#descended from dragons...

[otterpuppss]

ok so i seem to have forgotten why rats have scaly tails. i am here to beg for information please mx otterpups

uhhhhh ummm uhh well you know what I really have no idea- neither does the internet it seems. like. perhaps the scaly skin is more durable? perhaps its an evolutionary left over? i know the function but I really have no idea why they're scaly when they could be fleshy... but imagining a like fleshy hair finger like tail is hmm . I willntry not to think about it too much, I am a big fan of them though- whatever the reason may be......

[grymm-gardens]

the language nerd in me is fucking screaming and crying about the fact that Cassandra Pentaghast has what i believe may be the most accurate impression of the extinct gothic germanic accent we have, and the fact that they didn't even try to give anyone else from Nevarra the same accent is fucking criminal

yes i know it is an entirely made up accent that miranda developed herself, she unintentionally hit the nail on the fucking head with the accent of a dead language that would even be lore accurate with the placement of Nevarra relative to orlais and the other neighboring countries

also im sorry using Gothic as the language inspiration for nevarran??? is that not like too fucking perfect??

like yeh i get it accent training people for a fake accent is ridiculously hard

i do not care

give me gothic nevarrans in the truest sense of the word

i might post the notes find the notes here i have on the actual linguistic comparisons if anyone cares because i studied her pronunciation to compare to historical texts when i made the connection

[gaddaboutgriffon]

The Year of the Dragon.

(Name edited, credit to @jedipirateking for the suggestion.)

A joke the fandom has been making for a while is that Tim is forever stuck at 17. What if we make that something the rest of the Batclan notice too? (I am not following cannon.)

It was just after the annual Family picture day and the new group portrait was taking the place of last year’s and looking at it they noticed 15 year old Damian is now almost the same height as Tim. And Tim is pretty much the same as last year.

Jason and Damian take the opportunity to tease Tim calling him a shrimp and other short jokes. Which Tim rolls his eyes and goes to work on a case or something with Wayne industries. But Bruce, Dick, and Alfred are more concerned, may feel guilty thinking letting him be a vigilante stunted his growth. And looking back at the photos they have of him notice that he wasn’t growing as much as a normal teen boy should have.

Bruce decides he is going to be more active in running Wayne Enterprises while Alfred plots to cut back Tim’s coffee limit. And Dick is going to help out coordinate the patrols. (He had to move back to Gotham when the Bludhaven city spirit forced all the people out before the city got blown up. It’s a long story but dick has been really down and unmotivated after that.)

Tim is not taking any of this well, and feels like his family being stifling. So he decided to start going through the basement and vault of Drake manor. Which he has been putting off since he didn’t really have time for it between patrols and WE. And in the family heirlooms vault, shoved way in the back with covered in dust and many other things sitting on top, he finds an oak box with an ornately caved dragon on it. Opening it up he finds it is velvet lined and has a large pendant that looks a silver dragon curled deep violet amethyst egg. And next to the pendant is a scroll made of thin leather.

He pulled out the scroll first and tried to read it but it was too faint of lettering to make out in the somewhat dim vault light. But what little he could make out it it was really old 14th century English and mentioned something about a coming of age. He rolls it back up and puts it aside to instead pick up the pendant. When he touches it there is a faint static shock that surprises him other then that the silver and purple necklace doesn’t seem out of the ordinary.

His phone lets off a chime to remind him that diner is in an hour, so he pack the pendant and scroll back in the box and places it in his bag with a few other items he finds interesting and wanted to look into more later. Then returns to Wayne manor to eat before patrol. It isn’t until he wakes up the next morning he realizes that he should have probably read the scroll before touching the pendant.

He wakes up to knocking on his bedroom door and someone yelling at him to get up. He had gotten into the habit of locking his door back when Damian first moved in. He yelps in surprise, falling over because his center of balance is all out of whack when he tried to stand. Now he is fully awake and takes stock of himself.

Scales?

Scales! Why are his arms covered in scales?! His hands look like a mix of paws and talons. He struggles out of the sheets to look at the rest of himself. His pjs are stretched and torn in places to accommodate the new digigrade shape of his legs. Not to mention he now has a long tail and wings and a longer neck. He rushes to his personal bathroom and awkwardly stands up on his two legs so he can get a good look in the mirror. And yep that is a distressed dragon face looking back at him. He catches himself making a weird keening sound as he plops down to sit on the bathroom floor.

Moments later he hears the sound of his bedroom door’s lock being picked. Bruce calling his name and Duke explaining he had heard animal noises from the room. Tim scrabbles to try and get the balcony door unlocked so he can escape and find a way to change back before anyone can see him, but moving on all fours and the new talon hands he is not used too take up too much time and the bedroom door is open.

Living in a family of vigilantes, their reaction time and fight or flight instincts are quick, and Tim is tackled to the floor by Duke while the others start looking at every inch of the room for clues as to what happened to their seemingly missing brother.

Bruce is looking at the dragon in Tim’s pajamas for a second before saying, “Tim? Is that you chum?”

Tim tries to answer but all that comes out is a warbling chuff. Which takes Tim by surprise and has him nearly start to cry in panic. He can’t Talk!

“Hey, you’re ok Tim. Deep breaths. Duke get off him. Breath with me Tim. In 1, 2, 3, 4. Out 1, 2, 3, 4.” Bruce spoke in his soothing a scared child voice. Tim was half annoyed at himself for how much it helped.

“B, Look at this!” Dick said holding the box with the scroll and dragon pendent instead open. Now the gem is a very pale see through purple with only a sliver on the bottom the original color.

They take it down to the bat cave and get to work deciphering the scroll. Turns out the Drake family line are descendants of some ancient medieval prince named Aragorn and that there was a family tradition that on the sixteenth birthday the child would have to live a year in dragon form to let it catch up in maturity. But after the dragon form catches up they will be able to freely shift between forms. But if they don’t follow the tradition they don’t age properly, and the longer they put off the tradition the longer they have to spend as a dragon.

And that is all I had time for before bed. So who does this affect the family dynamic? What about the relationship between Tim and Damian? How do we bring Danny Phantom into this? Does he think Tim is a ghost dragon at first?

[puppppppppy]

Wyrm on a string

[asha-mage]

I really think fic under-utilizes the fact that Merlin has been around for the last millennia and a half of British history. Like sure you sometimes get a Shakespeare cameo or a Churchill reference, but their is so much British history and so much of it is Hot Nonsense that it could be a veritable gold mine of shenanigans.

Like Merlin has nothing to but time to kill as he waits for Arthur to return and a cast of some of history's biggest weirdos to bounce off to spend it with.

Forget the royals and the politicians (all of whom Merlin probably gave headaches) for a moment and just consider the artists. You're really telling me Merlin never went to any fancy parties and got hit on by Oscar Wilde? Never wrote any snarky fan mail to Jane Austen? Never got offered the chance to do coke with Lord Byron? Or hid in a bush to avoid having to talk to Voltaire?

I could go on for ages but come on, this boy is begging to be put into Situations, and British history is full of all kinds of wacky people you could shove him into a room with and watch the sparks fly.

[stuck-in-jelly]

Im ready to be clowned on in a couple of days but Corvus’s uniforms and scarf resembling The Orphan Queen, The Orphan Queen being the one to kill Aaravos’s Mortal Form,

The hook of Corvus’s bloodied weapon hanging over Aaravos’s name in the title sequence,

The Novablade featured in the poster being in Ezran’s hands,

Corvus being protective of Ezran and even praising the young king for not giving into violence,

The idea of Corvus taking the blade from Ezran and the burden with it

Please wonderstorm, spare Corvus scraps

[kradogsrats]

so I'm like 99% sure the reason this "must" torments me is not that it actually indicates something other than "five primal sources have been observed to have an archdragon, so it stands to reason that the sixth also does" but because I spent ten goddamn years playing the "turns out the six apocalyptic mega-dragons slowly awakening to destroy the world are also collectively the pillars that support magic, and therefore reality itself, in a tenuous and delicate balance... and you already killed one of them, ha ha whoops" mmo

and yet

[hyperfixate-on-ninjas]

Gonna Rant for a bit

Okay so I love AUs/Headcanons where the Ninja seriously hold a ton of OP levels when it comes to their Elements.

Like the very few headcanon fics where Nya is capable of Bloodbending. Or @pillowdrawz’s Abaddon AU where Cole can Metalbend and stuff.

The most fascinating ones are the Jay ones with again @pillowdrawz’s Abaddon AU with Jay manipulating the electricity in the brain and @writing-hat’s Bending But Never Breaking (Please do not read this if you are uncomfortable with reading certain topics. This fic is graphic if you’re curious just read the tags before you read the fic) fic where he could control the nerves in his own body. (Which inspired a headcanon for me that Jay can stop his heart for a few seconds then resuscitate himself)

And it fascinates me how creative people can get if they just took the rules, break them or get creative with what they already know about their powers. Cause if Jay can redirect Lightning and Nya can apparently talk to fish or Cole can see which way to go if he focuses on the earth or Zane can allow people some foresight vision (You know that Ice slab that allowed Vex to see where the Ninja were?) if they were pushed to their limits then the rules are endless to what they could possibly do.

So got me thinking about something, the ones with the least headcanons for their powers is Kai and Lloyd.

Kai I can understand, there’s only so much you can do with Fire. I’ve had it that he can redirect Fire or make someone else’s Fire his own. But that’s about as far as I can go with his powers and if the Legacy Shorts are canon then Kai can already do that- (Was it the Legacy Shorts??? Idk I don’t remember anymore) so most of my headcanons of him are just ‘Fire Resistance’ ‘Hair catches on Fire when mad’ Etc Etc.

It’s really hard to come up with a headcanon for Kai. We could borrow some things from Avatar: The Last Airbender, like Kai’s fire possibly turning blue or getting multicolored. Or him being able to briefly control lightning like Nya can control ice. But again…

That’s about as far as you can go…

And so the one with the most potential but the least amount of Headcanons is Lloyd.

And this one is by far understandable.

The most headcanons I’ve seen of Lloyd are usually one-off or taken as suggestions, like Lloyd being able to Heal People and Himself (Saw the Healing Headcanon in a fic but it was just a minor mention.) or Lloyd being able to absorb the Energy of Life which is why he’s mega powerful. (Which is why I find the naming thing extremely silly because people had been making headcanons about Lloyd’s powers that are synonymous with both Life and Energy BEFORE the name reveal and then suddenly no one is okay with the name change when they’ve been using Life and Energy synonymously. Especially since this is like the FOURTH suggestion of the name of Lloyd’s Powers one was a JOKE from the movie because literally no one knows what the hell Lloyd’s powers are)

There’s one Headcanon in a fic called ‘Lloyd’s Guide to Surviving the Merge (and finding new family through it)’ (Forgot who the @ was on Tumblr sorry-) Where Lloyd could ‘feel’ the Ninjas and could possibly feel if they were dead. But not sure if that’s something he could ACTUALLY do in the fic but it’s an interesting concept.

But again, Lloyd despite being the most powerful of the Ninja has the least Headcanons when it comes to his powers and most of the time they’re really one-off or a suggestion to the fandom on how his powers work.

And I get why.

He’s been main charactering the whole series for a while, it makes sense why people don’t want to pay that much attention to him because…

He already gets that much attention out here even unnecessarily let’s be real. (Lloyd Ily you’re my favorite character but they seriously have to let you take a backseat man, ESPECIALLY now that you’re being thrown into traumaland every 5 seconds.)

But secondly…

If we did push his limits and break the rules for him, the same way we do for Nya, Jay, Cole and Zane…uhm…

Maybe it’s best that Lloyd was nerfed in the series because holy fuck. Lloyd would be TERRIFYING.

In fact I like the Headcanon that the Ninja seriously hold back when it comes to their powers because they would be terrifying to think about if they were allowed to be lethal, if they were allowed to fully obliterate their enemies.

I swear the Tournament of Sources would end differently if the Ninja were as lethal as the headcanons.

I’ve had a ton of headcanons about Lloyd’s powers for a while, and a lot of them I don’t share because as much as the concept is terrifying, it makes Lloyd wayy to powerful to exist man. Many of them I just straight up turned him into god at this point.

And it’s not my fault that his powers are INTERESTING but the writers just chop it down to him blasting energy everywhere, I mean canonically in the Wilfilm Era of Ninjago he could create a shield that was both Offensive and Defensive. Especially since he shot himself off the Destiny’s Bounty, created a shield around himself, and threw himself upon Chen’s Anacondrai Cult Army like a fucking canonball.

So as a result I’ve had a ton of Headcanons for Lloyd’s powers. But some of them can be nonsensical cause they make me break the canon a lot to the point Lloyd feels like an OC than a pre-existing character so I don’t show them much. But damn some of these headcanons that DO make sense are terrifying to think about sometimes.

[calypsolemon]

fighting for my life so hard every day. ppl still think firstbourne is canonically fsm's mom 🤦‍♂️

[dapper-nahrwhale]

[ID digital drawing of redesigns of the VKs from Disney descendants, years Evie, Mal, Jay, and Carlos. Evie has the front of her hair braided back with a little crown, a white princess shirt, and a blue cape with gold and red details and a high collar. She has a blue skirt with a heart belt and red panels stitched on the sides and a ruffle white skirt under. She has black tights, white ruffle socks, and red Mary Jane heels, and red and blue fingerless gloves. Above her is the symbol of a heart shaped mirror with a crown on top of it.

Mal has big horns, pointed ears with many piercings, messy purple and green hair, and is holding a knife. She is wearing a fishnet shirt with a purple crop top and a ripped jacket. She has low rise very wide leg pants with green flames on the end, and big spiky boots. She has mismatched gloves and a couple belts. Her symbol is a broken heart with horns and wings and is on fire.

Jay has an orange beanie and a ripped vest with a belt across it. He has cargo pants and tall sneakers, a few belts and fingerless gloves. His symbol above him is an orange toothy cobra snake coiled up.

Carlos has stripy black and white hair and goggles and glasses. He wears a stripy shirt and has a fluffy collar coat that's patchwork of black and white polka dots, and patchwork shorts and mismatched loafers. His symbol is a black and white crossbones. End ID]

👑😈🐍☠️

This from like... May? I think? It got lost in the 1k of my drafts (a lot I know) But I was thinking about redesigning them yet again! so expect that at some point too lmao.

[vaguely-concerned]

gonna go out on a limb here and say that I am starting to distantly suspect that hossberg wasn't the greatest place in the world to live even before the freshest coating of blight. feels like some insult to injury stuff going on here. came out today to find my boat lifted out of the water all wrapped up in blight goo. can't have shit in the anderfels

[jalluzas-ferney]

If elemental powers derive from dragons, then could people like the Imperians from Imperium use elemental masters as their power source? Or possibly use their powers of essence or whatever to power up different things like weapons etc? I dunno just a thought

[tategaminu]

Something about Callum having two friends in the castle and something about Rayla not having friends in the Silvergrove 🥺

[what-is-canon]

Post-Dance AU (because I hate how George decided to completely eradicate the Greens *cough* Alicent’s *cough* line)

Jaehaera survives the assassination attempt by Unwin Peake because that poor girl did not deserve that horrific end and that’s that.

She and Aegon III bond over time, because these traumatized kids deserve some happiness and you know what? Maybe they are the only two people in the world right now who understand even a semblance of what the other has gone through (Aegon watched his mother die, Jaehaera watched her twin brother be slaughtered) and maybe they both recognize that neither of them is responsible for what their families did to each other so why should they resent one another?

Over time they become a great comfort to each other. On the days where one is particularly gloomy, the other sits by them and holds their hand and they are content to sit in silence together and neither needs to say what they’re feeling because the other already knows.

They are both very close with Gaemon Palehair. He and Aegon are close for the same reasons as within canon, while Jaehaera believes that Gaemon truly is her half-sibling, her last remaining brother.

Eventually, Alyn Velaryon brings Viserys II home from Essos, but the boy comes alone (a 12-year-old boy married to a 19-year-old woman, yeah I think the fuck not, not in my history, and besides even if they had been closer in age Larra Rogare hated Westeros so let her stay in Essos like she wanted and live her own life there and be happy).

Like in canon, Aegon is somewhat neglectful of his wife and friend in the wake of his brother’s return, but Jaehaera and Gaemon understand his actions. Anyway, they still have each other for company. Viserys is incredibly distrustful of Jaehaera, and Aegon pleads with Viserys to be more understanding of their marriage and the comfort they have found in each other.

Aegon decides to hold a feast to celebrate Viserys’s return. Viserys spends most of the festivities with Baela and Rhaena, preferring not to fraternize with the daughter of the man who killed his mother. In the company of his sisters is Daenaera Velaryon (aged up in to be closer in age to Viserys because an 11-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl? It’s a no from me).

Daenaera manages to cheer Viserys with her happy nature, and he’s quite taken by how pretty she is. Unwin Peake, having never been exposed as the one behind Jaehaera’s assassination attempt (as is also the case in canon) brings his daughter to the feast in the hopes that she will catch the eye of Viserys, but Viserys has already taken a shine to Daenaera, ruining his plans once again.

The pair begin to exchange letters and (like Aegon and Jaehaera) bond over their losses. Viserys tells Aegon about his correspondence with Daenaera, and when Aegon tells Jaehaera, she decides to invite Daenaera to court as her lady-in-waiting. Viserys is delighted, and slowly begins to warm to Jaehaera.

As in canon, Aegon’s removal of the dragon eggs from the Red Keep causes a rift between the brothers. Unwin Peake continues to plot treason, conspiring to kill Aegon and Jaehaera so that Viserys may become King and take his daughter as his bride. But if his daughter is to become Viserys’s Queen, Daenaera Velaryon must also be removed. It is no secret by now that Viserys is very taken with the the girl, and intends to marry her.

Jaehaera and Daenaera eat the canonical poisoned tarts during a private dinner organized for the four. Aegon and Viserys narrowly avoid poisoning as they are delayed by a Small Council meeting. As in canon, Gaemon dies, devastating both Aegon and Jaehaera. The rift between Aegon and Viserys is mended as they help their respective ladies recover. Aegon and Jaehaera comfort each other through the loss of Gaemon, and Viserys proposes marriage to Daenaera, which she accepts. Oh, and Unwin Peake is finally exposed and executed (I still cannot believe this man escaped justice in canon, but not on my watch).

The four form a strong unit within the Red Keep and are, well, as happy as four traumatized young adults can be. They finally have the family each was deprived of at such a young age. Aegon eventually names Viserys his Hand, Jaehaera gives birth to Aegon’s five children, and Daenaera gives birth to Viserys’s three.

But unfortunately, canonical events must still come to pass. Aegon and Jaehaera pass away within months of each other in 157 AC; Daenaera dies some years later, and Viserys becomes his stern canonical self in the wake of her death. The crown passes from Aegon, to Daeron, to Baelor, to Viserys himself, to Aegon IV, who legitimizes the Blackfyres- who are now the descendants of both the Blacks and the Greens.

[descenderintofantasy]

I think part of the reason that Bal suffers so much shipper wise. Is that they were not fleshed out enough.

Disney Descendants were so focused on the platonic relationships of the Core Four. That they rushed the romantic ones. Honestly, the couple that got the most development was Jarlos. With half of D2 being about Carlos trying to ask Jane out.

The fandom HATES Bal! People will literally ship Ben and/or Mal with ANYONE BUT Mal/Ben! Uma, Evie, audrey Harry, Jay, Carlos they all get shipped with Ben/Mal becuse it's said there's more chemistry there than Bal!

Bal's communication was shaky at best before cotillion, it was not their fault, but it happened. With the best communication being Ben giving Mal her 'daily gifts.'

If we had seen more of the six months gap between D1 and D2. Bal going on proper dates and actually learning about each other. Then maybe there would have been more of a 'yes they belong together' feel. But as it was, Bal was shoved aside in favour of malvie. Malvie got a duet before Bal which honestly sounded more like a love balled then it should!

I mean, this is a DISNEY movie. How do the writers NOT know how to write PROPER romance for the main couple?! It's literally their JOB!

In short, Bal was SO LET DOWN by the writers, and they should have had more focus as the MAIN COUPLE OF THE STORY.

[aromanticasterisms]

getting to the bottom of the new area and going oh 1. ajaw was telling the truth about what (he thinks) he was 2. so that's why he looks like that 3. did kinich go to ochkanatlan to meet him or was he set up somewhere else