#🍂shedding scales au

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Ooooo for the shedding scales au, I really like this prompt, all the yanderes just want to dote on the new baby dragon, meanwhile reader and maybe the other teens too are confused as to what they do now that they're frickin dragons, this au gives me skyrim vibes.

Can I ask for something with reader meeting the xmen for the first time? Whether they're some mystery baby who popped up out of nowhere, or a sacrifice offered by the cult.

Haha, is this an idea or an ask? I'm not doing full requests (a full story) but I can do a small one. Let's try this:

Being tied up wasn't fun.

Being left at the foot of the steps to a giant, golden temple was not fun.

Being stared down at, and covered in blood, by gigantic, enormous, terrifying dragons was not fun.

But here Reader was, trying to chew through the gag in their mouth and struggling fitfully against the ropes that bound them. The stone underneath them was cold, scattered with hard, shining objects, each shimmering faintly in the cloudy dawn. Deep, guttural noises boomed from above, amd Reader count help but curl in on themself at the loud noise. The growls and grunts echoed across the sky, reverberating into the rocks and air and Reader, shaking everything it touched.

Yet the moment the chanting ended... one of the dragons reached out, large claws open wide, to tap Reader, surprisingly gentle for such a large monster...

And then something glowed, sharp and bright and stinging, then Reader felt a change shift across them.

Their skin started to chafe, tearing away in places only to grow soft, leathery scales. Their back arched, their bones shifting and popping and cracking with each movement. Their fingers seemed to shrink, growing sharp talons, while their teeth sharpened, their head elongating and forming a new shape, new bones. Something sprouted from their back, scrambling and flapping against the chill and snow. And lashing from their end, coiling and twitching and scaly, was a tail...

When the pain finally resides, leaving behind an ache that fills Reader's bones... they notice just how much bigger and vivid everything looks. The dragons are even more gigantic, the temple more imposing, the stone so much colder... Yet when they look down... they don't see their hands. They see small, scaled hands, each finger tipped with a tiny claw. Reader tries to shriek, yet what comes out is a small, whining cry, sounding like a cheep or chirp...

Something scoops them up, large and dark and so so warm, and then it clasps around Reader, leaving them in heated darkness. Rumbling noises come from everywhere, and Reader can feel the shift and thuds as the being holding them moves. They can't help but nudge themself into a small ball, trying to sleep...

It's soft, and quiet, and warm, when they wake up. Yet when Reader cracks open their eyes, the find they're not alone.

In a large, seemingly unending nest are other small dragons, with different colors and wings and sizes... and watching over them all, with a warm, fanged grin, are the seven large dragons who did this to them...

"Hello, hatchlings..."

[honey-minded-hivemind]

sorry, but for the 🍂shedding scales au, how in the KFC do they turn reader into a whole dragon! 🌂

Ooooo, good question, Umbrella Anon!

As the adults are dragon gods, they have divine powers, as well as ancient rituals for all kinds of things. So, to make humans hatchlings (anyone from newborn to twenty-one) into a baby dragon, they pick out the human, collect some shed scales, use a bit of their own dragon blood to paint runes on the human, chant an ancient spell, then use their divine powers to make the human a dragon, their old scales being used to start baby scales on the human, their raw power becoming the new baby dragon's own power, and the ritual seals the enchantment, making it a no-take-back situation. And now, the adults have a baby dragon, ready to love on and put in their nest!

[honey-minded-hivemind]

(In regards to the recent piece you did)

Reader waking up in the nest surrounded by baby dragons: Hi, what's going on????????

Random hatching: idk I got here like a month ago. Also shut up I'm trying to sleep-

Yep. Everyone is learning how to get along and trying to make a timeline of what happened. It's hard, though, plotting an escape when you're small, being watched almost 24/7, and you feel like napping every few hours... Friendships do happen, but, well... it takes a bit of time, patience, and a shared trauma to make it grow.

[honey-minded-hivemind]

*breaks out of my sarcophagus* Did someone say dragon cult?

Yes! I did! I kinda think Reader would be an unwilling sacrifice or offering, thinking they'd be eaten, but NoPE- They got adopted and turned into a little dragon baby!

The adults are definitely the type who encourage the newly made little ones to start their own cults and explore their new godly powers. Of course, they're also the ones picking them up and instigating nap time, as well as burying them all in mounds of blankets and treasure.

Did you have questions or asks for this AU, Lamb Anon? Did you have questions or asks for my other aus? Feel free to drop them in! Have a great day!

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Okay, imagine like, a Dragon God AU of the X-Men (at least the Evolution version)...

You have the adults as dragon gods who adopt or helped birth/make the demi-dragon teens, and who mess around with mortals. They're larger than life, can fit inside a mountain, and have actually had cults and religions made after their image to worship them... And then they just, keep adopting or making these teens, and then they just, make them into baby/young dragons once they've finally got them, and go about trying to raise them, among their mountains and woods and cults.

Then Reader shows up, and now everyone wants to figure who either made them, or if they can adopt them, and Reader is SO confused, then scared, because WHY ARE THE DRAGONS TRYING TO ADOPT THEM?!

Who wouldn't freak out if the so-called gods of the continent decided, "screw it, I'm adopting this tiny child and forcibly making them my dragon child"?

Especially since the dragon gods are making their forcibly adopted children deities as well, because they need more dragon gods, because the adults are the last few alive...

It's kinda funny and kinda scary...

(This isn't necessarily set in Wings of Fire or Pyrrhia or Draconolgy or any other dragon series or franchise, I'm kinda imagining original dragons and with special divine/dragon powers)