History Characters / CodexEquusCobbletown

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: He disarms the hostile and xenophobic [[JerkassGods King Aspen]] by asking, "...You know nothing beyond what you were taught, don't you?". Then, when Aspen accuses him of "[knowing] nothing about [him]", he responds by asking two more questions that leaves the Deer King speechless:

* BadassTeacher: [WIP]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [WIP]

* CoolTeacher: [WIP]
* CynicismCatalyst: [WIP]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [WIP]
* DarkIsNotEvil: [WIP]
* DelightfulDragon: [WIP]

* {{Forgiveness}}: [WIP]

* HurtingHero: [WIP]

* KarmicJackpot: [WIP]

* TopGod: He's the official King and leader of the Cobbletown Pantheon, which he co-founded with other Dragons who joined him in bringing Cobbletown out of abject poverty. His entry notes that his friends unanimously chose him for the position due to his experiences and good deeds, and despite feeling unworthy and undeserving of his title, he was assured that he won't be ruling alone.

* AbstractApotheosis: [WIP]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [WIP]

* TheArchmage: [WIP]

* GoodIsNotSoft: While they are welcoming and tolerant towards anyone who enters their kingdom, they harshly punish hate crimes, and they are willing to let evil deities and mortals test them so they can be better prepared for real threats, like packs of greedy and spiteful Dragons looking to burn and pillage Cobbletown. They also do not tolerate '[[ForTheEvulz Destructive Evil]]' and persecute factions like Hydianites with extreme prejudice (save for those who are innocent and/or genuinely repentant).

* MeaningfulName: To "cobble" is to roughly assemble or put together something using available parts and/or elements. Cobbletown is a cosmopolitan kingdom that is occupied by members of various races like Ponies, Changelings, Diamond Dogs, and even Dragons, but they all live in friendly and peaceful coexistence with each other. This also applies to the Cobbletown Pantheon, whose founding members are Dragons, but have since welcomed both Dragon and non-Dragon deities into their ranks.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Cobbletown Pantheon love and accept anyone who want to live in Cobbletown, whether they are living creatures or part of the undead. They do not have mercy for those who willingly commit hate crimes, participate in '[[ForTheEvulz Destructive Evil]]', or break Primeval Laws. They also do not like the majority of Dragonkind who indulge in their self-destructive tendencies to raze, pillage, and terrorize non-Dragon races.

* OurGodsAreDifferent: [WIP]

* TookALevelInJerkass: [WIP]
* TookALevelInKindness: [WIP]

%% * HeelFaceTurn:

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She is ''horrified'' to learn that Gael was actually a racist mass-murderer who portrayed himself as a hero, and that both she and her people were unwittingly supporting his actions. The truth affects her so much that she [[StressVomit pukes up everything in the bathroom]]. When she meets Blacktip afterwards to apologize for her previous racist behavior, he is shocked to see her changed from a haughty, racist ambassador to an emotional wreck with a ''huge'' guilt complex.

%% * VillainousBSOD:

* FantasticRacism: Deconstructed. Due to growing up in an environment with strong anti-Dragon racism, she became incredibly racist herself despite being an ambassador. This gets her evicted from a diplomatic conference, as she violated diplomatic protocols by launching an extremely racist tirade about Dragons being "savage beasts pretending to be civilized", which infuriated the Dragon representatives there, including an attending Blacktip. However, after doing research on her kingdom's history, she discovers her beliefs were based on a complete lie, which devastates her so much that she visits Blacktip's apartment and tearfully begs for his forgiveness. She also flees to Cobbletown along with those who also learned the truth, after which she would play a role in her former kingdom's destruction. At one point, she believed her racism made her guilty of the crimes committed by her kingdom's founder by association, but Blacktip would assure her she's not responsible for what happened and the only thing she's guilty of was simply being racist.
* 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 genocide and bigotry, while her kingdom's founder was nothing but a monster and a liar. 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.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She understandably doesn't take the realization all her anti-dragon persecution were the direct result of following a lie created by a racist mass-murderer well. At all.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Sacred Swan's explosive expose of Gael, the 'Dragonslayer King''s true character and crime kickstarted a chain of events which led to Talon Bais [[GoMadFromTheRevelation descending into a cultural-political crisis]], falling under the control of fanatical hardliners who establised a PoliceState, start wars of genocide against nearby Dragon nations like Cobbletown, leading eventually to its total defeat and destruction. Sacred Swan was not happy about it initially, but accepted that her own country-griffons made their own choices as to whether to accept it and change for the better like she did, or double-down on their racist fanaticism and doom themselves.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: As pointed out by Gamall[[spoiler:/Kunnusta]], after discovering and reading Gael's journal, she's the only mortal presently alive who knows the AwfulTruth about his actions. As such, she could either close the book and never reveal the contents, allowing her kingdom to continue living in ignorance that their founder was actually a mass-murdering liar, or blow the lid on it and finally right an injustice that had been hidden since its founding. Swan ultimately chooses to do the latter.

* EnlightenedSelfInterest: [WIP]

* TheGoodKing: [WIP]

* InsufferableGenius: He was initially this by virtue of preferring to study magic over socializing with others, even though it protected him from becoming as bad as his bigoted Dragon neighbors in his youth. This increased after losing his first friends to his cruel, greedy, and arrogant Dragons from his own Dragonflight, causing him to believe that friendship was not worth the risks. While he chose to help bring Cobbletown out of poverty, it was only so the Cobbletowners could pay him back with arcane lore once they got rich enough, and he originally planned to live out his days studying magic in solitude. Thankfully, prolonged interactions with the Cobbletowners, receiving support from the Dragons who would become his friends, and being influenced by benevolent deities like Arcaniss helped him grow out of his insufferable tendencies.

* 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 led 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.

* TookALevelInCynic: [WIP]

** [[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. The conflict ended with said kingdom completely destroyed in the end.

* InternalizedCategorism: This is part of the reason why the Cobbletown Pantheon's Dragon members didn't want to [[GoodNeedsEvil accept evil as a constructive force]]. If they let evil exist in Cobbletown, they would become no better than the arrogant, brutish, and greedy Dragonflights they left behind. They eventually got over this after Prince Arcaniss and other deities showed them the consequences of developing puristic views of evil and getting rid of it altogether.

* {{Forgiveness}}: After realizing during his travels that even Dragons could change and his resentment of his own kind is wrong, he sought out Moon Ray Vaughoof, who helped him come to terms with the hardships he suffered in his youth and let go of his resentment. As it turned out, letting go was what he needed to [[DeityOfHumanOrigin become a demi-Ryujin]], which is what happened to Moon Ray himself three Ages before.

* FreudianExcuse: Deconstructed. While he has sympathetic reasons for his behaviors, said behaviors turn out to be holding him back. It's by letting go of them that he's able to Ascend.

* GodIsGood: [WIP]

** 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 the same path that turned Dr. Toxikon into a genocidal mass-murderer.

* FreudianExcuse: [WIP]

* PayingItForward: [[DontFearTheReaper Moon Ray Vaughoof]] helping him overcome his issues regarding Dragonkind later influenced him to befriend ex-Dragon Lord Isona through her own DarkestHour, saving her from [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] and helping her overcome her guilt over her actions as a monstrous tyrant. Thanks to him, Isona made a genuine HeelFaceTurn, and would play a huge role in stopping the [[SerialKiller Dragon Town Slasher]].

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Subverted. He has red eyes like in canon, and he's a bigoted Dragon... except he really isn't. He's actually an intelligent Dragon who wants to learn and teach, but puts up a front to protect himself from ridicule over being "[[NoTrueScotsman fake]]".

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: As pointed out by Gamall[[spoiler:Kunnusta]], after discovering and reading Gael's journal, she's the only mortal presently alive who knows the AwfulTruth about his actions. As such, she could either close the book and never reveal the contents, allowing her kingdom to continue living in ignorance that their founder was actually a mass-murdering liar, or blow the lid on it and finally right an injustice that had been hidden since its founding. Swan ultimately chooses to do the latter.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: As pointed out by Gamall[[spoiler/Kunnusta]], after discovering and reading Gael's journal, she's the only mortal presently alive who knows the AwfulTruth about his actions. As such, she could either close the book and never reveal the contents, allowing her kingdom to continue living in ignorance that their founder was actually a mass-murdering liar, or blow the lid on it and finally right an injustice that had been hidden since its founding. Swan ultimately chooses to do the latter.

'''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."

* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was born in a toxic environment where Dragons favored strength over intelligence, so when he showed signs of the latter, he was scorned and bullied for [[NotTrueScotsman being a 'fake' Dragon]]. Even his own parents were [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent disappointed in him for not being more like them]]. Trying to fit in made him miserable, and while he did learn of the 'Burning of Amorea', the accounts he read were deliberately twisted to portray Dragonkind in a heroic light. He eventually ran away from home with King Bahamut's blessing, and things did turn up for him, but it's not until he became a student of Prince Arcanis that he learned the ''true'' reasons why Dragonkind pillaged Amorea, which for a time convinced him that Dragonkind is destined to be nothing more than a race of greedy, brutish savages.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [WIP]

* InternalizedCategorism: [WIP]

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

* CanonForeigner: As with Urtica, he's a character from the IDW comics (specifically the '[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue61To62 Convocation of the Creatures]]' issue) that was adopted into the Codexverse.

* DeathGlare: He glares at Pony officer Hard Case for assuming Isona is the [[SerialKiller Dragon Town Slasher]] just because she's [[FantasticRacism a Dragoness with a history of being a brutal tyrant]], despite her having pulled a genuine HeelFaceTurn by this point.

* DelightfulDragon: [WIP]

* HeroicBSOD: He ''really'' didn't take it well when he learned from Arcaniss the truth behind the 'Burning of Amorea' event, which the Dragons caused out of greed and cruelty and led to the Changelings becoming obsessed with survival. While Arcaniss, the Church of the Stars, and others provided emotional support to stave off the worst of his feelings, he believed that all Dragons were destined to be good-for-nothing 'savages' and was unsure of what to do with his life, so he [[WalkingTheEarth traveled the world]] with Urtica for a while with both Arcaniss and Thorax's blessings. Eventually, he got out of it by seeking out Moon Ray Vaughoof, who helped him come to terms with the hardships he suffered thanks to Dragonkind and lets go of his resentment, triggering his Ascension to demi-godhood.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Subverted. Due to how deities age in the Codexverse, he's younger than Urtica by divine standards because she Ascended to demi-godhood first. He's also older than non-Ascendant Dragons like Isona, who's centuries old and bigger than him, by virtue of being a demigod.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a young Changeling demigoddess who embodies Knowledge, History, and Intelligence.

** She's also friends with a few Alicorns like Prince Crimson Star, Princess Nete, Prince Crystal Clear, Prince Shamrock, and Princess Twilight/Amicitia. Twilight/Amicitia in particular is her [[HeroWorshipper idol]], while Princes Crystal Clear and Shamrock [[OddFriendship are not academics like her, yet they still befriended her anyway]] due to sharing similar struggles with their own shyness.

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: She got kicked out of a diplomatic conference because she violated protocols by showing extremely racist behavior towards the attending Dragon representatives. This leads to her researching her kingdom's history, upon which she discovers that her kingdom was actually founded on genocide and bigotry. 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.

[[folder:Sacred Swan]]
First introduced [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/900966875/4960097892 here]], Sacred Swan is a formally racist Griffon ambassador who uncovered the AwfulTruth about her homeland and eventually repented and defected to Cobbletown.

* {{Fainting}}: He promptly fainted upon learning he became the student of the ancient Ryujin, Prince Arcaniss, who is famously regarded as TheParagon among Dragonkind for his nobility and heroism.

* ForWantOfANail: He wouldn't have come to the realization that his BoomerangBigot feelings towards Dragonkind are wrong if he hadn't heard of Blue Suede Heartstrings snapping and nearly turning into a Fallen Alicorn during his [[WalkingTheEarth globe-trotting]].

* InterspeciesFriendship: [WIP]

** He helped foil a revanchist Griffon Autorist plot to destroy an ancient document so they can seize much of Equestria's land and restore Griffonstone's former glory. This leads to him becoming a student of the famed Prince Arcaniss, causing him to [[{{Fainting}} faint]] from shock.

* ShutUpHannibal: When a Dragon of the Griffonian Dragonflight rebukes him for siding with "pathetic, lovey-dovey 'Tinies'" during the 'Griffonian Dragon Incursion', in response he calls them a "bully" who takes things for themselves without asking. Coincidentally, the Griffonian Dragon turned out to be a former neighbor who scorned him for his intellectual pursuits.

* {{Fainting}}:

* FantasticRacism: Due to growing up in
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He notes that he and Sacred Swan are very similar, both learning an AwfulTruth about their people that sent them into a HeroicBSOD, in his case Dragonkind's 'Burning of Amorea' while Swan learned her FantasticRacism was based on a complete lie created by [[FakeUltimateHero a genocidal mass-murderer]]. ​He proceeds to comfort her and help her through it because he knows exactly what she's going through.