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Character Entry #17.
Name: Kelvin the Dragon.
Favorite I-Scream Flavor: Seventeen-Up Bubble-Up.
Likes: The number 17 and anything numerically related to this counted entity.
Dislikes: Ending up one short of his faved number when counting or chewing or casting his collectibles into arranged display order.
*Scaring Talent: SeptaDraco Thunderclap.
Appearance:
This, the first dragon within the castle's cast, appears to be slightly larger than the Count himself. Deadened golden-browned scales cover his entire body, save for a cartilagenous scaly underbelly of a lighter amber color. He has two straight though slightly curve-tipped burnt blackened horns, placed atop his head just above his floppy triangularly-rounded dragon ears. He has the standardMuppet round black-pupiled eyes, two darker gold-brown eyelids, a burnt blackened dragon's snout, sharp whitened teeth with two frontmost fangs, and a blazing reddened inner mouth. A short-stalked curving neck connects his rounded dragon Muppet head to a massive pear-shaped Muppetlike torso. He has two strong arms and two powerful legs, all ending in four-digit hands and feet, tipped with short smoked burnt blackened claws. He also has two deadened golden-brown dragon wings coming out from his back partially open and yet somewhat draped around his body, and a deadened golden-brown dragon's tail, etched thanks to two rows of small amber wingflap-shaped scales. He doesn't wear much in terms of wardrobe... A smoky reddish shirt covers most of the top half of his upper body, the sleeves marked by a myriad of darker 17's printed across the arms. Additionally, he wears a sleeveless blackened metallic armor suit fashioned jacket. His seventeened shirt-sleeved arms poke through the open sockets of the armored jacket, as the jacket cinches shut vertically thanks to a silverized chainlink zipper. Finally, he's often seen toting his precious, a lovingly-wraught white golden number 17.
Backstory:
Kelvin came into the world of mathematical monsters in an odd manner... His dragonling egg had been laid for seven days, taking another ten to hatch. This instilled in him an innate fondness for the number of his birth. Growing up in the forests, he hid out in caverns, sometimes associating with an errand traveling Fraggle. Originally, this dragon was a subject of the Kingdom of Fred, a land that treasured the number 17 as much as he did. Two heroes, a brave knight and his pogo-jumping cowboy pardner set out on a mission to retrieve the kingdom's prized possession. When asked politely, Kelvin was glad to share his own white golden trinket, returning to celebrate in the ensueing rebellations. Wishing he had it back, he asked the king of this faraway feifdom to restore the 17 as the overgrown reptile was its frightful owner. Leaving his friends behind, Kelvin sojourned to the land he had heard of only in passing... Numbervania would become his new haunting grounds, where he could collect lots of 17's, keeping them safe in his holed-up horde. The Count even gave him a shirt proclaiming the dragon keeper of all 17's, as this number was proudly printed at random intervals across the arms of the red-hued wrappings now enveloping the neighborhood's newest arrival. Prefering to live in the Forest of Fears, Kelvin feels perfectly at home here, watching out for weary travelers, offering them a respite inside his septadecimaled dwelling.
Counting Scene:
Maple-stained leaves sway back and forth, clinging to the trees' brittled branches as chilled eerie winds rustle them so. Kelvin comes forth, careful not to jostle any of these leaves from their precarious perch. Making deft use of his claws, he ravages the earth beneath him in an attempt to locate his buried treasure. Once he has claimed it, a bit of polish goes into cleaning up the white golden 17. He smiles at this—not to mention the black 17 denoting a freely floating stormy sphere—his dragonly wings and tail pounding the ground at the same time the cloud shoots off its bolted greeting, the dragon of the number 17 getting added to the Counting Castle's cast of souls.