Atila

Physical Description: Atila is an eight-year-old girl. In her dragon form, Atila appears as a massive Golden Dragon with an impressive wingspan. Her scales are primarily a pale gold color on her body, transitioning to a deeper, more vibrant orange-gold on her limbs and wing membranes. Her head features distinctive ornamental crests and a fearsome visage with sharp teeth and intense eyes. Despite her intimidating size and appearance, she often fails to maintain a properly menacing demeanor. In her human form, Atila appears as a young girl with long, flowing light blue hair and bright golden eyes. She has small, blue oval eyebrows. She wears a cream-colored kimono-style robe with yellow trim and a large red bow at the center, along with a green underdress. She completes her outfit with traditional tabi socks and geta sandals. Her round face and large, expressive eyes give her a naturally innocent appearance.

Description: Atila is a small, quiet, and meek girl who can switch between a fearsome dragon form and her true form as a meek girl. After a public mishap where she was seen in dragon form, she's been hiding in a cave, reluctantly playing the role of 'scary dragon' to survive. She's terrible at it, but the local villagers are easily scared enough that simply showing up in dragon form and growling a bit is sufficient to get food.

As a Golden Dragon, she possesses lightning-based powers, though she's not particularly skilled at using them to appear threatening. Atila is able to release a bolt of lightning from either her mouth or any other part of her body. In dragon form, her lightning attacks are significantly more powerful. Atila has the enhanced senses of a dragon, being able to detect unseen presences in her surrounding area.

Young Golden Dragons are expected to go on a sort of 'proving journey' when they reach a certain age. It's supposed to be this grand adventure where they demonstrate their power and bring honor to their clan. But Atila, being meek and not very good at being threatening, basically fumbled it from the start.

So instead of returning home in shame, she's been hiding out in this cave, sending exaggerated letters home about her 'terrifying exploits' while actually just scaring the occasional merchant wagon. Her family thinks she's out there being this fierce, impressive dragon, when really, she's just trying her best not to be discovered as a fraud.