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Meant to write a little tonight but the weather went back up to 30 and I got a migraine :(

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Meant to write a little tonight but the weather went back up to 30 and I got a migraine :(

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Ant: Why are you acting so weird?

Nereus: I’m the village crazy man. That’s my job.

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Finn: I never considered you an enemy.

Fontaine: I never considered you at all.

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I forgot to draw Kaiko's face marking she has in her human version,and all of the nektons have different face marking around both of their eyes and they still keep their face markes even as dragon.the marks of their facese are suppose to glow at night like bioluminescent creatures.dialogue

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I finaly finished drawing kaiko with her armory i love how the desing truned out up next will be Will as a nightfury and with his armory but right now i realy need to rest and i feel like shrimp at this point on how much i bend my back but am just glad i finished drawing kaiko with her armory i just cant get over how amazing it looks.

I will also give credit to @headfullof-ideas for the reference and drawing inpos for Kaiko's armor desing.

(If you're wondering what is that on her chest,its a knife blade)

I also finished painting nightfury kaiko today as well i will say her color blend reminded my of a geodo crystal🤣

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Ant: Yum, thanks!

Madeline: *puts more tape over his mouth* I said stop eating it!!!

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Ant: kicking Madeline's door open, YOU’RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE WHAT I JUST REALIZED

Madeline: what?! what is it?

Ant: IF YOU WATER WATER, IT GROWS

Madeline: ...

Madeline: HOLY S-

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Ant: Are you this rude to everyone?

Madeline: Yup.

Madeline: Don’t think you’re special.

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Purple Old English Gothic is Alpheus, pink Technical Lettering is Kaiko. Not sure how well the metallic details came across, though. something to work on.

Quote is once again something @httyd-nerd posted.

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I meant to start recording this before I started drawing, but here's a quick timelapse of an unfinished piece. My shoulder started complaining before I could do anything fancy, but I intend to add some waves at the bottom later.

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I finaly made nightfury kaiko but i feel like i dont like the desing on the body the head is fine is fine but maybe i could have done something different but for now is acceptable.for will nightfury i will do something different with his design that way when i work on ant and fontaine they can get traits from their parents.for now am not so sure how their color scheme will go because i want to use their wetsuit colors but i dont know what patterns to use on them.and i also wanted to use the idea of their marks to make them glow like bioluminescent beaches at night.but if any body has different ideas on Kaiko's desing or the nektons i would appreciate alot.

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Introducing the second original dragon species in my crossover AU, the Forktail! (Name pending, but for now I can’t think of anything else. Though I’m not opposed to the name)

The Forktail is a relatively uncommon dragon, or a relatively isolated from human settlements dragon, depending on who you ask. Regardless, Forktail dragons are hard to find, and not just because they avoid most humans. Forktails have the ability to camouflage, much like their far larger and more common relatives, the Changewings. Unlike their larger cousins, Forktails don’t have the ability to spit acid. However, over years of evolution they’ve developed a small defense mechanism when their camouflage fails. A brief electrical surge can run across their skin, shocking anyone who is touching them. Unlike Skrills or Shockjaw dragons, Forktails don’t shoot lightning bolts, simply having the lightning surge. It’s effective nonetheless, very few people being happy after being zapped by a Forktail.

Forktail dragons, like their cousins the Changewings and another dragon of similar heritage, only come in a certain number of colors. Forktails come in a variety of blues, greens, and purples, though they can come in practically every shade and combination of the colors possible. Forktails also have a bioluminescent pattern that they flash as communication or as a mating display, though they only glow when the bioluminescence is needed. It’s hard for a dragon refuted for camouflage to hide when they have bioluminescent patterns glowing all the time, after all. Forktails have light grey eyes no matter the sex, and have very little outward differences to determine the gender of a dragon.

Forktails are hard to come across, and usually unnerving to many who happen upon one. Most dragons show a sentience that most other animals don’t have, on par with human empathy. Forktails, while dragons, are a little different. They’re known for being seemingly detached emotionally, though no less intelligent or sentient than all the other breeds of dragon. Rumor has it that there’s a little something else in their genetic heritage beyond the blood they share with Changewings, something that’s more prominent in another, more dangerous cousin. This isn’t to say that, intelligence and empathy wise, they’re lesser than other dragons. Forktails are still just as intelligent and capable of complex, human levels of thought, that other species of dragons have. They’re even known for forming intense bonds with dragons of their own species and others.

Behold, the dragon that Alpheus is traveling with, a Forktail! I had to include ARIA in some way, since she’s such a big part of his story, but I wasn’t sure how to bring her in for a while. For starters, the technology required to make an AI doesn’t exist here. But I didn’t want to make her a person here either, and Alpheus having a dragon that he rode didn’t feel right either. Eventually, I settled on a smaller dragon, with abilities that were similar to his submarine. Sooo, did I make an entirely new species of dragon just so Alpheus can have ARIA? No, not entirely. Forktails are also part of a further world building effort, something that becomes relevant and important further into the series we go. The emotional detachment is meant to resemble how ARIA is an AI in The Deep, but it also connects to the world building and lore that the species she’s a part of has.

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I talked with my brother today, bouncing ideas off him as one who writes does, and finally figured out Alpheus’s motives and goals. I of course will not be revealing them quite yet, but I have them figured out now!

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Something i thought about while writing more of a fic today, that I was also reminded of reading a tag @lamarie-artsy about something in a story of theirs being a Madeline in increment, was Ant and Maddie’s heights in general. They’re roughly the same height, Madeline being a bit taller, but the context for their height regarding their age group is WILDLY different for the pair of them.

Ant is twelve-thirteen years old during the show. He has been mentioned repeatedly throughout the show now as being small. It was mentioned, like, five seperate times during that episode with the temple and the giant stonefish.

Madeline is ten years old, and turns eleven later in the series. Her dad is really tall and Finn’s a decent height as well. The Junior Nektons, two years younger than her at best, are considerably shorter than her and Ant.

So, might I offer up a new headcanon of mine about these two, for all of you seven people of this fandom, to enjoy. Ant is, kind of canonically, pretty short for his age, and Madeline is actually tall for her age. This pisses Ant off even further when he realizes how old Madeline is, filling him with utter rage at the fact a ten-eleven year old he deals with on a regular basis is taller than him, and obnoxiously lucky in the genetic department by just being tall in general

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Fontaine: So I have made the decision to trust you.

Finn: A horrible decision, really.