Second dragon from Wings of Fire - a Rainwing this time. Again my goal was NOT to copy "official design".
I must say this is not my favourite dragon kind - the description is too unnatural and lacks basic logic in terms of their scales' features. If any of the breeds in these books is a complete fairy tale, it's this one. Thing about the scales and Rainwings' ability to camouflage (even though in books it sounds more like they are disappearing or become transparent) is that they're acting more like some LED displays than a living creature. To make it at least a bit realistic, I came to conclusion that their scales have to be small or very thin/transparent - definitely no big plates or horns like in the "official design".

The most important in Rainwings are the colours, I think - after all almost each represents some emotion/mood. But still each dragon has to have some basic colour. How then can one tell between what's the dragon's neutral colouring and what's the emotion trait? I think it's like with people and reading their faces/body language: u have to know the person to be able to tell for sure what they're feeling. Same here - if u know the dragon, u know their neutral colouration.

Also Rainwings are much more slender than Mudwings and they lack the thick scaly armour - the feathery scales on their backs are no thicker than human fingernail so they get jagged/lost easily and offer no protection. Fortunately they also grow back easily. They are mostly used to show off. Most of the Rainwings' anatomy makes them more fit to live among trees - next to prehensile tail, they have long, deft fingers in front paws, two free digits in wings and long, prehensile digits in rear paws, arranged like parrot's (two to front and two to back). In general they resemble exotic birds crossed with snakes/lizards more than not.

As for the Raindropper himself - he's a gatherer and one of the best ones. When he was a dragonet, during their gathering training he tried to pick up too big fruit and dropped it on his teacher's head. Since then other dragonets nicknamed him "Dropper" and he didn't like it at all. He decided to become the best gatherer their clan ever witnessed, so each day he was flying farther and was bringing more fruits. And he succeeded. Great help to him is his sister's sloth Toto, who became particularly fond of him after the two Rainwings discovered they are siblings. Together they find the biggest and ripest fruits.