating and scorning him for wanting to become an intellectual. He also likely would not have become a demigod like she did.

%%* HurtingHero: [WIP]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The young crown-prince is positively ''adored'' in Cobbletown, mainly due to the kingdom's acceptance of hybrids.

* VirtuousVegetarianism: As a Talon Bàis Griffon, she used to eat various Dragon dishes (including those that used [[EatsBabies Dragon eggs]] and [[WouldHurtAChild juvenile Dragons]] as ingredients), and saw nothing wrong with this due to her racism. After discovering the AwfulTruth of her home and surviving the destruction of Talon Bàis, she was among many who turned to vegetarianism to atone for partaking in their former kingdom's atrocities.

* FantasticRacism: Deconstructed. While he never participated in his Dragonflight's crueler activities like pillaging 'Tiny' civilizations and terrorizing 'Tiny' non-Dragon races, he still condoned them and saw his people's bigoted, xenophobic attitudes as normal. Meeting a Pony named Magic Scroll and befriending them forced him to see that his bigotry is wrong, and losing his first friends to his cruel neighbors - as well as learning his parents' role in it and seeing them do nothing to help him during his [[KangarooCourt sham trial]] - exposed him to how insidious and ''horrific'' bigotry can get. Though he was left deeply embittered and cynical for a time, he relearned the importance of friendship, altruism, and coexistence and became a champion of those values, opposing bigotry at every turn.

* PurpleIsPowerful: He has purple eyes, and he is a Dragon god of Magic and a powerful magical prodigy - so much that people started comparing him to Princess Twilight/Amicitia Sparkle.

* {{Seers}}: One of his PsychicPowers is precognition. His Friendship domain both plays it straight and inverts it - he has a form of precognition that shows a person's potential friendships with others, and a form of retrocognition that shows a person's friendship history.

* SympathyForTheDevil: He pities [[JerkassGods King Aspen]] for going through the same circumstances as he did - starting out as an innocent youth who experienced horrible tragedies, then turned into a bigot by toxic people who held twisted ideals of what the 'perfect creature' should be. This leads to him imploring for Aspen to rethink his bigoted ways during their encounter in the Cosmic Convocation of Divine Sovereigns, despite being faced with FantasticRacism from the latter.

* TrueCompanions: His relationship with the other Draconic co-founders of the Cobbletown Pantheon is this. Initially, he kept himself at arm's length from them due to being extremely disillusioned with friendship and not wanting to go through the pain of losing more friends. However, after opening up to them about his problems, he is met with genuine sympathy and supoprt, after which he breaks down crying. This convinces him to have a second go at friendship, leading to the Dragons becoming close friends. When he Ascends to demi-godhood and shares insecurities over being crowned King of their pantheon, his friends assure him that he earned his position and they're all there to help him rule.

* FreudianExcuse: All of his preexisting issues, such as his InferioritySuperiorityComplex, his [[HiddenHeartOfGold urges to hide his true self]], his self-loathing, and his anger problems, stem from growing up in a society of Dragons full of bigotry and toxic standards of strength. Learning of the truth behind the 'Burning of Amorea' event from Prince Arcaniss just compounded these issues into outright nihilistic pessimism regarding Dragonkind's future. However, it's deconstructed, as these same issues turn out to be holding him back - his pessimism is just as closeminded and harmful since it only contributes to the problems plaguing Dragonkind, not stop it. As Twilight/Amicitia points out, his need to hide his true self only creates a SelfFulfillingProphecy where people will only assume he's like his greedy, cruel, and domineering kin since they don't know what he's truly like. And as he later notes to Dragon Lord Pyro II, if he didn't have a support network or seek out Moon Ray Vaughoof for help, he would have become as bad as Valefor.

* NoTrueScotsman: Deconstructed. Many Dragons, up to including his own parents, mistreated and scorned him for not being a 'real' Dragon because he wanted to pursue intellectual goals instead of being domineering, greedy brutes like the majority of Dragonkind is - conveniently ignoring the fact that one of Dragonkind's creators is the intelligent Dragon King Bahamut. He later ran away from home with King Bahamut's blessing/encouragement, but then he discovered Dragonkind's role in 'The Burning of Amorea' and the near-extinction of Changelingkind, which [[HeroicBSOD emotionally broke him]]. All these factors turned him into a BoomerangBigot who believed all Dragons, himself included, are destined to be good-for-nothing savages who burned, pillaged, and destroyed because they can.

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: While not outright abusive, his parents were disappointed in him for not following the ways of their people - that is, being domineering and greedy brutes whose strength made them 'superior' to 'Tiny' races. It's deconstructed as this contributed to his present issues regarding his desires and self-image.

* ColorMotif: Green. Parts of her body are different shades of green (light green wings, forest green carapace, and aqua-green exoskeleton). Green represents growth, adaptability, and kindness - Urtica's a sweet and adorable Changeling who's easy to befriend because of her adorableness, and despite her ShrinkingViolet tendencies, she was able to become a Changeling demigoddess in part thanks to the encouragement she received from those around her. But Green also stands for inexperience - despite her newfound power, Urtica is very inexperienced by Royal Changeling standards and has little to no combat experience.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She started searching for truths about her kingdom's founder Gael. Gamall[[spoiler:/High Queen Kunnusta]] gives her exactly that, but the truth she discovered [[AwfulTruth isn't exactly a pleasant one.]]

%%* InternalizedCategorism:

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: She got kicked out of a diplomatic conference for violating diplomatic protocols with her extremely racist behavior. This leads to her researching her kingdom's history out of desire to support her anti-Dragon racism, upon which she discovers that her kingdom was actually founded on complete lies, while her kingdom's founder was nothing but a racist mass-murderer who targeted innocent Dragons out of sheer hatred for them. Her discovery creates a fall-out so bad that her kingdom is reduced to rubble by the end of it, thanks to divine and mortal retaliation.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: As Blacktip noted, her situation regarding her former kingdom is similar to his - both of them learned of an AwfulTruth that was deliberately twisted by their own people to make themselves look more heroic, sending them into a HeroicBSOD. In Blacktip's case, he learned of the 'Burning of Amorea' and how Dragonkind twisted it to make themselves appear more heroic, while Swan learned her FantasticRacism was based on a complete lie created by [[FakeUltimateHero a genocidal mass-murderer]]. This actually led to them becoming friends as Blacktip knew full well what she was going through, having experienced it himself.

* OurGryphonsAreDifferent: She's a Southern Griffon - specifically, a Swan Griffon - and thus is part Swan and part feline.

* SirSwearsALot: She is rather foul-mouthed when angry, even after her HeelRealization.

* VirtuousVegetarianism: As a Talon Bàis Griffon, she used to eat various Dragon dishes (including those that used [[EatsBabies Dragon eggs]] and [[WouldHurtAChild juvenile Dragons]] as ingredients), and condoned their production due to her racism. After discovering the AwfulTruth about her home and surviving the destruction of Talon Bàis, she was among many who turned to vegetarianism to atone for partaking in their former kingdom's atrocities.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: After training under Prince Sermo Machina for many years, she becomes a Celestial Griffon demigoddess who embodies Truth, Diplomats, Hatred, and Coexistence.

* BrokenTears: Learning Gael's true nature and thus having a HeelRealization over her own actions utterly breaks her, leaving her a sobbing wreck. Even once Blacktip calms her down, she can't stop crying due to the amount of anguish she's going through.

* EtTuBrute: On the receiving end from her former country-griffons. She used to be one of their star diplomats and a well-respected purveyor of their ideology and beliefs. Then she found out and published the AwfulTruth about Talon-Bais founder, which caused a massive uproar in and out of the country. She was eventually branded as a traitor and a heretic by the fanatical PoliceState which rose to power, forcing her and other likeminded Talon-Baisians to flee elsewhere for asylum.

%%* GodhoodSeeker: A positive example.

%%* SemiDivine:

* TakeOurWordForIt: Her massive, racist tirade at the conference was so foul-mouthed, bigoted, and inflammatory that ''Codex Equus'' researchers refused to reprint it.

* VillainousBSOD: To say she was NOT happy learning about the AwfulTruth about her nation’s founder would be a massive UnderStatement. She ultimately rallied though and chose to do the right thing by publishing it.

* AdultFear: Her situation essentially consists of her discovering that her beloved homeland was founded entirely on genocide and racism, which was covered up by higher authorities. In the ensuing social/cultural divide, she and others who learned the truth are branded as heretics, forcing them to flee and seek asylum in another kingdom. Then she loses her old homeland permanently when various kingdoms and allied nations destroy it in a war, though she comes to accept her loss with help from her friend, Blacktip.

!!!'''Character:''' Anti-Villainous [=->=] Heroic
!!!'''Alignment:''' Lawful Evil [=->=] Lawful Good
!!!'''Type:''' Ambassador, Racist (Former), Whistleblower, Atoner, Reforming, Sapient Rights Activist
!!!'''Faction:''' Talon Bàis (former), Cobbletown

Ambassador Swan Song (her entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Heroes-and-Villains-36-900966875 here]]), is a formally racist Griffon ambassador who uncovered the AwfulTruth about her homeland and eventually repented, defecting to Cobbletown and becoming a genuine 'Sapient Rights' activist.

%% * TheAtoner:

* ExcrementStatement: It's implied, to vent her resentment and anger over being branded a heretic for speaking the truth, that she did something...indecent on one of Gael's toppled statues.

* FoulWaterfowl: She's a Swan Griffon, but was an incredibly racist bigot who abused her ambassador position to encourage the systemic dehumanization and persecution of Dragons, seeing them as little more than savage beasts to be curbed. But once she discovers the horrible truth about her [[FakeUltimateHero kingdom's heroic founder]], she [[FormerBigot renounces her racism and becomes a sapient rights activist]] to atone for her previous actions.

%% * GuiltComplex:

%% * HeelRealization:
* HeinzHybrid: Is a Southern Griffon - a Swan Griffon to be exact - and thus is part Swan and part feline.

* OhMyGods: She screams the names of Notus and Boreas, two prominent Griffon deities, as she [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone laments how she was unwittingly endorsing a racist mass-murder who lied to everyone]].

* SirSwearsALot: Sacred Swan is rather foul mouthed when angry, even after her HeelRealization.

* SwansASwimming: Is part Swan as a Southern Griffon, and occasionally shows signs of it like honking when she gets angry. Also, her webbed paws make for good swimming, but are less dexterous for actually holding stuff.
* TakeOurWordForIt: Her massive, racist tirade at the conference was so foul-mouthed, bigoted, and inflammatory that Codex refused to reprint it.

%% * WhiteHairBlackHeart: