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PARA-423-Epilogue: Parthia

Name: Parthia
Pronouns: She/him/it
Residence: Linguan Coast
Height: 65 cm
Personality: Asocial, fickle, uncaring
Design Features: Two heads. Feathered & webbed wings.
Accessories: Carries around a magical scroll.
Extras: Head with blue eyes uses she/her pronouns, head with yellow eyes uses he/him pronouns.
Never refers to itself as plural or they/them - can use it/its when talking about the entire individual.
Name Origin: The Parthian Dart: Endings and Epilogues in Fiction, 1992 essay by Pat Rogers.

Acquaintance:
Sköll is a big, scary-looking Paralogos with a heart of gold. Ever the people-pleaser, Parthia finds him annoying but can rely on his loyalty.

Story:
Parthia was adopted as an unformed tabula rasa into the Broussard family when River, its eventual bonded caretaker, was a toddler. The two grew up together, learning and exploring their love of stories glued to the hip. Parthia was particularly interested in story endings. The pair would read and write together as well as act out their stories with pillow and toy props.

River was diagnosed with leukemia at age 7 and spent many months in the hospital battling the illness. Although they eventually saw it through and was declared cancer-free, the ordeal traumatized Parthia. It spiralled into Wicked-ness, crossing the line that cannot be uncrossed. It became obsessed with endings, particularly the deaths of people and creatures around them. It's personality split, which manifested in reality as two heads - this is where it's gender identity changed to she/him.

The Broussards, alarmed at the prospective monster that surfaced in their family, tried to cast out the troubled dinosaur, but River wouldn't have it. They were adamant to be there for Parthia just as it was there for them.

These days River is a grown adult and left the nest but still keeps Parthia close to their side.