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Got a rude response from someone I reblogged from so I'm making my own post about Ice Flight because um--

Hey Ice Flight can be pretty cool actually and be different from the rest of the flights, and this post is gonna be my two cents about it. I've seen people go around just summing it up as "cops" when just like every other Flight they can be so much more?

While first, I do agree that Ice’s aesthetic is kinda weak as is. Not a lot you can do with the same winter themes over and over with the occasional broken chain motif. I’d love to see people get creative to what they think Ice represents and how they contribute to Sornieth’s systems, cultures, and dragons as a whole.

I see ice flight specializing in stuff like collection and cataloguing as iirc before the map update it said those were things Ice Flight likes. I think where Earth is Uncovering What Was, Ice is about Preserving What Is.

They’re not entirely just cops (and even then stripping them to just the role of "cop" is a bad take). They’re also researchers of the things they fear, and of relics that need studying. In my head Ice would probably have the best museums, archives, and storage houses. What better way to preserve or trap something than in ice?

They’re a flight of Order, not so much in the sense of cops and law but a flight that bulks when there’s a sense of disorder or chaos, disorganization, and imperfection. If it’s uncategorized, unsorted, then it needs to be so in order to be learned. Where Lightning is stats and progression, Ice is pattern recognition (Tundra’s memory being linked to their smell may also reflect this) and tradition (Gaolers role system and lack of awareness about the state of Sornieth and not just the Ice Fields).

This can be extended then into interests, individual home cultures, businesses and what not. Why not start a collection of rocks? Or insects? They’d know best how to preserve it. Need something specific from the shop? Probably very easy to find if you know the qualities and traits you’re looking for. Need something preserved for safe keeping? They’ll do that, and they’ll do it awfully well. Perfectly. The systems have to be perfect. The line up has to be perfect and up-kept and looked after intensely— possibly so intense it’s evolving into passion. There can certainly be a sense of pride.

Combine with the lore that Ice is typically more hostile to outsiders due to their melting home I can see them being much more traditional and closed off. Not quite isolated, but having a more unique culture that’s a little more closed off from others and not quite as shared, trying to preserve what is left of their home and traditions.

What about urban legends and superstition? They’re guarding creatures and horrors in those prisons, surely the local resident dragons have folklore over that? What about fishing and hunting, two very popular ways to get food or supplies in climates like these? Where are the ice fisherman skins or hunters bound in furs? What about the fauna or flora found in the region we can probably make skins for that too.

Existential horror can also be fun; remember, relatively recently Gaolers learned that Sornieth has changed. Dragons of other flights have other magic not native to their elements and in addition the age old threat of Shade that seems to be making new problems for new times.

We have a flight literally dealing first hand with monsters and horrors existing already on the planet and in its own prisons and fighting against it, yet people relegate that to Arcane. 😔 Unlike Arcane, the unknown is already here in Ice.

You could easily take inspiration from the movie The Thing, too. It writes itself ngl.

Theres much to do and think about with Ice when you remember this is a region with its own people and culture and not just an aesthetic, and I’d like to see it dabbled in more. Even if it’s just headcanon, you can make it into a skin. That’s what people have done with Light with the whole angelic themes, so why not take creative spins on ice too?

Give ice some headcanon love like y’all do with Arcane and Light. Those flights aren’t about eldritch horror or angels but there’s endless skins for them about it. Give ice some of that same ole love too 💕

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pokemon mystery dungeon explorers games ARE the funniest flex in the franchise like. WHY did they have to make the story not only good but better than anything other pokemon game before or since. By all accounts the pmd games should be a silly little spinoff and instead they're like 'well. Doomed timeline apocalypse self-sacrifice true love narrative to traumatize the youth 🫡'. I think every spinoff made by a rando side studio for a major franchise should do this. they should all get a little silly with it

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Mining dropped in Santae tonight... The children yearn for the mines

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ever thought about how void looks like tear streaks?

void lurien comic based on a talk with @broiled-opabinia

(script under cut)

Long ago, before he became the Watcher when he first took form in this world the first thing he saw was tears / In the years after he became the Watcher and then a Dreamer He looked back upon this moment and laughed / They called it the City of Tears when there was no one to weep But from the beginning this city was built upon tears / Why would a god need guards? Who would have gone against him? Why would a god need a Watcher? Who would dare defy him? / Perhaps the King predicted his own demise even as he built his kingdom

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maybe anduin was a really cute baby and onyxia killed tiffin with a rock because of the baby fever

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I started playing a new petsite that was recomended to me. It's in beta, but so far I've been having a blast! The folks in the discord server are super nice too 🥺 whenever a new person joins people throw gifts at them (and call it "criming" lol)

If you wanna make an account, feel free to use my referral in the replies!

Look at two of my fanciest lil guys...

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yeah sure fuck it why not 

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Hidden in a forest 🌳

Honestly pretty proud of how this one turned out

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Day 19

Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb by Wildgone

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can you do season's greason's in flight rising?

I made Season's Greason's from the internet in Flight Rising!

M Tundra (Common Ice eyes) White/Speckle | White/Freckle | Cream/Points

Igneous Iguana

To those who celebrate it, Merry Christmas! I’m going to be spending today, and the next few days, with my family. And hopefully y’all get to as well!

❄️ Happy Holidays, everybody! ❄️

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Plus the muse but not really muse because I have beef with caramel. Neon looking thang (Caramel/Spruce/Grape, Fade/Eel/Basic)

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more pokemon scries whee

obstagoon- black/obsidian/grey perrserker- driftwood/moon/obsidian dragonite- marigold/turquoise/flaxen

cubone- sand/beige/antique alolan marowak- black/aqua/white reuniclus- pistachio/coral/green