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“Is it better to be safe and broken than it is to be dead?”
M. L. Wang, Blood over bright haven
Clearsight and Listener, historians say they were the bestest of friends!
Blaze!
🗣️ WE'RE WAITING EVERY NIGHT TO FINALLY ROAM AND INVITE
love you wingy hands @acronym49
In love with people who give the dragons hands on their wings and use them like hands
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#30 - "Your Choice"
Smaugust 2024
I am very fond of the second arc protagonists. They are my favorite collective of plot focus characters, which may be evident by the fact that I've been drawing them more than any other in this challenge. They are a very charming group, even if a few possible character connections are vastly underdeveloped (Moon and Turtle, Winter and Turtle, and Winter and Kinkajou could probably form very strong bonds if they were explored).
The flipside of fondness is usually the formation of strong opinions. I think about these guys a lot. One thing I initially thought was fine, but then struck me as strange on a revisit was the ending of Moonwatcher's book. You have the group (sans Winter), who previously struggled to accept Moon for her unintentionally invasive powers, ostensibly overcome their mistrust of her and solidify their respective bonds with her. Kinkajou in particular tells her that, because she makes no secret of her thoughts anyway, it doesn't matter to her that Moon can read her mind. Up to there it is all very wholesome and heartwarming. Moonwatcher then decides to give them an out, sharing the secret of Skyfire as a way to block her powers. This is a good and very noble gesture, really showing her trustworthiness and respect for their privacy here.
But then they actually take her up on that offer, right after stating they are over their misgivings. I get why they do it--Moonwatcher's uncontrollable power is really inconvenient and annoying to be around--but backtracking 5 seconds later makes their previous declaration of acceptance ring a bit hollow. If I could make a choice here, I would really have liked this to turn into a long-running character arc for the group, where they gradually learn to trust Moon and eventually decide that they don't need the Skyfire anymore, taking it off for good. And Moon in turn could work on refining control over her power so she can be around her friends without accidentally reading every thought. Maybe all of that could have been a scene in the arc 2 finale. But at the very least I would have liked for Kinkajou to stick with her original declaration and reject the Skyfire outright, signaling to Moon that--contrary to her mother's words--the powers are not a curse and that she doesn't need to be ashamed of them.
I guess here is an idea for potential fanfiction: Make them chuck the Skyfire in the bin. Let Moon see that her friends choose to hang out with her even if they can't block her powers.
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Long comic today. Sorry it took a while to come out. I think this is the longest one I've drawn for this challenge too.
Just one more day and then Smaugust will be done. I hope you have been enjoying this so far. Thanks for sticking with me.
Do You Know This (Non-canon) Autistic Character?
Evidence below the cut!
Moonwatcher is definitely at least autistic-coded, due to Moon’s relationship with her physic powers and her interacting with others being similar to and/or relatable for people who have (symptoms of) autism.
A few of these symptoms include Moonwatcher feeling overstimulated and/or overwhelmed from hearing multiple others thoughts and her visions of the future and Moonwatcher having and/or had trouble with socially interacting with others.
Submitter also added:
TW: Ableism
Moonwatcher has a mother - Secretkeeper - who views Moon’s powers as a ‘curse’ and assumes that any dragon who has powers like Moon is miserable from having them. Secretkeeper told Moonwatcher that Moon must hide her powers no matter what or else everyone would either reject or hate Moon for telling others about that part of herself -
Which honestly feels quite similar to a neurotypical mother telling their autistic child that they must hide who they are or else they will not be accepted to other people (A Mom who also possibly even views their kid’s autism as a ‘illness’ too.)
I was tired so I drew a rainwing napping. More referencing cats for poses
“What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that,” Brett Elmore recounted to NBC News. “He said there’s wires all over the ground and the tower is gone.”
love you anon
I have an offbrand DewWing because Idc about closed species and making people pay money for creativity is 👎
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deli snkfek
Dily snowfel?
dsly snpfall
I need to prove a point to my mom. Reblog if you can realize you’re asexual/aromantic in your teens.
@sardonic-the-writer
Can i come over and be weird (show my WoF headcanons and ocs)
so that's what christianparentsreviews was talking about
I've personally always found it weird that Burn was a c@nnibal and everybody just forgets and ignores that. I mean like I get she was already a little kooky with the Weirdling Tower but c@nnibalism??
In book one, when Scarlet shows Glory to Burn, Burn says "Waste of food." and although it states immediately after that that she looked jealous, it does indeed mean that Burn would eat her own species, and she may have possibly already done so with her prisoners.
I think she’s saying that feeding Glory would be a waste of food, not that Scarlet should eat Glory or otherwise it’d be a waste of food.
furry species ranked by how difficult it'd be to take them anywhere
dragbon duh
If you press the button there is no questions from anyone, nobody refers to your previous self, & no issue is caused beyond learning to be comfortable in your body & choice.
if six claws is best girl then who is best boy
Queen Moorhen, obviously.
guiys stop bullying fat espeaker shes done nothing wrong 😢
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she's literally me
chat how are we feeling about transfem winter?
she wants treats
babyy
yeah these are all cool
I'm just doing a quick experiment to see if people will argue about any ship. Moon x Carnelian.
Chameleon x Mastermind x Morrowseer.
Peril x Glory x Deathbringiner. Discuss.
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competitive fishing au
I get SO much overwhelming support on here, discord, and instagram - especially combined. It blows my mind, all the kind people who engage with my characters/story and even read and enjoy it. It’s so unreal. It feels like a dream come true. I can’t express how thankful I am for each and every one of you. Every funny response in hashtags, every comment, every time someone notices smth in my writing, any engagement at all. I’m so sappy and cringe but seriously
I’d love to do some sort of event- maybe for 200 followers here? If yall have suggestions lmk somehow. Either events or something with my ocs yall would wanna see to celebrate
competitive fishing au
I get SO much overwhelming support on here, discord, and instagram - especially combined. It blows my mind, all the kind people who engage with my characters/story and even read and enjoy it. It’s so unreal. It feels like a dream come true. I can’t express how thankful I am for each and every one of you. Every funny response in hashtags, every comment, every time someone notices smth in my writing, any engagement at all. I’m so sappy and cringe but seriously
I’d love to do some sort of event- maybe for 200 followers here? If yall have suggestions lmk somehow. Either events or something with my ocs yall would wanna see to celebrate
People stating that Sora is less sympathetic and/or is worser than Icicle and - God Forbid - stating that Sora only wanted to kill Icicle in order to take revenge of Icicle for killing Sora’s sister, Crane, honestly makes me feel the urge to rip my hair out.
Sora (unlike Icicle) grew up in a kingdom where dragons from other tribes are able to invade and then attack and kill dragons living within their homes. Her own sister was murdered by Icicle only a couple MONTHS ago when she joined the JMA. Sora is also the closest dragon who shows symptoms of having PTSD, due to the flashbacks she’s shown to experience from the war within Moon Rising.
Due to Sora’s trauma from Icicle killing her sister, she was fearful paranoid her own safety around Icicle, despite the fact that weren’t fighting in the war anyone.
Because of this, when Icicle mentioned in her sleep that “killing is easy enough”, Sora believed that Icicle would be the type of dragon to continue ending other’s lives with her own claws, regardless that the war ended or not. Which made Sora believe that Icicle wouldn’t just kill her sister, but multiple other dragons within the Jade Mountain Academy too. Sora didn’t just kill Icicle to get revenge on her for killing Crane. She did it in order to protect other dragons from being killed by her too.
Like- I’m not making it up nor even exaggerating this part of Sora’s character, this is literally stated in canon.
“Our very first night here, when I still wasn't sure — I was almost sure it was [Icicle], but I thought I must be mad, and I couldn't let myself sleep because what if she did the same thing to me that she did to Crane? And then in her sleep, she muttered, 'Killing is easy enough.' ❗️That's when I knew. She's a murderer and she won't stop until someone does what I failed to do.❗️
-Sora, Moon Rising, Pages 267 - 268
Of course, you could say “But that’s stupid for Sora to think! Icicle didn’t kill Crane because Icicle’s a bloodthirsty murder, it’s because they were fighting in a WAR!”
And while that’s true, here’s the thing: Trauma isn’t (always) logical nor rational.
Fear isn’t an emotion people experience from logic and reasoning.
Let alone for someone having PTSD from a War and living around the very person you saw murder one of your closest family members.
Expecting someone, specifically an Traumatized teenage ex-soldier who only JUST turned 18 - who only recently stopped fighting in a war & only recently clearly saw her sister being murdered - to think rationally towards the person (let alone their PoV) who murdered her sister, is honestly quite illogical and even unreasonable to expect from Sora and her character.
Does this make Sora’s actions excusable and/or justifiable, especially since she didn’t mean to harm any other dragons while attempting to kill Icicle?
HECK NO! It does NOT excuse nor justify literally bombing a room of a school, and attempting to commit literal murder.
Sora’s grief and trauma explains Sora’s motives and actions, and makes her PoV understandable and even sympathetic, but does NOT excuse and/or justify her actions and choices at ALL, what-so-ever - this is true about ICICLE’S character as well.
Then does this mean that Icicle is worser and/or less sympathetic than Sora? HECK NO to that too!!
Icicle was being manipulated by Queen Scarlet, who stated to Icicle that if she didn't kill the DoD, that her brother, Hailstorm - who Scarlet knows the whereabouts of - will DIE, resulting in Icicle to be forced into making the decision of killing multiple of her teachers and a Queen (who she doesn’t know very well) and her brother who she believed was dead for literal YEARS.
And Icicle not caring about killing others is due to her being raised as a literal child soldier throughout her life, being made to repeatedly harm and kill others out on the battlefield.
Sora and Icicle are BOTH morally-gray ex-child soldiers who've been traumatized by the war, who are both sympathetic or at least understandable characters who commit awful and/or immoral actions out of the fear and trauma of losing someone that they love.
So stating that EITHER ONE OF THEM is “less sympathetic” and/or “is worser than the other” honestly feels quite icky and/or irritating to me.
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People stating that Sora is less sympathetic and/or is worser than Icicle and - God Forbid - stating that Sora only wanted to kill Icicle in order to take revenge of Icicle for killing Sora’s sister, Crane, honestly makes me feel the urge to rip my hair out.
Sora (unlike Icicle) grew up in a kingdom where dragons from other tribes are able to invade and then attack and kill dragons living within their homes. Her own sister was murdered by Icicle only a couple MONTHS ago when she joined the JMA. Sora is also the closest dragon who shows symptoms of having PTSD, due to the flashbacks she’s shown to experience from the war within Moon Rising.
Due to Sora’s trauma from Icicle killing her sister, she was fearful paranoid her own safety around Icicle, despite the fact that weren’t fighting in the war anyone.
Because of this, when Icicle mentioned in her sleep that “killing is easy enough”, Sora believed that Icicle would be the type of dragon to continue ending other’s lives with her own claws, regardless that the war ended or not. Which made Sora believe that Icicle wouldn’t just kill her sister, but multiple other dragons within the Jade Mountain Academy too. Sora didn’t just kill Icicle to get revenge on her for killing Crane. She did it in order to protect other dragons from being killed by her too.
Like- I’m not making it up nor even exaggerating this part of Sora’s character, this is literally stated in canon.
“Our very first night here, when I still wasn't sure — I was almost sure it was [Icicle], but I thought I must be mad, and I couldn't let myself sleep because what if she did the same thing to me that she did to Crane? And then in her sleep, she muttered, 'Killing is easy enough.' ❗️That's when I knew. She's a murderer and she won't stop until someone does what I failed to do.❗️
-Sora, Moon Rising, Pages 267 - 268
Of course, you could say “But that’s stupid for Sora to think! Icicle didn’t kill Crane because Icicle’s a bloodthirsty murder, it’s because they were fighting in a WAR!”
And while that’s true, here’s the thing: Trauma isn’t (always) logical nor rational.
Fear isn’t an emotion people experience from logic and reasoning.
Let alone for someone having PTSD from a War and living around the very person you saw murder one of your closest family members.
Expecting someone, specifically an Traumatized teenage ex-soldier who only JUST turned 18 - who only recently stopped fighting in a war & only recently clearly saw her sister being murdered - to think rationally towards the person (let alone their PoV) who murdered her sister, is honestly quite illogical and even unreasonable to expect from Sora and her character.
Does this make Sora’s actions excusable and/or justifiable, especially since she didn’t mean to harm any other dragons while attempting to kill Icicle?
HECK NO! It does NOT excuse nor justify literally bombing a room of a school, and attempting to commit literal murder.
Sora’s grief and trauma explains Sora’s motives and actions, and makes her PoV understandable and even sympathetic, but does NOT excuse and/or justify her actions and choices at ALL, what-so-ever - this is true about ICICLE’S character as well.
Then does this mean that Icicle is worser and/or less sympathetic than Sora? HECK NO to that too!!
Icicle was being manipulated by Queen Scarlet, who stated to Icicle that if she didn't kill the DoD, that her brother, Hailstorm - who Scarlet knows the whereabouts of - will DIE, resulting in Icicle to be forced into making the decision of killing multiple of her teachers and a Queen (who she doesn’t know very well) and her brother who she believed was dead for literal YEARS.
And Icicle not caring about killing others is due to her being raised as a literal child soldier throughout her life, being made to repeatedly harm and kill others out on the battlefield.
Sora and Icicle are BOTH morally-gray ex-child soldiers who've been traumatized by the war, who are both sympathetic or at least understandable characters who commit awful and/or immoral actions out of the fear and trauma of losing someone that they love.
So stating that EITHER ONE OF THEM is “less sympathetic” and/or “is worser than the other” honestly feels quite icky and/or irritating to me.
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