#I like thinking about draggos

[sonofshin]

Dragons can grow to incredibly immense sizes. They are also extremely massive, existing basically only out of muscle, so they are thrice as heavy as they look (just like snakes).

And just like snakes, noodle dragons like to sleep all curled up. So how come they don't crush themselves? How come they don't crush everything around them?

That's because dragons who aren't babies anymore can uphold their magic in their sleep. They stay somewhat weightless during their slumber so that in case they sleep on something fragile, they won't crush it into a fine paste.

[valdederon]

FLAMES JOURNEY CHAPTER #24

raykore and novas heart to heart talk about valdederon , a new hidden threat and valdederons rage.

soon after valdederon enters his trance nova sighs un able to properly meditate as her mind is in chaos when she looks up at raykore who is takinga puff from her smoking pipe.

nova-- ray..raykore.

raykore chuckles softly

raykore--- you can call me ray if you want hun

nova-- ray is… val.. is he realy ok to be taking me in ..to be adventuring and ervything.

raykore stops mid puff and lets out a chuckle.

raykore--- as wise as i am even i dont know the answer to that one pup. id say yes personaly as having seen him grow over the years in this world.. the kids changed physicaly emotionaly and mentaly . and since he took you in as part of his family his drive to improve him self has grown significantly personaly i dont know if hes fully recovered from his traumatic past hell i garuntee he hasnt. but i can say it now longer drives his evry thought hes learned to ignore those impulses and think …. some what lodgicly ha ha ha… some what . he is still verry much a walking army.. but a more foucsed and determined army. though i do expect any demon he encounters may end up causing a flare up in him.

draggo----- uh yea ive seen it first hand.. he has no mercy or remorse when dispatching demons. its like watching him go from happy toddler playful and curious to a battle hardened adventurer.. eyes as cold as the arctic mountain air and a stare that can cause a volcanoe to explode.

raykore--- thats not surprising to me honestly .. nova you dont have to worry about your brother you can trust that he will protect you and should any one do anything to harm you. well god rest thier soul ha ha ha.go ahead ank keep trying to meditate hun try to block out the noise in your mind .

for the next few hours raykore tries to help nova meditate mean while 5 days walk to the south east in a small town with a hidden away bar the magmar who attacked novas tribe comes in and sits down ordering a volcanic eruption == ( imagine vodka if made with carolina reapers mixed with pure capsasin oil with 3 fresh chillie pepers ground into paste and all of that mixed into a 40 ounce glass cup ) == and begins downing it in second slaming his fist down on the table.

the barkeep a scared up machoke named dead eye leans forward.

dead eye-- the job aint finished yet you killed the old man but that little spit fire of his is still loose and from what i hear has joined a guild with a .not so delicate delphox rumor hase it this ones special.. and tougher then an onyxe on black obsdian powder. you get paied when its complete the boss aint happy bout it either.

the magmar looks up at dead eye as he slides a picture recently taken via psychic pokemon power

zorgon the magmar---- so all i have to do is flatten a stuppid little riolu girl tschh barely even a challange.

dead eye--- the way i hear it its not her you need to be worried about its that guild some what shes in but mainly that delphox. he is an unknown. reports are all over.. uses ligning fire.. even got a report of him using water moves. tread lightly you heavy foooted dolt.

the magmar grunts and pockets the picture and begins gathering information about the guild.eventualy coming up with a plan he thinks will work with out a hitch. heading to a den of goblins known for thier greed of ancient gold coins throwing them 7 bag fulls and a map of an ancient long deead kingdom castle fortress complex. in another continent. after a month valdederon wakes up and notices nova is gone from his room and that his head feels off as the effects of a heavy sleeping agent have just warn off his blury vision clearing to show the room a mess after a few minutes clearing his head he uses a spell that uses residual life essnce to reconstruct events into a magical holigram.

40 minutes later the air through out the entire guild grows ice cold and silent the silence broken by a loud explosion guild staff russing to valdederons room to be met face to face with araging blood red flaming inferno beams of wood falling into the flame and 2 piercing green eyes with in the flame taiga the serperior guild master using his vines to hold evryone back as the green eyes vanish into the flames .

kleo--- ok water types put out the fire.. psychics figure out what the fuk just happened.. AND NO ONE .AND I MEAN NO ONE IS TO CHASE VALDEDERON.. unless you want to get hurt. somthing has set him off.

raykore--- gods help his enemies..

kleo-- what does that mean.. i can sense the magic he used he reconstructed the events that happened before he woke that fire.. was fueled by pure rage anger and hatred.. gods worse then when i first met him. who ever angered him. may the gods help thier souls because hes going to kill them.

kleo--- why.. i think nova may also be involved i dont sense here near bye.

kleo-- mother mew.. i hope she is ok.

--------------------mean while near bye--------

valdederon finds a tavern and rips the door open and slams his staff to the floor causing an ice nova to freeze evryone in place.

valdederon--- im looking for a magmar.. scar across his eye probably in posession of a young riolu with minor burn scars. ill know if any one is lying and that wont end well.

the room falls dead slent as the tavern owner comes down from the top floor offic having heard the yelling.

myran a levanae --- your powerful..im not sure what info i may have for you but if youd kindly please release my customers then we can speak.

valdederon--- my little sisters life is on the line ill release them when i have answers.. even if thier vague guesses of were my target is.

she sighs and bangs her heard into the side railing then comes down .

the next few hours are tense untill some one finaly mentions that a near bye town would have such filth and scum and valdederon releases evryone heading out to that town. eventualy ariving after 5 days and breaks the door down and looks around the room growing tense with shock.

valdederon--- this tavern will answer to me.. any one who tries to escape i will cut down. recently one of your patreons stole somthing verry precious to me.. this patreon is a magmar with a scar across one of his eyes. talk and live… stay silent.. and youl sufer greatly

dead eye--- and why should we believe you

apon that coment valdederon fires off a holy javiline pircing the wall behind the bar counter flaming wood splinters flying ervywere the stone red hot and molten and valdederons staff aimed directly at machops arm.

valdederon---- the next one tears your arm off old man. dont fuk with me. i know that the patreon was here recently..

dead eye--- …mmmmmmpph.. fine.. zorgon mentioned he would be setting up camp at a castle some place some dead city called bakoonsk or somthing.. thats all i know.

valdederon heads out after that but causes an earth queake to tear the tavern down traping them all temporarily and begins the long journey to the dark continent of baroovien. using old maps he had gotten form a laibrary only to encounter a hoard of goblins the size of a nations army.

valdederon--- you idiots actualy look intelegent for goblins.

they chuckle and grin untill a bolt of ligning strikes the hobgoblin general the shear electricity causing him to explode into a goopy purple mess the goblins looking at the once great general and back at valdederon .

valdederon--- your in my way scatter or die.

in seconds a battle erupts mean while in the castle the distant sounds of battle can be heard.

nova--- le..let me go… please .. who are you.

zorgon-- im your death..tsch looks like ive been found. . is that.. lignting.. and fire. god now ice.

nova whimpering in fear crosses her legs a puddle growing beneath her chained feet

nova--.s..sounds like my brother is here.. your in trouble now.

----- back at the beack front---

valdederon sslashes his staf out word causing a wave of energy to slize many goblins in half once jumping at his face only to be grabed by the throat and fall limp after a loud crack as valdederon crushes his throat and tosses the goblin to the side the gasping and wheasing as it struggles to breath and then whimpering as it bursts into flames for hours the battle rages valdederon getting to the citty edges and begins to walt through as he summons meteors to fall into the citty the explosions reverberating through the citty and castle walls.

zorgon--- god how many are there i hired an entire army out there .

nova tears up hearing the screams and explosions in the distance. hoping she will survive each passing second the explosions and yelling turned screaming grow closer and closer after awhile zorgon runs down to the entrance of the castle just as 6 hob goblin generals crash through thier boddies practicly turned inside out via magic and a shadowed figure slowly aproaching with the clack…. clack… clack….clack of a staf on stone the torch fire on the wall lighting the figure up . a delphox furr drenched purple with goblin blood the sounds of crumbling buildings in the distance followed by a loud crash as a wall falls over blocking the exit.

valdederon---- what is your name ass hole.. id like to know the name of my victim you kidnaped my baby sister and i wont let that slide.

the magmar stares frozen with fear barely able to mumbler zorgon untill he steals him self.

zorgon--- my name is zorgon and you will be my victim peasant theres no way your not exausted after all of that

valdederon---- SILENCE YOU IDIOT. YOU HAVE NO ROOM TO SPEAK HERE ive lost far to much in my past to loose what i have now.. prepare your self to fight .. .. tsch.. prepare to be slaughtred im not going to fight you.. im going to end you. painfuly… slowly.. brutaly… just one thing first,.. were is the riolu you kidnaped..

zorgon growls--- top of the castle tower.

with in seconds a full blowne onslaught erupts fire lightning ice water stone bullets fire balls and hundreds of others spells fly out in all directions for 6 hours the battle rages untill valdederon lands a heavy blow with a sizable chunk of boulder to the magmars chest snaping his ribs as it hits after words he picks up zorgon bu the throat and tosses him against a pillar causing it to fall over and smashing into his back…youl never escape that.. but if you do rest asured ill end you if we ever meet again.

clack… clack…clack… clack.

valdederon turns and walks away from the slowly dying magmar his lungs punctured by shards of rib and his spinke broken paralyzing him from the hip down passing out from the imense pain nova hearing the silence begins to sob untill the sound of wood on stone comes up the stares and the familliar shape of valdederons body fills the blury void

valdederon--- chin up princess. your big brother is here.

nova---..y,.. you.. they are.. so.. so many

a gental flick of her nose silences her jumbled thoughts

valdederon------your life is far more important to me.. he hired monsters. no one will miss a pile of goblin filth and the mag mar was a acriminal

nova--mmmpph.. i…w..wet my self.. i..

valdederon-- lets go find a hotspring to wash up at .

he gently unchains and picks her up and lets her sob into his shoulder ignoring her claws digging into his flesh and soon enters a hotspring with her and rubs her back gently letting her have her time to let out all her bottled up fear and sadness for a solid 3 hours she cries and cries and cries settling into hickups.

valdederon---- feel better now..its ok to cry you must have wanted to cry while you were beeing held. but wanted to apear strong.. im proud of you for holding strong untill i got here for you

nova---im hungry i havent eaten in a couple days…

valdederon--- i have some berries in my item box for you lets get washed up first though ok.

she sniffles and nods and avldederon gets up out of the hot spring and lets her wash up on her own in private then washes him self after shes finished sitting at the edge to share a pile of oran berries with his baby sister.

nova--- will you be in trouble..

valdederon chuckles neverously knowing he nuked his room

valdederon--- maybey.. i did vaporise my bedroom.

she giggles hearing than and falls asleep in his lap paw in her mouth for comfort as she shivers still stressed but noticably comforted by his presence.

[sunlitmcgee]

Jambu(wings of fire) for the character ask game!

Sexuality HC: Gay

Favorite ship(s): Him and Pineapple were very cute in flames of hope <3

Brotp: I imagine he'd be very funny with Qibli for some reason

Notp: IDK I can't think of anyone other than like. glory. his sister because .. ... yeah

Happy HC: PINK SO MUCH, PINK ALWAYS, THAT'S ALREAYD CANON BUT. HAPPY=PINKIE BOY X100000000

Angsty HC: he stress-chewed on tree bark when he got worried about Pineapple.

Random HC: if such language differences exist between tribes, i like the idea of him knowing bits of french and spanish or some kind of dragon world equivalent . idk. just seems fun

General opinion: pinkie draggo. i like him!

[arcticsilver]

1€@ŘU̸$ M!ku

Here's a Miku I made a while back

"Does she eat (generative) AI?" - @its-fucking-draggo

Yes. Basically I was thinking she's the Miku that acts similarly how Nightshade works, she's the poison that keeps your work safe <3

Her story

Cw//talking about the picture

She was originally drawn as a sort of vent art but I think she's really neat. The collage of pictures behind her are all talking about childhood trauma, abuse and more things that remind me of the anger, sadness and pain I feel towards things in my life. Then I drew an idol like Miku that you see as the line art, I love the idea of her pigtails being wings, similarly to some art I've seen with head wings for angels. I also used one of her usual hair bits as a halo. Following this I made her wear something less idol like, actually pretty modern and usual to see people wear(at least in Texas), sweater and jorts. Color wise I gave her a purple sweater because I enjoy that color and a worn light grey blue look to her jorts. The glitter was because of the angelic sheen of idol like beauty and of course, nothing can last forever, she wasn't just an "idol" she was born of mechanic's and so she had to glitch out and grow abnormal by the beauty of being torn by code string by code string. To be a true angle her eyes cannot be seen due to the fact she sees all, and she's now protector of artists within the web.

[karyokinesheesh]

Reader with Raiden Mei personality and ability

[Requested!]

Content * Bungou Stray dogs, honkai crossover

Warning * almost none again ig, sewerslide mention (don't do sewerslide kiddos), cursing

A/N: I will put the romantic for the legal (Atsushi, Kunikida, Dazai, Yosano, Ranpo (except Fukuzawa and Tanizaki because I don't know how to write a romantic fics of them i'm sorry)) character and platonic (Kyouka, Kenji, Tanizaki siblings (dunno about Naomi's age so to be safe i'll put her in platonic section) and Fukuzawa) for the minor one and some characters that I can't write in romantic one...

(fem reader btw) [Herrscher of Thunder gameplay]

ロマンチック♡ 「Romantic」

Akiko Yosano

-Oh both of you is the Agency's mommies. That's the topic/hj

-You're the Herrscher of Thunder (or just say Ruler of Thunder) and Yosano is the doctor of the agencies. It's a perfect match that probably Jane Austen hasn't think about it

-You have the ability to heal yourself, but you purposely won't use it because you want your wonderful s/o heals you!

-no matter how ruthless Yosano's healing methods is, you still cherished it!

-Yosano often kisses you on the cheek whenever you or her is going to a mission, just like a good-luck kiss

-And you can't hold the blush on your face

Atsushi Nakajima

-You always make a bentō for him

-And of course, Atsushi loves your bentō (and Kyouka too she even managed to steal rolled omelette sometime)

-Dazai even sometimes teases both of you about how is the bentō decorations and style is perfectly matched

-Holy fuck this is cute I'm crying

-You often teaches him how to cook for himself or both of you (and Kyouka too)

-But he doesn't really pay attention, just focusing about how your body sometimes is close to him

-Bonus: he's close with your dragon (what's the name? Is it Bella??? But I'm sure the name it's not Bella Poarch because this ain't build-a-dragon 💀)

Doppo Kunikida

-You're his ideal woman. When he met you for the first time, he knows you're the one

-And he's very very very (have i said another very?) Grateful every morning he's waking up knowing he is your s/o

-Kunikida did his best to protects you, especially holding you back to not exhaust yourself using the Herrscher power

-You may or may not making him a special Divine Key. Like, idk, a pen??? Or smth (since we know that Fu Hua has a Divine Key that shaped like a hairclip)

-So whenever Dazai flirts with you, he just went 🕴🖊 "yo wdym with these I thought you promised to not flirt with my s/o so i don't have any choices to use my Divine Key" *insert Il Vento d'oro bgm* (totally not a jojo reference Istg)

-and pls stop him before otto comes and copies your Divine Key

Edogawa Ranpo

-Idek which witchcraft are you using to make him fell on you, baiting him with a candies?

-No matter how, he loves you and you loves him!

-You buys him candy and sweets, and he's sharing both of them with you. And sometimes rating some sweets into a tier list. (No wonder, it's Ranpo)

-Also, he sometimes asks absurd questions to you. Like;

-"Y/N, I wonder if you can turn on a lamp or some electronic device."

-You're looking at him, but personally curious about it. So both of you tried it, and it's a big success.

Osamu Dazai

-He thought you don't have any ability, but now he knows that you have something MORE THAN ability. Yep, yep, you're a Herrscher.

-When he first knows about it, he's s h o c k e d. Like, holy shit a Ruler??? Isn't that making you a goddess??? Please convince him to not worshiping you

-and sometimes hoping you to just commit suicide with him, with your giant-flying-white-hands that I dunno what to call it.

-If you can't control the gem, he would help you to train to use the power of the gem without turning into a Herrscher form without consciousness (dammit I forgor the name)

-His Ability is useless against your Herrscher power, so be careful to use it in front of him!

-"Y/N! Y/N! YOUR DRAGGO IS SO COOL CAN I RIDE IT WITH YOU????"

-And that's how a dragon is flying at Yokohama sky

-Yokohama people: this is fine

プラトニック☆ 「Platonic」

Kyouka Izumi

-"Hi ma'am, do you mind if i'm your younger sister now?" -Kyouka

-I mean, she IS your sibling rn. Even sometimes Yasha-shirayuki is protecting you

-But whenever you hangs out with her, some people thought you're her mother. Just like when you're buying her a crepes

-"Here's for your daughter, ma'am" said the seller. You just went: 😄😃 what? And after you paid the money, she says this: "Mom, let's get back to the office"

-Please clear the misunderstandings

Kenji Miyazawa

-Our sweet little bean *sobs* must protect

-He's literally AMAZED with you in anything, "how did you did that?" Or "Is this what a true townsfolk power??"

-Kenji went (ʘᴗʘ) whenever you and him has an errand together to do

-You always treat him with food, or at least cook for him

-he can spends hours talking with you, and you can spends hours hearing his stories

-HE'S SO CUTE BYE BRB I'M GOING TO BUY SOME OF KENJI'S MERCH

Tanizaki Siblings

-*inhale* *exhale* okay.

-At first, you are not really close with both of them. Seriously.

-Naomi knows that there's another woman except her, Yosano and Kyouka? Perfect. Also as same age as her? Double kill.

-And that's how you're getting close with Naomi, how about Jun'ichirou tho?

-Well, you hangs out with Naomi, then Jun'ichirou just following her and you around as a good brother he is. And then you two talks alot!

-Perhaps, you're their sibling too...

Yukichi Fukuzawa

-YOU'RE HIS DAUGHTER DON'T YOU DARE CHANGE MY MIND OKAY

-Fukuzawa may or may not trains you how to use Katana too

-at least, you're not beating your opponents with a tuna sword ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

-He can't controls your Herrscher power. So once again, please be careful using your power around him

-Fukuzawa won't dare to put you into a dangerous mission, there's one time you're convincing him and then you get back like: "Dad, that mf beat my draggo"

-Don't ask about what happened after then

-But you're getting treated nicely(?) by Yosano

Not relates but Mobius just get beaten by my SS1 HoT and SSS Fulminata. Raiden Mei supremacy ig

Requested by: @sayonaaraa

[siyakepiya]

Oh you’re face revealing tomorrow so the dukh from english goes away

Youre sucha sweetheart hewwwooo draggo

English is like the comfort one, the nice one

I am thinking about the others cause URGHH

[mercy-misrule]

Ahhhh a legit one actual Aussie blog that also talks about the dragon friends podcast?? And here I was thinking that dragon friends had no platform on tumblr!

oh, Im sorry i missed this ask!

yes, i love the draggos! I've been listening to them since season 3. there's no other actual play like them.

[consacro]

fgd okay I pulled the ones that ..I felt..looked a bit better LOL Under the cut bc one is nsfw and there’s a bunch of images

Putting this back bc @ketzerhund Brand AestheticTM

Apparently I drew Kuron and Yuuri a lot

(Yuuri’s Mega concept when mega gardevoir was leaked/revealed)

I have also done updated versions of them a while ago in this post

A...Dratini-line deoxys hybrid iirc? What did I make him for? Why was he a deoxys splice LOL

He also had a sprite that I modded

The original concept sketch for my luxtei (luxray/entei hybrid) Shiva

THESE GUYS WERE A BLAST FROM THE PAST TBH I think..my friend and i, building our pokemorph world needed conflict, so we came up with opposition for some of our main cast LOL These guys were super aggressive sky pirates, the zoroark being the leader (named Master rofl)

I remember he flirted with my friend’s arceus, Jina

@bladedwingsandclaws​ You might like these guys?

Theeeee ?? I don’t remember what his role was, I think he was Master’s right hand man/first mate. Joker

This guy was Kingdom, iirc he was...a call boy? concubine??? thing?? one of the scouts/fliers for Master’s crew

I made a pixel layout for the team, apparently. Don’t fuckin remember who they all were. Can you tell they were sky pirates LOL

These two (there’s a couple others on the acct too) are of one of my dragons when I was active on FlightRising, a light.. uhhhh mirror? I think they were called. The four-eyed skull draggos named Mjolnir

He was given to me by my friend and tied into our clan lores (Sidereus, her primary dragon, took Mjol from the clan matriarch who was going to basically live sacrifice him. Cal, my leader/a pearl took him in as one of their own)

Mjolnir was one of my first/primary coli dragons so we played tf out of the “brawn over brain” trope for him. Following mirror lore, his wings didn’t develop fully so he was never able to fly like the others, using a cable system similar to the 3DMD from SNK/AOT to clear ground fast.

Anyway tldr Sid had to babysit him a lot and teach him about a lot of shit including what was/n’t edible and sexuality bc Mjolnir was baby. We made jokes about how he’d see those brightly colored d*ldos and think they were candy/try and eat them (and Sid would have a fuckin heart attack)

The humanized versions of the dragums in question

And a funny injoke we had with our group of friends at the time, Mjolnir had a light sprite familiar and we made jokes about how she was a terrible little creature that destroyed bone like the Scraplets from one of the transformer shows

Also my progen/Cal before turning into a pearlcatcher

??? Who is this? Why did I make her? The file name is Faust

And Alei..rofl. I remember my friend and I made a set of chars based on the teasers when RWBY was still like. brand new, as in, the pilot hadn’t even aired yet

I also ...apparently made furfrou siblings and a xerneas at some point???

I don’t know what this was for?? But it’s a super cool concept so I might..do someth with it... blaziken/mismagius

@omegaman255​ kind of reminds me of your Valkyries now that I look at it

These were from when I was active on a petsite called Misticpets wow lol

This one was an ice spirit? I think? raised to be a living sacrifice or someth named Echoes

Neglect, a frankenstein’s monster deer thing

Hard, a fairy dog thing? I remember his hair/wings changed color every day lol

@zelotae​ @iinauras​ you guys might recognize the inspiration for these two.

I don’t remember what I named her but this was my twin from a pair my aforementioned friend made for our pokemorph world (Kuron/Yuuri down to Mjolnir) They’re Giratina/shiny blissey hybrids

I also remember the mom, my combat medic Stella

Also one of two of my arceus, this one’s (surprisingly) named Origin LOL

@xauramoon​ This is also the arceus that Fulmine trained against in her original version o3o

[ariannadi]

I’d like to think I somehow broke a record in regards to this little shit because it only took me about three weeks to finish the whole collection!!!

Anywho his name is now Draggo and I luv him c:

[ozanthium]

How interested would y’all be if I made things to sell on Redbubble? I’ve been thinking about doing this off and on for a while, I’d like to maybe start with redoing some of my pride draggos (I even did a quick sketch of one, shown below) but I’d love to hear any other ideas for things to make. 

Here’s a strawpoll, too. 

[kindredkinless]

❝ How have you hidden out here for so long? ❞ // raf @ len

Draggo

“Uh, geez, that’s a good question,” Len mused, leaning back in his chair. It was somewhat refreshing, knowing that this lady didn’t care what he was. He didn’t have to hide anything from her, for once in his life he was free to act however he felt like. “I think it’s mostly just that, like... I mean, obviously, I run a tattoo parlor, but people’ve just... kinda forgotten about dragons, y’know? A couple hundred years ago, if someone heard I was a dragon pretending to be human, they wouldn’t question it as much. Now it’s just... kinda a ridiculous thing to say. It makes my job easy. All I have to do to discredit that is play off of how ridiculous people think it is.” Well, it had more to do with Malik than anything else, but Len didn’t feel like admitting to that. He didn’t want to know what Malik did to keep people from finding out about Len, but it wouldn’t surprise Len if murder were ever involved.

[keets-writing-corner]

Intro to Music

Music and how its used in storytelling.

Vocabulary: 

- Theme/leitmotif= reoccurring melody or instrument that becomes associated with something

- Soundtrack = musical score behind a visual story

- Track = a singular song from the score

- Score = all of the music written for the story

- OST = Original SoundTrack

Stories mentioned with potential for spoiler: How to Train Your Dragon (1+2), Big Hero 6, Your Lie in April, Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Alright everyone buckle down. Even though this is just another intro, it’s about one of my passions so I’ve got a lot to say. People often forget about or even flat out ignore music in movies, but music contributes a lot more to movies than people care to think about.

Sure, maybe there’s that one occasion where you noticed a nice melody within a movie or show or videogame. But what about the whole soundtrack? Have you ever considered what it does in a story? How it contributes? Why is it there? How does it show different and often hidden aspects of the story? How does it affect our own view of the story?

To be clear here, I am not talking about the sung portions of musicals, nor will I be referencing the sung portion if I DO happen to talk about musicals soundtrack (nothing against musicals, but I do have a little beef with songs with lyrics in them because for some reason people only seem to think music is valid when they have lyrics, and so when I try to talk about soundtracks everyone immediately jumps to musicals because “Honestly, what other kind of movie music is worth listening to?”). No no, I’m talking about the full blown instrumental, orchestral Original SoundTrack (OST).

(Disclaimer: I do not dislike lyrical music, nor do I think people who like it have bad taste in music. There is genuinely good lyrical music, and I do enjoy listening and singing to them too. I just get frustrated because that seems to be the only kind of music that a lot of people care about, and will immediately dismiss orchestral and instrumental music as boring even though it’s not. Sure, some of the older sonatas and symphonies miiiiight be a… hmmm acquired taste. But to say that all instrumental music is boring is a straight up narrow-minded and ignorant view of what music is truly capable of. Jazz alone has many many songs that has no singers and is all instrumental for example)

With that out of the way, let me give how I view OSTs and their role in storytelling. Comparing a book to a movie, there’s a lot of information that’s cut out right? Literally all the narration. As such, movies are left with only visuals to convey their point. Or are they? What is usually in narration? Well, by using the right language, narration’s job is to convey atmosphere and ambiance. There’s a difference between “It was a dark and stormy night” and “The rain pitter-pattered lullingly against the window”. Both are about storms at night, but one is ominous, while the other suggests a relaxed and sleepy atmosphere. Narration is also responsible for the emotions. Sure, the characters are responsible to portraying emotions to some degree, but that only goes part of the way. It’s one thing to see a character’s emotion, and another to feel it yourself. That’s what music does in soundtracks. Music creates ambiance. It tells you what sort of place you’re at when you’re watching. Playing exciting music suggests a moment of high energy that will build up to something (either a plot point (or an introduction if it’s at the beginning)), or maybe the music is slow and somber which means someone is dealing with something emotionally. Or maybe the music is eerie which suggests that something bad is about to happen. Emotions as well. Sometimes characters are too busy doing something to portray their inner emotions, music’s job is to tell you what they’re feeling, and if done successfully, will make you feel that too. 

Now, I’m getting a little ahead of myself, let’s talk about one of the biggest musical icons in music history. I promise you, even if you don’t recognize his name, you absolutely recognize, know and even love his music (If you’re a music nerd like me, you probably already know who I’m going to be talking about). I’m talking about John Williams of course. For those who did a flat “Who?”, let me ask if you’ve heard the Star Wars theme? Superman theme? E.T. theme? Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Jaws- the list is very long, impressive and recognizable. John Williams is the guy who created all that music. It’s important to note, that Harry Potter had a total of four composers, but movies 1-3 were all John Williams. So that iconic Hedwig’s theme is one hundred percent Williams (If you want to learn more about the music of Harry Potter, there is a very good catalogue/analysis (sort of)).

If you visit the page, you’ll notice that there’s a massive list recording each of the Leitmotifs/themes that Harry Potter has. Which is a perfect segway into my next subject of soundtrack and how music contributes to the story! Leitmotifs! Leitmotifs can also be called ‘Themes’ (which is what I’ll be calling it because it’s shorter and easier to write than leitmotif). Theme has lots of different meanings and definitions, for OSTs, it’s usually a set of notes, or a particular melody that can be heard in relationship to something else in a way that the audience associates said melody with the thing. Themes can be tied to anything: emotions, objects, a character, two characters together, an idea, a group, literally anything. Depending on what they’re tied with, they accomplish different things.

It’s important to note that Williams loves using leitmotifs way more than the average composer but even so, some composers don’t use themes at all (it’s a matter of personal preference and also director’s vision), which is a shame if you ask me because from what I’ve seen of my own observations, themes and leitmotifs are one of the most effective ways of playing with and manipulating audiences emotions effectively. By conditioning an audience to a theme, whenever they hear a theme, they will think of whatever it is that theme is associated with, even if the scene itself doesn’t have said representation in it. Imagine having a character with a theme die in the story, then when they die, their theme disappears until maybe later in the story when the main character thinks about them, and their theme is played. You can bet that this will cause crying.

Now because I am a huge music nerd, I could go on and on and on with examples (and honestly, I will cover more of these in another post), what they mean, how they’re used etc etc, so for the sake of not letting this post get out of hand (which, it already is going to be super long), I’ll show an example of how one particular leitmotif is used.

[leitmotif]

This is what I like to call the How to Train Your Dragon’s friendship theme. It’s played many different times throughout the movie. Note, this isn’t the only theme that plays when the two are onscreen together, the two explore many things together, but when it appears, it’s usually when the two are establishing some sort of meaningful relationship or interaction. For example:

[Hiccup’s POV Toothless’ POV]

The first time they meet and decide not to kill each other

[forbidden friendship]

The entire song called Forbidden Friendship is about them establishing trust and might as well be called “Variations on the friendship theme”.

[Playful]

Then they start getting playful with each other

[To the Rescue]

Then Toothless protects Hiccup for the first time

[Drowning]

Then there’s that time when Toothless fell in the water and Hiccup started drowning trying to save his friend, and his dad went down there and saved Hiccup, then had a moment of “Gee, this is my son’s friend” and saves toothless as well.

[hiccup is safe OST]

Then there’s that moment when it’s revealed that toothless saved Hiccup

[Helping Hiccup]

At the end of the movie, there’s that scene where Toothless is helping Hiccup walk. The friendship theme is absolutely EVERYWHERE! It’s one of the iconic How to Train Your Dragon themes! When people hear it, in the context of the movie, it’s almost immediately associated with their friendship. It’s just a fun, light hearted melody, that is both playful and gentle. So… Great! Now we can find all the moments in the movie when the filmmakers wanted us to be thinking about this friendship! Now what? Well, do you remember that scene in the second movie when Draggo turns Toothless against Hiccup and tries to kill him? Guess what plays there?

[Shattered Friendship]

Ouch. Talk about completely shattering a friendship. The theme is only played again after Hiccup manages to break Toothless out of the hypnosis and the two team up to take down Drago, and the theme is taken over by the new theme introduced in the second movie that is symbolic of their loyalty to one another.

I would dive more into this, but I do need to cover the OSTs that don’t use leitmotifs at all, and the hybrid OSTs before the day ends so! (Fret not friends! I intend on doing an intense analysis of How to Train Your Dragon’s music and themes in the future, so if this small taste of what that movie has to offer and my thoughts on it wasn’t enough, do not worry!) (also themes aren’t always melodies, sometimes characters are represented through a specific instrument)

So, as I said, I think that OSTs that use leitmotifs are usually stronger narratively, and have an extra/easier tool for manipulating our emotions. That isn’t to say however that OSTs without any themes at all are bad. There are many OSTs without themes, that have some of my favorite songs in them. Let’s look at another animated movie, Big Hero 6. Now, I haven’t listened to too many of Henry Jackman’s stuff, but from the few things I have listened to, I haven’t seen too many themes if any at all, but he knows how to write music to carry scenes. Case in point, the scene when Hiro rides Baymax for the first time, the scene where Hiro lets his grief get the better of him and transforms Baymax into a killer robot, and the scene when Baymax shows Hiro Tadashi recordings.

Personally, I think all OSTs should theoretically be able to carry a scene, but I can respect when OSTs are just there to accentuate the story, more than carry the scene, but I digress. In the scenes mentioned in Big Hero 6, with the exception of the last one, they’re all mostly scenes without dialogue. Which means, any emotion that creators want the audience to feel have to be portrayed visually, and musically. With the flying scene, the music’s job was to capture the thrill and the wonder of flying. With the killer robot scene (starts at 2:50), the music’s job was much more complex. The music’s job for that scene was many things: first and foremost, it had to encompass Hiro’s rage and his grief. It had to capture how truly broken he was, how far he had fallen. It had to capture Yokai’s fear at suddenly being the target of what was essentially this war machine. It had to capture the horror that Hiro’s friends felt when they saw this out of control robot trying to kill someone, and their fear when they realized they needed to stop him. Lastly, it needed to capture the possible torment Baymax might’ve felt had he emotions (being programmed to cure and being forced to kill). The score at this point absolutely hammers that all on the head. It’s absolutely devastating. As far as the third scene goes, I’ll cover that more when I do my analysis of Big Hero 6 and its representation of grief.

While I do think that OSTs that don’t have themes have a harder time making great standout music, that doesn’t mean that they can’t have them at all. But, this leads me to my next category on here, hybrid OSTs.

You can view these any way you like. T.V. shows have an interesting variant on hybrid OSTs, in that usually they don’t have OSTs for the entire season, rather they have a handful of tracks that they’ll reuse and recycle at different points in time in an episode. In this way, these tracks are played so repeatedly that they end up feeling like a leitmotif because they’ll usually be played in similar situations (e.g. “we’re now at school” “this is a fun time” “this is sad” etc). Sometimes, shows will have notable themes, other times they don’t, but even if they don’t, they still feel like themes. Just to go back to Henry Jackman real quick, the other works I’ve heard of him include Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which he creates a singular leitmotif, but uses it in very powerful ways.

[scream]

The scream. There are many variations on it throughout the movie, and it’s almost always used to announce or suggest the presence of the titular Winter Soldier (for time’s sake, I do have another leitmotif I’d like to talk about now while we’re on hybrids, so I’ll be moving on from the scream, but do know that the scream is another music-themed post that I intend on doing in the future).

So let’s take a look at advantages and disadvantages of leitmotifs and no leitmotifs. On the one hand, themes can be used in very flexible and powerful ways to tell/move the story, and emotions, on the other hand, having too many themes can get confusing to keep track of. On the flip side, all of the storytelling advantages that themes have, OSTs without themes don’t have. They don’t have that character theme to pull up in a scene when they are being referenced for extra kicks and feels, but they don’t have the confusion that OSTs with too many themes have. Is there a way to solve this? Yes, this is what hybrids do. On the one hand, they don’t have a lot of themes. They mostly function like themeless OSTs do. But for the few themes they do employ them, because they are few and far between, they are instantly more recognizable and even hold more weight to them. Take the Winter Soldier’s theme for example. I would argue that that’s the only theme in that movie and yet its impact is incredible. The scream itself is chilling to hear, usually, it starts playing every time the Winter Soldier gets screen time. Then it starts playing when other characters start thinking about him. The second that scream is heard, you know that stuff is about to go down.

So now that I’ve introduced themes vs no themes, let’s dabble a little into how to “read” OSTs. This is also very large and extensive, so yeah, probably going to be a bigger post that goes further in depth about this later. A lot of it is cut and dry. Sounds sad? Probably something sad is happening or being felt. Sounds excited? Probably something energetic is happening. Sounds angry? Maybe it’s a fight. But of course, it goes a lot deeper than that if you hear tracks in the context of the other tracks. Also, it helps if you’re someone who also studies music (like me :D)

I have a friend who knows I love soundtracks, and she would frequently play OSTs of movies and shows I’ve never seen, and ask me what I thought was going on (she watches a lot of animé so the following story uses OST from an animé that I’ve never watched). One day, my friend pulls out this song:

[Song]

She asked me to tell her what I thought was going on. First things first: this song is playful, piano is often played in contemplative situations, and there is a call-response happening between the piano and the violin. To me it sounded like two characters who were supposed to become really close friends were meeting for the first time and getting to know each other. Also, given the dancing feel of the entire song, I would throw in two extra cents on the bet that the scene also had things swirling around these two in the wind (ya know, as animé does). Then, my friend pulled out this:

[Song 2]

I turned to her and asked her, “You gotta tell me, which of the two friends die?” Pianos are also used for somber and melancholic ambiance. The piano is being played gently and wistfully, and the violin partner is missing. The way it leans into certain chords and hesitates on others tells me a lot. Music is essentially another language, you need to listen to the pauses, to the way the notes are being played. The piano is gentle which signals a need for care, which implies affection. Hesitation implies fear of being hurt, in this case, remembering the absence of the other friend. Hesitation also had a hint of waiting for something, waiting for the violin to come in with their part. But they don’t. They can’t. They’re not there anymore. So the piano falls into the melody and the chord, trying to reclaim the song they were playing as a way of holding onto it even though it sounds a little emptier and incomplete. All of this points to grief, which of course points to a death. The pure tenderness of this version of the song sounds to me like someone trying to deal with a fresh loss. When you lose someone, all you want to do is to be with them again, but of course you can’t, so you settle for trying to reclaim their essence, and that’s exactly what this song is. Of course, without having heard the first song, I never would have been able to go so deep into this analysis.

But it goes further. While I was working on a personal project, I was using these two songs for my tracks because of the whole “loss” aspect that they have, and I discovered, they are the exact same song. The entire song is one giant leitmotif. For your listening ease and purposes, I’ve put edited some parts in which they play the same thing (Well, technically, they’re playing the same thing the whole time, but I only edited a few spots where they were compatible enough to play together, and/or for comparison).

[Comparison cuts]

The second song isn’t just trying to reclaim their friend’s essence, it’s trying to play their “friendship song” and being unable to for obvious reasons. Hearing them side by side and/or on top of each other, also shows stylistic differences that clearly exemplify what emotions you should be feeling. In the duet version, the violin leads up to the melody and shines right before entering. The solo piano version tries to imitate their lost friend, but they hesitate. They keep going because they must. Unlike the duet version where the violin flares excitedly before falling into the melody, the solo version hesitates, it seems for a moment like they aren’t going to play anymore. I can even imagine their lip or hand tremble with grief as the chord is held before they reluctantly go on.

Is your heart hurting even though you didn’t even see the story?

Oh look, my Intro to Music got way too long. What a surprise.

Who could have seen this coming?

Music is important, and carries a lot more weight in stories than people tend to realize. Whether it’s carrying the mood, or foreshadowing a future plot point, it’s going to be there to mess with you, your emotions and your perceptions of the story. Keep your ears open, and maybe you’ll notice the music in your favorite shows or movie more now. Maybe it’ll be fun to ask what it says about the story, and maybe, it’ll help you see something you’ve never noticed before.

[valdederon]

FLAMES JOURNEY CHAPTER #22 novas first dungeon dive

nova,valdederon and raykore continue training over the next few days when she finaly can create a golden shield around her self for atleast an hour per day.. or for short burst in combat.

valdederon--- im so proud of you little pup.

raykore--- you did well but you still have a long way to go.

nova sticks her tongue out at raykore and giggles.

nova---thank you big brother.. mmmph im so sleepy now..

valdederon--- ok my sweet princess come on into the tent and you can sleep in my tail fluff again.

nova blushes and nods taking 2 steps forward before falling face first into the grass promptly flalling asleep with a heavy snore making raykore valdederon and draggo laugh softly.

valdederon smiles nad gently picks up the conked out aura pupy and gently takes her into the tent with him and draggo preparing some food for when she wakes .

draggo--- ha ha ha looks like she fell asleep while walking.. hope the little one gets some good rest

valdederon sets her in his tail and rubs her back as she grabs hold with her paws purring happily as she wiggles instinctualy to burry her self in the warm furr.

valdederon--- well i think we should look for a low level dungeon quest at the guild and get her used to how they can be.. before we go to it we need ground rulles for her to follow number one among them do not fight . shes only going to be there to observe.

draggo--- are you sure on that

valdederon sighs with a sense of pain and worry recalling near death experiances from his training being put in dungeons by rakore making her chuckle as she sees the look in his eyes.

valdederon---yes im 100% sure.. my training was brutal and part of it was going alone.. into dungeons..unprepared and with only light armor my magic and a dagger with a shield off hand. nova atleast has us to guide here.. and raykore.. make now mistake if you throw her into anything unprepared.. there will be consequences.

he throws her a look of pure murderous malicious confirmation that its a promise and not a threat making her yelp startled by the once obediant aprentice's sudden firmness

raykore--- well youve grown alot havent you my young pupil… i have to say that was rather unexpected.. ha ha you were never so direct in our old world.. im proud of you and you have my word i wont put her in danger like that.

draggo looks between them throughly confused and sighs

raykore-- so draggo waht was your species called again.. im curious to learn more about this world.. what i wouldnt give to eat some meat again.. and actualy fuking taste it god spiritual food has no….. has nothing.. no taset no depths no feel.. ugh im going insane over here..

draggo--- well my species is.. techincly 3 different animals there is goomy sliggoo and then goodra.. the world of pokemon even to us pokemon is still a mystery to us all.

raykore burst out laughing quietly.

raykore-- aint that the damed universal truth.. i havet met a single speceies who truly knows thier kind inside and out we all have mysteries in us.. even my own kind were mysterious.. i was the runt of the litter. even so most humanoids are shorter then me.

draggo--- interesting got any preferences on what youd want to be if you were pokemon.

raykore-- i havent put much thought into it honestly.. ive been cofusing my energy into training our star pupils little sister.. ha ha even he fell asleep.

draggo---he sometimes doesnt sleep well.

raykore with a heavy sigh and flick of her smoking pipe.

raykore--not surprising honestly it honestly terrafied me at first just how strong willed he was as a kid one look into his eyes and i knew he was angry..wasnt untill the knights told me were and hoe he was found that i took him in, nightmares.. flash backs.. ha ha ha, i had to put him back in diapers because he couldnt stip wetting or soiling his bed at night.. that passed pretty quick though only about 4 weeks before his body adjusted to his stress.

draggo--- did you ever wonder what he would have done if you werent there to guid him..to divert his rage some what.

her ears twitch as she rolls her eyes perking her tails up with force.

raykore-- gods.. i dont even want to know just how much damage he would have caused if i hadnt trained him magic.. its a living thing and if you dont have a grasp on it..anything froma town destroyed to the ground shattered acrosss continents.. even the fabric of reality could be shattered by un controlled rage filled magic like his..

dragos eyes widen realising the gravity of what that would entail.

draggo---..thats..wow..

raykore looks up at the rising night moons all 7 of them.

raykore--- 7 moons.. when was the last time i even saw a single moon rise.. let alone 7 moons at once,. you know despite the chaos this world is in.. i feel .. valdederon can realy grow.. heal..and be happy here. ha ha ha.. some times i think he forgets he was a human once. and im ok with that.

the night drags by slowly evryone byt raykore sleeping while she stares at the moons thinking back on her long life then looking back at valdederon and novaa sense of pride welling up in her soul as he turns back into spirit form to rest.

the next day nova yawns waking up beeing carried by valdederon into the guilds quest board room. nova looks around yawning and rubs he eyes and while at the quest board gets out of valdederons tail furr with a heavy thump and a loud puppy like yipe startling valdederon as he looks down were nova faceplanted grogily onto the hard wood floor and she sits up holding her nose witch had begin to bleed alittle .

valdederon--- are you ok hun.

nova---mmmmph..do i look ok.. i just bashed my face into the floor.

he chuckle using healing magic on her nose and ruffling her head furr.

valdederon--- well how about you head on into the mess hall and draggo and i will meet you there and we can have a big breakfeast.

she smiles tail wagging and bolts down the hall to the mess hall ocasionaly stumbling evryso often still half asleep.

draggo--- hows this one sound.. looking for a team to clear a dungeon full of goblins and rescue a lost miltank and a clutch of snivy hatchlings..

valdederon--- perfect goblins are weak so her aura shield will be more then enough to keep her safe but make no mistake goblins are a big threat.. they tend to explode in numbers and reproduce like rabits on drugs.

draggo--- oooofff that sounds bad.

valdederon-- if unchecked goblins can eventualy overun kingdoms plunging them into hell basicly.

they both grab the quest paper and get it stamped and head to the mess hall were a charmeleon is laughing while nova whimpers covered with food and draggo looks directly at valdederon who fell dead silent the moment he opend the door to the site and in seconds the once loud mess hall falls spookily silent as evryone picks up on the sudden rage boiling forth from valdederon .

draggo---.well…ill see my self… out.

he bolts as valdederon fists clenched walks into the mess hall all mon inside avoiding eye contact seeing the death glare coming from them all accept the arrogant charmeleon who laughs at the sudden arival of a bright pink delphox.

( WARNING LIGHT BLOOD AND HEAVY VIOLENCE IN NEXT PARAGRAPH)

valdederon with out a word kicks the small lizard pokemon with brutal force witch sends him flying into the wall shattering several glass windows on impact and making him cough up a spurt of blood and fall down only to be grabed by the throat .

valdederon--- THINK ITS FUNNY TO BULLY OTHERS DO YA… well target my little sister. and youl find a verry pissed off delphox.. i havent seen you… you new around here

the charmeleon curls his tail up a silent pitter of liquid hitting the floor beneath him as he nods terrified of th sudden outburst of rage his face turning red realizing hes in full view of the mess hall

valdederon-- dont ever cross me or my sister again.. i wont hesitate getting rid of you in a second if you become a threat to us.. or the guild.. i dont tollerate bullies and clean up your mess

valdederon drops him into the pungent puddle formed by fear and walks off and cleans nova up and takes his lunch hers and draggos out .

valdederon--- were gona go on a mission later on after lunch hun will you be ok.

nova--… you made him have an accident.. that was mean buba.

valdederon-- i wasnt trying to do that.. it just happens when some one is scared stiff like that..

nova--- i hope he and i can become friends.. i think hes lonely

valdederon-- well he will have to apologize for bullying you first.

nova nods and eats with valdederon and draggo. all 3 of them staying silent mean while in the mess hall the charmeleon whimpers and begins to sob runing out embarrased confused and scared eventualy ending up in the infirmary to recive treatment for the minor wounds he got from his encou nter with valdederon.

nova--- so whats the mission.

draggo--- a dungeon clear and rescue mission a miltank and snivy hatchlings got lost inside

valdederon--- your there to watch and learn as we clear it .. youl also carry a bag with medical supplies. be sure to keep up your aura sheild in combat ok hun.

she nods nervous but also excited. later on that day they head out to the dungeon. while on the wy there nova keeps close with valdederon and draggo both of them also keeping an eye on here and around them as they move soon entering the dungeon entrance heading down inside whilemoving slow and steady.

nova whispering-- this place feels creepy.

valdederon--were inside the dungeon keep close and quiet watch around us as well. gobims are near probably already watching us.. if you see side paths let us know.. those are places they ambush un aware adventurers from..

nova nods keeping an eye out un knowingly pusling ora like a radar pulse. after a few hours nova yelps and puts up her shield up as an arrow flies out.

nova--- BEHIND US THEY ARE ATTACKING

she whimpers and holds to valdederon as he lifts up his staff and unleases fire ball attacks burning 40 goblins at once thier scraches echoing through the cavernous dungon before falling silent more coming from the other directions as they are at a divergance point with 12 different tunnel openings…

valdederon--- well done nova--- now keep that shield up and let us fight…

draggo--- i wont let a single filthy creton touch you little pup.

nova---… im an adult already…no ..fair…

she pouts but does as shes told knowing she doesnt have any combat experiance and for the next few hours they fight on and off while going through and ending up finding a miltank tinged green with goblin blood and bits and pices evry were her eyes heavy with exaustion ..

valdederon-- nova go check them out ok.. check for injuries.. goblins use poisin so give the hatchlings and

nova rushes over as the miltank falls over into valdederons grasp panting body burning with fever having been fighting for days on end with little food and water..

draggo--- she doesnt look to hot.

valdederon--were lucky we got here when we did.. malnorusihed dehydrated.. dam it shes been holding of goblins alone for god knows how long..

nova--- the baby snivy are all healthy ..

draggo--- come over and help the miltank over here hun

valdederon.. can you speak hun.. whats your name

the miltank wheases and nods..

nina-- my name is nina.. please get the little ones out leave me.

valdederon bats her on the nose with his paw and sternly looks at her.

valdederon--- were here to get evryone out not just the snivy..

nova gives the miltank a pile of berries to eat while draggo stands guard at the entrance.

nina eats the berries and sits up as valdederon starts cleaning her furr then bandaging it up while nova helps were she can after a few minutes they all group up with the baby snivy who are all hungry

nova--- come on kids hold out paws .

valdederon--- we will be heading back to the guild via teleport… nina you might end up throwing up so fair warning

Draggo--- im ready to head back.

valdederon makes sure evryone then taps his badge in a flash evryone is inside the guild psychics lair and nina whimpers and holds her stomach but manages to hold it in before promptly passing out .

valdederon--- call for ever green we need him. urgently

the psychics nod and teleport evergreen who falls on his tail with a yelp and sees the week clutch of snivy and the week miltank and begins getting them taken care of having his assitants come dwon and carryi the miltank while he walks with the snivy.

nova--t..that w.was scary.

valdederon--- this was the lowest of low level dungeons we could take you on hun..from here on they only get harder and more dangerous… after a couple days rest we start more combat training when you can land a hit on me… then ill let you go with us on a dungeon were you can get some fighting experiance.. but you have to listen when we tell you to do somthing.

she nods and hugs his leg shaking heavily.

[bookshelfpassageway]

DnD asks, Riverworth - 4, 9, 22, 23, 30

4. Are they formally trained or have they gone through a more organic learning experience for their skillset?

His main thing is he’s almost entirely self-made. Anything that he didn’t know by intuition (aka being hella Sly), was self-taught. I don’t think he’s ever stayed in one place so long as to go through any kind of formal training.

9. What’s their dump stat?

He’s an AT Rogue, so, he’s just slightly less squishy than a wizard. Constitution and Strength have modifiers of a nice, solid zero. Weakass magician.

Tbh if I could do it again I probably would have taken STR to a -1 and boosted something else a little more with the points, we have a minotaur and an amazon in our party, if we needed a strength check, we would use them.

22. Most amazing monster they have ever killed or helped kill?

Ohhhhohoho, well, the main one he got personally was the killing blow on a Chimera that’d ambushed everybody on a desert road, which finally earned the respect of our party’s minotaur, who trusts everyone but respects few. My favorite though was the boss fight against this possessed dragonborn gunslinger, he came up with the codeword for everybody to attack, got the first initiative-hit in with dual-wielded scimitars and then slice open the pack containing this quest’s Maguffinm, getting it away from our psychic draggo friend, and immediately got skewered with a longsword. He came back around when we had to fight the thing possessing the dragonborn, and now he owns a shotgun that he doesn’t understand at all.

23. Thoughts on death?

He Would Prefer Not To.

Really though, he’d do just about anything to prevent his own if it looked like things were headed that direction. For other people, it’s mostly an unpleasant business. He tends not to cause it though, if it isn’t necessary, like if a guard is asleep or distracted or there’s an option to bargain. Less out of being a good person and more out of being Kind Of Uncomfortable with it, and generally disliking being caught in the middle of a conflict. Unlike our party assassin who managed to get half our party KO’d including himself, me, and our bard, when he decided he needed to stab a guy WHILE WE HAD LIKE 1ST LEVEL HP VALUES AND WE WERE INVISIBLE.

30. Would they smooch a ghost?

I mean if he got something worthwhile from smooching a ghost, other than bragging rights, possibly? Depends on the thing. Wouldn’t do it for it’s own sake though. How would that even work? Would they try and keep haunting you? He’ll take corporeal smooches, thanks.

[lancerlizard-blog]

Nero/Akira.

The ship is my:

I consider this ship’s feelings: Mutual | Mixed | Strange | Awkward | Platonic | Sibling-like | One-sided | They don’t really like each other |

I’d consider the relationship: Healthy | Awkward | Abusive | Doesn’t work properly | They’d never get together |

Children: No | Yes | They’d think about it

General Opinion: Nero wants that draggo D but Akira doesn’t know it

[sindumpster]

What if Kurt bored jake :D??????

Gonna assume auto did a dunce and you meant “vored”, because that is a very different answer lmao.

Anyways it’s happened once or twice…I think I drew it once during the dark ages. Geeeenerally it’s an accident on Kurt’s part, and Jake’s asshole tendencies backfiring (yet again).

Like Jake knows Kurt’s into some things more than he admits, and Jake is also a horrible tease and pesterer. Combine that with Kurt, who can kinda lapse in his self control if he’s over-teased (especially if food was involved in the teasing and he’s been trying to hold back for who knows how long), it can lead on to vore. And since Jake is stubborn as all hell, sometimes he pushes Kurt just a biiiiiiit too hard, and Kurt bites back. Figuratively speaking lol.

Doesn’t help that Jake isn’t really good at interpreting subtext or nonverbal cues, so to boot if Kurt was already struggling with his starving thing, Jake wouldn’t pick up on it. If anything he’d just pick up on Kurt being easier to fluster and if anything, he’d amp up the teasing.

…of course neither would enjoy what comes next. Jake’s actually pretty terrified of being eaten, and Kurt’s very closeted on the pred thing, and absolutely does not want to eat Jake. Esp cuz he’s small, and Jake’s big and heavy and towers over him, and Jake also panics and kicks and squirms like his life depends on it.

So neither draggo would be too happy about the situation, especially Kurt since he’d have to wait until Jake exhausted himself enough in his freakout (or passed out cuz he’s a fainter) to then figure out what to do or even just how to spit him back out. Plus he’d be pinned and stuck wherever the vore happened (Jake’s like…double his weight??? Probably more???), so there’s also the potential of it being extremely embarrassing and flustering for Kurt.

Poor twig drag still gets the short end of the stick in this case, but hey, maybe Jake will learn an important lesson? Probably not.